Fun Fact Thread! (previously fun fact for the day, not limited to 1 per day anymore.)

[DDE]

Hippos are an invasive species in Columbia thanks to escaping from the late Pablo Escobar's personal menagerie when his hasienda was sacked by his enemies.

[magnemoe]

5 hours ago, DDE said:

Hippos are an invasive species in Columbia thanks to escaping from the late Pablo Escobar's personal menagerie when his hasienda was sacked by his enemies.

It was an 19th century stupid idea to introduce hippos to the Mississippi river. 
It folded because cost and they could not monetize it also an question if meat would sell. 

[magnemoe]

Plane takes off in 2025 and lands in 2024. 
https://abc7.com/post/cathay-pacific-flight-880-new-years-departs-hong-kong-2025-lands-lax-2024/15736032/?utm_source=sdrn%3Avg%3Aarticle%3AeMXKJK

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Minoan (Bronze Age) maritime trade generally traveled in a counter clockwise path around the Eastern Mediterranean.  From the Island of Crete it was fairly easy to get to Egypt and the southern Levant... But not very easy to go straight back.  So trade would go north from Egypt along the Levant to Anatolia and Cyprus before making it's way back to Crete. 

 

In other news, Egypt conducted a naval attack on/using the Euphrates River.  Talk about commitment! 

https://seapower.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/semaphore-16-06

 

[kerbiloid]

The Egyptians had to use water ships in absence of desert ships, the camels.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

26 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

camels

Special Forces Camels secured the far side prior to the operation! 

 

 

 

[boriz]

Fun fact: Star Trek used to be good.

[kerbiloid]

Interesting fact: while the Bible mentions the camels, the Egyptian furry temples don't depict them.

[SunlitZelkova]

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Interesting fact: while the Bible mentions the camels, the Egyptian furry temples don't depict them.

Well of course, why make designs of camels when you can make art about cats.

https://egypt-museum.com/cat-eating-fish-under-a-chair/

[kerbiloid]

The Egyptians weren't aware of camels, living in the desert...

The Bible depicts volcanic eruptions, while the nearest volcano is in Italy, and to some extent, in Turkish mountains...

Noah has built the ark from wooden planks which require mechanic lumberyard (first built n XIV cent. Germany), exactly like the "Christopher Columbus" / "A Dove, Carrying Christ" project ships from 1492.
From that exact 1492 AD = 7000 from World Creation, which was the  XV century horror, as the last year of world existence (cuz 1 Day = 1000 humans years), so that even the Easter tables weren't continued until it passed.
And what a funny coincidence that a half of the Northern star map consists of parts of the former "Navis" / "Ship" (aka Ship of Argo, Columbus Ship, Noah Ship) constellation, later divided into a ten of minor constellations (Carina / Keel, Vela / Sails, Puppis / Stern, Pyxis, Antlia, Columba), representing the 1492 expedition in search of the New World instead of the doomed to sink Old World, of course performed by a fictional epic hero "Christopher Columbus", rather than the whole Catholic Roman Empire, to transfer chosen people to a new land which had to be over there.

King Solomon, using a large transparent glass (technology from XV/XVI) to fool the Sabean Queen.
A thing, daily usual for a writer from XVI, but absolutely unknown for a person even from XIV, let alone the "ancient" times.
The same Solomon, using a special magic worm to make curved holes in stones. The usual building technology from early XVI concrete building, put a gypsum'ed rope into concrete, let them freeze, them just pull out the rope.
The so-called Phoenicians, building wooden plank ships (technology of XV) in the MidEastern desert, providing Solomon with them and various wooden plank lumbery.
And almost exactly same biographies of Solomon and Suleiman the Magnificent, who lived exactly in the XVI, when all Solomon's technologies were up-to-date and absolutely usual.

All of that really makes to believe in reality of Ancient Egypt and its friends.