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#1
Frogs can freeze solid in winter, stop their hearts, and then thaw back to life in spring.
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#2
Cheese is the world's most stolen food.
#5
The creator of the fire hydrant is unknown because the documents for the fire hydrant was destroyed... in a fire.
#6
The UNICORN is the national animal of SCOTLAND.
#7
1961 was the last upside down year till 6009.
liam newton-harding 20 minutes ago
Flip 1961 upside down...it reads the same...do the same with 6009.
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Chewie Baron 7 hours ago
September of this year - 2025, was the first time it started on a Monday in over 150 years.
chi-wei shen 4 hours ago
No. September 2014 started with a Monday as well as in 2008. In the Gregorian Calendar approx. 1 out of 7 years have a September starting with a Monday. The same can be said for every month and every day of the week.
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A single bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
#9
Horses actually have about 15 horsepower.
#10
A cow is more aerodynamic than the Jeep Wrangler.
#11
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
#12
There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.
#13
When a male penguin mates with a female penguin they search the entire beach for the perfect pebble and the places it in front of the female.
#14
Today I learned that moons can have a moon and they are called moonmoon.
#15
It takes 118 hits for the dvd logo to hit the corner.
JkNuss 5 hours ago
What? I have no idea what this about can someone explain makes no sense - hits of what into what corner???
dean tirmizi 2 hours ago
Some dvd players had screen saver where the logo bounces around the screen and every now and again it would hit the corner perfectly. look up "the office dvd corner" on youtube
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#16
There is a forgotten letter in the English alphabet.
The letter thorn (looks like a p but more of a line on top) was used to represent the th sound. That meant that it would be pe (pretend the p is thorn) there was one issue however. The French couldn’t pronounce it! They used y as a substitute. So ye came into creation. So ye is actually the. The letter became obsolete once printing presses were developed because the English who border France didn’t use the letter. Boom facts.
Hugo 2 hours ago
Your "ethel" is edh (ð) which (like thorn) still exists in Icelandic. Ash is æ. "5 more" sounds exaggerated.
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Pernille 5 hours ago
It is only used in Island, so I wouldn't say it is widely used.
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10% of British people asked in a survey said that Australia was further away than the moon.
amy lee 3 hours ago
Let's not forget the 2% brain farts who hit the wrong button/ read the question wrong. So only about 8%.
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If all the land on Earth had the population density as NYC, there would be about 5.3 trillion people on Earth.
#19
Me and my friend tested how many licks it took to finish a Trader Joe’s lollipop and it took 1393 and hers was 1395.
Jeff White 4 hours ago
When my Brother did this back in the 1970's using a Tootsie Pop (a completely different lollipop), Tootsie Roll Industries sent him a fancy certificate noting he was now in the order of "The Clean Stick). There was a clean Tootsie roll pop stick on the award.
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Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.
Pandemonium 6 hours ago
The chip implanted at birth leads all citizens to their assigned vending machine on their 5th birthday
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When you're in a cold place and you suddenly feel hot don’t take off any clothing, because it means you have hypothermia.
Ace 1 hour ago
That's a rare phenomenon known as "paradoxical undressing". It's been found in individuals or groups of people who've frozen to death, presumed cause is "changes in peripheral vasoconstriction in the deeply hypothermic person. It represents the last effort of the victim and is followed almost immediately by unconsciousness and death." (From a paper on pubmed 541627)
michael Chock 6 hours ago
You should always feel a little cold in a cold environment for another reason too. If you are warm, you are sweating and sweat will carry the cold through your clothing, freezing you faster.
liam newton-harding 10 minutes ago
At that point, you are not really thinking clearly, and this advice...for the most part...won't help.
#22
The Earth is 1,086,781,292,542,889,208,714,362,880 centimeters cubed.
AdrenalineNod:
Okay but how do you say that number??
Kriilliin:
One octillion, eighty-six septillion, seven hundred and eighty-one sextillion, two hundred and ninety-two quintillion, five hundred and forty-two quadrillion, eight hundred and eighty-nine trillion, two hundred and eight billion, seven hundred and fourteen million, three hundred and sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty centimetres cubed.
#23
The character 'Biang' is the most complex character in the chinese language. It had 59 strokes and is the character for a type of noodle that makes the sound 'Biang' when it is hit against a table.
