"A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirely subsists on the tears of sleeping birds."
"Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn’t notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals."
"80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII."
"Lighters were invented before matches."
"Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn."
"Canned food was invented about 100 years before can openers."
"Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats."
"Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. Tsutomo survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s."
"“Häagen-Dazs” has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound “European”. It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart."
"Koalas have smooth brains."
"There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln."
"The Phantom Menace is older now than Star Wars was when The Phantom Menace was released."
"Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books."
"Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in his jacket, which he had sent to the cleaners."
"The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb."
"Sloths only poop once a week and it’s called the poo dance."
"Strawberries are not technically berries, but bananas are."
"Did you know that Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost, and the easternmost state in the United States? It’s practically playing its own game of hide and seek!"
"If you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s not only possible, but likely no deck has ever been in the same sequence in the history of humans."
"Brazil is so big that the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil."
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#10 So do rats, bats, manatees, mice, tamarins, marmosets and several other primordial primates (which is what koalas are.)
#6 was canned food a prank before that?