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appaws

Banned
President James K. Polk had surgery with no anesthesia to remove kidney stones that were stuck in his urethra and ureters. He never had children.
 

nikolino840

Member
Our DNA have some "errors" of the Evolution..for example sometimes we wake up thinking of falling down becouse in the past we sleeps on the trees to avoid predators...or we tend to see faces everywere in any objects becouse was so important to recognize One of our species for example in a middle of the forest...
 
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slugbahr

Unconfirmed Member
The chicken crossed the road to buy a newspaper and a loaf of bread.
 

RedVIper

Banned
Our DNA have some "errors" of the Evolution..for example sometimes we wake up thinking of falling down becouse in the past we sleeps on the trees to avoid predators...or we tend to see faces everywere in any objects becouse was so important to recognize One of our species for example in a middle of the forest...

Those aren't errors thought, that's just how evolution works.
 

TacosNSalsa

Member
That how fast cholroform works in the movies is bullshit ..it takes about 5 mins. of constant inha...nevermind...I don't know how cholroform works..carry on..
 

Jaxx_377

Member
Teddy Roosevelt Survived an assassination attempt while running for re-election and was shot in the chest before giving a campaign speech. He refused medical attention and spoke for 90 minutes bleeding with a bullet lodged in his chest before seeing a doctor.
 

Ellis

Member
Try flipping your phone horizontally. Then you will get a wider page view where you can see notifications. If its regular vertical position, yeah you cant see notifications anywhere.
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Sad fact: your elementary school teacher, who taught you that your blood is really blue until it hits the air and becomes red, was a major idiot.
 

lock2k

Banned
Many of the dinos we see in movies like Jurassic Park and other media depicted together have never met because they lived millions of years apart from each other. ex: the T-Rex is closer to humans than to the strgossaurus in timeline. The Stegossaurus was ancient history when the T Rex was roaming the earth.

Also, the Aztecas did not build Teotihuacan in Mexico. They found it and lived there. no one knows who build them.
 

Kagey K

Banned
Sad fact: your elementary school teacher, who taught you that your blood is really blue until it hits the air and becomes red, was a major idiot.
My daughter and I had this arguement a couple weeks about. Turns out I was lied to the entire time. I was unhappy and she was gleefully overjoyed to be right, so much so that she wrote a story about it for science class.

Want to go slap that teacher in the face.
 

MetalAlien

Banned
Inside of a black hole space and time trade properties. The singularity at the center appears to be all around you. You are not crushed by it, the pull all around you grows stronger and stronger until it rips you and every part of you apart. Like what we are going to feel in the big rip when the universe ends if dark energy keeps increasing.
 

Kagey K

Banned
Inside of a black hole space and time trade properties. The singularity at the center appears to be all around you. You are not crushed by it, the pull all around you grows stronger and stronger until it rips you and every part of you apart. Like what we are going to feel in the big rip when the universe ends if dark energy keeps increasing.
This is all theoretical, nobody has come into or left one to know if this is fact or fiction.

On paper it makes sense, but we have no proof of this.

I’d put this more into unproven theory instead of fact.
 
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MetalAlien

Banned
This is all theoretical, nobody has come into or left one to know if this is fact or fiction.

On paper it makes sense, but we have no proof of this.
You are correct we have not yet dropped someone into a black hole to confirm any of that.
 

Kadayi

Banned
Yes but i used these "..." are useless in 2019 :) why i continue to see faces on the floor tie of my bathroom ahah :D

Never take LSD, my friend. You'll see faces everywhere. :messenger_dizzy:

Anyway my contributions to the thread: -

Coffee originates from Africa (the Mountainous regions of Ethiopia specifically)

Tomatoes originate from Central America

Chillies originate from Southern & Central America
 

Airola

Member
Our DNA have some "errors" of the Evolution..for example sometimes we wake up thinking of falling down becouse in the past we sleeps on the trees to avoid predators...or we tend to see faces everywere in any objects becouse was so important to recognize One of our species for example in a middle of the forest...

