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iris was today years old when she learned kangaroos don't have pouches
Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.
One man, Kevin Briggs, has saved more than 200 people from suicide.
Our European ancestors were cannibals.
Redheads aren't actually going extinct.
Pro baseball once had women players.
Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.
The famed "Typhoid Mary" infected more than 50 people by cooking for them.
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster goes back nearly 1,500 years.
Babies are physical anomalies.Babies, particularly newborns, are surprisingly different from the children they'll grow up to be. When they're born, their heads account for a quarter of their full body weight, and the size of their brains will double in the first year of life. Babies have 300 bones and around 10,000 taste buds all over their mouth. Some of the bones will fuse as they age (into 206, as an adult), but the taste buds not on the tongue will eventually vanish.
The Australian government banned the word "mate" for a day.
Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits.
Star Trek's Scotty stormed the beach at Normandy.
Pigs are constitutionally protected in Florida.
Some planets, Saturn and Jupiter, produce diamond rain.
how do u know all these 🤣
iris :) wrote: "Pigs are constitutionally protected in Florida."Wow.
iris :) wrote: "Some planets, Saturn and Jupiter, produce diamond rain."Pinterest?
I'm a fountain of random knowledge. I don't know anything useful haha.
You can sneeze faster than a cheetah can run.
The fire hydrant patent was lost in a fire.
The cast of Friends still earns around $20 million each year.
Cows kill more Americans each year than sharks do.
Newborns don't have kneecaps.Like, their kneecaps aren't hardened until they're like 4ish.
iris :) wrote: "The cast of Friends still earns around $20 million each year."Oh I knew this!
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iris :) wrote: "Cows kill more Americans each year than sharks do."So do vending machines.
In Germany, people help toads cross the road.
Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks.
A 70-year-old woman once completed seven marathons in seven days, across all seven continents.
There may be 2,000 active serial killers in the U.S. right now.
Beethoven could still hear after going deaf.Upon going deaf, Beethoven discovered that if he bit onto a metal pole that connected to the piano he was playing, he could hear almost perfectly well. This process is called bone conduction, and while technology has evolved, the science is the same: Vibrations are transferred from the conductive metal into our bones. When this happens, our ears pick up the signal with no sound distortion.
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And trees weren't always biodegradable.
You're pronouncing Dr. Seuss' name wrong.It's actually pronounced "soice" (rhymes with voice).
that's a lot