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I always suspected I was part Panda!
They also build nests and lay eggs.
So that’s who carried all those stones!
They were, in fact, invented in Chile, long before the potato was introduced to Europe.
Story idea! “Jack and the Beanlungs”! Or not.
Lots of micronaps! (See note below)
Paid for, no doubt, by our taxes!
“One and Only indeed!
weird facts – 18
By contrast, very few people travel by donkey (see below)
Also, bananas are terrified of slipping on humans!
Go ahead and try it. I’ll wait.
Except, of course, Dumbo.
Cold outside = Cold inside?
More bizarre, funny or just plain cool facts:
- Before alarm clocks, there were people in the UK called “knocker-uppers.” No, they didn’t get people pregnant, but they did wake them up, and would sometimes use pea-shooters to wake those on higher floors. Brits still use the expression “knocked-up.”
- Most people have fewer friends than their friends do. This is called the “friendship paradox.” (Wait. How exactly does that work?)
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite (so be very careful at ballgames!).
- Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories per hour (ergo, you should be able to deduct your boss on your taxes as “exercise equipment”).
- Chocolate bars contain an average of 8 insect legs (hey, extra protein)!
- People consume about 12 pubic hairs per year from fast food. (Ew! I’ll stick with my ant-leggy chocolate, thanks!)
- Gorillas burp when they are happy. (Hey, I do that. Wait…)
- If you combined all the ants in the world, they would weigh as much as all the humans in the world. (And how exactly did they test this theory?)
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. (Is there anything he didn’t invent?)
- Every time you lick a stamp, you consume nearly 6 calories. (Um, I’ll stick with a treadmill, thanks.)
- If a shark flips upside-down, it goes into a coma. (Me too, only I call it “sleep.”)
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. (And cigarettes were invented before fire, hence for millennia people wondered what cigarettes were for. But then some Neanderthal named Zippo invented the lighter.)
- There’s no word that rhymes with “month.” (Go ahead and check. I’ll wait.)
- Dead people can get goosebumps. (Living people really give them the creeps!)
- Chickens prefer beautiful humans (I always suspected chickens were shallow).
- Heroin was invented by Bayer (yes, the aspirin company) as a “non-addictive” substitute for opium. (Oops.)
- You’re a world record holder! The moment you were born, you were the “youngest person on Earth!”
- According to Elon Musk, we may all be computer simulations. (According to his exes, he is.)
- You cannot die by holding your breath. (Go ahead and try. I’ll wait.)
Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body (but don’t try lifting weights with it or this will happen ⇒ )- Blinking your eyes is actually a micronap (Oh, hello, awake so soon?)
- There are 4 billion alternatives for each player during the first four moves in chess.
- If you sneeze while your eyes are open, they can pop out. (Go ahead and try, I’ll— no, wait, don’t!)
- Turtles can breathe through their butts. (Can’t everybody? Awkward silence.)
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes! (Which is why you should never book a trip to Europe on a donkey.)
- If a cockroach touches a human, it runs away and cleans itself off (“Ew! Humans are so disgusting!”)
- In Alaska, it’s illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle (especially one piloted by a donkey).
I believe you I believe you but I do have to say at first I thought you were pulling my leg. I guess one should be aware of all things, Thanks for sharing, I hope you have a good weekend.
You too, Rasma.
Was going to call BS on the headless chicken, but then I found him on Wikipedia. Too weird.
Yep. I checked it out too.
Just want to know who was around 250 years before 2006 to validate the birth certificate of “One And Only,” and also how many people have proven that thing about not being able to hum while holding your nose to be false.
Even Snopes labeled this legend False!😂
My nose disagrees. I definitely can’t hum while holding my nose. Can you, C.A? (While holding your nose, that is, not mine ;>)
I tried it too. Can’t be done!
Funny and interesting
Wow! Those are interesting. I must wonder though how they figured some of those things out.
“Most people have fewer friends than their friends do. This is called the ‘friendship paradox.’ (Wait. How exactly does that work?)”
Maybe this is referring to the combined total of their friends’ friends ..?
