People have been sharing fun facts nobody asked for – 18 random pieces of trivia
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‘Blue Whale milk is made up of approximately 50% fat and has the consistency of toothpaste.’
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‘The cordyceps fungus that controls insects has been found not to hijack the nervous system, but the muscular system. The insect is still very much alive and “aware”’
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‘Oceanic flatworms are all hermaphroditic, and mating involves trying to stab each other with a pair of sharp penises. This is a phenomenon called “penis fencing”, and works because the worms have an open circulatory system, so anywhere the penis-barb penetrates is as good as any other.
The “winner” then swims away before their opponent/mate can impregnate them back.’
-Possumnal
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‘The human body contains enough carbon to make 9,000 pencils.’
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‘The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) passed on the merchandising rights to Bluey so the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) snapped it up. This blows my mind, did anyone get fired for that decision?’
-MontosaurusRex
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‘The plastic tip of a shoelace is called an aglet’
-MixMasterMadge
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‘In the USA the close door button on most elevators does nothing, because the doors are required to stay open to satisfy accessibility regulations. It’s just there to make you feel like you have agency.’
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‘Before mushrooms there was no soil.
Mushrooms were like, “okay this needs to stop”, and they started eating rocks and pooping soil.’
-Sojio
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‘Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Oxford started teaching in 1096, while the Aztec civilization was founded in 1325.’
FreshMicks