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06-20-22, 01:37 PM | #1771 |
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The Long Legged Burrowing Owl (Athene Cunicularia ) uses its own poop at bait to lure Dung Beetles close to the den.
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06-21-22, 05:25 AM | #1772 |
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The average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles. Which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.
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06-21-22, 03:35 PM | #1773 |
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Wombats have cube shaped poop.
Apparently this stops the poo from rolling off their marked territory of rocks or trees.
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06-21-22, 03:49 PM | #1774 |
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A parsec is the longest measurement for distance yet created. It's used to measure the distance between stars and even galaxies, and one parsec is about 3.26 light years (30.9 trillion km / 19.2 trillion miles).
Combined with the "atto-" SI prefix (10^-18) it becomes "Attoparsec" - a length of about 3.09cm (1.215in), easily usable for everyday nerdiness. |
06-22-22, 09:09 AM | #1775 |
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You spend 92 days of your life on the toilet.
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06-23-22, 10:48 AM | #1776 |
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One-quarter of your body’s bones are in your feet.
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06-23-22, 01:08 PM | #1777 |
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The first mechanical calculator was invented by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, when he was 19 in 1642, to help is father calculate mathematical sums.
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06-23-22, 01:20 PM | #1778 |
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The nails on your dominant hand grow faster than the rest, as do the nails on your longer fingers. Your fingernails also grow faster during the day and during the summer.
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06-23-22, 01:47 PM | #1779 |
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When the Great Eastern ship was first attempted to be launched on 3 Nov 1857, it was the heaviest single object moved by humans.
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06-25-22, 08:22 AM | #1780 |
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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06-26-22, 10:55 AM | #1781 |
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That's the third time you have used this one. Jim Weatherly's song Midnight Train to Georgia was based on a phone conversation he had with Farrah Fawcett when she was talking about an instance in her relationship with Lee Majors
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06-26-22, 02:01 PM | #1782 |
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“Spoonfeed” is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
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06-27-22, 07:38 AM | #1783 |
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Sleeping through summer is called “estivation.”
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06-27-22, 11:40 AM | #1785 |
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If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau.”
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