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As of January 2021, there were 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide, which makes 59.5% of the global population. Of this total, 92.6% (4.32 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices, Statista estimates. So just imagine how much information there is online. In fact, it’s probably impossible to wrap your head around it.

Part of the appeal in going online is that you get to share things with others. From what you’ve been up to, to what’s on your mind. Quite literally. Like this recent thread on Reddit, where the user Mistik06 asked everyone “What’s a cool fun fact that you know?” and got people posting the craziest facts they know. 24k upvotes and 10.7k comments later, we have an amazing collection of trivia facts you probably haven't heard of before, so enjoy!

#1

Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Pufferfish contain a toxin in their spikes that kills predators. It has a slightly different effect on dolphins though, in that it gets them high. So teenage dolphins will pass around pufferfish and impale themselves off of them to get stoned.

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Michelle M
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone better let the pufferfish know. They could build a successful drug empire off it. Puff Cartel.

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    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Apparently, studies show that Crows, Ravens and other Corvids are self aware and are able to ponder the content of their own minds.

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    Kay blue
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't they also pass the mirror test?

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    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Dragonflies are the predator with the highest success rate (over 90%), and are one of the few animals that are capable of plotting intercept courses rather than chasing their prey. They're basically mosquito murder drones.

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    #4

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Elephants think humans are cute in the same way we think puppies and kittens are cute.

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    Bad Humor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now imagine a puppy killing you and your family for your teeth

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    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Scientists speculated there are other planets orbiting distant stars, but haven't had a clear evidence of this fact up until the 1990's. And the majority of currently known exoplanets (almost 5000, as of now!) have been discovered well into 2000's, which means that humanity is at the very beginning of its discovery journey regarding other planetary systems. With James Webb telescope being extremely close to finalizing its calibrations as we speak, we will be able to not only discover hundreds, if not thousands of new planets (and stars and galaxies), but also detect whether there are traces of alien civilizations on them. We should all be very excited about this, as this is unprecedented, and a HUGE deal for science and our species as a whole.

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is amazing. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be born 100 years from now, how advanced would we be.

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    #6

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Ok, this fact has connected facts: In late 1800s girl killed herself by jumping from bridge on Sienna river and she was known as The Unknown Woman of the Seine. When the guy who worked in morgue saw her, he thought she was beautiful and ordered a plaster cast of her face. Fast foward to 1960s, CPR was invented and they needed a doll to train people. So they partnered with Norwegian producer of medical devices. That guy decided to use the plaster cast of Unknown Woman of the Seine and named the doll Anne(Annie) because his doughter was named Anne(Annie). While performing CPR, people were trained to talk to a doll(person) so there is that common phrase:"Annie! Annie are you ok?" Fast foward to when Michael Jackson decided to put that phrase in his classic "Smooth Criminal".

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    tomchambers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They should make a CPR doll with Michael Jackson's face on it.

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    #7

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered When Thomas Edison was bound to a wheelchair, Henry Ford bought a wheelchair for himself so that he and Edison could race.

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    #8

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered That cows have regional moo's.

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    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Steven Seagal once told Gene LeBell that he was immune to being choked out from doing so much martial arts training, so Gene choked him out and he sh*t his pants.

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    Rabbit Carrot
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Putin’s Puppet has sh*t for brains too.

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    #10

    When sea otters find a rock they like to bust open clams, they will tuck it under a fold of skin in their armpit. They also hold each other’s paws while they’re sleeping so they don’t float away from each other. Baby otters aren’t buoyant enough to stay afloat so they will sleep on their mom’s tummies until they’re older.

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    Scagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's pretty cute. And they keep their favourite little rock where I keep my Cheet-Os! What are the chances? Go little Otter dudes!

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    #11

    The creator of the pop-up ad made a formal apology for his creation.

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    #12

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Dinosaurs existed for so long that there were still dinosaur fossils from previous eras while other dinosaurs from future eras were alive. So basically, when T-Rex was still alive and well, Stegosaurs was nothing more than fossilized bones under their feet even back then.

