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Fun Fact #94:

A Japanese company had awarded it's non-smoking employees with 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker's smoke breaks.

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Fun Fact #95:

In the northern skies, you are able to see two galaxies. These are the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).

@EmptyNebula group

Fun Fact #96:

The Albatross is a large bird that can go years without landing. They spend the first six years of life flying over the ocean without ever touching the ground.

@Yamatsu

Fun Fact #97:

Cephalopods (including squids and octopi) have the ability to "toggle" the gene that edits out mutations at will, meaning that their offspring will be far better-suited towards their environment. Where evolution can take millions of years, they can evolve in only a few generations. I, for one, willingly accept our aquatic overlords.

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Fun Fact #99:

Jupiter has the most moons in our solar system with 79 known moons. Io, one of those moons, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, sometimes spewing out sulphur as high as 300 km (190 miles) in the air!

@EmptyNebula group

Fun Fact #100:

Jupiter's moons were named after his mistresses, (Jupiter is the roman name for Zeus and they named the planet after him in case you didn't know) Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, etc. NASA sent a spacecraft named Juno(his wife) to go check up on him.

@ninja_violinist

Fun Fact #101:

Friedrich Riesfeld, a German elephant caretaker, died on the job: the elephant in question was severely constipated and had received 22 cans of laxative. But when they finally started working, the resulting excrement hit him with such force that he fell over and suffocated on it.

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Fun Fact #102:

Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of the Cashew family.

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Fun Fact #103:

In Turkish they call a turkey Hindi, in India they call it Peru, in Arabic the bird is called Greek chicken, in Greek it's called French chicken and in French it's called Indian chicken. It is indigenous to none of the places.

@Pickles group

Fun Fact #104:

There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.

@Pickles group

Fun Fact #105:

In Greece, some of the sidewalks are marble, not concrete. The internet doesn't seem to know why, but my dad's theory is that it's because marble is easier to mop and sweep (because they do that there :O)

@ElderGodSwimwithGamers group

Fun Fact #106
Passengers 17 years old and younger traveling alone may not cross the US-Canadian border regardless of ID or notarized letter, unless accompanied by another passenger who is at least 18 years old.

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Fun Fact #107
Light only travels in straight lines.

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Fun Fact #108

Japan is made up of 6,852 islands.

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Fun Fact #112:

The Japanese name for Japan is “Nihon” or “Nippon” which means “sun origin”

@Yamatsu

Fun Fact #113:
Thanos' snap would once and for all decide at what point during pregnancy that the fetus becomes a separate being.

(Oh shit)