Chewie Baron 7 hours ago
When Beijing hosted the 2008 Olympic Games, the order that the countries came out in, was by how many strokes it took to write their name in Mandarin.
#24
In your lifetime, you’ll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
#25
The expiration date on a water bottle isn’t for the water, but for the bottle itself...
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 hours ago (edited)
I always thought that, actually. The plastic can leech into the water.
#26
The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Pandemonium 6 hours ago
Spring break 1981, we stopped there at 2:00 am on the way to somewhere else and yes, I did manage to reach four states with one bladderfull
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Kirk Littlefield 6 hours ago
Except that the monument is about about 1800 feet off from the actual location where the state lines meet.
#27
The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon.
Jeff White 4 hours ago
Not completely inaccurate, but VERY misleading "Fact". The area of the flat circular projection of the Sun (i.e., what we see on Earth) is about 400 times larger than the flat circular projection of the Moon. This is interesting because the Sun is about 400 times farther away from the Earth than the Sun, and thus the Sun disc and Moon disc look about the same size. However, if you say "The Sun", I think of the whole Sun, not just flat projection of the round shape of any circular object. The whole Sun, which I think most would think of as the volume of the whole Sun is approx 1.4 x 10^18 km^3. The volume of the whole Moon is approx 2.2 x 10^10 km^3. Thus the whole Sun compared to the whole Moon is 1.4x10^18 / 2.2x10^10 or 63.6 MILLION times larger
Ace 1 hour ago
That's a very complicated way of saying that it is indeed 400 times the diameter. not the volume .
Load More Replies... Norm Gilmore 5 hours ago
I think the fact is poorly worded. From asking the question 'How many Earth moons would fit in the Sun'-Our Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 27 million times less massive. You would need 64.3 million Moons to equal the Sun
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#28
70% Alcohol is a better disinfectant than 99% Alcohol (extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness).
#29
Baby shark has the exact rhythm you need to perform CPR at.
Jeff White 4 hours ago
So, apparently, is "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gee's, which I think a much more apt tune.
Ace 1 hour ago (edited)
The advantage with Staying Alive is that it's almost impossible to hear it in your head at any other tempo than the original. I recall going back many many years that "Nelly the Elephant" was also proposed... but that's not really appropriate if you know the punk version by the Toy Dolls... Edit: also, of course, some people have managed to avoid baby shark - I've probably heard it at some point, and have certainly heard _of_ it, but have no idea about its tune, or tempo.
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#30
One gram of uranium is 20 billion calories.
Tucker Cahooter 4 hours ago
Which I always refuse it if ever the host offers it for dessert, I need to watch my waistline
michael Chock 6 hours ago (edited)
A calorie is a measurement of the energy released when something is burned. It is an old chemistry term, replaced by joules. This is why there are good calories and bad calories, because some energy is easier for your body to use, other energy just gets stored as fat and some energy just gives you cancer (like uranium).
liam newton-harding 5 minutes ago
A calorie is a measurement of released energy...Uranium is rather...energetic.
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You spend about one-third of your life sleeping — that’s roughly 25 years if you live to 75.
#33
In "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, Rick says the word "Gonna" 40 times.
#34
If you go north long enough you will eventually go south but you can go east or west forever.
#35
Richard Nixon’s resignation letter was 11 words long.
"I hereby resign the office of President of the United States."
Jeff White 4 hours ago
Vividly. And Nixon, himself, didn't that much wrong. His crazy cronies did. But he covered it up, got caught and had the grace to resign.
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Companies use the phrase "military-grade encryption" just as a marketing tactic, since the encryption method used by the military is AES-256, which is the universal standard at this point.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 hours ago (edited)
Universal standard? I think not. American standard, perhaps.... America isn't the universe. AND we use much better encryption outside of the US. That pîsses them off mightily, because it means they can't snoop on everyone like they do to their own citizens. (used to write software, with encryption. It had to be deliberately dumbed down encryption to 256 for the American market, just so their government could break it. I wish I was kidding.)
liam newton-harding 2 minutes ago
Same with Mil-Spec...made to Military Specifications...you know...the Military...that puts stuff out to tender...and chooses the cheapest version (or, conversely, the most expensive version, made with the cheapest materials).
#37
The average female lifespan is 81.2 years which is 2560723200 seconds.
