Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

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A 2-foot-tall specimen of the Pongapong flower (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) in full bloom during the rainy season. It looks like a witch's hat and is one of the rarest plants found in the Masungi Georeserve, the Philippines.

 

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One explanation for why we all wake up with dragon breath...

 

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wait... what??

 

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An 11-foot Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, and an ice ledge at Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Photograph by NICK CALOYIANIS, Nat Geo Image Collection

The Greenland shark is the world’s longest living vertebrate. It can live for 400 years—twice the age of the longest-living land animal, the giant tortoise. There could be an individual in the ocean today that was alive during the 1665 Great Plague of London and George Washington’s presidential inauguration in 1789.

 

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Chuck Connors was a pro baseball player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949, Chicago Cubs in 1951 before he switched to acting

 

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This delicate tiny carving of a water bird was created 33,000 years ago!

Thought to be a diver, cormorant, or duck,the figure is from beak to tail less than 3 inches long.

This sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.

 

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I really do LOVE this one!

 

[JBR]

Has anyone brought up the platypus? The platypus is an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal whose natural habitat is in eastern Australia. The males can deliver venom. At first, European late-18th century men of science believed the notion of such a beast (even with a taxidermy specimen sent to them) amounted to a hoax.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ntists-thought-the-first-specimen-was-a-hoax/

 

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[RadishRose]

Has anyone brought up the platypus? The platypus is an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal whose natural habitat is in eastern Australia. The males can deliver venom. At first, European late-18th century men of science believed the notion of such a beast (even with a taxidermy specimen sent to them) amounted to a hoax.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ntists-thought-the-first-specimen-was-a-hoax/

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Thanks, JBR

Platypus - Wikipedia
For more on this fascinating creature!

 

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I assume the sword is to keep the riff-raff away from them??!!!

 

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