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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

African Wild Dogs decide on when to go hunting by voting. If there is a supermajority of votes in favor of hunting, they will go out and hunt. If that quorum is not reached, they will stay home.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dingo Suffrage is my new punk band name

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago

That’s awesome! Maybe they should teach us some of their tricks…

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How do they indicate yay or nah

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's quiet or sneeze

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you have two arms, you have a higher than average number of arms.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

And if you have one skeleton in your body, you're below average.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well now wait, if pregnant people have four (or more) arms, we’ve got to have more than half as many pregnant people as people missing one or more arms, right?

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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In the movie "Catch Me If You Can", the french police officer that arrests Leonardo DiCaprio who is playing a young Frank Abagnale Jr. Is Frank Abagnale Jr.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Don’t know that. That’s kind of cool.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hydrogen, if left on its own long enough, names itself.

That's a wild way to think about the universe. Gonna steal this

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Over billions of years, hydrogen left on its own collapsed under gravity into stars, under went fusion, supernovaed, created all the heavier elements, formed secondary stars and rocky plants, evolved into creatures, which learnt chemistry and gave it a name. We're all stardust + time basically. But we're stardust that names itself.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 weeks ago

There is a giant hexagon on the north pole of Saturn.

It's more evidence that hexagons are the bestagons.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

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[–] joe_archer@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

The number of possible combinations of cards in a standard 52 card pack is so large that there is very little chance that any two packs of shuffled cards that have ever existed have ever been in the same order.

52 factorial is a larger number than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Chess positions are like that too, after any "main line" it quickly becomes a never played game...

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

52 factorial is a larger number than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

Not true, 52! ≈ 8x10^67 < 10^80.

If you divided the universe's mass into 52! parts, each part would contain ~1x10^13 atoms. Which, as far as solids go, is not visible to the naked eye. Which is still quite mental..

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Honestly literally anything about QR codes. Those things are insane. Did you know there's a very obvious 01010101010101 pattern in it if you know where to look?


(look in-between the paper)

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, timing marks! There's a few of them. So neat

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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Emoticon :) has etymology stemming from emotion + icon. Tis from the 80s, early computer stuff

Emoji 😊 is japanese, from 絵文字 which is like, drawing + character, basically. It's a word MUCH older than computing.

False cognates. Sound similar, similar function, nothing to do with each other.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

There's a :) in a typewritten cookbook I have from the 40s. I don't know how widespread smileys were back then, but they existed.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Your lips and butthole are the two ends of the same tube. Same glaborous vermillion border type skin or something

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[–] nycki@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Almost all web traffic now uses the utf-8 encoding, a clever hack which works because ascii is a seven-bit code but web traffic uses 8-bit bytes.

  • If the first bit is 0, treat the byte as ascii.
  • if the first bit is 1, treat the byte as part of a multi-byte unicode character.

multi-byte characters in utf-8 can officially be up to four bytes long, with 11 of those 32 bits used for tracking the size of the multi-byte block. That leaves 2^21 code points available, about two million in total, easily enough for every alphabet you could need to write on a website, and all without breaking ascii.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That giraffes exist. I'm a simple man, and giraffes are awesome.

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Kevin Spacey’s middle name is Spacey.

And that’s a rock fact.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

For anyone else wanting to look this up: yep. His full name is Kevin Spacey Fowler. Not Kevin Spacey Spacey as I thought OP meant.

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

On Titan, you could strap on wings and fly around.

Moreover, the atmosphere is >5% natural gas, but without oxygen you can't burn it. I suppose oxygen would be considered the fuel in that case and you'd pipeline that instead? And being able to breathe would be a nice side-benefit.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wombats take square shits.

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[–] Appleseuss@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There are more grains of sand in the ocean than there are stars in our solar system.

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Two pieces of matter cannot exist at the exact same place at the exact same time.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fermion condensate

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Early cycling laws and rights predate the invention of the automobile by decades. So it is actually the car that is the invasive newcomer.

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[–] ooli@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Your ~~mom~~ moon is exactly at the right distance to give full eclipse of the sun

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Two from me:

People took the London tube to the last public hanging - https://londonist.com/london/undergroundtoapublichanging

The University of Oxford (1096) is older than the Aztec empire (1345)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"If left in the sun, mayonnaise grows hair."

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

The hard part is getting the mayonnaise into the sun.

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[–] Upust_Krwi 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Emia means presence in blood.

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