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    #13

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered You can fit the entire population of the human race inside the Grand Canyon. Not just the 7 billion alive now - the entire lot. From the very start. And still have plenty of room for those who are yet to be born.

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    80 Van
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you piled everyone in there, the birth rate might increase a lot faster than currently expected.

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    #14

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered If every person on earth fought 1v1 until there was only 1 winner, that person would only have to win 33 times.

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    #15

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered The sound of an ATM drawing cash is a manufactured sound. It's just to let you know that the ATM is indeed working and that your money is coming up.

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    River Webb
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so if i make enough weird sounds my boss will think i'm productive?

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    #16

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered That if sound could be transmitted through space, the sun would be so loud on earth it would be the equivalent of standing next to a jet engine, even though it's 94 million miles away.

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    Rabbit Carrot
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sound in space travels along gravitational waves and can also be picked up via vibrations. Space agencies have been listening to the sun and planets for years (Jupiter and Saturn sound particularly scary).

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    #17

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Your nose is impacting your vision 100% of the time. However, since your "picture" you see is just an interpretation by your brain, your brain erases your nose as useless information. You'll only see it, if you really concentrate on it, if you close one eye, or if you put your finger on the very tip of your nose. It seems like a harmless fact until this thought enters your head... "Your nose is real. Your brain removes it from your vision as useless, but it is very much there, and very much real. What other things is your brain removing from your vision?" It's wild to think that your entire life experience is just your brain doing it's best to interpret your senses. And that it's definitely not a "perfect" system. It could be interpreting everything incorrectly, and we collectively wouldn't have any idea.

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    JinxBox
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now it will take me all morning to unsee my nose and eyeglasses again, thank you for this...

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    #18

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Moose are really good swimmer's and even swim from island to island to feed on the underwater vegetation But orcas will occasionally stumble across then and hunt them down and moose haven't evolved far enough for them to know that orcas are predators

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    #19

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Cracking your knuckles WILL NOT lead to arthritis.

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    River Webb
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    b-but my mum said so!? Has my whole life been a lie?

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    #20

    "Twelve Plus One" is an anagram of "Eleven Plus Two"

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    KitFrey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now this is the stuff I came for!

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    #21

    The difference between Million and Billion is more than we think. To put it in perspective, 1 million seconds is about 12 days while 1 billion seconds is equivalent to 31.7 years.

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    80 Van
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the difference between a billion and a trillion seconds is 31.7 years and 31,700 years.

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    #22

    Birds are classified as extant dinosaurs, not just descended from them. They are actual living, breathing dinosaurs.

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    #23

    Manatees regulate buoyancy by farting. They eat a ton of plants and accumulate a lot of methane. They then release gas when they want to sink and hold it in when they want to go to the surface or are being polite.

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    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we lost over 2000 in the last year due to starvation thanks to DeathSantis allowing millions of gallons of polluted water to be emptied into Tampa Bay. Florida Wildlife has been feeding them romaine and Sea World is doing what they can to help. It's horrible. Florida's governor doesn't care about people dying from covid, so why should he care about manatees?

    Asher Tye
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Similarly if they need to get somewhere really fast....

    LSR
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Man, you are a natural swimmer!! What is your secret? Well, you know the manatee?......"

    Lene
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My bf and I still laugh about the time we saw one of the manatees in the local zoo fart underneath one of the other manatees and the fart bubbles went around the manatee's head. The look on the "victim"'s face.... a whole lot of "*sigh*... look where you're farting, Marvin! You just hit me... AGAIN!"And I like to think that Marvin still does it to this day but we haven't seen it since.

    Ara
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cool trick. I must try it.

    Rannveig Ess
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If only human men could learn this " hold it in to be polite" thing you speak of....

    Andy Frobig
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Female manatees don't fart, they poot

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    Hey Vegans... what's up with drinking water... like Bro! That's a fish's house!

