What really blows my mind is that NASA is able to receive data from a 4.67 billion miles far away spacecraft, while i lose wifi signal once i move to the kitchen
Yeah, but did you hear about this? The audience member was catcalling all the female actresses and then started shouting homophobic remarks at one of the actors. That’s how the fight started, and after the audience member was removed from the premise, the actors carried on as if nothing happened.
Child:
Mommy why did you freeze all my toys in ice, what am I supposed to get them out with, I want to play with my dinosaurs
Suburban Mom:
frankly that's not really my problem, I'm going to drink a soda and you're gonna sit here and either wait for this to melt or break them out of there
Where you see a broken physics engine, I see the Nordic space program.
The interesting thing about this - at least for me, and from what I’ve heard - is why exactly this happens.
Basically the physics engine Skyrim uses turns any additional damage dealt after death into motion. So if you had 100 health, and someone hit you for 101 damage, you’d fly a little bit further than if you were just hit for 100. Likewise, getting hit for 200 when you only have 100 would send you pretty far back. As far as I know, the “Fus Roh Dah” shout basically translates all (or 99%) of your damage into momentum.
So what happens here is basically the giants are just hitting you for absolutely astronomical amounts of damage, and you’re hitting the ground and then bounding back up. It’s such a weird string of events.
vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft
During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.
raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death
during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after ONE of them slept with another man.
The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people
King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That’s where the “tradition” of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from.
Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process.
Spicy foods were thought to increase libido and cause children to masturbate. To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes
At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fear, not knowing that they had literally no ammunition.
When the Roman Emperor Caligula went to invade Britain he stood on the coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as “spoils from the Ocean”.
