Weirdest / most interesting fact you've learnt recently

[MindYaBitness]

Sand Tiger Sharks are the only sharks known to fart.

 

[SimonSex]

Costa Rica has the poison frogs. Now I know where to get my supply.

 

[lacandy]

Menorahs can be Kosher or not. I thought kosher referred only to food.

 

[summer_reine]

Pterodactyls are not dinosaurs

 

[SimonSex]

There’s exactly the same amount of fact checking on Meta as there is here on Lit.

 

[summer_reine]

There’s exactly the same amount of fact checking on Meta as there is here on Lit.

Hey.. what I said is true. Google says so!

 

[Rollinbones]

I recently learned that cock fighting is done with chickens. That's forty years of training that i've wasted.

 

[SimonSex]

Hey.. what I said is true. Google says so!

I am not doubting you one iota.

 

[bobb_sledd]

I got a daily Desk calendar for Christmas, called fact or crap.

Fact: President Jimmy Carter averted a nuclear meltdown in 1952 and an experimental nuclear reactor. I knew he was in the Navy and captain nuclear subs, but never knew this little tidbit!

President Jimmy Carter did help avert a nuclear meltdown at the Chalk River plant in Canada in 1952. However, he never captained a nuclear submarine having left the Navy as a Lieutenant in 1961 as he was preparing to become the engineering officer for the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) – the first in her class of ships. The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) was named in his honor in 2005.

 

[Gatliss123]

Naked Mole Rats live in a hive-mind like society that is very much equivelent to Ants and Termites. They have workers and they have queens and it is thought to be a result of Convergent Evolution.

 

[lilmissdarling]

Denisovans, an extinct human group, left their genetic mark on modern populations, with Tibetan high-altitude adaptations traced back to them—despite us only knowing them from a few fossils found in Siberia.

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Owls don't have eyeballs. What they have is more skin to eye tubes. Since they can rotate their heads close to 360°, they only move their focus by moving the head, not just the eyes.

Thought of that when I saw this commercial recently:

 

[SherlockianMan]

Oyster ice cream was popular in New England in the 1800s. It sounds absolutely vile to me.

 

[sumthymes]

The labia minora can disappear in the time between peri and post menopause

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Oyster ice cream was popular in New England in the 1800s. It sounds absolutely vile to me.

Lobster used to be trash food that prisoners rioted over being tired of. Can’t blame them, I wouldn’t want to eat sea bugs either

 

[SherlockianMan]

Lobster used to be trash food that prisoners rioted over being tired of. Can’t blame them, I wouldn’t want to eat sea bugs either

I'll eat the lobster, as long as they keep it out of ice cream.

 

[DannieB]

Some people pee in the shower

And some, in the tub

 

[MrMakersMark]

Some people pee in the shower

And some, in the tub

Sadly, I've learned that the shower or tub would certainly classify as some of the tamest things some of these folks do with their pee.

 

[SimonSex]

I have recently learned that the newly confirmed Secretary of Defense has a long history of alcohol abuse, spousal abuse, womanizing and mysogeny.

 

[lacandy]

Potato chips were invented by a black man named George Crum. I both love and hate him!

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

All about Mirror Touch Synesthesia - where someone actually feels the physical touch of someone else but just watching. Their visual system and their touch sensations are crossed.

 

[SimonSex]

Dead people can win a Grammy.

 

[AlwaysDancing]

Before you can have a murder of crows you need to have probable caws.

 

[SimonSex]

Dad jokes and puns are down the hall, 2nd door to the left

 

[AlwaysDancing]

We know that Ghandi was committed to a voice of justice through poverty and fasting. This created so many issues. No shoes meant his feet were blistered and leathery. All that fasting made his health questionable, his breath wasn’t great … and some say it gave him clarity and vision bordering on spiritual magic.

All this made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.