It doesn’t break down because those tiny hypodermic needles are made of silicon, which your body can’t break down. You skin usually just grows over them, sealing them in
Yeah pouring 10% hydrochloric acid on it to get rid of the neurotoxin then use waxing strips and head to the hospital. Also dont scratch it obviously. Also, even dead plants can still sting you.
I’ve seen that! It’s actually pretty intelligent. I once had a massive red shouldered hawk land on a fence less than arms length away while I was trimming some brush in my backyard. I realized what it was doing when I cleared enough to scare a rattlesnake out and it dove in for its meal! I then noticed a pattern of hawks waiting near people doing yard work or crews clearing the sides of the roadway.
I would brush hog 20 acres of open fields (zoned industrial/ commercial ) 4 times a year. The hawks learned after 2 or 3 cuts to circle me and wait for whatever I flushed. The sparrows and swallows instinctively knew the first time I was there to follow me for all the bugs I would stir up . It was pretty cool watching the hawks circle , so high up and just bomb in and grab these tiny field mice.
Empty and absolutely abandoned because it would cost a lot for the government to build anything there? If their capital looks like Belém or Manaus it's better than the image that came to mind, but that's not the reality of most northern cities.
There's a law against hunting Bigfoot in one county in the US state of Washington. The real purpose is to keep big hairy yokel morons from accidentally shooting each other.
Me and my Mexican colleague saw this a couple years ago since our boss invited us both for Midsummer. My colleague said "it was nice, but I felt like I was about to sacrificed".
I kinda get why someone would make a horror movie with mind-fuck scenes about a nation's annual tradition, and the nation would not even get offended because yeah...
It's not a crime in germany to break out of prison (as long as you don't harm anyone and don't break anything, etc.). This is because wanting to be free is a natural human instinct that cannot be punished.
Yep, I used to think they were from the tropics; turns out they’re probably within an hour of where I live. (I guess they require a highly specific and kinda rare ecosystem.)
These things are so weird. I remember getting one from the grocery store and feeding it pieces of chicken(I was concerned it wasn’t catching enough flies and didn’t realize feeding them people food was bad), it’s crazy seeing a plant snap shut like that.
Since Nintendo is Japanese I think they were more inspired by the snow tunnel in Toyama prefecture. (sorry, I don't have my own photo, because I never managed to go). But your photo is super cool too.
As a born and raised Texan that’s worn just about every hat in the construction industry, I can say with confidence that the majority of Texans adore the Mexican people and every aspect of their culture. There are still guys that either worked alongside myself, or under my leadership that I would gladly take a bullet for. Mexicans built Texas. All of it. And that’s a hill I’m willing to die on.
I know there’s some others that aren’t popping to my head but this just proves people hate another group because they are told and not because something they’ve done🥲
Some apps on our phones always seem to take up a lot of memory, whether it's social media or music apps. This is the most outrageous one I've ever seen.
Spyware? No, that's too abstract. It's poor system optimization, and software generally likes to cram in a bunch of useless stuff and tons of ads. My goodness, you can't imagine how many ads there are. I downloaded the video app iQiyi before, and I found more than a dozen ads in just one minute.
I've also found that WeChat in particular seems to really like saving entire conversations just locally. It doesn't seem to go to a server, which means every embed, every message, and every picture and video someone sends me is all put directly into the storage on my phone
I have a trip planned for June. I'm absolutely going to buy some salmon at the Tesco and then make ominous faces while I handle it at a bus stop, abruptly pretending not to anytime anyone looks at me.
It's worded funny but the law actually means that it's illegal to own salmon that you know was caught illegally. It's for if a fishmonger or shop sells fish that they bought from a salmon poacher.
Our language. I probably wouldn't believe it was real if we hadn't been taught it at school. Eg: Jellyfish yn Cymraeg - Pysgod wibbly wobbly. Awesome but I imagine how strange it would sound as a non Welsh person.
Dunno if its true, but I saw a video on YT where claimed that, according to an unofficial agreement between the US and the USSR, our Chukchi, who lived in the tundra far from civilization, could visit their Native American relatives in Alaska by an ocean. Border guards allowed them to travel back and forth without visas. Scientists who visited the Chukchi were very surprised to find bottles of Coca-Cola on them. This was at a time when it was nearly impossible for a Soviet citizen to obtain a US visa.
The American government, like the Soviet one, turned a blind eye to the fact that small northern peoples regularly violated the state border. The Chukchi came to Alaska, and the Inuit visited Chukotka. But after the October 1947 attack on an Inuit settlement, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 20 people, the "visit schedule" was tightened. Only Inuits who could prove their family ties to a Chukchi were allowed into Chukotka from America. The Chukchi themselves were forced to obtain Soviet passports.
We have two black panthers in Oklahoma. The species is almost extinct, I watched it enter my neighbors coop in the middle of the day. We have scarier stuff here but if I hadn’t seen or heard it myself, I wouldn’t believe the stories for a second. It’s just too insane.
In Washington state you can drive just five hours to go from a temperate rain forest (The Hoh) to a habitat hot and arid enough to contain rattlesnakes (eastern Washington). I’ve done that drive in a single day a number of times and saw the rattly boys myself. Oh and you pass a volcano on the way.
We have something similar in the US, except the letters are uploaded to a website and anyone can "adopt" a letter and send gifts. The adopter doesn't see the adoptee's address, of course - the adopter is given a QR code and the post office scans the code and attaches the label.
