The More You Know ★
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- Krassy2
- true. unless you count asia and europe as separate continents_niko
- been there. not in the water thoBennn
- I'm pretty sure you can touch two continents everywhere on earth where two continents meet...zarkonite
- the right description is :Bennn
- Silfra is a rift formed in the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian platesBennn
- you touch two tectonic plates, not two continent. thats a shitty internet imageBennn
- been there. in the water.scruffics
- Benn: You can do that too on the continental divide in Alberta!zarkonite
- sarahfailin0
- Slam your fist on the top of the gator's snout, to help him push his teeths deeper into your skin.Bennn
- It's bullshit, gator grab you and do barrel roll, try to fight that. When they roll they breaks your bones and tear off your limbsBennn
- 7. Pray they never find the farm porn on your laptopfuturefood
- Krassy3
- Happy birthday to me too - I'm also 'today years old'!Nairn
- Wot no Pequin chili?
https://www.gadar.cz…
best little fuckers for cooking with, imoNairn
- Nairn1
- ok, that's it. are we logged into the same youtube account?Gnash
- Wow, really?? This wasn't from my YT recommendations - I found this link on a comments section in another website - watched it, linked it hereNairn
- I suppose it'd be very easy for Google to class small groups of like individual QBNers given the tracked links we all engage with on these pages.Nairn
- Only 4M subs on Great Big Story what are the chances?utopian
- Nairn0
Apparently Greece has 11 active submarines.
it's perhaps not the most interesting thing I've learned today, but it came as a surprise to me.
- https://armedforces.…Nairn
- Bolivia has a small navy on Lake Titicacasarahfailin
- makes sense when they have hundreds of islands that they need to protect and are surrounded by water on all sides. they also have onethe longest coastline ratio_niko
- Titicaca is the best name.Nairn
- @_n: yeah, I know - it should be profoundly obvious to me, but I hadn't considered the possibility.Nairn
- utopian3
- I hate to admit that I had no idea how these were made given how many of the fuckers I've bought over the decades.Nairn
- Watching this feels like that episode of the Simpsons where Bart goes to the box factorysarahfailin
- Thank you Tim Robbins!_niko
- Krassy3
- When an individual awakes from a deep sleep in preparation for getting up, their brainwave frequencies will increase through the different specific stages ofBeeswax
- brainwave activity. That is, they will increase from delta to theta and then to alpha and finally, when the alarm goes off, into beta. If that individual hitsBeeswax
- the snooze alarm button they will drop in frequency to a non-aroused state, or even into theta, or sometimes fall back to sleep in delta. During this awakeningBeeswax
- cycle it is possible for individuals to stay in the theta state for an extended period of say, five to 15 minutes--which would allow them to have a free flow ofBeeswax
- ideas about yesterday's events or to contemplate the activities of the forthcoming day. This time can be an extremely productive and can be a period ofBeeswax
- very meaningful and creative mental activity.Beeswax
- Bluejam2
- Hutchinson's Splendour of the heavens, 1923
https://archive.org/…Bluejam - amazing!utopian
- Hutchinson's Splendour of the heavens, 1923
- hans_glib1
Forget Conservative leadership candidates; nobody throws a party like the inhabitants of the Pamir Mountains. The only problem is that we’re a couple of millennia late.
New evidence from this rural area of Xinjiang in China suggests that cannabis was being smoked 2,500 years ago, the earliest conclusive evidence of its use as a drug. THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, was detected in tombs in the 5th-century BC Jirzankal cemetery.
Instead of pipes or cigarettes, getting high in ancient Pamir involved introducing a hot stone to a brazier filled with the drug and inhaling the smoke. Ten of these braziers, along with four charred stones, were removed from the cemetery. All but one showed evidence of cannabinol, a by-product of the burning of THC.
Little is known about the origins of cannabis. One of the earliest mentions of this kind of smoking is found in Herodotus’s Histories from about 440BC, describing a similar ritual that “gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed”.
Although evidence of hemp farming and cannabis oil predates the latest discovery, the new study, published in the journal Science Advances, offers “the earliest unequivocal evidence of the use of the plant as a drug”, its authors say.
It is suggested that high-THC cannabis was cultivated for its psychoactive effects and then burnt in burial rituals to communicate with spirits. It was even suggested that the skeletons in the tombs, marred with skull perforations, fatal cuts and broken bones, had been victims of ritualistic human sacrifice.
Also found were artefacts including silk from eastern China and plates, bowls and harps from Central Asia.
Robert Spengler, who led the study with Yimin Yang, described the mountainous region on the borders of modern China, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as “one of the main hubs of communication and exchange for the entire ancient world” and suggested that cannabis played a part in trade routes that would become the global Silk Road.
Dr Spengler said there had been a revolution in our understanding of the region’s history. “It is a really exciting time in central Asian archaeology because modern scientific methods are really exploding on to the scene,” he said.
- In other words, smoking weed predates all organized religions. They're not related facts but I like them together regardless.zarkonite
- Nairn1
The word 'Cannabis' is at least 2,500 years old, coming from the Greek 'κάνναβις', as used by Herodotus 400-odd years before Christ (particularly the 30-odd years Jesus was off in the East getting high and all spiritual and shit).
No doubt there's a shit-ton of words that old and more, but I just found the Greek 'κάνναβις' actually sort of readable, and a weird bridge across time for something so familiar.
- https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
- https://media3.giphy…Bluejam
- haha. shieeet. I haven't even smoked in .. well, too long now.Nairn
- a pipe a day keeps reality at bayBluejam
- Gnash3
- from a veterinarian handbookGnash
- I'm printing this out and sticking it on the fridge.Nairn
- ++helloeatbreathedrive
- PhanLo2
- the vegans always telling people they are vegans.....capn_ron
- vegans are literally made out of meat. those hypocrites!sarahfailin
- ^LolPhanLo
- Bullshit, vegans didn't exist back in the 80s.Nairn
- Plus he’s married to Chelsea peretti so he’s sticking it to the white man at least 3 times a week lol_niko
- https://www.youtube.…Leigh
- @Nairn LOLKrassy
- imbecile1
The Pac-Man video game turns 39 today. (22 May 1980)
- but when is capcom going to make a pac man live action movie?sarahfailin
- please noimbecile