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From my 13 year old: dinosaurs had feathers.
chickens are related to dinosaurs
I thought all birds evolved from dinos. But I have no clue. I just post the facts the kiddo gives me. I am factless, he is factful.
I actually woke him up today to get the fact to post. I thought he was up doing his school work but apparently he wasn't feeling well so my wife told him to sleep in. I barged into his room and said "I need a fun fact to win us some sats". Haha
You know why dinosaurs can’t talk?
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‘Cause they are dead.
Haha
They apparently realized far more of the different species were birdlike than previously imagined. About a decade ago, a friend of mine was gifted a large coffee table book about dinosaurs compiled by paleontologists and scientific illustrators. Apparently it was a big deal because it was the first revision of the book that had all the updated "feathered looks" and it was very cool to see.
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He is filled with obscure facts. A hobby of his.
The number of possible combinations for a 24-word Bitcoin seed phrase is 2048^24, which is an incredibly large number far greater than the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe. That's a fun fact for me. But even funnier fact is also that someone has probably tried to randomly guess a wallet 😃
Fun fact: watermelon and strawberries are both about 96% water
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
People always wonder why Mona Lisa doesn’t have any eyebrows. This mystery has been solved, all thanks to an engineer named Pascal Cotte. When Da Vinci had painted Mona Lisa, he indeed painted her eyebrows but over time these eyebrows were eroded due to cleaning over time to the point where it’s no longer visible today.
Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
In 1896, Walter Arnold was the first person ever to be convicted of speeding, and he was going 8 miles per hours. The speed limit those times was 4 miles per hour. 🐌
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Can you imagine police chasing this guy by foot to get to him?
Robert Plot found the first dinosaur bone in 1677, around 150 years before the name "dinosaur" was coined.
https://malevus.com/robert-plot/
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth,
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it would take 42 seconds to for an average person to fall to the other side.
Idk if I’d call this fun, more like terrifying lol
The wood frog can hold it's pee for up to eight months.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Did I win? I hope so because I already sent my son 10,000 sats to his ZBD wallet. Haha.
Negative blood types are less common.
That statistic about the Latino-American community makes sense, seeing as negative blood types—whether type A, type B, type AB, or type O—are few and far between. In fact, according to the Oklahoma Blood Institute, only about 18 percent of the total U.S. population has a negative blood type.
Of course there are people who would say the Smithsonian is covering up aspects of history, but this:
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oxford-university-is-older-than-the-aztecs-1529607/
Earwax is actually a type of sweat!
The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Wild snails typically live from 3 to 7 years. Those in captivity can live up to 25 years.
Remember kids; a snail is for life and not just a Bitcoin halving.
Avocados are not vegetables
Darth is a legend. And he loved so much Amidala. His whole fight was how to get back Amidala.
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Sorry for the sad image, but is the whole truth that matters.
PS - I do not post this for the prize... just as a fun fact
Most people cannot lick their elbows
Not sure if I already posted here as fun fact...
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Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).
Fun fact: fun facts are fun
Above a certain temperature, Aligators only give birth to males
Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.
There are waterfalls under the ocean’s surface.
During a winter in Mars, about twenty percent of the air freezes.
Jupiter doesn’t have seasons because its axis is only tilted 3.13 degrees.
Galileo discovered four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
Thunder is just the sound lightning makes. Light travels faster than sound, so we see the lightning before we hear the thunder.
Since at least 500 B.C.E., no properly educated person has believed the Earth is flat.
There are more living things in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on Earth.
If lightning hits sand or rocks, it can be petrified and will create lightning fossils.
The Milky Way has over 200 billion stars in it, even though it’s one of the average sized galaxies in the Universe.
For comparison, an elephant's heart weighs around 30 pounds. And a human heart? A mere 10 ounces.
The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997.
Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.
Tomatoes are a fruit.
Watermelons and cucumbers are related.
That's two fun facts for the price of one :)
You constantly see your nose, but your brain "deletes" it from your sight.
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