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Started March 26, 2019 by Deleted user

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Fun fact #1:

The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.

Fun Fact #2:

Languages are dying faster than species. People predict that at this rate we'll lose over half of the world's languages within the next century or so.

Fun Fact #3:

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

Fun Fact 4:

Buluga whales can swim backwards.

Fun Fact #5:

Nutella has an SPF of 9.7.

Fun Fact #6:

Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.

Fun Fact #7:

Weed actually holds many cancer-causing elements within the leaves (thanks to drug-cutting) but one would smoke so little, there would be no effect. If you were to smoke 20 joints a day (which is a H E L L A lot), you would (or maybe not) get cancer as fast as a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.

Fun Fact #8:

Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.

Fun Fact #9:

Chickens are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Fun Fact #10:

The Lion King was made entirely by amateur animators and directors. Many people jumped ship to work on Pocahontas, which was believed to be the next big hit. The Lion King box officed at $968,483,777, compared to Pocahontas' $346.1 million.

Fun Fact #11:

Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.

Fun Fact 12: A small child can swim around in the blood vessels of a blue whale

Fun Fact 13: In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

Fun Fact #14:

The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.

Fun Fact #15:

Humans share 50-60% of their DNA with bananas.
This means some people at 10% more banana than others.

Fun Fact #16:

There is a parasite called a tongue-eating louse that attaches itself to the tongues of oceanic fish, draining the blood until the tongue atrophies and falls off! After that, the louse becomes the new tongue!

Fun Fact #17: Cats can safely drink saltwater.

Fun Fact #18:

In the 19th century, before medical professionals had the tools to discern comas or paralysis from death, the fear of being buried alive was very real. Patented ‘safety coffins’ were invented so that mistakenly buried people could alert those above ground to their predicament.

Fun Fact #19

There was a man who drank irradiated water for his health. It didn't turn out so good, by the end of his (shortened) life, he looked like he walked straight out of a horror movie! Horrible sores, clumps of hair falling out, no teeth, large holes in his bones and organs, it was so bad that he needed to buried in a lead-lined coffin.

Fun Fact #20:

During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination. Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.

Fun Fact #21:

The sun is classified as a G-type main-sequence star, or G dwarf star, or more imprecisely, a yellow dwarf. Actually, the sun — like other G-type stars — is white, but appears yellow through Earth's atmosphere. Stars generally get bigger as they grow older.

Fun Fact #22:
The city of Amsterdam has more bikes than people.

But why?

Fun Fact #23:

Cherophobia is the irrational fear of fun or happiness.