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INTERESTING FACTS
There are over 200 dead bodies of climbers on Mt. Everest because it’s so difficult to bring them down.
INTERESTING FACTS
Only two people have ever swam the entire length of the 2,350-mile Mississippi River: Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel in 2002 and American former Navy SEAL Chris Ring in 2015. Strel swam for 68 days in a row; Ring took one day off a week, taking 181 days.
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Visitors are not allowed to scatter loved ones’ ashes at Disney World or Disneyland. This is apparently a problem, particularly around the Haunted Mansion attraction.
INTERESTING FACTS
The man who designed the Pringles can, Fred Bauer, is buried in one—or at least some of his ashes are.
INTERESTING FACTS
There’s a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, who’s set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from fastest mile on a pogo stick, longest time to hula hoop underwater and greatest distance traveled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head.
That's it for the facts. Time for me to take some rest. Have been at it for some hours now. Anyways, when I return, I will share some riddles. Stay tuned.
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The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
That's right. The bat is the only flying mammal. While some people may be tempted to put flying squirrels on the list, the truth is those guys can only glide for short distances. Meanwhile, the long, flexible skin that extends over a bat's wings, combined with their many movable joints, make bats great fliers.
In fact, these critters are much more comfortable in the air than on land. Because their leg bones are so thin, only two out of the 1,100 species of bats can walk on the ground.
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Narwhal tusks are really an "inside out" tooth.
Narwhals are unlike most other whales because they have what appears to be a giant tusk. But that's not actually a tusk at all—what you're seeing is a tooth. If you're looking for a concrete explanation as to why things evolved in this way, you'll just have to sit tight. Even the scientists don't get it.
As Martin Nweeia, a member of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, told the Smithsonian, "The whole thing that is great about the teeth of the narwhal is that nothing makes sense … The tusks are an extreme example of dental asymmetry."
Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
The COVID pandemic has really underscored this point: Scientists have documented multiple instances of human pathogens like rhinoviruses and coronaviruses finding their way into gorillas and other great apes.
The oldest evidence of domesticated cats dates back 9,500 years.
Cats have been hanging around humans for thousands of years. Guinness World Records reports that we've been domesticating cats for 9,500 years.
Proof of this came in 2004 when the bones of a cat were discovered in the neolithic village of Shillourokambos in Cyprus. The position of the cat in the ground was next to the bones of a human, whose similar state of preservation strongly suggests they were buried together."
Let's go. Here I return with the riddles I promised. Let's get started.
RIDDLES
Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
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Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
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Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
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Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
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Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
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Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
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Riddle: There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
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Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
The blue whale weighs as much as 30 elephants.
And that's not all. These guys can measure as long as three Greyhound buses, and weigh up to 300,000 pounds. In fact, the blue whale remains the largest animal on Earth.
Bottlenose dolphins are even more right-handed than humans.
"Most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed, a minority (say 5 percent to 30 percent) are left-handed," according to Scientific American. And the same holds true for bottlenose dolphins. In fact, the savvy swimmers are even more right-handed than we are.
A team led by Florida's Dolphin Communication Project took a look at the feeding behavior of bottlenose dolphins and found that the animals were turning to their left side 99.44 percent of the time, which "actually suggests a right-side bias," according to IFL Science. "It places the dolphin's right side and right eye close to the ocean floor as it hunts."
RIDDLES
Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
Polar bears have black skin.
It's true: Their black skin helps absorb the heat from the sun so that they can stay warm while facing Arctic temperatures. This likely helps protect them from harmful UV rays as well.