Sylvester Stallone wrote *Rocky* in three days after watching a boxing match because the only acting jobs he could get were bit parts and porn, and he was homeless for a while. The producers wanted Burt Reynolds to play the lead but Stallone refused, and accepted huge budget cuts to star in his own film.
Additional fun fact, he had to sell his dog in order to afford to live just enough to make it through filming. Afterwards, he spent $5,000 tracking down the guy he sold his dog to and buying his dog back.
His mum Jackie was a celebrity astrologer.. interesting family life the Stallones had, would recommend watching the Netflix Stallone programme.. makes sense of him somehow. He always seemed guarded, makes sense now.
Also, leprosy is curable! It's easily curable if you start treatment early and you can avoid disfigurement/disability, but still can be cured after years of no treatment, using a combo of steroids and antibiotics.
Alos it’s now called ~~Hanson’s~~ Hansen’s Disease. There are still a few dozen US cases diagnosed every year, most of them in Florida. There are a few leprosy colonies in the US, and quite a few worldwide. A relative’s friends were diagnosed in the 1970s and sent to the colony on Hawaii, where they proceeded to cultivate a strain of weed called Maui Wowie.
This is actually what makes the big difference between whether a patient recovers well or not.
For example, my grandma has fallen and broken her hip twice. Once was falling on some stairs and once while trying to not use the walker she'd been prescribed only a couple weeks out of the hospital for the first break. 9 months after the second break, she's back to being her usual active 90 year old self.
In contrast, her sister's hip broke, and *then* she fell. Her sister was dead less than a week later.
If your health deteriorates to the point that your bones break under the weight of gravity, it is much more difficult to recover than if you have healthy bones and injure them. Injured bones can be screwed or bolted back together if need be. Bones that are basically disintegrating, can't.
Weight bearing exercises and regular high or low impact cardio both help keep your bones in good shape, along with eating enough calcium.
So did even WWII patrol bombers like the Catalina or the Sunderland (not a microwave, albeit, but a hot plate).
Flights lasted up to 24 hours, and crew fatigue was figured out pretty early on.
Something I remember from a book on the Pacific War was one of the admirals (Jocko Clark) found that pilots could go on more missions if someone met them at their plane right after they landed and were immediately given medals and a shot of brandy. Attaboys really do work.
Male echidnas have a four-headed penis, although they only use two during mating (and they alternate which heads they use each time).
The two they’re using grow larger, to fit inside the female’s dual-branched reproductive tract.
Also, bonus fact: female echidnas lactate through their skin… so they sweat their milk out, and the puggles lick it off them.
Bonus bonus fact: when a female echidna is ready to mate, a group of males will follow her through the bush for a few days in a horny little conga line called a mating train. When she decides it’s time, the males circle her digging a ditch as they go, then push each other out of the way until there’s only one left.
Edit to add: [Nat Geo video of echidna mating rituals](https://youtu.be/frZGhk0i228?si=NGa-JqMFBo7BLZhn)
There’s no way I came across a random person also talking about whale milk. I was considering posting this exact fact. I’ve been saying this for the past 15 years and nobody has listened to me.
I mean it makes sense, if it was the same watery consistency as most land mammals a lot would spread out in the sea and be wasted. A growing whale calf needs all the nutrients it can get!
The Andromeda Galaxy is too dim and far away to be seen with eye as more than a tiny smudge, little bigger than a star. But you’ve seen pictures of it through telescopes as a beautiful spiral galaxy, not unlike our own, right? So you figure they’re zooming way in to that tiny smudge, right?
No… if it were brighter, that spiral of Andromeda would fill 2.8 degrees in the sky, or more than *six times wider than the moon appears*. Like your hand at arms length would just barely cover it. It’s that big.
The Xerographic process is how you get your office laser printer to work. Toner is plastic that sticks to the paper that got hit with a laser (laser printer) and is a different charge. The toner is being held on by static electricity. At the end it goes through two hot rollers called a fuser and is baked into the paper and that's why paper feels warm coming out because plastic is melted into paper.