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    Kona Pake
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No wonder so many people want to snorkel with them.

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    Just covering up a stupid comment

    Carrie de Luka
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know downvoting does that right? All you do is draw attention to it.

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    Nitro codes has made a comment below this one. Just want to tell him to stop acting like a kid. Unless he is a kid.

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    #24

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered A single gram of DNA contains about 700 terabytes of information.

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    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered When they first measured the height of Mt. Everest it was exactly 29.000 feet, but as that sounds like a made-up number they declared it to be 29.002 feet.

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    Adi A.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe one guy had some slight smaller feet?

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    #26

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Sharks like and get attracted to Heavy Metal music played underwater.

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    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered If you made $10,000 per day, every day since the pyramids were built around 4,500 years ago, you'd have 6% of Elon Musk's wealth.

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    #28

    You don't use shock paddles on a stopped heart. Shock paddles simply put a heart back in to a natural rhythm, they will not restart a heart if it has stopped. That's what chest compressions are for.

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    Rabbit Carrot
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you actually have a very high mortality rate if you need chest compressions or a heart shock. The 5 year survival rate for both is very low.

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    #29

    Grass evolved 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. The vast majority of dinosaurs never existed at the same time as grass.

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    #30

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Cuttlefish can accurately match the color and texture of their environment despite the fact that they’re colorblind.

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    80 Van
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That implies that other species that have camouflage capabilities do so by looking at the environment and determining their color and texture. Color blindness is irrelevant to that ability for all creatures that have that ability.

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    #31

    Koalas are literally smooth-brained, so much so that if you put a plate of eucalyptus leaves in front of them that have been taken off the branch, they won’t recognize them as food.

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    Meghan Hirt-Gehr
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My new insult word is calling someone "smooth-brained"

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    #32

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered The Nazis planned to assassinate Winston Churchill with an explosive chocolate bar.

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    80 Van
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They had some Oompa Loompas on standby to sing a song about it once the assassination was complete.

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    #33

    16⁰C and 28⁰C reversed are equal to their Fahrenheit value. So - 16 is 61f and 28 is 82f

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    JinxBox
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you, I finally have any clue to understanding fahrenheits!

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    #34

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Marlon Brando popularised wearing a T-shirt casually.

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    #35

    There are more plastic flamingo lawn ornaments in the US than there are wild flamingoes on the entire planet.

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    80 Van
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I bet that’s true of a lot of plastic things.

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    #36

    There is a plant called the California Corn Lilly that contains a drug called Cyclopamine. When animals eat it while pregnant, it can cause cyclopia (one eye). It inhibits a signaling pathway called the Sonic Hedgehog Pathway (yes, this pathway was actually named after the video game).

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sonic gene is a gene which determines how many digits/fingers a being has

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    #37

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered The only artist to ever have five albums in the US Top 20 at the same time is Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

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    Chich
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I have to go and listen to some :)

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    #38

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered Apparently turtles breathe from their booty.

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    River Webb
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    where do the fart from then? their mouths?

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    #39

    Nuclear reactors are very fancy kettles.

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    Kira Okah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All methods of electricity generation that doesn't use direct application of driver to turbine is a kettle for a steam turbine.

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    #40

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered If you fold a regular piece of paper in half 104 (from memory) times, the paper will be as thick as the entire observable universe.

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if you fold a piece of paper more than 300 times you end up with a book that has more pages than atoms in the observable universe

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    #41

    When working for the Australian shooting team heading for Tokyo. Found out that alcohol is a banned substance not because guns and alcohol are bad (as my feeble brain suspected ) but because it's a performance enhancing drug due to slowing the heart rate.....they get breath tested before comp

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    #42

    KFC's Twitter profile follows exactly 11 accounts: 6 random people named Herb and the 5 members of the British pop band Spice Girls.

