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Title: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 18, 2022, 09:42:38 AM
Duncan Hines was a real person.

Stroll through the baking aisle at any grocery store, and you’ll likely find instant cake mixes and containers of frosting emblazoned with the Duncan Hines name. But unlike other boxed mix competitors (looking at you, Betty Crocker), Hines was a real-life food personality whose name was once synonymous with fine dining. For a man who couldn’t cook, Hines became a surprisingly well-trusted authority on American cuisine for nearly three decades, all thanks to an iron stomach and fearless forays into restaurant kitchens.

Born in Kentucky in 1880, Hines worked as a traveling salesman from the ’20s through the ’40s, a life that didn’t allow for regular home-cooked meals. While putting anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 miles on the road each year, he kept a meticulous journal of his dining experiences, listing noteworthy restaurants that provided budget-friendly dishes. But Hines didn’t just review meals — at a time when health codes and food inspections weren’t yet standard, he went so far as to audit kitchens himself, monitoring food safety practices, cleanliness, and even examining the garbage.

Flooded with requests from fellow travelers, Hines attached a list of 167 restaurants to his 1935 Christmas card. A year later, he self-published Adventures in Good Eating, a comprehensive compendium of U.S. eateries that was updated annually until 1962. With each edition, Hines solidified his reputation for honest critiques, in part because he refused payment for good reviews (though he did profit from renting signs bearing his stamp of approval to restaurants, and once accepted a gifted Cadillac from a happy restaurant owner). By 1949, Hines had teamed up with businessman Roy Park to launch Hines-Park Foods, which sold under the Duncan Hines label — moving the reviewer’s name from print to the containers of more than 250 grocery items. The brand’s iconic boxed cake mixes debuted in July 1951 in just two flavors  — vanilla and devil’s food. Today, the cake mixes are beloved by many, even if the man who originally helped create them has been forgotten.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on August 20, 2022, 08:50:06 AM
Tasted many a cake with his name on it!  :eat:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 25, 2022, 09:17:27 AM
Scientists can figure out how old whales are by looking at their earwax.

Whales are some of the most majestic creatures on the planet. The blue whale is the largest animal to ever exist (http://track.interestingfacts.com/?xtl=1uj6hjm0jumcuftlgua12hw3dz3owyqn6we5liax362eenio5hvgyldctr2lsd7m24r5zgw1mxfiygqoyqwz3s9w4698jyxqmegt5pv4313n6tkyzk452mwhtohu7l39rmbuh8027taidmx52f9nbau2sokil2n5lpfmmtej6ec9p2rvsninxi396t5a8clf9lfgnm0une59ioaqw6jrvludm7shpxkdpksqwc6jelzkzkmglk4bd08jo5anngxk7w9qn2ornegw5mq3ndm2owp2a693rxos3sw60wl86c962bp496arijmu52&eih=9usk6tr7eqj7wlttgxa795o4tyaqp&emc_click_data=503f54cf91f0478e1a4c183e862f8f69cfede45753262605d3b98c354e8914fbe6b05f000be55175cfa39a75e903d88a01d09bb1ca8b8b714e5a71dc9f28885b82287bc6c3b550c95b2af1550c9a6ad3a1fdae2b04115811c15c0fdb09223358babca4116c38dd25c6e28152e54b22182c05e36b18f22e9d37d0286e83b60e0a9218efd1fbeaad707f74e91c46fb8bb65ccf8c1195bfb4bd90592caa579ad04c), the bowhead whale can live for more than 200 years, and a few humpback whales saved the future of humanity in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In fact, these creatures are so amazing that even their earwax is a vital tool — at least for helping scientists understand the mysterious mammals themselves. Take, for instance, the 10-inch-long earplug of an adult blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Cetologists — scientists who study whales — can cut into a plug of earwax and learn the whale’s age, much as dendrochronologists do with tree rings. Earwax from blue whales (and other large whales such as humpbacks) forms rings, known as “laminae,” every six months, which give scientists a snapshot of the creature’s entire life through cycles of summer feeding and winter migration.

And these waxy earplugs can tell scientists more than just a whale’s age. Earplugs also capture a chronological “chemical biography” that shows what chemicals and pollutants were found in the animal’s body throughout its life, including levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Scientists have compared whale cortisol levels with whaling data, using records from 1870 to 2016, and found an unmistakable positive correlation. The only discrepancy was during World War II, when whale stress levels increased despite a decrease in whaling overall (scientists assume increased military activity was the likely culprit). Despite a near-international moratorium on whaling in the 1980s, whales still exhibit high cortisol levels thanks to increased ship noise, climate change, and other factors. But with the help of whale earwax, scientists can at least continue to examine the health of these majestic beasts and the oceans they inhabit.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 25, 2022, 09:20:31 AM
Medieval Scotland had a practice similar to modern battle rap, called “flyting.”

Today, sharp-tongued verbal jousting primarily exists in the art form known as battle rap, in which two rappers take lyrical aim at each other with intricate (and often devastating) rhymes. During these battles, no insult — artistic or otherwise — is off-limits, and that’s a sentiment that 15th- and early 16th-century Scottish poets might have shared. Medieval Scottish men of words linguistically barbed each other in a practice known as “flyting” (based on the Old English word flītan, meaning “to quarrel”), often as entertainment for the Scottish king and his royal court. The most famous of these “battles” that still survives, known as “The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie,” featured Scottish poets William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy entertaining the court of James IV in the early 16th century. Among its many famous attributes, it’s the first recorded moment of scatalogical humor. (One of the more family-friendly examples of its insults, translated from Middle Scots, reads: “Grovel for grace, dog-face, or I shall chase you all winter; Howl and yowl, owl.”)

The biting lyricism of flyting wasn’t restricted to Scotland, of course. Ancient Irish professional poets, called filid, were also known for their insults, and a form of flyting can be found in Old English literature as well as the famous Norse text the Poetic Edda (in which the trickster god Loki goes on the verbal offensive against his fellow deities). Similar art forms can be found in Japan, Nigeria, parts of the Middle East, and elsewhere. Although flyting didn’t survive the Middle Ages, its influence can be seen in works ranging from Shakespeare to James Joyce. Thankfully, the birth of the rap battle in the 1980s once again provided a much-needed venue for settling serious artistic beef — and it’s been a fixture of hip-hop culture ever since.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on August 26, 2022, 01:04:58 PM
Learned a lot about whales that I didn't know and a little more about the 'verbal warfare' history.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 30, 2022, 11:50:58 AM
10 of the World’s Strangest Borders

https://www.interestingfacts.com/strange-border-facts/Yg64cXnUVAAGtuZh
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on August 30, 2022, 01:02:04 PM
7of 10
A Tiny Island Changes Hands Between France and Spain Every Six Months

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has changed more than 700 times.

I thought that one was interesting, because on the one hand it seems to be just a random bit of pomp, but if it keeps the peace then it is well worth the effort.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 31, 2022, 10:18:29 AM
Yes, I thought it was interesting too. :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 01, 2022, 08:34:48 AM
September is the most common month for birthdays in the U.S.

The most common birthday in America is September 9, and the second-most common is September 19. In fact, nine of the 10 most popular U.S. birthdays fall between September 9 and September 20 — making September the most common month for birthdays in the U.S. overall, at least based on data from 1994 to 2014. The reason for September's popularity may be fairly simple. Flipping the calendar back nine months brings us to December, when people tend to have more time off for the holidays and thus more reason to celebrate in a variety of ways. In addition to being in good company, fall babies are blessed with good fortune and/or good genes, as people born in October are far more likely to live until 100, and those born in September and November often live longer as well (although scientists still aren’t sure exactly why).

On the other end of the spectrum are the year’s biggest holidays, with December 25 being the least common birthday — in the 20 years of data compiled by data journalist Matt Stiles, there were even fewer babies born on Christmas than on February 29. Rounding out the bottom four are January 1, December 24, and July 4, respectively. One reason for this is that so many births are scheduled, either by cesarean or induced labor, and doctors generally don’t schedule births on the holidays when they may not be working. This might also shed some light on why September births are so popular, according to some — with no major holidays that month aside from Labor Day, there’s less reason for soon-to-be parents to worry about hospitals being short-staffed the way they might be on Christmas or New Year’s Day.

But...I have my own theory.  :hah!: Let's see...it's very cold out, not much to do, you probably alone with someone and trying to stay warm...  :banana:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 01, 2022, 11:06:23 AM
September is the most common month for birthdays in the U.S.
But...I have my own theory.  :hah!: Let's see...it's very cold out, not much to do, you probably alone with someone and trying to stay warm...  :banana:

 :2funny:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 02, 2022, 11:24:09 AM
I'm SOOOOO jealous! I've always wanted to do this!  >:(  :wink:

7 Famous Voice Actors You May Not Recognize (But You’ve Definitely Heard)

https://www.interestingfacts.com/voice-actors-facts/YvrUN0KJ8wAItdgQ?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07

However, I am very surprised that Mark Hamill is in that mix. :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 08, 2022, 10:20:01 AM
Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way.

e tend to think of dung beetles as lowly creatures, right down to their name. In spite of their earthbound status, however, they do something downright cosmic that no other animal we know of does: navigate using the Milky Way. While “dancing” atop their balls of dung, they orient themselves by looking up at the night sky, catching a glimpse of the bright strip of light our humble galaxy generates, and then moving relative to its position. They do this by taking what scientists call “celestial snapshots” and storing the images in their tiny little dung-beetle minds, a surprisingly fast process that allows them to hightail it away from the dung piles they scavenge. (As for daytime gathering, they move using special photoreceptors in their eyes that allow them to see a symmetrical pattern of polarized light emanating from the sun.) Doing so quickly is imperative — there’s a lot of competition for dung out there, and daddy dung beetles need to move quickly to bury the excrement, which they later feed to their babies. The insects move rapidly in straight lines away from the dung piles, which seems to minimize the likelihood of meeting other creatures of the same kind and getting into a dung-related squabble.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/630e795969efab0008c03998?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#630e765669efab0008c022a9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 08, 2022, 01:18:48 PM
 shocked003
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 10, 2022, 05:22:05 AM
7 Not-So Elementary Facts About the Origins of School Supplies

I thought this was a very interesting read. :)

https://www.interestingfacts.com/school-supply-origins/YwP0akKJ8wAItdmt
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 15, 2022, 09:12:13 AM
There are no bridges across the Amazon River.

When it comes to the Amazon River, there’s no such thing as water under the bridge. The idiom simply doesn’t apply there, as no bridges cross the Amazon River despite it being at least 4,000 miles long. This isn’t because the idea has never occurred to anyone — it would just be extremely difficult to build any. The Amazon has both a dry season and a rainy season, and during the latter its waters rise 30 feet, causing three-mile-wide crossings to grow by a factor of 10 as previously dry areas are submerged. The river bank itself is also in a near-constant state of erosion due to how soft the sediment it consists of is, and there’s no shortage of debris floating in the water.

