Bored Panda can be used for a lot of things. Education is one. Facts are fun to learn. I want to know, what are some facts that you know and would like to share?

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That the earth is round.
It may not be amazing to some, but for others, it isn't even a fact anymore.

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

Strictly speaking, it's an oblate spheroid and not a perfect sphere. It's wider around the equator than at the poles by about 26 miles. This means that relative to the center, Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is actually higher than Mount Everest.

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    I know plenty useless things, and one that I can laugh about with history majors is about the jester Triboulet. He is one of the best jesters in my opinion. He slapped King Louis XII on the butt and defended his actions with "I thought you were the queen!" but still got in trouble and sentenced to death. They let him pick his death, and the jester said he wanted to die of old age and kept living XD

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    Fun fact: if you write fun fact before something, people will read the rest!

    Lol.

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    Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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    #5

    Water bottle expiration dates are for the bottle, not the water. After a while, the plastic will start leaching into the liquid.

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

    Good to know. The rare occasions that I have a bottle of water, I reuse it until I can't anymore. I'm going to start checking the expiry now.

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    All the ants in the world combined, weigh more than all the humans combined.

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    Humans 10,000 years ago were basically just the same as they are now in terms of intellect, look, and other factors. Today we're only a bit taller.

    That may not sound amazing, but what's amazing is how dismissively people think of their ancestors nowadays.

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    When cats are angry the tend to feel really heavy

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    #9

    A U.S. Park Ranger once got hit by lightning seven times. And he LIVED, dying of old age at 71!

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    #10

    Your teeth are strong enough to bite through your finger, but you are just mentally incapable.

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

    it takes the same amount of force as to bite through a baby carrot.

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    #11

    One in three divorce filings include the word "Facebook."
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    #12

    Around 50 billion plastic bottles are wasted every year. 30 billion of them are from America. America is only 3% of the world's population. COME ON AMERICA!

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    #13

    Ben & Jerry's was going to be a bagel company but the equipment was too expensive.Probably not an amazing fact but i think its a neat fact.

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    #14

    That we all have two minutes to live, but taking a breath resets the clock...

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    #15

    The hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you.

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    #16

    ( I'm not sure if someone already said this ) The opposites of a die always equal seven if you add them up. Thought it was interesting.

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    #17

    If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.

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    #18

    On earth... At the moment... The ocean contains more or less , around 771,000,000,000,000$ (771 trillion) worth of gold...

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    #19

    Nutella has a sun protection factor of 9,7

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

    You might be protected from the sun, but wouldn't you get LICKED to death?

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    #20

    The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green!

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    #21

    Groups of clown fish have only one female and lots of other males. Only the alpha male will breed with the female. If the female is dead or has disappeared, the alpha male will change into a female and the next alpha male will breed with her/him. Nature supports transgender!

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    #22

    Dinosaurs did not go extinct: birds are classified as dinosaurs.

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    #23

    There are around 38 systems by which blood groups can be classified. ABO - Rh system is just one of them (although the most important one).

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

    Ah yes, the Rhesus system. Knowing your Rhesus group can inadvertently save your life. So, know it😉

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    #24

    Kids... They are incredible smart nowadays.

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    Each individual human cell contains DNA so tightly packed that unwound it would measure 6 foot long. You have roughly 30 trillion cells. Do the maths!

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    #26

    If all the people jumped of a chair in one place it would cause a minor earth quake.
    You would get the greatest effect if all the people in China were brought together in one place, each with their own chair. If we allow them one square metre each, this would require an area of 1200 sq km (470 square miles), corresponding to a square with sides of 35 km (21 miles). The resulting earthquake would certainly register on measuring devices but would not cause any appreciable damage.

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    #27

    Alright, this is a “w-why- why do you know this” type of fact, but y’know the movies where they cut somebodies throat in the front, that doesn’t work, your best bet is to do it on the sides.

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    #28

    I have a lot bee prepared... random facts are my specialty!

