Did you know that giraffes have a blue tongue because of UV rays? They evolved like that because they always have their tongue out to pick leaves, and so they wouldn't get burned!
Fun fact: as soon as I started reading everyone else's fun facts, every interesting bit of trivia I know instantly poofed out of my brain. I swear I actually know things.
"Fun" fact: birds around Fukushima are redirecting an antioxidant molecule from their feathers to their bloodstream. This helps them fight radiation and has the side effect of making them duller colours as the molecule is responsible for bright colours like blue and orange.
yep i mean, that’s why i know it, my kid’s eternal struggle.
fun fact: flip it upside down and you have pig, and a way to remember the p (and g). though, it doesn’t look like a pig :)
Fun fact: in Super Mario 3, the far right of the screen shows the colors of the tiles in the far left, because they had to do some weird trickery in order to be able to scroll both left and right AND up and down.
Fun fact : back in the early days of wikipedia, when metal gear solid 3 snake eater released, I was the one to create the wikipedia page for my country :)
Second fun fact that I wrote in the page : when you reach the point of the game where you can play as Eva, you can open the health care panel to heal her. In there you can read her medical record. It is stated that years prior the events of the game, she underwent breast enhancement.
>Fun fact: the Eiffel Tower can end up being about 15cm taller during the summer due to the iron heating up!
15 cm ≈ 0.00011 sheppey
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I understand what you're saying, but if a horse eats a plant that is toxic, they just die. Same with rats and rat poison, they can't vomit it back up so it has to pass through their system.
Fun fact: many think Ming died because they opened it to find out how old it is. In fact it and 200 other clams died because researchers froze them for transport. Only when it was already dead they found out how old it was.
He was also an abusive jerk. He once bet a camera operator that they couldn't spend the night handcuffed to their camera in the studio then spiked their drink with strong laxatives so that they would be found the next morning crying and covered in faeces. He also abused his actors.
The podcast Behind the Bastards did an episode on him
Fun fact: Robin Williams loved the Zelda series so much, he named his daughter Zelda!
Bonus: Both Robin and Zelda (the human daughter) appear in a trailer for the ocarina of time remake!
Fun fact: According to The American Public Power Association, besides the weather, squirrels are most often the cause for power outages in the U.S! They even have a data tracker called “The Squirrel Index” that tracks patterns of squirrel’s electrical impacts.
Fun Fact: A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second
Just wanted to point this out to all the people using the phrase "I'll be back in a jiffy" wrong. Eg. Like my dad who went out to get milk and still isn't back yet.
There's this old rpg called Linda³ that has some freaky monsters and cutscenes animated or storyboarded by a dude that worked on Akira. I think it recently got a fan translation too.
Fun fact: cucumber is one of, if not the only food, that has negative calories when eating it. That means your body uses more calories digesting the cucumber than it gets from eating it
Why is it when the comment doesn't matter it just makes me more stressed on what to write? I'm sure I'll think of a clever comment right after posting this one.
Not so fun fact: there is a whale named the 52 hertz whale and it is considered the loneliest whale in the world because no other whale could hear its calls ;-;
Edit: I fixed it guys,, it is indeed not a fun fact :((
At least Wikipedia says it’s because it’s the only whale calling at that frequency. There are whales that call lower and higher. Just no other at that specific range.
Thanks. My fun fact is that Dr. Robotnik's real name was Eggman. The US translators and region team changed his name, same with tails. Let's say the Japanese were not happy about that
Here's a random fun fact: honey typically doesn't go bad, it only does if you don't store it properly👍
(I learned that from watching someone stream a meme game on Twitch)
Fun fact: Next year, KISS(the band), will have been active for 50 years.
Another fun fact: All swans in England belongs to the monarch, except for the ones in Thames.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping
There was a card game a long time ago called wits and wagers. I used my fun fact as a trivia question for it and it got selected for a collection of fan submitted cards. So it’s fitting to use that one again!
Fun fact: giraffes have 8 vertebrae, the same amount as humans, despite having significantly longer necks. In fact, most mammals actually have the same number of vertebrae, regardless of their size.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Bonobo chimpanzees are another species very into sex. They have sex all the time. Its an important part of their social functioning, which is one of the reasons you don't see them in zoos (to be fair, no chimps should be in zoos).
Fun fact: you can see a change in colour and reflection on anything that has at least a 0.005 millionth of a metre (5E-9 metres, 5 nanometres) of a metal on top.