Beyond all those logistical hurdles, there simply isn’t much use for bridges across the massive river. For one thing, there are few roads on either side of the Amazon that need to be connected. The river is, of course, in the middle of a dense rainforest, the vast majority of which is sparsely populated. Other long rivers have numerous crossings, however: The Nile has nine bridges in Cairo alone, for instance, and more than 100 bridges have been built across China’s Yangtze River in the last three decades. For now, boats and ferries are the preferred method of crossing the Amazon, and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-the-amazon-river-cant-be-crossed-by-bridge
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 15, 2022, 02:33:26 PM
Some of those school supply details I knew already, but not so much on thee bridges. Hearing about the rainy and dry seasons it makes sense that bridges would not work on the Amazon.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 16, 2022, 10:20:02 AM
The original patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.

For early Americans, fire was a feared necessity; it warmed homes, provided hot meals, and offered late-night reading light. But fire could also destroy entire communities, which was probably the inspiration behind the invention of the fire hydrant — though we may never really know the full story, thanks to a fire in 1836.

At the time, Americans had been eagerly filing patents for nearly five decades thanks to the Patent Act of 1790 (http://track.interestingfacts.com/?xtl=168sod9frrkfk6dze1jdn23ylbjemisnw33c8nbqhbjy3n0drfwpn5hf13wvs8bt4g8q8eakg8ovjtbnmh728b1x7ghe735vfbqgy9vvkgszbxpe6jvvd47mbxxaii64a4vne4sern40g605g2kdqsx07vdm5l9fvtgyyrzm2yndx0xsemym9w6o3us59rjnf9m6j8eobzrhb5h8dllnvwxjqr7fneao5kq0z7etb619e20rtio5qzltrcqs1yg83o53t2iqpkrtvc6qi2i2t2zoje9tf2jd5924nzlxwin09xf7oeupzon831dh9vibu478w8pu&eih=9usk6tr7eqj7wlttgxa795o4tyaqp&emc_click_data=44d1b6ac48b585f401214f3b52486925fa47db74a1dae4b25127e631b5094ca6233f4f479b5d41f90649ae338c8afe3b396acd966e4e87ea9d2f1889b1fdbd8f218b0328bcdddf20409849d0f8b743b2e905358d5a89fff0535796f136ab5013e5d416ae1a5a3187681c98dcf22637d0b342eae2252623dfebfa53a91c64f726077cfde12e4560bef1126ff22f9faf504af21b92fe654552234946b385021f1a), recommended to Congress by President George Washington himself. By the 1830s, the Patent Office housed nearly 10,000 patents (http://track.interestingfacts.com/?xtl=vfqme66l5gze64qdvnj7zb3cv6n4ntzjfay0j6zmbb0l90cy55t4f697jx3wrbow46h0fl550smo61tfgp87ezjsh5rzn39s43yoawc0n0iezajvpog0hj7alc9xl7pz0jornfkegsstvjw017b1gv6lixfa7n1edh73hxjsnhh9j3yxjy3u8ixuoz25rpz3wm406cnclnjw0aocfiznha01xq6f62udsnbyr7uw6xqqeegdnb61doj9wbt8b7kx74v7uxgjhumyctuxuvxrw8ytyxflstb4pubkvrr6hi12yu5j&eih=9usk6tr7eqj7wlttgxa795o4tyaqp&emc_click_data=44d1b6ac48b585f401214f3b52486925fa47db74a1dae4b25127e631b5094ca6233f4f479b5d41f90649ae338c8afe3b396acd966e4e87ea9d2f1889b1fdbd8f218b0328bcdddf20409849d0f8b743b2e905358d5a89fff0535796f136ab5013e5d416ae1a5a3187681c98dcf22637d0b342eae2252623dfebfa53a91c64f726077cfde12e4560bef1126ff22f9faf504af21b92fe654552234946b385021f1a) — an impressive but risky collection considering they were all original documents with no copies.

On December 15, 1836, a fire in the basement of Blodgett’s Hotel (which then housed the Patent Office, U.S. Post Office, and a branch of the local fire department) smoldered from the embers of ashes that had been stored alongside firewood in a wooden box. Firefighters stationed in the building responded to the growing blaze, but couldn’t do much with the department’s dilapidated hoses. The former hotel — and every document inside — was gone in under 20 minutes. Assigned the impossible task of reconstructing its records, the Patent Office put out a call to inventors to mail in any documentation they had of their awarded patents, but only around 2,800 patents were restored. Those that couldn’t be reproduced were voided. In the years since, some scholars have pointed to Frederick Graff Sr., an early 19th-century Philadelphia engineer, as the possible inventor of the fire hydrant. However, another innovator by the name of Birdsill Holly Jr. was awarded a patent in 1869 for his “modern” fire hydrant, which was soon adopted in cities around the U.S. and Europe. Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office takes up five buildings in Alexandria, Virginia, and many patents are applied for and stored digitally — making them much less likely, thankfully, to be destroyed by fire.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 17, 2022, 08:54:42 AM
Catnip actually repels mosquitos from cats.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63179495f8d2780008b1c148?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6317932072f086000875d453
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 17, 2022, 08:55:21 AM
Fire has always played an important role in human history, with evidence of fires use and misuse going back to the stone age.

A brief history of fire (https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/brief-history-fire)
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    Fire: A Brief History (2nd edition)
    By Stephen J Pyne,
    Sydney, New South, 2019. 201 pp.

“All humans manipulate fire, and only humans do, we are truly a species touched by fire,” writes Stephen J Pyne, environmental historian and author, in Fire: A Brief History.

See also
Ecosocialism 2020: From rebellion to revolution
United States: In California, we need to fight fire with fire
Support urgently needed for rebuilding after Black Summer fires

First written in 2001 and republished in 2019, Fire examines the history of fire and the way it has affected the environment and the way this has been affected by humanity’s attempts to shape and use fire.

Pyne argues that fire’s history occurred in three stages. The first was Natural fire, which didn’t need the intervention of any species. These fires occurred regularly and nature adapted to this cycle.

The second was Anthropogenic fire. Anthropogenic fire begins with the earliest human societies, when humans first discovered fire and learnt to use its power for agricultural development. From this point, Humans would use fire to shape the environment around them with varying degrees of success.

Indigenous peoples around the world used various methods of fire control as a means of land management. For example, Indigenous Australians used firestick farming as well as creating lines of fire, as well as fire and fuel breaks, where they could maintain rather than create fire-driven landscapes.

For most of history, European societies tried to use fire for agricultural purposes, but tried to control fire rather accept its use in creating a fire-driven landscape. However, until the rise of Industrial capitalism, their success in controlling fire was limited, especially in urban areas where fires were common because of the abundance of flammable materials.

This brings us to the third period known as Industrial fire which relies on the burning of fossil fuels, releasing biomass and carbon dioxide. During this period, effective fireproof materials were developed, so that fire could be more effectively contained and therefore removed fire from human view.

This coincided with both the rise of industrial capitalism and the height of European colonialism. This means that humans were alienated from the effects of fire and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, leading to the disappearance of Indigenous fire regimes that had previously dominated their landscapes.

The effect of this was noted in Sydney in 1848 by the NSW Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell who wrote: “Kangaroos are no longer to be seen there, the grass is choked by underwood; neither are there natives to burn the grass”.

Without the fires, the fuels contained within them were eliminated and woody species overran the landscape.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 17, 2022, 08:57:08 AM
Catnip actually repels mosquitos from cats.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63179495f8d2780008b1c148?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6317932072f086000875d453

That's an interesting fact that I didn't know.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 17, 2022, 08:58:47 AM
I remember reading some of this years ago...about the fires. :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 22, 2022, 10:17:23 AM
Google Maps once listed a town that never existed.

I actually remember this. LMAO

There’s off the map, and then there’s Argleton. The English town was visible on Google Maps until 2009, which is notable for one major reason: No such place exists. So how did it get listed? Though never confirmed by Google, it’s been speculated that Argleton may have been akin to a trap street — a fictitious road used by cartographers to catch anyone copying their work. The reasoning is as simple as it is clever: If a street (or, in this case, town) that you made up ends up on another map, you’ll have caught its creator red-handed in copyright infringement.

Though little more than an empty field in West Lancashire, Argleton once had its own (presumably auto-generated) job listings and weather forecasts. Once its (non-)existence became known on the internet, humorous T-shirts with slogans such as “New York, London, Paris, Argleton” and “I visited Argleton and all I got was this T-shirt” appeared online, too. Google itself was tight-lipped on the subject, releasing a brief statement noting that “Google Maps data comes from a variety of data sources. While the vast majority of this information is correct there are occasional errors.” The good people of Argleton likely would have been highly offended by that characterization — if they actually existed.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 24, 2022, 12:20:25 PM
 laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 27, 2022, 10:29:09 AM
Lord Byron’s daughter Ada Lovelace is often considered the world’s first computer programmer.

The famous poet Lord Byron once wrote of his daughter Ada that he hoped “the gods have made her anything save poetical — it is enough to have one such fool in the family.” He got his wish. Instead, Ada Lovelace followed a path many considered impossible for a woman in the early 19th century. Encouraged by her mother, Lady Byron, Lovelace developed a passion for mathematics at a young age. In 1833, a 17-year-old Lovelace met British mathematician Charles Babbage at a party, and he told her about a calculating machine he’d created called the Difference Engine. Fascinated, Lovelace eventually began a regular correspondence with Babbage.

About a decade later, while translating a French text regarding Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine — often considered the first mechanical computer — Lovelace added a few notes of her own. “Note G” detailed a method through which Babbage’s creation could calculate complex numbers called Bernoulli numbers. This is often considered the world’s first computer program, making Lovelace the first computer programmer. While Babbage was the brains behind the machine, Lovelace was the one who truly grasped its wider importance, foreseeing a future where engines could use the “abstract science of operations” to do things beyond mere computation — like composing complex music, for example. It took the world nearly a century to catch up to her vision.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 28, 2022, 07:27:30 AM
It's interesting how much little known historical facts can influence our 'modern' day life's tools and technologies.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 30, 2022, 09:37:02 PM
Killer whales are actually dolphins.

There are a few common misconceptions about killer whales, such as how they’re often seen as bloodthirsty creatures that hunt humans (they don’t — killer whale attacks are incredibly rare). But the biggest confusion about these black-and-white ocean dwellers is right in their name: They aren’t really whales. The Orcinus orca is actually the largest species in the Delphinidae (aka dolphin) family, weighing as much as 350 pounds at birth and growing up to 32 feet long during its 30- to 50-year life span. But in comparison to most whales — like the 100-foot blue whale, the largest animal on our planet — orcas are relatively small. Biologists also group killer whales with dolphins because of their aerodynamic body shape, which helps them reach speeds of up to 34 miles per hour, and their use of echolocation for hunting and navigation.

