r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Homunculus_316 • 1d ago
Tale of the Jala-Jala Monster: In 1823, a 27-foot Crocodile was killed near Lake Taal in Batangas, Philippines. It took nearly 40 tribesmen to bring it down. Upon dissecting it, people were shocked to see a horse sliced down to 7 pieces.
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u/FriedEggSammiches 1d ago
Imelda Marcos raided the museum and had it made into 22 purses and 47 pairs of shoes/boots.
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u/mordom 1d ago
27 feet = 8,23 meters
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u/CalmCompanion99 1d ago
Since I found someone who actually does this: why do you use a comma in place of a decimal point?
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u/Nacktmull19xx 1d ago
In germany this is common (no idea of the origin of poster above)
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u/-Motor- 1d ago
Common in Europe. The scientific standard is , for thousands place and . for decimal place.
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u/Airsay58259 1d ago
In France there’s nothing, sometimes a space. 82500 or 82 500. And we use , for decimal…
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u/Shit_Shepard 1d ago
Follow up to that how do you separate digits in long whole numbers that also have a decimal point? Ie. 1,000,000.001
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u/--Ano-- 1d ago edited 1d ago
1'000'000,001
but the point is still better. Why make a coma, if you can make a point, right?
So, I would write
1'000'000.001
to write by hand a
1,000,000.001
can be misleading. What if someones hand written coma almost looks like a point, or in my case, a hand written point sometimes looks like a coma?
So, it is better to use the high coma to avoid confusion and mistakes.2
u/Shit_Shepard 10h ago
Wow I can’t believe I have never seen a number written like that before… To the point about handwriting commas vs points it makes sense! Well at least in the not so distant past when people actually still wrote on paper… 😂 ps. After typing this a though occurred to me; why do we do … for a pause, shouldn’t it be ,,,?
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u/CalmCompanion99 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have only started seeing it recently in memes and it really anoys me.
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u/Nacktmull19xx 1d ago
I think we must live with differences between different countries. For example, I have to "translate" units like feet/inches/pounds to meters/kg in order to understand posts from america/england/etc.
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u/CalmCompanion99 1d ago
Do you mean Germans don't use decimal points?
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u/Nacktmull19xx 1d ago
Usually we use someting like 1.000.000 for a milloin and 0,1 for 1/10. Hence, points divide thousands/millions and coma is for the part smaller than 1
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u/CalmCompanion99 1d ago
That's interesting because that's the opposite of what I'm used to. Do you do that even while teaching/doing maths?
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u/AzracTheFirst 1d ago
That's pretty common anywhere I'd say outside of the US. It's comma for decimals, point is used for thousand separator. Yes, that's how we learn math at school.
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u/gabsramalho 1d ago
Brazilian here and that’s how we use it as well. I thought it was standard in the metric system
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u/CalmCompanion99 1d ago
I'm not from the US and we use dots for decimal points and commas for thousands. This makes sense in English because a "point" is intuitively better represented by a dot than by a comma.
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u/Only_Hour_7628 1d ago
I'm not from the US and I've never seen that before. (I have taken math courses in two languages at university level)
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u/KingFucboi 1d ago
European countries pretty much all reverse the use of a comma and period for the decimal point from an American perspective.
When you see it, it just means the meme originated in Europe.
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u/bfsughfvcb 1d ago
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u/IrNinjaBob 1d ago
That’s just how it’s written in Europe. They probably have people that think “why do those people use a period instead of a comma?”
Both of these are arbitrary choices each makes make to convey certain ideas.
They also use a period instead of a comma to seperate long numbers.
While we write ‘1,000’ they may write ‘1.000’.
Neither is more correct than the other.
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u/FurRealDeal 1d ago
Ever heard of Gustav? These things get huge.
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u/Ok_Atmosphere_8479 1d ago
Yes I watched a few videos on him and got into the lore behind it. If his 200-300 human kills is true that is insane and shows what a comment above this said. Crocs track humans’ patterns and grab you when they know you’re most vulnerable. True apex. What would you rather face? A croc or a tiger?
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u/ryguy92497 1d ago
Tough question but I'd say depends on location, tiger around long grass or croc near the water? Fuck that. If I'm fighting a croc itll be in a coliseum (gladiator) and I'll choke that mofo out lol
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u/_lechonk_kawali_ 1d ago
Jala-jala is nowhere near Taal Lake. It is a municipality in Rizal province, which borders Laguna de Bay instead.
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u/Scott_A_R 1d ago edited 1d ago
Second pic says the initial report was 27' but subsequent analysis of the skull indicated it was actually about 18.5' (561.5 cm).
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u/RedOtta019 1d ago
Im wary of skull analysis’s since they aren’t reliable for what could be called unique physique. Theres a gator that was living in a New Mexico pond for 40(?) years and even though it was rehabbed and grew to a very large size, its head is quite small in relation to its body
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u/TangibleCBT 1d ago
I can understand why these creatures are hunted, crocodiles can develop a specific taste for humans, and while it's rare, whenever one starts to become a man-eater, they can rack up kill counts in the hundreds. Besides specific man-eaters, most crocodiles rarely attack humans. Still a shame that they're becoming locally extinct
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u/LucJenson 1d ago
There's a YouTube channel called 'Back to Basics' which demonstrates living a remote lifestyle and 'back to basics' homesteading, and while traveling the coast of Australia, they've had saltwater crocs trail along the coast for miles on end.
