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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

An elephant is the only mammal with 4 forward facing knees.

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[โ€“] Interesting_Test_814 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Texas is larger than any country in Europe except Russia.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moose kill more people than bears every year.

Also Donald Trump was the president of the United States.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tiffany was a really common name in Ancient Rome.

[โ€“] jpeps 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if you scramble a rubiks cube up there is a good chance that it is the first cube to be in that state. there are 43,252,003,247,489,856,000 possible states that a cube(3x3) can be scrambled up in to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Not only that, but every single one of those configurations is solvable in 20 moves or less! https://www.cube20.org/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Hand sanitizer is ~120 proof alcohol. (Not a recommendation to drink it, since it's usually spiked with bad-tasting additives to keep people from doing just that. Some commercial hand sanitizers swap out ethanol for isopropyl alcohol, i.e. rubbing alcohol, which is more toxic when ingested.)

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[โ€“] mr_sparkle 28 points 1 year ago

Turtles can, in fact, breathe through their butts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I've noticed Americans tend to be surprised that Europe is bigger than the US

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Until recently the word "factoid" didn't mean a small bit of trivia. It meant something that sounded true or was accepted as a fact even though it was incorrect.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

We might actually not know why magnets work.

The formula used to prove the functionality of magnets can also be used to prove the existence of a theoretical state called a monopolar magnet - positive or negative on both sides. So either monopolar magnets can exist, even if in some esoteric circumstance, or we don't know why magnets work.

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[โ€“] Doomladen 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The first can/tin opener wasnโ€™t invented until about 75 years after canned food started being produced. During that time, people used hammers and chisels to open cans.

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[โ€“] bossito 25 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Lettuces in landfills take up to 25 years to decompose.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, what? How is that possible? When its in my fridge its a race against time but in a landfill its just chilling?

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[โ€“] unhook2048 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If your body healed as fast as your tongue you would starve to death.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

There are four stanzas to the Star Spangled Banner (the US national anthem) and what you typically here at sporting events is only the first.

Bonus fun fact, the fourth stanza contains the line that, in the 1860s became the shorter, "In God We Trust," motto on coinage that eventually became the national motto of the US in the 1950s (which was also when it was added to paper money). That original line from the fourth stanza was, "And this be our motto - 'In God is our trust.'"

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

550/2 is not 225 and 77+33 is not 100

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Texas is smaller than the state of Western Australia, while the USA is only slightly bigger than Australia.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Today I learned the president of the Screen Actors Guild is The Nanny (Fran Dresher)

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