So why do we call them killer “whales”? The name stems from sailors of old, who witnessed the massive dolphins hunting whales (and other large marine mammals) together, and originally called them “whale killers.” Over time, the name was reordered, giving orcas a reputation as fierce and dangerous predators. These oceanic dolphins are clever hunters, known for beaching themselves to feast on seals and sea birds, and for working in pods to take down larger prey like great white sharks. But they’re also extremely social marine animals that spend their lives in matriarchal groups with as many as 40 members. Killer whales are so focused on community building that pods often host “greeting ceremonies” to meet members of other groups or welcome new babies, and hold aquatic funerals to mourn podmates. And the most reputation-busting research shows they might just like belly rubs.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 30, 2022, 09:41:30 PM
Kay and me took some of the grand-kids to Sea World in Orlando back in the 90s and saw the Killer Whale show... it was rather impressive.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 30, 2022, 10:56:08 PM
I remember seeing a rather small show long ago and liked it. :)

But when you think about it, they do look like large dolphins...just different colors.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 01, 2022, 09:31:59 AM
Vlad the Impaler: The real Dracula

https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html#section-who-was-the-real-dracula
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 01, 2022, 12:39:57 PM
It's strange how this one person has been the subject of so much interest throughout the centuries with many books/novels/stories about him, with many claiming to be factual history.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 02, 2022, 07:36:22 AM
Yes, maybe we'll never know the truth because he scared the $hit out of people so much they stayed away from him.  :rofl2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 02, 2022, 07:39:15 AM
The Real Stories Behind 7 Classic Nursery Rhymes

https://www.interestingfacts.com/nursery-rhyme-origins/Yx_NA0KJ8wAItd60?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 02, 2022, 09:05:43 AM
Interesting facts indeed!
Two B-Days for the Queen was a surprise, but it sounds like something that a royal family would do.  :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 03, 2022, 09:25:24 AM
Medieval and early modern Europe saw “dance plagues” in which people danced uncontrollably for days.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6328e014234aa30009691e97?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6328df071f424a000a5a3655

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220512-the-people-who-danced-themselves-to-death
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 04, 2022, 03:12:26 PM
People breathe primarily out of one nostril at a time.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6333b4fa6c661b0009df00a5?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6333b2b76c661b0009dee9c3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 04, 2022, 04:03:05 PM
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erectile tissue found in the nose
Ummm, well, OK... that sounds kind of naughty to me.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 05, 2022, 04:25:48 AM
Yes, I noticed that. LMAO That made me go back and click the "affect your sex life" link.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-sinus-problems-can-affect-your-sex-life-and-what-to-do-about-it/

Hmmm, I need more sinus treatments...
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 05, 2022, 08:21:11 AM
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” was partly based on a true story.

I loved his shows and movies.  :thumbup:

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6333a94e76bfd0000943408a?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63339f906c661b0009de4a60
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 05, 2022, 03:42:42 PM
The man made some great movies, some of which were pretty scary!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 11, 2022, 08:53:45 AM
Babies are born with almost 100 more bones than adults.

The human body has 206 bones — unless you’re talking about babies, in which case the number is closer to 300. Many of a newborn’s bones are actually made of cartilage, which is much more malleable and allows fetuses to curl inside the womb as they develop. As children grow, cartilage turns into bone in a process called ossification, and the excess bones fuse together. (If you’ve ever wondered how those “soft spots” on an infant’s head — technically known as fontanelles — become stronger, bone fusion is the answer.) This is also a big part of why calcium is so important for babies: New bone tissue can’t grow without it.

Ossification doesn’t happen overnight, however — it continues until a person reaches their mid-20s, which is around when humans reach their peak bone mass. In much the same way that we’re constantly shedding our skin, our bones are constantly changing as well, with old bone gradually destroyed and new bone material formed. The process is called remodeling, and it helps keep the skeletal system healthy long after we’ve settled down at 206 bones.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 11, 2022, 08:55:11 AM
Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck bones.

Despite having the longest necks in the animal kingdom — they can reach a length of eight feet, twice as long as the neck of any other creature — giraffes have the same number of cervical vertebrae as humans: seven. The key difference is that giraffes’ vertebrae are much longer, with each of them measuring close to 10 inches in length; in humans, the entire vertebral column is around 28 inches for men and 24 inches for women. We have the same number of neck bones as our tall, spotted friends for the simple reason that we’re both mammals — sloths and manatees are the only members of this particular class that don’t have seven.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 12, 2022, 10:22:36 AM
Interesting information.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 17, 2022, 08:43:22 AM
A volcanic explosion caused a “year without a summer” in 1816 — and inspired “Frankenstein.”

Difficult times can lead to great art. Case in point: the volcanic explosion that caused a “year without a summer” in 1816 — and inspired the novel Frankenstein. The eruption took place at Indonesia’s Mount Tambora, many thousands of miles away from author Mary Shelley’s home in England. In addition to a harrowing death toll, the April 1815 explosion ejected mass amounts of sulphur dioxide, ash, and dust into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and plunging the global temperature several degrees lower, resulting in the coldest year in well over two centuries. In part because of the volcano, Europe and North America were subjected to unusually cold, wet conditions the following summer, including a “killing frost” in New England and heavy rainfall that may have contributed to Napoleon’s infamous defeat at Waterloo.

So what does that have to do with Shelley’s masterpiece? Then 18 and still going by her maiden name of Godwin, she and her lover/future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, traveled to Lake Geneva in April 1816, a time of extremely gloomy weather. One fateful night that July, the two were with their friend Lord Byron, the infamous poet, when he suggested, “We will each write a ghost story.” Shelley completed hers in just a few days, writing in the introduction to Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus that “a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.” Who knows: If it had been bright and sunny that week, we might never have gotten the endlessly influential 1818 book, which later spawned an assortment of movies, TV shows, plays — and of course, iconic Halloween costumes.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 17, 2022, 11:12:05 AM
Through the years I've watched several filmed versions of her story, but never read the book that she wrote and was unaware of the story of how she came to write the story. Maybe I should read it now.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 21, 2022, 12:05:15 PM
More about the fanged ones...

In European folklore, vampires were thought to have a compulsion to count — which inspired the Count on “Sesame Street.”

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63460eda6da7e90008a456aa?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63460d310b8a7e000a61f6f5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 24, 2022, 10:34:58 AM
Tenth President John Tyler has a living grandson.

More than 200 years after the 10th President of the United States was born, one of his grandsons is still alive. As impossible as that may seem, the math — and biology — checks out. John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and became President in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died in office (possibly of pneumonia), had a son named Lyon Gardiner Tyler in 1853. This son was born to the then-60-something Tyler and his second, much younger, wife, Julia Gardiner. Lyon then had two sons of his own in his 70s (also with a much younger second wife), one of whom — Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born in 1928 — is still gracing the Earth in his early nineties.

It may make this feat slightly less surprising to know that Tyler had 15 children, more than any other POTUS in U.S. history. Tyler’s actual presidency is less remarkable than this biographical oddity, alas — he was referred to as “His Accidency” upon assuming office and wasn’t re-nominated in the following election. (He was also an enslaver whose profitable plantation ran on the labor of 40–50 enslaved people.) Though his grandsons haven’t had major political aspirations, you might say it was in Tyler’s blood to seek office: His father, John Tyler Sr., was roommates with Thomas Jefferson at the College of William and Mary and later served as the 15th Governor of Virginia.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 24, 2022, 04:53:48 PM
That is an interesting tidbit from our history.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 25, 2022, 09:04:31 AM
Everyone has a unique tongue print.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/634f37291b727700085866b9?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#634f31d9a85a130008c25587
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 25, 2022, 09:36:37 AM
I did not know that! Good stuff.  :thumbup:

Here's an interesting bit of info about tongue's, namely my tongue.
A little over a month ago a CT scan showed that my cancer was spreading a little, so my Oncologist put me on a new drug and one of the side effects is mouth sores, so for a minute my tongue looked like raw steak! With a strong/powerful mouth wash med + a Lidocaine rinse it's getting better, so that's good.

BTW... in case I didn't mention this elsewhere, this new med retails for 50k per month and is actual full blown chemo.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 25, 2022, 09:43:38 AM
Wow! A lot of people don't realize that when they brush their teeth they should also brush their tongue.

But with people getting their tongues split, tattooed, pierced, etc. I'd think that could alter their print???
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 25, 2022, 10:50:12 AM
But with people getting their tongues split, tattooed, pierced, etc. I'd think that could alter their print???
It would seem logical that doing any of those things would change the print, like getting a cut on a fingertip that caused a small scar would change that one fingers print.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 30, 2022, 08:58:29 AM
Bat species make up 21% of all mammals.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/634f3ce41b72770008589822?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#634f3b6f1b72770008588ae3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 30, 2022, 03:57:09 PM
Quote
The bat family boasts amazing diversity. The tiny bumblebee bat (only about an inch big)
Never knew about this one.
 
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 31, 2022, 12:05:53 PM
I've never seen a bat this color:

(https://www.ourfamilyforum.org/FamilyForum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bedsbatgroup.org.uk%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F04%2FDSCF7887.jpg&hash=19d1f3bf94832468669c7ff47fdda19ea0fc391c)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 31, 2022, 12:07:51 PM
Before carving pumpkins for Halloween, people used to carve turnips.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/634f3e536da7e90008def88c?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#634f3d521b72770008589b69
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 01, 2022, 08:56:03 AM
What? I never knew that one!  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 01, 2022, 02:30:05 PM
Here's a funny one!  :hah!:

The Nintendo character Yoshi’s full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/635707bf747e93000ab946ca?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6357056a73bc230008052a4d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 03, 2022, 10:17:57 AM
Some asteroids have moons.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6357285873bc230008065de7?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63570c23c246300009bd99c3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 04, 2022, 05:11:30 PM
Yepps! me knew that one.  laughing7

Shape of Huge Asteroid with 2 Moons Revealed By SETI, Amateur Astronomers (https://www.space.com/23103-triple-asteroid-shape-amateur-astronomers.html)
BTW... I ran the SETI program on my PC's for several years.
 
