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 No.74491[View All]

Does /qa/ know any fun facts?

One I just learned is that copper is actually more dense than iron.
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 No.104284

Peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes like lentils or chickpeas, and the Catholic Church is female.

 No.104287

>>104284
>the Catholic Church is female
Female as in a feminine noun?

 No.104291

>>104287
Ayup, always referred to as "she".

 No.104292

>>104291
That's strange. I've only ever it referred to as "the Church," never with a gendered pronoun.

 No.104293

>>104292
Yeah, but in scripture and other religious texts she's female. Here's an excerpt from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
>Through Tradition, "the Church, in her doctrine, life and worship, perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she herself is, all that she believes."

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 No.104340

>>104338
Ahh, just the church in general, makes sense.

 No.104501

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I learned that a game mechanic has a name: the Ubisoft Tower:
https://www.videogamer.com/news/assassins-creed-creator-says-hes-slightly-sorry-about-the-ubisoft-tower-craze/
https://www.vg247.com/exploring-and-uncovering-the-dreaded-ubisoft-tower
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowsNestCartography
If you're playing an open world game, but the game uses focal points to guide the player to specific locations to unlock something to make navigation easier, or even possible at all, it's called a "Ubisoft Tower" after the company that made the Assassin's Creed games.
I'd say Elden Ring has them because you start with a dull, primitive map and to upgrade it you need to visit the locations marked on it to grab "map fragments" to get a far more functional map

 No.106520

There's a few informal English interjections that come from closing the mouth at the end, causing a /p/ to be inserted:
yeah -> yeap
no -> nope
well -> welp
Of course you already know them, but it's funny that the change comes from just not opening your mouth enough hehehehehhe

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 No.106541

Boch Bach and Handel(best known for the Hallelujah chorus) were blind at the end of their lives and both were treated by the same doctor who turned out to be an occult charlatan who only worsened their condition.

 No.111424

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I decided to read up on locusts and they're very interesting. Some interesting facts:
- Locust is simply latin for "grasshopper"
- There is no "taxonomic distinction" between grasshopper and locust, the only difference is whether they're capable of swarming
- Locusts change form when it's time to swarm- serotonin is released if they bump into other locusts at a certain rate within a certain time period which induces physiological and behavioral changes
- The swarming form is called "gregarious" instead of solitary, because they instinctually seek out of other locusts
- The stages of the swarming are, in order: outbreak, upsurge, plague

Previously I had thought swarming was just a simple occurrence of locusts flying to new areas to feed, but it's quite involved. Huh, that's cool

 No.111428

In a completely degenerate electron gas, pressure is no longer dependent on temperature. This fact helps explain how stellar objects like neutron stars and white dwarfs can cool down without shrinking. The pressure from electron degeneracy doesn't increase the temperature/come from the temperature but from the degenerate pressure, which prevents these stars from shrinking while still losing heat.

 No.111430

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>>111424
Reminds me of all the different ant species that do things like herding other insects, growing fungi, or taking slaves. It did make me wonder, a lack of taxonomic distinction would mean that either this particularly complex type of behavior was convergently developed multiple times, or lost by most species. This paper posits the latter, that it may be an ancestral trait:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07105-y
>>111428
That's a very complex fact.

 No.111879

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The US now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and more natural gas than Russia, and now is a significant exporter of both. Most of that production goes towards domestic consumption however.

 No.111882

and Alberta hit it's lowest oil production in a while. Seems like a political move if anything to appease the "made in the USA" voices.
Can vs US dollar low enough for me to be getting good deals on exported skilled labour

 No.111919

A lot of fediverse instances got pwned and users are being mass doxed

 No.111922

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>>111919
Is that really a fun fact?

 No.111925

>>111919
Surely people aren't putting readily identifiable information on these...

 No.113323

>>86780
>>86781
The bison should roam free.

 No.128997

Ivory soap balloons when you microwave it because it's so airy.

 No.129017

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I thought this thread archived.

