No requirements needed, just say something funni . Lately I don't giveaway much but expect some giveaways in the future :) . Virtuous people preferred.

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The country of Mexico was named after Mexico City and not the other way around!

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Goofy in fact

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My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana

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Your mother might be partly right, watch an octogenerian play football; It's not good.

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Also overripe bananas make the best banana bread.

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Truth.
I would make banana cake with brown bananas and frost it with banana frosting made with yellow/green bananas.

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Yum. Two words come to mind: rum and flambé.
Too much?

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You seem to have fostered a taste for New Orleans dessert. ;)

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Heh nice :D My gf invented it actually... well she thinks she did and I didn't have the heart to tell her.

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I see. So she was cooking at Vieux Carre back in the 50's? XD

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Oh no no she invented it a couple of years back in our kitchen. She was very proud.
I mean... it's a good find. That's usually what tells you someone had the idea long before you.

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This does not apply to Bananas used for Banana Bread

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A human shares almost the same amount of DNA with a Horse and a Banana (50%)
It is time for the Bantaur´s to rise and claim their rightfull place alongside Centaur´s.

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Damn but that part of dna is just focused on basic mollecular survival, I mean between monkes and us theres less than 10 per cent difference but monkes can't ride horses and subsist on a 100 per cent scientifically proven banana diet

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Goofy fact: monkeys have been known to ride deer in the wild

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Wow. That is bananas.
Not so surprised that we share 98% of our DNA with pigs though. But bananas? Well, when you look at politicians, or reality tv maybe.

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I find it especially funny because it is on the same level as horses while other mammals tend to be in the 80% + range.

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If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never been seen before in the history of the universe!

The total number of possible permutations of 52 cards is 52! (factorial), this number is beyond astronomically large: 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000

To better get a sense of its scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeIllSxpEU

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Very interesting, the card fact I knew but the video I hadn't gonna watch it! :)

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The two factors in the early 70s that were fundamental for the development of skateboarding as a sport and cultural phenomenon were:

  1. Urethane wheels (intended for roller skaters at the dawn of the disco era, but repurposed for skates), which replaced hard clay wheels and gave skates more grip
  2. The Great Drought of Southern California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California#1976.E2.80.9377), which emptied swimming pools around LA. LA was unique in the way the pools were usually curvy and free-form, shaped like peanuts and keyholes and kidney beans instead of simply rectangular boxes. And they were the perfect skateboarding playground :)
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I have zero interest in skating, but this was a very interesting discovery, I always found skate parks to be like pools, thanks for the explanation:)

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Goofy’s original name in 1932 was Dippy Dawg. (Too literal?)

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Goofy enough

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

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That's fucked up, imagine wanting to search for your condition, but having to be put through fear generated by it. Damn science mans!

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Same goes for the fear of pallindromes: aibohphobia

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Ferret's name can be traced back to Latin 'furittus' which translates as 'little thief'

Ferrets love to steal and hide anything that isn't nailed down! Even watermelons!

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Nicey!

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A friend of mine has two ferrets and she posts hilarious videos of them stealing and hiding her things, it's adorable.

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I used to have five of them, they would herd the dog around xD (reminded me of the raptors from Jurassic Park)

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lol, that is awesome

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Owls don't have eyeballs—they're more like eye tubes. They're elongated and held in place by a bony structure in the skull called sclerotic rings. Because of this, owls can't move or roll their eyes within their sockets. (That's where the heightened neck mobility comes in.)

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Hmm, goofy indeed.

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A collective of flamingos is a "flamboyance." :D

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:D

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When you put on headphones, you cover your ears from the natural air, which increases production of bacteria by 700% in 1hr. Fun =)

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Welp, thats horrible, funni

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Cats can jump up to 6 times their height and can run up to 30 mph (48 kph).

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Nimble boys

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Two muffins are sitting in the oven...
The first muffin turns to the second and says "Oh gee, it sure is hot in here!" The second muffin turns to the first and says "Holy SHIT A TALKING MUFFIN!!!!!!!!"

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Funni enough for me

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I'll give some facts about one of my favourite animals: The Sloth

Sloths are so slow that moss and algae grow on their fur! They only pee about once a week and will try to wait until it rains so they can hide the evidence from predators! Once they've gone to the bathroom, they can be up to 3 times lighter!

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Walking ecosystems

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https://www.weareteachers.com/weird-fun-facts/
Australia is wider than the moon.
Headphones can increase the bacteria in your ears.
Scotland chose the unicorn as its national animal.
Avocados are not vegetables.
You probably eat bugs in your sleep.
The Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer.

