When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.

  • RoleplayFaye@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Pigs can’t look directly upwards. Neither can we, when standing on all fours. This is because ours and pigs necks are constructed in the same way.

    • CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today
      1·
      5 days ago

      And according to some weirdos on the internet who apparently know some concerning things from experience, human meat tastes the same as pig meat. Tastes like Pork. But now I’m curious why pork & ham & bacon are three distinctly different tastes & textures if they all come from pig.

  • scrodumb@lemmy.ca
    1315·
    9 days ago

    The Moon is 384,400 km away from Earth. If you took every elephant on Earth and stacked them one atop another most of them would die.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    70·
    9 days ago

    Mozart had a pet starling. And when it died he gave it a funeral and burial and wrote a poem for it that he read at the service.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
      38·
      9 days ago

      Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more “marriageable.”

      • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        9 days ago

        I actually have a theory that I can’t prove, that perhaps a few of the pieces we attribute to Wolfgang were actually hers. Here’s why I think that…

        We know they corresponded regularly after she got married and that she continued to compose and send her brother her work, and he wrote back praising her. I have a suspicion that he might have given some of her pieces to be performed, telling patrons they were his. Not to take credit, but so her music would at least be heard.

        Again it’s not something I can prove, more like a headcanon thing.

    • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      32·
      9 days ago

      Mozart was also a completely ungovernable furry with ADHD. He was a child genius, but that meant he was sitting in opera rehearsals as a bored teenager.

      And when he’d get bored, he’d start finding ways to entertain himself. This included doing things like playing “the floor is lava” while using the orchestra members as platforms, and prancing around while loudly meowing.

      And all of them basically put up with it, the same way that modern tour managers put up with annoying frontmen in popular bands.

      • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        9 days ago

        I’m now working on a graphic with the following quotes:

        Growing up, I was always told that you have to be careful with your words because once they leave your mouth, they belong to the world. But I think it’s the opposite. Your words belong to you until you give them away.

        ~ John Cena

        Lick my ass.

        ~ W.A. Mozart

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Mozart also invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unverifiable theory is that he continued refining the system and it got so good that he used it to compose all his greatest hits and stopped telling anybody about his random music generator.

      • Lumisal@lemmy.world
        9·
        8 days ago

        It’s the blood that seems to matter more than the organs, and not all organs follow this rule. Kidneys for example don’t really change much.

  • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip
    52·
    9 days ago

    more time passed between the building of the great pyramid and cleopatra, than between cleopatra and today

    • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
      40·
      9 days ago

      Another example of things lasting far longer than people think is more years passed between the Stegosaurus and the T Rex than the T Rex to today.

    • MrEff@lemmy.world
      32·
      8 days ago

      Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One “major” was the equivalent to what would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.

  • translucent_tube@lemmy.world
    51·
    9 days ago

    Our ability to feel social judgment and shame reuses the same neural circuits as physical disgust or nausea. This effectively makes it so you can take anti-nausea medication to temporarily make you less judgy of other people’s life choices.

  • tiny_hedgehog@piefed.socialEnglish
    491·
    8 days ago

    There are more atoms of hydrogen in a molecule of water than there are stars in the whole solar system.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    9 days ago

    The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the “Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!” one, written in 5/4 time? That’s supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code. --.. dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.

    FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.

    • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      8 days ago

      Hey! Same for Rush’s YYZ. The morse code for Y-Y-Z (the airport code for the Toronto airport where the band no doubt spent a lot of time) is --.- --.- --.. which is a rhythmic motif that appears a bunch in the song in some ungodly meter I don’t care to look up right now.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        So, I don’t know if it did it on your end, the reason why I put my morse code in a code block is it expanded the two dots into three. Don’t know if it does it on all UIs but on my end it made your Z into dash dash dot dot dot.

        He says, as if it matters.

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
        9·
        8 days ago

        You’ve never been close to one of those clankers, huh? The constant whining of every servo motor is like a bunch of small, high pitched groans in tandem.

    • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
      4·
      8 days ago

      Muscles can be either voluntary (choosing to lift a chair) or involuntary (a beating heart) as well.

    • spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Along these lines: a major league baseball batter must predict where the ball will be before it leaves the pitcher’s hand. There is literally not enough time for the neural signal to get from the eyes to the brain, be processed and then an impulse sent to the arm muscles to swing the bat in the time it takes for the ball to travel to home plate at 95mph.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    9 days ago

    With vanishingly rare exception, addicts choose the mood altering substance that is closest to what the medically accepted treatment for their underlying disorder(s) would be.

    People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.

    People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.

    The list goes on and it gets very complicated, because most mood altering substances have multiple effects, and most people have a blend of underlying issues. But the point is, there is a very noteworthy observation there, I feel.

    I feel qualified to say this as myself I am 11 years sober and have worked in the field of addiction for 8 years and I’m formally educated.

  • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
    37·
    9 days ago

    The specifications for all varieties of “9mm” cartridges (9x17, 9x18, and 9x19) actually call for a projectile with a diameter of 0.355 inches, which is actually 9.017 millimeters.

    Similarly, the specification for .38 Special calls for a projectile with a diameter of 0.357 inches.

    If you measure the barrel of any firearm chambered in any variety of 9mm, .38 Special, or .357 Magnum, you’ll find that they’re all ostensibly .35 caliber (0.350 inches).

    Why? Well, the simplest answer is, things aren’t always what they’re called. In the world of cartridge designations, there are many, many such idiosyncrasies; these are only scratching the surface. I find this interesting because many people perceive cartridge designations as being very uniform, logical, and standardized, but the actual truth is far from that.

    In some cases, the number is even made bigger just to make it sound more powerful, such is the case with .460 S&W Magnum, which is a more powerful version of .454 Casull, which itself is a more powerful version of .45 Colt, all of which actually fire a projectile with a diameter measuring 0.452 inches.

    • autriyo@feddit.org
      7·
      9 days ago

      The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.

      Is that what the 0.350" are referring to?

      It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.

      • MrEff@lemmy.world
        9·
        8 days ago

        The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.

        Kind of, but not really. The bullet actually slightly expands from heating. At the same time though, if you measured the diameter of a cold barrel and a hot barrel you would get two different measurements. If the cold barrel is too tight of a fit the bullet has an increased chance of lodging when it heats up and expands.

        This is why bullets moved towards copper jackets with some sort of other metal center chosen for various justifications. The copper jacket is soft, east to expand into rifling grooves, not hard enough to damage and wear out rifling, and can stretch a little if it gets too tight.

        Really, the BIGGEST difference is going to be the casing, chambering, and pressure. It’s like how people talk about 5.56 and .223 being the same. They are the same only at face value of size and chambering, but very different on rated pressures. A rifle rated to shoot .223 should only shoot .223. A rifle rated to shoot 5.56 is rated for a higher pressure and can shoot both.

        In the same regard to OP: 9mm, .357, and .38 special may measure the same, but all 3 chamber very differently and have different pressures.

        Hell, even 9mm has 9mm luger (parabellum) vs 9mm NATO. it’s the same round/casing, but again, different pressure. A gun that shoots luger (lower pressure) should never shoot nato. But a gun that shoots nato (higher pressure) can shoot both.

        It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.

        True, but this is also why “stopping power” is then measured in ft-lb (foot-pounds) or joules for metric. Pistols may shoot bigger rounds, but at significantly slower speeds. Less powder for recoil control and less barrel length for pressure build up. The bigger size bullet is a compensation for the smaller gun. A rile with a smaller round has far more energy behind it’s round.

      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.

        .22lr and 5.56 NATO projectiles are practically the same diameter.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    371·
    9 days ago

    As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.

    Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren’t slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we’ve found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you’ve forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?