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6121 sats \ 135 comments \ @sn 22 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.

Send your best 👇

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15.6k sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

Kids have been working on this all week. Last week's fact was from my 13 year old but this week we are stepping it up. Today's fact is from my 5 year old, which she learned from her abcmouse lessons.

Kiwi birds are the only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak.

Homeschool your kids folks!

424 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 22 Sep 2023

You are my “competitor” but I can’t help voting for you. Send my love to your princess. I’m a teacher irl n she did great!

128 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

Thanks she was keeping an eye out for fun facts while doing her lessons this week because she saw how excited her brother was that his fact won last week. He offered up a couple facts as well but we decided to go with the little one's fact.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 24 Sep 2023

Congratulations on the win! You are raising two self-directed n motivated children. That has got to worth many many sats heh

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 24 Sep 2023

Thanks for the kind words. We are doing our best.

394 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerSports 22 Sep 2023

Great fact. Must be a super smart kid unlike @grayruby

300 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 22 Sep 2023

Good fruit, better fact

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Public_N_M_E 23 Sep 2023

They have what!!! Wow! I was today years old when I learnt this. Schooled by a 5 year old.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 23 Sep 2023

Common occurrence for me. Fortunately, I have gotten used to it as her brother has been schooling me since he was 5 so I have had 8 years of practice.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KurlandIII 23 Sep 2023

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1142 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bitsats 22 Sep 2023

Australia is wider than the moon — 600km wider, to be exact.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @0fje0 22 Sep 2023

And also has a dark side.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

LOL good one

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @locomancell 22 Sep 2023

The Dark side of the Australia 🤣

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

TIL, interesting

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jim 22 Sep 2023

Wow who knew!

1083 sats \ 3 replies \ @StayhumbleStacksats 22 Sep 2023

Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun. Philosophers have pondered the shape of bananas for a long time, arguing until the sun goes down as to why they’re curved.

Bananas go through a process called “negative geo-tropism.” This process causes the fruit to grow upwards toward the sun instead of the ground. This, in turn, gives the banana its familiar curved shape.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 22 Sep 2023

Good one!

Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.

There goes the dad joke I grew up with, namely that they curve to fit into their skins.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

This is an excellent one. Should be higher in rankings.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

very interesting

759 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 22 Sep 2023

Did you know that Italian farmers can use the wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral when they borrow money from a bank called Credito Emiliano?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 22 Sep 2023

And the bank has it's own cheese curing facilities

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 24 Sep 2023

I didn’t know that! Thanks mate

713 sats \ 0 replies \ @ionisle 22 Sep 2023

The IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) is a humorous internet protocol that is described in RFC 1149, a document within the computer network community. It was published on April 1, 1990, as an April Fools' Day joke. The protocol suggests using homing pigeons to carry internet protocol (IP) traffic. Interestingly, it was actually implemented and tested in 2001 by the Bergen Linux user group. They sent nine packets of information over a distance of approximately 5 km (3.1 miles) using pigeons, and although the packet loss was high due to one of the pigeons going missing, it demonstrated that even the most unconventional methods could be used to transmit data!

8344 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

Fun fact, DarthCoin NEVER used:

any shitcoins
Twatter
FBIbook/Instagram
Linkedin
a plane

DISCLAIMER: I post this for fun fact, not for the prize.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @locomancell 22 Sep 2023

A plane? Really? Dayum son! Definitely from another galaxy, this guy 🍻

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

I said plane yes, like airplane. That doesn't means an Imperial Star Destroyer...

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😂😂😂😂😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @locomancell 22 Sep 2023

🤣🤣🤣

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 22 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zepasta 22 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

Twitter can be a valuable source for citizen news

That is blasphemy to say here on SN!

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1057 sats \ 1 reply \ @kosmos 22 Sep 2023

Did you hear about Timothy Dexter !

This is wilde story - the luckiest dumb person Or how to sell winter gloves in the Caribbean and make a fortune.

1. Buying all the worthless Continental Currency

In 1775, the 13 American colonies went to war with the UK. To fund the war, American Congress started printing “Continental Currency.” But they overprinted it. To the tune of $241 million! The currency flooded the market and became all but worthless. No one would accept it. When the war veterans started coming back, American colonies paid them in the worthless Continental currency. And the veterans found themselves destitute.

