idle-chaos asked: Hey Guys! I love your blog but your not giving me anything to love at the moment! :S Is everything alright?
Mills here. I’m glad you enjoy our blog. Unfortunately, Gru seems to have gone AWOL. I really don’t know where he’s gone at all. And I’ve recently started working full time, which leaves me with a lot less time to update. Don’t worry, I will be posting more trivia, it’s just very slow going at the moment.
If anyone would like to help out, either by sending in submissions or by coming in as a new mod, I would be eternally grateful.
—Mills
This is a picture of Cymothoa exigua. This parasite will eat out the tongue of its host and then act as the host’s new tongue. Once it has taken the place of the tongue, it will help its host to capture prey. Of course, it will eat a small amount of the food, but not too much.
Cymothoa exigua is considered an isopod crustacean. This group includes sowbugs and pillbugs, and has been dated back to the Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic.
And don’t freak out, this parasite only bothers with fish. You’re safe.
DATA
- One human cell contains over 1,500 MB of genetic information.
- One spermatozoon contains half of that; that is over 750 MB.
- One ml of healthy male semen contains 20-200 million sperms; in the Western world, the average sperm content is 60 million per ml. [1] [1]
- On average, human male ejaculation lasts for about 5 seconds and contains about 2.25 ml semen. (Additional info: between 0.1 and 10 ml semen per ejaculation are normal; about 2 ml are average. [2] [2] [3] [3])
- This means that the throughput of an average man’s member is equal to (750 MB x 60,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 20,250,000,000,000,000 bytes/second = 20.250 terabytes/sec.
This means that the female egg cell withstands this DDoS attack at over 20 terabytes per second, and only lets through one(!) 750 MB data package, thereby being the best freaking hardware firewall in the world!
There’s just one catch: That small data package it sometimes does let through? It hangs the whole system for all of 9 months!
See that guy up there? That’s PeterAlexeyevich Romanov. More commonly known as Peter the Great. Full formal title was Peter the First, Emperor and Autocrat of All of the Russias. That’s right, he didn’t half ass it and rule some of the Russias. This bastard ruled all of the Russias.
Born in 1672, Peter led a pretty insane life. His throne was earned after fighting his rebellious half-sister tooth and nail. He was educated by the best tutors money could buy. He halted the advance of the previously unstoppable Swedish King Charles XII. Most memorably, Peter single-handedly Westernized and subsequently modernized Russia, turning it from a shitty frozen wasteland into a slightly less shitty frozen wasteland.
He was also a party animal.
Here is a list of Peter’s accomplishments:
- In an attempt to acquire allies, traveled the length of Europe incognito. With a hundreds strong entourage. That included whores, midgets, dancers and bears that served vodka.
- Founded the Most Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters, a satire of the Orthodox Church whose tenants included getting completely destroyed every night and singing dirty versions of church hymns.
- Forced his mutinous half-sister to become a nun. Also his wife, because marriage isn’t partying.
- Led a group of men in taking a shot of vodka every fifteen minutes for eight days straight.
- Got banned from just about every palace and mansion in Europe due to excessive partying.
- Partied every night during his ship-building apprenticeship in England and then waking up at 5 AM and going to work all day and partying all night again like a vodka-scented vomit stained circle of life.
- Humbly founded the city of Saint Petersburg and promptly invited every midget within the borders of Russia to come live in his palace because he loved midgets so much oh my god.
So next time you think you party hard, know you ain’t got shit on Peter the Great.
Unless you’re Andrew WK.
Image description: Wilson A. Bentley adapted a microscope to a bellows camera, and after years of trial and error, he became the first person to photograph a single snowflake in 1885.
In 1903, he sent 500 prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian and these images are now part of their archives. View more of Bentley’s snowflake photos.
Photo from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
We need help!
You may have noticed that me and Grufaine haven’t been posting much on here. Well, the reason is that we need your help. See, we both have other things in our lives that sometimes come between us and our blog. If any of you are willing and able to help co-run Fuck Yeah Trivia, please contact me at captain-mills.tumblr.com
Please, guys! It’s not very hard work and it’s lots of fun!
Anna and the Ice Palace
Anna Ivanovna, Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740, was, to put it mildly, completely fucking batshit crazy. Over the ten years of her rule, she built up quite the reputation for cruel and insane punishments…and often punished people for nothing more than, well, being around.
One particularly memorable example of Anna’s propensity towards being a complete nutter was Prince Galitzine. Galitizine’s great crime in Anna’s eyes was to marry an Italian Catholic, and there has been a good deal of speculation that Anna was just pissed because she really wanted to notch his bedpost. Anna tortured poor Galitizine in various and humiliating ways (like making him dress like a bird, sit in a straw basket outside of her bedroom, and squawk) for quite a while before making her big move. When Galitizine’s wife died, Anna forced him to marry an elderly Kalmyk maid named Avdotaya Ivanovna, dressed them both as clowns, made them ride an elephant through the streets, and, as a finale, spend the night in a fucking ice palace. Now, when I say “ice palace” I mean that Anna spent 30,000 roubles constructing a palace that was literally made of ice. And then forced two of her subjects to sleep in it naked. During the winter. They slept naked in an ice palace during a Russian winter, a particularly harsh Russian winter at that.
Just try to imagine how pissed off Anna was when she found out that they fucking survived it.
I’m pretty sure that we’ve just found two of the recipients for the Biggest Badasses Ever Award.
Man has always had a need for speed: legs to outrun bears, horses to overtake enemies, cars to cross continents, meth to … oh, different thing. But we’ve been constructing ways to enjoy speed, too, since at least the 1400s. That’s when we find one of the early incarnations of man’s more aimless speed freakery — the roller coaster. Patrons on Russia’s “ice slides” would climb a 70-foot timber tower, sit on a sled, and then whooooosh down a 600-foot ice ramp to the base of a second tower. There they’d repeat the thrill, slipping down a parallel slide back to the start. Popular among the gentry, these rides were a winter pursuit until speed-demon Catherine the Great put the rollers on the coaster, adding wheels and grooved tracks to make a summer version at her palace in 1784.
The letter X in the Greek alphabet represents Chi, which people back then used to represent the word “Christos”. That is the reason why they say “Merry Xmas”. Haha. :D
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Merry Christmas and #HappyBirthdayJesus! :)
The Soviet Union Was Dissolved 20 Years Ago Today - Mental Floss
Twenty years ago today, on December 8, 1991, a group of Soviet leaders got together in a house in snowy Belarus to declare the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The resulting treaty, the Belavezha Accords, split the former USSR into a series of independent states.
