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July 26 - August 16, 2025
The Technical University of Munich built slides four stories high to help their students get to class quickly instead of them having to take the stairs.
This only works if they are coming from a room higher than the next lecture room.
Carrots used to be purple in color.
More details but same fact at 387
Male puppies will let female puppies win when they play, even though they are physically more powerful to encourage them to play more.
How can you know a male puppy's motivation?
You cannot invent faces in your dream, which means you’ve encountered every face you’ve seen in your dream in real life.
How can you prove this?
Astronauts would weigh one sixth of their weight if they were in space compared to on Earth.
Where in space and at what speed? On the Moon, they would weigh one sixth but in space they could be zero gravity or enough g force to kill them.
The heaviest drinkers in the world are in Belarus with 17.5 liters consumed per capita every year.
Litres of what? 17.5 litres of liquid per annum seems very little.
On Valentine's Day 2014, a group of single men in Shanghai bought every odd-numbered seat for a theater showing of Beijing Love Story. They did this to prevent couples from sitting together as a show of support for single people.
There used to be horse sized ducks called “dromornithidae” roaming around present day Australia 50,000 years ago.
How can 50,000 years ago be present day?
The first ever modern toilet was created by Thomas Crapper, hence the phrase “to take a crap.”
Not true. "Crap" predates Crapper. Nominative determinism?
There are 1,000 gigabytes in a terabyte
Not true, read Fact 573!
Besides the crocodiles belly and top of its head the rest of the skin is bulletproof.
What are you saying here? Do you mean a) it's not just the belly and top of the head that are bulletproof, it's all the skin or b) with the exceptions of the belly and the top of the head, the skin is bulletproof? The phrasing is unclear.
Even after six hours of dying, a person’s muscles continue to spasm periodically.
I think what is meant is that spasms occur even 6 hours after death, rather than immediately following a protracted death of 6 hours.
Humans have the largest brain in terms of brain to body ratio.
Untrue. Tree shrews and small ants have higher brain to body ratios.
The country with the longest coastline on Earth is Canada.
At what scale do you measure coastlines? Their fractal nature makes it near impossible.
The average adult has eight pounds (3.6 kilograms) or about twenty two square feet (two square meters) of skin.
How deep are you defining "skin" as going?
The word “chec kilometersate” in chess comes from the Arabic “Shah Mat,” which means the king is dead.
I think "checkmate" is meant. There must have been some algorithm used to replace every occurrence of km with kilometers!
In Bern, Switzerland, there's a 500 year old statue of a man eating a sack of babies and nobody is sure why.
Every factory employee at Ben and Jerry's gets to take home three pints of ice cream every day.
British pints are a different measure than U.S. pints. How many litres?
A California couple named Helen and Les Brown were both born on December 31, 1918, were married for seventy five years, and then died one day apart at the age of ninety four in 2013.
So?
Four American presidents have been killed by gunshot.
Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield, and Kennedy. As opposed to the one British PM (Spencer Percival).
There is currently 147 million ounces of gold in Fort Knox. At the price of about $1776 per ounce, that’s worth $261.6 billion.
Are those Troy ounces and what is that in kg?
Only 0.1% of an atom is matter. The rest is air.
Air is full of atoms. Vacuum is meant.
There is an ancient book called “The Voynich” from the Italian Renaissance that no one can read.
Is it Italian? It could be British.
International “have a bad day” day is November 19th.
Which is also International Men's Day.
The Pallas’s cat is the oldest living species of modern cat that first appeared twelve million years ago.
This phrasing suggests that there are multiple living species of modern day that first appeared 12 million years ago, of which the Pallas's cat is the oldest.
There has only been 240 years of peace in the last 3,000 years.
Is this worldwide? If so, I'm surprised there were any years of peace everywhere.
Ostriches have eyes bigger than their heads.
Should heads read brains?
the largest yacht in the world named Azzam
How many yachts are called Azzam?
In the country of Turkilometersenistan,
Silly algorithm converts km to kilometres even in words.
Saturn's largest moon named Titan has an atmosphere so thick and gravity so low that you can actually fly through it by flapping any sort of wings attached to your arms.
Badly phrased. Saturn only has one moon called Titan. It's unclear what the "it" that you can fly through is, presumably Titan's atmosphere, since Titan itself has a core of rock and ice.
Contrary to popular belief, white spots on fingernails are not a sign of a deficiency of calcium, zinc, or other vitamins in the diet.
Calcium and zinc are not vitamins.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
Not true of exoplanets (named after their star plus a letter). Nor Venus (named after a goddess). Nor Saturn (named after a Titan). Nor Uranus (named after another Titan). So, not a very accurate "fact".
