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Did you know... Little brown bats sleep more than any other mammal on earth.
And you thought you were tired. These little guys get so much shuteye that Guinness World Records even deemed the species "the king of nappers." When observed in captivity, little brown bats have reportedly slept for 19.9 hours straight—that's more than 80 percent of the day snoozing.
We are working on it.
Did you know... A 26-sided shape is known as a small rhombicuboctahedron.
Even if you break it down to rhombi-cubo-octahedron, the word is just about as hard to say as it would be to draw. That's because a small rhombicuboctahedron is a polyhedron that has eight triangular faces and 18 square faces. Add them all up and you have a snazzy-looking shape with 26 sides.
Did you know... Great white sharks are so scared of killer whales that they'll avoid an area for up to a year after spotting one.
The majority of humans may be afraid of great white sharks, but that doesn't mean that the sharp-toothed ocean predators don't have fears of their own, one of them being another kind of big swimmer: orcas, also known as killer whales. In fact, a 2019 study published in the journal Nature suggests they're so terrified of the ferocious whales that they'll avoid an area for up to a year if they encounter one even if it's just passing by.
As the study's lead author Salvador Jorgensen explained, "When confronted by orcas, white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year, even though the orcas are only passing through."
Did you know... The longest tennis rally lasted over 12 hours.
Italian athletes Simone Frediani and Daniele Pecci earned the world record for the longest tennis rally ever on June 11, 2017. Hitting for more than 12 and a half hours straight—from 6:23 a.m. to 7 p.m.—the two took a total of 51,283 uninterrupted strokes, sipping from water-filled backpacks to hydrate without having to stop play. Any good tennis player will tell you that consistency is crucial, and we're pretty sure these two have that part of the game down pretty darn well.
Did you know... The first pieces of gold at Fort Knox arrived by mail.
Over the years, Fort Knox has definitely lived up to its reputation of being an impregnable facility. However, the very first gold that arrived at the bullion depository in 1937 wasn't particularly well-protected. In fact, according to the United States Mint, "The gold was too heavy to fly in, so it was mailed there by train through the Post Office Department, today's United States Postal Service."
Did you know... Honey is essentially bee vomit.
When a bee takes nectar from a flower, the tiny creature stores it in its "crop," an enlargement at the back of its esophagus, where the nectar mixes with enzymes. "A nectar-foraging bee returns to the hive and pumps out the nectar to a receiving bee," says now retired extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the University of California, Davis.
After being mixed with enzymes, "the nectar is passed to processing bees that blend the incoming nectar loads, mix them together, then pump out a bit of solution," he says. After some of the liquid in the solution evaporates, it's once again taken into a bee's crop and further mixed before it's finally deposited into a comb where it will become the honey you know and love—or at least used to love.
Did you know... There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
If you've ever tapped someone on the opposite shoulder in order to attempt to trick them, then you've done what people living in Indonesia would call "mencolek." But no matter what you call this, it will still probably make the person on the receiving end of the gesture groan in response.
Did you know... Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater.
Beavers have plenty of amazing features that help them thrive, including webbed feet and a powerful tail. But the large rodents also have transparent eyelids so that they can shut their eyes and still see underwater.
@FrankZ these "Did you know..." messages are interesting. I always scrolled by the word of whisdom, because I didn't find that interesting, but did you know section got my attention
How many of these did you validate (search internet for proof) by yourself? 
WE sure do!
Did you know... There's a "floating rainforest" in the sea.
When most people think of rainforests, they picture massive jungles filled with trees and critters. However, somewhere in the Sargasso Sea sits the so-called "floating rainforest" that consists not of dense vegetation on land, but of seaweed under water.
According to Smithsonian magazine, each strand of brown Sargassum marine algae can grow to be the length of a school bus. When they become matted together in the water, the masses—or "forests"—of algae can be as large as several football fields. The seaweed is not only impressively long and large, but also provides the perfect place for a diverse collection of animals to live—not unlike an actual rainforest!
I know i did all mine! Validated without an unverified written with them!
All hail the NUMBER CULT!
PAGE 338!
HYPE REMINDER!
This is an example of what I ment with validation.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/63052.html#:~:text=A unique feature of the,allow them to gnaw underwater.
Technically, yes, you are right, they have transparent eyelids, but reading original post might confuse reader, that beavers have only transparent eyelids. In reality they have two sets of eyelids!
I have no time for numbers now... I am stuck reading Franks posts
Sorry to hear that you did not like the words of wisdom so much, I tried to get the good ones and some were my own. That said I am glad you like these Did you know messages better they take longer than the number spam, which was really fast to do.
Most of these Did you knows have references for where they were stated, I do not always include them otherwise they get pretty long. I am sure that some of these are open to debate, but I do not have the vast knowledge required to verify all of them and doing so on the internet, well you know that can lead to just as much mis information as fact. I figure they should be taken as fun trivia and nothing more.
Well Frankie is just being Frankie!
Well said,
Frankie for president!
But I believe, at least most of them are correct, I checked only one about the beavers, and as you see, it needs only small "fix"
About the whisdom - its more philosophical thing, and I didn't ever like philosophy. I am facts man, and now you got my attention
I would say they are a prompt to further reading on a subject of interest to the reader and not meant to be a detailed thesis on any particular subject. Something to spark the mind one might say.
Well what to say?!
Well gotta prove with numbers
Well I am going to bed, will try to post one or two from the bed itself, ain't i amazing?
I am also heading there... So I guess, good night everyone
I will be busy in the morning reading all the facts... 
Well then good night Ed!
One thing I learned a long time ago was everybody see things and thinks about things from their own perspective. If I want to get someones interest that is on me not them.
I figure if I did different things over the month more people would find something or another that interested them at least for a little while. As the saying goes..
You can please some of the people all the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Good night to you both. Thanks for staying up late tonight to party with me.