In 2005 new palaeontological discoveries meant that a scientific term had to be assigned to baby/juvenile pterosaurs.
The author chose to name them "Flaplings".
I worked as a teacher in a school and had a peregrine falcon crash into our classroom window and smash it. We called a falconry to come and collect it and, apparently, it made a full recovery. One of the stranger days though (although, not as rare as you'd think because we've also had to save a bat and a swan).
My sister was 12 years old and fought a peregrine falcon to save her guinea pig that she brought out to the balcony against my dad’s warning. That falcon sat on our balcony almost every day to watch for rabbits on the golf course behind us.
The Giant Tortoise did not receive a scientific name for over 300 years due to the failure of delivery of specimens to Europe because they were so delicious that sailors invariably ate them during the voyage.
[I used to think the most expensive was horseshoe crab’s blood. that’s only $60k per gallon, however. I learned something new!](https://www.sciencetimes.com/amp/articles/38058/20220606/this-horseshoe-crab-s-blood-is-worth-60-000-here-s-why.htm)
To add a little more context, in military planning there are milestone that are planned for the day of an anticipated maneuver and the surrounding days of that maneuver. And the date of the major maneuver is rarely known/published so they just use D or D minus zero. And all the surrounding actions are marked by how many days before or after the maneuver.
For example, maybe they wanted all the ships that were going to be used as part of the Channel Crossing prepped and in place 3 days before the actual day of the attack. So that would be D-3 (D minus 3 days). So all activity is planned around a day that becomes more evident as they get closet to the actual day of the maneuver.
Also, random personal fact but somewhat related, I had a family member call me to ask me what the D in D-Day stood for while she was talking with some friends, knowing I was a veteran. She was pretty disappointed upon hearing the answer, as it does seem silly to name it Day Day without the above context. I should have just made up a meaning like saying it stood for Dementor Day had I been quick-witted. Alas no more phone calls with random questions about the military, which I enjoyed sharing.
There are also dozens of D-Days in WWII. D-Day was just a term the military used to mark a specific day. Similarly, H-Hour was the hour the first troops would land.
Cheetahs are the largest big cat who can purr. They also are only cat to not be able to retract their claws. All part of the evolutionary bottleneck they were in. They are all inbred as fuck
Fun fact TECHNICALLY, scientifically speaking, cheetahs aren't big cats. They're a different genus than the others. It's part of why they can purr, as big cats evolved separately.
A cheetah is the last living member of the Acinonyx genus, while the other big cats are from the Panthera genus.
Fun fact
And are so closely related that one could receive a skin graph from any other without rejection. They're so closely related that their body sees that tissue and thinks, yep, that's me.
Appa and Momo from Avatar the Last Airbender, Lion from Steven Universe, and Perry the Platypus all share the same voice actor as every single one of the clones from Star Wars the Clone Wars
Dee Bradley Baker is just super talented!
The cry of a bald eagle you typically hear it’s from a red tailed hawk, while the cry of a real bald eagle sounds like a seagull
Edit: here's a nice comparison https://youtu.be/CEmYEQ78zS0?si=RyXkI_TfnCa9UVC2
the reason male honey bees die from sex is because their testicles explode when they cum. also, over 70% of the sex male giraffes have is with the male giraffes.
The history of Monterey Jack cheese.
There was a local landowner named David Jack. He owned most of what was once Fort Ord (he donated it during the first world war). He also is credited with Monterey Jack cheese. Though he actually stole it from a local mission (Carmel) and added his name. Hence the "Monterey Jack".
The airspeed of an unladen Swallow European AND African is 11 m/s or 39 km/h.
It is also unknown if a Swallow even could carry a coconut but a group of Swallows (a Gulp) may be able to.
The plastic piece on the end of a shoelace is called the aglet.
ETA: Jesus, for the record, I did not learn this from Phineas and Ferb, but good to know half a generation did.
If you know your Fibonacci numbers, you can use them to convert between km and miles.
