We all love Llamas and Alpacas, but do you know how to differentiate between the two? Yeah, we have no either.
Until we read these very informative infographics! Now we're Llama and Alpaca pros! Go on, ask us anything.
To sum up what we learned here today: Alpacas are adorable and sweet. Llamas are adorable, want to kill you and spit on your grave.
Tumblr gets in real deep sometimes. Sure, a lot of it is just memes and thought exercises, but some threads get into stuff like the historical concept of the color purple in rhyming fashion, or how modern cats became domesticated. So anyway, here's why magenta is a made up color based on your brain just doing its best.
The general idea here is whether or not older cars are "better" than newer ones when it comes to accidents. Sure, an older sturdy car won't fall apart as easily in an accident. What it will do is transfer all the kinetic energy of a crash directly into your body. Sometimes people on the internet are wrong about stuff, like this discussion about the facts of plague and veganism
We know that languages are all weird, and the one we use can be particularly confusing, but that can make it a more fun and nuanced thing to explore. We're all for seeing some creative uses and misuses of the English language. If you just wanna see people totally suck at English, then here are people who failed at using the English language.
Funfactcomics is one of our all time favorites when it comes to online comics. Here are some of the posts, for the rest follow them on Instagram or Tumblr:
Below, we have some insanely strange feline facts that nobody ever tells you about owning a cat and we gotta admit that they're pretty interesting. Don't worry, it's nothing too dramatic and it definitely won't change your mind about owning a cat because, at end of the day, cats are still pretty darn awesome and deserve all the love.
Everyone knows the most fun facts are about morbid history and animal genitals. Some of these are just plain interesting, some are amazingly gross while others are sad and damning. If it gets to be too much there's also some happy facts to hopefully counteract all the messed up ones.
Brooke Barker, the creator behind these Sad Animal Facts, wrote on Instagram that nature creates the facts and she simply draws them.
While some of these are indeed sad, a lot of them are just a bit awesome. Like, the sleeping panda fact. We all have a bit of panda spirit within us.
See more Sad Animal Facts here!
We've seen a whole lot of not fun facts that are scary and disappointing. Sure, they're inherently compelling, but it kind of starts to bring down your world view. So here are some nicer facts that are on the uplifting side. For some surprisingly interesting facts, here's a twitter thread on fonts that is actually fascinating. And if you just want to feel smart about the things you already know, here are some of the dumbest things people had to explain to adults.
Multi-level marketing "companies" are shady businesses that use a pyramid scheme model to rope in desperate people and encourage them to "be their own boss" by hawking stuff like health and beauty supplements to their friends and family over Facebook. The odds that anyone will ever be successful at these is incredibly small, and the companies often pass on the costs to their own "employees," which results in stuff like this guy who reconnected with a high school friend after his dad died so he could sell health supplements.
Ever wonder how cats became domesticated? Or why on Earth humans decided to bring in the adorable and small predators into our homes in the first place? You've come to the right place!
Tumblr user, Koryos, who studies animal behavior, has written this extremely informative post about how the once-mighty predatory now sits indoors pampered.
It's actually quite fascinating and Koryos has done a wonderful job of explaining it so well!
Get ready to learn!
You remember learning that the reason veins can appear blue is cause deoxygenated blood turns blue? Well that's total horseshit. Your blood doesn't turn blue, and the reason your veins might look that way is because blue and red light travel though skin with different levels of success, so what's reflected back is a more bluish color. If you just learned this, you may be intrigued by these people who learned basic stuff way too late. Anyway, this dad asked if he was wrong for being really persistent with a teacher teaching the wrong thing.
