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#1
peanuts are not really nuts, but they are called like that because of all the residue found on them in bars
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This is fine 3 years ago
I have a fact the heart smells like mushrooms my friend studies hearts
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#2
I heard in many areas of the USA its legal to eat roadkill
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IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago
And then they have the audacity to complain and make fun of British food.
#3
Giant squids have doughnut shaped brains, and their food passes through the middle before getting to their stomach
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HooowlAtTheMoon (Submission author) 3 years ago
No idea where or when I learned this, it just always stuck with me and I think about it way too much.
#4
You can actually buy an insurance policy for UFO / alien abduction.
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#5
When you are on a swing, there is a fraction of a second where the swing is still at the highest point.
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#6
This may be disturbing so you could stop reading. But if your curious to know I'll tell you. Some of you probebly know this, but my science teacher once said that we fart a lot of times while we're asleep. I dont know the specific number of times, but when I heard this I yelled, "is that why I wake up every morning sweating like I'm in hell?" Then she just started explaining to me why we fart a number of times but I forgot. I just nodded and went on with my buisness trying to forget I ever said that
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#7
If a car could drive straight up it would only take 1 hour to reach space at freeway speeds.
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#8
A single spaghetti noodle is called a ''spaghetto'' lol.
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#9
This is sort of random, but elephants use the same nail files as horses.
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Mira Kappagoda (Submission author) 3 years ago
They are 61 centimetres if you want to know how big they are :D
#10
There is a certain form of benign tumour, formed from the ovum, that grows into anything and everything. It's called a teratoma, and they literally grow whole teeth and hairs (the rest of the material is usually unidentifiable, except under a microscope). Unfortunately, the sperm equivalent does nothing of the sort and mostly just acts malignant and nasty.
You can look teratomas up on Google, since there are pictures, but I wouldn't advise it if you're squeamish. There's a reason their name means 'Monstrous Growth'. Also, they're not potted specimens from what I can see, so they're... slimier than the sort you see in a university collection.
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#13
There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef.
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#14
2 weeks before JFK's assignation, two army (i think) intercepted a radio transmission saying that some dudes were gonna kill JFK. the guys told secret service but nobody believed them and they were sent to a mental hospital. now tbh i really could not give a crap about American history cuz im Canadian but i thought it was interesting.
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#15
The “Windy City” name has nothing to do with Chicago weather
Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”
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#16
Armadillo shells are bulletproof
In fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the jaw.
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#17
the tounge is the strongest muscle in the body
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#18
People say that humans eat a certain number of spiders in our sleep every year but this isn't true it was a rumor started to study hoe rumors are spread through the population.
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#19
In washington state its illegal to ride an ugly horse threw the town of wilbur. I have absolutely no clue on what grounds they base an ugly horse but it is fineable for $300!
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#20
Squirrels are one of the only animals that can climb vertically both up and down. Squirrels can also climb faster than they can run.
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#21
French horns should really just be called "horns", as per the International Horn Society and in terms of historical context.
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#22
Before reaching the voice box, the controlling nerves loop beneath and around the aorta. This is a leftover from when we were fish and the voice box was our gills. A nerve run straight from the brain to the gills would slip through the loop easily, since it didn't have to travel back up.
A bit weird, but okay. But this is true of all things descended from fish.
Consider, if you will... the giraffe.
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#24
Oymyakon is the coldest permanently-inhabited place on Earth and is found in the Arctic Circle's Northern Pole of Cold. In 1933, it recorded its lowest temperature of -67.7°C, or --89.86°F.
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#25
This one is very creepy, so you might want to skip it.
You are more likely to find a dead body under your bed than in your garage.
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#26
yellow light is made when green and red light mix, and since there aren't any unique yellow rays, just green and red waves mixed, yellow isn't a color
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CalicoKitty 3 years ago
I think this is one of the facts that gets muddled up on the internet a lot? There are yellow rays, but they stimulate both red and green cone cells in the back of your eye. So your brain doesn't actually "see" yellow, it sees red and green, but yellow light does exist. If yellow light was made of red and green, splitting it with a prism would yield green and red.
#27
Of all the pokemon in existence, the one that the Pokemon company pays the least attention to is the Paras line. It only has 2 merch items, a couple of significant events, and the least appearances in the games. For example, Pikachu and Eevee have their own games and get added to (new forms/evolutions) every now and then, but the Paras line doesn't.
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#28
Mercedes-Benz is named for Mercédès Jellinek. She was the beautiful 16 year-old daughter of wealthy Venture Financier Emile Jellinek. Emile Jellinek offered to fund Karl Benz's automobile factory under the condition that the car is named her. This leads to a huge irony - the Nazi's parade-car of choice was named as an indulgence for a Jewish Princess.
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