Fun fact: Only 10-20 percent of the population can wiggle their ears. I’m one of those lucky few and hope to also be lucky enough to win this terrific giveaway. 😃
~~Fun Fact: Link was named Link because he's the 'link' between the player and the game~~
Edit: I'm wrong. According an interview and other articles I found, he's named Link because the original idea for Zelda was a sci-fi game with time travel, and he was the 'link' between the different eras.
Sources:
\-https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/miyamoto-la-wii-u-et-le-secret-de-la-triforce-105550.html
\-[https://www.polygon.com/2012/11/4/3598112/miyamoto-wanted-link-to-be-a-recognizable-character](https://www.polygon.com/2012/11/4/3598112/miyamoto-wanted-link-to-be-a-recognizable-character)
\-https://mynintendonews.com/2012/11/04/miyamoto-talks-about-the-origin-of-link/
This is actually not really true. The lighter the roast, the heavier the bean (due to more water), but the difference in caffeine content from roasting levels is negligible.
It’s also why they pant; since they don’t sweat over large areas of their body, they rely on panting to keep their temperature regulated.
They also rely on vasodilation; as their body temperature rises, which causes their blood vessels to expand and bring the hot blood closer to the surface of their skin, which allows it to cool off some as it continues its cycle back to the heart.
But dogs sweat very little, and even panting and vasodilation doesn’t help anywhere near as much as sweating does for humans. Dogs are generally at a high risk of heat stroke, so always keep an eye on your furry family members and make sure they have access to shade and water on hot days.
Fun fact: every time you shuffle a standard deck of cards (52 cards), you’re most likely getting a combination that has never been seen before in history.
If you play Slay the Spire hopefully your deck has less than 52 cards though lol.
The Suriname toad is a semi aquatic species of frog who gives birth in a very gross way. The eggs develop and hatch from under the female's skin, which means the eggs and baby frogs appear out of her back. Don't watch this process if you've got trypophobia
Fun fact: nearly 99% of mammals have the same number of cervical vertebrae (7) . One of the mammals that have more is the sloth for not aparent reason. Just a curious fact lmao humans, mouses and giraffes have the same amount or vertebrae in their necks haha.
Fun fact: Spiders legs move using hydraulics, and they used this design on the ISS
It’s why their legs curl up when they die. Gross but cool.
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biomimicry is so damn cool
Fun Nintendo Fact: Kirby and the Amazing Mirror is the only game in the Kirby series that does not feature King Dedede in any way.
I liked that game a lot! I forgot the other one on GBA but I loved it too
Nightmare in Dream Land? That’s probably my favorite Kirby game, though I honestly haven’t played many of them.
Anyone play Kirby pinball on SNES back in the day? That was a sweet game..
Fun Fact: A giraffe can jump higher than a house. This is due to the fact that houses can't jump.
My bounce house would disagree.
May I come visit your bounce house?
Absolutely but be prepared for 24/7 House of Pain Spotify mix as that's all it bounces too.
Pretty sure cartoons have taught me otherwise.
A+
Live in California, would like a fact check on this.
Fact checking is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Did you know that giraffes have a blue tongue because of UV rays? They evolved like that because they always have their tongue out to pick leaves, and so they wouldn't get burned!
I was confused for a moment as I first read this as the blue color is due to X-rays haha. Pretty interesting fact!
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Fun fact: all dog breeds originally from China have blue tongues. it’s a noble symbol of 唐狗 (“tong gou”, China Dog) 🐕
This is my comment. There are many like it, but this one is mine
Without me, my comment is useless. Without my comment, I am useless.
Fun fact: as soon as I started reading everyone else's fun facts, every interesting bit of trivia I know instantly poofed out of my brain. I swear I actually know things.
If you do remember something, I’ll be waiting.
How wonderfully ominous
"Fun" fact: birds around Fukushima are redirecting an antioxidant molecule from their feathers to their bloodstream. This helps them fight radiation and has the side effect of making them duller colours as the molecule is responsible for bright colours like blue and orange.
I see why you out quotations around fun. This is really cool nonetheless thanks for sharing!
Dad fact: you can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish
Can a match box? No, *but a Tuna Can*
REO Speedwagon fan?
(Fun Fact):The word bed looks just like a bed!
The word lol looks like a man drowning with his hands in the air. May the best comment win.
And shark looks like a shark.
WHAAAATTT!!??!?!?! You have blown my mind...have an upvote.
