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KCP codec pack

KCP is a codec pack that contains the latest DirectShow components, utilized to decode an array of media types. - http://tinyurl.com/cwr8lvg

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Falling Snow

It's said that loneliness accumulates slowly like falling snow, and freezes the heart solid before you know it. That's why, parents have to be the ocean. Be the ocean and keep on smiling. Because snow doesn't accumulate on the ocean. Quote: Tonbi (2013)

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TIL that if Pufferfish inhales air, they might die

It often kills pufferfish when removed entirely from the water. If a puffer inhales too close to the surface of the water, they can accidentally ingest air. This air becomes permanently trapped in their stomach, interfering with swimming. The air (and/or trauma of being caught and held out of water) also causes them severe stress, which can cause them to stop eating until they die. Occasionally a puffer will be able to work the air out of their system. If they are unable to do so, local fish stores have been known to use a small hypodermic needle to remove the air. Also, there is a difference between poisonous and venomous. You can touch most species of puffers without any issue. However, if you were to ingest said puffers, they could kill you. Source: reddit/r/aww

#today i learned #pufferfish

TIL that a 'micromort' is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries

For example, going skydiving is 7 micromorts, meaning that there is a 7/1,000,000 chance that a person will die per jump. Source: Quite Interesting

#today i learned #micromort

TIL what is happening when my stomach growls

When you fast, there is a neurological reflex that causes your body to increase peristalsis (waves of contraction of your intestines) in your gastointestinal tract in an attempt to move any remaining substances through the system. This is called the migrating motility complex. These additional peristaltic waves contribute to the "growling" you hear when you are hungry. This is the reason that when children swallow inedible objects (like a penny, for example) instead of removing the object, doctors will have the child fast. This activates the migrating motility complex which pushes the object through their intestinal tract (and out their backside) The sound (borborygmi) comes from the fact that the intestines are muscular tubes. When the muscles contract and then relax, it creates a vacuum. To compare it to something you might be familiar with- when you push on a whoopie cushion it makes noise, but when you release it and let it re-inflate, it makes a different sound from the air moving back into the balloon. Both of those types of noises are going on inside your intestines.

#today i learned #diet #stomach

TIL that I'm right eye dominant

Point to an object in the distance with a finger from both arms. Then close one eye. If the fingers are still 'correctly pointing to the object' (rather than a little bit to the left or right), the currently open eye is your dominant eye.

#today i learned #eye

TIL that prehistoric humans had healthier mouths than ours

Prehistoric humans didn't have toothbrushes. They didn't have floss or toothpaste, and they certainly didn't have Listerine. Yet somehow, their mouths were a lot healthier than ours are today. In a study published in the latest Nature Genetics, Cooper and his research team looked at calcified plaque on ancient teeth from 34 prehistoric human skeletons. What they found was that as our diets changed over time — shifting from meat, vegetables and nuts to carbohydrates and sugar — so too did the composition of bacteria in our mouths. Not all oral bacteria are bad. In fact, many of these microbes help us by protecting against more dangerous pathogens. However, the researchers found that as prehistoric humans transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming, certain types of disease-causing bacteria that were particularly efficient at using carbohydrates started to win out over other types of "friendly" bacteria in human mouths. The addition of processed flour and sugar during the Industrial Revolution only made matters worse. Source: Ancient Chompers Were Healthier Than Ours

#today i learned #diet #dental

TIL if the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell

The Milky way would be the size of the continental United States. A human hair is 90µm wide. If you were to cut that into 9 equal slices, one of those slices would be as wide as a white blood cell. At that scale if you were traveling at the equivalent to the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s), you would travel a whole mile in just about 35 years.

#today i learned #astronomy #sun

TIL if I steep two tea bags in hot water

Essentially it will produce tea that is twice as strong, but there are some more complicated things happening. Firstly, if we look at caffeine we can see that the solubility of caffeine in water at 20 degrees C is about 20 g/L, which is a lot considering a normal cup of tea has at most about 400 mg/L of caffeine (solubility and tea number sources). You could theoretically have up to 8x strength tea, and probably even greater since hot water should have a greater caffeine solubility limit. However, there is a potential rate issue at play here. The rate of dissolution of the caffeine from the tea leaves will be dependent on the concentration of the caffeine in the solution in contact with the tea leaves. Theoretically, the higher the local caffeine concentration next to the leaves the slower the dissolution. What this means is that if you put 4 tea bags into the cup you would not get 4 times the caffeine out of them as there would be a much larger caffeine concentration surrounding the bags which slows down the rate. Note that this is assuming no stirring and normal steeping time. If you stir the cup or let the tea bags steep longer you could essentially eliminate this issue. This same argument applies for all the components in the tea, not just the caffeine. It is possible there might be a solubility limit you could hit for some molecule, but none that I know of at the moment. Finally, the change in dissolution rate for a compound in tea in the concentrations we are talking about and with normal steeping times is probably minimal. So as I said in the first sentence brewing two tea bags at once will likely give you 2x strength tea with only extremely minor deviations. In normal conditions (no stirring) it takes on average 3 minutes to get half the caffeine and just over 10 minutes to get almost all of it out. By 15 minutes the caffeine is entirely extracted. If we stir it then things get quite a bit faster. Source: reddit/r/askscience

#today i learned #tea

TIL if you took the whole solar system and shrunk it down

So that the Sun was at your head and the orbit of Pluto was at your feet, Uranus would be just where you’d expect it to be. You could say the proportions are . . . asstronomical.

#today i learned #astronomy #uranus

TIL the Irish 'invented' the space between words

In the 7th century Irish monks started using blank spaces, and introduced their script to France. By the 8th or 9th century spacing was being used fairly consistently across Europe (Knight 1996). In older texts it can cause translation problems. For instance: godisnowhere can be read as 'god is nowhere', 'god is now here' or 'god i snow here'.

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