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Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats

639 sats \ 48 comments \ @sn 27 Sep meta bot

Let's hear all your best fun facts, any topic counts!

The best comment as voted by the "top" filter at 10am CT tomorrow gets 10,000 sats.

Bonus sats for including a source link to your fun fact!

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167 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 27 Sep

Yesterday, September 26th, a category 4 hurricane named Helene made landfall in the USA.

In 1958, a category 4 hurricane named Helene scraped the USA, beginning on what day?

Yup, September 26th.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

They tell me there's a list for tornado names? To me, they're all just plain old mike

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 27 Sep

I bet you are not this persistent!

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 27 Sep

Catatumbo, Venezuela, where the lightning never stops.

321 sats \ 7 replies \ @IamSINGLE 27 Sep

Vitamin D does not come from the SUN. It comes from our skin.

What is vitamin D?

Vitamin D is not one chemical but many. The natural type is produced in the skin from a universally present form of cholesterol, 7-dehydrocholesterol. Sunlight is the key: Its ultraviolet B (UVB) energy converts the precursor to vitamin D3. In contrast, most dietary supplements are manufactured by exposing a plant sterol to ultraviolet energy, thus producing vitamin D2. Because their function is almost identical, D2 and D3 are lumped together under the name vitamin D — but neither will function until the body works its magic (see figure).

How your body makes vitamin D

The sun's energy turns a chemical in your skin into vitamin D3, which is carried to your liver and then your kidneys to transform it to active vitamin D.

The first stop is in the liver, where vitamin D picks up extra oxygen and hydrogen molecules to become 25-hydroxyvitamin D, or 25(OH)D. This is the chemical that doctors usually measure to diagnose vitamin D deficiencies. But although 25(OH)D is used for diagnosis, it can't function until it travels to the kidney. There it acquires a final pair of oxygen and hydrogen molecules to become 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D; scientists know this active form of the vitamin as 1,25(OH)2D, or calcitriol, but for ordinary folks the name vitamin D is accurate enough.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/vitamin-d-and-your-health-breaking-old-rules-raising-new-hopes

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheMorningStar 27 Sep

Truly a myth buster! I'm surprised. I used to think how dk they capture vitamin D in the tablets. It's more surprising because I had a deficiency since childhood my medicine included a lot of vitamin D and everyone suggested me to get it from the sun.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 27 Sep

I was also surprised when I came to know it. It's one of those things people just agree, perhaps it's more scientific.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE 27 Sep

If this doesn't win now, I'll never post in bounties ever again.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 28 Sep

If you work outside, your reward is vitamin D, so worth the effort 🤣

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

It cracks me up when people think the sun is a vitamin D dispenser.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 28 Sep

Same, same…

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 27 Sep

It's too funny for everyone to say so. 😂

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 27 Sep

In Germany, prisoners who have escaped jail will not be charged any additional penalty for their escape.

This is because the German state acknowledges that it is simply human nature to want to be free. If a prisoner were to be punished for their escape it would be considered a violation of their human rights. However, due to the use of CCTV cameras, motion sensors, and barred windows, it is actually very difficult for German prisoners to escape in the first place.

https://facts.net/germany-facts/

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

WoW! I've always dug the German mindset.

111 sats \ 2 replies \ @justanumber 27 Sep

One litter of kittens can have multiple “father” cats.

I've often wondered how a litter of kittens look so strikingly different from each other. Perhaps this is the reason? I never knew this!

Because female cats release multiple eggs when they are in heat, they can become pregnant with kittens from more than one “father” cat at the same time!

Number 2 on 10 Absolutely Wild & Weird Cat Facts

https://www.dogdoors.com/questions/why-do-kittens-from-the-same-litter-look-so-different/

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 27 Sep

Solid list of facts. Nice share!

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

So, some of them are only half-related. Neat!

181 sats \ 5 replies \ @Coinsreporter 27 Sep

Who can you deny

this fact even in fun?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

I can feel it! Believe me.

48 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 27 Sep

Ohh really! Are you in the states right now? Why not join us here, we can still buy 350 kilograms of wheat grain in $100. 😜

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

350 kg of wheat is a real struggle, but I reckon I could lift 350 kg of cotton.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 27 Sep

I'll lift a 351kg of cotton then ;). Do you get 350kg of cotton in $100?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

U.S. cotton futures traded around 74 cents per pound. $117 :)

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Thereal 27 Sep

Actually this is what happened because "A fellow user took Hanyecz up on the offer, paying $25 to order the two pizzas and receiving 10,000 bitcoins (then worth around $41) in return."

24 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 27 Sep

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Sep

I miss your children’s wacky contributions

48 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 28 Sep

I will try to get them to enter next week.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Sep

Will watch out for it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 27 Sep

Humans have an entirely unique fingerprint for their tongue! Just like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different. Though it’s not commonly used for identification, the texture and pattern of each person’s tongue is distinct, making it a potential biometric identifier just like fingerprints or retinal scans.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @LowK3y19 27 Sep

Crack was distributed to the black communities by Rick Ross and was shown how to make it by the CIA

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ken 27 Sep

And then he bought a bunch of Wingstop franchises

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @b73dba08c0 27 Sep

💀10,000 sats

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

Walnuts are the oldest known tree food — they date all the way back to 10,000 BC.

https://www.naturesfield.net/concious-eating/2018/6/11/15-interesting-facts-about-nuts

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT 27 Sep

The Big Ben clock stopped at 10:07 p.m. on 27 May 2005, probably due to an extremely high temperature of 31.8 degrees Celsius.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fiatbad 27 Sep

Fun fact: Facts are fungible.

The "Fun Fact Friday" competition on Stacker News is completely arbitrary. There is no such thing as a "better fact".

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 28 Sep

One could even say rigged. (as I learned recently you can have multiple accounts on SN and so zap your own stuff)

11.1k sats \ 11 replies \ @Natalia 27 Sep

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245 sats \ 5 replies \ @oliverweiss 27 Sep

This is a wasp, looks like a German yellowjacket. Not sure where you are, but now in Europe adult wasps are essentially waiting for death to come, they are desperate and take any sugars they find and, apparently, ham too 🤣

77 sats \ 3 replies \ @jakoyoh629 27 Sep

Ahha!

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 28 Sep

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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @jakoyoh629 28 Sep

If you don't see these bees all the time, you might think they're the same. I can tell them apart from a mile away :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 29 Sep

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Sep

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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Golu 27 Sep

Can you confirm it's a bee?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 28 Sep

What I struggle with is this thing in the photo called ham 🤣

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @cheerioMsSophie 27 Sep

So the top post in the facts bounty is not a fact because it is a wasp 🤔😅

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 28 Sep

Well, this doesn’t change the point of the fact that much, or? I mean, I don’t think it’s a funny fact anyway but then there are many others who may see it differently.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Sep

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