Facts that are completely useless

[scudsucker]

These birds have 4 sexes.

 

[satanboy]

 

[satanboy]

 

[Rudolph Hart]

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Why???

 

[scudsucker]

Why???

I mean, why not?

They already made brussel sprouts, the most hideous of the brassica variants, so having a backup "most revolting vegetable" seems logical.

 

[scudsucker]

In early WWII the Germans had a shortage of sausage, because the hydrogen airships used up the supply of intestines normally used for sausage casings.

 

[scudsucker]

When you eat pineapple, the pineapple is eating you.

Fresh pineapple often hurts or produces a prickly effect in the mouth. This is because it has an enzyme that is busy digesting the mucus and top layer of cells in your mouth.

Bromelain - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[scudsucker]

Just when you thought they were wierd enough... duck billed platypuses have no stomach.

 

[biometrics]

Stripper poles spin.

 

[satanboy]

Zeitpyramide - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[satanboy]

 

[biometrics]

 

[scudsucker]

Australia. A world of wonders!

Kangaroos have three vaginas.

 

[scudsucker]

Horses (and other equines) have no muscles in their lower legs.

 

[satanboy]

 

[scudsucker]

Scott Kelly: first gorilla in space*

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1681102257264230401

* may not actually be factual.

 

[biometrics]

It's harder to hit the sun than to leave the solar system.

 

[biometrics]

99.9% of the mass in the solar system is in the sun.

 

[scudsucker]

Both those facts amaze me.

I mean, all you need do is fire off a spaceship backwards relative to the earth's orbit such that it is stationary relative to the sun, then let gravity do the rest, right?

Except that you need to accelerate the space ship to the orbital speed of the earth to get its own orbital speed to zero, a mere 107,000 km/h

I get it, mathematically, but I don't get it intuitively.

 

[satanboy]