    1. The scientific word for picking your nose is rhinotillexomania!

    2. It’s almost impossible to open your eyes while you sneeze

    3. Period cramps can be as painful as a heart attack

    4. Your body produces tons of cancer cells a day

    5. Eating chocolate before singing is bad for your voice! It coats your throat and makes it harder to hit the right note!

    6. In hospitals almost everything (railings, stethoscopes, doorknobs etc.) are made of stainless steel which actually hosts TONS of germs and actually are capable of making people reallllly sick! This is why copper would be better!

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    #29

    A chemical in pineapples will eat you...... sooo basically pineapples will eat you but the acids in your stomach break that down so it doesn't eat anything else but your lip and the inside of your mouth. (that's why after eating too much pineapple your tongue and lip starts to hurt and get all weird and tingly and literally NOTHING can help it until it goes away by itself.)

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    #30

    Woolly Mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built.

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

    But only very small mammoths on islands north of Russia. My professor used to say at the rate they shrank towards the end of the ice age, he's sure they're still around, but only the size of shrews now.

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    #31

    Birth. Like bruh, people can grow other people inside of them AND feed them afterwards!! Like isn’t that amazing?!

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    #32

    COVID-19 is real. Over a million people have died from it. Don't be ignorant. It sounds crazy but some people won't even accept this as a fact.

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

    duh its real, only id*ots wont believe that, no offense, people that are st*pid

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    #33

    It's easy to stay awake until 7 am but so hard to wake up at 7 am because things in motion tend to stay in motion while things at rest tend to stay at rest.

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    Most Korean people don't have armpit odor.

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    #35

    Flat worms have a sword fight to determine who will carry the young and the loser loses their pp and has to give birth. I know this from 9th grade zoology btw.

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

    The logic behind this behaviour is also quite interesting. Carrying the young is more energy intensive and means you can have fewer babies overall (you aren't out inseminating other flat worms while pregnant). So individuals want to take the male role as many times as they can to pass on their genes as much as possible. However, all the penis fencing is exhausting and eventually, no matter how successful, every flatworm will lose a duel and become pregnant.

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    SOMEONE LOVES YOU!!!

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    #37

    Elephants can't jump.

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    #38

    well. Confusion, disgust, sadness, and guilt are more often the driving force behind nightmares than fear, according to research. Dreams are weird lol.

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    you cant really feel pain in your brain so most brain surgerys are preformed well the patient is fully consicous. it saves money and is a lot safer!

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

    one lady was a violenist so they hadher playing the violen well they removed a tumer so if she stopped they that tey had done somthing wrong

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    #40

    Dueling is a legitimate way to settle legal disputes in Paraguay, but only if both parties are registered blood donors.

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

    I think you forgot “willing” in there, right before “registered”... right..?

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    #41

    These are the top 5 smartest animals: chimpanzee, dolphin, human, raven, pig.

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    Acacia trees send signals to eachother. When one tree is attacked (it's leaves being eaten), other trees in the vicinity will start making toxins to defend themselves against the feeding animals.

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    #43

    i have two
    1. all optical illusions probably have an explanation
    2. red pandas put their lil paws up sometimes https://www.redpandanetwork.org/red-panda-facts/

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

    Thank you so much for the red panda website. I'm obsessed with them

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    #44

    There is a Boston Typewriter orchestra.

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    #45

    Fun Fact: There is a planet called HD189733b, with a striking outer resemblance to Earth. But this is not a planet we should call home, at ALL. This planet rains shards of glass, SIDEWAYS, 24/7. As the famous words of Charlie Brown, good grief!!

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    (1) Your forearm is the exact same length as your foot
    (2) You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time (I bet you just tried it)
    (3) Women can see more colors than men

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

    To number 3, as far as I understand it, women can on average name more shades, rather than physically see a wider range of colours. Culturally women are taught to discriminate between colours more (such as when selecting make-up). There are also a significant minority of men who are colour blind and drag the male average down.

