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Nothing insane, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a band are older than Guns 'N' Roses.

There was this racehorse named Pot-8-Os who won over 25 races and went on to sire a horse empire of winners. His father was a legend himself named "Eclipse"

by weight, theres more non-human DNA in you than human.

Sharks are older than both trees and the north star

California was a state longer than Italy was a nation.

Your conscious mind does not experience reality directly.

Your conscious mind does not experience reality directly. There is no path going directly from your eyes to your conscious awareness. Rather, the subconscious collects sensory input. It uses that input to create a virtual simulacrum of the world, a big internal 3D model. That internal 3D representation is what you, the conscious part of your mind, actually interacts with and experiences.

You ever wonder how weird it is that people can have intense, debilitating hallucinations? Like schizophrenics seeing and hearing entirely fictional things. Have you ever seen a camera produce anything like that? A flash of light, a distorted image, dead pixels, etc? Sure, those kinds of errors cameras can produce. But a camera will never display a vivid realistic image of a person that wasn't ever actually in their field of view.

Yet the human mind is capable of this. In the right circumstances, the human brain is capable of spawning entire fictional people into your conscious awareness. This shows that there is an elaborate subconscious processing layer between what our conscious mind observes and direct sensory input. Your conscious mind is basically experiencing a tiny little internal version of The Matrix, entirely generated on its own wetware. And this subconscious processing layer is what makes hallucinations possible. The processes that produce this internal simulation can become corrupted, and thus allows hallucinations.

This architecture is also what makes dreaming possible. If your conscious mind only perceived things upon direct sensory feedback from the eyes, ears, etc., how would dreaming be possible?

You are essentially experiencing reality through an elaborate 3d modeling version of an AI video generator.

A few of my favorite fun facts are geography related.

The pacific side of the Panama canal is further east than the Atlantic side.

If you head south from Detroit the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada.

Lake Tahoe is further west than Los Angeles

Humans have stripes that are invisible to us. However, cats can see our stripes.

James Blunt possibly prevented the start of World War 3. (But became best known for the song You're Beautiful. Reality is weird.)

Bees kill invaders in their nest by climbing all over them and shaking their bodies.

Mary Queen of Scots was 6ft tall.