The average male lifespan is 76.4 years which is 2409350400 seconds.
That’s 151372800 seconds longer for females and it also means you wasted about 20 seconds reading this. If you took 20 seconds to read this and you are a 16yo male you could read this 95238719 more times.
I am bored.
#38
Scallops have teeth and eyes up to 200.
#39
Louis XIX was a king of france for just 20 minutes.
#40
On the bottom of every Ferrero Rocher chocolate is a small gold letter that represents which factory line it came off of. Should there be an issue, they can pinpoint where the problem originated.
Daisydaisy 2 hours ago
Oh no! Now I'm going to have to go out and get myself some Ferrero Rochers to see if this is true! Bugger!
#41
In prison, cassette tapes are see-through to prevent prisoners from hiding contraband.
dewiCZ:
Not only casette cases, literally everything, TVs, walkmans, radios...
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 hours ago
Even earphones. We have a utube guy in Australia that shows gadgets, and occasionally comes up with 'prison' gadgets. All transparent.
#42
No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
Don't listen to me 19 minutes ago
Many languages count like One and Twenty, Two and Twenty etc
#43
Whales don’t [pass] of age, if they are older, they are just too weak to swim to the surface and drown…
#44
If you're having an asthma attack, drink something with caffeine in it. The caffeine will pry open your lungs and help you breathe (trust me, I have asthma).
#45
It takes between 813 and 982 rubber bands to crush a human skull.
Daisydaisy 2 hours ago
Oh I pray this was tested on a d-ead person! (Any I can't help but wonder why it was tested at all?)
#47
The distant part of the sea that is hazy and joins the sky is called the offing.
#48
There is a city in Turkey called "Batman."
Tucker Cahooter 4 hours ago
John Batman was a key figure in the founding of Melbourne Australia, so there's a lot of Batman references in that city too. Until recently they even had an electorate called Batman; I always wondered if someone ever dressed up as the caped crusader and ran for election on the slogan "Batman for Batman"
#49
It is completely illegal to sell chewing gum in Singapore, and you can only chew it with a medical exemption.
Kim Kermes 2 hours ago
Keeps people from spitting in on the streets or sticking it to things.
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There are more possible chess moves than the number of atoms in the known UNIVERSE.
#51
Every single human in history has witnessed the same sun and moon as you have.
#52
Pringle cans are the same diameter of the chip to reduce breaking.
#53
That 'scratching' you'll sometimes hear when falling asleep is your heartbeat distorted from the pressure on your ear.
#54
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
#55
The phobia of phobias is phobophobia.
Pandemonium 5 hours ago
So, in 1933 when FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was he scared of having phobophobia?
#56
If two pieces of the same metal touch in space, they will bond together and will be permanently stuck together.
Plentyofoomph 6 hours ago
Then how are astronauts using metal wrenches to tighten metal bolts?
Norm Gilmore 5 hours ago
It's not instant and needs special conditions. Found this-- The short answer is yes, the more nuanced answer is no. If you brought two pieces of metal from earth to space they would behave as they do on earth. However with some prep what you are describing would happen and is called cold welding. First you have to remove the oxidation layer and have two identical pieces of metal with the same crystal structure. Then if you put them together and waited for a long time they would join. In cold welding you speed this up by applying a lot of pressure. With no oxidation layer in a vacuum the metals can’t tell themselves apart and will eventually join. It would also probably help if they were single crystal and the grain orientations were aligned to prevent the amount of diffusion that has to take place.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 hour ago (edited)
Only if separated in a vacuum (any vacuum, not just space). And actually only solid metals. Because in the atmosphere, all solid metals form a layer of oxide. Even, surprisingly, gold, I believe. That layer prevents the molecules bonding again. If no layer forms (ie in a vacuum) the atoms just join once again as before, because what defines a metal is the free electron, and sharing electrons is what binds atoms together. .
#58
Your tongue never fits comfortably in your mouth.
Also, you’re now focusing on both your tongue AND your breathing. You’re welcome.
Huddo's sister 3 hours ago (edited)
The position your tongue sits in in your mouth usually depends on what your first language is.
#59
Nostalgia is proven to reduce stress and make you feel less lonely — your brain uses memories to heal.
#60
The T. rex (65m years)actually existed closer in history to humans than to the Stegosaurus (145m years).