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    #47

    Sorry for the second post but...
    If people eventually came up with a cure for all diseases, cancers, and sicknesses. Every human would have to die a very tragic and gruesome death.

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

    Apparently if disease were not a thing we would live for and average of 1000 years and die in a traffic accident.

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    There's a Christmas tree (actually a bush) in Arizona that gets decorated every year by a mysterious group of people.
    Not the most amazing fact but certainly interesting.

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    #49

    Oranges are the same consistency of human flesh.
    also spelling consistency is hard

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    Well, dont want this to get deleted, but its a pretty cool fact. Male elephants have prehensile penises, that can lift a grow man (Not to be sexist in any sort of way).

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

    one of the reasons male cats have spiked penises is to aid in a female's ovulation. Females do not ovulate before sexual intercourse. Instead, the barbs stimulate the female cat's vulva during intercourse, which causes her body to then release an egg. WHY DO IK THIS STUFF AAAAAAAGH

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    #51

    Turtles can breathe through their butts.

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

    only a few species actually can, however, a wise snowman once told us they did...

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    #52

    if acids mixed together spill onto a marble counter, and you set a paper towel down to wipe it up, it leaves a paper towel pattern on the counter. i was 8.

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

    now im wondering what type of acid you were playing with..

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    #53

    You don't die of old age, you die because your immune system stops working

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

    You also die because the quality and amount of Telomeres in your cells sink with older age

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    #54

    Platypuses: lay eggs, are semiaquatic, have flippers, and GLOW. They are also one of 2 mammals that lay eggs. The other mammal is the echidna. The platypus is the sole living member of the family Ornithorhynchidae. Hopefully one of these was something you did not know about platypuses!

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    #55

    The universe is expending at the speed of light as we speak, planets are circling respective suns, the universe is doing its thing.

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    Verified     3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think it's expanding at the speed of light, but the expansion is accelerating. If it expanded at the speed of light, then you couldn't see any new imagery in the sky, I think.

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    #56

    Mcdonalds once made bubble gum flavored brocolli

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    #57

    When the pope sneezes, no one is at an above position to bless him...

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    I am Misodoctakleidist.
    It means I hate playing the piano.

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    #59

    platypi have bioluminescent fur, meaning they glow under the right light

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

    so do scorpions-except for the fur part- and they glow to keep safe!

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    Fun fact: If you were to lay out all the blood vessels in the human body(veins, arteries and capillaries), it would measure about 60,000 miles and the entire circumference of the earth measures about 25,000 miles. So, the blood vessels in the body would go around the earth 2.5 times if layed end to end.

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

    CATERPILLARS????? nvm wait cappilaries, sorry my brain just farted.

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    #61

    Human bodies, gram for gram, emit more energy than the sun. The sun only reaches the temperatures it does because so much mass is concentrated in one place.

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    #62

    Money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy anything!

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    #63

    That the average seagull has 1.7 legs

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    #64

    That Leonardo do Vinci was gay. And Sally Ride.

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    #65

    -Pirates believed that putting a ring on their ear could give them better eyesight.
    King Louis XIV believed he was a direct representative of God

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    I have few if you don't mind:

    - A half litre bottle of sea water contains the same amount of energy as two barrels of oil in form of deuterium (if used in fusion reactors)

    - The booster rockets for NASA spacecrafts can't be wider than two horse butts due to a train tunnel they have to be transported to. The trail width is based on an ancient roman cart meassurement standard... two horses wide

    - Flamingos are pink because the shrimps they eat contain a pigment that colours their feathers

    - The Wehrmacht in World War 2 was the first army to utilize mass-produceable helicopters (FA-223 and FI 282). Due to the destruction of the factories only low numbers were produced.

    - The FA-223 was the first helicopter to cross the English Channel

    - The mitochondria contains a complete DNA string of the offspring's mother, as the ovocytes are providing the only source of them in the new organism

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    #67

    That Jughead Jones of the Archies' real first name is Forsyth!

