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Fun Fact Friday. Bounty included.

The bounty will be sats given by the stackers in the form of zaps on this post.

So, let’s hear all your best fun facts, any topic counts!

The best comment as voted by the "top" filter at 1pm CT tomorrow gets the bounty.

https://m.stacker.news/40499

Snails have up to 12,000 teeth in a structure called a “radula” in their mouths that they use to break down their food.

@orthwyrm can verify it!

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1141 zaps zapped! Congrats 🎉

https://m.stacker.news/40641

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Thank you so much!

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Amazing!

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Your brain burns 400-500 calories a day.

That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain's metabolic requirements too.

🔗 https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/does-concentrated-thought-burn-calories

"Noster" means "our" in Latin. Seemingly, "Nostra" means "our" in Italian, and "Nostre" in Catalan.

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"nosso" in portuguese :)

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Cosa Nostra = "our thing" in Italian, which is slang for the mob.

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Iceland Doesn't Have Mosquitos

https://media.easemytrip.com/media/Blog/International/637963444598672695/637963444598672695B3GUJt.jpg

Say goodbye to Mosquitos in Iceland. The temperature and the lack of shallow waterbodies has resulted in no Mosquitos in Iceland.

https://www.easemytrip.com/blog/fun-facts-about-europe

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Kamala Harris lived in Montreal from 1976 - 82, age 12 to 18. Her mother was a cancer researcher at McGill University

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So that's what's wrong with her. Too much time with Les Quebecois.

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A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

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That one - a classic - has 35 letters. Here's an example of one that's has only 1 of each letter:

Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.

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@k00b bring back Meme Monday and Fun fact Friday. Please.

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Would you like to do them? I can send you the sats for the bounties on some cadence. 10k each contest should do it.

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I will give it a shot. Full credit to @oliverweiss for trying this user activated version but it doesn't seem to get the traction the SN posts did.

What time do you want them posted on Monday and Friday?

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It'd be up to you ultimately. But kr did 9a CT I believe.

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Ok I will give it a shot.

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I'd like to sponsor a meme contest sometime in ~aliens_and_UFOs, I'll add 15k to the bounty. Winner has to reference both bitcoin AND aliens, UFOs, Non-Human Intelligences, ETs, etc...

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Was scrolling through old meme bounties. Looks like KR was doing 25k sat bounties but some are 10k sats. I think 10k is enough to generate some excitement. I am going with 10k bounty on Monday.

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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary, an even longer word exists outside the dictionary. The extended term for “titin” has 189,819 letters, but the first 61 letters are methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylsery..

https://m.stacker.news/40554

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Craig Wright said he was satoshi but wasn't..

🤡

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