The "Fun Facts" thread.

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    Misophonia is actually an extreme negative reaction to certain noises. My sister for example can't stand the sound of brushing teeth. In Latin, misophonia literally means "bad sound".
     
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    So most of the population in the US.
     
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    Scarlet knight Emergency Food Connoisseur

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    Why is this so true?
     
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    Because of the sheepeople.

    "Fun fact", when filming "Ghostbusters" (1984) the FX crew was told that they wanted a brick to shoot out of the wall, the FX crew asked "how fast do you want it to go?" :D 

    "Fun fact", when filming "Ghostbusters" (1984) the FX crew used menthol shaving cream to create Stay Puft exploding and raining down on people. One of the stunt men asked if it was going to hurt. The FX crew said they did not know they'd never done it before, that stunt man was allergic to menthol. :( 
     
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    -There is a type of mite that mates with it's sisters while still inside the mother, dies and the sisters are born pregnant. A bizarre form of in-utero incest.
    -Relative to body size, barnacles have the largest penis of any animal.
    -It was long thought that giraffes were mute, but they actually produce noises we cannot hear unaided.
    -Chameleon's bones glow in ultraviolet light, even after death.
    -The Grasshopper Mouse hunts scorpions, marks it's territory by howling and has been known to kill snakes by biting through their spinal chord.
    -Some wasps parasitize the larva of other parasitic wasps.
    -One of the top predators of Moose is the Orca
    -Pelicans have been known to swallow smaller birds whole.
     
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    I have misophonia. It's not true. I hate you so much for posting this stupid thing.
     
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    In the first age of middle earth, balrogs rode dragons to battle. And those dragons were 3x larger and more powerful than Smaug
     
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    Tribble mites...?
     
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    Those are all true facts, but you won’t see any of those in a high school biology book!

    There are mites for every occasion. Mites that live only on the backs of other mites, mites that spend there whole lives on another animal, mites living on your face right now!
     
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    -a female kangaroo can have up to three young dependent on her ant any one time: a nursing joey, a joey in the pouch, and an embryo inside her.
    -Kiwi have the largest egg relative to body size of any animal, up to 50% of her total body mass.
    -Like humans, cheetahs have a very low genetic diversity as the result of a population crash a few thousand years ago. To a point any two random cheetahs can accept skin grafts from one another.
    -The term “penguin” originally referred to an unrelated but similar looking bird, the Great Auk, which was hunted to extinction, the last members being clubbed to death.
    -An Australopithecus fossil, the Taung Child, has evidence to suggest it was killed an eaten by a large eagle. Just as many monkeys are today.
    -Hamsters will kill and eat their own kind in captivity. Thus is is not recommended to keep two males or females together in the same cage.
    -the Northern White Rhinoceros has only two surviving members, both female, and some frozen sperm.
     
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    downloadfile-1.jpg Smaug is just a fly compared to his 1st age ancestors
     
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    Purple Heart Some other time..

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    Yeah saw that earlier. Balrog’s fucking rode them into battle apperently.
     
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    Foreign Accent Syndrome a syndrome in which you can get a different accent. According to google it is is most often caused by damage to the brain caused by a stroke or traumatic brain injury.

     
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    -Chocolate is highly toxic to all but a handful of species, humans are one of the few that can eat it.

    And a couple non-biology ones:

    -Spongebob Squarepants (the show) was originally going to be called ‘Spongeboy Ahoy!’, but Spongeboy was copyrighted by a mop brand.
    -Spongebob having ‘sponge’ in his name was because Hillenburg was worried people would think he was a cube of cheese. (“Oh great, so now the talking cheese is going to preach to us!”)
    -Jimmy Neutron was to have a fourth season, described as being “darker” and would have had the League of Villians and Evil Jimmy return, as well as Nick and Brittany as more prominent characters. It was canned because the studio went bankrupt after The Ant Bully.
    -Rocko was originally going to be yellow, but was changed to beige at the request of a toy manufacturer, the toys, however, never ended up getting produced, and Rocko stayed beige.
    -Adventure Time, Phineas and Ferb, Ed Edd n Eddy and Proud Family were all originally pitched to Nick. Nick turned down Adventure Time for.... ugh... Fanboy and ChumChum.
     
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    As it's Thanksgiving, did y'all know a Pilgrim was executed for fucking a turkey? Yes, yes, in 1642 in the midst of "a colony-wide sin outbreak" in the colony of Plymouth one Thomas Granger was executed for doing some bestiality, and not just with a turkey:
    The Time a Pilgrim Was Executed for Having Sex with a Turkey

    That "outbreak of sin" was, other than some bestiality and incest, just people having a good time, but the Pilgrims were fuckin' narcs so of course they thought people having fun was bad.
     
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    -Elephants have special muscles that connect their lungs to their rib cage, it’s believed these are used to help them suck up water through their trunks.
    -Elephants are one of only four species (the others are H. sapiens (us and Cro-Magnons), H. neanderthalensis and Pan troglodytes) who have a concept of death and mourning. They have been observed staying around the carcass of a fallen elephant for hours, touching it and caressing it and swaying in rhythm. They will also pick up and observe bones of long dead elephants.
    -Despite being called ‘antelope’, Pronghorn are actually part of a totally different ungulate branch, alongside Giraffes and Okapi.
    -Owls aren’t particularly smart, the real brainy birds are corvids.
    -Hyenas are better at cooperative tests than chimps, they have the most complex social structure of any Carnivoran. Females also have a ‘false penis’ (which lead to people believing the species was hermaphroditic) that rips in half when they give birth.
     
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    Yoda was a ketamine addict
     
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