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

    As a Archie comics fan i can confirm! His full name is Forsyth Pendleton “Jughead” jones!

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    You can pull a horses mane and the horse wont feel it. But dont pull it on purpose!

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    #69

    Not amazing but certainly interesting: In all, there are 40 Broadway theatres. Despite the title, only 4 theatres are actually located on Broadway, and in order to qualify for Broadway theatre status, a theatre must have 500 seats and be located between 40th St. to 54th St., and from West of 6th Ave. to East of Eighth Ave., including Times Square.

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

    The 500 seat minimum is a breakpoint for royalty payments, where they charge you more for renting the play or musical.

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    Pablo Picasso was a communist in the French National Communist Party

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    You can fit a light bulb in your mouth no problem, but if you try to take it out, it'll break :)

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    #72

    Lava doesn't taste hot. Lava tastes like rocks

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    When you touch something you don't pass through it not because it's solid but because the electrons in the atoms of the object and your body repel each other. Actually, you can never really touch anything!

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

    wait. then how did i just pick up a dorito and eat it? does the dorito just... float? and what about nerves? do your nerves just sense the electrons repelling and that's how we feel stuff?

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    Male sharks have two penises

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

    They are called "Claspers" and are easily visible on the underside of the shark

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    #75

    Until recent breeding methods vastly improved cows milk production, they would stop producing milk if you took their claves away. But if you left their claves with them, the claves would drink all the milk.

    There are several methods to trick the cow into thinking they still have a calf, but the oldest method known to get around this natural mechanism was to blow air into the cow's anus or vagina. Today, we know this irritates their cervix and causes them to produce oxytocin (the hormone responsible for both cervical dilation and milk production), but 5,500 years ago, how the hell did people discover this?

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    #76

    pufferfish breath in water, not air, to make it expand.

    thought it breaths in air at first now that i think about it i feel dumb

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    #77

    The largest known star, VY Canis Majoris, is so big, it would take 1,100 years for a passenger jet to fly once around its circumference.

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

    Other interesting fact about this star: It is a binary star, meaning it is in an orbit with another celestial object. In Canis Majoris's case, there is proof that it could be a black hole, because astronomers can't see the object it is rotating with, and also it's big enough to stabilize a black hole, as in keep it in place.

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    It's 8:43 and you are loved.

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    Sarah Palin can rap

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    By the time you reach 40yo you have already lost around 6kg of dead skin and over 15kg of hair.

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    #81

    When somebody has hiccups, if you ask them, what is tofu made of then their hiccups will go away.

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

    I usually hold my breath whenever I hiccup and it works like a charm.

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    The reason that we draw a heart as we do is that when you put two human hearts together it looks like the hearts that we draw.

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

    Nope! There’s no concrete evidence as to why we draw hearts the way they are, but there’s evidence it’s actually supposed to resemble a butt.

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    #83

    Christopher Columbus thought the Earth was pear-shaped

    “Facts%20Left%20Out%20of%20History”,%20September%202020%20Reader’s%20Digest%20 Report

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

    He was right (or at least, more right than wrong). His measurements showed that the world bulged at the equator and he said it put him in mind of a 'very round pear' or 'the nipple on a woman's breast.' Today we know the bulge goes right round the world. The earth is an oblate spheroid, thicker at the equator than either pole.

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    #84

    Word "womyn" exists. (and it's actually spelled that way too)

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    #85

    As we speak you have spent 1/3 of your life sleeping.

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    #86

    Old/Odd saying: That "stuff" will back upon you and kill you. True. A distant relative did not "go" for several weeks, said he was unworried as this had always been a problem for him. Finally going to the doctor it was found that several feet of his colon had to be removed. He died despite having the surgery.

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

    due to early childhood trauma, my body has trained itself since a young age to avoid using the bathroom at all costs unless necessary. I urinate about 3 times a week and poop maybe once a week. until reading this, i never thought much of it, but now i realise i may have serious problem, considering i've thought it was normal for my whole life..

