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that blew your mind?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/13/motherless-babies-possible-as-scientists-create-live-offspring-w/

genetic reproduction between two women is also possible

in theory, women could use sperm made from bone marrow/stem cells to procreate

That you can fit all the other planets in the solar system between the moon and Earth. I still can't wrap my head around that.

that one fucks me up

Oh man.

That.....can't be true. Can it?

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kaijinscendre - 2016-09-14 01:04 (UTC) - Expand

What. I, no. This cannot be true.

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Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space...

Good ol' Hitchhiker's.

Have you seen this? You probably have, I think I found it here.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

What the fuck.

Cleopatra is closer in time to the Moon landings than she was to the people who built the Giza pyramids. (I might even have learned it here.)

Those pyramids were as old to her as she is to us!

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Less mind blowing, but along the subject of the Giza pyramids...I never realized they were right next to a city, rather than out in the middle of the desert: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Giza-pyramids.JPG

Probably a function of Eurocentric notions of Africa, now I come to think of it.....

Also, she was not actually Egyptian...

MLK and Anne Frank were born in the same year.

There are probably whales alive today who were alive when Moby Dick was composed.

There's a number, called Graham's number, so large that if it were transcribed such that each digit represented the smallest measurable space possible (a Planck volume), it would still not fit inside the observable universe.

Ancient humans somehow knew they needed salt, and that it would taste good, and went to extraordinary lengths to acquire it--even evaporating their urine--and nobody knows how they knew.

My all time favorite mind blower is that if all of evolutionary time were compressed into one year, humans would appear one minute before midnight on December 31st.

"one minute before midnight" sounds like a great title for one of those Bill Bryson-style sweeping history books

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These are surreal and cool all at the same time.

And the MLK/Anne Frank one is just plain neat and seems kinda appropriate, given how inspirational and hopeful they both were.

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There were Japanese people who witnessed the nuclear bombs, who were born in the Samurai age.

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The first London Underground line opened in 1863. So people who fought at Trafalgar and Waterloo very likely also rode on tube trains.

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the first King of Norway was named Harald Fairhair

because he had long hair and wanted to be called pretty (he didn't like his first nicknames his hair got him)

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Maybe "blew your mind" is an exaggeration, but I recently learned that...

200 years ago - 1816 - was known as the Year Without a Summer.

This was caused by a significant volcanic eruption in Indonesia (Mount Tambora) back in 1815, and led to global cooling the following year. It affected almost everyone who lived in the Northern Hemisphere. Crops failed due to cold weather (it was said there were even frosts and snow in June) and there were food shortages in America and Europe.

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kaijinscendre - 2016-09-14 02:50 (UTC) - Expand

This one is probably well known, but two of John Tyler's grandsons are still alive today in 2016. They are roughly 88 and 92!

Just to remind you, John Tyler was the 10th President of the United States, born in 1790. He did have fifteen kids though, between his first and second wives.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-09-14 02:46 (UTC) - Expand

That several species of whale appear to have individual names they use to identify themselves.

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~ Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died, in the same country, less than a year apart from each other.

~ Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

~ Leonardo da Vinci was a year younger than Christopher Columbus.

~ During the siege of Leningrad, 12 scientists starved to death rather than eat the grains stored at Pavlosk Agricultural Station, the world’s first seed bank.

~ A self-made millionaire named Victoria Woodhull ran for president of the US in 1872. She was in favour of free love, short skirts, vegetarianism, abolition of the death penalty, birth control, better public housing, easier divorce laws, excess-profit taxes, racial equality, and the female orgasm (among other things).

~ Lafayette (specifically, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette) changed his family's motto from the fairly impressive ‘Vis sat contra fatum’ (Determination is enough to overcome destiny) to the delightfully bro-ish ‘Cur non?’ (Why not?)

~ On the 18th of July, 1795, Alexander Hamilton challenged the Republican Party to a duel. All of them. Yes.

~ Sappho was "married" (lol) to a man called Kerkylas of Andros... a name that, more or less, translates to "Dick, from Man-Land".

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