A fun fact for you based on your favorite TMA character:
Jon Sims - Eyes heal quickly, it only takes about 48 hours for a cornea scratch to heal. (New headcanon about why Jon couldn't cut his finger off just dropped.)
Martin Blackwood - One of the most expensive teas in the world is fertilized with panda poop. It costs about 200 dollars per cup. Early harvests costed about 3'500 dollars for a batch.
Tim Stoker - Architecture used to be an Olympic sport between 1912-1948.
Sasha James - The official name for the phobia of long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Melanie King - The first ghost reference dates back to 1500 B.C.E. It was an exorcist tablet and "the tablet’s tale still tells of the ancient instructions on getting rid of unwanted ghostly guests in your home. The directions state that the exorcist must make figurines of a man and woman, prepare two cups of beer, and, at sunrise, speak a ritual that calls upon the Mesopotamian god Shamash, who was thought to be responsible for bringing the dead to the underworld. The idea was that the unwanted spirit would be transferred into one of the figurines."
Georgie Barker - The oldest cat ever recorded was named Creme Puff, and she lived to be 38 years.
Basira Hussain - When you're reading silently in your head, the muscles of your mouth, tongue and larynx are activate as if you were reading out loud.
Daisy Tonner - The earliest werewolf story is the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. In the story, the goddess Ishtar turns a former lover into a wolf
Peter Lucas - "Mermaid sightings," were likely just manatees.
Elias Bouchard - Only 1/6 of your eyeball is visible.
Gertrude Robinson - A cat purring can be therapeutic! A cat's purr ranges from 25 to 150 Hertz, a frequency that can help bone density, tendon repair, and helping with breathing!
Gerry Keay - Tetrachromat is a genetic mutation that causes people to be able to see about 100 million colors. The average person can only see about a million.
Hezekiah Wakely -it can take anywhere from 100 to 1000 years to form one inch of topsoil,.
Jane Prentiss - Ophiocordyceps is a fungus that hijacks the nervous system and bodies of insects. It forces the insect to wonder around widely before they die. Then when they die, the fungus eats the body of it's host.
Agnes Montague - Throwing colored chalk in fire can change the color of the flames!
Jude Perry - The longest tattoo session ever recorded was 61 hours and 37 minutes.
Oliver Banks - Before color tv about 15% of people dreamed in color, today, about 75% do
Jared Hopworth - Adults have 206 bones. However, kids have 300 bones. This is because bones fuse together as you age!
Distortion Michael - The average person opens and closes a door 70 times a day.
Distortion Helen - About a third of people who get migraine headaches experience visual hallucinations. Flickering, tunnel vision, and seeing spots is all common.
Nikola Orsinov - Clowns are traditionally nicknamed "Joeys" after Joseph Grimaldi.
Michael Crew - In Tennessee, the landlock state, it is illegal to shoot animals from a car window. Expect whales. You are legally allowed to shoot whales from a car window. In a landlocked state.
Simon Fairchild - Flamingos aren't actually pink! They're white or grey when they hatch, but then their diet consistent of a lot of animals (especially brine shrimp.) that have a lot of carotenoids. These carotenoids are what make flamingos pink!
Anabelle Cane - A study found that 60% of adults can't have a 10-minute conversation without lying at least once. Most lies were lies to seem more likeable or competent. Many people reported not even realizing they were doing it until after watching back a recording of their conversation.
