"If the earth is a grain of sand, the sun is a golf ball (for relative size). The grain of sand (earth) is 4 meters away from the Golf ball (Sun).The next nearest star from the golf ball (sun) is ~750 miles away.Gives you an idea of the scale of the universe."
"Vikings would give kittens to newlywed couples as a part of the household"
"Goat’s eyes swivel when they bend down to eat grass so they can keep looking for predators. Goats also have the biggest milk production to body weight ratio of any farm animal.I am not a goat farmer and am not sure why I know this."
"There are various species of Brood Parasite birds. This means that these birds will lay their eggs in another birds nest so that victim bird has to raise the young. When the baby parasite bird hatches, it will often try killing the other young.
Victim birds have various defense, but the coolest ones to me are some of them basically printing barcodes on the eggs so they know if one doesn’t belong, and some of them singing a specific song to the egg, and if the hatched chick can’t replicate the song, it gets yeeted from the nest"
"In the towns of Baarle-Nassau (NL) and Baarle-Herzog (BE) you can find dutch enclaves inside Belgian enclaves inside a dutch village. The map looks really wild.In these two towns the border even goes through the middle of the houses and shops.
For this case they created the “front-door” rule, meaning your house belongs to the country your front door is in. In the cases where the border runs right through the front door, the property owners can choose which country they belong to."
"Your dog can sense when you hurt them by accident. If you accidentally step on their tails they will yip at first, but usually come back to you while wagging their tail."
"The word boo-boo (like a kid gets a scratch) comes from the name for the sores from the bubonic plague (bubos)."
"Gaylord Perry was one of the best baseball pitchers ever and is in the Hall of Fame but was a horrible hitter. His manager Alvin Dark joked to a reporter “a man will land on the moon before Gaylord hits a home run!”
On July 20, 1969 Gaylord hit the first home run of his career. That same day, Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong touched down on the moon!"
"Octopuses brains are shaped like a donut and their esophagus runs through the hole in the center."
"A “butt” is a unit of measurement equivalent to either 130 or 151 US gallons, depending on what you’re measuring. So if you have 151 gallons of wine, you have a buttload of wine."
"Sharks are older than the North Star. As in, there were sharks around before the star was formed. Sharks evolved 450 million years ago, Polaris is about 70 million years old."
"No congenitally blind person has ever developed schizophrenia."
"We live closer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra lived to the finishing of the Giza Pyramids. Egypt is so old that they had people studying “ancient Egypt” in the time of the later pharaohs still."
"A peregrine falcon reach speeds of 240 miles per hour when it goes into a dive!"
"Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible. So, the next time you’re enjoying honey on your toast, you might just be savoring a taste of history!"
"A group of pandas is an embarrassment"
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