I don't quite believe either one of those.

The tree example feels like pure speculation and the face thing, I think it's just because from the birth when we begin to see we are looking at faces all the time when communicating with people. It doesn't have to come from history any further than one's own birth and slowly growing up and dealing with faces.

I mean, after spending waaaay too much time with oogling nude women and porn throughout my life I'm seeing cocks and tits and asses and vags everywhere. I'm sure some would say that's because it was so important to recognize those to get your genes spread out, but come on...... :D
 

nikolino840

Member
I don't quite believe either one of those.

The tree example feels like pure speculation and the face thing, I think it's just because from the birth when we begin to see we are looking at faces all the time when communicating with people. It doesn't have to come from history any further than one's own birth and slowly growing up and dealing with faces.

I mean, after spending waaaay too much time with oogling nude women and porn throughout my life I'm seeing cocks and tits and asses and vags everywhere. I'm sure some would say that's because it was so important to recognize those to get your genes spread out, but come on...... :D
Idk...i saw on a documentary about Evolution years ago .. im not a scientist so this are not my studies :D
i think Is true...if you believe on darwin's theories about the humans apes-like :D becouse Is something before "homo sapiens"
 

Airola

Member
Idk...i saw on a documentary about Evolution years ago .. im not a scientist so this are not my studies :D
i think Is true...if you believe on darwin's theories about the humans apes-like :D becouse Is something before "homo sapiens"

I think a lot of evolution studies are about fitting things into the core theory to bump it up instead of making real studies about them. It's more like trying to prove things by evolution than proving evolution by things.

I mean, people look at certain psychological things and if it can be fit in the general idea of evolution, then it must be because of some exotic reason from 100,000 years ago, when in reality it could just be all about how we have started to sense things after we've been born. The "falling from the tree" could be explained by just figuring that most of us have some kind of fear of death in that none of us wants to fall down from a cliff to our deaths. When we are dreaming we are in a state where we are really sensitive to our deepest hidden and instinctual thoughts and if we have some issue or a bit of stress lingering in our thoughts either us knowing or not knowing it, it's likely that in that state we might get this sudden sense of falling down that represents and reminds us of trouble.

Now, you could say that's because we had to fight animals when we were monkeys, but it would be just about the general sense of fear and survival and not about us being on trees and the sense and fear of falling from a tree somehow has spread as a mental image from 100000 years ago to today. I'm not saying our feeling of fear today couldn't come from passing genes that make people more prone to being alert and fearful when facing danger from pre homo sapiens time, but making these specific speculations of "it's because we used to be on trees and were scared of falling down we still have this scary falling down sensation when we sleep." Our own life experiences in current world are in my opinion enough to explain these dream things.

As much as I have these sudden falling down sensations that wake me up, I also have these sudden sensations of some big ball like thing (like a meteor or just an actual football) coming fast at my face and I'm shook up by that just as much as I'm shook up by suddenly thinking I'm falling. Would love to hear a theory on how we 100000 years ago had to be afraid of not getting a coconut on our faces and that's why I just week ago jumped out my bed in fear just as I was about to fall asleep :D Nah, I think that's mostly because that's one of the things I've been experiencing and been scared of when I was a kid and I could project a lot of what's in my conscious and subconsious mind into that sensation.

I'm talking out of my ass obviously here, but I think what we experience and sense in our own lives affects to what we experience when we sleep or about to fall asleep makes much more sense than thinking everything comes from some past experiences some pre-humans hundreds of thousands of generations ago have experienced.

I think we can believe in humans coming from apes without going that far in speculation of what we experience at night.

But again, I'm talking out of my ass here and I'm not a scientist either so I could be wrong :D
 

nikolino840

Member
If you want to know unusual facts take a look at this 60's italian movie documentary (eng version) warning some nsfw and disturbing scenes about what human kind do.. nothing of War or porn,Just cultural things (mostly)

 
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