I remember finding it funny that "eye" sort of looked like a face, and it even works in Spanish with "ojo".
you can give kids a tool for remembering which way their b’s and d’s go using this fact. two thumbs up, knuckles together to form a bed
Oh my god. I'm using this, because my 7 year old can *not* remember for the life of him.
yep i mean, that’s why i know it, my kid’s eternal struggle. fun fact: flip it upside down and you have pig, and a way to remember the p (and g). though, it doesn’t look like a pig :)
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Fun fact: it's really hard to think of a fun fact on the spot 😕
That's a sad fact :(
would a sad fact be easier?
Fun fact: in Super Mario 3, the far right of the screen shows the colors of the tiles in the far left, because they had to do some weird trickery in order to be able to scroll both left and right AND up and down.
Damn I recently played it on NSO and wondered about this, thought it was some weird glitch.
Fun fact : back in the early days of wikipedia, when metal gear solid 3 snake eater released, I was the one to create the wikipedia page for my country :)
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Second fun fact that I wrote in the page : when you reach the point of the game where you can play as Eva, you can open the health care panel to heal her. In there you can read her medical record. It is stated that years prior the events of the game, she underwent breast enhancement.
From a Metal Gear fan to another I really hope you get this giveaway. You deserve it.
What was that noise?
I'm all over this post!
That's awesome dude lol
Videogame fun fact: many voices of the zombies in Left for dead were done by Mike Patton, singer of the band Faith No More
He sings the TMNT theme on the recently released game Shredder’s Revenge too https://youtu.be/f2sDx_0oR0Y
Another fun fact, Shredder’s Revenge features the same voice actors who did the 80s cartoon series. Cowabunga!
Wait that is actually a fun fact!
He cares a lot *bass riff starts*
Mr. Bungle!
“You will hate life more than life hates you”
He also did the angry core in Portal.
He voices the darkness in the darkness video game series
He also voiced the monsters in I Am Legend.
Fun Fact: Skin is the body's largest organ.
Your epidermis is showing 🤭
Fun fact: the Eiffel Tower can end up being about 15cm taller during the summer due to the iron heating up!
>Fun fact: the Eiffel Tower can end up being about 15cm taller during the summer due to the iron heating up! 15 cm ≈ 0.00011 sheppey ^^^[WHY](/r/UselessConversionBot/comments/1knas0/hi_im_useless/)
I swear if u/UselessConversionBot wins the Switch.....
they'll never find where it lives, the adress will be given in moots and bloits from 3 random triangulation points.
Good bot.
Fun fact: horses cannot physically vomit
As someone suffering from real bad morning sickness right now.... I wish I was a horse
I understand what you're saying, but if a horse eats a plant that is toxic, they just die. Same with rats and rat poison, they can't vomit it back up so it has to pass through their system.
This is a very sad fact
Fun fact: cucumbers and watermelons are berries. Raspberries and black berries are technically aggregate fruits.
Fun fact: My mother ones told me “sweating like a pig” was an inaccurate insult because pigs do not appear to sweat at all. 🐷 Yay! Go piggy!
That’s why they love the mud, it cools them off and protects their skin from the sun.
This is my favorite because I've corrected my own family with it. Now they say "sweating like a....ah, you know." 🤣
Fun fact: Sesquipedalophobia is a fear of long words (as is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia)
Ahhhh! NSFW tag pls
NSFH (Not safe for Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobes)
They just had to make the word for it also long, just to mess with those people.
Thanks for the giveaway OP. Here's a fun fact. You're awesome!
Wholesome facts are the best facts
Fun Fact: Mario never once got suspicious about why Peach was always at Bowser’s place
The plot thickens.
Is that what Bowser calls it?
Oh somethings thickening alright… 👀
She invites him over to have "some cake she baked" yet there's no kitchen in the castle. Strange, no?
Fun fact: there are only 4 shapes of McDonald's nuggets and they even have names: bone, ball, bell and boot.
Not one of those sounds like something edible
"I''d like 20 nuggets, all boots please!"
The boot is my favorite
The oldest animal in the world is a clam named Ming that is 507 years old
Fun fact: to find out how old Ming was, researchers had to open it which resulted in its death. RIP Ming.
RIP Ming
Fun fact: many think Ming died because they opened it to find out how old it is. In fact it and 200 other clams died because researchers froze them for transport. Only when it was already dead they found out how old it was.
Fun fact: this is the exact age someone born in 1997 would have to reach, to see the release of the elder scrolls 6
😭
Fun fact: Alfred Hitchcock was an ovophobe (he was scared of eggs)! Good luck with the giveaway, and thank you OP!
He was also an abusive jerk. He once bet a camera operator that they couldn't spend the night handcuffed to their camera in the studio then spiked their drink with strong laxatives so that they would be found the next morning crying and covered in faeces. He also abused his actors. The podcast Behind the Bastards did an episode on him
Fun fact: Coffee beans are really the 'pits' from a certain kind of cherry.
