fun facts // sentence starters
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“Handstands are a vital part of panda reproduction.” “There is always faecal matter on your face.” “The floppiness of dogs’ ears is a direct result of domestication.” “Bees technically do have knees.” “Your ass actually has two sphincters in it.” “Only one kind of duck quacks.” “If you lift a kangaroo’s tail up off the ground, it can’t hop.” “The Earth used to be covered in mushrooms.” “The thong was invented to skirt laws forbidding exotic dancers from being naked.” “We see the world upside down, but our brain flips it the right way up again.” “If you put a bar of soap in the microwave, it will bubble up to excrete more soap.” “Pirates calling each other ‘matey’ is the equivalent of shortening ‘husband’ to ‘hubby’. Matey comes from ‘matelotage’.” “Some people are 10% more banana than others.” “Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin piss.” “Fidgeting is an adaptive advantage.” “Octopi have four pairs of arms.” “The longest time elapsed between twins being born is 87 days.” “The myth of the cyclops comes from Ancient Greeks not knowing what a mammoth was.” “Lemmings don’t jump off cliffs.” “You will never know what you look and sound like to other people.” “The entirety of the phrase is ‘curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back’.” “Bees dance to show each other where the good flowers are at.” “Honey is just bee excrement.” “The concept of hysteria comes from the thought that an utterly detached womb travels around a body and wreaks havoc where it goes.” “Everybody has the muscles needed to raise their eyebrows, but only some people can configure them in such a way as to raise only one.” “High heels were originally used to assist in the riding of horses.” “Penguin mating calls sound not dissimilar to those of a donkey.” “Women’s clothing buttons on the opposite side to other clothing because back when chambermaids were commonplace, it was expected that they would dress their mistresses. Having your buttons be on that side was a status symbol.” “If you drop a penny off the Empire State Building, the wind will likely buffet it towards a ledge. If you drop a pen, however, someone could die.” “Without mucus, your stomach would digest itself.” “As soon as you eat pineapple, it’s a race between you and the pineapple to see which will digest the other first.” “Elephants have elbows.” “Everybody has haemorrhoids, they only begin to cause problems when they’re inflamed.” “Dolphins are some hairy motherfuckers.” “Socks date back to at least 8BC.” “Figure skating is called that because skaters used to have to carve figures into the ice by skating.” “Dancing in sync with other people can increase your pain tolerance.” “The very shape of an egg is a deterrent against bad parenting.” “The oldest clam in the world was 507 years old when it was killed by scientists that were trying to ascertain how old it was. It was later discovered that they could have determined its age without its death.” “The air-speed velocity of an unladen European swallow is 24 miles per hour.” “The powdered wig is designed to combat syphilis.”