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hey brightsider
you know it's impossible to hum with
your nose pinch closed
seriously try it i'll wait see
i've got a lot more fascinating facts
where that came from
in case you're wondering it came from my
fortune cookie here anyway
here we go when sea otters sense that
they're in danger
they show their babies to the predators
to make them feel mercy
gee thanks mom a google is a number
followed by 100 zeros i dare you to
write that down
counting the zeros one by one
a computer term there's a bug in the
system emerged in 1946
when an actual moth got trapped inside a
relay calculator at harvard
squirrels accidentally plant millions of
trees every year
because they forget where they bury
their acorn oh that's nuts
a rainbow that happens at night is
called a wait for it
moonbow they're mostly white and very
rare
the first microwave was invented by
percy spencer in 1945.
the engineer received only two bucks for
his discovery
that's equivalent to thirty dollars
today
a giraffe's neck can reach up to six
feet in length
yet it contains the same number of bones
as the human neck
in 2009 a team of scientists went on an
expedition to loch ness lake
to locate the famous monster to their
surprise
they found more than 100 000 golf balls
instead
tim storms holds the guinness world
record for the deepest voice
he reached notes that were so low only
elephants could hear
how many words for snow do you know the
scottish have 421 words for the cold
fluffy stuff
some of them are fifal spitters and
snowpalther
now i want to watch the scottish tv
weatherman i'll bet that's entertaining
the skin of a polar bear is actually
black but because its fur is clear
that's right it ain't white and the
strands are hollow
they scatter light this creates the
illusion that it's white
like fifa just like our fingers
our tongue has its own unique print we
also have around 10
000 taste buds and each of them has an
average lifespan of 10 days
i'm tasting a pattern here in the
english language
if you spelled out all the numbers you'd
have to count up to 1 000 before you
came
across the letter a try it
in 1815 indonesia's mount tambora
had the biggest volcanic eruption in
human history
it lasted two weeks it created an ash
layer in our planet's atmosphere
and 1816 became the year without a
summer
a day wasn't always 24 hours four and a
half billion years ago
it was only four hours that was because
the moon was closer to the earth
three and a half billion years ago a day
lasted 12 hours
and by the time we humans appeared a day
was roughly
24 hours long the hashtag symbol isn't
actually called a hashtag
the real term for it is an octathorp
octo means eight
and it refers to the points of the
symbol in 2015
the oxford dictionary announced that the
word of the year
was the smiling emoji with tears of joy
hey which is your most often used emoji
show me down in the comments
do you know what else is impossible to
walk on saturn
jupiter neptune or uranus these gas
planets don't have a solid surface on
venus though
you'll be swimming in lava lucky you
when scientists analyze fossils they
found that dinosaurs likely made
sounds similar to pigeons or the mumbles
of an ostrich
oh yeah and the mighty t-rex probably
had feathers
fortune cookies were actually invented
in the us in the early 1900s
when they were first imported to china
in 1992
they didn't do well because the people
of the country found them
too american canadian researchers found
out that einstein's brain
was 15 wider than average but he never
learned to drive a car
i'm guessing he was busy with the you
know theory of relativity
speaking of geniuses when we learn
something new
our brain changes its structure we form
new connections between neurons that
help us link information
faster there's a 5 000 year old egyptian
necklace that's made from
a meteorite when scientists analyzed it
they found that the necklace contained
the same metals as a space rock
in the 18th century sugar was so
expensive
that only rich people could afford it
and when someone had a black decayed
tooth
they were considered the creme de la
creme or a big deal
how times have changed sonic the
hedgehog was put in the guinness book of
records for
being the fastest video game character
of all time
after all he runs faster than the speed
of light
our noses can detect more than one
trillion smells
sounds impressive but a dog sniver can
detect 10
000 times more than that well humans can
smell if there's a teaspoon of sugar in
their coffee
a dog can smell a teaspoon of sugar in
one million gallons of water
goats were the first to discover
coffee's energizing effects
they started feeding on coffee beans and
got hyperactive for the rest of the day
the goat owner noticed this and spread
the word
the average person will grow almost 600
miles of hair
over a lifetime that says twice as long
as the atmosphere is thick
2 billion pencils are manufactured every
year in the u.s alone
if you laid them all on the ground end
to end they'd circle the earth's equator
nine times and each of those pencils can
write forty five thousand words
and draw a line that's over thirty miles
long
the difference between mass and weight
is that your mass is always the same
but your weight changes depending on
your location
so if you weigh 100 pounds on earth
you'd only be 38 pounds on mars
have you ever thrown an apple in a river
and seen it float
that's because it's 23 air
in the 1800s cowboys used to wear their
watches on
chains to keep them protected a brand
introduced the tiny little
pockets we have on our jeans today
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peanuts aren't nuts they belong to the
botanical family of
febesie which are legumes
thanks to the invention of 3d printing
nasa can mail
tools to the astronauts in the
international space station
now we just need a pizza teleporter hey
we could be close
physicists achieved teleportation in the
quantum world
they managed to transfer quantum
characteristics of one atom to another
at a different location minnie mouse's
full name was supposedly
minerva and mickey was going to be named
mortimer
but that was later changed and mortimer
became mickey's rival
and have you ever noticed how mickey
minnie and the whole gang
always wear gloves there's a reason for
that it helped animators save time while
still making the character stand out
it also made the animal creatures appear
more human hence the four
human-like fingers it can take a sloth
up to a month to digest a single leaf
figures the perfect sat score in the u.s
is 1600 points bill gates scored 1590
and mark zuckerberg got somewhere
between 1590
and 1600 the university of oxford is
older than the aztec empire
the university started as a learning hub
in 1096
and became an educational institution in
1249
the aztec empire was founded in 1428
antares is a star that's 550 light years
away from earth
it's 15 times larger and 10 000 times
brighter than our sun
have you ever said anything
contradictory and someone told you
hey that's an oxymoron well the word
itself means
exactly that in greek oxy means smart
and means dull the sun
is halfway through its life in fact it
just joined the aarp
nah just kidding in a little more than
four and a half billion years
it'll keep its mass but its volume will
become like the earth's
then we can call it a white dwarf and
move away to a different solar system
pack your bags an astronaut spacesuit
costs 12 million bucks and 70
of that money goes to that beefy
backpack and the control module
marge simpson's hairstyle was super tall
because she was hiding her
rabbit ears underneath the creators were
going to make the big reveal in the last
episode of the first season
but the cartoon got too realistic
realistic
really we share 60 percent of the same
dna
as bananas such a peel
the fruit also contains three thousand
five hundred twenty pico curies of
radiation
making them one of the most radioactive
foods we eat
brazil nuts have almost double that
amount both pretty yummy though
when the typewriter was first invented
in 1829
the keys were arranged in alphabetical
order but when someone typed too fast
the keys got jammed so in 1867
the qwerty keyboard was introduced to
slow typists down
there are over 10 000 beaches in
australia
it would take you about 27 years to
visit a new one
each day well i think we should try it
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