Cool Facts

[Cynic]

Hatebeak is the first metal band with an African Gray Parrot as lead singer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatebeak

[Mad For Science]

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.

[Strange]

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.

[AlexCaro]

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.🐘

[zapatos]

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.

[Ericchiriboga]

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. 

[MintData]

Peanuts grow underground

[Kevin_Hall]

In 1990 Voyager-1 took this picture. The most distant photo of our Earth we've ever made. Distance=6 billion km

[iNow]

[npts2020]

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
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