# Fun facts thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090 "2023-06-06T17:07:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Benthrowsyoyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/benthrowsyoyo/32/300522_2.png) [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/1 "2023-06-06T17:07:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Captrogers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/captrogers/32/647012_2.png) [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/2 "2023-06-06T17:15:37Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Mistale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mistale/32/204396_2.png) [@Mistale](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mistale)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/3 "2023-06-06T18:33:49Z")
Caesar is pronounced like the german Kaiser, which was derived from the name (Maybe this one is more fact than fun) ---
**Author:** ![Benthrowsyoyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/benthrowsyoyo/32/300522_2.png) [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/4 "2023-06-06T18:34:36Z")
I only knew that because of Fallout New Vegas ---
**Author:** ![Mistale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mistale/32/204396_2.png) [@Mistale](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mistale)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/5 "2023-06-06T18:35:22Z")
And they say video games are useless ---
**Author:** ![Sam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sam/32/276240_2.png) [@Sam](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/6 "2023-06-06T18:47:00Z")
Greenland is further North, South, East and West of Iceland. ---
**Author:** ![Yooo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yooo/32/196320_2.png) [@Yooo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yooo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/7 "2023-06-06T18:53:05Z")
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? ![Screenshot_20230606-145430](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/0/1/c0144ec8101e55ff10bd9d880d4fbfa6f45c430d.jpeg) Here’s the link it’s from [National Yo-yo Day](https://nationaltoday.com/national-yo-yo-day/) ---
**Author:** ![jaf0018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@jaf0018](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jaf0018)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/8 "2023-06-07T01:53:41Z")
If u take a straw and hold your thumb over one end…u can jab it into a raw potato. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisFrancz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chrisfrancz/32/48992_2.png) [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/9 "2023-06-07T02:03:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![UnluckyOwl53](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/unluckyowl53/32/190567_2.png) [@UnluckyOwl53](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/UnluckyOwl53)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/10 "2023-06-07T04:01:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jeaves](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jeaves/32/203410_2.png) [@Jeaves](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jeaves)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/12 "2023-06-07T07:44:48Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Mo\_Arsh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mo_arsh/32/261052_2.png) [@Mo\_Arsh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mo_Arsh)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/13 "2023-06-07T08:48:46Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![UnluckyOwl53](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/unluckyowl53/32/190567_2.png) [@UnluckyOwl53](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/UnluckyOwl53)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/14 "2023-06-07T12:26:16Z")
yoyo day is celebrated on April 4th in Japan ---
**Author:** ![Pun1sh3R](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pun1sh3r/32/193125_2.png) [@Pun1sh3R](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pun1sh3R)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fun-facts-thread/377090/15 "2023-06-08T02:37:40Z")
No one can touch their palms to their sholder. Example- Left Palm to Left Sholder. Who is actually going to try it???