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October 27 - October 28, 2020
A penguin has the ability to jump six feet (1.8 meters) out of the water with no aid.
A quarter of the world's prisoners are locked up in the US.
A group of ferrets is called a business.
There is no explanation why there are no mosquitoes in Iceland.
Cows have best friends and can be stressed when separated from them.
In 1961, Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny, was in a serious car accident that put him in a coma that he could not wake up from. Doctors began speaking directly to the characters that he voiced from which he would actually respond in their voices, and three weeks later he actually woke up.
Overmorrow is a word that means the day after tomorrow.
Jellyfish and lobsters are biologically immortal.
The strongest beer in the world is called “Snake Venom” containing 67.5% alcohol.
A group of turkeys is called a rafter.
The person who did the voice of Minnie Mouse, Russi Taylor, was married to Wayne Allowing, the voice of Mickey Mouse.
Most cats don't like to drink water if it's too close to their food source. Always keep your cat's water and food supply separate so they don't get dehydrated.
DC Comics published an alternate universe where Bruce Wayne dies instead of his parents. In it, Thomas Wayne becomes Batman and Martha Wayne goes crazy and becomes the Joker.
Watson, IBM's artificially intelligent computer learned how to swear from the urban dictionary. Because of that, it began talking sassy so scientists had to remove the entire urban dictionary database from its memory.
The first recorded human flight with artificial wings in history was in the 6th century in China. Emperor Kao Yang would strap prisoners to kites and throw them off a building to see if they could fly.
A psychologist named Timothy Leary was sent to jail in 1970 and given a series of tests to determine which jail he should be placed in. Since he designed many of the tests himself, he manipulated his answers so that he would be placed in a low security prison as a gardener and ended up escaping only eight months later.
The word “jay” used to be used as slang for a dull or stupid person so when anyone ignored traffic regulations and crossed roads illegally, the person would be called a “jay walker.”
Barcode scanners actually read the spaces between the black bars, not the black bars themselves.
There's a lake in Australia called “Lake Disappointment” that was named and found by Frank Hann in 1897, who was hoping to find fresh water but instead found salt water.
The oldest hotel in the world is the “Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan” in Japan. It was founded in 705 A.D. and has had fifty two generations of the same family operating it since it was founded.
Halieutics is the study of fishing.
It’s estimated that the world's helium supply will run out within the next twenty to thirty years.
The famous painter Salvador Dali would avoid paying the bill at restaurants by drawing on the back of his checks. He knew the owner wouldn’t want to cash the checks as the drawings would be much too valuable.
The word “muggle” was added to the English dictionary and is defined as a person lacking a particular skill.
Geographically, China covers five different times zones, however, only uses one standard time zone within the country.
Since the beginning of communication, it has been estimated that 31,000 languages have existed.
It was known that after examining the animals, Charles Darwin used to eat them too.
The longest someone has stayed awake continuously is 265 hours, which was in 1964 by a high school student.
The longest someone has been in a coma and come out of it is thirty seven years. A six year old went to the hospital for a routine appendectomy where she went under general anesthetic and...
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Fleas can jump over eighty times their own height.
Koalas can sleep up to eighteen to twenty two hours a day, whereas a giraffe only needs about two.
There has only been 240 years of peace in the last 3,000 years.
Bangkok University in Thailand makes their students wear anti-cheating helmets during exams.
In 2011, archaeologists at the ground zero 9/11 terrorist attack site in New York City uncovered half of an 18th century ship; believed to have once been used by merchants.
Futureme.org is a website where you can send e-letters to yourself at any time in the future.
In 2012, a Russian scientist regenerated an arctic flower known as “Silene Stenophylla” that has been extinct for over 32,000 years from a seed that was buried by an ice-age squirrel.
The age of fish can be determined in a similar way to trees. Fish scales have one growth ring for each year of age.
According to a study conducted by Brock University in Ontario, Canada, racism and homophobia are linked to having lower IQ, as those with lower intelligence tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies.
Nomophobia is the fear of being without mobile phone coverage.
North Korea is the biggest counterfeiter of US currency.
The Coca-Cola made in the Maldives used to be made from ocean water.
In the country of Turkilometersenistan, water, gas, and electricity have all been free from the government since 1993.
The largest numerical denomination bill ever made was the one milliard Hungarian pengo in 1946. It's value was one sextillion. That's one with twenty one zeros behind it, yet it was still only worth twenty cents US.
Poveglia Island in Italy is considered one of the most haunted places in the world as it was the site of wars, a dumping ground for plague victims, and an insane asylum. In fact, it's so haunted that the Italian government has forbidden public access to it.
Around 350 to 420 million years ago, before trees were common, the Earth was covered in giant mushroom stalks.
In ancient Athens, the world's first democracy, they had a process called “ostracism” where, once a year, the people could vote on the politician that they felt was the most destructive to the democratic process and that person was banished from Athens for ten years.
The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.
A flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
The song “Happy Birthday” is 120 years old and has a copyright to it. It's owned by Warner Chappell Music and insists that no one use it; this is the reason you rarely hear it on T.V. shows or movies.
The chances of an American being killed by lightning is the same chance a person in Japan has being shot and killed by a gun.