Tucker Cahooter 4 hours ago
And here I was thinking we would have a dinosaur, pyramid and Cleopatra free list for a change
Pandemonium 5 hours ago
But closer to the building of the pyramids than to the birth of Cleopatra
#61
The prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed in teens, so the decision making function is taken over by the amygdala, which is also the part of the brain responsible for emotions. This explains why teens usually make rash decisions based on emotions.
Nils Skirnir 48 minutes ago
Couldn’t do much worse than the US, UK, Italy, NZ, Hungary, etc have done recently
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#63
Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. The same chemical is found in a well-known antidepressant.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 hour ago
Also contain a natural chemical which is radioactive. 2 bananas a day puts you over the safety limit for working in a nuclear power station. Enjoy!
#64
Men tend to have 6.8 liters of blood as women have 4 liters.
#65
Due to ocean tides and earthquakes days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds each century.
#66
The average human head has about 100,000 hairs with a similar number of hair follicles.
Huddo's sister 3 hours ago
I found out the other day that the reason some women's hair changes when they are pregnant is because their hair follicles become suspended. So instead of losing hair regularly, you stop losing it, then post-partum they begin dying off at the same time, which makes some women feel like they are going bald.
#67
If you smell something, particles of it get into your nose. Now imagine a public restroom.
Spidercat 4 hours ago (edited)
Yep. If you smell a fart it means you have someone else's pōo particles in your nose...farticles if you will. EDIT: because BP don't want you to see the naughty word pōo...
Becky Samuel 4 hours ago
No, that's not correct. A fart is gas. Póop is a solid/liquid mixture. You aren't getting solid bits of feces in your nose.
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Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
Pandemonium 5 hours ago
Not on a Dvorak keyboard. (This is a snarky parody of the 'Not true in danish' comment above, and a nerdy flex that I know about non-QWERTY keyboards.)
Pernille 4 hours ago (edited)
Doesn't work on an AZERTY keyboard either, but to be fair I'm not sure everyone knows that different countries have different keyboards, even among the languages using the Latin letters the keyboards vary from country to country. And to add to the parody of the "not in danish" comments, the Danish alphabet has 28 letters, and on a keyboard 29, v/w is counted as one letter.
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If you were to spell out every number (one, two, etc.), you wouldn't use the letter 'b' until you reached one billion.
#70
I was today years old when I learned that the color orange was actually named after the fruit.
#71
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
#72
The top of UPS trucks are white.
#73
The U.S. has more cows than people in some states like Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota.
#74
The average person has less than 2 legs.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 hour ago
On average, average means the mean. It depends on the mode of use, in the median.
FlamingZombies 5 hours ago (edited)
And on average, people have more than one skeleton. And less than 2 arms.
Spidercat 4 hours ago (edited)
Nope. Pregnant people have two legs. The baby inside has two legs. They are different people.
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997 is the largest prime spelled without the letter o.
Pernille 4 hours ago
Do not make me count out the numbers in danish again, I've got other stuff to do this morning:)
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The moon is 1.28 light seconds away.
Hugo 1 hour ago
Well, the distance varies between about 356 and 407 thousand km, so that's 1.19 to 1.36 light-seconds. Admittedly, it doesn't vary that much in the course of a single month. And those distances are measured from centre to centre, so it's a bit less from the nearest point on the moon to a given observer.
#77
The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and it would take three and a half hours to say out loud.
Plentyofoomph 6 hours ago
I think its the name of a chemical, so its not really a word. Thats like reading out a billion digits of pi and calling it a word.
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California has four times the land area of Tennessee, and more than five times the population.
But Tennessee has eighteen times as many cemeteries as California.
Glix Drap 43 minutes ago
FYI - A cemetery and a graveyard both refer to burial grounds, but a graveyard is typically associated with a church and is often smaller, while a cemetery is a larger burial area that is not linked to any specific church. Essentially, all graveyards are cemeteries, but not all cemeteries are graveyards.
#79
If you lose the little cup to a Nyquil or Zzzquil bottle, to achieve a 30 mL dose you require 4 capfuls filled to the inside rim.
#80
If the United States got a new state, the senate would have 102 seats, and a vote requiring a supermajority (like an impeachment) would requires a minimum of 69 votes.
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