If you're still accepting facts:
Mealworms are able to eat several types of plastic, including Styrofoam. They break down most of the toxic chemicals in the plastics, and they are still able to be used as feed for chickens and pigs afterwards.
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"Fun" fact(s) about the Titanic...
1, the upcoming LEGO set, which contains 9090pieces has a Small plate hidden in it, with the inicials TC - Tiago Catarino, who is a former LEGO designer, it was his idea to make this set back when he was still working for LEGO.
2, Did you know, that the ship would survive, if they wouldnt try to avoid the collision? The ship was unsicable because of the chamber structure... there were several chambers inside the ship. If the first couple would be hit and filled with water, the ship would still be able to remain on the water, however as they hit the iceberg with the side of the "whole" shipe, they cut open a lot more chambers. thats why it started to sink... so a direct hit on the iceberg would have been a better solution... :)
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Britain declared war on Finland in December 1941!!
No bullets were ever shot!
Finnish Commercial Ships operated between mainland (Geman) Europe and UK, Showing Finnish Flag, were never attacked, by RAF!
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Why is the keyboard keys not in alphabetical order?
The reason dates back to the time of manual typewriters. When first invented , they had keys arranged in an alphabetical order, but people typed so fast that the mechanical character arms got tangled up. So the keys were randomly positioned to actually slow down typing and prevent key jams.
Thanks for the W/L
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We, gaming our way through life, are closer in time to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the Tyrannosaurus Rex is to the Stegosaurus.
Stego had been absent from the fossil record for at least 80m years before T.Rex shows up, and T.Rex died out 65m years ago.
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The measurement of time, the second, is called that because it's the second division of the hour. The first being minutes of course and they both come from the same source with minuta prima being the first small part and minuta prima secunda representing the second small part or as we know them today, seconds.
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Canadians are influenced by both Britain and the United States so we are on both the metric system and the imperial system. It can be very confusing. For example, Canadians follow speed limits and measure length in metres, but we measure our height in feet and our weight in pounds. However, our driver licenses are the opposite. They measure in metres and kilograms. We check the outside temperature in Celsius, but we cook in Fahrenheit. Funny, eh?
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As a Canadian, I know! And it 's crazy how many of my American AND European friends don't get that! 😆 Both of them expected me to measure in centimetres when I was describing something in inches. I found this helpful little chart a while ago and I send them that when they ask me what system they want to tell me things in.
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I have 2
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19 U.S. states allow marriages between first cousins
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How about a fact about Christmas Trees :)
The tradition of decorating Christmas trees goes back to the ancient Egyptians and Romans, who used evergreens to symbolize the return of spring after winter.
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NASA conducted an interesting experiment, they gave certain drugs to spiders to test toxicity, and you can find pictures online on how it affected their abilities to build a web. They tested weed, LSD, alcohol, speed and some more stuff.
Even as someone with really bad arachnophobia, i must say, i am pretty fascinated.
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McDonaldization is a sociological phenomenon in which a society adopts principles that of a fast food restaurant. The term describes the increasing standardization and uniformity of society, i.e. microwave dinners.
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There are functions which are continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere.
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Corn is actually a fruit. So are pumpkins, peppers, squash, and eggplant.
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The fear of long words is one of the longest words in the dictionary! Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Very cruel of whoever named it
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Don't know if someone mentioned it but I love that one.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. The first lighter was produced in 1816 by a German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner. "Döbereiner's lamp," as it was called, was a (highly dangerous) cartridge filled with hydrogen and triggered by a platinum catalyst.
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If there's one thing I really like, it's learning fun random facts that I'll probably forget about in a few days.
I want some more cool people on my whitelist. So to get whitelisted, all you have to do is share a fun fact! Doesn't matter if it's a random fun fact about an animal or some weird science fact, or even if it's not so fun!
For example, recently, I found out you can't hum if you hold your nose closed.
I'm also having a whitelist-only giveaway here. (Level 0 and unfortunately regional restricted. Steam keys should have 0 restrictions on them >:()ENDED!https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Olo99/
Edit: Whew! I was trying to reply to all the comments but there's so many! I don't wanna endlessly bump my own thread with all my comments. Thanks for wanting to be a part of my whitelist, guys. Altho I (probably) won't respond to your comment, I'm still whitelisting, I promise!
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