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Niki Tonsky

What are some crazy facts that sound impossible but are, in fact, true?

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Carlos Fdez Llamas

@nikitonsky there’s a plant with observed mimetic capabilities, it can mimic multiple other plants at the same time, needs no physical contact to mimic them, and we don’t know how it works yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila

Kirill Pimenov

@nikitonsky Brussel sprouts grow on stalks, like this

Niki Tonsky

@kirushik oh nice! I love learning how products from supermarket actually look like

Niki Tonsky

@kirushik

> butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogshead

hogshead!

> being between 450 and 1,060 litres

Obviously

econads

@nikitonsky we're closer in time to Cleopatra than she was to Rameses I who built the great pyramid.

Likewise closer in time to T-rex than it was to Stegosaurus. Humanity has been around for such a short time.

daj

@nikitonsky farming was invented before the first blue-eyed person was born (and all blue-eyed people are descended from that one person)

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