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 05, 2022, 08:23:27 AM
I remember the SETI program. :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 07, 2022, 03:03:20 PM
There’s a beach in the Maldives that glows in the dark.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/616a3e33bf8b900007ae0bd3?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#616a3d41bf8b900007ae0bcd
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 10, 2022, 09:58:26 PM
Rats giggle when tickled.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63619a286478eb00081bdbb1?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#636197557fdd76000874fae9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 11, 2022, 09:40:56 AM
... found this video.  laughing7
See What Happens When You Tickle a Rat | National Geographic
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 13, 2022, 08:29:27 AM
There are about 60 polydactyl cats living at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Florida.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6361aadd2e8167000888688e?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6361a9212e81670008885443
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 13, 2022, 03:01:09 PM
The world only exists in your eyes... You can make it as big or as small as you want.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/636063658fe20e00089a9efa?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 14, 2022, 07:04:20 AM
Interesting quote... takes a minute to process.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 17, 2022, 09:48:15 PM
Um, that should've been in the "Daily Inspirations" board. LMAO

Lamborghini began by making tractors.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/636bf5c169cfbc0008f3ba50?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#636bf45d69cfbc0008f3b2c2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 18, 2022, 11:54:36 AM
Yeah, he got pissed off at Enzo Ferrari, so he made his own sports car.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 20, 2022, 09:29:46 PM
5 Famous Events in History That Never Really Happened

https://www.interestingfacts.com/events-history-never-happened/YVJO_w55YwAH_Lr5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 20, 2022, 09:31:15 PM
Carrots weren’t originally orange.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61935241e62b9f000897ddbd?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6193505be62b9f000897dd82
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 21, 2022, 08:52:38 AM
Interesting history.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 21, 2022, 09:24:31 PM
I've seen purple carrots but have never tried them yet.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 21, 2022, 10:23:22 PM
8 Dazzling Facts About the Sun

https://www.interestingfacts.com/sun-facts/YsyqoqYHnQAHPRwi?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 22, 2022, 08:37:12 AM
This photo is kind of wild!
 
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 22, 2022, 07:30:19 PM
Yes it is!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 24, 2022, 02:24:34 PM
When Thanksgiving was postponed

A Connecticut town once postponed Thanksgiving because there wasn’t enough molasses for pumpkin pie.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6372fef33427ed00089c0d88?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6372fd5f9c4d7b0008b3fa64
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 25, 2022, 10:17:04 AM
That is, indeed, an interesting fact.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 26, 2022, 08:19:32 PM
Queen Elizabeth had a longtime body double.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61ef5cb2781f4d000883e68f?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61ef5adb665c41000a5987c4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 28, 2022, 09:31:32 AM
I did not know that!  :o
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 28, 2022, 10:12:42 PM
7 Mind-Bending Examples of the Mandela Effect

https://www.interestingfacts.com/mandela-effect-examples/Ypar-luKogAHE3qy
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 28, 2022, 10:46:04 PM
Pistachios can spontaneously combust.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63730417bf46330009fc0799?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6373026d601d0f0009fdd376
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 29, 2022, 06:53:01 AM
Wow! Never knew that about pistachios, love to eat them btw.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 05, 2022, 11:03:55 PM
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6137ea557a91ad00076ded5b?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6137e9057a91ad00076ded52
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 08, 2022, 09:13:03 PM
Crocodiles can’t stick out their tongues.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6386d0404f6dac00098628c5?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6386a60e2d6cc500085b860c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 09, 2022, 03:24:08 PM
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6137ea557a91ad00076ded5b?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6137e9057a91ad00076ded52
Interesting facts that I didn't know about her.
I had some education and awareness of radioactivity from my work for the DOD back in my younger days and now that I'm on these Chemo drugs my education has become much more enlightened. For example, we have one bathroom set aside for guests only and I don't even enter that room for fear that my radioactive waste might cause issues for any children or young women of child bearing age if they were to come in contact with my piss or poop.

According to Wikipedia she died at 66 years old from aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation.
BTW... my Chemo drugs are shipped to me in a Bio-Hazard package!  shocked003
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 09, 2022, 10:13:02 PM
Do you glow in the dark?
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 09, 2022, 10:13:54 PM
There's a secret room behind Mount Rushmore.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/613fb596b12fae0008dfee1d?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#613fad9eb12fae0008dfedf5

Dimes have 118 ridges around their edges.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6386d2b1bd1439000808d979?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6386d14bbd1439000808cdb1
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 10, 2022, 08:02:51 AM
Do you glow in the dark?

Umm... actually, I don't know, I'll have to ask Kay.  :hah!:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 10, 2022, 09:14:02 AM
LMAO!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 10, 2022, 09:27:04 PM
Humans may have evolved fingers and toes that wrinkle in water to help them grip wet objects.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6386e05eff7b5e0008473e33?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6386deef94792300081d1967
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 11, 2022, 11:12:40 AM
The westernmost and easternmost points of U.S. territory both share the same name.

https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6384daf79ebb4e00083b8f47?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 12, 2022, 07:42:44 PM
The westernmost and easternmost points of U.S. territory both share the same name.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6386d4febd1439000808ec88?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6386d313ff7b5e000846c471
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 17, 2022, 05:22:44 AM
6 Intriguing Facts About Déjà Vu

https://www.interestingfacts.com/deja-vu-facts/Y4Vnf9QzDwAI3GFj?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 18, 2022, 10:28:45 AM
A town in Maine built a 122-foot-tall snowperson.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/639034adf8a896000949850f?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6390333f64a16d0008202177
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 23, 2022, 09:38:20 PM
Spider silk is stronger than steel.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6132b11b7a91ad00076ddefb?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#6132865d7a91ad00076dde95
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 25, 2022, 08:14:10 PM
8 Dazzling Facts About the Sun

https://www.interestingfacts.com/sun-facts/YsyqoqYHnQAHPRwi?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 27, 2022, 09:41:28 PM
Tom Thumb’s Wedding Cake…Still at the Library, 159 Years Later

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/08/tom-thumbs-wedding-cake-still-at-the-library-of-congress-159-years-later/
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 28, 2022, 07:12:46 PM
Bananas are slightly radioactive.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/639a08af11d6f10008da194e?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#639a068511d6f10008da06bd
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 28, 2022, 07:20:05 PM
6 Female Rulers Who Deserve More Recognition

https://www.interestingfacts.com/female-rulers/YszGCaYHnQAHPRxj
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 29, 2022, 09:44:26 PM
Reindeer eyes change color — they’re golden in summer and blue in winter.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/619c29bb7d72ac0007f9472f?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#619c2594dca673000768a44c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 31, 2022, 10:28:54 AM
Bananas are slightly radioactive.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/639a08af11d6f10008da194e?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#639a068511d6f10008da06bd

 shocked003
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 31, 2022, 01:49:55 PM
The first ball drops were designed for ship captains, not New Year’s Eve.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63a119a21f1e8300082f0b02?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63a1185597ba7c00084753ee
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2023, 09:49:35 AM
Ravens can remember human faces.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/613fa816b12fae0008dfede2?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#613fa657b12fae0008dfedd8
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on January 01, 2023, 12:08:31 PM
The first ball drops were designed for ship captains, not New Year’s Eve.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63a119a21f1e8300082f0b02?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63a1185597ba7c00084753ee

That's a really interesting story, and I watched the entire video!  :hah!:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 02, 2023, 09:45:04 AM
There is a 9-inch aluminum pyramid atop the Washington Monument.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63a115e71f1e8300082ef062?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63a1138073757d0009d2b888

Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 03, 2023, 08:09:43 PM
8 Presidential Myths, Debunked

https://www.interestingfacts.com/presidential-myths-debunked/YpbAxVuKogAHE3re
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 04, 2023, 07:31:29 PM
5 Surprising Facts About Florida’s Everglades

https://www.interestingfacts.com/everglades-facts/Y5fpTNQzDwAI3GfP
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 04, 2023, 07:36:23 PM
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63a11bb5d9bd1400096cb47c?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63a119fb73757d0009d2ea6d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 07, 2023, 06:44:32 PM
7 Little-Known Historical Figures Who Made a Big Impact

https://www.interestingfacts.com/underappreciated-historical-figures/YUOTkw55YwAH_LW4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 07, 2023, 07:07:40 PM
The Earth’s shape is constantly changing.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/616a364cbf8b900007ae0ba9?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#616a34cebf8b900007ae0ba0

I've heard, long ago, that the Earth was alive and I believe that. As well as people keep doing things to it....
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 08, 2023, 09:19:39 AM
Humans are the only known animal that cries from emotion.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63b59ddbf17dee0008a49009?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63b59bcb1412b00009a4368a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 09, 2023, 08:53:36 PM
5 Fascinating Facts (And Myths) About Sleep

https://www.interestingfacts.com/sleep-facts/Y6DfqNQzDwAI3Gpn?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07

Sand dunes can “sing.”

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63b4bb207f6f6900087c904d?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63b4a6e7090c820009ff11b2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 10, 2023, 09:48:30 PM
In 1900, about a third of vehicles were electric.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63b59b4b16bf0e000840ba11?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63b592a43073e400092d344a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 11, 2023, 07:57:09 PM
A misheard song lyric is called a “mondegreen.”

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/616a399cbf8b900007ae0bba?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#616a3877bf8b900007ae0bac
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 12, 2023, 08:57:02 PM
Flamingos can sleep standing on one leg.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63b4c8657f6f6900087cfe8b?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63b4c78f7f6f6900087cf86e
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Scrubmeister on January 13, 2023, 07:09:56 AM
I've seen that but never given it much thought. ..........So they just lock the joint and conserve energy.  :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 13, 2023, 07:55:42 PM
About 5 years or so ago it was so warm up here in Pennsylvania that a flock of flamingos flew up here! It was a Saturday and back then I loved going to the hiking trail close to here early in the morning to take pics of wildlife. But I was tired and decided to go another time.

As it happened, they were there hat day! I was soooooo pissed! LMAO I could've got some excellent shots!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 13, 2023, 08:00:04 PM
6 Facts About Amazing Rivers

https://www.interestingfacts.com/river-facts/Y6EOqdQzDwAI3Gqw?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 14, 2023, 10:46:25 AM
Four U.S. Presidents never had a Vice President.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61d359c3134cf900086b07fb?selected=0&liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61d358a4e641ee000749558a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 15, 2023, 10:59:49 AM
The first Gmail was associated with Garfield the cat.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63bdfe9ba1573900085690c9?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63bdfdb8a86ade000807d6ad
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 16, 2023, 08:18:50 PM
Sunsets on Mars are blue.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63bdffec888ff40008f62d1e?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63bdfef4748a2a00087e05e4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 16, 2023, 08:20:11 PM
6 Lesser-Known Facts About Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy B-day, Brother Martin! R.I.P.!  :thumbup:

https://www.interestingfacts.com/martin-luther-king-facts/Y6ZfHNQzDwAI3GvB
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 17, 2023, 04:24:44 PM
The whistle register is the highest vocal register a human can reach.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61ef6084665c41000a598a2e?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61ef5e6c781f4d000883e761
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 19, 2023, 08:03:50 PM
Less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from stegosaurus.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63be0171f3f9ee0008801ec8?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63be006ca15739000856a08b

5 of Your Top Food Questions, Answered

https://www.interestingfacts.com/food-questions-answered/Ydj3Sk7cAQAHtncN?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 20, 2023, 11:23:31 PM
Gray is the world’s rarest eye color.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63be200a4935e50008577ddd?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63be183d699cfb0008501956
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 21, 2023, 02:26:14 PM
Nine out of 10 shells open to the right.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63be170a699cfb0008500f6d?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63be163fd30bed00085e32ca

Octopuses once had shells.