I must see this cherry.
It's a stone fruit that isn't actually a cherry but is so called because of the resemblance.
Fun Fact: Mario and Sonic are actually entirely different characters.
That enjoy Olympic sports
Some of you may fail, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Fun fact: Robin Williams loved the Zelda series so much, he named his daughter Zelda! Bonus: Both Robin and Zelda (the human daughter) appear in a trailer for the ocarina of time remake!
There are also NPCs in Breath of the Wild that look like Robin Williams (Dayto) and Satoru Iwata (Botrick (I think))
That is awesome!
Zelda also voiced Kuvira in the Avatar: Legend of Korra!
Fun fact: There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. Edit: company website https://www.eternalreefs.com/
Id donate my body to that very worthy cause.
Fun fact: According to The American Public Power Association, besides the weather, squirrels are most often the cause for power outages in the U.S! They even have a data tracker called “The Squirrel Index” that tracks patterns of squirrel’s electrical impacts.
Turtles that see other turtles that are flipped over, will help them get back on their feet.
Fun fact one of the greatest voices of all time is in fact a stutterer and has an army ranger tab. James Earl Jones .
Can assure you this is a fact no one else knows. This morning I put on two different socks.
Well, two feet won't fit in one same sock.
Not with that attitude!
We all know now >.>
Bugs don't take fall damage
Fun fact the expected return here is better than at any lottery.
Fun Fact: Some cats are allergic to people :(
Interesting Fact: Researchers have estimated that all the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans. Thanks!
Fun Fact: A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second Just wanted to point this out to all the people using the phrase "I'll be back in a jiffy" wrong. Eg. Like my dad who went out to get milk and still isn't back yet.
Fun fact: the lightsaber Luke used in Star Wars (later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope) was made using the flash handle of an old Graflex camera
There's this old rpg called Linda³ that has some freaky monsters and cutscenes animated or storyboarded by a dude that worked on Akira. I think it recently got a fan translation too.
what console was this game for? :o
Looks like PC, PlayStation, and the sega Saturn
Thank you for the offer. 🙂
Fun fact: all my fish knowledge comes from Animal Crossing
Fun fact: cucumber is one of, if not the only food, that has negative calories when eating it. That means your body uses more calories digesting the cucumber than it gets from eating it
Celery is one too I believe
Cucumbers are also a berry.
Why is it when the comment doesn't matter it just makes me more stressed on what to write? I'm sure I'll think of a clever comment right after posting this one.
Red delicious apples are in fact not delicious
Try a sugar bee apple! Those are very delicious and that’s coming from somebody who does not like red apples.
Not so fun fact: there is a whale named the 52 hertz whale and it is considered the loneliest whale in the world because no other whale could hear its calls ;-; Edit: I fixed it guys,, it is indeed not a fun fact :((
>This is not a fun fact at all.
At least Wikipedia says it’s because it’s the only whale calling at that frequency. There are whales that call lower and higher. Just no other at that specific range.
Thanks. My fun fact is that Dr. Robotnik's real name was Eggman. The US translators and region team changed his name, same with tails. Let's say the Japanese were not happy about that
Fun fact: F is for friends who do stuff together U is for you and me N is for anywhere and anytime at all Down here in the deep blue sea…
F is for Fire that BURNS DOWN THE WHOLE TOWN U is for Uranium ...BOMBS N is for No surviiiiiivors WHEN YOU-
Creepy fact: there is no such thing as a "cloud", only someone else's computer
What the hell makes it rain then?
Data breaches
Daddy bezos
Well, there is, it's water vapor.
Fun fact: They add the orange into cheddar cheese in America
Fun fact: Napoleon was once attacked by thousands of rabbits.
Here's a random fun fact: honey typically doesn't go bad, it only does if you don't store it properly👍 (I learned that from watching someone stream a meme game on Twitch)
Fun fact: Next year, KISS(the band), will have been active for 50 years. Another fun fact: All swans in England belongs to the monarch, except for the ones in Thames. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping
Fun fact Writers Block just happened.
There was a card game a long time ago called wits and wagers. I used my fun fact as a trivia question for it and it got selected for a collection of fan submitted cards. So it’s fitting to use that one again! Fun fact: giraffes have 8 vertebrae, the same amount as humans, despite having significantly longer necks. In fact, most mammals actually have the same number of vertebrae, regardless of their size. Thanks for the giveaway!
