fun Fact of the Day:

[Monty Burns]

Right after checking 2 sources  Pandas live to about 20 years in the wild and 30 years in captivity

big diff betwen 20 and 200 years =P

[via]

On a similar note, the world largest living organism is 2,384 acres wide, and close to 2500 years old.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus

[brycickle]

Mosquitos dont just bite you. They also urinate on you after sucking your blood.

Now that's just disrespectful

[Filip]

Polar bears are left handed.

[poocrusher]

On a similar note, the world largest living organism is 2,384 acres wide, and close to 2500 years old.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus

Unless of course you're talking about mass, in which it's a grove of Aspen trees.  Weighing in at 6,000,000 kg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29

[No mongz]

Every old Game Boy cartridge has a little battery inside that keeps the game on at all times and allows you save, without it you would have to restart your game each time.
Each mini battery is expected to work for only 15 Years.
The original pokemon game came out 14 years ago.

[jimmy]

Every old Game Boy cartridge has a little battery inside that keeps the game on at all times and allows you save, without it you would have to restart your game each time.
Each mini battery is expected to work for only 15 Years.
The original pokemon game came out 14 years ago.

so pretty much the world ending in december makes complete fucking sense now

[SUPERNAUT]

Every old Game Boy cartridge has a little battery inside that keeps the game on at all times and allows you save, without it you would have to restart your game each time.
Each mini battery is expected to work for only 15 Years.
The original pokemon game came out 14 years ago.

Luckily, they're easy to replace if you have the right tool

[pugmaster]

Every old Game Boy cartridge has a little battery inside that keeps the game on at all times and allows you save, without it you would have to restart your game each time.
Each mini battery is expected to work for only 15 Years.
The original pokemon game came out 14 years ago.

Luckily, they're easy to replace if you have the right tool

Thanks supernaut

[Unbridled Technical Precision]

One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed.

Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
and my all time favorite....

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

and they yawn!

[Harem]

Ants go to sleep?

[brycickle]

You'd be tired too if you were lifting 50x your own body weight.

[Baron Samedi]

Mosquito eaters/mosquito hawks/whatever else you call them actually don't eat mosquitos. In fact, they don't eat anything. They're actually called crane flies, and are the end stage of a life cycle whose purpose is solely to mate and die.

[ollienorth]

the term "tip," like tipping a waiter, is an acronym for "to ensure promptness."

"SOS" was not originally an acronym, and it was never intended to stand for "save our ship." it was simply chosen as the distress code because the morse code was simple - three dots, three dashes, three dots.

[witty pseudonym]

the term "tep," like tipping a waiter, is an acronym for "to Ensure promptness."

"SOS" was not originally an acronym, and it was never intended to stand for "save our ship." it was simply chosen as the distress code because the morse code was simple - three dots, three dashes, three dots.

You mean ensure?

[jgonzalez]

Orca whales live to be about 30-60 in the wild. But in captivity only live about  8 years. Fuck Sea World.

[papasmurfsdog]

A sociologist named Mike Rose wrote a book called The Mind at Work, (don't get me wrong I haven't read it, but figured it might be an interesting read if anyone wanted to check it out) and apparently, it is something like 3 times more mentally difficult to work as a waitress at a busy diner than to do brain surgery these days.

[Baron Samedi]

the term "tep," like tipping a waiter, is an acronym for "to Ensure promptness."

"SOS" was not originally an acronym, and it was never intended to stand for "save our ship." it was simply chosen as the distress code because the morse code was simple - three dots, three dashes, three dots.

You mean ensure?

Haha I like how you changed "tip" to "tep". This is probably only interesting to me, but fuck it:

A bacronym is when a phrase is constructed to (erroneously) attribute a particular meaning to a word independent of its real definition (for example, "fix it again, Tony" for Fiat or "fix or repair daily" for Ford) - this is to say, it is an acronym wherein the words were chosen to fit the letters rather than the letters chosen to fit the word. "To Insure Promptness" for the word "tip" is a bacronym. Its real meaning is actually that in 17th century English, to tip meant "to hand" or "to pass".

My favorite example of this is the word "shit" - people will typically chalk up its meaning to the acronym "ship high in transport". However, its true meaning probably comes from a Germanic root meaning "to separate", as in to separate the living (you) from the dead matter inside you (your shit).

[Archers of Chaka]

Actually, the longest living animal would have to be the lobster. Some scientists have even argued that lobsters exhibit negligible senescence, meaning they could live forever, given that they aren't killed due to disease or injury.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#Longevity

[McDuff]

the smell of fresh cut grass is actually the grass being harmed and sending out a warning signal to the other grass/plants. that wonderful smell is pain/agony.

[ALT]

Something I was told today by my uncle who was a jet pilot in the air force and now an airline pilot.

An average white fluffy cloud (not even a dark rain cloud) weighs three hundred thousand tons.