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What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember my parents talking about some thing or other in star trek that would be impossible because you'd need "terabytes of storage, and that's probably not possible". And now you can go buy 1 tb of storage and lose it in your couch cushions.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Poor Keanu Reaves gave up his childhood memories in Johnny Mnemonic to store something like 100GB of data in his brain. I don't remember the Star Trek storage callout cause they were generally pretty good about just fabricating their own units for stuff (future sci-fi writers should take note, it's always easier to make up units then deal with pedantic people on the internet).

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

they were generally pretty good about just fabricating their own units for stuff

indeed, most of their references to quantities of information use quads; there are a few using bytes though.

[–] sysadmin420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I lost a 1tb flash drive with ventoy and a bunch of files and I'm still mad, but I had a backup lol