Posts Tagged interesting

5 UFO sightings that even non-crazy people find creepy

this is a really interesting article from cracked…i wonder what the explanations for most of these events would be if they had occurred in the present day


5 UFO Sightings That Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

If you want to research UFO sightings, we hope you like bullshit. Because you’re about to be drowned in sensationalist books and blogs from UFO enthusiasts who declare every blinking light in the sky to be the opening scenes of Independence Day. It’s no coincidence that so many people who encounter UFOs also really want to believe in them.

However, buried deep within the U.S. military’s own records are some very bizarre, and very well-documented sightings that have to give even a skeptic second thoughts.

Are they aliens? We’re not saying that. We’re just saying they’re really, really weird.

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Imagine encountering a human-sized lizard?

New Giant Lizard Discovery “an Unprecedented Surprise”

It has a double penis, is as long as a tall human, and lives in a heavily populated area of the Philippines. Yet somehow the giant lizard Varanus bitatawa has gone undetected by science until now.

Long known to Filipino tribal hunters, the monitor lizard was identified as a new species in 2009 via its DNA, scale pattern, size, and peculiar penis, a new study says.

i wish i had a double penis

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So Fat, You Can Taste It

so apparently scientists have discovered we have a new gustatory sensitivity–to fat:

So Fat, You Can Taste It

Everyone knows that fat is an excellent vehicle for food flavors and has a highly appealing mouthfeel. A new study, however, suggests that along with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (essentially, the ability to detect protein), we can also actually taste fat itself.

and this is really interesting:

The higher a person’s fat-tasting sensitivity, the fewer fatty foods that person ate, and the lower that person’s body mass index was.

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white house meets with atheists/agnostics/nontheists; religious right has a hissyfit

its about time these groups get some equal representation…fuck theocracy…and for the hypocrisy from the religious right…calling atheists “hate groups”? please…ive never seen more hatred spewed than from people in religious organizations

Right wing slams White House for meeting with atheist ‘hate groups’

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6 insane coincidences you won’t believe actually happened

gotta love this list compiled by cracked…this shit is ridiculous: crazy gruesome ‘prediction’ made by edgar allen poe, titanic written about 14 years before it was even built, and other crazy coincidences: 6 insane coincidences you won’t believe actually happened

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15 things you should know about breasts

this infographic is too huge to embed so please just click this link

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The Only Immortal Animal on Earth

this hydrozoan has found a way to cycle back and forth between polyp and medusa stages, seemingly staying immortal
The only immortal animal on Earth

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Apparently elephants can walk and run at the same time

By observing elephants moving across a hi-tech track, the team found the hefty creatures run with their front legs but walk with their back legs:

Do elephants walk or run?

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Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant

It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant.

Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant

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this is why you’re a honky

so we all know the basic idea that UV, sunlight, and vitamin D concentrations are responsible for the general changes in skin tone in people living from the equator to the poles…but this is a really interesting article about why northern europeans are even more different than everyone else–light hair, blue eyes, even paler skin–and the science behind it:
Why Are Europeans White? (E1)

i know most of you are lazy and probably won’t read the whole thing so here’s a good summary:
The Baltic is the only place on earth where ocean currents keep it warm enough to grow grain despite dim sunlight.
When the inhabitants of this region switched to grain about 6 KYA, they suddenly got insufficient vitamin D to survive. They had stopped eating mostly meat and fish in a place where sunlight was too dim to produce vitamin D in normally pigmented skin.
And so they adapted by retaining into adulthood the infantile trait of extreme paleness. Blonde hair and blue eyes were other infantile traits that were just swept along accidentally.

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