Interesting Facts #3

  • Women see more colors.
  • Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
  • In order to protect themselves from poachers, African Elephants have been evolving without tusks, which unfortunately also hurts their species.
  • At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
  • It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
  • It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
  • A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
  • The Spanish national anthem has no words.
  • In Svalbard, a remote Norwegian island, it is illegal to die.
  • Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.(Would you like to eat 🤣)
  • One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
  • The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.
  • The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
  • The unique smell of rain actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.
  • Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
  • There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
  • Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use. Meaning, prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted and you had to pay a license to use it.
  • Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
  • Dead people can get goose bumps.
  • Nowadays, millionaires with just $1 million isn’t considered wealthy anymore by most Americans. Now, the typical American sees at least $2.4 million as wealthy.
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