Obscure facts ya know!

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@equestriatola

any thoughts on my questions?

trying although i know nothing, tears are salty, salt sediments being called crystals, like your table salt,
and salts are very electricity- conduction,
making electricity? well its like in a battery, you put two poles in a iony-liquid and that moves the electrons, highschool-basics essentially, but idk the words of todays explanations

People took baths in ‘rocking tubs’ during the Victorian Era. The bathtubs moved back and forth just like rocking chairs and were designed for people to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the ocean without having to leave their homes.

@slave: I'm not sure, TBH.

@traven........ makes sense......ty for the reply

@equestriatola

no worries
ty for replying

Flashlights are so named because that used to be all they could do. When they were first invented, the batteries and bulbs in the original paper and fiber tube versions were so weak that they could only produce a short flash of light before going dark and needing time to recharge.

Pandas are technically called “giant pandas,” even though they’re not huge.

Cats imitate baby humans whenever they want you to feed them. Hungry cats emit a vocalized, high-frequency purr that’s in the same acoustic range as the cries of a hungry infant, and humans subconsciously recognize it as being more urgent than other purrs.

^^ Devious little devils, I always thought they were up to something.

When tracking giant pandas in China, the scientists have to make sure not to get noticed, so that the Pandas don't get to trust humans too much. So the scientists have to dress up in panda suits. To avoid the human smell giving the game away, the suits are drenched in Panda pee!

They (the big black and white animals) are called "giant pandas" to distinguish them from the critter below, known as the "lesser panda", also known as the "red panda". Both live in China. But are only distantly related. The giant pandas are bears (though an odd kind of vegetarian bear, with a unique pseudo "thumb" on their paws for stripping bamboo), and are kinda standard bear size (not big for bears, but big for most animals). The smaller lesser pandas are cousins of the American raccoon (and are of comparable size).

Today is a Democratic Thanksgiving!

President Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving. In 1939 FDR designated the 4th Thursday of November as Thanksgiving. President Lincoln's Thanksgiving became known as Republican Thanksgiving and FDR's Thansgiving becam known as Democratic Thanksgiving.

Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material, usually consisting of plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium.
& see and wait how MOX fuel performed in the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.

The Truman Show delusion is a mental condition in which a person believes that their life is a staged reality show and they are being watched by cameras. (So called for the movie of the same name.)

So, you know the floating bits and chunks of plastic(some 8 million tons/annum), which are collecting in the various gyres of the world's oceans.

Reviewed here~~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZS3Vh4lfI

Well, it turns out, that one of the largest sources of plastics into the planet's oceans, is..............LAUNDRY!



This article will explain....https://theconversation.com/how-your-pile-of-laundry-fills-the-sea-with-plastic-pollution-80109

Quote from same..."Less widely known as a source of microplastic is the breakdown of synthetic fabrics, which forms tiny plastic fibres. Reports now indicate that these are the most common form of microplastic recovered from sediment and water samples. And the vast majority of these are produced during domestic clothes washing."

"...hundreds of thousands of fibres from a single wash." specifically..."An average washing load could release 137,951 fibres from polyester-cotton blend fabric, 496,030 fibres from polyester and 728,789 from acrylic"

The laundry aspect of this issue had not occurred to me, so this article was quite an eye-opener.

Black Friday is also Buy Nothing Day, where participants protest consumerism by not purchasing anything for at least 24 hours. People have also been known to stage sit ins, cut up their credit cards, wander around shopping malls as zombies, or host used winter coat exchanges.

The US Treasury once considered producing donut-shaped coins.