Cats can’t taste sugar.
Most of the computer users think the Internet is a synonym for Facebook.
Little do they know it’s actually a synonym for Amazon Web Services
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Fanta’s creation was a result of American companies cutting off business with Germany during WWII. Coca Cola stopped sending ingredients to the local bottling plant in Germany but the ones there still wanted to work and make money. They took the ingredients they still had access to and made a new drink, Fanta! Once the war was over and Coca Cola made contact with them again they liked the new drink and just made it part of their brand.
I had to stop telling this normally as it tends to make people hate me for making them feel bad about drinking Fanta. I tell them it’s fine. I drive a Volkswagen. But they still feel gross about it so I stopped telling people or at least tell them that they may not want to drink Fanta anymore and give them the choice.
Coca-Cola never gave up thier german subsidiary Coca-Cola GmbH and they never willingly stopped sending syrup.
Syrup was stopped by the allied blockades. They ran out of stockpiles in 1943 and so the owner created Fanta with apple cider scraps.
The Dutch Coca-Cola plant had similar supply issues and they sent the Fanta branding up there as well but used elderberry.
After the war Coca-Cola regained their subsidiaries and the Fanta branding.
Fanta would be discontinued in 1949.
The current Fanta we know today was created in Italy in 1955 to complete with an unknown Italian PepsiCo product.
There is an athropod that will replace a fish’s tongue.
Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.
Your eyes have “immune privilege” meaning your immune system effectively does not know they exist as it would attack them and make you go blind if it did.
That our memories are all we really know and have. They’re also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.
Be careful.
Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don’t tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you’ve forgotten!
70% of the worlds surface is covered in water. None of that water is fizzy. Therefore the earth is technically flat…
I’ll be my coat, no need to send the pitchforks.
You’re so wrong!
Only 70% of the Earth is flat.
I’m on part of the remaining 30% and feel flat everyday. Explain that, mainstream media!
You’re never more than eight feet away from a spider.
Did you know that arachnids’ legs are hydraulicly controlled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid_locomotion
8 feet = 2,438 meter
I’m pretty sure 8ft is less than 2.4km
Europeans use a , instead of a .
I actually knew that. I was just trying to make a funny. But it failed.
I thought it was funny lol
It’s really weird when they do it while speaking English though because then they’re just wrong
Every time you blink, your eyeballs roll up into the back of your eye socket and roll back to the original spot quickly
I see we got a lizard person here
I once, out of curiosity, mounted an expedition to the darkest regions of the internet, aka The Dark Web.
There’s some shit there that can scar you for life. Don’t ever go there, seriously.
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A factoid is something that looks like a fact, but is not
The universally accepted meaning is:
a brief or trivial item of news or information
The age of consent in Germany is 14.
Also applies to other countries in Europe iirc, but I can’t confirm that because that’s not something I’m willing to put in my search history again.
Edit: It’s more complex than that, read the replies by @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de and @Turun@feddit.de.
Only for kids in the same age range. And quite frankly, I think that’s the right way to do it. As if a law would make horny teenagers not have sex.
Setting the age of consent to 18 years just technically makes them pedophiles if you actually enforce it. And I’m of the opinion that laws should be enforced or removed entirely. Having a law and usually not enforcing it gives rise to a dangerous middle ground where persecution depends on other arbitrary factors. Like income, race or how well the cop likes you.
(If you are interested in German law, just reply and I can explain/translate the relevant parts of the law for you)
Edit: translation is also available here: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html relevant are sections 176 and 182, which combine to give the often cited 14 years. Even though it never says anything about being above 14 years makes something legal! It is phrased in such a way that kids can have sex legally, while also preventing exploitation of minors.
Age of consent in Germany is a staggered system. With 14 you’re able to consent under specific conditions (them being there’s no exploitative element to the relationship), but still could file charge against the older person if they’re over 16. With 16 the first rule still applies; from 18 on you’re able to consent, period.
So for example when I was 14 I had a boyfriend, also 14, and neither of us committed any crime under this ruling. The law acknowledges that teenagers are allowed to have relationships with each other while putting every borderline case through a case-by-case hearing at court.
It’s actually a really good idea, so it kinda is a fun fact.
And yet Europe seemingly has less child predators than the US.
Genocides typically are never actually punished and their main perpetrators often get away with it.
If you rape someone in the U.S., your odds of going to jail for it are only 0.01% . A hundredth of a percent. 0.01 out of 100 rapists ever actually see jail or prison.
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I highly doubt that for every 10 000 rape cases reported only one is actually successfully pursued by law enforcement.
This one contradicts what he is saying but is still staggeringly low.
Although it does have a lot of assumptions and it looks like it combines female and male victims.
