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Mystery of Toads Entombed in Stone & Coal Found Alive After 100s of Yrs

There have been many unexplained cases, since the 15th century, of amphibians being found alive but fully encased in coal pockets or stone geodes. Stories of this unexplained phenomenon have appeared in numerous journals. Even Charles Dickens mentioned the phenomenon in his journal All the Year Round.

There is a pattern to the various discoveries. In most cases the frog is discovered in a chamber full of mucous and is usually very pale or white in color. After a few minutes exposed to air it comes-to-life and is usually quite active for a short while before turning grey and apparently developing respiratory difficulties. In most cases the animal dies within 24 to 72 hours but there are some references that when these poor creatures were quickly allowed into fresh pond water they seem to have survived indefinitely.

Anxiety can make you an obsessive-compulsive cleaner. 

In times of stress, uncertainty, or helplessness, the average person often engages in repetitive, ritualistic behaviors, like cleaning or nail biting, in order to regain a sense of control - even when they don’t realize they are stressed or anxious. 

This isn’t a dinosaur fossil; it’s a mummy. 

Scientists think the 110 million-year-old nodosaur was swept to sea by a flooding river, sank, landed on its back, and was pressed into the ocean floor.

It’s so well-preserved that it still has intestines and weighs 2,500 of its original 3,000 lbs. 

I see this happen often enough that I don’t think this falls under common knowledge, and I didn’t see a previous post on this topic. So here goes!

Some clothes have stitches that only serve a temporary purpose and are MEANT to be removed. Here are some examples:

The one that more people know about: pockets being sewn shut, especially on dress pants and blazers. The pockets are sewn shut to keep the garment flat and neat during shipping and display. You can tell that pocket stitches are temporary and not permanent (like for fake pockets) in two ways: first, the stitches will be big and loose compared to other stitches on the garment, and secondly, the pocket will have a physical “bag” or some other encapsulation of fabric on the underside that shows that something is meant to be put in it. Fake pockets will just have the outline of the pocket opening on the underside.

A less-famous example: Blazer vents and skirt slits being sewn closed. I’m referring to when the back bottom edge of a blazer, coat, or skirt has a split, slit, or flap in it. They are often sewn closed with a big, loose, “X” of thread, again to keep the garment flat and neat during shipping and display, but definitely meant to be cut when you get home. If they DON’T get cut, then the garment can’t separate and move where it is supposed to, and it forms a binding, bunched-up shape around the rear end which you do NOT want, trust me. The number of thread Xs I see walking around my city is frustrating, to say the least.

Another one: Branding tags sewn on coat sleeves. This one is understandable, because many garments have branding sewn on the sleeve that is more of a fashion statement and meant to be there. However, many dress coat, blazer, and outerwear brands will sew a small label towards the end of the sleeve, so that the brand can be displayed while they are on a display rack, but it’s meant to be taken off later. You can tell the difference by the stitching: temporary tags will have only a few loose stitches on either end, while permanent tags will usually have tight, small stitching all around the border.

Depending on the type of garment and its unique details, there may be other temporary stitches to contend with, but again, stitches that are meant to be cut are usually much bigger and looser than their neighbors, and the thread stands alone with no reinforcement or connection to the rest of the garment.

High heels were invented for men, and they weren’t made for walking. For centuries, Persian soldiers wore heels as riding footwear that helped them secure their stance when they stood in their stirrups to shoot arrows. 

By the 1600s, western aristocrats began wearing heels as a status symbol, because they were so uncomfortable and impractical that they reflected the privilege of the upper class. 

“The last mermaid of the northern seas”

are more genetically compatible than These

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Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Untitled - for the campaign against venereal disease, 1942, Salvador Dali