>The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States.
It seems like Western/Southern USA is extremely hot. It's 42°C (108°F) in Las Vegas right now. I heard about car plates and shoes melting in Arizona before as well.

 No.129018

>>129017
I thought it's 70 degrees celsius somewhere in Iran.

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 No.129249

>>129245
a cheese that is maggot poop

 No.129251

>Texelse schapenkaas. This cheese was made in the 16th and 17th centuries on the island of Texel. One of the more surprising ingredients was the juice of boiled sheep’s poo which gave it is characteristic colour (green) and taste (sharp). It also helped keep the cheese. This practice was discontinued in the 1930s but you can still buy the poo-less variety.

 No.129252

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>>129249
scary surprise box....

 No.129255

>>129252
that surprise box just bit this shab

 No.129265

>>76956
Ooo, there's a video of it on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqW7MB5Dmo

 No.130249

Gingerol is a bioactive compound found in ginger that has many potential health benefits

 No.134697

kawaii means cute in japanese

 No.134709

I just discovered swfchan has over a dozen flashes & loops from 2000s 2ch.ru scrapped, I don't think even Russians remember that was a thing.

 No.134715

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>>134709
This sent me on a deep dive on russian imageboard lore. Turns out dvach/iichan culture got so prolific they even produced their own katawa shoujo type VN using site mascots.

>Бесконечное Лето
>"endless (newfag) summer"
cheeky fucks

it makes me wonder... site mascots are strangely missing from kissu and related sites.

 No.134718

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>>134715
>site mascots are strangely missing from kissu and related sites.

I tried a brainstorming thread once, but it never really took off. It has to be organic and stuff and it just never materialized. We agreed on basic traits like nekomimi and a belly and uhh... was that it? It wasn't enough to enough to build a "kissu-tan" on. We kind of lack artists also, so meh. If it happens, it happens, but it probably won't.

 No.134719

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>>134715
Creating good mascots has the steep requirement of knowing how to draw and there aren't a whole lot of artists on imageboards apart from on drawfag threads on cutiechan.

 No.134720

>>134719
Funny, back when all these old ibs were relevant many people had ridiculous media editing skills but nobody could code for shit.

Meanwhile I'd bet hard cash to half this board having senior positions in tech.

You could always have an oekaki board

 No.134722

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>>134720
Surprise box!

 No.134724

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>>134720
>oekaki board
we have tegaki already, i don't think such an addition would change things

 No.134727

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>>134720
We've had a few artists show up a few times over the years, but they tend to evaporate in spectacular fashion. Think of those Japanese artists that stub their toe so they decide to wipe out their 15 year old accounts across various sites. People do suffer for their art...

 No.134729

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Mark my words, as soon as I've gotten good at Japanese and have more free time I'm picking up drawfagging as my next co-existing hobby so I can be a certified shitcode nihongo drawfag otaku. A jack of all otaku trades, master of none.

I'm only gonna practice drawing lolis though.

 No.134731

>>134729
and dark balding fatsos!

 No.134733

>>134724
I'd argue but the tool doesn't encourage the same sense of community as a dedicated space.

 No.134735

fuck you if you make them dark

 No.134737

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>>134735
>fuck♂you if you make them dark

 No.134738

Don't worry, the only dark I'll be drawing is kuro sticking her tongue down miyu's mouth.

 No.134739

Fun fact:
I still miss Aniki...

 No.134741

kuro sticking her tongue up miyu's butt

 No.135029

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Speech

>The system is composed of symbols that show the position and movement of the throat, tongue, and lips as they produce the sounds of language, and it is a type of phonetic notation.

 No.135177

>Her students enjoyed it, and she persuaded Noah McVicker (who also sold the putty) and Joe McVicker to manufacture it as a child’s toy.[5] Zufall and her husband came up with the name Play-Doh; Joe McVicker and his uncle Noah had wanted to call it "Rainbow Modeling Compound".[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Doh

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