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A guy on twitter pointed it out and got a custom painting from KFC which depicted him riding the colonel’s back

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    #43

    We developed eyebrows with arches as a way to keep sweat from running into our eyes, instead they catch the sweat from the forehead and let them cascade to the side of our faces. Those little things like that purely for convenience just amaze me when it comes to our bodies and the natural world of evolution.

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    #44

    The word “set” has got 430 different meanings, making it the word with the most definitions in the English language.

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    80 Van
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess it set a record. Perhaps a set of records at that.

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    #45

    It only takes 70 people to be in a room together for there to be a 99.99% chance that two people share the same birthday.

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in a classroom with 19 people and I shared a birthday with someone I never met before.

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    #46

    Hippos though appearing cute, fat and cuddly can reach speeds of 48km/h and kill at least 500 people a year.

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    80 Van
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that 500 people per year per hippo, or is the 500 per year a collective kill?

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    #47

    Humans are slightly bioluminescent and have stripes that can be seen under UV light!

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    #48

    Humans are slowly losing a muscle in our hands/forearms called the palmaris longus that doesn't [significantly] contribute functionally to grip strength or motion. If you push your pinky and thumb together (like showing the number 3) then flex your wrist in, the tendon will pop out in the middle of your wrist if you have it. About 10% of the general population doesn't. It's basically a spare part for hand surgeons now. If you sever a tendon, they'll harvest the palmaris longus for grafting.

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    Blurryface
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but us women need it to hold things, because of extreme pocket deficiency.

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    #49

    When Germany was bombing the UK Hitler avoided bombing the town hall of my local town because he liked the architecture and wanted the building for himself.

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    Wilf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are a lot of stories similar to this across the whole of the UK. The most famous is probably that of Senate House in London- the huge concrete HQ of the University of London (and such a towering mass of concrete that it was the inspiration for Orwell's Ministry of Truth). It was supposedly spared to serve as the Nazi party headquarters after the invasion. However, nice as these stories are, there is no evidence of any orders from Hitler to protect specific buildings. The reality is that high-level night bombing of the time just couldn't be that accurate anyway. Ironically, there is some evidence to the contrary- that specific buildings of cultural value (rather than economic or military value) WERE deliberately targeted in bombing campaigns.

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    #50

    I know far too many about McDonald's. - McDonald's owns the lots that every McDonald's franchise sits on, and charges the franchise owner rent. This makes McDonald's the world's largest real estate developer. - Thanks to Happy Meal toys, McDonald's is also the world's largest toy distributor. - The Happy Meal was based on a box of cereal: put the food in a colourful box with a free toy inside - McDonald's is the world's largest purchaser of Coca-Cola. They're so big, Coca-Cola has an entire corporate division dedicated to servicing McDonald's. - A McDonald’s at a ski resort in Sweden is famous for having a "ski-thru." It's just a fancy outdoor window that skiers can ski up to and place their order. - A McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona has become famous for have turquoise arches instead of the usual Golden Arches. This is because a local zoning bylaw says the golden arches would clash with the red rocks.

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    DC
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since they now provide animal-free options, I rode to a McDrive on my bike recently ... only to discover that, a few cars in front of me, another cyclist already was waiting. And just behind me, another one came ... when I first did this 20 years+ ago, they tried to refuse to serve me, as "this isn't for bikes!", which I, succeedingly, doubted.

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    #51

    Apparently in the early 1960s, a lounge singer named Vaughn Meader suddenly found himself extremely lucky: he sort of looked like newly elected President John F. Kennedy and he could imitate him fairly well, too. He used this to perfect an impersonation comedy act of Kennedy, which got him a deal for a comedy album. He and a few others released "The First Family". "The First Family" was a SMASH. Nearly everyone in America owned this album. It was part of nearly every home, like a fridge or a TV. People couldn't get enough. It wasn't edgy or even insulting; it was just comedians doing parody of the Kennedy family and people ate it up. Even Kennedy loved it. In a sense, it was groundbreaking in that no other U.S. President was lampooned in such a way before; in fact, Richard Nixon refused to buy it because he felt it crossed a line of respect towards presidents. Vaughn Meader became one of the most well-known celebrities in America in the blink of an eye. A second album was in the works. Then Kennedy was shot, the second album scrapped, Meader couldn't find work, lost all of his money, became an addict, and I think he ended up owning a bar somewhere. A true rise and fall tale.