To help the veterans out, leaders like John Hancock asked people to start buying the currency. And they themselves bought a little bit too. But almost no one else did. No one else except our Dexter.

Timothy Dexter not only spent all his money buying the Continental currency, but spent his wife’s fortune too. Why? Because a great person like John Hancock supported it.

The currency remained worthless. But in 1788, after ratifying the US constitution, the Congress declared that they would buy back these old Continental Currency at 1% of their value. Dexter, who had bought it at a much much cheaper rate, suddenly found he was rich beyond his wildest dreams!

He bought 2 shipping vessels with his profits and bought a mansion and moved to a place where rich folks lived.

2. Shipping warming pans to one of the hottest regions.

Figuring out that Dexter would do anything to gain his peers’ acceptance, one of his rich neighbours recommended that Dexter should ship warming pans in the West Indies and sell them there. West Indies is hot and humid. Why would anyone need pans that were used to warm beds in the winter? But yet they did! The West Indians found that these pans made great tools to stir molasses. The sugar plantation owners bought all the pans for 79% higher price!

3. Lets try that again!

The same trick was tried again, and this time Dexter shipped winter woolen gloves to equatorial Polynesian islands. And again luck helped him out. When Dexter’s ship landed in hot Polynesia, they were just in time to sell all their gloves to a Portuguese ship sailing to Siberia!

4. Shipping coal to the leading producers of coal in the world

Someone else tried to take advantage of Dexter’s naivety again. And told him he should sell coal to Newcastle. Unknown to Dexter, Newcastle was one of the leading producers of coal in the world at that time! But luckily for Dexter, when his ships landed there, there was a strike at the coal mines! Newcastle factories bought his coal at a premium!

The story goes on and on - and Dexter get richer and richer...

Action Summary:

Do things that no one else does. Because your goal is to be correct when no one else is.
Build the mental strength to be a contrarian.

in Conclusion: Buy Bitcoin

Source: https://zenstrategies.com/luckiest-dumb-person/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

hahaha nice story. I love the conclusion

403 sats \ 7 replies \ @2023 22 Sep 2023

Most people fart around 14 to 23 times a day!

224 sats \ 0 replies \ @knorozov 22 Sep 2023

I told a friend of mine this once, and asked if he realizes how many people have to hodl their farts because he farts like 80 times per day.

54 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

I still don't know why one of my friends that never drink beer, is farting all day long whenever you ask him to do it. Instead, I am drinking a lot of beer and eat fruits and I barely can fart...

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 22 Sep 2023

Fun fact, @Darthcoin never farts

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

hahaha, no man, I fart too but not so much.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BBitcoinUSA 22 Sep 2023

I agree though, 14 farts per day on average sounds like a shit load of farts

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

LOL even one per hour is too much

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cesp 22 Sep 2023 freebie

Eso no es nada!

594 sats \ 0 replies \ @newnym 22 Sep 2023

This is more fun than fact: you shouldn't mix salmon and Nutella. Why? Because you risk making salmonella.

I'll see myself out now...

649 sats \ 2 replies \ @shurikencutter 22 Sep 2023

In the world of quantum physics, two particles can become entangled in such a way that the state of one instantly influences the state of another, no matter the distance between them. This phenomenon is so strange that Einstein referred to it as "spooky action at a distance."

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 22 Sep 2023

i remember but i don't remember if that broke the law that information can only travel at the speed of light

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 23 Sep 2023

You can't use entanglement to send information faster than light. You can think of it like having two magic boxes that when opened will show up or down, and you can be 100% certain the other box shows the other value when opened. You can't specify which value you see when you open the box.

467 sats \ 2 replies \ @energy 22 Sep 2023

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

27 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

Good fact

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 22 Sep 2023

I agree

1815 sats \ 14 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

Another fun facts about DarthCoin:

In the last 20 years I never went to a doctor/medic/hospital. I wasn't sick at all. 20 years ago I went to do only some check up on my status, to see if I am dead. The medic told me that I have a big liver and I should be dead. I am still healthy and drinking beer all fucking day! STOP believing the bullshit that doctors said to you, They just want to sell you drugs and keep you alive to pay them!
I am not afraid to die! Who is afraid that will catch a so called "virus" that will kill him is a dumb moron that do not enjoy his life and do not deserve to live on this beautiful planet.

