Bretrick
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The heart of a blue whale weighs 400lbs (181kg). It is 4ft (1.2m) wide and 5ft (1.5m) tall.
What fact can you share that not many people would know?
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hollydolly
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The Blue Whales' tongue weighs the same as a fully grown African Elephant
Bretrick
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That is incredible.
hollydolly
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it really is... the first time I read it, I thought....whaaaaaat......
hollydolly
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hmmm...nothinng to brag about....
hollydolly
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Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins.
hollydolly
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There's a species of ant that only lives in a 14-block section of New York City and nowhere else on Earth.
hollydolly
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n 1859 a rancher released 24 rabbits onto his Austrailian farm. In 1920 the estimated rabbit population was 10 Billion.
Bretrick
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In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyoncé.
jimintoronto
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Every day at 11 AM, in the Peace Tower chapel at the Canadian Federal Parliament building in Ottawa, the pages of the seven War Memorial books are all turned one page forward. The seven Memorial books contain the names of 186,890 Canadian military members, who died in military service to Canada from the year 1812 to today. Each page of each book is richly illustrated, with the names, rank, and which military branch that person served in and the place and date of their death. There are Canadian War Graves located in 71 countries, around the world. JIMB.
fuzzybuddy
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There is the ancient Egyptian story of Rhodopis and the Golden Sandel. Well, she married the prince. But they didn't get along, so she divorced him and moved to Germany. You probably know her by her German name, Cinderella. There are versions of that story that are thousands of years old.
ChiroDoc
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That's a relief!
ChiroDoc
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Yeah, but all the rats eat 'em....
The Australian ~GIANT ~ Cuttlefish aggregate in the winter waters near Whyalla, South Australia, in numbers not seen anywhere else in the world!
These cuttlefish can weight up to 10 kg and be approx 50 cm long
We've seen them up close as my Hub lived / worked near Whyalla during his apprenticeship years when he was a youngster
Giant Cuttlefish
Lawrence00
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Jellyfish are not fish.
Neither are Cuttlefish @Lawrence00
I copied this ….
cuttlefish are not actually fish. They are a type of cephalopod, which is a group of marine mollusks that also includes squid and octopus.
Specifically, ~ GIANT ~ cuttlefish belong to the order Sepiida, which is distinct from the class of fish.
These fascinating creatures can count, exert self-control, and have numerous wily tactics to evade predators, ~ including creating their own body ~ double from a cloud of ink.
@Lawrence00I copied this ….
cuttlefish are not actually fish. They are a type of cephalopod, which is a group of marine mollusks that also includes squid and octopus.
Specifically, ~ GIANT ~ cuttlefish belong to the order Sepiida, which is distinct from the class of fish.
These fascinating creatures can count, exert self-control, and have numerous wily tactics to evade predators, ~ including creating their own body ~ double from a cloud of ink.
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OneEyedDiva
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The germs in your mouth resemble syphilis spirochetes. I know because we Disease Intervention Specialists sometimes had to perform a specialized test called darkfield microscopy, usually by transporting our scope to doctors' offices. We were trained on how to recognize the organism by taking samples from our mouths.
Bretrick
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The song with the longest title has 29 words
It is Hoagy Carmichael’s 1943 “I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues.”
It is Hoagy Carmichael’s 1943 “I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues.”
hollydolly
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The Moon looks upside down in the Southern Hemisphere. Compared to the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. This means that the ‘Man in the Moon’ is upside down in the Southern Hemisphere and looks more like a rabbit
hollydolly
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LEGO bricks withstand compression better than concrete. An ordinary plastic LEGO brick is able to support the weight of 375,000 other bricks before it fails. This, theoretically, would let you build a tower nearing 3.5km in height.
