What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?
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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
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HOW IS THAT BETTER
The crazy part is it was less painful then what they were doing without the chainsaw...
On the plus side I believe that was the same time they invented vibrators, and when women complained about how shitty everything was, they'd just go get vibrated to cure their "hysteria".
Here's a very upbeat song by Riki Lindholm about it:
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helluva mouse problem at the Maxim house
Looks like that one Love, Death & Robots episode.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Microwaves penetrate a certain distance into the material and then turn into heat. Heat conduction from the outside doesn't. I don't know exactly what the average of that distance is and how it compares to the size of a hamster, but I would bet that it's pretty competitive with the thickness of the hamster.
Your whole argument here makes no sense at all. Having the ambient temperature set to the perfect defrosting value would work better than heating the skin of the frozen meat in cycles of full on / full off, if the microwaves were getting stopped right at the skin and then the heat had to conduct in from there.
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Hugo Boss (the clothing line) started out making uniforms for the Nazi Party.
You know they are some of the most iconic uniforms of all time I'll give them that
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Artificial raspberry flavor is made from beaver anal glands.
Seems unnecessary. Raspberries are plentiful and likely cheaper than beaver parts.
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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."
Chewing gum is a petroleum product.