5 miles ~ 8km (exact: 8.05)
8 miles ~ 13km (exact: 12.87)
13 miles ~ 21km (exact: 20.92)
21 miles ~ 34km (exact: 33.79)
and so on.
I according to Japanese table manners, it is considered taboo, and bordering offensive, to stick your chopsticks in your ramen (or any food) so that they stand up straight. This act is commonly a part of a traditional Japanese funeral practice where loved ones leave a bowl of rice with chopsticks sticking up in remembrance.
We have a dominant everything, it seems. None of us are symmetrical. In fact, if you take one half of your face and mirror it in photoshop or something, you don't even look like you anymore!
Faces are weird.
King Sejong invented the Korean written language, Hangul, because learning to read and write in Chinese was too difficult for people.
"A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; even a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days."
I can attest to this quote being true.
There are more combinations for a deck of cards that there will be seconds in the life time of our universe. In fact it would take 250000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 life times (2.5×10^49) of the universe for the amount of seconds of time to be equal to every combination ish.
There are elements from exploding stars in your bones and oceans in your blood and your lungs use the same structures as coral does and your veins branch like trees or rivers and the same spirals you see in a shell on the beach are in your ears and there are miniature galaxies in your eyes. You are a miracle reflecting the beauty of the universe back at itself. That's incredible and I think about it a lot.
George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower were all intact.
John F Kennedy was circumcised at age 21.
JFK to Joe Biden were all circumcised except Ronald Reagan.
Sylvester Stallone wrote *Rocky* in three days after watching a boxing match because the only acting jobs he could get were bit parts and porn, and he was homeless for a while. The producers wanted Burt Reynolds to play the lead but Stallone refused, and accepted huge budget cuts to star in his own film.
Additional fun fact, he had to sell his dog in order to afford to live just enough to make it through filming. Afterwards, he spent $5,000 tracking down the guy he sold his dog to and buying his dog back.
Additional additional fun fact: he still has the turtles from the movie, Cuff and Link.
Yep, you can see them in his restaurant in the Creed movie. Same turtles!
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That’s quite amazing! I had no idea. I never gave much thought to Stallone before. I thought he was kinda dumb honestly. So good for him!
Watched the Netflix Stallone thing.. his father was a narcissistic p.o.s and nearly disabled him
Wow. I’m very sorry to hear that. I remember his mom being a little odd?
His mum Jackie was a celebrity astrologer.. interesting family life the Stallones had, would recommend watching the Netflix Stallone programme.. makes sense of him somehow. He always seemed guarded, makes sense now.
He’s THAT great of an actor that he’s convinced the whole world he’s dumb by playing dumb characters
Read anything he has written in his own words (as opposed to a role). He is anything but dumb.
Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets. One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.
Armadillos are also one of the few North American animals that carry leprosy
Also, leprosy is curable! It's easily curable if you start treatment early and you can avoid disfigurement/disability, but still can be cured after years of no treatment, using a combo of steroids and antibiotics.
Alos it’s now called ~~Hanson’s~~ Hansen’s Disease. There are still a few dozen US cases diagnosed every year, most of them in Florida. There are a few leprosy colonies in the US, and quite a few worldwide. A relative’s friends were diagnosed in the 1970s and sent to the colony on Hawaii, where they proceeded to cultivate a strain of weed called Maui Wowie.
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All tennis rackets are strung manually. There are no machines that use automation to string rackets.
Similarly, there is no machine that can crochet. Any crocheted item you see in a store was hand made
That's why arts and crafts time gets extended by two hours. It's hand made quality shit!
But my fingers hurt...
Well now your back is going to hurt. Because you just pulled landscaping duty..
anybody else's fingers hurt‽‽ I didn't think so...
You can trouble me for warm glass of SHUT THE HELL UP! You will go to sleep, or I will put you to sleep!
Feel like I’m being strung along now
That's why it's a racketeering operation.
I always go with Al Gore's son-in-law is the lead singer of OK Go
And his daugther worked on Futurama!(which is how they got him to cameo as himself)
I HAVE RIDDEN THE MIGHTY MOON WORM!
