“How many times have you heard something super interesting only to forget it immediately? Welp, here’s your chance to experience that feeling once again!”

“Baboons can’t throw overhand.”

“In the early ’80s, a Toyota Corolla trunk key could open any Corolla trunk.”

“Barnacles can have penises up to 8 times their body length. While length doesn’t vary significantly between populations, thickness does, with barnacles in more turbulent waters having girthier cocks to prevent them from snapping off in the current.”

“The first person to be convicted of speeding was speeding at 8 mph.”

“A lobster is more aerodynamic than a Jeep Wrangler.”

“Mario has overalls so his arms could be distinguished from his torso even with very primitive sprites. Similarly his hat and mustache are to hide his hair and mouth.”

“If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau.””

““Helicopter” isn’t heli + copter; it’s helico (spiral) + pter (wing).”

“The Purple Heart medals being issued today are from the stock ordered in preparation for the ground invasion of Japan in WW2. Military strategists estimated there would possibly be over a million casualties in the proposed invasion.”

“Nobody would see you get sucked into a black hole. To them, you’d just stop at the event horizon and proceed to become more and more redshifted until you disappeared.”

“Due to the shape of the North American Elk’s Esophagus, even if it could talk, it would be unable to pronounce the word Lasagna.”

“There are about 72 metal bands per 100.000 people in Finland. Finland is the most metal country in the world.”

“There is a specific word in the English language for the egg of a hen. That word is CACKLEBERRY. No relation to dingleberry.”

“Flowers arrangements at funerals originally served to mask the stench of rotting corpse.”

“If you play with a dogs ears it releases a sh#t ton of endorphins from all the nerves around there. It relaxes them and they love it.”

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“The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.”

“The first computer mouse was made of wood.”

“The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.”

“The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub.”

“The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.”

“There is a tiny hole at the end of a gas pump nozzle which helps sense when the gas should stop pumping.”

“A single strand of spaghetti is called a “spaghetto.””

“Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped.”

“The Ethiopian calendar is 7.5 years behind the Gregorian calendar due to the fact that it has 13 months.”

“65% of autistic kids are left-handed, compared to only 10% of people in general.”

“In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan. The winning entry was: “Welcome to Scotland.””

“There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Bartender, and Librarian.”

“The famous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised. ”

“Hershey’s Kisses are named after the kissing sound the deposited chocolate makes as it falls from the machine on the conveyor belt.”

“Bats are the only mammals that can actually fly.”

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