That’s as good as guess as any, Annie.
When I was a child in the 80s, my family owned a single guinea pig. Looking back on it now, all the signs were there that the poor wee thing was desperately unhappy. I applaud the Swiss for their ruling on single guinea pigs.
Right you are, Emma. It’s a quirky-sounding-but-kind law.
That’s really sad about the Fruit Loops. But I laughed when I read about Andrew Jackson’s parrot. Thanks for these–plus the way you arranged them plus your own commentary. Have a splendid weekend, Mitch!
Thanks, Christopher, you too!
Re going to Europe via donkey: It’s theoretically possible to do so on land if your point of origin is in Africa or Asia. Of course, traveling this way would take a while, assuming the donkey doesn’t get sick or…die.
From the Americas, however, the “see Europe on a donkey” requires a transatlantic passage on either a ship or a donkey-friendly aircraft.
;>)
where are you antique works cora?
The spa giant python ‘massage . . what could possibly go WRONG on that ! p.s. No Refunds haha
;>)
Facts can be cool but also weird
Love these weird cool facts. I was most surprised to learn that wooly mammoths were around when the pyramids were built. Thanks for the info, Mitch! 🙂
Sorry Mitch, I simply had to hold my nose and try to hum . . . 🤷♀️
Same here and I was able to hum. 😛
Me too (or three, technically). Just have to hold your tongue right so the air can still move in and out.
But to hum properly your mouth has to be closed. I think you will find that makes it impossible.
Sez hu?
Show me the Book of Humming Rules where that is stated and I’ll immediately recant.
;>)
If your mouth is open, you are technically singing, though without words. 🙂 BTW, Merriman-Webster defines humming as: to sing with the lips closed and without uttering speech sounds distinctly.
Well, if ol’ MW says that, then I recant.
But never come to my blog. Just fair warning…
🙂
I couldn’t . . .🤣🤣
“Bees can get drunk on fermented tree sap.” Thanks Mitch, I especially meaded to know that one in particular;)
;>)
I’m going to pretend that I never read the chocolate bar one )
Me too. I eat organic, so wonder if that makes a difference?
All-natural bug’s legs.
more bug parts, maybe?)
🙂
;>)
The REAL question is “Are you more radioactive than a banana”?
Well, since we’re 50% banana, we’re presumably 50% radioactive.
So I can gain the powers of Banana Man by being bitten by a radioactive banana?
I love chocolate. I always wished I didn’t, it is a struggle for me. You just made the struggle easier with the vision of eight little insect legs walking away with my candy bar! Thank you…I think?
I remember decades ago when I was a kid I bought a chocolate bar (burnt almond) and there were actually worms crawling around. Years later I had the same experience with Belgian chocolate bars. The man I bought it from gave me his whole stock because he didn’t want to open every package to check. I did get a few bars without anything live inside. Of course, I don’t know about eggs! I really didn’t eat them all, just a couple.
What’s French for “Eww!”?
The best I could find is “ouf”, meaning “phew”. Or “bof” translating from “yuck”. So you can take your choice. 🙂
Yuck! You guys are killing me!
You’re welcome? ;>)
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I was also wondering what kind of a scale they used to weigh that cloud!
😂 very interesting indeed.
Ooooh my daughter will enjoy these.
Hmm, bananas seem to be popular in the strange department.
;>)
Thanks as always for the laughs, Mitch! And for the head scratches, what? Really?? 😂
;>)
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I couldn’t get the slide show feature to work, so I looked at each item individually, and it was worth the effort.
Glad you made the effort, Al. Unfortunately, the WordPress’s slide show feature seems to come and go at random these day.
“I can rhyme with anything … almost”
~ Simon the Rhyming Goth
I’m with Jack Nicholson 🥶
I’m surprised that we share 50% of our DNA with bananas, but maybe I shouldn’t when I consider what happens at one of my family reunions. Come to think of it, the fact that bananas are radioactive might have something to do with my family reunions too.
;>)
A very affordable website
This blog site? Well, yes, no cost is certainly an affordable amount. ;>)