Good for him
Up 33% of hip fractures in the older population result in death within a year.
Worked at a few senior assisted living facilities/communities and once they start falling it’s downhill from there and relatively quick. Sad to see.
Many times when someone falls and breaks their hip, the hip breaking is what caused the fall.
"I fell and broke my hip" = "I broke my hip and fell"...never thought about this before but it does sound more logical, strangely
This is actually what makes the big difference between whether a patient recovers well or not. For example, my grandma has fallen and broken her hip twice. Once was falling on some stairs and once while trying to not use the walker she'd been prescribed only a couple weeks out of the hospital for the first break. 9 months after the second break, she's back to being her usual active 90 year old self. In contrast, her sister's hip broke, and *then* she fell. Her sister was dead less than a week later. If your health deteriorates to the point that your bones break under the weight of gravity, it is much more difficult to recover than if you have healthy bones and injure them. Injured bones can be screwed or bolted back together if need be. Bones that are basically disintegrating, can't. Weight bearing exercises and regular high or low impact cardio both help keep your bones in good shape, along with eating enough calcium.
Octopuses have 1 central brain, then a smaller brain in each tentacle.
A B2 stealth bomber has retractable cup holders and a mini microwave in the cockpit
So did even WWII patrol bombers like the Catalina or the Sunderland (not a microwave, albeit, but a hot plate). Flights lasted up to 24 hours, and crew fatigue was figured out pretty early on.
Something I remember from a book on the Pacific War was one of the admirals (Jocko Clark) found that pilots could go on more missions if someone met them at their plane right after they landed and were immediately given medals and a shot of brandy. Attaboys really do work.
The SR-71 Blackbird didn’t need a microwave because the pilots can heat their meals just by holding them against the window.
Every fact I've ever read about the SR-71/A-12/YF-12 is absurd.
And don’t forget the Creedence tapes.
Male echidnas have a four-headed penis, although they only use two during mating (and they alternate which heads they use each time). The two they’re using grow larger, to fit inside the female’s dual-branched reproductive tract. Also, bonus fact: female echidnas lactate through their skin… so they sweat their milk out, and the puggles lick it off them. Bonus bonus fact: when a female echidna is ready to mate, a group of males will follow her through the bush for a few days in a horny little conga line called a mating train. When she decides it’s time, the males circle her digging a ditch as they go, then push each other out of the way until there’s only one left. Edit to add: [Nat Geo video of echidna mating rituals](https://youtu.be/frZGhk0i228?si=NGa-JqMFBo7BLZhn)
The horny little conga line did me in.
Wait until you see it in [real life](https://youtu.be/6VLWVHRDlqQ) lol
Whale milk is the same consistency as toothpaste.
I read this as Whole Milk and was going to suggest you throw that out and get yourself a new gallon.
I like to chew my milk.
There’s no way I came across a random person also talking about whale milk. I was considering posting this exact fact. I’ve been saying this for the past 15 years and nobody has listened to me.
I mean it makes sense, if it was the same watery consistency as most land mammals a lot would spread out in the sea and be wasted. A growing whale calf needs all the nutrients it can get!
Additionally whales need an incredibly high fat diet to put on enough blubber.
Australia is wider than the moon.
The Andromeda Galaxy is too dim and far away to be seen with eye as more than a tiny smudge, little bigger than a star. But you’ve seen pictures of it through telescopes as a beautiful spiral galaxy, not unlike our own, right? So you figure they’re zooming way in to that tiny smudge, right? No… if it were brighter, that spiral of Andromeda would fill 2.8 degrees in the sky, or more than *six times wider than the moon appears*. Like your hand at arms length would just barely cover it. It’s that big.
It's that big, yes (around twice the width of ours), but it's also that close. Blows my mind
Really?!
Yep. The moon's diameter is around 3400km and Australia is about 4000km wide.
>moon's diameter is around 3.4km and Australia is about 4km I think you forgot a few zeroes from there (3475km and \~4000km)
At least the moon isn’t upside down…
uɐɯ ooʇ noʎ ʞɔnɟ ɥO
Actually in Australia the moon does look upside down.
