The sun accounts for more than 99.99% of the mass of the solar system
A sperm whale penis is 14 feet long.
Wombats shit is cubic.
Physiologically, rats can’t vomit. (Not to brag or anything, but I also know somebody who claims they saw it happen once)
Television is one of the few words combined by one greek part and one latin part.
The dog that played specks girlfriend in Pee Wees big adventure is also the same dog that played precious in silence of the lambs.
The guy who played Cowboy Curtis on PeeWees playhouse also played Morpheus in the Matrix.
This feels like one of those fun facts that theatres would have on screen with cheesy background music if you showed up to a movie too early
The definition of a second is the time it takes for a caesium-133 atom to fluctuate between its two hyperfine ground state 9,192,631,770 times (I did not look the number up).
Congrats 😃👍 btw in that time light in vacuum will travel 299,792,458 metres (didn’t look that up either)
Fun fact 1: Polish people are honoraribly black after they fought alongside the Haitians against the French (they switched sides as the only reason they were there was because France sent them there)
Fun fact 2: Alaska was almost purchased by Lichtenstein
Fun fact 3: Singapore was given independence against their own wishes
Fun fact 4: Abraham Lincoln read some of the works of Karl Marx as he wrote for his favorite newspaper
The PC I had as a teenager had teal trim.
Nipples can’t operate heavy machinery.
Not with that attitude
when the great pyramids were being built, there were still mammoths and sabertooth tigers walking the earth.
and Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids
I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn’t aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?
I can’t 100% give you facts. I just go off of the rough estimate of fossil records for both mammoth and sabertooth tigers roughly and this is just a random thing I like to tell people when I was younger to kind of blow their mind.
It’s f’in neato. I’ll be looking into it.
Another really good random “did you know” When the battle of Little Bighorn, a.k.a. custard‘s last stand happened the Brooklyn Bridge was just being completed in New York, and there were Native Americans who fought in the battle who were still alive to see Neil Armstrong step on the Moon so in the span of one lifetime we went from custard‘s last stand to one giant leap for all mankind.
This is true.
This statement is false.
Snakes have two penises. Or at least pythons do.
For all our differences we still have so much in common.
That REAL Pi actually ends at 7 digits. Discovered by a greengrocer named Dennis.
There’s been an easy say to calculate it since 1800s using an abacus.
I would like to learn more about this. Wiki says:
In the 5th century AD, Chinese mathematicians approximated π to seven digits, while Indian mathematicians made a five-digit approximation, both using techniques.
So it looks like they were all approximations, but it actually is much longer like I was always taught.
Grostesques are mythical or fantastical creatures carved into the sides of building. If they have been designed to drain water away from the building, they are called gargoyles .
That’s not useless! I’m totally using this to impress someone, someday.
