Thread: Strange and Unusual Facts

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

And clone it where? If they clone it with an elephant it would be a hydrid.

One can be a clone or a hybrid, but never both.

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

One can be a clone or a hybrid, but never both.

Correct. Clone by definition means "identical", while hybrid means "fusion of two things".

This is the world’s smallest artificial heart. It kept a 16-month-old baby alive for 13 days until a donor heart became available.

Nissan use the number 23 on their race cars because the Japanese for two is ni and the Japanese for three is san.

Amazing marble caves in Southern Chile at the Lago General Carrera

Darbest salt mountains of Iran...

...baby flamingo...

This is what the Velociraptors looked like during filming on Jurassic World before CGI was added.

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Well I would not be scared of them - but they look like they are shitting themselves

The sunken Roman city of Baia.

A Victorian-era radiator that comes with a built-in food warmer.

Originally Posted by tomcat

A Victorian-era radiator that comes with a built-in food warmer.

These monsters used steam for transporting the heat, not warm water like present radiators, correct?

A tribe in India has learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. The bridges take 15-30 years to complete. Mature bridges stretch 15 to 250 feet over deep rivers and gorges and can bear impressive loads—upwards of 35 people at a time.

1954 Mercury dashboard.

Testing a prototype football helmet in 1912.

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A penniless mother putting her children up for sale in 1948....buy three, get one free...

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A woman walking with her baby in a gas resistant baby carriage in 1938.

ThA 16th-century chastity belt designed to stop men from masturbating before marriage...

Originally Posted by tomcat

ThA 16th-century chastity belt designed to stop men from masturbating before marriage...

Rust in piss.

Originally Posted by tomcat

ThA 16th-century chastity belt designed to stop men from masturbating before marriage...

They had small willies in those days.....

In 1968, Phillip K. Dick wrote:

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”

Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before WWII because the original
Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, the
lawsuit was canceled by the Nazis.

In 2006, a Norwegian coach gave a ski pole to a Canadian skier, allowing her to go on to win a
silver medal. Canadians citizens were so touched by this that they collectively gave him 5.2 tons
of Maple Syrup.

Norwegian rewarded for Olympic sportsmanship | CBC Sports

In exchange for Pepsi's soft drinks, the Soviets offered and Pepsi agreed to accept, a cruiser, a frigate, a destroyer, 17 submarines, and a handful of oil tankers, thereby making Pepsi owner of the sixth-largest navy on the planet.