Cynic Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Hatebeak is the first metal band with an African Gray Parrot as lead singer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatebeak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad For Science Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 If you stacked every elephant in the world on top of each other, they wouldn't like it. If you cut a hole in a net, the net will have less holes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 27 minutes ago, Mad For Science said: If you stacked every elephant in the world on top of each other, they wouldn't like it. If you cut a hole in a net, the net will have less holes. Silly. Insightful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexCaro Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Tim Storms is known as a man with the deepest voice. He can reach the lowest note G-7. It's so low that people can't hear it, only elephants can.🐘 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapatos Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Elephants have about 150,000 muscles in their trunks. They can pick up a peanut with their trunk, shell it, and then blow out the shell before eating the peanut. In American football there is a staff member called the "get-back coach". His job is to make sure the players on the sideline, and especially the head coach, get back behind the line so they don't get a penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericchiriboga Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 In the 70's a bunch of Roman amphora were found off the coast of Brazil by an underwater archaeologist which led him to conclude that Romans (even if just a ship that got off course and crashed) were the first Europeans to technically visit Brazil, which led to the Brazilian government feeling threatened by that. In corrupt fashion, they falsely accused him as a plunderer, disallowed further underwater archaeological operations, and the jars were confiscated by the military. However, it came out that it was just some guy who had put replicas underwater to try and age them, so the whole thing was moot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MintData Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Peanuts grow underground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin_Hall Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 In 1990 Voyager-1 took this picture. The most distant photo of our Earth we've ever made. Distance=6 billion km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npts2020 Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 (edited) Been reading some interesting stuff about Jupiter's moon Io and nobody has posted here in a while so, here goes. Only a little bigger than Earth's moon, Io is the densest object, not actually a planet (Earth is densest), in the solar system. It is also the most volcanically active and has the least water of any bodies in our neighborhood. Surface temperature is about -130C but lava flows have been measured to over 1200C and may exceed 1700C (about 3 times the hottest temps on Mercury). The gravities of Jupiter and sister moons Ganymede and Europa can cause "tides" of over 100m. Since there is no water, those tides are of rock! The magnetic field of Jupiter can generate lightening discharges of 400,000 volts and 3,000,000 amps, discharging from the moon into the upper atmosphere of the planet. (is this the reason the moon glows when eclipsed by Jupiter?) The magnetic field of Jupiter ionizes and pulls about a ton of material from Io into space every second, creating a plasma torus around the moon, fueling auroras on the planet, and doubling the size one would expect Jupiter's magnetosphere to be. (IMO) Conditions there will be a survival challenge for any organisms, even the most radical extremophiles from Earth so it is unlikely humans will ever get anything other than raw materials from there and certainly not anytime soon Edited March 13, 2023 by npts2020 forgot info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyK Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 I got a few. First, a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Second interesting fact is the world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Montana in 1887. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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