Whitelist Recruitment - Share interesting quote or fun fact

The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists,’ this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world. — Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework (1994)

Australia is wider than the moon (4000 km vs 3500)

How about a funny quote from Sheogorath. Or at least I found it funny.
"Daedra are the embodiment of change. Change and Permanency. I am no different, except in the ways I am"

Sharks are older than trees.

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The average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds (nearly half a million kg).

"Mondongo" -Goku

"You must not compare yourself to others, and if nature has created you as a bat, you must not try to make yourself an ostrich. You consider yourself strange; you blame yourself for walking different paths than other people. That's what you need to unlearn. Gaze into the flames, gaze into the clouds, and when you hear the voices in your soul speak to you, surrender to them, and don't ask first whether this would please your teacher, or your father, or God! Doing so will ruin you."
Hermann Hesse, Demian

"There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people."

Heinz Guderian

"You could fit more than a thousand Earths inside Jupiter and a thousand Jupiters inside the sun" - Tim Urban.

Actually I'm not sure if Tim Urban is the one who came up with that, but I read that quote on an article written by him yesterday so here we go

" So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Platypus and Echidnae are a very ancient form of mammal called monotremes. This means they have one hole to do all their business like a bird instead of more advanced mammals. They also have an archaic form of milk that they just sweat out for their young instead of true mammary glands and nipples. It really is fascinating that proto-mammals that lay eggs still exist. :)

fun fact: Cats bring humans dead animals because they think we're bad hunters that can't survive on our own

Veni vidi added to WL

111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 12 345 678 987 654 321. How cool is it?

All the planets in the Solar System would fit between the Earth and the Moon :)

I like to believe there are a lot of undiscovered secrets in the nature. Let's take a road for example, like in the picture.

Roads that allow people to travel to another city. You can travel hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of distance and for the most part of the time, the only scenario is the endless nature. You see forests, and grass until the end of the horizon. However, in those hundreds of kilometers traveled imagine if, in the middle of the trip, you simply decide to stop your car, and start walking in the direction of the nature. You would be in the middle of nowhere. And somewhere you might find a house hidden within the thousands of kilometers of nature, a small cave within the woods, You may find buried treasures or... bodies.

The thing is, I like to believe, that in those giant fields of nature around roads, there might be spots where no one has ever been or only in the past leaving only traces of their existence, objects, clothes, or even bones of things that lived thousands of years ago. If you dig random spots in a random forest you just walked into the middle of nowhere, you most likely will find nothing but statistically the chances are not zero. I like to believe undiscovered histories are somewhere out there.

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'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.'-Arthur C. Clarke

"...for Brazil to accept the French scientific thesis that a lobster would be considered a fish when it "leaps" on the seafloor, it would be required in the same way to accept the Brazilian premise that when a kangaroo "hops", it would be considered a bird."

And war was averted

"We walk with each other for a part of the way." - handwritten note at the end of a random letter I found in my uncles office drawer a month after his funeral.

Science fact: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus: Venus takes about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation, but it only takes 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.

What I thought is an interesting fact: cinnamon, the spice, is made from the bark of cinnamon trees. The bark is either dried to produce cinnamon sticks, or ground into a powder.

Fun Fact: The largest known ant colony is estimated to contain about 307 million ants and spans multiple continents.

Argentine ants main survival trait is pure numbers, and are adapted to have colonies with multiple queens. This let them spread over large areas. Although eventually due to genetic mutations a colony would eventually break off and be considered a rival. Eventually some of these ants hitched a ride with humans to an area with no natural preditors. This allowed them to spread with fewer genetic mutations and form into a super colony.

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

This is one of my favourite quotes!

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much. What is done in love is done well" - Vincent Van Gogh

He was a wonderful, thoughtful person and one of the most unique artists :) He could see the importance of fully experiencing life through your heart and by what is most special to you. I think he's saying here that love (in every way you can love someone or something) was his biggest inspiration and carried him through his storms. He found his strength through the admiration of love and painting or writing about the world around him which he found so magically beautiful. Unfortunately he was very lonely and he only ever really experienced his art as unappreciated, since he was thought of as too different...

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody."

Thanks for this very fun to read thead.

This is a quote I like a lot, but just seeing it by itself feels a bit dry to me as you need to see the 1980 documentary, Cosmos to really get the whole reality of it. Its sequel/remakes are also quite good too.

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

"I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect." Clemence Poesy

I found this in the Interwebz, so It must be true.

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