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    K Witmer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never heard of him fame is fleeting for most

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    #52

    I'll c/p it from the internet but i like this: "The samurai were officially abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration in 1867. The first ever fax machine, the "printing telegraph", was invented in 1843 and Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated at Ford's Theater in 1865. Which means there was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln."

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    Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But DID a samurai send a fax to Abe? Did any samurai send any faxes? So curious

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    #53

    A blue whale has a heart the same size as a small car.

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    #54

    The human brain clock speeda are incredibly slow, about 200Hz... But it can do so many operations in parallel that to replicate such a level of parallelism with currently best parallel processing CPUs, we'd need so many that the number is unfathomable and to power such computer we'd almost need a full Dyson sphere worth of power.

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    Kira Okah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dyson Spheres, btw, are theoretical megastructures. Effecively a series of artificial rings orbiting a sun specifically to capture solar energy for a spacefaring species' energy needs. Sorry, something that I learned about recently as Dyson Rings are in our Stargate rp, very interesting.

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    #55

    Most of the world trees are planted by a squirrel who forgot where his nut was burried

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The squirrel from ice age definately did not plant any tree then

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    #56

    Mario wears a hat because during the Donkey Kong days (when he was known as Jumpman) the animation was too primitive to animate hair while he was moving or jumping

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    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is only so much you can do with 8x8 pixels!!!

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    #57

    -We put a man on the moon before we thought to put wheels on a suitcase. -the lighter was invented before matches were -Hippopotamus milk is pink -Saudi Arabia imports their camels from Austrailia -From the time it was discovered, to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto had not yet made one trip around the sun. -Nintendo was founded in 1889!

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    Scagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Foof! That was exhausting! I felt as though I had to read it superfast. I don't know why. Anyone else?

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    #58

    A female cat can have kittens fathered by multiple males at once. That's part of the reason why a male cats "stuff" has spines on it that flip up when the male makes the pulling out motion. When up, the spines scrape the inside of the female so that the male cat can both dig deeper crevasses for sperm to settle in, and so he can pull out any other male cats sperm as a way for him to be sure that his kittens will be part of the litter.

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    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, cats have spines on their penis? I thought it was just me?

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    #59

    Barcode Scanners scan the whites instead of the blacks

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    80 Van
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, true, but that’s also kind of like saying that a computer operates by counting the 1’s and ignoring the 0’s, which would be inaccurate. The black absorbs the light and the white reflects it, so in that regard, it’s seeing the white, not the black. But it’s still counting that void as relevant information.

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    #60

    The human body is 99% empty space due to the space between atoms

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you took every car on this planet and removed the empty space you can fit all the particles in 1 foot by 1 foot box

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    #61

    The total number of ways you can shuffle a deck of cards is... a really big a number. This big to be precise :80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 to be exact. It's very very very very very (x about a bajillion) likely that any time you shuffle a deck of cards, that exact order has never existed before. Someone else on Reddit said - Say that there exists 10 Billion people on every planet, 1 Billion planets in every solar system, 200 Billion solar systems in every galaxy, and 500 Billion galaxies in the universe. If every single person on every planet has been shuffling decks of cards completely at random at 1 Million shuffles per second since the BEGINNING OF TIME, every possible deck combination would still yet to have been shuffled.