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yep, fruit vs vegetable.
Avocado is a fruit.
Tomato is a fruit.
Corn is a fruit.
Rice is a fruit.
Lemon is a fruit.

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It gets even weirder for berries:
Strawberries are not berries, bananas are. Blackberries, mulberries, and raspberries are also not berries but avocados, cucumbers, and pumpkins are. There are more examples but those are just some.

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Thats where science says its one thing, yet our culinary world classifies it based on taste.

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Blackberries, mulberries, and raspberries are also not berries but avocados, cucumbers, and pumpkins are

Yup. Also peppers, chilis and watermelon.

Where it gets really funny though is caper berries being actually flower buds.
And it gets really nuts when you find out that peanuts are not nuts but beans and that cashew nuts are really just cashew apple seeds.

The botanical world is a true mindf***k

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Again its a fruit according to scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain

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Female nutrias have nipples high on their flanks :)

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Spotted the spanish speaker, in english they are called otters :) Interesting nontheless

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Actually I'm from Poland :D And it is different species than otters. Nutrias were pretty common where I'm from, but I got to know this fact last month probably :))

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Uoh, welp otters in spanish is Nutria, a goofy fact in return

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Astronauts grow taller in space.

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Creepy

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Goofy facts it is then for you!

Goofy was first known as "Dippy Dawg" in a 1930s newspaper comic strip.

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What a dawg he is

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It's Illegal to Ride a Cow While Drunk in Scotland

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I already had you in my whitelist, but hey, goofy fact welcomed

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Around half of Thai Buddhist monks are obese. The reason is that they always eat food donations from the people who often give them unhealthy foods. So now the Thai government is urging people to start giving the monks more healthy food donations.

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That's sad

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  • 90% of U.S. money has cocaine on it. Either from exposure or drug use, a study revealed that 90% of the dollars circulating in the economy have cocaine on it. Traces of cocaine were found reaching 0.006 micrograms (several thousand times smaller than salt). The green dye on dollars causes cocaine residue to stick to the bills.
  • People have tried to sue God. People have actually filed lawsuits against God – for reasons you can imagine. Negligence, failure to keep people away from the Devil, and other harmful acts of God are quoted in most of these cases.
  • Uranus was first named George. When William Herschel first discovered the planet in 1781, the English astronomer named it the Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet) in honor of King George III.
  • Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest. Dolly Parton once entered a celebrity look-alike contest as herself – and lost. The contest was held in a San Francisco club. In order to somewhat disguise herself, Parton exaggerated her features with makeup. However, she got the least applause of all contestants, and ultimately lost to a drag queen.
  • Peanuts are used to make dynamite. Aside from giving some people explosive diarrhea, peanuts can also be used to make actual explosives. Once peanut oil is processed, it can create glycerol – which, in turn, can be used to make nitroglycerin – one of the main components of dynamite.
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Wowsa, goofy fact and explosive fact overload, thankies

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Ketchup used to be sold as medicine for indigestion

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:o

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Heroin-laced aspirin was once given children suffering from sore throats, coughs, and cold because Bayer found it to be 5X more effective than morphine (and presumed it was less addictive than morphine). Some bottles depicted children eagerly reaching for the medicine, with moms giving their sick kids heroin on a spoon.

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Now that's... not exactly goofy, more like scary. But it does entertain one's brain.

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And to add a bit to that:
The "original" ketchup (in so many different spellings) had nothing to do with tomatos at all. Its main ingredient were mushrooms (I cooked a replica receip myself: Highly recommend it!). And we almost never had the modern ketchup to begin with, because after some up and downs, they used copper cauldrons to make it. Problem is, that the acid in tomatos solve copper ions into the dish, which could lead in long terms to copper poisoning.
This problem could also be seen in many monastery were they used many copper wear.

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Do you still have a recipie?

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I found a variety here: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/mushroom-ketchup-recipe
The recipe there at least has numeric values for the ingredients, while the book I had if from was only very vague (it was from the 18. century).
Hope you like it! Also I saw some other more watery types on youtube, which are more authentic. So please choose for yourself which version you like best and tell me which one you tried :)

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SQL, the coding language isn't actually pronounced sequel like most people think. It's actually just pronounced S-Q-L as it's the sequel to the coding language SEQUEL.

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Wot :I

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Non-nerdy people might not be able to appreciate this fact, but I do. TIL!

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I go to a tech school and always whip that one out when sharing fun facts that aren't about ourselves.

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That is nice!

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