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32 Random Facts That Seem Too Weird To Be True, Yet They Are, According To Folks Online
Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
It doesn't matter whether you or I believe in God or are atheists - the world around us is so bizarre, unusual and beautiful that we can only admire the grandeur of the Creator's plan - or the extravagance of evolution.
Something interesting, beautiful or funny can be found in literally any pebble, any animal or the simplest phenomenon around us. Don't believe it? Then this viral thread in the AskReddit community, from which Bored Panda made a selection of the most interesting facts, will probably be of interest to you.
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#1
Words that are spelled the same but pronounced with emphasis on different syllables is actually indicative of the part of speech it is. Stress on the first syllable is a noun. Stress on the last syllable is a verb. Examples: CON-tract and con-TRACT. The former is a noun ( sign this contract) whereas the latter is a verb (the muscles contract). Same with record, address, impact, object, and a few others.
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#2
Poison dart froggis obtain their toxin by eating poisonous bugs, like fire ants. When you feed them crickets and such they are perfectly safe to handle 💚.
#3
Uppercase letters are called that because they could be found in the upper drawer of a printing press, lowercase could be found in the lower case of the printing press.
#5
The component parts of the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”. It’s “helico”, meaning “spiral-shaped” like the word “helix” and “pter” meaning “wing” as in “pterodactyl”.
#6
Etymology fact!
In arabic, when it comes to war, you'd have military ranks like Amir al-Bahr, which would roughly translate to "ruler of the sea". The term was taken by latin, shortened to "Amir al", and made its way to western languages, as *admiral*.
Which means that admiral essentially means "Lord of the-".
#8
A caterpillar doesn’t just grow wings on its wiggly body. Inside its cocoon, it breaks down into a gooey substance, keeping only a few key parts. From this “goo,” its body is rebuilt into a butterfly, complete with wings.
#9
The term "bug" in computing has been around a long time. The term was not commonly used until an actual bug landed on an electrical switch causing the computer to malfunction.(Returning a zero when it was supposed to be a 1). The term bug grew in popularity afterwards and landed us where we are today.
When we find a bug in software we apply a "patch"...
This comes from old cardex/punch card systems. If a punch card was punched in the wrong spot, you could fix it by applying a patch to the hole.
#10
Rollercoasters are built to shake! I’ve seen so many people decide to not get on because of the sway, but it’s important! If the support beams and tracks didn’t shake, they’d simply snap with all the force from the coaster cars roaring over them.
#14
The color blue is extremely rare in nature We only think it's common because the sky and ocean is blue but other than that it's actually pretty rare.
#15
The human body glows in the dark. No, seriously. It emits visible light at all times, but our eyes are too weak to see it. So yeah, you’re glowing right now, but no one can appreciate it.
#17
A little-known but obvious fact: the division symbol “÷” is just a simplified fraction, with the dots representing the numerator and denominator.
#18
The thing between hard and soft is firm. The thing between hardware and software is called...
#19
Well all know the dinosaurs died out a long time ago (~64 million years ago). But what's even longer: they roamed the Earth for over 120 million years.
The Stegosaurus went extinct 80 million years before the T-Rex even existed.
#21
Plumbing comes from the root Latin word of Plumbum which means lead and is the reason it's Pb on the Periodic table, because the Romans made water pipes out of lead—as an aside they knew it was a problem for brains, but they just didn't care as it mostly affected the poors.
#22
Trees get the vast majority of their mass from the air. All that wood? That was once air and sunlight.
#23
You can open difficult or stubborn pistachio shells with another half pistachio shell. Save your fingernails!
#30
Rabbits don't have paw pads like cats or dogs. They've got nothing but fluffy feet.
You see a cartoon rabbit with paw pads, it's all lies.
#32
Current flows from positive to negative in a circuit, but the particles that constitute the current (i.e., electrons) are negatively charged so they are actually moving in the opposite direction.
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