The ancestors of octopuses, squid, and other cephalopods once had hard shells. Scientists believe the creatures shed their shells about 160 million to 100 million years ago in an evolutionary change that helped them swim faster, making it easier to catch prey and evade predators.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 24, 2023, 09:04:41 PM
6 Fun Facts About Eyes

https://www.interestingfacts.com/eye-facts/Y7zLQutZiAAJNNnk?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07

Ketchup was once sold as medicine.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63c72a15198a9f00084b3acc?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63c72913672d88000832a7c2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 25, 2023, 09:24:36 PM
10 Amazing Facts About the Moon

https://www.interestingfacts.com/moon-facts/YnBu6lm3LQAHz-mm?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 26, 2023, 10:57:34 PM
Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when their cats died.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63c72f34ac3e02000862cdbf?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63c72dfb9809a90008644797
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Scrubmeister on January 27, 2023, 06:56:31 AM
NOT shaving my eyebrows   :laugh:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 27, 2023, 08:55:21 PM
Bulls can't actually see the color red.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61d386b9134cf900086b16c9?selected=1&liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61d385a5e641ee00074964b1
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 28, 2023, 04:49:07 PM
A Brief History of Board Games

https://www.interestingfacts.com/board-games-history/Yw1qSEKJ8wAItdwO?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 29, 2023, 12:59:04 PM
The human circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63c728c3d48b52000801f7e5?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63c727cf8152f50008adb2bd
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 29, 2023, 07:09:47 PM
7 Mind-Blowing Facts About Australia

https://www.interestingfacts.com/australia-facts/Y7zJdutZiAAJNNnV?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 31, 2023, 10:16:41 PM
Caffeine is a natural pesticide.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f85991e504fe0008c65d13?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61f857fb025e2c0009c02b65

The History of 7 Oddly Named Foods

https://www.interestingfacts.com/oddly-named-foods-history/Yp6eG1uKogAHE3um?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 01, 2023, 08:20:27 PM
Rats bop their heads in time to music.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63d03de1dfd11e0008b01594?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63d03a26e4b6020008f47c96

7 Interesting Facts About Ancient Pyramids

https://www.interestingfacts.com/pyramids-facts/YowCvFuKogAHE3m0?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 02, 2023, 08:36:27 PM
5 Things You Might Not Know About the Panama Canal

https://www.interestingfacts.com/panama-canal-facts/YszLoqYHnQAHPRx5?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 05, 2023, 02:30:29 PM
6 Amazing Facts About Cleopatra, the Last Pharaoh of Egypt

https://www.interestingfacts.com/cleopatra-facts/Y8Y_mOtZiAAJNNwi
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 07, 2023, 12:52:20 PM
7 Buzzing Facts About Bees

https://www.interestingfacts.com/bees-facts/YtXt6qYHnQAHPR8l?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07

The average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63d974619491870008fe9cd6?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63d96efc11a9bd000a4a11e2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 07, 2023, 07:30:09 PM
6 Senses You Might Not Know You Had

https://www.interestingfacts.com/six-senses-we-didnt-know-we-had/Y88bpetZiAAJNN7Q?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 10, 2023, 08:35:54 PM
The iconic tumbleweed of the West is not native to North America.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63d97b3a5694de000877111a?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63d97a4f47a7ba0008bf3802
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 14, 2023, 09:46:25 PM
The ancient Romans thought eating butter was barbaric.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f85524e504fe0008c65bd3?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61f852ad025e2c0009c029e9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 20, 2023, 10:09:27 PM
Fungi are genetically closer to humans than plants.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63e2be89382d5d0008c1f128?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63e2bc937ba10e0008a3c576
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 22, 2023, 09:31:01 PM
7 Amazing Facts About Insects

https://www.interestingfacts.com/insect-facts/Y2mvn5X_kAAHBfCG?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07

Picasso was once suspected of stealing the “Mona Lisa.”

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61d37aa1e641ee00074960b8?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#61d3793ee641ee0007496050
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 12, 2023, 09:35:37 PM
Honey never expires.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/63ffe8833ad851000877477a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on March 15, 2023, 05:21:51 AM
I knew that, 'cause me luvs honey!  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 19, 2023, 09:04:35 PM
I love pb and honey sandwiches ever since I was a kid. LOL

Mummies can still have fingerprints.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6407d7b9e8a9cc00083da781

5 Fascinating Facts About the Color Green

https://www.interestingfacts.com/green-facts/Y_V9ykDItwAIzNVq
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 25, 2023, 10:00:02 AM
A day in the Age of Dinosaurs was around 23 hours long

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64109ffbc823420008b623ae
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 26, 2023, 11:29:02 AM
Green bell peppers are just unripe red bell peppers.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61ef4f7c665c41000a5983e1
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on March 27, 2023, 10:41:06 AM
Kay sez, "I knew that already."  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 27, 2023, 09:51:58 PM
People breathe roughly 20,000 times every day.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/641a4f81bf7cc8000af2050f
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 30, 2023, 07:04:04 PM
6 Bizarre Facts About Everyday Household Objects

https://www.interestingfacts.com/household-object-facts/ZBC_9lL2HgAHJsAD
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on March 31, 2023, 12:32:35 AM
Quote
Forks Were Considered the Devil’s Handiwork
Human kind, very often we are total dumb asses!  :o
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 31, 2023, 08:47:20 PM
Some people have a genetic condition that allows them to see nearly 100 million colors.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f873e9e504fe0008c6641d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 31, 2023, 09:42:39 PM
5 Fascinating Facts (And Myths) About Sleep

https://www.interestingfacts.com/sleep-facts/Y6DfqNQzDwAI3Gpn
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 01, 2023, 12:24:08 PM
6 Historical and Hysterical April Fools’ Day Pranks

https://www.interestingfacts.com/april-fools-day-pranks-history/ZBDBRVL2HgAHJsAX
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 04, 2023, 10:18:31 PM
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61d357eee641ee0007495548
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 06, 2023, 06:25:31 PM
The longest case of hiccups was 68 years.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64222c4519145f0008c551ba
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 06, 2023, 06:28:50 PM
7 Spine-Tingling Facts About Bones

https://www.interestingfacts.com/bones-facts/ZBkQnVL2HgAHJsJ-
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 06, 2023, 06:29:59 PM
6 Amazing Facts About Rain

https://www.interestingfacts.com/rain-facts/ZBkHR1L2HgAHJsJZ
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 07, 2023, 06:05:45 PM
6 Fin-Tastic Dolphin Facts

https://www.interestingfacts.com/dolphin-facts/Y7zOPOtZiAAJNNoY
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 09, 2023, 03:19:10 PM
6 Floppy Facts About Bunnies - Aren't they cute! LOL

https://www.interestingfacts.com/bunnies-facts/ZBkYHFL2HgAHJsK8
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 14, 2023, 08:46:39 PM
Oceans have lakes and rivers. - I've heard about this long ago.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/642cb8ff4cdae500095aca59
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 14, 2023, 08:47:24 PM
Ketchup was originally made out of fish. - I've heard of this one, too.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6169fb81bf8b900007ae0b06
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on April 15, 2023, 07:52:52 AM
Oceans have lakes and rivers. - I've heard about this long ago.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/642cb8ff4cdae500095aca59

This part of the two  great oceans has always been intriguing too me.
 
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 15, 2023, 12:00:28 PM
Yup! :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 16, 2023, 08:46:47 PM
Parachutes were invented before airplanes.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/642cc1084cdae500095b0dad
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 19, 2023, 07:49:06 PM
There's a jellyfish that’s considered biologically immortal.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6436bc2f15594e000838766d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 20, 2023, 08:01:23 PM
6 Stories Behind Everyday Symbols

https://www.interestingfacts.com/symbol-meanings/Y9hhPUDItwAIzM1K
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 20, 2023, 08:02:11 PM
Chocolate chips were invented after chocolate chip cookies.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/617b5de29393290007359974
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 24, 2023, 09:26:09 PM
Redheaded people may require more anesthesia.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/643ff9244a808c000943c0b2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on April 27, 2023, 09:45:43 PM
6 Facts About Body Language

https://www.interestingfacts.com/body-language-facts/Y-b9NkDItwAIzNHi
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 01, 2023, 08:53:36 PM
I remember reading about this some years ago...

May 1 used to be moving day for everyone in New York City.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6447dc3b4d2fee000ad964a0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 01, 2023, 08:54:27 PM
12 Facts You Might Not Know About the Great Lakes

https://www.interestingfacts.com/great-lakes-facts/Y-G3vkDItwAIzM_o
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 04, 2023, 10:09:38 PM
6 Fascinating Facts About the Telephone

https://www.interestingfacts.com/telephone-facts/Y-rxekDItwAIzNKP
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 04, 2023, 10:16:00 PM
Your sense of smell is strongest in the evening.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64487c46457a97000911ac53
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 04, 2023, 10:17:31 PM
The 6 Most Perplexing Mysteries in History

https://www.interestingfacts.com/historical-mysteries/Y6ISONQzDwAI3GsI
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 04, 2023, 10:19:02 PM
The smallest flower in the world is the size of a candy sprinkle.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6447f9ebb68fa1000834090e
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 07, 2023, 03:41:45 PM
Around 12% of people dream in black and white.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/613d6501558915000775c9ae
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 07, 2023, 03:42:24 PM
Time moves faster at higher altitudes.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64483c23e288640009916fbf
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 07, 2023, 03:43:05 PM
6 Interesting Facts About Ears

https://www.interestingfacts.com/ear-facts/Y-b_NUDItwAIzNH0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on May 07, 2023, 09:05:45 PM
Time moves faster at higher altitudes.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64483c23e288640009916fbf
Good one.  :thumbup:
I did not know that.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on May 07, 2023, 09:12:19 PM
The Length of Earth’s Days Has Been Mysteriously Increasing, and Scientists Don’t Know Why (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-length-of-earth-s-days-has-been-mysteriously-increasing-and-scientists-don-t-know-why?utm_source=pocket-newtab)

Quote
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don’t know why.

This has critical impacts not just on our timekeeping, but also things like GPS and other technologies that govern our modern life.

Over the past few decades, Earth’s rotation around its axis – which determines how long a day is – has been speeding up. This trend has been making our days shorter; in fact, in June 2022 we set a record for the shortest day over the past half a century or so.

But despite this record, since 2020 that steady speedup has curiously switched to a slowdown – days are getting longer again, and the reason is so far a mystery.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 08, 2023, 08:56:02 PM
Yeah, I've read something about this awhile back and not surprised.

Some believe (as I do) the earth is a living being and is why it keeps changing and evolving...which would make a lot of sense. But scientists can't explain why yet. IMO, they may never will... If you think about it, a lot of living things live off of other things. So why shouldn't the earth (or other planets) be the same way?
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on May 09, 2023, 07:10:20 AM
Yeah, I've read something about this awhile back and not surprised.

