Eggless’ chick laid by hen in Sri Lanka
19 April 2012 Last updated at 07:08 ET

A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.

Instead of passing out of the hen’s body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen. (cont.)

I can’t imagine that was a comfortable birth for anybody. My one experience with baby chicks was some kind of 4-H thing in Mrs. Long’s Third Grade class where we hatched eggs in an incubator. I held one of those little Future Nuggets and they are sharp little newborns. Between the feet and the beak, I was through after about 10 seconds.

That was my thought halfway through the article. Then it said the hen died soon after of internal injuries.

Oops. Guess my memory of sharp chicks was correct after all. :-/

Look at this photo.

Ooo I need to ask my momma where she thinks all that oil is coming from. Not because it’ll make her see logic, but because I kinda wanna hear whatever cockamamie answer she comes up with.

The more science discovers, the less Conservatives believe it.

Can we just say that Conservative is a synonym for stupid now? Because it is. I know all the kids like to say “that’s gay” when something is dumb or whack or whatever, but “that’s Conservative” makes way more sense.

So, mom said I could go see a movie at 10, but my curfew is at 11. What, does she want me to leave in the middle? That’s Conservative.

Who even puts a table right next to the bathroom in a restaurant? Nobody wants to sit there. That is SO Conservative.

Wait, so they’re bringing Jersey Shore back for another season? With pregnant Snooki? WTF, that is HELLA Conservative.

Cracking your knuckles won’t cause arthritis.

Donald Unger cracked the knuckles on his left hand for sixty years, but only the left hand, to compare it with the state of his right hand which went un-cracked. The result? Nothing. No arthritis. He won the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2009 for his research. Basically, your mom is a liar.

The “cracking” sound you hear is just your joints “popping” pockets of nitrogen.

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niggertitz asked: LMFAO thank you for writing that essay on me J.K. Rowling. Glad to know I inspire you.

Ignorance will never not inspire me. The sad part is that stupid people are too stupid to know that they’re stupid (See: Life’s Little Mysteries and, related, the Dunning-Kruger Effect). Therefore, informing them of their ignorance is an exercise in futility. They’re usually proud of being ignorant or find it comical that other people proclaim them as such.

And America is overrun with them.

Just so you know, the Mayan Calendar already ended.

All this crazy talk about the world ending on December 21, 2012 is ridiculous, mostly because grown-ass humans should know better than to actually believe that crap, but also because the major reasoning—that the Mayan Calendar ends on that day—is messed up. It actually ended in August, 2011.

Lemme drop some knowledge on you real quick.

Tyrannosaurus rex was really scary.

(Pause: How do you plural that? Tyrannosaurus rexes? Tyrannosauruses rex? Tyrannosauri rex?)

Anyway…

Remember how we already knew T. rex had big teeth and strong jaws and would be totally scary walking down Madison Avenue? Well. In the words of the Internet, “shit just got real.”

…The new estimate of bite force is higher than past estimates that relied on indent measures in which they pressed down the skull and teeth onto a bone until they got the imprints that matched those on fossils. In the new study, the researchers created a computer model of the dinosaur’s jaw by first digitally scanning skulls from an adult and juvenile T. rex, an allosaurus, an alligator and an adult human. They used these scans to model each animal’s bite.

“We took what we knew about T. rex from its skeleton and built a computer model,” Bates said. “We then asked the computer model to produce a bite so that we could measure the speed and force of it directly.”

The force exerted at one of T. rex’s back teeth would have been between 7,868 and 12,814 pounds-force (35,000 and 57,000 newtons). This force would be akin to having a medium-size elephant sit on you. (cont.)

That’s really intense, guys. I mean, I give up if my Snickers Ice Cream Bar is too frozen and this dinosaur bitch is biting through bones and shit. I need to step my game up.

::googles furiously for jaw exercises::

Stupid people shouldn’t vote.

Sorry to be blunt, but that’s how I feel. Stupid people don’t know enough to be able to say, “hey, that guy is making a lot of sense. That’s how I feel too. I want him to be my leader.” So you make a lot of sense to Joe Schmo from Nowhere, USA who doesn’t pay attention to politics, doesn’t read anything outside of Sports Illustrated, and only watches the news for the weather report. I don’t want that guy voting.

And now I have scientific backup! From Livescience:

People Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
Natalie Wolchover, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Date: 28 February 2012 Time: 01:49 PM ET