Unusual Daily Facts

[Hawx]

Every day I will post a random fact for your increased useless knowledge base.

 

[Hawx]

03/21

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

 

[EZ Bawlin]

3/22/15

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

 

[Hawx]

Earthworms have 5 hearts.

 

[Hawx]

12/02

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

 

[Hawx]

12/09

A lion's roar can be heard from 5 miles away.

 

[Hawx]

12/24

Slugs have 4 noses

 

[Hawx]

12/31

Human saliva has a boiling point 3x that of regular water.

 

[Hawx]

01/05

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

 

[Hawx]

01/19

In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.

 

[Hawx]

01/23

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

 

[Kratos]

We need a new fact for 2020!

 

[Hawx]

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.

 

[Sano]

Rabbits are the only mammal to have its ball-sack in front of the penis instead of behind. Now you know!

 

[Sabretooth-Ninja]

Rabbits are the only mammal to have its ball-sack in front of the penis instead of behind. Now you know!

False. (Whips out tape measure).

 

[Sano]

False. (Whips out tape measure).

A tape measure is an odd instrument to check that...

 

[Sabretooth-Ninja]

A tape measure is an odd instrument to check that...

I'm fresh out of 40x scopes

 

[UnoDosi]

09/24

Shitting yourself is frowned upon in most cultures.

 

[Sano]

Confucius say: Man who stand on toilet, high on pot.