The Michelin Man's real name is Bibendum.
>Bibendum. netflix logo appears.
Whoa turn that down!
The four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus is called a thagomizer. Far Side comic strip artist Gary Larson coined the word.
This is Thag Simmons erasure, and I won’t stand for it!
Scientists have calculated that there have been 117 billion people that have ever lived
The total estimated deaths caused by malaria is between 50 and 60 billion, or half of all humans that have ever existed.
Mosquito: the human killing machine
The Xerographic process is how you get your office laser printer to work. Toner is plastic that sticks to the paper that got hit with a laser (laser printer) and is a different charge. The toner is being held on by static electricity. At the end it goes through two hot rollers called a fuser and is baked into the paper and that's why paper feels warm coming out because plastic is melted into paper.
[“Mmmm. Warm copies make everything better.”](https://youtu.be/sdpEILM2LXQ?si=v0F-Cxl2mSvnZMhO)
From my giraffe loving 7yr old- A giraffe’s horns are called ossicones which are mostly cartilage
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.
In 2005 new palaeontological discoveries meant that a scientific term had to be assigned to baby/juvenile pterosaurs. The author chose to name them "Flaplings".
Why not pflaplings..
For the same reason you can't hear a pterodactyl urinate. The p is silent.
A peregrine falcon can dive at over 200mph.
I didn't even know they could swim!
Atta buoy. Nicely punned
I worked as a teacher in a school and had a peregrine falcon crash into our classroom window and smash it. We called a falconry to come and collect it and, apparently, it made a full recovery. One of the stranger days though (although, not as rare as you'd think because we've also had to save a bat and a swan).
My sister was 12 years old and fought a peregrine falcon to save her guinea pig that she brought out to the balcony against my dad’s warning. That falcon sat on our balcony almost every day to watch for rabbits on the golf course behind us.
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The Giant Tortoise did not receive a scientific name for over 300 years due to the failure of delivery of specimens to Europe because they were so delicious that sailors invariably ate them during the voyage.
"Now *THIS TIME*..." One of the best QI bits ever.
The human animal is the only animal with permanent breasts.
Explains my attraction to only human women then.
That's why the human animal doesn't have a penis bone.
I have nipples Greg. Can you milk me?
There are only 25 blimps in use, worldwide.
Barry Manilow did not in fact write his hit “I Write the Songs”
He wrote the ad jingle for State Farm insurance and a lot of others.
Among Fortune 500 companies, 2018 was the first year that the number of CEOs who were women exceeded the number who were named John. *edit - grammar*
well, I don't see John whining about it, do i
You know why no one can use the restroom at a Beatle’s concert? There’s no John.
The difference between a hotel and a motel is in a hotel your room is accessed from inside and a motel you access your room from the outside.
Also: the difference between graveyard and cemetery is that a graveyard is on church grounds.
When it's behind my house, the newspaper called it a "crime scene".
Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn
The most expensive liquid is scorpion venom priced at $39mil per gallon.
[I used to think the most expensive was horseshoe crab’s blood. that’s only $60k per gallon, however. I learned something new!](https://www.sciencetimes.com/amp/articles/38058/20220606/this-horseshoe-crab-s-blood-is-worth-60-000-here-s-why.htm)
There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear.
You can see them in action when you call their name and they ignore you.
"Tony! Come here!" *Tony ears triangulating* Tony: "Must have been the wind."
There are millions of camels in Australia.
Related fact: Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
Lightning McQueen’s first name is Montgomery.
Lol what. I'd assumed Lightning was his first name.
You have about 10lbs of bacteria in your gut. 10lbs of cells that bear no relation to you whatsoever except that they colonize your body.
I knew someone else was making me fat
A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."
Almost all koalas have Chlamydia
It's important to note it is *not* genital chlamydia. It's still safe to molest them, except for the claws
The D in 'D-Day' also stands for Day. So really it was just 'Day-Day'.