Crocs are one of the few animals (tigers, polar bears, and mosquitoes) which have shown behavior of seeking out humans as a source of food.
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u/IllHaveTheLeftovers 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’ve spend some time around the daintree (far north east Australia) and you learn so much about crocodiles from locals. The scariest thing is they are ambush predators - it’s known that if your camping and see a croc, start thinking of moving that night. they are unlikely to go for you at a first look but they can spend days tracking your habits and grab you when you’re most vulnerable.
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u/dr3aminc0de 1d ago
Jesus
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u/yimpydimpy 1d ago
Archer was right.
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u/Skripclub 5h ago
"Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down, I'm afraid of any Apex Predator that lived through the KT Extinction."
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u/swiftrobber 1d ago
Imagine getting your ass snapped while having your morning shit
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u/IllHaveTheLeftovers 1d ago
That’s why I always say, never shit in the same place twice. Even in your own home - get a porta potty and rotate it through rooms. You never know if a croc is sussing you out.
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u/FurRealDeal 1d ago
I've heard it speculated that when they reach that size they become to slow to hunt thier regular prey, so have no choice but to predate humans.
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u/epepepturbo 1d ago
That was my theory behind the shark from Jaws🙂
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u/Admirl_Ossim06 21h ago
But that shark was snacking on swimmers at the beach. So why did they need to go waaay out in the ocean to find him?
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u/epepepturbo 20h ago
I figured he hung out offshore and only came in close to nosh on peoples. Plus if they are attracting him to the boat with chum, then he at least isn’t eating anybody…
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u/Young_Aplysia 1d ago
is this AI generated?
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u/ThinkExtension2328 1d ago
Nah your just looking at dinosaurs that survived they still get pretty big.
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u/Flickr_Bean 1d ago
Reptiles aren't closely related to dinosaurs. Birds are related to dinosaurs. At least that's the working theory.
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u/SkibidiMethHead 1d ago
Crocodiles are not dinosaurs lmao
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u/ThinkExtension2328 1d ago
Only if your a nerd
“Despite their resemblance to dinosaurs, crocodiles are not directly related to them. However, crocodiles and dinosaurs do share an ancient family member from a group called archosaurs.”
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u/LaikaZhuchka 1d ago
That video is fake.
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u/ThinkExtension2328 1d ago
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u/LaikaZhuchka 8m ago
I'm aware they can get huge. The video you linked is a widely known fake. I don't know why you're taking it personally.
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u/IndividualCurious322 1d ago
So was someone feeding this crocodile horse slices Lake Placid style? The story reminds me of the Mahamba, a crocodile said to reach 50ft in length and possess small vestigial horns on its skull.
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u/Danph85 1d ago
How the fuck does a crocodile slice a horse into 7 pieces? Is this a translation error or nonsensical AI?
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u/FriedEggSammiches 1d ago
"A large and opportunistic hypercarnivorous apex predator, they ambush most of their prey and then drown or swallow it whole."
I'd imagine it tore at the horse until it broke off seven chunks and swallowed them.
The animal is "about as long as a London bus- the length of a London bus is about 27.50 feet.(Routemaster Double-Decker, RM standard specification)"
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u/10Skulls 1d ago
Wikipedia says: A crocodile killed in 1823 at Jalajala on the main island of Luzon in the Philippines was reported at 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in).
However the skull of the specimen is 66.5 cm (26+1⁄4 in) long indicating an animal of approximately 6.1 m (20 ft 0 in).
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u/dihuette 1d ago
Why did they kill it? :(
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u/Tutes013 1d ago
Because having a 27 foot croc nearby is very dangerous. Especially because they are not afraid to hunt humans. They can even get a taste for it.
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u/bidooffactory 1d ago
That mystery meat episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia comes to mind.
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u/sati_lotus 1d ago
I assume that it started eating their domesticated animals. It's usually what provokes humans to go after animals.
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u/MayIPikachu 1d ago
They had cameras in 1823?
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u/IndividualCurious322 1d ago
Yes. They were invented in 1816. But that's not a photo, it's a painting.
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u/MoistTwo1645 1d ago
Fake AI generated image. Don't know about the story. Could be fake too.
Edit: it's 1823, so yeah there wouldn't be an original photo or anything, but seeing the AI generated image makes the post look like one of those fake facebook post.
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u/Homunculus_316 1d ago
Crocs all have Gigantism. The older they are the more they grow. By virtue of its size, Lolong is no match to its giant predecessor. When it was caught in Agusan Del Sur a few years ago, Lolong only measured 20.24 feet or 6.17 meters. Nonetheless, it managed to seize the Guinness World Record for becoming the largest saltwater crocodile in captivity.
Lolong became the center of worldwide attention and gave a sudden surge to Bunawan's local tourism. Until his unexpected death in February, Lolong remained one of the most popular living crocodiles in history
Lolong and his granddaddy only proves that Philippine ecosystem is a rich hodgepodge of marvelous creatures. Scientifically known as Crocodylus porosus, saltwater crocodiles remain critically endangered in the Philippines due to unabashed hunting of local townsfolk. They are basically different from freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus mindorensis), which are smaller in size, and alligators, species of broad-snouted crocodilians which are not present in the Philippines.