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Fun Fact Friday bounties are back!
Share your best facts for a chance to win 10k sats.
The best comment as voted by the "top" filter at 9am CT tomorrow will be the winner.
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10.5k sats \ 9 replies \ @bief57 26 Jul
Can you imagine if humans could do that?
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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 26 Jul
Females are lethal in all species hahaha great fact
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Hahaha my husband doesn't come near me when I'm hungry
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give the female octopus chocolate or ice cream
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @fm 27 Jul
At least he inserted the mating arm first.. Not the worst way of dying for sure
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This made me laugh a lot
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Congratulations!
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Thank you so much!!
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Yikes
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Cool and scary at the same time
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Full story can be found e.g. here.
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Now that’s proof of work.
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Indeed 🤣🤣🤣
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All facts are so funny. Specially about pink milk.
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Cool funny facts!!
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Amazing! Not one but many facts!!
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All mammals get goosebumps!!

Although goosebumps may not serve many purposes to humans nowadays in terms of a threatening display, it is evident in the wildlife around us on cold wintery mornings or when a threatened animal has a similar reaction to fear or intimidation, causing its fur to be puffed out and making itself appear bigger or more dangerous.
Perhaps a more dramatic example of ‘goosebumps’ in animals is that of the porcupine, which puffs out its quills when sensing danger making even a pride of lions rethink their meal choice. Porcupines’ ability to erect the quills is a voluntary action helping in their defence

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Nice fact.
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Are marine mammals included?
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I believe they do! Before we were seperated from our hairy ancestors we used it as technique to defend or attack much like animals. Because Marine mammals also defend or attack, assuming this they also have goosebumps.
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Thanks!
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The "turboencabulator" is a famous inner-joke within the engineering world. It was born in a student's journal in 1944, and it became part of engineering lore so that much that actual companies have made fully featured presentations of the "invention", with professionally made data-sheets included (in the case of General Electric, they included a full data-sheet in their General Electric Handbook).
The joke pokes fun at excessive technobabble by using made-up "technical" words that describe an imaginary (yet undecipherable) invention.
Known videos where made with actors that worked for serious engineering presentations:
This one was the first live presentation, made by Bud Haggert (top voice-over talent on technical films), at his request, who after making an actual training film for General Motors convinced everyone to remain in the set to make the sketch:
This one was made by Chrysler (in the description it haves links to other presentations made by other high-profile companies):
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Dr. Eggman who is the main villain of the Sonic the Hedgehog game series was originally designed to be a potential protagonist for the game.
Once the character was rejected as a protagonist the team retooled him into the game's main antagonist.
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Nashville is named after a revolutionary war general.

Nashville gets its name from patriot general Francis Nash. General Nash was a revolutionary war hero who fell in battle. Nash’s name was also used for the now historical landmark of Fort Nashborough. As an additional fun fact: Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel Donelson lived in Fort Nashborough as a young woman.
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Great and timely fact.
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the bitcoin event was the driving force behind the theme selection 🤠
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Hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan. Lake Superior State University even offers a unicorn hunting license. The "chief herald of the Unicorn Hunters" once said, "The pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest." 🦄🌟
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Hilarious!
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 27 Jul
it's not legal if you need a license :)
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That is definitely a fun fact.
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The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal.
Weighing in at 0.05 to 0.07 ounces, with a head-to-body length of 1.14 to 1.29 inches and a wingspan of 5.1 to 5.7 inches, the bumblebee bat
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that looks yummy fried
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The world’s first computer which was named the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
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Let’s give it some No- Brainers!!
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Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
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All Fruit Loops are the same flavor.
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Sugar?
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Not sure what flavour, but all the different colors do not represent different fruit, all taste the same.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @NRS 26 Jul
Spiders can release silk from each of their legs. This means a spider can have multiple threads attached at once, helping it build a strong and complex web. Some spiders can even create webs in ways that are completely invisible to the human eye, using extremely fine silk.
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Incredible
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Ritchie Blackmore's smoke on the water is actually Beethoven's 5th. ;)
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Nice. Just looked it up and saw an interview where he was talking about being inspired by it and that he owed Beethoven a lot of money. Haha.
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I only found out the other day. Was talking about it in Throwback Thursday yesterday, crazy fun fact.
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One of the most infamous UFO sightings in the US were The Phoenix Lights in 1997. https://youtu.be/1mKF5mgtJLc One witness was a pilot that reported seeing the lights above Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
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Do we know for sure Kurt is not an alien?
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No, not for sure. But either him or Keith David, one of them is!!
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Q followed by U is a feature of English and Romance languages like Spanish and French. However, in Arabic, Q is sometimes followed by A.
Source: my Malay colleague
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Men don't want to get verified! Lol!
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Or live on this planet that long…
My great grandmother lived to 99. Just missed 100 by a couple months.
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I think there's some problem. The top comment is not the one you zapped according to top filter on ~meta. Kindly look at it here and select the custom dates of last 2 days here..
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Please see attached screenshots.
Here are the comments within the post sorted by top filter when I view logged in as grayruby.
Here are the comments within the post sorted by top filter when I view as anon.
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I did see them. But I'm talking about the top ranked comments in the territory. Select top>territory>comments
It was in the day!!
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I don't know why the difference between the top in the post and the ranking in the territory but the bounty has always been based on the top ranking within the post. I am not 100% sure but I think top comments and posts in overall rankings and territory rankings are time weighted to favour news posts/comments so stackers are routinely seeing new content but there is no bias for timing within a post.
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I have no objection to the bounty but the difference was quite visible! I looked at it just to confirm because I zapped the comment of @Athena and just wanted to see if it makes a difference. I found that the comment from @Athena came on top of all other comments but did not come on top on the post. I also asked the same think to @k00b but he isn't there and I thought you might know about it. But that's fine, according to the rule it's fine!
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.