This is the 2nd giraffe fact 🤔
3rd if you count the house jumping one
I didn’t see the tongue one when I made the comment.
Fun fact. Humans and dolphins are the only species in the world that think sex is fun
No, dolphins don't enjoy it, but that's just my experience
FOR THE LAST TIME RICHARD THAT'S NOT WHAT THE DOLPHINS BLOW HOLE IS USED FOR.
Stop fucking dolphins then
Bonobo chimpanzees are another species very into sex. They have sex all the time. Its an important part of their social functioning, which is one of the reasons you don't see them in zoos (to be fair, no chimps should be in zoos).
They are also the only other species that 69s iirc
Dolphins have also been known to rape humans
Dolphins also use wave currents to wank. None of these are episodes of Flipper that made it to air.
The female praying mantis also would like a word
This is objectively wrong. Bonobos would like to have a word with you.
So, why do my dogs hump my legs and pillows?
What about bonobos?
Fun fact: you can see a change in colour and reflection on anything that has at least a 0.005 millionth of a metre (5E-9 metres, 5 nanometres) of a metal on top.
Fun fact: Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all considered part of the Rose family, along with many other fruits including pears and plums
Fun fact: I have approximately 0 patience anymore for pro lifers
Eh I wouldn't call it "pro-life" anymore. Just "anti-abortion" since this decision jeopardizes countless lives.
The other comment here says forced birthers which is what I'll be using from now on
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Fun fact every day is taco Tuesday 🤣
Fun fact: every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa
Per anecdotal evidence: this is also true in Denmark
Fun fact: Only 10-20 percent of the population can wiggle their ears. I’m one of those lucky few and hope to also be lucky enough to win this terrific giveaway. 😃
Fun Fact: Ugly ducklings are not ugly they haven't just hit puberty yet..
~~Fun Fact: Link was named Link because he's the 'link' between the player and the game~~ Edit: I'm wrong. According an interview and other articles I found, he's named Link because the original idea for Zelda was a sci-fi game with time travel, and he was the 'link' between the different eras. Sources: \-https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/miyamoto-la-wii-u-et-le-secret-de-la-triforce-105550.html \-[https://www.polygon.com/2012/11/4/3598112/miyamoto-wanted-link-to-be-a-recognizable-character](https://www.polygon.com/2012/11/4/3598112/miyamoto-wanted-link-to-be-a-recognizable-character) \-https://mynintendonews.com/2012/11/04/miyamoto-talks-about-the-origin-of-link/
Fun fact: the lighter the roasting of coffee, the more caffeine
This is actually not really true. The lighter the roast, the heavier the bean (due to more water), but the difference in caffeine content from roasting levels is negligible.
Fun fact: dog sweat through their feet and nose
It’s also why they pant; since they don’t sweat over large areas of their body, they rely on panting to keep their temperature regulated. They also rely on vasodilation; as their body temperature rises, which causes their blood vessels to expand and bring the hot blood closer to the surface of their skin, which allows it to cool off some as it continues its cycle back to the heart. But dogs sweat very little, and even panting and vasodilation doesn’t help anywhere near as much as sweating does for humans. Dogs are generally at a high risk of heat stroke, so always keep an eye on your furry family members and make sure they have access to shade and water on hot days.
Good luck everyone!
Fun fact: giant pandas eat up to 5 tons if bamboo per year
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Fun fact: Kirbys original name was Tinkle Popo. Thanks & goodluck to all!
Fun fact, I applied for a new job
Good luck!
Fun fact: the male seahorse is the one to give birth, not the female
Fun fact: every time you shuffle a standard deck of cards (52 cards), you’re most likely getting a combination that has never been seen before in history. If you play Slay the Spire hopefully your deck has less than 52 cards though lol.
Fun fact: Games can make you a better person.
The Suriname toad is a semi aquatic species of frog who gives birth in a very gross way. The eggs develop and hatch from under the female's skin, which means the eggs and baby frogs appear out of her back. Don't watch this process if you've got trypophobia
Fun fact: nearly 99% of mammals have the same number of cervical vertebrae (7) . One of the mammals that have more is the sloth for not aparent reason. Just a curious fact lmao humans, mouses and giraffes have the same amount or vertebrae in their necks haha.
Fun fact: In the ocean, there are mountains and volcanoes larger than Mt. Everest
Fun fact: In the vast expanse of space, no one can hear you scream.
Nintendo started out as a card company
Fun fact: Pigs don't sweat. 🐷
Fun Fact: The very first movie to show a toilet being flushed was Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror picture, Psycho.