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[lostone101]

Crows can recognize human faces, associating them with friendliness or danger, and pass that knowledge to other crows. They can hold a grudge for years against people who have treated them poorly.

There is a parasite that swims into fishes gills, cuts off their tongues and then attatchess itself to where its tongue once was this way it can gather food whenever the fish eats

 

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There is a mushroom that currently occupies more than 10% of the world's landmass. One. Single. Mushroom.

 

[lostone101]

Eels have a second mouth where their tongue should be

 

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When decapitated the blood pouring out of the stump will pulsate out depending on your heart rate, proving that, much like cockroaches, the human body maintains some function while headless.

 

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Despite their relatively small arms compared to their body, a Tyrannosaurus was still capable of curling 400lbs.

 

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Kangaroos can jump higher than a house. This is due to their powerful hind legs and the fact houses can't jump.

 

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Light is so fast it can travel the Earth 7.5 times in one second yet still takes eight minutes to reach us from the sun.

 

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Biology being taken into consideration alone, the average man is stronger than the average woman, but the average woman has a higher tolerance to pain. If attacks to the joints and head are not allowed, a fight between a man and woman of the same weight class would be perfectly equal.

 

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If there was a hyper-advanced alien civilisation living in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, and if that civilisation was able to clearly view Earth...they'd be witnessing the final days of the dinosaurs.

 

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What you think of as the foreleg in most quadrupedal mammalian animals is actually their equivalent of a foot.

 

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Biology being taken into consideration alone, the average man is stronger than the average woman, but the average woman has a higher tolerance to pain. If attacks to the joints and head are not allowed, a fight between a man and woman of the same weight class would be perfectly equal.

As a former martial artist and current martial artist enthusiast I'm going to just have to respectfully disagree with you on principles alone
Francis Ngannou would beat any man or woman even if he/she was in his weight class. No amount of pain tolerance can save a woman from superior strength. That higher pain tolerance is evolutionary beneficial to make child birth easier on her.

 

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As a former martial artist and current martial artist enthusiast I'm going to just have to respectfully disagree with you on principles alone
Francis Ngannou would beat any man or woman even if he/she was in his weight class.

I'll have to respectfully disagree on grounds that Ngannou had a 50% Win ratio during his brief boxing career and currently has 3 loses by judge decision on his 21 fight record in the MMA. I'd argue that a woman of a similar height and weight class with a similar amount of training would be just as likely to beat him as anyone else in the same weight category regardless of gender, speaking as a former martial artist and competition juror.

EDIT: Amanda Nunes is a featherweight, but otherwise her record nearly perfectly mirrors Ngannou's.

 

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I'll have to respectfully disagree on grounds that Ngannou had a 50% Win ratio during his brief boxing career and currently has 3 loses by judge decision on his 21 fight record in the MMA. I'd argue that a woman of a similar height and weight class with a similar amount of training would be just as likely to beat him as anyone else in the same weight category regardless of gender, speaking as a former martial artist and competition juror.

Ngannou was the reigning UFC champion and just recently fought in his newest mma promotion and won in a dominant fashion. Before leaving the UFC he had beaten arguably the best in his weight devision (Stipe) and kept John Jones at bay. He (used to) has(ve) the strongest punch in recorded history. He was robbed of the Tyson Fury fight, but definitely lost to Joshua. A girl from the same weight class or training has very little hope of beating Ngannou when fully grown men can barely contend with him.

I respect your experience. But there's a reason why my master kept the men and women apart during sparing, but allowed the kids to be mixed. Even coming from a family of larger than average size (me) my sisters could still not contend with my brother or I.

The most badass woman to ever walk inside the Octagon is Amanda Nunez. But even she will most likely lose to the likes of GSP 9/10 times.

We can agree to disagree if this is going to go in circles.

 

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Ngannou was the reigning UFC champion and just recently fought in his newest mma promotion and won in a dominant fashion. Before leaving the UFC he had beaten arguably the best in his weight devision (Stipe) and kept John Jones at bay. He (used to) has(ve) the strongest punch in recorded history. He was robbed of the Tyson Fury fight, but definitely lost to Joshua. A girl from the same weight class or training has very little hope of beating Ngannou when fully grown men can barely contend with him.

I respect your experience. But there's a reason why my master kept the men and women apart during sparing, but allowed the kids to be mixed. Even coming from a family of larger than average size (me) my sisters could still not contend with my brother or I.

The most badass woman to ever walk inside the Octagon is Amanda Nunez. But even she will most likely lose to the likes of GSP 9/10 times.

We can agree to disagree if this is going to go in circles.

That speaks more to the level of Ngannou in comparison to his competitors than anything else, and if he could beat someone who has had the same amount of training as himself that speaks to innate talent and good genetics over anything else. My argument was more pertaining to, say; an average man and woman of 5'10" and 170lbs with the same level of experience and conditioning.

Both men and women are capable of being aggressive and violent when the need arises. While is true that men are generally stronger than women it doesn't mean a woman can't fight a man. A lot depends on social conditioning from childhood. In many parts of the world, parents begin this conditioning in the way their children play and socialize. Boys are given toy guns, soccer balls, or footballs to play and compete in sports. Girls, on the other hand, are given dolls, dollhouses, "princess" outfits, toy mirrors, and interact with similar girls. This conditioning creates a behavior pattern that is carried into adulthood.