1392 sats \ 0 replies \ @dpl 22 Sep 2023

Champ!

9 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 22 Sep 2023

so what happened to the "big liver" now?

306 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

is very well and filtering all my beers 😂😂😂 I think moving into a less stressful place is a big achievement. I was never in my life so in peace, happy and healthy, like I am here, now.

5 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 22 Sep 2023

Who is afraid that will catch a so called "virus" that will kill him is a dumb moron

Would you happily inject yourself with all virus known to men?

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

But that will not be anymore "infection"... will be injection with something that is not naturally in your body. In other words designed poison.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 22 Sep 2023

That is infection by injection. Still an infection.

So you just don't think that a virus can be contagious?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

virus doesn't exist! The term was invented to scare the shit out of you so you will buy their shit.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 22 Sep 2023

However you want to call it, I believe there are infectious agents which require a living host to replicate. But you don't? You don't believe something like this is possible by nature?

121 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

You've just defined the parasite, not a virus... Are not the same. YOUR body is made from so called viruses, it cannot survive without them.

But what makes you sick is yourself, your own body controlling these little things inside you. When those are dead, must be ejected out, so your body responds to that dead thing in many ways. That's why you say "I feel sick"... you are just ejecting things that you don't need in your body.

When you are cold, with flu, your body is cleanse itself. So let it cleanse, don't feed it with bullshit crap pills and vaccines!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 22 Sep 2023

But what makes you sick is yourself

well said.

But what makes you sick is yourself, your own body controlling these little things inside you. When those are dead, must be ejected out, so your body responds to that dead thing in many ways. That's why you say "I feel sick"... you are just ejecting things that you don't need in your body.

that's exactly what I've learned last year, yet we are being trained to put poisons inside when our body is doing its work.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 22 Sep 2023

You've just defined the parasite, not a virus...

a parasite doesn't kill the host and is a living organism unlike viruses

YOUR body is made from so called viruses, it cannot survive without them.

Really? I thought viruses don't exist?

you are just ejecting things that you don't need in your body. When you are cold, with flu, your body is cleanse itself. So let it cleanse

I agree with that

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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @nemo 22 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

don't trigger me

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577 sats \ 1 reply \ @knorozov 22 Sep 2023

Another one, about my nick... don't TLDR this one

Yuri Knorozov was a Soviet linguist who deciphered the Mayan script in 1953. He had a habit of listing his Siamese cat Asya as a co-author to many of his works; however, his editors would always remove her. Knorozov would also use this photo with Asya as his official author photo and would get upset whenever his editors would crop her out.

Deciphering the Mayan script was extremely challenging because there was no Rosetta Stone to provide translations into other languages. The only clues that remained were from Mayan stelae (stone monuments) that were scattered throughout several different ruins.

Knorozov worked in isolation in the Soviet Union and was able to make major advancements without ever stepping foot in Central America. His breakthrough was rejecting the notion that the Maya glyphs were based on an alphabet but rather a syllabary (a set of written characters representing syllables).

When Knorozov published his work, he was attacked and dismissed by several prominent academics, most notably, J. Eric S. Thompson, a British scholar who believed that the Mayan script was anti-phonetic and based on ideographic principles. It also did not help that Knorozov published his research during the height of the Cold War when Western scholars were quick to dismiss the works of Soviet scholars as being tainted by Marxist ideology.

It took decades for Knorozov to finally receive the recognition he deserved. One of Knorozov's earliest supporters was an American Anthropology professor at Yale by the name of Michael D. Coe who would later go on to write, "Yuri Knorozov, a man who was far removed from the Western scientific establishment and who, prior to the late 1980s, never saw a Mayan ruin nor touched a real Mayan inscription, had nevertheless, against all odds, made possible the modern decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing."

