Oddball Stuff You Should Know

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[Catsumi]

There are many hoverflies (below) that mimic bees or wasps, some sting while others do not, but all are useful pollinators.

[stuphoto]

A new Whale Species was just discovered

[Babba_not_Gump]

This pretty Oddball.
Did you know that astronauts and cosmonauts are not permitted to bring alcohol with them when in space?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... bile=false
Alcohol is banned from space because ethanol can damage technology.
But inspectors regularly found caches of booze aboard Russian space stations.
One cosmonaut crash-dieted to stash cognac in his suit and maintain his weight.
NASA astronauts once joined their cosmonauts at a 'cognac party' aboard Mir.

Well, so much for my dreams.

Now the other question about what happens on a mixed crew still remains unanswered.
Did they do it?

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[Bsuds]

Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.

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[GenesisGT]

There are a massive 10 trillion trillion molecules per cubic meter in our atmosphere.

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[LANDM]

^^^^^an amazing factoid that I truly found surprising, in a good way. What a great idea.

A huge tinfoil hat would be another great way of hiding them. Or build a massive replica 5g tower to hide an electrical station.

[normaM]

I do enjoy learning oddball stuff. I know what you do when you run across a duck billed Heron. Those are hard *bleep* birds

[oneh2obabe]

^^^^^an amazing factoid that I truly found surprising, in a good way. What a great idea.

Houses are built without a back wall so hydro employees have easy access by using the concrete road running along the fence. City makes sure the "house" looks lived in - grass is cut, snow is shovelled, lights are turned on at different times, hydro employees park vehicles in the driveway.

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