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What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 week ago by DoGeeseSeeGod to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/

"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The first microwave ovens created were being used to gently re-warm frozen live hamsters, because when they tried to reheat the hamsters with conventional cooking methods, they heated unevenly and burned at the edges, which isn't good for the hamsters.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Anyone else randomly think of Joe Cartoon for the first time in a very long time?

[-] dmention7@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

You ain't got the balls! No. Balls.

I probably got that wrong, but it's also been at least 20 years since I last pressed those blender buttons.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

They were invented because a microwave radar unit melted the chocolate in a guys pocket.

[-] DoGeeseSeeGod 4 points 1 week ago

Ok what the fuck. Is there a source beyond the youtube video I don't want to watch right now. That's pretty wild claim. The few sites I visit seem to reference the YouTube video as the source

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 7 points 1 week ago

Platypus already linked to a paper which references it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1363505/pdf/jphysiol01379-0153.pdf

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