#fact exchange

[gwens-fiction]

In regards to your world-building ask, in Faehunter, strawberry jam is as highly prized as silver because it's used in festival cakes.

Give a fact, get a fact

Oh that's cool and quite creative!

The Amurians in the world of Hidden Earth find information, facts, and knowledge more valuable than physical currency.

[radiosandrecordings]

did u know chickens can be trans and intersex?!?

SO MANY ANIMALS CAN IT’S SO COOL! There’s that one post about the intersex lionness, bunch of different fish transing their genders, mushrooms having a billion genders... Gender is so fake and animals (and people!) prove it and I love it 

And in a change of tone - Vultures can turn a body into a skeleton in under five hours! 

[theguildedtypewriter]

Everybody born into the royal family of Aines is a girl! (Or at least born a girl in one case) Also, the way the next queen is chosen is by a special birthmark in the shape of a diadem on their forehead- generally in the same color of their eyes

Oooh pretty. That’s a very cool way to be a queen. In Through a Hawk’s Eyes. The leader is always a woman, the Mistress. She’s chosen by the Council of Elders for her superior magickal and leadership skills and a certain something that puts her above the rest. 

[radiosandrecordings]

there's a genetic disease called fibrodysplasia ossificians progressiva where when your muscles sustain any kind of trauma, the section that's been hurt turns into bone

Oh, wow. Not sure how I can make a fun joke out of that one, but appreciated 

In 2013, 160 sheep were stolen from the village of Wool in Dorset

[radiosandrecordings]

Have you ever heard of the 52 hertz whale? He’s the only one whale that makes a call at that pitch. He calls out everyday and no one answers him. Little dude’s all alone out there.

Yes I have! He makes me so sad :( I love him...

Here’s some stuff that isn’t alone - There are about 294,000,000,000,000 leaves in the world (in 2012) and for every leaf? 340 ants! 

[radiosandrecordings]

some lizards don't have eyelids and need to lick their eyeballs to moisturise them!

OH is that why they do that in cartoons and stuff? I never really questioned it I’m so glad I have an explanation for that now! 

Mormons think the garden of Eden was in Missouri (Though that makes me question why, in 14 years of catholic school, they never tried to tell me where it was supposed to have been? Never really thought about it. Suppose if you believe in it then it has to have been SOMEWHERE) 

[radiosandrecordings]

Obscure fact: the Silha language, spoken in Morocco, includes words without any vowels whatsoever.

Oooh. Reminds me of one from these books that I can’t find but it was a language where the world for cold was hotz? Can’t remember the language though :( 

The roman army used cobwebs to dress wounds (LIKE WARRIOR CATS?) 

[radiosandrecordings]

It is illegal to ride a cow while drunk in Scotland. Wonder what happened to warrant such a law.

I don’t know but I want to see the mockumentary about it Right Now 

This one is in the book SOMEWHERE but off the top of my head since it seems relevant - It’s illegal to name a pig napoleon in France. I found this out at age 11 and proceeded to log into the public minecraft server I had a guild on, adopt a pig, spend several days hunting for a name tag, just to name him that because I wanted to claim minecraft as non-french water (I am not French idk why I thought it would apply)