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Fact fanatics, rejoice! Here’s a list of 17 random tidbits to make your brain say, “Wait, what?” These nuggets are the perfect mix of mind-boggling and hilariously pointless – think shower thoughts with a PhD.
“Human’s ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark’s ability to smell blood in water.”
“Oregon is the only state with a state nut – the Hazelnut.”
“Since most people are right handed, in WW2 the Germans were specifically trained to eat with their left hand, so that finding spies from other countries would be easier to spot.”
“When unable to tell the difference between a bone and a rock in the archaeological field, it’s not uncommon to press it to one’s tongue. If it falls, it’s a rock, and if it sticks, it’s bone.”
“That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire.”
“The shell is part of the turtle’s skeleton.And to add to that a lot of people don’t know that turtles have nerves in their shells”
“There was a phantom poop on an Apollo mission. A poop, floating around, that none of the astronauts said was theirs.”
“When you are looking at a star, you are literally looking in the past. The amount of light years the star is distant is equal to the amount of years in the past you are looking at. The most distant star visible to the naked eye is “V76 Cas” located in the Cassiopiea constellation, and it is 16,310 light years away.
The light emitting from that star started emitting in around 14000 BC, during which time the Earth was still in the Upper Paleolithic era.”
“The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.”
“German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany.”
“The technology for the fax machine was invented in 1843. The feudal era in Japan ended in 1868 abolishing the samurai class. Abraham Lincoln lived until 1865. All of this combined lead to a 22 year period in which Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.”
“Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi. In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies”
“The figure in Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.”
“There was no “s” sound for the letter c in ancient Roman Latin. Thus Gaius Julius Caesar was pronounced “Gaius Julius Kaiser”. His name is where the Germans and Russians got their name for king (Kaiser and Tzar respectively).”
“Sharks existed before trees existed..”
“Lamborghini started making supercars because Enzo Ferrari was being a j#rk to Ferruccio Lamborghini.”
“That three weeks after mating a female Tasmanian Devil will birth up to 30 – 40 very tiny joey’s where the fastest 4 to get into the pouch and attach to a teat win the hunger games.”
“When the Rubix Cube was first released a mathematician said it would take the average person 30 years, working 8 hours a day, to solve a cube saying it was impossible for someone without a master’s in mathematics to solve it in under a month.”
“If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the exact order they’re in has almost certainly never been duplicated in the history of shuffled decks.”
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