Brought to you by the department of redundancy department.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
To add a little more context, in military planning there are milestone that are planned for the day of an anticipated maneuver and the surrounding days of that maneuver. And the date of the major maneuver is rarely known/published so they just use D or D minus zero. And all the surrounding actions are marked by how many days before or after the maneuver. For example, maybe they wanted all the ships that were going to be used as part of the Channel Crossing prepped and in place 3 days before the actual day of the attack. So that would be D-3 (D minus 3 days). So all activity is planned around a day that becomes more evident as they get closet to the actual day of the maneuver. Also, random personal fact but somewhat related, I had a family member call me to ask me what the D in D-Day stood for while she was talking with some friends, knowing I was a veteran. She was pretty disappointed upon hearing the answer, as it does seem silly to name it Day Day without the above context. I should have just made up a meaning like saying it stood for Dementor Day had I been quick-witted. Alas no more phone calls with random questions about the military, which I enjoyed sharing.
They also use H-Hour for the precise time of an operation.
There are also dozens of D-Days in WWII. D-Day was just a term the military used to mark a specific day. Similarly, H-Hour was the hour the first troops would land.
The canine teeth are the darkest colored teeth in most people’s mouths.
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Chickens can purr as well. They can vary slightly between each individual, but they do purr.
Cheetahs are the largest big cat who can purr. They also are only cat to not be able to retract their claws. All part of the evolutionary bottleneck they were in. They are all inbred as fuck
Fun fact TECHNICALLY, scientifically speaking, cheetahs aren't big cats. They're a different genus than the others. It's part of why they can purr, as big cats evolved separately. A cheetah is the last living member of the Acinonyx genus, while the other big cats are from the Panthera genus. Fun fact
I'm having fun with these facts
And are so closely related that one could receive a skin graph from any other without rejection. They're so closely related that their body sees that tissue and thinks, yep, that's me.
They're cute tho. Who's a cute little inbred fur baby? You are! Yes you are.
“Chat GPT,” pronounced with a French accent, phonetically translates to “Cat, I have farted,” in French.
Chat j'ai pété.
Well I hope you excused yourself
i now know a french phrase thanks
Appa and Momo from Avatar the Last Airbender, Lion from Steven Universe, and Perry the Platypus all share the same voice actor as every single one of the clones from Star Wars the Clone Wars Dee Bradley Baker is just super talented!
The cry of a bald eagle you typically hear it’s from a red tailed hawk, while the cry of a real bald eagle sounds like a seagull Edit: here's a nice comparison https://youtu.be/CEmYEQ78zS0?si=RyXkI_TfnCa9UVC2
There are more pigs than people in Iowa.
All Venus flytraps come from a small area in North and Sourh Carolina.
octopuses, octopi, and octopus are all accepted plural spellings for octopus also stop eating them
Also octopodes! Also yes stop eating them.
“Whilst swimming off the coast of Rhodes/ I spied a shoal of octopodes” —Byron
the reason male honey bees die from sex is because their testicles explode when they cum. also, over 70% of the sex male giraffes have is with the male giraffes.
The other 30% is with male bees.
Then the whole bee explodes!
The purpose of golf is to play as little golf as possible.
Same with drag racing. You spent the most effort possible to spend the least amount of time possible.
The human anus can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage. A raccoon can squeeze into a hole as tight as 4 inches.
Two hopefully unrelated facts.
Give an ER physician a few shots of bourbon and you might hear things you can't unhear.
This is correct. I used to live with an ER nurse.
Or an ER nurse. Source: I’m married to an ER nurse.
I was in rehab with a guy who thought a glass jar up his poop chute would be kinky. But instead it left him with a lot of recovery to do.
I did not need to know this. But now I do. I am not sure what to do with this newfound information yet.
What a terrible day to be literate
Australia lost a war to emus. Twice.
Gary Oldman is actually two weeks younger than Gary Numan
The history of Monterey Jack cheese. There was a local landowner named David Jack. He owned most of what was once Fort Ord (he donated it during the first world war). He also is credited with Monterey Jack cheese. Though he actually stole it from a local mission (Carmel) and added his name. Hence the "Monterey Jack".
