Random Facts (17 pics)
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Octopuses have three hearts. Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t. Honey never spoils. These truths hide in plain sight, waiting to rewire your understanding of the everyday. Each fact peels back reality’s skin, revealing a world far stranger—and more wondrous—than fiction ever imagined. Knowledge, served in bite-sized revelations.
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song was written by Chuck Lorre, who would go on to create Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory.
Protactile is a language used by deafblind people to communicate via the sense of touch. It was invented around 2007.
In the United States, pizza only became popular outside of Italian-American communities after World War II.
That means there are probably people alive today who still remember when pizza became ‘a thing’ in the US.
Ottawa will not have a total solar eclipse for the rest of the 21 century. The closest it will get is an annular solar eclipse on July 23, 2093.
The lyrics to “Piano Man” are very nearly a series of limericks.
In the US in 2022, only a couple dozen books or so sold over half a million copies. Romance novelist Colleen Hoover wrote eight of them.
The film Blue Beetle was in development for so long that, originally, it included scenes with Batman played by Michael Keaton. They then re-shot the batman scenes with Ben Affleck. Eventually, Batman was dropped from the film altogether!
Before we had a proper understanding of gravity, people typically thought a cannonball traveled diagonally up into the air, then straight down.
Most versions of the classic recycling symbol are actually Möbius strips! If you start on one side of an arrow and follow the path forward, you’ll eventually come back around to the other side of the same arrow.
The capital of South Dakota is Pierre. It rhymes with “beer”.
Many car scenes in TV and film remove the headrests from the seats and the rearview mirror from the windshield, to make for fewer obstructed sight lines as they set up their shots.
The closest thing in Canadian English to a Midatlantic (/Transatlantic) accent was called “Canadian Dainty”.
Francium is the second-rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth. Its most stable isotope has a half-life of 22 minutes, and it’s thought there is only a single ounce of it on Earth at any given time.
The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a corner and a cranny is like an narrow opening.
If the Sun was the size of a white blood cell swimming through your veins, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States.
Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton.
Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.