Spotted at Singapore Zoo

The volcanic snail is the only animal in the world that has iron in its skeleton. Also known as the sea pangolin, it uses iron to build its shell and generate metal scales that cover its flesh, essentially becoming a snail with metal armour.

From my kids:

"The once common dog name Fido came from the Romans. The name is derived from the Latin word fidelis, which means loyal"

I read this fact, about elephants hating chili, from @cryotosensei and started to wonder if there is any animal that do not hate chili other than humans? I mean, don't they all hate chili? At least, that was my original thought...

I turned to the almighty internet and found the following:

Oh, and they also don't get drunk.

What does the cow say? Mooo What does the pig say? Oink What does the lion say? Roooar What does the giraffe say? Hmmm... 🤔

I long was told/taught that giraffe's don't make a sound. However it appears that they do. They hum!

Source: https://time.com/4043387/giraffes-sound-hum/

In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola.

Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.

Axolotl or Mexican walking fish, can regenerate lost limbs up to 5 times and even regenerate parts of its brain.

That's amazing!

Source: https://factanimal.com/axolotl/

Today, children have chemical exposures from birth that their parents didn't have until they were adults. Because children are exposed to toxins at an earlier age than adults, they have more time to develop environmentally triggered diseases, with long latency periods, such as cancer.

OXFORD POVERTY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011 - pdf https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3088bda4-c003-46d2-9240-3011ca728426/files/m25285207a42067bf96a095a4d90fdd13

from the late 1940s until the early 1960s, the US had a top marginal income tax rate of 91-92% on anyone earning more than $400k/year

Fun fact: in one of our parallel universes, Craig Wright is Satoshi. It just happens to be that in that parallel universe Satoshi is a narcissistic mythomaniac who doesn't know what an unsigned integer is.

The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).

Satoshis initial timechain parameters in November 2008 pre-release:

Blocktime: 15min Initial block subsidy: 100 BTC Difficulty readjustment: ~30 days Halving period: 100,000 blocks (~2.85 years)

This results in a maximum supply of 20 mio BTC after approx. 100 years.

I would like to share two fun facts specific to YOUR browser extension wallet. The other day I started working on a webLN interface for a browser extension wallet with the most unpleasant UI possible (WARNING - I think I'm succeeding at this). Two fun facts you can learn with it are what your wallet's balance is as a percentage of the US national debt and one random fun fact about the number of sats you have. Vercel may be blocking the latter API in the deployment, but you can at least see the national debt denominated in sats and in terms of your wallet's balance.

Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn’t bark.

99% of intercontinental data traffic happens via fiber optic cables that run across the ocean floor. Check out transatlantic cables.

David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.

The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!

Fun fact: Bitcoin is still alive. https://www.bitcoindeaths.com/

Like animals, plants can warn nearby neighbors that danger is afoot. But plants don't use sound to communicate.

They use chemicals that they transmit through the air, which just so happens to smell like freshly cut grass to us.

And for the first time, scientists have captured this fascinating conversation on camera.

The next block, right now (i.e. at any given moment), will on average be a ~20 minute block

FUN FACT: Its fun to read the fun facts.

Every 10 minutes a Bitcoin block is produced, with a 6.25 BTC block reward.

Every 10 minutes the US national debt increases by 1,000 $BTC.

You do the math!

Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet.

Source: Science Focus

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On average, Americans eat a combined amount of 100 acres (40 hectares) of pizza every day.

In North Korea, they follow the Juche calendar. The current year is 113 (not 2024). This is because because the country's first president, Kim Il-sung, was born in 1912, 113 years ago.

Craig Wright is a fraud.

Land Acknowledgement statements are a gnostic cult ritual.

There are more than 168,000 Bibles either sold or given away per day in the United States according to the Gideons, Wycliffe International and the International Bible Societies.

There are more than 168,000 Bibles either sold or given away per day in the United States according to the Gideons, Wycliffe International and the International Bible Societies.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

The most expensive animated movie is 'Prince of Egypt', which cost $70 million to make.

When baby sharks are born, they swim away from their mothers right away and are on there own. In fact, their mothers might see them as prey.

There will be thousands of acres of real estate available when all the car parks are repurposed, after autonomous transportation

African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from 180cm (6 feet) away.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.

Australia is wider than the moon.

Now, It's official that the Hanburys are connected to Britain's Royal Family.

Read yourself about the fact.