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Giraffes have less neck bones than a sloth.
Another one of those fun facts that’ll make you go, “Are you kidding me?” I mean, one look at a giraffe and a sloth shows the very obvious… amount of neck on a giraffe compared to the sloth. However, giraffes actually have 7 neck vertebrae, while sloths have 10.
The word “friends” is said in every episode of Friends.
The 90s television hit also had the words “Oh. My. God.” mentioned 1,027 times by its characters for its entire run.
Manatees can get cold stress.
These gentle giants may look like tough guys, but they can be pretty sensitive to cold. In waters below 20°C, manatees can get “Florida frostbite.” Manatee fat isn’t enough to insulate their body temperature in the cold – which is why manatee deaths spiked in the Florida cold snap of 2010.
Fact: The U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017
Starting in 2018, the Library of Congress decided to only keep tweets on “a very selective basis,” including elections and those dealing with something of national interest, like public policy.
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Fact: Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena
Its name was Bill, and it was a present from the Ethiopian emperor. Roosevelt was famous for his many pets, including a one-legged rooster, a badger, a pony, and a small bear.
Fact: The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups
Its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts.
Fact: Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long
Their dark, bluish-black color is probably to prevent sunburn.
Fact: There’s only one U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s
Montpelier, Vermont, doesn’t have any of those Golden Arches. It also happens to have the smallest population of any state capital, with just 7,500 residents.
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Not sporty? Try aggressive sitting.
Ok, it’s not actually as tame as it sounds – think skateboard tricks, but with a stool. Sporthocking is a unique German street sport created in 2007. It combines the principle of skateboarding with a distinct rubber-lined funnel stool instead of a board. Participants can spin, kick, throw, juggle, and slide. However, the hocker rule of thumb is they always have to slam their bottoms down on the stool to signify the end of each trick.
27,000 trees are cut per day for the world’s toilet paper.
Toilet paper doesn’t just wipe our whatever’s, but it also wipes out 27,000 trees a day. Similarly, about 500,000 trees are cut for daily newspapers.
May 22nd is the least common birth date.
The 22nd of May is the least common day to be born. On the other hand, the 16th of September is the most common birthday. In fact, more people in the world are born in September than any other month.
Airport runway numbers actually indicate the direction on a compass.
One of the fun facts to consider in your next travel: The numbers you see on an airport runway aren’t random coordinates for the aliens. They’re actually based on the compass and helps pilots navigate precisely. A single runway number is 63 ft. tall by 20 ft. wide.
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Hershey’s Kisses were named that after the kissing sound the chocolate makes on the conveyor belt.
Before discovering this fun fact, I thought Kisses were named after the shape your mouth makes when you place the chocolate on your lips, tip-first. However, Hershey’s are actually named for the sound it makes during the manufacturing process. A machine squirts the chocolate mixture onto the conveyor with a “kiss” sound. Another Hershey’s fun fact? The paper-strip plume on top of Hershey’s Kisses are trademarked.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Butterflies have taste receptors on their feet. By standing on a leaf, they can sample it to see if it is edible.
Penguins can jump as high as 9 feet in the air.
These creatures may be known for their adorable waddling, but they’re actually quite the action stars. One of the fun facts about these fun creatures: Depending on their species, penguins can jump up to 9 feet. How do these boxy birds do it, you ask? The magic happens underwater – penguins wrap their bodies in air bubbles from their wings and use this to propel themselves up to the surface.
Fact: Europeans were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced
Scholars think Hernán Cortés brought the seeds in 1519 with the intent of the fruits being used ornamentally in gardens. By the 1700s, aristocrats started eating tomatoes, but they were convinced the fruits were poisonous because people would die after eating them. In reality, the acidity from the tomatoes brought out the lead in their pewter plates, and they actually died of lead poisoning.
Fact: Humans aren’t the only animals that dream
Studies have indicated rats dream about getting to food or running through mazes. Most mammals go through REM sleep, the cycle in which dreams occur, so scientists think there’s a good chance they all dream.
Fact: The inventor of the microwave appliance received only $2 for his discovery
Percy Spencer was working as a researcher for American Appliance Company (now Raytheon) when he noticed that a radar set using electromagnetic waves melted the candy bar in his pocket. He had the idea to make a metal box using microwaves to heat food, but the company was the one to file the patent. That was in 1945, and he received a $2 bonus but never any royalties. Check out the most important invention the year you were born.
Fact: The Eiffel Tower can grow more than six inches during the summer
The high temperatures make the iron expand.
Fact: Glitter may have originated on a ranch
According to local lore, a man by the name of Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey, invented glitter by accident in 1934 while working on a cattle ranch. The New York Times reports that in the popular origin story, Ruschmann, a machinist, was trying to find a way to dispose of scrap material by crushing it into tiny pieces. Plastic went in, glitter came out, and the rest is commonly accepted as history.
Polar bears aren’t purely left-handed.
Although it has been said that all polar bears are left-handed, it has actually been discovered that they use both hands equally for activities.
A frog can throw up an entire organ.
Frogs don’t have a gag reflex like humans and other animals. Their way of rejecting unwanted elements is way more hardcore: The frog vomits its entire stomach out, dangling it from its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to clear out all of the stomach’s contents. Finally, it swallows the stomach back down again.
The legs of a bat are so thin, they can’t walk.
Only two species of bats can walk on their front and hind legs: the Vampire bat and burrowing bat.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
Insects are known to be all sorts of strange, but this is one of the cooler fun facts: The katydid hears with its legs! The katydid’s ears are located on its two front legs. Like the human ear, the ear of the katydid collects sound, converts it, and analyzes the frequency.
Slugs only have one nose.
It’s a common myth that slugs have 4 noses, but this isn’t actually the case. A slug’s features and sensory organs are found in tentacles on its face. A pair of tentacles hold each eye, while another pair of tentacles underneath contains nostrils. The four-pronged appearance of a slug’s face gives the illusion that it has four “noses.”