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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 20:55:04 GMT -5
With these random facts!
1. There's a warm blooded fish. It's called the Opah.
2. Chad Kroeger, the lead singer of Nickelback, writes a majority of the band's songs himself.
3. Cats don't generally meow to each other. They do it to humans, and it's basically their equivalent of yelling. They communicate with each other mostly through body language and vocalizations that we simply can't hear.
4. If you have a headache in your forehead area then pinch the bridge of your nose to temporarily alleviate the pain. As long as you pinch your nose there, it shouldn't hurt in your head.
5. 'Alexithymia' is the word for when you can't describe how you're feeling.
6. The word 'almost' is the longest word in the English language in which all the letters are in alphabetical order.
7. The platypus isn't the only mammal to lay eggs. There's a mammal in Australia called the echidna, and it lays eggs, too.
8. Blood makes up about 8% of a human's body weight.
9. The giant African earthworm is an earthworm that is so rare it is thought to possibly be extinct because it's so seldom seen by people. They also grow to about 4 feet long on average, but the longest recorded one was a whopping 22 feet long.
10. Redheads were originally believed in mythology to be able come back as vampires after death, especially women.
11. According to research done by the 'American Temperament Testing Society,' the pitbull terrier scored higher than breeds such as the golden retriever; corgi; bichon frise; and poodle, meaning that the pitbull breed was less likely to show aggression than these, and other, breeds of dog.
12. Baby rabbits are actually called 'kittens.'
13. Honey never expires.
14. A group of cats is called a 'clowder.'
15. Pigeons produce milk to feed their young from a gland in their throats.
16. Expiration date on a bottle of water is for the bottle, not the water in it.
17. U.S. president James Buchanan bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.
18. Samsung actually started off as a grocery store, not a seller of phones and appliances.
19. Super Mario was originally known as 'Jump Man.'
20. A man named Max Fleischer and his brother Dave were the first people to combine sound and animation. They're also the creators of Popeye and Betty Boop.
21. Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 22:09:34 GMT -5
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Post by tiger beetle on Jun 22, 2017 22:19:30 GMT -5
1. There's a warm blooded fish. It's called the Opah. okay 1. I accidentally read that as Oprah and 2. this isn't a counterpoint but I have some cool fish to share: the barreleye and the black swallower barreleye: to me it looks kind of like a bottle of Coke--its head is transparent, and you can see its eyes in there! in the pictures they look sort of tennis ball colored black swallower: this terrifying thing at the bottom of the ocean that eats things bigger than itself…most specimens found have eaten things that were so big they started decomposing before the fish could digest them, and the gases built up inside of it, which killed it and brought it to the surface 12. Baby rabbits are actually called 'kittens.' and adults are called bucks and does 14. A group of cats is called a 'clowder.' true, and "glaring" and "clutter" are also acceptable words; a group of kittens can be called a "kindle"
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 22:34:52 GMT -5
tiger beetle I love these so much.
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Post by tiger beetle on Jun 22, 2017 22:41:05 GMT -5
I have a lot of useless facts but most of them are like nerd facts not fun facts
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 22:41:56 GMT -5
I find most facts to be fun facts. I want to know more!
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Post by tiger beetle on Jun 22, 2017 22:45:45 GMT -5
I find most facts to be fun facts. I want to know more! uhhhh here's one that's interesting enough: freshwater fish have saltier bodies than the surrounding water, so they take in water by osmosis and don't need to drink it on the other hand, saltwater fish are less salty than the ocean, so water is constantly leaving them, and they have to drink water (gills filter out the salt)
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 22:56:45 GMT -5
Oh cool. I actually did not know that one. If you have any more then feel free to post them
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Post by tiger beetle on Jun 22, 2017 23:03:07 GMT -5
Oh cool. I actually did not know that one. If you have any more then feel free to post them uh what do I know that's interesting Curie point: past a certain temperature ferromagnets stop being magnets--they can still function as paramagnets (attracted by magnets, but not magnetic themselves)…above the Curie point, the little magnetic moments (which in a ferromagnet are aligned in the same direction) get all jumbled up
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 23:07:25 GMT -5
Whoa. That's neat!
Don't worry about if something is 'interesting' or not. if it's a forum appropriate fact that you know, I'll probably find it intriguing. I'm a fact nerd.
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Post by tiger beetle on Jun 22, 2017 23:24:20 GMT -5
Whoa. That's neat! Don't worry about if something is 'interesting' or not. if it's a forum appropriate fact that you know, I'll probably find it intriguing. I'm a fact nerd. rubisco is the most common enzyme on the planet (like there are more rubisco molecules than any other enzyme as far as we know) the first virus discovered was the tobacco mosaic virus there are a bunch of types of blotting that basically detect certain things in samples of tissue stuff; a guy named Edwin Southern developed Southern blotting, and the others were named directions after him Southern blot detects DNA Northern blot detects RNA Western blot detects proteins Eastern blot detects things like lipids and stuff with weird names additionally, you can sort of "combine" the names and it makes sense what they do: Southwestern blot detects DNA-protein binding Northwestern blot detects RNA-protein interactions far Western blot detects protein-protein interactions far Eastern blot has to do with doing stuff with lipids in DNA sequencing T=red, A=green, C=blue, and G=yellow also electrophoresis makes smaller DNA fragments move farther than bigger ones--you can see how many times, and how far apart, a certain sequence exists if you cut it using a restriction enzyme (restriction enzymes "cut" DNA along a palindromic sequence, and they can either make dead ends or "sticky ends" (sticky ends have an exposed part of DNA, just one side of it, so that the matching sticky end can attach to it) sticky ends are how plasmids work lytic viruses pop into a cell, replicate a bunch, and burst out; lysogenic viruses go in and stick a plasmid into the cell's DNA, which tells the cell how to make viruses
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Jun 22, 2017 23:31:15 GMT -5
Daaaaaaangggggggg. I'm honestly not gonna remember most of that, but I still find that really fascinating, and I wanna know more now.
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Post by tiger beetle on Jun 22, 2017 23:42:13 GMT -5
Daaaaaaangggggggg. I'm honestly not gonna remember most of that, but I still find that really fascinating, and I wanna know more now. orders: true bugs Hemiptera (cicadas, stinkbugs) beetles Coleoptera butterflies/moths Lepidoptera bees/wasps Hymenoptera earwigs Dermaptera grasshoppers Orthoptera true flies Diptera termites Isoptera mayflies Ephemeroptera stickbugs/leaf bugs Phasmatodea the front wing of a grasshopper, cricket, praying mantis, earwig, stickbug, etc. is the tegmen (plural tegmina) edit: not insects but the discussion of pillbugs (or roly-polies or woodlice or whatever) reminded me that an iridovirus can turn them purple! like really bright purple! I've seen purple ones
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