Some believe (as I do) the earth is a living being and is why it keeps changing and evolving...which would make a lot of sense. But scientists can't explain why yet. IMO, they may never will... If you think about it, a lot of living things live off of other things. So why shouldn't the earth (or other planets) be the same way?
I've long  thought the 'Mother Nature' would eventually get tired of we humans raping and pillaging her surface as well as trying to ruin her oceans and sky's that she just simply kill us off. Of course if you believe in the Bible, as I do, we probably won't have to wait that long.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 09, 2023, 06:51:50 PM
Yuppers!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 10, 2023, 10:45:32 PM
I remember reading this some years ago...

A Belgian citizen put his country up for sale on eBay in 2007.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61d35bbe134cf900086b088d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 11, 2023, 07:20:57 PM
6 Amazing Facts About Purple

https://www.interestingfacts.com/purple-facts/ZEcnsDgK3gAHvMmd

Oysters can change sex multiple times during their lives. *I'm not sure if I want to eat a bisexual oyster... LOL

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6450888f37ccfd0009bbaa18
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 16, 2023, 08:53:50 PM
The longest nonstop animal flight was 11 days.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645bd07b757e64dc8d621026

Silly Putty was developed during World War II as a potential rubber substitute.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f8603de504fe0008c65ef5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 17, 2023, 08:32:09 PM
The special word for the smell of rain:

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61ef51d6781f4d000883e2c3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on May 18, 2023, 01:12:56 PM
... this is to me, a very interesting read. I read the whole article and found it to be very well written and taught me a lot that I did not know.

8 Billion People: How Different the World Would Look if Neanderthals Had Prevailed (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/8-billion-people-how-different-the-world-would-look-if-neanderthals-had-prevailed?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
 
Neanderthal reproduction in Trento Museum of Natural History. Luca Lorenzelli/Shutterstock

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In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our history.

For 99% of the last million years of our existence, people rarely came across other humans. There were only around 10,000 Neanderthals living at any one time. Today, there are around 800,000 people in the same space that was occupied by one Neanderthal. What’s more, since humans live in social groups, the next nearest Neanderthal group was probably well over 100km away. Finding a mate outside your own family was a challenge.

Neanderthals were more inclined to stay in their family groups and were warier of new people. If they had outcompeted our own species (Homo sapiens), the density of population would likely be far lower. It’s hard to imagine them building cities, for example, given that they were genetically disposed to being less friendly to those beyond their immediate family.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 18, 2023, 06:38:31 PM
I'll have to read it when I get some time. Been really busy with CZ theme now that I have a team.  :cool:

I haven't read it yet but the world must've been very harsh back then. Probably almost everything was about survival. Gathering enough food to eat as well as trying not to be eaten. LOL I wouldn't want to live back then.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 20, 2023, 09:19:02 AM
Modern humans have been on Earth less than 0.01% of the planet’s existence.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f8425be504fe0008c656dd
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 20, 2023, 09:19:48 AM
The oldest known musical instrument may be a Neanderthal flute.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645bcabf189c9c21ac629476
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 20, 2023, 09:20:16 AM
The human skull never fully stops growing.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645c105720c826421cf438a0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 24, 2023, 01:34:35 PM
6 Celebrities Who Doubled as Inventors

https://www.interestingfacts.com/celebrities-inventors/ZA--nFL2HgAHJr-o
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 24, 2023, 01:40:31 PM
Architecture was once an Olympic event.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6462e6a38c454f36211e9239
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 24, 2023, 04:06:06 PM
6 of the Longest-Lived Species on Earth

https://www.interestingfacts.com/longest-lived-species/ZFBg6jgK3gAHvM6w
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 24, 2023, 04:06:57 PM
New York City tap water contains microscopic crustaceans.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6462e9aa54008ab009e3f009
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 25, 2023, 08:23:37 PM
7 of History’s Strangest Coincidences

https://www.interestingfacts.com/strangest-coincidences-history/YfRM33nUVAAGtuQa
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 25, 2023, 08:24:05 PM
Earth is the only place in the solar system where fire occurs.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645bc3e94e342d262488ba0b
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 25, 2023, 08:24:32 PM
Canned food was invented before the can opener.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f87153025e2c0009c03228
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 26, 2023, 07:48:00 PM
All blue-eyed people likely descended from a single ancestor.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6462f1c85d519b706fc1eb94
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 26, 2023, 07:48:26 PM
Bowling used to be banned in England, except for on Christmas.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/613faa1cb12fae0008dfedec
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 26, 2023, 07:48:49 PM
6 Facts About the Kitchen That Might Surprise You

https://www.interestingfacts.com/kitchen-facts/ZFmSCN0vtAAIdfMa
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on May 27, 2023, 11:51:12 AM
Smell is the sense most linked to memory.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64641863598c82cea26ce40f
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 03, 2023, 02:09:32 PM
It can take 50 years for a saguaro cactus to grow one arm.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/646c3b0e39a4f33407dc7528
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 03, 2023, 02:10:01 PM
Libraries predate books.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/646e29c7b69d1ac38194a38d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 04, 2023, 07:53:42 PM
Captain Morgan was a real person.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/646e28013dae581abc0a13fd
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 05, 2023, 09:42:29 PM
One of the first computer bugs was an actual bug.

Yes, I've heard of this years ago. LOL

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61934f93e62b9f000897dd6c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 05, 2023, 09:42:57 PM
8 Facts That Will Make You Laugh

https://www.interestingfacts.com/facts-to-make-you-laugh/ZGLzx90vtAAIdfYO
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 06, 2023, 08:26:42 PM
The Loch Ness monster has a scientific name.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6476bf91c4b2cc7a7cce8713
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 07, 2023, 08:13:08 PM
7 Mind-Blowing Facts About Gemstones

https://www.interestingfacts.com/gemstone-facts/Yl73GVm3LQAHz-dy
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 10, 2023, 06:23:40 PM
6 Historical Facts That Will Challenge Your Sense of Time

https://www.interestingfacts.com/facts-history-challenge-time/ZCIRIFL2HgAHJsWA
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 10, 2023, 06:24:16 PM
The Great Wall of China was built with porridge in the mortar.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6476c9be17c1973cd5d5d9c3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 10, 2023, 07:54:00 PM
6 Beautiful Facts About Our Skin

https://www.interestingfacts.com/skin-facts/ZGwRSd0vtAAIdfgc
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 12, 2023, 08:37:01 PM
6 Mind-Blowing Facts About Albert Einstein

https://www.interestingfacts.com/einstein-facts/ZGwT7d0vtAAIdfhP
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 12, 2023, 08:37:41 PM
I remember reading something about this years ago!

The Celsius scale was originally backward.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/647e945f8a1923af61daf92c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 14, 2023, 08:19:06 PM
I know twins all too well. LOL My brothers are identical twins. I have friends who are twins, some fraternal and some identical. I have a great aunt who had 23 kids and most of them were twins or triplets!!!  :o

5 Fascinating Facts About Twins

https://www.interestingfacts.com/twin-facts/ZGweUt0vtAAIdfiN
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 14, 2023, 08:19:47 PM
Tonic water can glow in the dark.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/647e9b0b253ab87ece607f80
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 15, 2023, 07:35:01 PM
6 Amazing Facts About Growing Old

https://www.interestingfacts.com/growing-older-facts/ZGwYTt0vtAAIdfh-
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on June 16, 2023, 04:22:50 AM
I know twins all too well. LOL My brothers are identical twins. I have friends who are twins, some fraternal and some identical. I have a great aunt who had 23 kids and most of them were twins or triplets!!!  :o

5 Fascinating Facts About Twins

https://www.interestingfacts.com/twin-facts/ZGweUt0vtAAIdfiN
WOW!  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 16, 2023, 07:08:10 PM
Taste buds are replaced every two weeks.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/647e9db9ada76dd61a0eb772
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 17, 2023, 02:22:29 PM
Venus spins backward.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f86aad025e2c0009c030b7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 18, 2023, 11:16:28 AM
Roses used to be a traditional flower to give dads on Father’s Day. I remember when people were fighting for Father's Day. :)

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/647ea0658e618363e64638c7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 22, 2023, 08:33:51 PM
There are no muscles in human fingers.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/648926ea20175ad31c71a92e
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on June 23, 2023, 12:00:01 PM
Interesting facts that I didn't know.  :thumbup:

Here's an interesting (too me) fact about my hand and finger strength from my younger years. As a young boy, starting at about 7-8 years old, I was tasked with helping with milking our five cows each morning and this was done by hand because we didn't have the milking machines that larger commercial farms used.
So, the interesting trivia tidbit about my hands during those young years? By the age of about 13-14 years old I could crush a fully grown ripe apple with one hand.
These days I'm not able to do that of course, maybe a grape though.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 25, 2023, 09:04:42 AM
Walt Disney’s cartoons were originally called “Laugh-O-Grams.”

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/62158478d64d450007a21f99
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 25, 2023, 04:31:32 PM
9 Brand Logos With Hidden Messages

https://www.interestingfacts.com/hidden-brand-logos/ZH6QTN0vtAAIdfv-
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 27, 2023, 07:15:54 PM
The Story Behind 9 of the Most Common Surnames in the World

https://www.interestingfacts.com/surname-history/Y1hNuZX_kAAHBe1b
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 29, 2023, 06:26:08 PM
Beer makes humans more attractive to mosquitoes.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64931cbdcd31862377332773
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on June 30, 2023, 09:21:20 PM
The world’s oldest mummies are in Chile.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f87817025e2c0009c033f3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 02, 2023, 07:48:05 PM
Why We Knock on Wood, and the Origins of 7 Other Superstitions

https://www.interestingfacts.com/superstition-origins/YrobgqYHnQAHPRgI
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 02, 2023, 07:48:41 PM
7 Amazing Facts About Animal Feats

https://www.interestingfacts.com/animal-feats/ZEcqizgK3gAHvMnJ
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 07, 2023, 08:50:32 PM
The TV face of the Marlboro Man never smoked.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/649b1663040b8a6d86a5af09
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 07, 2023, 08:54:21 PM
6 Interesting Facts About Redheads

https://www.interestingfacts.com/redheads-facts/ZIum9ic2ZwAH8mny
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 08, 2023, 04:41:36 PM
The Appalachian Mountains are older than the Atlantic Ocean.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/649b1322cfe3d57499736fb4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 10, 2023, 07:46:12 PM
Humans are the only animals with true chins.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64a38a441b3146515610c2d5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 16, 2023, 10:27:16 AM
Chopsticks in Asia are about 2,000 years older than the fork in Europe.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6194617e36b8ac0008352cf8
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 17, 2023, 08:13:24 PM
Earth days are getting longer, and scientists aren't sure why.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64aeb63076a71e45c0a04ee5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on July 18, 2023, 09:37:44 AM
Our rotation is slowing down.  shocked003
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 19, 2023, 08:30:51 PM
It probably has already happened millions of years ago and just coming back gain. ;)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 19, 2023, 08:31:09 PM
You can hear cauliflower growing.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64aec83d0fbe9271f48d7492
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on July 19, 2023, 10:09:53 PM
You can hear cauliflower growing.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64aec83d0fbe9271f48d7492

