• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    If gum took anywhere near 7 years to digest, regularly swallowing it would put you in the hospital within weeks. The gastrointestinal tract does not like obstructions.

    Black holes may not be holes, but an up-close view of the event horizon would certainly look like one.

    Iron maidens may be fake, but plenty of other ancient torture implements aren’t. Humans are awful.

    Fun fact: you have an entire separate sense solely for knowing whether you need to shit.

    If fan death was wasn’t a myth, I would have died a very long time ago.

    Birds aren’t idiots. They know perfectly well the difference between a human and their own baby. If they could smell human, they still wouldn’t reject their babies because they’d also be able to smell baby bird.

    TIL getting laid is a performance-enhancing drug.