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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!
You are my âcompetitorâ but I canât help voting for you. Send my love to your princess. Iâm a teacher irl n she did great!
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.
Congratulations on the win! You are raising two self-directed n motivated children. That has got to worth many many sats heh
Thanks for the kind words. We are doing our best.
Great fact. Must be a super smart kid unlike @grayruby
Good fruit, better fact
They have what!!! Wow! I was today years old when I learnt this. Schooled by a 5 year old.
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.
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Fun fact, DarthCoin NEVER used:
DISCLAIMER: I post this for fun fact, not for the prize.
A plane? Really? Dayum son! Definitely from another galaxy, this guy đ»
I said plane yes, like airplane. That doesn't means an Imperial Star Destroyer... https://imgprxy.stacker.news/0hI0LNka9s_mu7gb0R23i3CEGNB1UC0rYl1ryRx4W1I/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvbUQ5REZCMjcvZGFydGgtdGF4aS5wbmc
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That is blasphemy to say here on SN! https://imgprxy.stacker.news/de9jAukJCHQ05YvLKYPsrQz_HbsShgav9_5atTU6PM0/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvMTNLV2I1Y1QvU04tdmFkZXIuanBn
Another fun facts about DarthCoin:
Champ!
so what happened to the "big liver" now?
is very well and filtering all my beers đđđ 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.
Would you happily inject yourself with all virus known to men?
But that will not be anymore "infection"... will be injection with something that is not naturally in your body. In other words designed poison.
That is infection by injection. Still an infection.
So you just don't think that a virus can be contagious?
virus doesn't exist! The term was invented to scare the shit out of you so you will buy their shit.
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?
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!
well said.
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.
a parasite doesn't kill the host and is a living organism unlike viruses
Really? I thought viruses don't exist?
I agree with that
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don't trigger me
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Australia is wider than the moon â 600km wider, to be exact.
And also has a dark side.
LOL good one
The Dark side of the Australia đ€Ł
TIL, interesting
Wow who knew!
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 theyâre curved.
Bananas go through a process called ânegative geo-tropism.â 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.
Good one!
There goes the dad joke I grew up with, namely that they curve to fit into their skins.
This is an excellent one. Should be higher in rankings.
very interesting
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 Currency1. 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 âContinental Currency.â 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 wifeâs 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.2. Shipping warming pans to one of the hottest regions.
Figuring out that Dexter would do anything to gain his peersâ 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!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 Dexterâs 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 world4. Shipping coal to the leading producers of coal in the world
Someone else tried to take advantage of Dexterâs 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:
in Conclusion: Buy Bitcoin
Source: https://zenstrategies.com/luckiest-dumb-person/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
hahaha nice story. I love the conclusion
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?
And the bank has it's own cheese curing facilities
I didnât know that! Thanks mate
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!
Arachibutyrophobia is the Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
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."
i remember but i don't remember if that broke the law that information can only travel at the speed of light
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.
If you have hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, you are scared of long words, so you are scared of your own phobia's name
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...
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."
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El Salvador is not the first nation to make BTC it's official money
Indeed. The first one was Principality of Pontinha in 2015.
hahaha, i learned that from you, didn't want to spoil it without your consent :)
Most people fart around 14 to 23 times a day!
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.
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...
Fun fact, @Darthcoin never farts
hahaha, no man, I fart too but not so much.
I agree though, 14 farts per day on average sounds like a shit load of farts
LOL even one per hour is too much https://imgprxy.stacker.news/plh-6xrPNNU-9_vzDT4gRfH8Hl4UJwZzEae1KxUV1P8/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvU3hRMlltTG4vc2hpdHBhbnRzLmpwZw
Eso no es nada!
Tortoise fact to quote from the neighbours daughter; âThe oldest tortoise in the whole world is called Jonathon and he is 190 years old⊠thatâs reallllllly old. Like my Grandmaâ
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.
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.
Haha
A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
Good fact
I agree
Two best fun facts I have is:
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Squirrels cause approximately 10-20% of US power outages.
They cause 100% of the internet outages @PlebLab
And 50% of my dog's rage. Rabbits being the other 50%.
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.
yes, I have 4 cats. none of them touch sweets.
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Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible!
