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[snoek]

I feel it is completely necessary to have a thread for all the random fun facts one might know. It can be about anything!
Let this be the thread of wisdom!

I'll start too!
Horses are one of the only mammals where the males do not have nipples. I believe it's only mice and rats that don't have them either

 

[Jaro]

Keeping at mammals. Humans are the only mammals who have permanently visible breasts.

 

[deschut]

Switching from animals to food / plants -> Bananas are naturally radioactive!

 

[Dungeonmaster]

Wearing a tie reduces the blood flow to your brain by roughly 10%.

 

[deschut]

The dot on the i is called tittle

 

[Dungeonmaster]

Germans are efficient. They call the dot on the i, i-dot

 

[Butterfly]

-40 c and -40 f are the same temperature

 

[Rab99]

There are some animals (alligators some tortoises,etc) that basically don't age or will not die from aging so they can only die by environmental factors or not finding enough food cuz they got too big to sustain

 

[snoek]

no one knows exactly how long knitting has been around for, because the fibers decay and knit needle looking tools could have been used for totally different things.

 

[deschut]

The North Pole has no time zone! (While it's located right at the Earth's axis, all time zones technically apply - so there's no official "local time"). This means that if you visit, you can pick your own