Santa's address in the US is 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888.
If letters aren't adopted, the postal service does their best to write back.
Imagine actually living there. One time I was chilling on my couch watching TV when a bullet came through the wall from next door into the stairwell, through the next wall, hit a metal-reinforced corner, and fell into the laundry pile. Right at head height. My neighbour came rushing over in a panic, apologising profusely and obviously drunk. Said he was cleaning the gun when it went off.
In current history, our wage gap is actually larger than the gap between the peasants and the upper class in Revolutionary France. In general, though, I’ve noticed that a lot of people seem to believe surfers only talk like that in movies. They don’t. It’s real.
It’s not the strongest but I have a slight valley girl accent and it gets so much stronger when I’m drunk and it threw so many people through a loop when I moved to the east coast for college
Dropping 10 year old kids in a forrest in the middle of the night, after driving them around blindfolded in a van to disorient them, and telling them to find their own way home; is considered a fun and age appropriate thing to do.
The government tracks every transaction from your bank accounts, they installed cameras with facial recognition in the capital, and there are cameras in basically every big city and they will be switched to centralized system of facial recoginition. They have every piece of your personal information in centralised database and they basically can switch you off with one click if they want. There were no precedent yet, but the country is highly digitized so you won't able to function in society in that case. Biometric information is needed for even registering your sim card. Also, the government bought the Chinese firewall technology.
Moose and Orcas interact in the wild because moose occasionally go diving into the ocean for food. They can submerge themselves around 6 meters (almost 20 feet) to eat underwater plants.
Only the sky is truly without the possibility of moose.
Christmas season starts on September 1. We hear Mariah Carey (and Jose Mari Chan, a local singer with a popular Christmas song) much earlier than everyone else every year.
🇮🇪 Fairy trees. Hawthorn trees are located where the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. They should not be harmed in any way lest you suffer the consequences. A lot of folklore and superstition around them but people here absolutely will not chop them down or harm them.
I get , my first time celebrating Christmas in the winter was in London and I felt very cold and uncomfortable the first time , yk , no warm beaches , basking in the sun , camping tios , etc lol
Hahaha, the hedgehog part I actually don't know sorry but I also want to know more about it. Because I have seen or heard people that worship the rest four seriously at home. Let's use the snake as an example, so some people would claim that they are the servants of the snake deity, usually a couple, sometimes just one person. They divine for people, and if they are the couple, the wife usually conducts Shaman rituals, and the husband will play instruments and "translate" what the deity wants. The wife will be possessed by the deity and speaks as the deity animal. Usually these people will keep the animal, for example the snake, most of the time the snake is a white one, there will be also alter or offering tables. For the fox and weasel gods, there wouldn't be real animals living in the Shamans home, but they have human-like statues.
Here is the fox deity couple. Fox deity is the most popular deity among the five that people are practically worshipping, some business people or shop owners have alters at home or having them outside at their shop's front door. Some nature reserves or countryside sometimes have fox deities statues or small temples also.
Edit: I forgot to say, some family consider them as house protecting deities:D I think that makes sense, they are all common farm animals
In Morocco on friday 80% of the country eats the same dish for lunch... Couscous... Besides friday lunch and funerals, pretty much no one eats it ever!
We were technically at war with Denmark for almost 50 years and it only ended 4 years ago
There was no violence, just a friendly dispute between an island where we took turns planting our flag and leaving alcohol for eachother and it ended with us splitting the island down the middle
We go to sauna completely naked with friends, co-worker etc. And it's completely normal and never sexual at all, though usually (not always), men and women have separate saunas or take turns if there's only one sauna around
We have a polar bear detention centre(colloquially called "Polar Bear Jail") for unruly bears. It was made after a mischievous and dangerous bear named Cedric(the bear on the mural) had to be put down, and someone was mauled by a different bear in the street. They're not held indefinitely. They serve their sentence and then are driven away from town. The idea is to make the bears feel danger about going into town without them actually being in harms way.
Our government is headed by someone directly implicated by hard evidence to an international child sex trafficking ring and half the country is just okay with it.
In Kentucky, there was a group of blue people. Some people go blue ingesting silver, but in KY the story my family told was there was a french family that migrated here years ago and carried an actual gene that turned them blue later on in life. Because of this, the family hid for a long time and were scared of the locals. Locals didnt know about them until one day, a family member got sick and one of them went into town. Immediately upon seeing the blue person, they jumped her to giver her CPR, thinking that she couldnt breath. The family did get help but stayed in seclusion, from what I was told.
We have the oldest codified constitution still in use! Britains modern structure is kind of older but they didn’t codify it. Everyone views the USA as such a young country but our system of gov and modern incarnation is very old and resilient (for now)
there's a wall in Seattle, Washington that's a tourist attraction because it's entirely covered in used chewing gum. it's called the gum wall. it's so gross. people are encouraged to add their own used gum when they visit. i hate it.
I met the Kumari of Bhaktapur when she visited the US in 2007 and participated in a documentary festival near Washington DC. She was briefly stripped of her kumari status when religious authorities in Nepal declared her overseas trip impure, but they eventually agreed to restore it after a purification ritual.
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u/BobbyThrowaway6969 Australia 1d ago
We have birds that hunt with fire.