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 23 Sep 2023

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501 sats \ 0 replies \ @dpl 22 Sep 2023

Two best fun facts I have is:

Viruses (as in self replicating pathogenic biological entities that cause disease in man) does not exist - Hacking at the Root of the Virus Issue
Also. If you've heard about them they are most likely Gatekeepers - The Gatekeepers Club

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311 sats \ 2 replies \ @Proofofwork 22 Sep 2023

Squirrels cause approximately 10-20% of US power outages.

417 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 22 Sep 2023

They cause 100% of the internet outages @PlebLab

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

And 50% of my dog's rage. Rabbits being the other 50%.

385 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 22 Sep 2023

Tortoise fact to quote from the neighbours daughter; ‘The oldest tortoise in the whole world is called Jonathon and he is 190 years old… that’s reallllllly old. Like my Grandma’

181 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

I love when kids make comments like this. I remember when my son was small and he told my dad that he is old like the dinosaurs.

202 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 22 Sep 2023

Her older sister asked the other neighbour if his wife left him because all his hair fell out. I thought her dad was going to have heart failure… lol.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

Haha

325 sats \ 0 replies \ @squank 22 Sep 2023

Sixty percent of Africa's 1.25 billion people are under age 25

667 sats \ 0 replies \ @sarah1 22 Sep 2023

Arachibutyrophobia is the Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

261 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 22 Sep 2023

You don’t need an alarm clock to wake up at a specific time. A teacher of mine back in high school told us he had never used an alarm clock in his life, he’d just tell himself exactly what time to wake up the next morning and it would happen. I don’t know what the standard deviation was, but seemed to be highly accurate the way he described it

300 sats \ 1 reply \ @Burn 22 Sep 2023

In a group of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two will share the same birthday.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 22 Sep 2023

#249780

265 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Sep 2023

Women can see slightly more of the electromagnetic spectrum than men can.

263 sats \ 0 replies \ @StudyBITCOIN 22 Sep 2023

The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles once said "Hollywoodland," but was changed in 1949.

286 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wearesatoshin 22 Sep 2023

The color orange was actually named after oranges.

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Before oranges arrived in England in the late 15th century, there was no word for the color.

It was referred to as ġeolucrog (yellow-saffron), or ġeolurēad (yellow-red) depending on the shade.

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

This was one of the ones my 13 year old wanted us to use this week.

154 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 23 Sep 2023

Giraffes don't need to spend energy to keep their necks up, but they do need to when putting their necks down.

221 sats \ 2 replies \ @stacksatstoday 22 Sep 2023

The only letter in the alphabet that doesn’t appear in any US state name is the letter Q.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 22 Sep 2023

I was struggling to come up with the "J" state. How dare you make me think about New Jersey? Out of sight out of mind.

171 sats \ 0 replies \ @stacksatstoday 22 Sep 2023

Haha, yeah my son came up with this one. I was thinking about Z and of course it's in Arizona.

226 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshis 22 Sep 2023

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The Twitter bird actually has a name – Larry. When Twitter was founded in 2006, its logo was purchased from a stock image website. The bird logo has had small changes to its appearance in the years since. It wasn’t until the 2010s that a Twitter employee revealed that it’s actually called Larry.

Twitter has since confirmed this and stated that the name comes from Larry Bird, who is a famous Hall of Fame basketball player. The species of Larry the Bird remains a secret!

335 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lux 22 Sep 2023

El Salvador is not the first nation to make BTC it's official money

374 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

Indeed. The first one was Principality of Pontinha in 2015.

335 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 22 Sep 2023

hahaha, i learned that from you, didn't want to spoil it without your consent :)

254 sats \ 2 replies \ @ceife 22 Sep 2023

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible!

240 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

This fact won a couple weeks ago. Tell your chat gpt that it needs to step up it's originality game.

171 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

Yes, I use to make my own granola bars with honey and keep them for long time. Just all kind of nuts and honey. Nothing else added. I still have some from 5 years ago and are in perfectly stage to be eaten. Delicious.

254 sats \ 2 replies \ @SATsStandard 22 Sep 2023

If you're a cat lover, then you may be surprised by this interesting fact: Cats can't taste anything that's sweet. That's probably why they can't get enough of their favorite salty snack.