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    #62

    Mike Patton, the lead singer of Faith No More did the vocals for the creatures in I Am Legend

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    I’ve Seen Things
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As he has the second greatest vocal octave range of any professional singer…

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    #63

    Finally, I can use the space facts I’ve had in my notes on my phone for ages: On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway). On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. Even if you shrank everything down so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over 35 ft away. Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way. Our nearest neighbour in the cosmos, Proxima Centauri, which is part of the three-star cluster known as Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 light years away, a sissy skip in galactic terms, but that is still a hundred million times farther than a trip to the moon. To reach it by spaceship would take at least 25,000 years. The average distance between stars is 20 million million miles. If we were randomly inserted into the universe, the chances that we would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion (1 with 33 zeroes). The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh 200 billion pounds.

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neutron stars are like taking the sun and squishing it to the size of a small city. The only thing that prevents it all from becoming a blackhole is the repulsion of matter

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    #64

    The sky you see at night with all the stars isnt the realtime image. As these stars are lightyears away, light from them takes years to reach to earth. Some of the stars you see in the sky might not even be there now. Blows my mind everytime i think about it.

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If aliens 5 billion light years away got our radio signals and could go faster than light, they would arrive at a burnt and empty lifeless planet if they chose to visit us

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    #65

    The person least related to you on the planet is your 50th cousin. Statistically speaking, you have over 1 million 8th cousins.

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    Chinmayee Kalghatgi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a sense the fact that we are descended from Eve is true. Millions of years ago Mitochondrial Eve lived along with members of her species in Africa. All of us are descended from her lineage. The other female lineages died out. We know this by tracing the DNA of our mitochondria which comes from our mothers

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    #66

    The T.Rex existed closer in history to humans than to the Stegosaurus. Sharks are older than trees. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Lunar Landing than The Great Pyramids Sorry, not just 1.

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    Davo gifman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An this fact is in every BP fact thread...everytime.

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    #67

    Someone Asked, ‘What’s A Cool Fun Fact That You Know?’, 40 People Delivered In a game of chess after you played your first 5 moves and your opponent played his first 5 moves, there are already like 70 trillion possible chess games that could have been played.

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    Rabbit Carrot
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually it’s 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 (or one hundred sixty-nine thousand septillion, five hundred eighteen thousand sextillion, eight hundred twenty-nine thousand quintillion, one hundred thousand quadrillion, five hundred forty-four thousand trillion).

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    #68

    Every four years we have a leap year, unless you can divide the year by 100.. however, if a year can be divided by both 100 and 400, it still will be a leap year. So the year 1900 wasn't a leap year, 2000 was and 2100 won't be.

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    #69

    One horse has about 15 horsepower while a human has about 1 horsepower.

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    Kira Okah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Horses have 15 horsepower only at peak performance. So going by peak performance humans have 5 horsepower, not 1.

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    #70

    Genghis Khan has over 16 million male descendants.

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    Sue Hazlewood
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well he did have a number of wives and concubines

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    #71

    Platypus dont have nipples, to feed their young they sweat milk.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't even make regular sweat at all, let alone sweat milk. They don't sweat milk. It's secreted from mammary glands just as with every mammal.

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    #72

    You can fit 1.3 million earths inside the Sun.

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    Trond Øien
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you can fit all the planets in our solar system lined up pole to pole between the earth and the moon.

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    #73

    Tumors can grow miniature organs, hair and teeth, and are referred to as "teratomas".

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    CatAlien
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine a tumor grows a brain and decides not to kill the human but make it into a zombie.

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    #74

    Babies are not born with kneecaps! Instead a small peice of cartilage that later goes through ossification (turning to bone) becoming the patella (kneecap). Usually develops during the 2-6 year old range.

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    Davo gifman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I find it difficult to believe parents; when they say their child was walking at 6mo.

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    #75

    Elmer's glue has a bull on the label because he is the boyfriend of the cow on Borden dairy products. A marketing trick from when Borden made the glue.

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    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, so the white substance comes from him, like the milk comes from her...

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    #76

    The letterbox on the famous black door of No. 10 Downing Street does absolutely nothing. There's no hole on the other side.

