Unusual Daily Facts

Hawx

Hawx

You're Never Right!
Every day I will post a random fact for your increased useless knowledge base.
 
03/21

Until coffee gained popularity, beer was the breakfast beverage of choice in most urban areas of the United States
 
12/02

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting (if the lived in the same place)
 
01/05

Steve Jobs relieved stress by soaking his feet in Apple’s company toilets.
 
01/23

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
 
03/27

Goosebumps are meant to ward off predators.

Why do we get goosebumps? In this physiological reaction, small muscles attached to individual body hairs contract, which leads the hair to stand on end. We inherited this ability from our ancestors in part as a way for our (then) coat of body hair to capture air beneath it and in that way retain heat. But, as George A. Bubenik, a physiologist and professor of zoology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, explained to Scientific American, it also caused our ancestors to appear bigger than they were, helping to ward off predators when they were frightened or on the defense. With modern humans having less body hair, goosebumps no longer cause us to look that much more intimidating.
 
Rabbits are the only mammal to have its ball-sack in front of the penis instead of behind. Now you know!
 
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