This fact won a couple weeks ago. Tell your chat gpt that it needs to step up it's originality game.
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.
Sixty percent of Africa's 1.25 billion people are under age 25
In a group of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two will share the same birthday.
#249780
The color orange was actually named after oranges. https://imgprxy.stacker.news/fod_5gxAa0A2lBwvwb4yOOSaz7LRDx02w2fJeWgFIfs/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZmFjdHNpdGUuY29tL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy8yMDExLzA3L29yYW5nZS1jb2xvci1sYW5ndWFnZS53ZWJw Before oranges arrived in England in the late 15th century, there was no word for the color.
It was referred to as ÄĄeolucrog (yellow-saffron), or ÄĄeolurÄad (yellow-red) depending on the shade.
This was one of the ones my 13 year old wanted us to use this week.
The only letter in the alphabet that doesnât appear in any US state name is the letter Q.
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.
Haha, yeah my son came up with this one. I was thinking about Z and of course it's in Arizona.
Women can see slightly more of the electromagnetic spectrum than men can.
The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles once said "Hollywoodland," but was changed in 1949.
You donât 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, heâd just tell himself exactly what time to wake up the next morning and it would happen. I donât know what the standard deviation was, but seemed to be highly accurate the way he described it
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/JdV8dNmKCOui4soVq6fiRscgTB1I46AbpBxasHQ1Df4/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmNyeXB0ZWQtdGJuMC5nc3RhdGljLmNvbS9pbWFnZXM_cT10Ym46QU5kOUdjVEROY1dKTHNzcl9oOUIzRTBfc2VTYWg5RWFxVXIxc2xnMkxXR2ZSRkNJM0pPSjM5Y29LemV1bmw4JnM9MTA The Twitter bird actually has a name â 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 wasnât until the 2010s that a Twitter employee revealed that itâs 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!
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 đ I learned how to weld in one day, steel and aluminum, and many welders don't wanna mess with aluminum đ€Ł
Giraffes don't need to spend energy to keep their necks up, but they do need to when putting their necks down.
Zap means sauce in Cantonese
Pigs are considered to be the worldâs fifth-smartest animal.
One spot ahead of Shitcoiners. Not bad.
please don't insult all the other animals
Haha good point.
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.
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.
The Federal Reserve is a Cartel of Criminals.
The word âyâallâ dates back to at least 1631.
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
Fun facts:
Los Angeles original name is âEl Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.â https://imgprxy.stacker.news/-o4R3bJlCPTWsHy0HDTYX3NegN8q2aY6uqoR8xkG9gw/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmNyeXB0ZWQtdGJuMC5nc3RhdGljLmNvbS9pbWFnZXM_cT10Ym46QU5kOUdjVDAzeHp0X2t0UnZobVIyZGwwTFUwYTBMNnBVczVaM3ZKNzdITkhoR0p4WTIzRXZRUHNjY3Y5ZGNTUiZzPTEw 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 Ăngeles de PorciĂșncula. In English, this means âThe Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of PorciĂșncula.â
As the name is quite a mouthful, it became shortened until it finally became Los Angeles. So now, Los Angeles is just âThe Angels.â
There are a total of 1,710 steps in the Eiffel Tower.
How many to the observation deck?
Human blood cells have different lifespans.
In 1783, the very first hot air balloon took off with a sheep, a duck, and a rooster on board.
The word âburritoâ means âlittle donkeyâ in Spanish.
Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
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.
Octopuses actually have six arms and two legs!
If the world was a 1 meter high skippy ball, the deepest hole we ever dug is the depth of 3 sheets of paper.
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Thrawn on Ahsoka is actually just Elon Musk painted blue.
You can't lick your elbow.
Eating carrots can turn your skin orange.
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.
Fun fact: Arabic-Indian numbers. Each number represents how many angles each one has. Look it up đ§
Negative thermodynamic temperatures, i.e. Temperatures below absolute zero, 1. exist, and 2. are hotter than positive temperatures
Every day a scoundrel and a fool wake up early When the two bump into each other, it's business
A lionâs roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
We had this one some weeks ago. Chat GPT has to step up it's originality.
Darthcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto đ
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Bats are the only flying mammal.
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And we still test with "QWERTYUIOP".
Iâm more of an âasdfâ man myself
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