What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Probably a cheap one and nothing new new but: Meta used to serve you specially predatory adds: about crazy beauty standards when you changed your status in facebook from in a relationship to single. Because they knew you'd be more likely to buy these products when your confidence is at it's lowest.
Nestlé does not only have food products and water in it's portfolio they also owns 20% of L'oréal and their products.
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Artificial raspberry flavor is made from beaver anal glands.
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They were invented because a microwave radar unit melted the chocolate in a guys pocket.
That's actually one of those Urban legends things. The guy made it intentionally to Cook and it was later refined to had stacks of die punched metal sheets instead of the carefully machined blocks.
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The chainsaw was first used to saw bone, not trees
That makes it sound like it was used for amputation...
It was invented to aid with childbirth
HOW IS THAT BETTER
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I'm so happy that I'm living in 2025
wrote last edited by [email protected]In use in Ireland until the 1980s, apparently. TIL.
"Hey while you're giving birth anyway, I'm just gonna use this hand-cranked kitchen appliance thing to saw your pelvis apart. Please try to relax."
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The first microwave ovens created were being used to gently re-warm frozen live hamsters, because when they tried to reheat the hamsters with conventional cooking methods, they heated unevenly and burned at the edges, which isn't good for the hamsters.
Ok what the fuck. Is there a source beyond the youtube video I don't want to watch right now. That's pretty wild claim. The few sites I visit seem to reference the YouTube video as the source
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I'm so happy that I'm living in 2025
Today they use this sleek and futuristic implement for episiotomies
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Artificial raspberry flavor is made from beaver anal glands.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Which brings us to just one of those bizarre US things, "artificial flavor" versus "natural flavor" is totally arbitrary and random. It's based on which molecule, not what the source is, so you can have "natural flavors" that came from a massive stainless steel tank and will kill you if you touch them in pure form without the proper protective gear, or "artificial flavors" that come from squeezing beaver ass glands.Edit: Every word of this post is wrong. Literally every one. I think I read a book decades ago that told me this, maybe I remembered it wrong, but anyway according to the internet of today it's different and I'm a big dummy.
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Artificial raspberry flavor is made from beaver anal glands.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The gifts from this perfect creatures never cease to amaze me. Thank you kind beaver, your greatness humbles me and all humans.
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Ok what the fuck. Is there a source beyond the youtube video I don't want to watch right now. That's pretty wild claim. The few sites I visit seem to reference the YouTube video as the source
Platypus already linked to a paper which references it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1363505/pdf/jphysiol01379-0153.pdf
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Modern ones do have hotspots and cold spots because of resonance and design tradeoffs, but I don't think that was a problem for the hamster application. IDK, maybe they were structured a little more small and special-purpose, but regardless it was just penetrating radiation basically all throughout the hamster which is better than heating it from the outside in and having the heat having to conduct its way through the frozen tissue.
Basically the same reason you can defrost meat in the microwave, but you can't throw it in the oven to defrost more quickly without also cooking the edges.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Microwaves also heat from the outside in. The difference is the heat can be turned on and off as easily as a light switch, whereas an oven is literally just a hot box. Defrosting works solely because the heat can be turned off for 14 out of 20 seconds (or what ever cycle the microwave has) to let the heat conduct through the frozen tissue.
I wouldn't be surprised if the hamster/rat defrosters achieved their results by simply being less powerful than a kitchen appliance.
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Hadn't heard the hank crank part before. That's extra brutal
And it was made for use during childbirth.
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Any warning label you have ever seen exists because enough people did the thing being warned against that a lawyer said there needed to be a sign.
More like a law was made to say, "if you're warned first it's your own damn fault".
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Any warning label you have ever seen exists because enough people did the thing being warned against that a lawyer said there needed to be a sign.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My wife recently noticed a new sign by our building's pool saying that you are not allowed in if you have diarrhea or have had diarrhea in the last 14 days.
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
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My wife recently noticed a new sign by our building's pool saying that you are not allowed in if you have diarrhea or have had diarrhea in the last 14 days.
🥴Gross, and yes. That would be why
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The first microwave ovens created were being used to gently re-warm frozen live hamsters, because when they tried to reheat the hamsters with conventional cooking methods, they heated unevenly and burned at the edges, which isn't good for the hamsters.
Anyone else randomly think of Joe Cartoon for the first time in a very long time?
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Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
helluva mouse problem at the Maxim house
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Hugo Boss (the clothing line) started out making uniforms for the Nazi Party.
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I have to assume the microwave didn't work either, because they cook far more unevenly than an oven.
On high, yes. Lower and intermittent power in micro wave heats far more evenly than an oven
