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03-17-24, 02:51 PM | #3346 |
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Rainbows at night exist.
These rainbows are called moonbows and they only occur when there is a source of water near a full moon. If the moon is in any other phase, the light will not be enough to cause a moonbow.
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03-18-24, 11:56 AM | #3347 |
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The Arabic word for fingers translates to ‘banana’.
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03-18-24, 04:05 PM | #3348 |
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A snail has about 2,500 teeth.
These teeth can be found on their tongue that’s covered in ridges. Snails eat by rubbing their tongue on its food while the ridges cut it into tiny pieces.
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03-19-24, 07:21 AM | #3349 |
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The Terminator was sold for a dollar.
The first of the five movies of the Terminator franchise earned a total of $78.3 million worldwide at the box office. However, the rights for the movie was sold for a mere dollar.
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03-19-24, 02:52 PM | #3350 |
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Pigeons, like most birds, can't fart
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03-19-24, 02:55 PM | #3351 |
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The scientific name used for flowering plants is Angiosperm.
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03-20-24, 01:41 PM | #3352 |
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A plant that consumes rats can be found in the Philippines.
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03-20-24, 04:29 PM | #3353 |
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The largest tsunami ever recorded occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958, with a wave reaching the incredible height of 1720 feet.
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03-21-24, 06:05 AM | #3354 |
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An organism with a dissapearing butt exists.
Scientists named this the comb jelly or the sea walnut. Research has stated that there has been no documentation of a transient anus, not even under a microscope.
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03-21-24, 04:21 PM | #3355 |
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'Strengths' is the longest word with only one vowel.
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03-22-24, 06:02 AM | #3356 |
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"Four" is the only number that is spelled with the same number of letters as itself.
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03-22-24, 08:12 AM | #3357 |
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The smell of freshly cut grass is noted to be the grass screaming in distress.
This smell is a chemical that grass uses to call other critters to come and rescue them. The chemical compounds that the plant releases can also be used to poison an enemy and alert surrounding plants.
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03-23-24, 09:28 AM | #3358 |
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Ostrich farms sometimes have difficulty getting their male ostriches to breed, since the male ostriches are more attracted to their human caretakers than to female ostriches.
2024... totally not judging...
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03-23-24, 12:39 PM | #3359 |
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Being gassy is normal.
It is considered normal to pass gas 6 to 20 times a day. The average person passes gas around fifteen times a day.
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03-23-24, 02:48 PM | #3360 |
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A wood frog species in Alaska is known to be able to hold its bladder for 8 months at a time.
For me, these days I am lucky if I can make it 8 minutes
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