Whitelist Recruitment - Share a Fun Fact!

The living creature that kills the most people every year is mosquitoes, and chainsaws, the traditional murder weapon in horror films, were invented to aid in childbirth

Or else - T-shirts were originally intended for unmarried men who themselves did not know how to sew buttons to shirts with a collar.

Praying mantises don't eat their males if they are well fed ;3

Fun fact: There are at least two ways to hum with your nose held closed:

1) Keep your mouth open. :P
2) Rebreathe the air in your mouth, hum in and out as long as you can hold your breath. (This is much harder and sounds pretty weird, but it is humming!)

Another fun fact: NASA has detected at least two exoplanets with the basic chemical building blocks of life (carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor) present in their atmospheres. [link]

Let me try:

A dung beetle is not only the world's strongest insect but also the strongest animal on the planet compared to body weight.

A fact about language: the English language contains a few "auto-antonyms", words that mean two opposite meanings. For example, "to dust something" can mean either to remove dust, or to add dust. And "oversight" can mean an accidental error, or supervision to make sure errors don't happen. Somewhat similarly, a "recorder" means both a device for recording music, and an instrument for producing music.

In 1937, a goalkeeper named Sam Bartran (Chartlon Athletic) stood alone on the field for 15 minutes because he didn't realize the game had been cancelled due to heavy fog.

This diagram shows cat tail position meanings. Not sure if they’re common knowledge, but I didn’t know them!

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Ducks have three eyelids. The top and bottom as well as a third that is found on the side of the eye. It is clear and acts much like goggles.

Nutella is also considered to be kosher.

Under the supervision of the Kashruth Division of the Orthodox Union, the popular hazelnut spread, Nutella is officially certified as a Kosher product. Additionally, it was also certified Halaal by the National Independent Halaal Trust group or N.I.H.T for short. Despite being similar, the Halaal dietary requirements are considered to be different from that of Kosher diets.

A gene and protein that separates your right brain from the left, and determines you have two eyes is called sonic hedgehog.

The gene’s symbol is SHH. The name wasn’t inspired directly by the game, but a comic-book series. A British post-doc named Robert Riddle drew inspiration from a Sonic comic his 6-year-old daughter was reading. The gene appropriately has a spikey appearance.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Fun fact
Vending machines are more likely to kill people than sharks.
According to past statistics, 2 times per 1 year for Vending machines event, and 1 times per 1 year for sharks event.

You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites.

Over the years I formed a theory: If suddenly a fire breaks out in my house and there's no way out, I'll turn on the shower and get under it, because I believe you can't burn yourself to death taking a shower, I believe that this way I'll be safe.
Am I right or wrong? (I'm just kidding) hahahaha 😂

When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
The "M's" in M&Ms stand for "Mars" and "Murrie".
The dot over the lower case "i" or "j" is known as a "tittle".
The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple.
A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat.
Sharks existed before trees.
The Twitter bird's official name Is Larry.
The first oranges weren’t orange.

(sorry I knew you only asked for 1 but I was enjoying myself with those facts :3 )

Coleoids (a group of cephalopods including octopi, squids, and nautiluses) have three hearts: a systemic heart, which circulates blood around the body (same as the human heart), and a pair of branchial hearts found at the base of the gills, with each branchial heart pumping it through each of the two gills.

There actually aren’t “57 varieties” of Heinz ketchup, and never were. Company founder H.J. Heinz thought his product should have a number, and he liked 57. Hint: Hit the glass bottle on the “57,” not the bottom, to get the ketchup to flow.

You are the first in the last 5 years to create a discussion about fun facts on SG.
Is that fun? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But that's a fact.

Facts are often not facts at all, but just what we believe to be true to the best of our knowledge. As we learn more and do more research, we often learn that things we believed to be facts throughout our lives were not true.

Here is an example. It is a recent study trying to figure out why balloons make a loud bang when the are popped. The conclusion states that it is most likely not just a sudden release of pressure or the tear in the latex propagating faster than the speed of sound creating a sonic boom, but is actually caused by vibrations in the balloons surface as the latex retracts.

Another recent example that is much more important than a balloon popping is how a wing creates lift. The smartest engineers in the world and anyone involved in aeronautics, like NASA, have been taught about Bernoulli's principle, but we now know that it is incorrect and we still do not understand why the curvature of a wing produces lift.

Scotland has 421 words for “snow”.

About 1-3% of world's population (mostly women) are thought to be tetrachromatic, i.e., they have one more cone in their retina, which allows them to see an estimated 10^2-10^6 times more colours.

Most people have an above average number of legs, due to the average being slightly less than 2 :)

"Helicopter" has Greek roots. One root word means "wing". Which part do you think?

If you guessed pter you're correct! Helico is from helix, meaning spiral. It's literally spiral wing. This explains where the p in pterodactyl comes from, as well. Your whole life, those two words were right in front of you and you never realized they were related.

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Elephants have no natural enemy, which would make them the strongest land animal except for humans.
Also, dolphins hunt in packs, they gather a large bulk of fish in a place and then they feast. They have also been seen to self stimulate themselves using eels and get high on pufferfish toxins.