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“Orcas Are Not Whales”: 63 Fun Facts To Fill Your Head With Wonder Instead Of Dread
Basically, everyone has that one friend who cannot get through a single conversation without leaning forward and saying, "did you know...". If you don't have that friend, you are that friend, and you have found your people. You are probably insufferable at a dinner party, the MVP at quiz night, and everyone secretly wants to be you.
The Fun Facts Instagram page has the sole and admirable mission of filling your feed with exactly this kind of information. No agenda or biased breaking news, and no comment section descending into chaos. Just bite-sized facts that make you pause mid-scroll and think "wait, really?" It is doing the Lord's work in a landscape that desperately needs it, and the following is a collection of the best it has to offer.
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Colleen Glim 2 hours ago
This is awesome! Dialysis patients could do treatment at home instead of having to go to hospital for several hours 3 or 4 times a week
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago (edited)
Women are still throwing their bras? Those things are crazy expensive these days! You might as well just throw money. 😂
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago
In 2023 Taylor was named Iowa's Woman of the Year by USA Today and included on Black Enterprise's 40 under 40 list for "Tech & STEM" achievements. She is the founder and CEO of VariegateHealth, a medical device company. Taylor cites research linking a higher infection rate for Black people post-surgeries, where signs of infection "like redness of the skin and swelling don’t appear as easily on darker skin tones". Taylor hopes to bring her invention to low and middle-income countries where it could better benefit mortality from common infections.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago (edited)
If you are rich this is what you should be doing, and not sending p3nis rockets into space or showing support for extreme right wing poltical parties.
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monsieur mabel 3 hours ago
......hahahaha now we all now who the annoying neighbors are in the rainforest.........
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Elladine DesIsles 4 hours ago
And today, the US has Supreme Court justices who treat the Constitution like toilet paper. Single-ply toilet paper at that.
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Richard Campbell 4 hours ago
I'm skeptical about the diet, but a cat living 30+ years is pretty incredible so he must have done something right. There's also an injection being developed in Japan to treat feline kidney disease which could potentially allow cats to live into their 30s. Long live the fur!
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago
Butkus? 😂 I assume he was named after the (American) football player, but it's still a terrible name.
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Sara Frazer 3 hours ago
Being Australia it would've made more sense for the distance to be kilometers .-. where's Fred....
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Sara Frazer 4 hours ago
Wow, my childhood town wasn't far from Wilkeson, I had no idea! Although that's probably the most novel thing about that town...
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago
That's because we are causing all the fecking ice to melt.
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago (edited)
I'm from DC so I remember the first pandas that were given to the National Zoo, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing. It was a big deal to get to go and see them.
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago
Wow, I must have eaten millions of these! I have strawberries almost every day.
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago
Did they time it with an actual person or is that just an estimate of how long it takes to pronounce?
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Lily bloom 3 hours ago
This reminds me of the Sesame Street visit to the crayon factory. Anyone else?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago
And knocker upper knocker uppers knocked up the knocker uppers.
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Upstaged75 4 hours ago
He's blind from cataracts, has lost his sense of smell, and so cannot detect food ... but he has retained excellent hearing." In January 2016, the BBC reported that Jonathan was given a new diet intended to keep him healthy and extend his life. Due to his advanced age, Jonathan spends his days doing almost everything with his mate Frederik, another male tortoise he was introduced to in 1991.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago
I feel that this record could be broken with a bit of training. Especially by those guys that balance rocks.
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Melissa Radbill 3 hours ago (edited)
Fun fact, this sculpture now sits in Plano, Texas at Frito-Lay headquarters
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 hours ago
I have heard this before but my brain refuses to believe it.
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