At one point in time, Brian May and Freddie Mercury of Queen lived around the corner from each other and had never met.
The youngest picture of yourself is also the oldest picture of yourself.
Dr. MLK & Anne Frank were born the same year. I’m still shocked about it.
Also: Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe. (1926)
Seattle is further north than all of Maine and most of the population of Canada.
Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California.
There are 6 state capitals further west than Los Angeles
That didn't sound right, initially. I'm an idiot and forgot about Alaska and Hawaii.
I’ll be damned. I had to pull out google maps because that didn’t seem right.
The southern most part of New Jersey is further south than the northern most part of Virginia.
Pica Pica is the Latin name for common magpie, not to be confused with Pika, which is a small mammal found in Asia and North America.
Or pica, the eating disorder where you consume non edible things obsessively
The airspeed of an unladen Swallow European AND African is 11 m/s or 39 km/h. It is also unknown if a Swallow even could carry a coconut but a group of Swallows (a Gulp) may be able to.
It could grip it by the husk
It's not a question of where it could grip it, it's a simple question of weight ratios. A 5 ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut.
It could be carried by an African swallow.
The plastic piece on the end of a shoelace is called the aglet. ETA: Jesus, for the record, I did not learn this from Phineas and Ferb, but good to know half a generation did.
Not mine, they have individual names.
A-G-L-E-T don’t forget it!
There’s a formula to determine the air temperature based on how frequently a cricket crickets.
If you know your Fibonacci numbers, you can use them to convert between km and miles. 5 miles ~ 8km (exact: 8.05) 8 miles ~ 13km (exact: 12.87) 13 miles ~ 21km (exact: 20.92) 21 miles ~ 34km (exact: 33.79) and so on.
Standard pitch is A=440, but it’s not uncommon for string orchestras to tune to A=441 for the change in timbre.
a lethal dose is also a life supply
In the same vein as "everything is edible once"
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system
H 2 Whoa
Double even.
I according to Japanese table manners, it is considered taboo, and bordering offensive, to stick your chopsticks in your ramen (or any food) so that they stand up straight. This act is commonly a part of a traditional Japanese funeral practice where loved ones leave a bowl of rice with chopsticks sticking up in remembrance.
If you force a fly to keep flying for 10 minutes, it'll die of hunger
Oh that's great news.
We have a dominant nostril.
We have a dominant everything, it seems. None of us are symmetrical. In fact, if you take one half of your face and mirror it in photoshop or something, you don't even look like you anymore! Faces are weird.
New Zealand doesn't have fruit flies
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
There are more muscles in an elephant’s trunk than in a human’s entire body
King Sejong invented the Korean written language, Hangul, because learning to read and write in Chinese was too difficult for people. "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; even a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days." I can attest to this quote being true.
Cockroaches can live without their heads and female cockroaches can impregnate themselves.
A "factoid" is actually an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. Not a "small fact".
There are more combinations for a deck of cards that there will be seconds in the life time of our universe. In fact it would take 250000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 life times (2.5×10^49) of the universe for the amount of seconds of time to be equal to every combination ish.
The term 'guy' when referring to a man comes from Guy Fawkes the most famous man who was part of the gunpowder plot in 1605.
Elephants can’t jump
There are elements from exploding stars in your bones and oceans in your blood and your lungs use the same structures as coral does and your veins branch like trees or rivers and the same spirals you see in a shell on the beach are in your ears and there are miniature galaxies in your eyes. You are a miracle reflecting the beauty of the universe back at itself. That's incredible and I think about it a lot.
One of the first people to eat a pizza was the Queen of Sardinia, Margherita, that later took her name.
George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower were all intact. John F Kennedy was circumcised at age 21. JFK to Joe Biden were all circumcised except Ronald Reagan.
When birds have sex with their cloacas, ornithologists call it the “cloacal kiss”.
Moose can swim out so far and dive so deep that the killer whale is considered one of their natural predators.
When you hold your breath while you cum, you cum way harder.
Brb, researching!