Whoa! That's a new one on me.  :cool:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 21, 2023, 06:58:29 PM
A dog was once nominated for an Oscar.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64aec6963dfb55ecbb77a4c0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 21, 2023, 06:58:58 PM
7 Body Parts That Are More or Less Useless

https://www.interestingfacts.com/useless-body-parts/ZKXiBic2ZwAH8m9N
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on July 22, 2023, 12:52:41 AM
In some cases (some people) the brain may be considered as being useless.  laughing7
... one good example, MTG!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 22, 2023, 02:30:56 PM
I thought you would've said Trump. LMAO
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 22, 2023, 04:58:00 PM
The Brothers Grimm didn't create their own fairy tales.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f86661e504fe0008c660e5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on July 22, 2023, 07:03:24 PM
I thought you would've said Trump. LMAO

Her too!  :hah!:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 23, 2023, 09:37:42 AM
Humans get a new skeleton about every 10 years.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64aeb7ed7c911244917508d3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 25, 2023, 07:19:31 PM
Two popes have been named honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61a69babdca673000773201a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on July 26, 2023, 06:44:19 AM
... I thought that the interaction between Pope Francis and the Globetrotters was really nice.
The Harlem Globetrotters teach Pope Francis how to spin a basketball on his fingers
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 27, 2023, 07:08:24 PM
Without landmarks, humans can’t walk in a straight line.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64b5ea905ecd5f396985d70a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on July 30, 2023, 11:10:30 AM
She has a very pretty smile! :)

Many of the earliest flight attendants were nurses.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64b5e4135ecd5f1125858000
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 05, 2023, 10:15:45 AM
The moon has glass beads that may contain billions of tons of water.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64c066b591198d09da54ba2d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 06, 2023, 09:56:22 AM
Bagpipes were invented in the Middle East, not Scotland.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64c05dea52116c207649547f
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 06, 2023, 07:30:11 PM
8 Strange State Laws That Are Still on the Books

https://www.interestingfacts.com/strange-state-laws/YUOQQw55YwAH_LWA
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 07, 2023, 07:27:00 PM
Volvo gave away its seat belt patent to save lives.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64c9a05c0cc904221f525b6d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 09, 2023, 07:49:22 PM
One family has served in Congress continuously since 1933.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64c9944ef5bed6e8d490140d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on August 10, 2023, 05:53:50 AM
I knew that one.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 11, 2023, 06:03:06 PM
Devil's advocate was once an actual position in the Catholic Church.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/62157c62d64d450007a2189a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 12, 2023, 10:11:42 AM
Mountain goats aren't actually goats.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64c986b62dba68e55c852c4c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 14, 2023, 07:45:01 PM
Mango skin contains the same irritant as poison ivy.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64d1aca1dc68030f4a39f87e
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 14, 2023, 07:45:41 PM
6 Mighty Facts (and Myths) About Pirates

https://www.interestingfacts.com/pirate-facts/ZMlv1A6hCgAH9Ku0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 15, 2023, 08:13:01 PM
"Green Eggs and Ham" was written on a bet.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64d1aa26558ce0f3fd644dc9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 19, 2023, 12:00:47 PM
The earliest vacuum cleaners were horse-drawn.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64d1a393ed0c461e1399f62c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 22, 2023, 08:22:47 PM
Sharks have been on Earth longer than trees.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64dce94fb6876d066e9e7601
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 23, 2023, 07:44:38 PM
I thought this was cute. LOL

The red trolley on “Mister Rogers' Neighborhood” traveled 5,000 miles annually.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/620c5c66c0eb7b0008c466c4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on August 24, 2023, 09:01:57 AM
That's interesting.  :thumbup:

L.A.'s Red Car (https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/where-to-find-remnants-of-l-a-s-red-car-system)
Where to Find Remnants of L.A.'s Red Car System
Your post reminded me of the L.A. 'Red Car' that I would use to travel between the Port of Long Beach Navy Yard and Willowbrook during the late 1950s for visits with my first wife. Those cars were inexpensive to use and very handy, so it was a long time before I bought a car.
 
 
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 24, 2023, 06:48:17 PM
Yeah, when I was growing up in Philly we used to ride the trolleys and subways. ;)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 26, 2023, 09:01:11 PM
6 Under-rat-ed Facts About Rats

https://www.interestingfacts.com/rat-facts/Y22lGJX_kAAHBfEB
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 27, 2023, 10:34:19 AM
Octopuses don’t have tentacles; they have arms.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64dce2b06c06857c75acd599
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on August 27, 2023, 04:55:57 PM
Octopuses don’t have tentacles; they have arms.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64dce2b06c06857c75acd599
I knew that one!  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on August 27, 2023, 05:18:42 PM
Smarty pants. LOL
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 02, 2023, 09:13:49 PM
Women and men may have different hand odors.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64e52841262b8b61f57d0e3e
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 03, 2023, 08:49:25 PM
7 Interesting Facts About Ancient Pyramids

https://www.interestingfacts.com/pyramids-facts/YowCvFuKogAHE3m0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 04, 2023, 06:46:15 PM
The oceans are becoming greener.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64ed0f462f7887364e4a45d7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 05, 2023, 11:10:39 AM
Although I clicked 'Like' on your post, it's actually a sad fact that we humans are doing this to the planet. Soon enough Mother Nature will get fed up with our destructive behavior and simply exterminate our asses.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 05, 2023, 07:00:21 PM
Yup!
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 06, 2023, 07:52:35 PM
The creator of Comic Sans only used the font once.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64ed038d07ee0c16df742c57
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 06, 2023, 10:01:57 PM
Ummm... guess this means that I'm out of touch because I actually like Comic Sans and have used it a little through the years.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 07, 2023, 10:06:06 PM
Me too. LOL
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 08, 2023, 10:44:09 PM
6 Amazing Facts About DNA

https://www.interestingfacts.com/dna-facts/ZLcmEA6hCgAH9KgW
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Lesmond on September 09, 2023, 04:50:24 AM
This was from my town :)

DNA forensics was first reported in 1984 by Dr. Alec Jefferys at the University of Leicester when he realized that DNA contained sequences that continued to repeat next to each other. He also figured out that these sequences that were repeated were different for each individual. After this discovery Dr. Jefferys had paved the way for the development of identity tests. Later on in 1987 genetic fingerprinting was made available when Imperial Chemical Industries, a chemical company in England, started a center that tests blood.

Source (https://easydna.co.uk/knowledge-base/history-of-forensic-dna-analysis/#:~:text=DNA%20forensics%20was%20first%20reported,After%20this%20discovery%20Dr.)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 09, 2023, 01:23:48 PM
Information from your central nervous system travels at up to 268 mph.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64ed1b38b71c200eda23f3c4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 10, 2023, 02:20:00 PM
Why Don’t Women’s Clothes Have Pockets?

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fashion-questions/ZOU0ul_snwAHgLtv
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 10, 2023, 02:20:27 PM
The Origin Stories Behind 8 Popular Idioms

https://www.interestingfacts.com/idioms-origins/YypZKkKJ8wAIteDE
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 11, 2023, 08:48:46 PM
7 Features You Didn’t Know Your Car Had

https://www.interestingfacts.com/hidden-car-features/ZOjk3F_snwAHgLz_
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 11, 2023, 08:49:13 PM
Humans actually glow.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6215745bd64d450007a21041
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 12, 2023, 07:01:02 AM
7 Features You Didn’t Know Your Car Had

https://www.interestingfacts.com/hidden-car-features/ZOjk3F_snwAHgLz_

Surprisingly I already knew all those tips.   :)
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 12, 2023, 08:30:26 PM
Ferdinand Magellan wasn’t the first person to circumnavigate the globe.

https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/ferdinand-magellan-wasnt-the-first-person-to-circumnavigate-the-globe/
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 13, 2023, 12:39:53 PM
A lot of these world travelers were lost to the mists of history and all of their stories are so very interesting.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 14, 2023, 09:11:42 PM
People breathe primarily out of one nostril at a time.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6333b4fa6c661b0009df00a5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 14, 2023, 09:12:08 PM
There are vents on the seafloor hot enough to melt lead.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64f7b37fe699caf4d76b1f5a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 15, 2023, 07:59:55 PM
Scorpion venom is among the most expensive liquids on the market. - Very interesting!!!  :D

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64f7b0cfe699ca1fa86b100d
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 16, 2023, 08:30:40 AM
About 117 billion people have ever lived.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/62717f40f2fd0300071eb8cb
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on September 16, 2023, 09:42:24 AM
Scorpion venom is among the most expensive liquids on the market. - Very interesting!!!  :D

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64f7b0cfe699ca1fa86b100d

So, it sounds like we should have been scorpion farmers all this time?  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 19, 2023, 08:14:24 PM
Seems so! LOL

The concept of toasting comes from putting a piece of toast in one’s drink.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64ffc2e5ed3f62245a7532e8
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 23, 2023, 11:19:18 AM
Dolphins and whales can only taste salt.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64ffb08a04f2997205af5ea4
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 29, 2023, 09:41:13 PM
A Brief History of Haunted Houses

https://www.interestingfacts.com/haunted-house-history/ZQD7pkvDtQAHlZAD
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 29, 2023, 09:41:43 PM
The human brain runs on less power than a 60-watt lightbulb.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/62425bffc4a14e0007c1bbc6
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 30, 2023, 09:32:27 PM
6 Famous Foods Invented by Accident

https://www.interestingfacts.com/famous-foods-invented-by-accident/Y5fT09QzDwAI3Geb
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on September 30, 2023, 09:33:00 PM
6 Major Philosophical Ideas, Explained

https://www.interestingfacts.com/philosophical-ideas-explained/Ye832nnUVAAGtuOM
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 01, 2023, 01:36:38 PM
October was originally the eighth month.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/650b0bdb6cca504cb71d1463
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 01, 2023, 01:43:31 PM
October was originally the eighth month.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/650b0bdb6cca504cb71d1463
Interesting.
If I ever knew this historical information about our calendar I had forgotten about it... so, this is news to me.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 14, 2023, 08:31:40 AM
4 Quick Questions About Quicksand, Answered

https://www.interestingfacts.com/quicksand-questions/ZRIrcUvDtQAHlZRQ
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 14, 2023, 08:32:10 AM
Honey made from rhododendrons can be hallucinogenic.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/651d8e926042f844c55baa8b
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 14, 2023, 08:54:05 AM
7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Plants

https://www.interestingfacts.com/dangerous-plants/ZRIfPUvDtQAHlZQ0
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 14, 2023, 11:24:17 AM
Honey made from rhododendrons can be hallucinogenic.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/651d8e926042f844c55baa8b

