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Almost everything on Earth is solar-powered except for nuclear energy, which is powered by dead stars that existed before our Sun was even born.
reddit.comu/palmerry — 6 days ago
▲ 140 r/NormMacdonald
This week, pop star Britney Spears says she's failed as a mother due to her son not believing in God. Now call me old fashioned but I'd at she failed as a mother due to all the sex, drugs and knife dancing.
u/palmerry — 10 days ago
TIL of the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides water for 25% of US irrigated land, but has been significantly drained since intensive pumping began. Because arid parts only recharge at 10% of the withdrawal rate, scientists estimate it would take over 6,000 years to naturally refill if emptied.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Ok_Crazy1195 — 24 days ago
TIL in 1976, undisputed champion Muhammad Ali fought wrestler Antonio Inoki. Rules barred Inoki from grappling, so he spent 15 rounds on his back landing 107 leg kicks. Ali landed just 2 punches, got severe blood clots, and doctors debated amputation. The match was a draw.
en.wikipedia.orgu/palmerry — 28 days ago
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MRW my husband asks me why our son is sick after eating Taco Bell
u/palmerry — 30 days ago
▲ 24 r/Xennials
Thanks to advancements in microsurgery, vascular stitching, and nerve regeneration we can successfully reattach limbs just like Astar.
u/palmerry — 30 days ago
▲ 264 r/todayilearned
TIL Tilda Swinton’s great-granduncle, Alan Campbell-Swinton, predicted and mapped out modern electronic television in 1908, long before it was actually built. He also took the UK's first-ever X-ray photograph.
en.wikipedia.orgu/palmerry — 1 month ago
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One of the unspoken benefits of working from home is never having to use a public bathroom.
reddit.comu/palmerry — 1 month ago
MRW I read that more arrests have been made over people touching a reflecting pool than in the Epstein files.
u/palmerry — 2 months ago
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TIL rabbits are not rodents. They were classified as rodents, but got reclassified to the group lagomorphs due to having non rodent traits (four incisors instead of two). Similarities between rabbits and rodents were attributed to convergent evolution, but DNA has proven they share a common ancestor
en.wikipedia.orgu/palmerry — 2 months ago
▲ 439 r/reactiongifs
MRW American hospitals are experiencing a sharp increase in diseases directly attributed to the steady decline in routine vaccinations
u/palmerry — 3 months ago
▲ 562 r/todayilearned
TIL the cowrie shell (Monetaria moneta) was used as currency for 3,000+ years across Africa & Asia, staying legal tender into the early 20th century. Harvested in the Maldives, these uncounterfeitable shells suffered European-induced hyperinflation and bans, yet informal trade lasted until the 1960s
en.wikipedia.orgu/palmerry — 3 months ago
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Companies thought AI would let them pocket the wages of fired workers, but instead, clients just demanded price cuts, leaving Big Tech as the only ones getting rich.
reddit.comu/palmerry — 3 months ago
▲ 27 r/TimAndEric
You've heard of the t'urd. You know and love the b'ougar and the b'owl. But did you know about the secret unreleased Cinco toy division product the h'oar?
u/palmerry — 3 months ago