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    #87

    Many people believe that birds are descendants of dinosaurs. However, this is not the full truth. In reality, birds ARE dinosaurs. Biologically speaking, our feathered friends are lumped in with the theropods.

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    So i found so many facts and i am still shook from it
    1. McDonald's once created a bubble-gum flavored broccoli
    2. Some fungi create zombies, then control their minds
    3. The first oranges weren't orange (they were green)
    4. There is only one letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name (letter Q)
    5. Johnny Appleseed's fruits weren't for eating(he actually turned them into hard apple cider)
    6. Scotland has 421 words for snow
    7. The "Windy City" name has nothing to do with Chicago's weather (The nickname was coined by 19th century journalists because it's residents were "windbags" and they were "full of hot air")
    8. Peanuts aren't actually nuts, they're seeds, scientists confirmed it.
    9. An Armadillo's shells are bulletproof
    10. Fire Fighters use wetting agents to make water wetter
    11. The longest English word is 189,819 letters long
    12. Cats have fewer toes on their back paw
    13. Kleenex tissues were originally gas masks.
    14.Turkey's can blush
    15. Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple.
    16. Only a quarter of the Sahara Desert is sandy,(most of it is gravel)
    17. Movie trailers originally played after the movie
    18. The U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017.
    19. Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.
    20.There’s only one U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s (Montpelier, Vermont).



    There's more but you can view it on the link below

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

    8) ALL nuts are seeds, what you mean is that peanuts are not nuts but legumes. 10) It means that the surface tension is reduced 21) you did not post a link

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    The oldest "ur mom" joke was discovered on a 3500 year old Babylonian tablet.

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    #90

    If you were to be pulled into a black hole, the point of gravity from your head to your toes is so powerfully different that the closer you get, you start to stretch and pull apart. It's called spaghettification! :D

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    Here is quite a lot.
    Bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest.
    The majority of people in Iceland believe in elves.
    The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.
    The current American Flag was initially designed by an American high school student.
    Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins.
    Apple actually has twice as much cash at hand than the US Government.
    You Are 1cm taller in the morning compared to other times of the day.
    Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.

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    #92

    This is so weird The word "sneeze" came about through a misspelling of the original word "fneze" or "fnese." Also butterfly, originally it was supposed to be called flutterby as it always fluttered away.

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    #93

    If you srcmalbe up the lterets in a wrod, you can siltl raed it, as lnog as the frsit and lstt lterets are in the smae sopt.

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    #94

    According to the late Arthur Gugick who told us in class before not letting a student use the bathroom:
    "Yes, a frog's butt is watertight!"

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    #95

    Cows can't walk down stairt, but they van walk up stairs

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

    Actually they can walk down stairs (idk about stairt), it makes an awful noise. They just sort of flop down. Their knees don’t bend the right way.

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    Your brain can sense when someone is staring at you, even when you're sleeping. So if you're asleep and someone stares at you you'll wake up.

    There's super-duper tiny mites living on our eyelashes.

    Dogs like sqeaky toys because of their hunting instincts, the noise reminds them of their screaming prey.

    The world record of youngest mother is held by a 5 year old.

    In very rare situations, a dead pregnant woman can still give birth.

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

    I doubt your first point. I have stared at many sleeping people, unbeknownst to them.

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    #97

    There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There is a 9% chance you will meet one of them in your lifetime.
    I'm 16 and met one. How about you?

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    #98

    have you ever heard making a sword out of the blood of your enemies? Well if you where to drain the blood out of 406 grown men it would be enough iron to make a ten foot long brood sword.so you can actually make a sword out of the blood of your enemies.

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

    Or, as suggested by somebody else (slightly graphic, may wanna skip this if you’re uncomfortable with this) keep one person, and drain their blood, keep them just barely alive, and repeat the cycle

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    Second post, kinda late, Dolphins will bother pufferfish so they inflate, and use them as balls.

