When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
You can double an hourly rate to approximate the annual wage. $30/hr ~= $60k / year.
Because 50 paid weeks * 40 paid hours = 2000 hours -> 2k
$30 * 2k = $60k
Sure, for people who work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. Ugh that sounds exhausting.
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I apologize if you interpreted my comment in a way that upset you or hurt your feelings. Was not my intention.
Humans can’t feel wet, what we’re actually feeling is cold. It’s why when you have a cold patch on a blanket or carpet you can’t quite figure out if it’s wet or not.
It’s actually an even greater level of abstraction: we feel the rate of heat flow through our skin. This is (kind-of) why plastic feels warmer than metal. Colder things don’t feel colder because they are colder. Colder things feel colder because they more efficiently sap heat from our skin. Wet things feel colder because water and other highly conductive fluids which have wet the skin (and are thus in direct contact with it) are much more efficient in removing heat, thus feeling colder. This is the twofold reason why oil doesn’t feel as cold as water: it has significantly worse heat conductivity, and it doesn’t readily evaporate (as evaporation is a highly endothermic process, sapping heat even more efficiently than a conductive liquid on its own.)
Sorry these facts are actually useful, please leave. ;)
Oh yeah? Well menthol tricks your nerves into thinking they’re losing more heat than they are, so if you dissolve a tiny crystal of menthol in everclear, you can make a tincture to rub on a part of your body that’s sweating, and it will feel naturally cool for about ten minutes, reducing discomfort from both heat and sweat! How’s that for “actually useful”?
This is so cool to know!!! Thank you!
I feel like that’s like “you can’t see or touch the world or experience time, your eyeballs and molecules that never touch anything are just affected by magnetic and gravitational waves and translate that to feeling and experiencing those things”
Like I guess it’s technically true in that perspective, but effectively false
Somewhere bongos started to play…
Is that a Jumanji reference?
When Mount Vesuvius erupted, the heat of it turned a man’s brain to glass.
Glass is made of silica. So, nah.
According to the International Commission on Glass, silica is one material that can be used to make glass, but not the only material:
Tolkein came up with the broad strokes of the simarillion and other parts of his legendarium decades before thinking about hobbits.
He also had an incredible saga involving Santa, a talking polar bear, and the North Pole that he made for his children in letters.
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.
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.
Female hyenas have pseudo penises
9,000 years before the cradle of civilizations oldest structures. There were already humans in The Americas
Giant isopods have a life expectancy of 6-9 years, but one of them in an aquarium went on a hunger strike for 5 years.
It’s possible to define an infinite sequence whose nth term must exist before it’s first.
do it now…
Let $\mu(x)=0$ if $\exists y<x\mu(y)=0$ or $x$ is the 20 millionth prime. $\mu(x)=\mu(x+1)+1$ otherwise. The elements of the sequence only become defined once the 20 millionth prime is found; till then they’ve yet to be constructed.
Bonus: The sequence $\nu$ is defined as follows.
Let $\nu(x)=0$ if $\exists y\leq x\mu(y)$ is perfect. $\nu(x)=\nu(x+1)+1$ otherwise.
We’re not sure if this is a sequence, even though it is algorithmically definable. Its existence relies on the existence of an odd perfect number.
We doing orb books now?
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.
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If you took a horse’s large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.
If you laid every road on earth end-to-end a lot of people would be annoyed with you
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jokes aside, the vastness of space is incomprehensible https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.
To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide’s introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a peanut in Reading and a small walnut in Johannesburg, and other such dizzying concepts.
https://esl-bits.eu/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hitchhikers.Guide/08/text.html
I love this demo.
Hey, is that fairy cake?
Thankyou! I’ve seen that before, but lost the link. It’s mind-boggling.
I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.
If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown
The last people on land just have to be a wee bit stronger to keep the tension, then it works out fine.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.
Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.
Why full circle, though? Is this your last experience with the internet? RIP aeronmelon’s internet experience, 1994-2026
Let’s be honest, it’s been downhill since the Elephant Jokes website.
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system
You would guess this is useless info, but I can use this fun fact to remember how many suns the earth has also.
🤦♂️
Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?
The moon causes tides, but mooning does not involve tiddies
Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes
Wouldn’t you say that they’ll all die? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them
It’s hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can’t survive a ~10 foot fall. That’s about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.
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.
Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more “marriageable.”
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.
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.
It’s probably not this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_schön_sauber
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
i am now mad that this wasn’t included in the movie
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.
Pet is french for fart, and Mozart had a fart fetish. It also rhymes.
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I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1
What if I replace most of my organs with younger ones? If a billionaire gets a whole body transplant, does that also de-age his brain?
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.
more time passed between the building of the great pyramid and cleopatra, than between cleopatra and today
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.
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.
They had archeologists, kind of wild when you think about it.
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.
Brb drugging my family with anti nausea medicine
