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NOW I CAN BE A TRUE MERMAID

I actually did a report on this last year! The substance is called perfluorocarbon and because of its unique nature, it can hold enough oxygen inside of it for you to breathe it. You can breathe safely while inside it, but sometimes the transition from breathing in the perfluorocarbon and the air can be painful or uncomfortable as your lungs try to push the liquid out of them. In Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol, the process of reverting back to breathing the air can feel like being birthed.

thank you friend

how the fuck do they know what being birthed feels like

FACT:

This liquid is used in modern torture. It is similar to water boarding. A victim is placed in a small completely dark box. The box is then filled with the liquid. The victim thinks they are drowning as they breath the liquid in. Most pass out from fear at this point or they just sit there in the liquid in pitch black, apparently breathing ‘water’. Often it leads to the thought that they are in fact dead. It is completely terrifying. Then the box is opened and they are violently pulled from it. As said before the transition from liquid to air is none too pleasant. You might be told something like, they resuscitated you and to tell them what you know or they will “drown” you again.

You can “drown” someone and be sure that they won’t be harmed

You all needed to know this. 

fuck

More amazing facts here on nowyoukno

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Crows are scary
They

• use tools
• Can be taught to speak (like parrots)
• Have huge brains for birds
• like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
• They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
• they are scary smart at solving puzzles
• some ravens stay with their mates until one of them dies
• they can remember faces
• SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
• They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Guys I’m really scared of crows now.
(q) 

i love crows so much

crows are amazing

My favorite legend is that crows are the souls of the dead

crows are the coolest shit

crow for prez

Though we aren’t the biggest source of crow facts online you can find more crow facts here on nowyoukno

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Someone had to say it

leatherh0ff:

this is an advertisement on youtube

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oh my GOD

The horse! *schniff schniff*

also i’m pretty sure the cat is not friends with the sloth

unclefather:

Why? Who gives you the right?

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conradtao:

this is one of the many reasons i love having a toy piano

WOW THIS IS REALLY COOL

let’s bring this back

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No, but really, though. Kids assess all the time when they get hurt how hurt they are, in that, if they’re really, truly hurting, they’ll let you know. Anything less than that, and they look for adult and peer reactions. Parents who crowd their children and give them these cues condition their kids to seek approval and attention to the point that they cannot differentiate when they do and don’t actually need help. This continues into their later years as well.

I’ve been working with children for probably about 90% of my life and I can’t impress upon people enough how real this is. The SECOND an adult freaks out, children will automatically assume that whatever has just happened is a big deal. The best thing I have ever done or seen parents do is when a child falls down, you respond with acknowledgment but in the same tone as when you’re playing. We would casually just say “Oops! Go boom.” and about 85-95% of the time the child will say “ow” or sniffle a little, maybe even repeat your “go boom” but get right back up. Sometimes they WILL still cry, because they hurt themselves or they scared themselves with the suddeness of what happens. That really is a thing I swear to god sometimes a kid will just be so startled by how suddenly something just happened they will freak out a little ‘cause they don’t have full control of their emotions and reactions yet. Children cry for SO MANY REASONS and SO MANY ADULTS freak out like it’s the END OF THE WORLD because the BABY IS CRYING. But you see, that’s where you get kids who scream about everything. It teaches them that their every single little thing is worth drama and it teaches them no matter what some adult will always RUSH to make whatever it is “all better” when…well, nothing was really wrong in the first place. When a kid falls and starts to cry the best thing to do is calmly go over and ask if they’re hurt and if they nod or say yes you ask them to show you. Obviously if it’s serious you should be serious about it but otherwise you check the child for injuries and if there are none you kiss the spot that hurts and smile calmly and say “all better!” This shows the child it’s not a big deal, we all fall down sometimes, not the end of the world and everyone goes on with their lives. This lesson is invaluable and SO. FEW. PARENTS. will ever, ever teach it.