Fun facts thread

Share a fun fact or two here!

I’ll start: you can explode a mosquito that is actively sucking your blood by tensing the muscle that the mosquito is on

Another one is that fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.

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June 6th is US national yoyo day and the remembrance of the invasion of Normandy (d day) but it’s also the anniversary of the creation of the US SEC (security exchange commission) which was created as a response to the great depression. its 97 years old today protecting the rich ability to get richer…

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Caesar is pronounced like the german Kaiser, which was derived from the name

(Maybe this one is more fact than fun)

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I only knew that because of Fallout New Vegas

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And they say video games are useless

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Greenland is further North, South, East and West of Iceland.

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I read today that National Yo-yo day was chosen by Daniel Volk to be on Mr.Duncan’s birthday which he thought was June 6th but his birthday is infact June 8th. Is this true?

Here’s the link it’s from National Yo-yo Day

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If u take a straw and hold your thumb over one end…u can jab it into a raw potato.

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Blood is red when it is inside your body as well as when it comes out. It is never blue contrary to what a lot of people believe.

Bats are the only flying mammals.

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If you put 1 of every animal in a bag and then picked one out you have a 1/5 chance in picking a beetle.

The largest recorded manta ray was 23ft wide 30 ft long and weighed 3 tons.

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some kinds of lobsters may live 100s of years

as they have “negligible senescence”

they do however usually die much sooner than this woukd suggest because they are eaten by other animals

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Relatable Fun facts:
You have been throwing for more than a week
You Yoyo atleast once in a week
You Have more than 2 yoyos
You Have Spare Strings
You Have Watched A Movie Before
You Have Been On Forums For More than A Day

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yoyo day is celebrated on April 4th in Japan

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No one can touch their palms to their sholder.

Example- Left Palm to Left Sholder.

Who is actually going to try it???

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