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There’s a plankton that reverses your feeling of hot and cold.
Dinoflagellates are marine plankton that can alter as well as hallucinations. These trippy symptoms can last from weeks up to years.
You can eat the stickers on fruit.
The adhesive used for fruit stickers is FDA-regulated, and paper is edible. However, don’t forget to wash it first.
Scientists don’t know what causes the shower-curtain effect.
Picture this: you hop into the shower after a long day. You close the curtains. As you run the shower, you notice that the curtain billows inward. Thus, you discover the shower-curtain effect. Until now, scientists haven’t pinpointed what causes this strange phenomenon.
The Chanel double C was the first designer logo of all time.
The famous double C symbol was created by Coco Chanel in 1925. This famed Parisian brand’s symbol was the first ever designer logo and remains unchanged to this day.
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.
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.
No one knows for sure how dinosaurs mate.
It’s easy to get caught up in a dinosaur’s grotesque features, but have you ever wondered how dinosaurs mated in the first place? With all those spines and armor, how did they do it enough to roam the world before us? So far, no dinosaur has been found with their reproductive organs intact. Until then, only cross-referencing from existing descendants (birds and reptiles) as well as computer modeling can give us hints as to how they’d done the deed.
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.
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.
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.
Didn't know that, but anyways I wouldn't eat them
Its not hard to peel them off 
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.”
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you can’t choose between following your head or your heart? Well, it seems shrimp have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to tough decisions. Kidding aside, one of the fun facts about shrimps is that their hearts are literally in their heads. Specifically, it is found in the thorax just behind the head – but they are covered in the same shell segment.
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Chickens are eaten for their whole life cycle.
A not-so-fun fact for the chickens, but one of the fun facts to ponder: when you’re eating chicken katsu or a chicken omelet, you could be eating a whole family. You’re essentially eating a chicken before (AKA, the eggs) and after its birth. Oh, not to mention day-old chicks.
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Sharks can “blink” and “wink”.
Sharks are generally perceived as scary (Thanks, Jaws.) but they can wink quite a charm. The nictating membrane covers and protects a shark’s eyes and – in doing so – gives it a blinking or winking appearance.
Toilets usually flush in E flat.
Another weird bathroom fun fact: most toilets flush in a certain key. Try listening for the key of E flat in your toilet at home.
A raisin dropped in fresh champagne will keep bouncing up and down from the bottom to the top of the glass.
When you add raisins to a glass of champagne, they’ll sink to the bottom at first. However, after some time, the raisins will move up and down in the glass dancing. This motion is due to dissolved carbon dioxide in the liquid. The CO2 bubbles cling to the surface of the raisins. Thus, the raisin method is used to “revive” flat champagne, as well.
It takes 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.
The Tootsie Pop was created in 1931, and was popular staple during the Great Depression because of its cheap price. The more you know, right?
How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh? Ten tickles.
What does "reading comprehension" even mean?