“Did You Know?”: 50 Random Facts About Our World To Let You Learn Something New Today

Awwwww, that's so sweet!

I read a book about her once, crazy

Logical. Dogs are nice.

More evidence to support Dog worship.

It’s like a puppy library

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He was so lovely.

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Hehehe...

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Meanwhile, in the good ol' US of A.....

Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!

Slovenia makes better wine, and Slovakia makes better beer. I know that much.

I bet Sweden and Switzerland also have this issue

I'm from Slovenia. Can confirm, the confusion is real

Just like in our village. It has only one street, but the postwoman messes up so much that every week we just call each other to exchange the wrongly delivered mails.

„Where do we need to send this very important and secret letter that contains important information that could lead to the end of the world?“ „Slov-…akia? Slov…enia? I don't know. It's almost the same“ „Just quess, we have fifty percent chance.“

Just remember: One was formerly part of Czechoslavakia. And it wasn't Czechoslovenia.

I had a friend once who was from one of these countries. I tried SO HARD to come up with a mnemonic to remember which one, and I STILL consistently got it wrong. To this day I'm not sure which of these countries it was because I was wrong so often that I've probably remembered it backwards...

My Aunt lived in Puerto Rico for a few years. My poor, going senile Grandmother spent 3.5 years sending mail to Costa Rica. (No she never asked my Aunt if she got any of it until she moved back to the States)

I get then mixed up so much too!

Why does one have to meet to exchange emails?

That's hilarious

😂😂

He was probably right!

Sounds about right

Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?

I know this one from an episode the food that built America

Especially that one with the beak.

Damn

Good girl.

I must be a genius then!

This is why I reread books. To visit the people.

This is a pretty cool factoid (micro was one of my favorite subjects in college) but it's not exclusive to influenza; viruses in general have a coating called a capsid that protects the material inside while allowing it to attach to the host cell and replicate/infect.

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Think there's an HOA?

I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings

I'm such a big day dreamer

That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.

Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish

I may have tricked you but I tricked you into thinking that you tricked me(repeat seven times with progressively louder tones)

That’s pretty cool actually

Millennials are killing the drugsindustry!

Today is a good day to test this theory

I'm fortunate enough to be in this category. Love her like crazy.

Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.

Can we adopt this here?

I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol

That’s so weird to think about

Ravens are considered to be among the most intelligent of birds (along with other members of the corvid family, e.g., crows, jays, magpies, etc.). They make and use tools and can solve simple problems.

Makes sense. Character relations often leak into relations amongst actors. Same reason actors playing love interests often fall in love for real.

A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.