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    James D
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like a metaphor for the whole British political system

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    #77

    if you lined up all of the other planets in the solar system, they would fit almost perfectly between Earth and the Moon.

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    Kira Okah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the furthest distance between the Earth and moon, since someone will bring it up.

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    #78

    Most eyes in the natural world including yours are wired the stupid way around, with the wiring pointing inwards meaning you have to have a blind spot where the optic nerve leaves. Yet there are eyes that have evolved without this problem just by being oriented sensibly, proving eyes have not only evolved many times, but also evolution isn't perfect it's just guesswork

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    Daria Z
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...or that our eyes are still evolving.

    #79

    Fuzzy caterpillars turn to moths. Smooth ones turn to butterflies. (There are some exceptions to this rule)

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    censorshipsucks
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still haven't heard a satisfactory distinction between moth and butterfly. I get that one's day and one's night, but what else? Eating nectar vs not-eating?

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    #80

    In the earlier stages of the universe, the sky used to be orange, but it has slowly redshifted into infrared which we can’t see.

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    #81

    Babys are able to survive longer under water than adults/kids. It‘s f*cking insane how long they survive. That‘s because babys have a reflex to not breath under water. Drowning isn‘t oxygen-deprivation, it‘s water filling up the lungs.

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    #82

    Van Gogh killed himself one year after Nintendo was founded.

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    #83

    Just learned that barnacles have the largest penises in the animal kingdom if you compare it to its size.

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    80 Van
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As I suspected, the Reddit comments to this fact were largely comprised of variations of, “Well, second-largest.”

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    #84

    Atmosphere of Mars is more than 95 percent carbon dioxide and less than 1 percent oxygen. Inhabiting mars permanently other than research for humans is not an easy task.

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    #85

    The speed of sound through mayonnaise is approximately 2613 ms-1

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    #86

    Capybaras are fish according to the Vatican

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    Chich
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes... "We must follow the words of GOD! Except the ones that we don't like. Those we can 'bend' "

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    #87

    The speed of thought is about 100m/s.

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    DC
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... so, when I go at 50 m/s in a car, being 180 kph, I'm lke halfway ahead of my head? Traveling at exact 100 m/s, would that like ... freeze thought?

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    #88

    The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years. Since the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, there's no wind or water to erode or wash away the Apollo astronauts' mark on the moon. That means their footprints, roverprints, spaceship prints, and discarded materials will stay preserved on the moon for a very long time

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    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even though Stanley Kubrick filmed the whole thing in a film studio. No I am not being serious.

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    #89

    One of the Zimbabwe’s presidents name was “Banana”.

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    #90

    All house flies are the same species and the size of the flies depends on how much food they had when they where larvae.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But some smaller flies you get in your house that are mistaken for common house flies are actually lesser house flies, which are a different species. Lesser house flies are the ones that circle the middle of the room, not an activity of common house flies.

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    #91

    Caligula once declared war on Neptune

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    The Scout
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    His troops are reported to having taken that quite literal, atacking the ocean and repeatedly stabbing the water with tridents...

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    #92

    Otters are necrophilic rapists, even worse than dolphins.

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    #93

    111 111 1112 = 12345678987654321 Sorry I thought you said useless

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    #94

    The McLaren F1, which set a top speed record in the '90s, has tail lights from a bus.

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    #95

    There are more units of Planck time in 1 second than there have been seconds since the Big Bang.

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    David A Paterson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Planck time is the time it takes for light to travel a distance equal to the Planck length. So yes, it's small. The shocker is the Planck mass, which isn't small at all, it's as heavy as 750 thousand human red blood cells. The Planck mass is 20 times as heavy as the worm C. elegans.

    #96

    Warren G is Dr. Dre's cousin. Dre first heard Snoop Dogg on a demo that Warren G had made for him. Also, Hall of Fame NFL wide receiver Art Monk is related to legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk.

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    Adam Zad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When a friar commits a crime, he becomes a felonious monk.

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