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Fun Daily Facts

This is a new and fun topic where we can all put fun daily facts which help us learn and keep us sane 🙂

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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

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Why I wonder. May be there were no cats. Some tigers might have decided to become good after reading the Bible.

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Nice!

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Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

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The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F. (No word on how lovely its' singing voice is, however.)

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Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backward.

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Lucky birds!

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The deepest place on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. It’s 36,201 feet (11,034m) deep. That’s almost seven miles!

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Pineapples take two years to grow.

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Too long, yet too taste😃

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Armadillos are bulletproof. (This is NOT an invitation to test the fact.)

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Niagara Falls never freezes.

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The national flag with the most colors in it is Belize (1981), with 12.

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The first hand-held mobile phone call was made on April 3rd, 1973, in NYC.

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A person can be identified not only by fingerprints, but also by the tongue.

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Wombat poop is cube-shaped. This peculiar shape prevents the poop from rolling away, helping mark the wombat's territory.

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Hmm! Wombat is an inventive creature. 

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The dinosaur bones on display in paleontological museums around the world are not actually bones. Strictly speaking, they are stones, as the bone tissue collapsed millions of years ago, leaving behind an organic sediment. Under the influence of chemical processes, this bone sediment turned into stone in the shape of bones over the years.

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Nice to know!

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You can’t hum while holding your nose. Try it!

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Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood to the gills, while one pumps it to the rest of the body.

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A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It refers to 1/100th of a second.

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The Twitter bird has a name: Larry. It’s named after basketball legend Larry Bird.