444 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

yes, I have 4 cats. none of them touch sweets.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 22 Sep 2023

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175 sats \ 0 replies \ @locomancell 22 Sep 2023

Fun fact. I didn't know how to weld until I opened my welding and custom fab shop, yet my welds are very well respected by gold-arm welders in the area, and my products are the finest and admired by everyone who sees them 🙌 I learned how to weld in one day, steel and aluminum, and many welders don't wanna mess with aluminum 🤣

115 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 23 Sep 2023

Zap means sauce in Cantonese

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Darth 22 Sep 2023

Octopuses actually have six arms and two legs!

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @fiatbad 22 Sep 2023

The Federal Reserve is a Cartel of Criminals.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @pow 23 Sep 2023

Fun facts:

An Altcoin blames Bitcoin's scalability
Altcoin reaches mass adoption
Then Altcoin will build a sidechain solution and realizes BTC was right the whole time.

609 sats \ 0 replies \ @KurlandIII 22 Sep 2023

If you have hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, you are scared of long words, so you are scared of your own phobia's name

60 sats \ 3 replies \ @Five 22 Sep 2023

Pigs are considered to be the world’s fifth-smartest animal.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

One spot ahead of Shitcoiners. Not bad.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 22 Sep 2023

please don't insult all the other animals

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

Haha good point.

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @knorozov 22 Sep 2023

If the world was a 1 meter high skippy ball, the deepest hole we ever dug is the depth of 3 sheets of paper.

wE aRe DePlEtInG eArTh Of iTs reSoUrCeS

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Giveme5 22 Sep 2023

Honeybees can recognize human faces.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @mSats 22 Sep 2023

The word “y’all” dates back to at least 1631.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Futurecurrency 22 Sep 2023

Los Angeles original name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.”

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Spanish colonists founded the city that is now known as Los Angeles in 1769. And in 1781, another group of 44 settlers made the new town their home.

The Spanish governor named the city, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula. In English, this means “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula.”

As the name is quite a mouthful, it became shortened until it finally became Los Angeles. So now, Los Angeles is just “The Angels.”

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cowboy 22 Sep 2023

There are a total of 1,710 steps in the Eiffel Tower.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

How many to the observation deck?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @2009 22 Sep 2023

Human blood cells have different lifespans.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bepositive 22 Sep 2023

In 1783, the very first hot air balloon took off with a sheep, a duck, and a rooster on board.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Infinity 22 Sep 2023

The word “burrito” means “little donkey” in Spanish.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Brrr 22 Sep 2023

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

Good fact. I have never been but know someone from Saint Lucia who was planning to go back when he retires and he said it's beautiful.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @chowwiwang 22 Sep 2023

Thrawn on Ahsoka is actually just Elon Musk painted blue.

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 22 Sep 2023

You can't lick your elbow.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @GOAT 22 Sep 2023

Eating carrots can turn your skin orange.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

not really. I eat carrots very often because I do work in the sun and lots of efforts. Carrots are good to deal with that. What they do is your tan in the sun will have a better color, but not making your skin orange.

But I see your comment as a joke in regards of Bitcoin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @locomancell 23 Sep 2023

Fun fact: Arabic-Indian numbers. Each number represents how many angles each one has. Look it up 🧐

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LaserStack 22 Sep 2023

Negative thermodynamic temperatures, i.e. Temperatures below absolute zero, 1. exist, and 2. are hotter than positive temperatures

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @realtrader 22 Sep 2023

Every day a scoundrel and a fool wake up early When the two bump into each other, it's business

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @21m8 22 Sep 2023

A lion’s roar can be heard from 5 miles away.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22 Sep 2023

We had this one some weeks ago. Chat GPT has to step up it's originality.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fred 22 Sep 2023

Darthcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto 😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chowwiwang 22 Sep 2023

Bats are the only flying mammal.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Believe 22 Sep 2023

You actually lose a large percentage of your taste buds while on an airplane. This might explain a lot about those less-than-stellar in-flight meals, or why you find yourself craving the saltiest foods while in the sky.

256 sats \ 0 replies \ @Arceris 22 Sep 2023

To be fair, you don't "lose" them in the "they die off and have to grow back" sense... you lose a ton of sensitivity due to the air pressure decrease, but it recovers once the pressure returns when you land. Growing back would take days/weeks.