About two thousand years ago in modern Sichuan province in China, they were using percussion drilling and bamboo pipes to get natural gas so it could be burned to evaporate brine and produce salt. They could transport natural gas for miles in bamboo pipelines.
Earth's solar eclipses will be an intergalactic tourist attraction after we join the alliance of free stars.
The eyelid and the scrotum are the only places on the human body with no subcutaneous fat.
Ten most dangerous jobs in America:
- Lumberjack
- Commercial fishermen
- Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
- Roofers
- Trash collectors
- Iron workers
- Truck drivers
- Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers
- Construction laborers
- Grounds maintenance workers
and for some reason, cops aren't there... :thinkin-lenin: :thinky-felix: :bean-think:
Is 3 excluding commercial pilots. I feel like that's a job where there are not many deaths. I'm assuming 3. Is mostly small private planes.
Very likely. At least passenger airlines and cargo airlines that are using jet planes. Cargo airlines using small planes is a different story
The myth of the succubus has interesting history in medieval Europe.
They were demons believed to seduce sleeping people. This explained sleep paralysis and wet dreams.
In an effort to thwart a demon's attack, some wealthy people would hire servants to strike them in the crotch if they got an erection in their sleep.
You wouldn't even have to pay me and I'd be 100% down to do that job lol.
Is this what work ethic bros mean when they say, 'when you're doing what you love, you don't work a day of your life?'
Did you know that four of the 118 elements are named after the town of Ytterby in Sweden, which has a bit over 6000 inhabitants? I fucking hate those element name hoarders, that's another fact.
During the filming of Star Wars, Alec Guinness refused to read the entire script for the film, called George Lucas a "nerd", and forced him to add a scene where Obi-Wan dies so that he wouldn't have to return for the sequel.
He talked quite highly of them at points too though, I watched an interview the other day where he said that although it was total schlock, he immediately believed it was going to make it big (although he didn't know it would get as huge as it did).
I like Harrison Ford's interview about who shot first, where he says that he doesn't give a shit.
spoiler
_Lucas actually killed him off well into production iirc, which was a big decision for him and he went back and forth. Iirc Alec was fine with it cause big actors getting to do death scenes is kinda a thing __
More years separate Stegasaurus from T. Rex than separate T. Rex from us.
Alexis Ohanian the co founder of :reddit-logo: is married to Serena Williams
You could fit all the major planets of the solar system between Earth and the Moon (at their average distance apart).
Penguins have an organ under their eyes that lets them survive taking in more saltwater than other animals
an isthmus is a stretch of land between two bodies of water. there are two cities in the united states that lie on an isthmus. seattle, wa, which sits between lake washington and puget sound, and madison, wi, which sits between lake mendota and lake monona.
In Act 2, scene 4 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio drops the phrase, "the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft."
