Doesn’t that look beautiful?
Like something you’d find on one of those soft/nature blogs?
Well you are in for a surprise
The Bolton Strid in England is one of the most innocent looking streams.Â
Though it looks like you could just hop across the rocks, but if you miss you will die for sure. It packs very rapid currents just a couple of feet below its surface. No one really knows how deep it really is. Nobody who has ever fallen into the Strid has survived. It has a 100% fatality rate.
It’s always the things I google expecting to be false that wind up being horribly true.
I forgot to add but here is a SOURCE
“It’s relatively common for people to assume they can jump the creek, walk across its stones or even wade through it (again, just looking at it, the Strid really seems to be only knee-deep in places, and certainly not the instant, precipitous drop into a watery grave that it is). Most of the time, they never even find the body. Which means there are just dozens of corpses down there, pinned to the walls of the underground chasms, waiting for you to join them…”
how dare you leave out the best quote
“It’s exactly how water works in a video game: It looks all stupid and harmless, but the second your foot touches the surface, you get some bullshit drowning animation and die instantly.”
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San Bernardino alle Ossa is a church in Milan, northern Italy, best known for its ossuary, a small side chapel decorated with numerous human skulls and bones.
In 1210, when an adjacent cemetery ran out of space, a room was built to
hold bones. A church was attached in 1269. Renovated in 1679, it was
destroyed by a fire in 1712. A new bigger church was then attached to
the older one and dedicated to Saint Bernardino of Siena.
The osteotome was initially used in trepanning, or making holes into the human skull. The sharp spike was driven into the patient’s skull to hold the instrument in place, then the doctor cranked the handle to turn the saw-toothed blade.Â
The osteotome was considered superior to a reciprocating saw or hammer and chisel when it came to getting through human bone without splintering or damaging nearby tissue. Later variations made the tool useful in arm and leg amputations and dental surgeries. (Source)
“Crown Shyness”, A Phenomenon Where Trees Avoid Touching
The next time you’re out walking through
the forest, take a moment to look above you and you might be pleasantly
surprised by what you find.Check
out these incredible pictures to see what we mean. The naturally
occurring phenomenon is called “crown shyness” because the uppermost
branches of certain tree species don’t like to touch one another. The
intriguing behavior was first observed in the 1920s, and various
hypotheses have been presented since then in an attempt to explain it.
Some believe it occurs to reduce the spread of harmful insects. Others
believe that trees are attempting to protect one another’s branches from
getting cracked and broken in the wind, and it’s also been suggested
that “crown shyness” happens so that trees can optimize light exposure
in order to maximize the process of photosynthesis. Despite these
various theories however, nobody knows for sure why this phenomenon
occurs, but it serves to remind us of just how awesome mother nature can
be. Scroll down for some of our favorite pictures, and don’t forget to
vote for the best. (h/t: colossal) Via BoredPanda
Now here’s something cool! What you see above is fresh an salt water mixing in a cave. Fresh water is on the top giving the illusion that it’s air. You can look through my bizarre world tag. I compile all the most interesting posts there!
Imagine seeing the water ripples above you and taking off your scuba gear so you can breathe the air above you and then inhaling a bunch of water.
I should add that to my horror story tag.
Actually they’re are several drownings caused by exactly that! It is one of the reasons underwater caves are so dangerous.
This is terrifying.
so today I learned that when a pregnant woman suffers organ damage (such as a heart attack), the fetus sends stem cells to the damaged organ to help repair it. Apparently it is an evolutionary mechanism; by protecting its mother the fetus also ensures it’s own survival. I am in awe of how incomprehensibly complex our bodies are, truly. (x)
along the same theme, albeit less poetic, pregnant cattle and deer with limited food sources can reabsorb their growing fetus to meet their needs…
o k weird question but do sharks fart
Given that many aquatic creatures have digestive systems that have to cope with fast-food intake, I’d say that farting, as we know it, would be unlikely.
The fart, per se, is usually caused by the production of gaseous products of the fermentation of organic food material – especially complex carbohydrates – during digestion. In mammals, the alimentary canal is relatively long compared to a shark’s and in ruminants, the food is often stored at different stages of digestion, in pockets of the stomach. This gives ample time for fermentation to occur. There is also a high concentration of organic material in the alimentary canal of these creatures, including humans.
In sharks, the through-put of fluid in the alimentary canal is comparatively copious and fast in a digestive system where simple proteins are the main food material – not complex carbohydrates. This difference means that the production of gases in the alimentary canal of a shark is unlikely. Sharks do not have a swim bladder that captures air to assist with buoyancy, as many large fish do. Production of gas in the alimentary canal would probably have a deleterious effect on the shark’s navigational control. The digestive process in sharks is likely to have evolved to minimize the production of gaseous products in their alimentary canal.
Ciao! Are there any Italian grammars you would recommend for beginners?
- italian for dummies
- routledge – colloquial italian
- routledge – modern italian grammar
- routledge – modern italian grammar (workbook)
- thoughtco.com
Although a knowledge of general grammar terms is somewhat required, I would really recommend getting the Routledge editions! They’re very thorough and detailed and I’d also recommend them if you already know some Italian and need a reference grammar. I read it can be impractical to only read them through, though.
The Dummies series has a really fresh approach and I like it. It’s not a in-depth grammar book, but it’s helpful! It gives you tips and contains verb tables and dialogues.
For more resources you can check my other post here!
This is a Pyrosome
Pyrosomes are actually colonies composed of hundreds and sometimes
thousands of individuals known as zooids. The individuals work in unison to propel the colony through the water.
One long pyrosomes is actually a collection of thousands of clones, with
each individual capable of copying itself and adding to the colony. Pyrosome members are physically connected, they actually share tissues.
(Source)IT LOOKS LIKE AN ALASKAN BULLWORM
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 