Random Facts Thread.

wwkirk

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How Coke bottles change over time. The first one looks like a elixir that replenish your health and your stamina. That's actually what it was marketed as, no?

Do they still have any glass coke bottles? The one at the far right might be plastic.
 

nivek

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Do they still have any glass coke bottles? The one at the far right might be plastic.

Yes, the local grocery store has glass bottled coke in the Hispanic isle and it has real cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup...

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nivek

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The oldest hotel in the world is The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan and has been in business since 705AD. The crazy thing is that it’s still a family business. For 52 generations.

 

Dejan Corovic

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The oldest hotel in the world is The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan and has been in business since 705AD. The crazy thing is that it’s still a family business. For 52 generations.


That's not what's strange.
Its weirder that its apparently in a middle of nowhere and it still had visitors for more then 1,000 years.
 

wwkirk

Divine
That's not what's strange.
Its weirder that its apparently in a middle of nowhere and it still had visitors for more then 1,000 years.
The hot springs there have been regarded as healing. I guess once the word got out people desired to visit there. And since the area is isolated as you note, building a hotel there may have been judged a good business opportunity.
 

nivek

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On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, while flying in thick fog. The accident caused the deaths of fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at US $1 million (equivalent to about $15 million in 2021), although the building's structural integrity was not compromised.



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nivek

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This is how the world's tallest woman (7'0.7'') took her first flight. Turkish airlines replaced 6 seats from its economy section with a special stretcher for her to travel on the 13-hour flight to the United States.

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nivek

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nivek

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Long exposures of our Solar System's innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury's thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow when excited by light from the Sun. Sunlight also liberates these molecules from Mercury's surface and pushes them away. The yellow glow from sodium, in particular, is relatively bright. First predicted in the 1980s, Mercury's tail was first discovered in 2001. Tails are usually associated with comets.

By Sebastian Voltmer



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The shadow

The shadow knows!
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In the 1st edition of charlie and the chocolate factory the ompa lumpas were pigmies that were enslaved by Wonka...
 

nivek

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270 million bombs were dropped during the American Secret War in Laos in a span of 9 years, making it the most heavily bombed country in the history of the world. That's 57 bombs every minute on average.



Legacies of war

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nivek

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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe.



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nivek

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Can any battery last without charging forever? The answer is yes, and it lies on a shelf in the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University in the UK. Known officially as the Clarendon Dry Pile, the device consists of a hanging metal ball that moves back and forth between two small bells. The ball striking the bells produces a ringing sound. Yes, it looks like a straightforward device, except it isn’t. Today, more than 175 years after it was manufactured, the Oxford Electric Bell, as it is often referred to, has rung more than 10 billion times. And the mystery lies in the battery powering this device. Nobody knows the battery's composition yet, and scientists are waiting desperately for it to die to examine its contents. As of now, the battery is showing no signs of dying as it has been dubbed the “world’s most durable battery” by the Guinness Book of World Records for functioning for so long.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YET_V0hhtYA


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nivek

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A Peruvian elongated skull with metal surgically implanted after returning from battle, estimated to be from about 2000 years ago. The broken bone surrounding the repair is tightly fused together indicating it was a successful surgery.

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nivek

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Soldiers paying tribute to the 8 million Horses, Donkeys, and Mules that lost their lives during World War I, 1918.



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