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Fun Fact #87:
There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
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Fun Fact #88:
Black kites (aka Firehawks) cause wild fires by carrying burning sticks in their beaks and dropping them into the bush.
Fun Fact #87:
There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
(I told this to my dad who is Finnish and wasn't surprised at all)
Fun Fact #88:
According to NASA, somewhere in the deep reaches of space, there is a gigantic cloud of alcohol. Like, many times bigger than our solar system kind of big. Also, it apparently tastes like raspberry schnapps.
Fun Fact #88:
According to NASA, somewhere in the deep reaches of space, there is a gigantic cloud of alcohol. Like, many times bigger than our solar system kind of big. Also, it apparently tastes like raspberry schnapps.
As an addendum, the alcohol found in that massive cloud is methyl alcohol, not fit for human consumption. Nothing a bit of refining could do, though!
Fun Fact #89:
There's poop floating around earth from astronauts just throwing their feces out of the ship
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Fun Fact #90:
In 3.75 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide. The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way – where our solar system is – at rate of around 110 kilometres per second (68 mi/s) and eventually the two will collide to form a giant elliptical galaxy.
Here's a picture!:
Fun Fact # 91:
Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia was lost at sea at age 29. No one knows what happened to her ship.
Fun Fact #92:
Due to the success of the Can You Pet the Dog? Twitter account, many game developers have since added a "pet" option or command in their games, including popular Indie games like Enter the Gungeon!
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Fun Fact #93:
Saturn's northern hemisphere has a raging six-sided storm nicknamed "the hexagon." Why exactly it's that shape is a mystery. But what is known is that this hexagon, which shares several features in common with hurricanes, has been there for at least decades ― if not hundreds of years.
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Fun Fact #94:
A Japanese company had awarded it's non-smoking employees with 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker's smoke breaks.
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Fun Fact #95:
In the northern skies, you are able to see two galaxies. These are the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
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Fun Fact #96:
The Albatross is a large bird that can go years without landing. They spend the first six years of life flying over the ocean without ever touching the ground.
Fun Fact #97:
Cephalopods (including squids and octopi) have the ability to "toggle" the gene that edits out mutations at will, meaning that their offspring will be far better-suited towards their environment. Where evolution can take millions of years, they can evolve in only a few generations. I, for one, willingly accept our aquatic overlords.
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Fun Fact #99:
Jupiter has the most moons in our solar system with 79 known moons. Io, one of those moons, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, sometimes spewing out sulphur as high as 300 km (190 miles) in the air!
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Fun Fact #100:
Jupiter's moons were named after his mistresses, (Jupiter is the roman name for Zeus and they named the planet after him in case you didn't know) Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, etc. NASA sent a spacecraft named Juno(his wife) to go check up on him.
Fun Fact #101:
Friedrich Riesfeld, a German elephant caretaker, died on the job: the elephant in question was severely constipated and had received 22 cans of laxative. But when they finally started working, the resulting excrement hit him with such force that he fell over and suffocated on it.
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Fun Fact #102:
Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of the Cashew family.
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Fun Fact #103:
In Turkish they call a turkey Hindi, in India they call it Peru, in Arabic the bird is called Greek chicken, in Greek it's called French chicken and in French it's called Indian chicken. It is indigenous to none of the places.
Holy crap that is so cool!
Creepy robots
Cool.
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Fun Fact #106
Passengers 17 years old and younger traveling alone may not cross the US-Canadian border regardless of ID or notarized letter, unless accompanied by another passenger who is at least 18 years old.
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Fun Fact #107
Light only travels in straight lines.
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Fun Fact #108
Japan is made up of 6,852 islands.
Fun Fact #110
1/78 Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year.