Conditioning, however, works the other way as well. A friend of mine, an Israeli instructor, is an excellent Krav Maga fighter, and she looks just like any other woman, except she can fight better than most men. She was an IDF soldier, like many Israeli fighters in our locale, and now trains men and women in Krav Maga. She is a perfect example that women can not only fight men but definitely have a chance in beating men in a real fight. But people like herself, Ngannou, and Nunez are shifting the goal posts towards the maximum possible performance of one given particularly skilled professional individual rather than two average fighters.

There's a plethora of other factors to take into consideration of course. But yes, this argument will continue to go in circles if you wish to insist on the idea that men are innately better fighters at the same level of height, size, weight, and training. So I will agree to disagree.

 

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That speaks more to the level of Ngannou in comparison to his competitors than anything else, and if he could beat someone who has had the same amount of training as himself that speaks to innate talent and good genetics over anything else. My argument was more pertaining to, say; an average man and woman of 5'10" and 170lbs with the same level of experience and conditioning.

Both men and women are capable of being aggressive and violent when the need arises. While is true that men are generally stronger than women it doesn't mean a woman can't fight a man. A lot depends on social conditioning from childhood. In many parts of the world, parents begin this conditioning in the way their children play and socialize. Boys are given toy guns, soccer balls, or footballs to play and compete in sports. Girls, on the other hand, are given dolls, dollhouses, "princess" outfits, toy mirrors, and interact with similar girls. This conditioning creates a behavior pattern that is carried into adulthood.

Conditioning, however, works the other way as well. A friend of mine, an Israeli instructor, is an excellent Krav Maga fighter, and she looks just like any other woman, except she can fight better than most men. She was an IDF soldier, like many Israeli fighters in our locale, and now trains men and women in Krav Maga. She is a perfect example that women can not only fight men but definitely have a chance in beating men in a real fight. But people like herself, Ngannou, and Nunez are shifting the goal posts towards the maximum possible performance of one given particularly skilled professional individual rather than two average fighters.

There's a plethora of other factors to take into consideration of course. But yes, this argument will continue to go in circles if you wish to insist on the idea that men are innately better fighters at the same level of height, size, weight, and training. So I will agree to disagree.

Fun fact Lego did a study on boys and girls to see which toys catered to them the most. Boys are more inclined to learn about Batman and act like Batman when given a Batman toy while girls were inclined to repurpose the Batman toy into a doll. Meaning boys were more inclined to learn about the toy while girls were more interested in repurposing the toy.

EDIT: Erm no. This fact is to show there’s a biological difference in how boys and girls play regardless of social conditioning because the objective was to see what the kid does with the toy. The researchers didn’t tell how the kids to play with the toy and the control variable is the fact that all kids received the same toy. The only difference is what the results yielded for a boy or girl.


Also. To be clear. Your fact said that men and women can compete on the same weight class BECAUSE women have a higher pain tolerance which BALANCES out for men's superior strength. Hence why I chose the strongest hitting fighters from both of the sexes. Ngannou is regarded as the hardest hitter and so was Nunues (before she retired). You started including different factors why women can contend with men in a fight. Which is a whole different conversation then what I was talking about.

 

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Fun fact Lego did a study on boys and girls to see which toys catered to them the most. Boys are more inclined to learn about Batman and act like Batman when given a Batman toy while girls were inclined to repurpose the Batman toy into a doll. Meaning boys were more inclined to learn about the thing while girls were more interested in repurposing the toy.

Also. To be clear. Your fact said that men and women can compete on the same weight class BECAUSE women have a higher pain tolerance which BALANCES out for men's superior strength. Hence why I chose the strongest hitting fighters from both of the sexes. Ngannou is regarded as the hardest hitter and so was Nunues (before she retired). You started including different factors why women can contend with men in a fight. Which is a whole different conversation then what I was talking about.

The fun fact about lego actually proves my point pertaining to conditioning.

Well, to be clear—because that's what we're trying to be; if we want to talk about shifting the goal posts around; I was talking about the average person of both genders. A man and woman of same height, weight, and level of training will likely result in the man hitting slightly harder than the woman and the woman being slightly more capable of enduring the blows. Studies on pain tolerance have consistently showed the disparity there to be roughly a perfect inverse to the difference in natural strength and ability to put on muscle between genders.

A verifiable comparison would be Amanda Nunes compared to José Aldo who is also a featherweight and considered the gold standard for the category. The two have the same weight and less than an inch in height difference at most recent measurement. If we based ourselves on just the two of them as evidence for how well men would fare against women in the ring and vice versa, it would not look good for the masculine side of things.

Sidenote: Francis Ngannou's punch of 129,161 units was supplanted by a 170,218 units punch by Joe Pyfer, a middleweight. This was then trumped by Eddie Hall with 208,901 units, a british strongman. Still, I don't think Pyfer would be able to beat Ngannou due to their size differential, and Eddie Hall isn't really a fighter.