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

    Ummmm... Kinda missing the point. The toxin in pufferfish makes dolphins high. So dolphins have a much different purpose (porpoise??) than play.

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    being "gay" or "homosexual" isn't weird or abnormal. penguins, orcas, dolphins, and walruses, along with many other species have naturally gay populants. (sorry my English is broken today)

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    There are actually 13 Zodiac signs! The 13th is called Ophiuchus, and since it exsits the dates for what your zodiac sign is has shifted. Look up what your new one is!

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

    I'm still a Scorpio. did you know all people have three Zodiacs? look up your other two

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    North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can’t buy Coca~Cola

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    #103

    Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. However, no one receved the Nobel Peace Prize that year. Surprisingly enough this happened on 19 total occasions, those years were 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972

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    #104

    This one always boggles my mind. A teaspoon of matter from a neutron star weighs around a billion tonnes! I always imagined as a small child how people would be able to get the star stuff in order to weigh it, but of course now I know they use special calculations to find out :)

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    When otters sleep they hold hand to not get seperated.
    They also have a favorite pebble they always carry around. Its nothing wow or scientific but thinking about this makes me smile. So maybe I made someone smile today.

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    #106

    John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, still has one living grandchild. John Tyler was born in 1790, was president from 1841-1845, and died in 1862. He had more children than any other president, in 1853 his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born, and Lyon had a son when he was 73 years old in 1928, that son is Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who as of right now is currently 92 years old.

    So just to reiterate, John Tyler who was president 20 years before Abraham Lincoln has a living grandson in December of 2020.

    This always blows my mind.

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    That 2020 is crap!

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    #108

    The grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes in these items is amazing and appalling.

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    #109

    Time travel is possible and we can do whatever we want in the Past, the Present won't change because is already written, physics! :D

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

    but what about the part where we change things, what happens then? Will it be no use since the past cannot be changed?

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    The average marriage only lasts 12.3 years in Australia.

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    #111

    There is a sea creature that can regrow its brain. Even if you totally cut out the brain, it will grow back AND it is "immortal."

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

    It's a jellyfish. Not all jellyfish, just the one kind, and I forget the name.

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    #112

    Some people believe if someone is "stupid" enough to fall for a stupid story, they deserve what they get". The fallacy of that belief is that they deserve what they get. NO ONE wants to get all they deserve, for all have regretted events in their past.

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    #113

    We gravely misrepresent the timeline of the Earth in our heads and school books. Hold out your arm and look at it. If the Earth forms at your shoulder, then the first single celled life begins at the middle of your forearm. The first multicellular life doesn't form until the base of your fingers. Dinosaurs? Well, just the top joint of your index finger. Humans are less than a hair width of the very top of your longest finger's nail.

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    #114

    Take a paper. Any colour. If you look at the paper for a while against a white wall and then quickly pull it away, you can see the negative colour of that colour for a split second. For example if you hold up a red paper and yank it away, you will see a green square instead of it on the wall.

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    #115

    That some of the most educated people in the world now believe there is a 50/50 chance that the universe as we know it is a computer simulation.

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    #116

    That if we detonated tsar bomba, the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, it would have no effect on humanity as a whole except for some acid rain.

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    That I am the Half-Blood Prince.

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    Here’s another one: throw a mouse, dog, and elephant off a skyscraper onto a pile of mattresses. The mouse will land, be mad, and run off. The dog will break all of its bones and die (sad bow-wow noises). What does the elephant do? Explode. Yeah. The elephant will explode when it hits the ground.

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    #119

    Banana's are berry's haven't searched this but its said raspberries aren't berries?

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    Sorry for the second post, this was just really cool.

    A test collected different types of owls and used an extremely sensitive microphone to hear the sound an owl made while flapping their wings.

    The barn owl's didn't make any noise.

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    The U.S. Air Force controls the satellites for our personal device gps systems. They have to correct the time on the satellites on a regular basis because time is slower where the satellites are compared to the Earth's surface.

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