Did You Know [fun Fact]?

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Adding the word ‘fucking’ to your Google search query disables the unwanted AI summary at the top of the results page.

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Yeah that tracks

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Man you could just do stuff back then huh

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Can you even call yourself a con artist if you’re not legally changing your name to avoid false advertising laws?

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Dentine, the layer that makes our teeth sensitive, first evolved as sensory tissue in the exoskeletons of ancient fish. That means that toothache predates teeth.

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The corpse flower has the tallest flower in the world at 12 feet tall by 5 feet across, stinks of rotting meat, and its taxonomic name is Ancient Greek for ‘giant misshapen penis’.

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In the 1850s Chicago had such a problem with disease that officials lifted the entire city up and built a sewage system in the space underneath.

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Hospital patients treated by female doctors have lower mortality rates and fewer readmissions that those treated by male doctors.

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Wrinkles that appear on your fingers and toes after long immersion in water always have the same pattern.

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When Disney made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, women in the paint department used rouge from their compacts to give her animated cheeks a blush.

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It is illegal to mispronounce the name of the city of Joliet, Illinois. The punishment is a $5 fine.

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The highest paid athlete of all time is actually an ancient Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who earned the equivalent of £15 billion before his retirement.

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Humans overbites are acquired from using cutlery to eat, whether someone has or doesn’t have an overbite can actually tell us a lot about the individual or their culture as a whole, for example ancient Chinese aristocrats skulls have an overbite from using chopsticks but skulls from the lower classes in the same time period don’t.

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Hawk Moths vibrate their genitals to confuse, (their main predator.) bats echo radar.

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Lobsters contradictorily to popular belief are not immortal, (there was some confusion regarding data and the internet got carried away.) but there is a jellyfish dubbed the immortal jellyfish that can completely reverse it’s lifecycle after it mates, starting out as a child again!

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Technically fish don’t have tongues, but most fish have a bony structure called the basihyal at the floor of their mouth that *resembles* a tongue.

Theres also a very specific parasitic isopod called the tongue-eating louse that enters a fish through its gills attaches itself to the fishes basihyal and then eventually replaces it.

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Research done on German soldiers show that wielding guns during rifle drills can cause the development of breasts, (gynecomastia).

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The ancient Greeks believed that otters killed crocodiles by running into their open mouths, eating their entrails, and running out again.

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Brazil nuts are unique amongst nuts, (not just because they're seeds not nuts.) in that they can be sexually transmitted.