Ha! I did not know that.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 16, 2023, 09:00:05 PM
6 Amazing Facts About Growing Old

https://www.interestingfacts.com/growing-older-facts/ZGwYTt0vtAAIdfh-
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on October 17, 2023, 08:46:57 AM
6 Amazing Facts About Growing Old

https://www.interestingfacts.com/growing-older-facts/ZGwYTt0vtAAIdfh-

Wow! So we are not actually 83 years old, but instead we are 7 billion years old!  laughing7
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The Atoms That Make Up All of Us Are Already Billions of Years Old

It’s true that age is just a number, and in the cosmic view of the universe, human age is pretty insignificant. The atoms that make up the human body are already billions of years old. For example, hydrogen — one of the key components of our bodies — formed in the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Likewise, carbon, the primary component of all known life, formed in the fiery cauldron of stars at least 7 billion years ago. So when someone says we’re all made of “star stuff,” they’re very much telling the truth (we’re also made from various supernovae). And while we grow old on Earth, this is only the latest chapter of a story that stretches back to the beginning of everything — and it’s a story that’ll continue until the universe ends.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 18, 2023, 06:46:41 PM
Now you're a REALLY old fart! LMAO
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 19, 2023, 08:46:24 PM
Crying can make you happier.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 20, 2023, 08:44:37 PM
Mummies can still have fingerprints.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 21, 2023, 08:54:43 PM
Some countries have a list of preapproved baby names.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 25, 2023, 08:41:28 PM
Theoretically, you could drive to space in about an hour.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 26, 2023, 07:56:05 PM
6 Deep Facts About the Color Black

https://www.interestingfacts.com/black-facts/ZSXf6zS8ewAHafki
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on October 28, 2023, 11:00:06 AM
Babies blink less than adults.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 02, 2023, 08:44:37 PM
Bat species make up 21% of all mammals.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/634f3ce41b72770008589822
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 02, 2023, 08:45:11 PM
The sky looks bluer in the fall.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 07, 2023, 07:50:24 PM
Our Most Awe-Inspiring Facts About Planet Earth

https://www.interestingfacts.com/planet-earth-facts/ZTMBPjS8ewAHafvp
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 13, 2023, 10:10:17 PM
Twins live longer. - It will be interesting to see if my brothers live longer than me and they are only 2 years and 2 days younger...

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/654c0dd9d636d8f5eec48872
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 14, 2023, 02:18:46 PM
Interesting study and results.
Our family includes a set of twins, with only one of the twins surviving the birth... I wonder how that would impact the lifespan of the surviving/living twin?
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 14, 2023, 09:41:00 PM
Good question...

My family has a number of twins and triplets. LOL One of my great or great-great aunts (I forget) had 23 kids and t of them were twins or triplets. LMAO That's what my grandfather told me. I do have triplets that are cousins here in town.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 18, 2023, 08:28:42 AM
Dunce caps were named for a famous philosopher.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 18, 2023, 08:29:08 AM
Venice will soon become the first city in the world to charge visitors to enter.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/654bc58ea4ae67142cbf9fe3
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 18, 2023, 08:40:11 AM
Venice will soon become the first city in the world to charge visitors to enter.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/654bc58ea4ae67142cbf9fe3

I get the reasoning for charging a fee, folks coming in, using up resources and giving very little in return.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 20, 2023, 08:34:49 PM
What was the most boring day in history?

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 28, 2023, 09:14:02 PM
Your femur can support 30 times the weight of your body.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 29, 2023, 09:55:46 PM
Very interesting!!!

8 Interesting Facts About the World’s Most Remote and Inaccessible Places

https://www.interestingfacts.com/remote-inaccessible-places-facts/YtX5sKYHnQAHPR8_
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on November 30, 2023, 08:55:57 AM
Good find Steve!  :thumbup:
I looked at each location carefully to see if by some wild chance I had ever visited any of them and sadly none were on my list of places that my foots had stepped.  :cool:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on November 30, 2023, 06:28:20 PM
When I was young I always wanted to travel the world. But not how things are today. LMAO
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 03, 2023, 02:14:45 PM
Food on planes tastes different in part because of the cabin conditions.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/636c043d6e9614000911d37f
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 03, 2023, 02:15:43 PM
6 Illuminating Facts About Secret Societies

https://historyfacts.com/us-history/article/6-illuminating-facts-about-secret-societies/
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 04, 2023, 09:18:47 PM
Cats can make 276 different facial expressions.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 06, 2023, 09:32:21 PM
Apes go through a midlife crisis.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 09, 2023, 01:29:57 PM
9 Durable Facts About Plastic

https://www.interestingfacts.com/plastic-facts/ZVwOFqkcfAAHuX9J
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 09, 2023, 01:43:08 PM
By some accounts we are burying ourselves in plastics.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 09, 2023, 02:33:15 PM
Yup! In PA, companies don't have to recycle anything but residents are required to do it! Thanks, GOP!  :tickedoff:
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 15, 2023, 03:28:21 PM
MIT awards a certificate in piracy.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6566968410fd67e66db79135
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 16, 2023, 09:21:08 AM
MIT awards a certificate in piracy.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6566968410fd67e66db79135

That is so crazy!!! But... I would do that!  :hah!:
If I was a student at MIT I would take those four courses and would always proudly display my certificate on my wall. 
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 16, 2023, 08:34:18 PM
Yes, that would be kind of fun. LOL
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 16, 2023, 08:34:50 PM
Turkey makes a kind of ice cream that doesn't melt.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 21, 2023, 07:25:02 PM
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/627185a28bf67d0008be9a02
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 22, 2023, 01:37:37 AM
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/627185a28bf67d0008be9a02

Strange stuff.  :o
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 24, 2023, 07:28:35 PM
6 Amazing Facts About Elves

https://www.interestingfacts.com/elf-facts/Y4-YutQzDwAI3GWF
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 24, 2023, 07:40:27 PM
Some fun stuff there.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 24, 2023, 07:52:27 PM
I remember reading about some of it when I was young.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 28, 2023, 09:35:03 PM
A giant wave of molasses once flooded the streets of Boston.

https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/a-giant-wave-of-molasses-once-flooded-the-streets-of-boston/
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on December 29, 2023, 01:59:43 AM
Cheap bastards trying to pinch a penny.  :censored:
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These issues occurred in part because the walls were only 0.31 to 0.67 inches thick, far too thin to contain the weight of a full tank of molasses.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on December 30, 2023, 05:09:27 PM
There's a tree in Georgia that owns itself.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65825b8f00ffe2b36aa3c408

Here's a little tidbit that was also in the email:

Oak trees can drop up to 10,000 acorns in one year.

Oak trees are known to shower yards, cars, and even people with a deluge of acorns — some autumns more than others. The number of acorns a single tree drops depends on the year, since oaks follow a pattern of lean and heavy acorn-producing seasons. In “mast years,” aka years when trees produce a heavier-than-normal supply of the nuts, oaks can drop up to 10,000 acorns. Scientists aren’t entirely sure what causes mast years, but the cycle occurs every two to five years, regardless of weather or rainfall. One working theory is that the mast year cycle outsmarts predators such as squirrels and chipmunks, allowing oak trees to saturate their environment with more acorns than can be eaten and giving future saplings a shot at sprouting.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2024, 04:44:00 PM
Plants make sounds when they're stressed.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 01, 2024, 08:54:26 PM
Only one ship of the U.S. Navy is authorized to fly the Jolly Roger.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on January 02, 2024, 10:27:13 AM
Although I was in the US Navy, I did not know about this!  :o
Interesting and fun to now know about Capt Kidd.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 06, 2024, 05:35:49 PM
An ongoing music performance at a German church is scheduled to continue until 2640.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/624255c8c4a14e0007c1ace5
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 09, 2024, 09:39:47 PM
New York City subway cars have been dumped into the Atlantic to create artificial reefs.

This makes me wonder what harmful effects it will have...the metal rusting and all...

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6594cf157926894bece2f225
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 10, 2024, 07:14:26 PM
New York City subway cars have been dumped into the Atlantic to create artificial reefs.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6594cf157926894bece2f225
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 10, 2024, 08:51:47 PM
Coin flips are not actually random.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6594ccc06b492f0817fb2ec9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 20, 2024, 11:10:36 PM
Hot and cold water make different sounds when poured.

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Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 20, 2024, 11:12:06 PM
9 Durable Facts About Plastic

https://www.interestingfacts.com/plastic-facts/ZVwOFqkcfAAHuX9J
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 20, 2024, 11:13:24 PM
The Civil War started and ended on the same person’s property.

https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/the-civil-war-started-and-ended-on-the-same-persons-property/
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on January 21, 2024, 12:38:31 PM
The Civil War started and ended on the same person’s property.

https://historyfacts.com/us-history/fact/the-civil-war-started-and-ended-on-the-same-persons-property/

Interesting fact that I did not know.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 21, 2024, 08:28:12 PM
I think I remember reading something about this long ago. It sounds familiar so I posted it.
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 28, 2024, 10:20:52 AM
Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65a7271c81c4517178407858
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on January 30, 2024, 09:21:37 PM
Some ants are edible.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65b06d6eacee72ca599d3c69
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 03, 2024, 09:44:10 AM
Watching a scary movie can burn as many calories as exercise.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65b0633a5c1e94addfe0706c
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on February 03, 2024, 11:13:07 AM
Watching a scary movie can burn as many calories as exercise.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65b0633a5c1e94addfe0706c
I did not know that! Gotta watch more of them.  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 04, 2024, 08:39:54 AM
Yeah, but I doubt if it helps if you are eating a big tub of popcorn or a lot of other food while doing it. LOL
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 08, 2024, 07:05:12 PM
People used to clean their hands with coffee.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65b9a1ee621b7633c12037d2
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 14, 2024, 08:33:26 PM
The world's oldest love poem is 4,000 years old.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65c2e437b9e6cddca69187d9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 20, 2024, 09:11:18 PM
Elephant trunks have more than 40,000 muscles.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6423149accfd7300085a08d9
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Ken on February 20, 2024, 09:44:32 PM
Wow! Now that is an interesting Factoid!  laughing7
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 21, 2024, 09:12:28 PM
There are glaciers in the tropics.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65cd114e82e308b8e145332a
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 23, 2024, 10:04:04 PM
Potatoes can absorb and reflect Wi-Fi signals.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65cd0e4382e30844a5451b9f
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on February 27, 2024, 07:51:19 PM
Caffeine is a natural pesticide.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f85991e504fe0008c65d13
Title: Re: Interesting Facts
Post by: Skhilled on March 04, 2024, 08:06:45 PM
You can have cells from more than one person in your body.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/65d6528f3b54054f060fc411