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Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats

3836 sats \ 58 comments \ @sn 15 Sep 2023 meta

Let's hear all your best fun facts, any topic counts!

The best comment as voted by the "top" filter at 9am CT tomorrow gets 10,000 sats.

If you missed last week's edition, here are lots of fun facts stackers shared.

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11.6k sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 15 Sep 2023

From my 13 year old: dinosaurs had feathers.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @antic 16 Sep 2023

You know why dinosaurs can’t talk? … ‘Cause they are dead.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023

Haha

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 15 Sep 2023

They apparently realized far more of the different species were birdlike than previously imagined. About a decade ago, a friend of mine was gifted a large coffee table book about dinosaurs compiled by paleontologists and scientific illustrators. Apparently it was a big deal because it was the first revision of the book that had all the updated "feathered looks" and it was very cool to see.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 15 Sep 2023

chickens are related to dinosaurs

1297 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 15 Sep 2023

I thought all birds evolved from dinos. But I have no clue. I just post the facts the kiddo gives me. I am factless, he is factful.

I actually woke him up today to get the fact to post. I thought he was up doing his school work but apparently he wasn't feeling well so my wife told him to sleep in. I barged into his room and said "I need a fun fact to win us some sats". Haha

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 15 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 15 Sep 2023

He is filled with obscure facts. A hobby of his.

1292 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 15 Sep 2023

The number of possible combinations for a 24-word Bitcoin seed phrase is 2048^24, which is an incredibly large number far greater than the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe. That's a fun fact for me. But even funnier fact is also that someone has probably tried to randomly guess a wallet 😃

823 sats \ 0 replies \ @stacksatstoday 15 Sep 2023

The wood frog can hold it's pee for up to eight months.

1009 sats \ 0 replies \ @mSats 15 Sep 2023

Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.

1020 sats \ 0 replies \ @Burn 15 Sep 2023

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

People always wonder why Mona Lisa doesn’t have any eyebrows. This mystery has been solved, all thanks to an engineer named Pascal Cotte. When Da Vinci had painted Mona Lisa, he indeed painted her eyebrows but over time these eyebrows were eroded due to cleaning over time to the point where it’s no longer visible today.

1267 sats \ 0 replies \ @Billy_Dow 15 Sep 2023

Fun fact: watermelon and strawberries are both about 96% water

972 sats \ 1 reply \ @Tjacten 15 Sep 2023

In 1896, Walter Arnold was the first person ever to be convicted of speeding, and he was going 8 miles per hours. The speed limit those times was 4 miles per hour. 🐌

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tjacten 15 Sep 2023

Can you imagine police chasing this guy by foot to get to him?

972 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 15 Sep 2023

Robert Plot found the first dinosaur bone in 1677, around 150 years before the name "dinosaur" was coined.

https://malevus.com/robert-plot/

892 sats \ 1 reply \ @Proofofwork 15 Sep 2023

If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth,

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it would take 42 seconds to for an average person to fall to the other side.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 16 Sep 2023

Idk if I’d call this fun, more like terrifying lol

756 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wearesatoshin 15 Sep 2023

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

719 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 16 Sep 2023

Did I win? I hope so because I already sent my son 10,000 sats to his ZBD wallet. Haha.

447 sats \ 0 replies \ @pow 15 Sep 2023

Avocados are not vegetables

448 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 15 Sep 2023

Wild snails typically live from 3 to 7 years. Those in captivity can live up to 25 years.

Remember kids; a snail is for life and not just a Bitcoin halving.

419 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Sep 2023

Darth is a legend. And he loved so much Amidala. His whole fight was how to get back Amidala.

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Sorry for the sad image, but is the whole truth that matters.

PS - I do not post this for the prize... just as a fun fact

709 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bepositive 15 Sep 2023

Negative blood types are less common.

That statistic about the Latino-American community makes sense, seeing as negative blood types—whether type A, type B, type AB, or type O—are few and far between. In fact, according to the Oklahoma Blood Institute, only about 18 percent of the total U.S. population has a negative blood type.

709 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 15 Sep 2023

Of course there are people who would say the Smithsonian is covering up aspects of history, but this:

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oxford-university-is-older-than-the-aztecs-1529607/

609 sats \ 0 replies \ @SATsStandard 15 Sep 2023

Earwax is actually a type of sweat!

568 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoinmaxi 15 Sep 2023

The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

568 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitsats 15 Sep 2023

Some lipsticks contain fish scales.

568 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshis 15 Sep 2023

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Sep 2023

Not sure if I already posted here as fun fact...

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131 sats \ 0 replies \ @sarah1 15 Sep 2023

Most people cannot lick their elbows

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gregory 15 Sep 2023

Fun fact: fun facts are fun

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @energy 15 Sep 2023

Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsCats 16 Sep 2023

The moon is 3,400 kilometers (2,113 miles) in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4,000 km (2,485 miles)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ruS7Y 16 Sep 2023

Above a certain temperature, Aligators only give birth to males

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Orangepilled 15 Sep 2023

Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Believe 15 Sep 2023

There are waterfalls under the ocean’s surface.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wearesatoshin 15 Sep 2023

During a winter in Mars, about twenty percent of the air freezes.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Darth 15 Sep 2023

Jupiter doesn’t have seasons because its axis is only tilted 3.13 degrees.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Five 15 Sep 2023

Galileo discovered four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Futurecurrency 15 Sep 2023

Thunder is just the sound lightning makes. Light travels faster than sound, so we see the lightning before we hear the thunder.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cowboy 15 Sep 2023

Since at least 500 B.C.E., no properly educated person has believed the Earth is flat.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2009 15 Sep 2023

There are more living things in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on Earth.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @GOAT 15 Sep 2023

If lightning hits sand or rocks, it can be petrified and will create lightning fossils.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Giveme5 15 Sep 2023

The Milky Way has over 200 billion stars in it, even though it’s one of the average sized galaxies in the Universe.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bepositive 15 Sep 2023

For comparison, an elephant's heart weighs around 30 pounds. And a human heart? A mere 10 ounces.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2023 15 Sep 2023

The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Infinity 15 Sep 2023

Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @21m8 15 Sep 2023

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Brrr 15 Sep 2023

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StayhumbleStacksats 15 Sep 2023

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StudyBITCOIN 15 Sep 2023

If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @newnym 15 Sep 2023

Tomatoes are a fruit. Watermelons and cucumbers are related. That's two fun facts for the price of one :)