Whitelist Recruitment - Share a Fun Fact!

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King Louis XV, of France, was apparently the first to use a stapler. Each staple was made of solid gold and encrusted with gems.

Many people are not aware of the fact that intersex people exist. It is generally assumed that people with XX chromsomes are female and have a V, and XY are male and have a P, but it is a lot more complicated than that. For example, you can have XY chromosome and have a V due to your body being unable to process testosterone. Or you can even have both! There are also people that have different combinations of the 'sex' chromosomes, such as XXY. And some people go through life without ever even finding out.

(I censored some words cause I'm not sure if it's allowed to say them here 😅)

the stairs are built clockwise in a tower because many soldiers defending a tower will go down to and have swords in right hand while the attacker will have in right hand (coming up) but it would hit the wall. so the defenders get an upper hand

Around 1/4th of all mammal species on Earth are made up of bats.

The Hashtag symbol is called an octothorpe. Based on the Oxford English Dictionary; octo, in reference to the eight points in the figure, and thorpe, OED says cryptically, from “the surname Thorpe.”

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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The first speeding fine was issued in 1896 to Walter Arnold.
He was caught tearing through Paddock Wood in Kent, UK at an outrageous 8 miles per hour.
The limit at the time was 2 miles per hour and required a man with a red flag preceding the vehicle.
But Walter was driving at 4 times the speed limit without anyone running in front to warn other people of the approaching vehicle.
For this, Walter was fined one Shilling (~5 pence in today's currency).

I can fold my tongue to create a shape of a clover. Most people can't do that, but still, many can. This is the most difficult type of tongue-twisting, where the person folds his tongue into multiple bends forming a clover-leaf shape. Some people with this ability can create three bends, while there are others who can even create four bends.

Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have discovered pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible. Honey's long shelf life is due to its low water content and acidic pH, which create an inhospitable environment for bacteria and other microorganisms.

Australia is wider than the moon

According to the most recent estimates it is believed that there are 2.6 million ants for every person on earth.

I hate that humming fact, thank you very much.

The first asset bubble in history was not built around housing or cryptocurrency. It happened because of tulips! Tulip mania, as it is now called, was the speculation phenomenon between 1634 and 1637 :)

EDIT: oh fuck i didnt notice this was necroed :( I hope I didn't inconvenience you and that you still wanted to hear fun facts, op! If not I really apologize :(((

Sloths are literally too lazy to find a mate, so the female sloth often sits in a tree and screams until the male hears her and decides to mate with her.

Most patients undergo an ultrasound at around 18-20 weeks (about four and a half to five months). Normally, at this stage of pregnancy we can determine the baby's sex, but not always.

Did you know that goombas from mario, were inspired by a mushroom shaped tumor a developer's wife had in her shin?

Did you know diarrhea is hereditary? It runs in your jeans.

The colour of a salmon's flesh, whether wild or farmed, is determined by its diet. Ranging from orange to ivory-pink, flesh coloration is a result of the levels of organic pigments, known as carotenoids, present in what the fish has eaten.

Just copying my previous comment, fact about sperm whales:
Sperm whales use sound as sonar and it's so loud, they can even kill with it. Freedivers researching them have stated that they are feeling heated up after a while and it is believed that they use their sonar to hunt giant squids.

Those divers didn't die because sperm whales are intelligent enough to reduce their noise in order not to kill people accidentally.

There are two doubly-landlocked countries - landlocked countries that only border other landlocked countries.: Lichtenstein (bordering Austria and Switzerland) and Uzbekistan (bordering Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan).

The average human will commit some form of self-cannibalism before they die.
Biting their nails, chewing their cheek, etc. Chances are, you're a self-cannibal.

Sweden, a country with 10M people and the size of California has the fifth most number of lakes in the world with 22,600 lakes after 1) Canada, 2) Russia, 3) USA and 4) China...

I recently saw that and thought that was a pretty cool fun fact!

Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk

-German americans make up the largest ancestry in the US.

-Germany has the largest world surplus and is the 1 export nation.

-Germany is the 4th largest world economy.

-German is the second language with the highest amount of scientific publications in the world.

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The neighbors of lottery winners are more likely to go bankrupt because they try to keep up with their neighbor’s new spending habits.

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