I’m in the mood to learn, so let’s do Teachable Tuesday! Drop a cool fact, some neato knowledge, or anything YOU might know that you think WE probably don’t! Teach us something today!
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The word/brand name Velcro is a portmanteau of velour and crochet.
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in Ancient Greece one way to become a werewolf was to take off your clothes, pee around them in a circle, cross a river - you'd then turn onto a wolf for 9 years. If you didn't eat human flesh in that time you could recross the river, collect your clothes and turn back into a human.
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Hawaii was its own kingdom prior to becoming a US territory then state.
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Only one in 3000 calico/tortoiseshell cats are male, and of those male cats, only one in 10K are fertile.
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The guy who invented chlorofluorocarbons also invented leaded gasoline.
He "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history":
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_....
Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia
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The dollar sign started as U with an S over it. When I was a kid, it still had two slashes. $
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Lemon water helps with lactose intolerance. If you have a glass of lemon water with dairy, you won't have the gastro issues you normally would. Essentially, the lemon does the job of digestion that your body can't
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So, I'm growing this flower, Clitoria Ternatea. And yes, it looks like it sounds. However, it's edible, "insert jokes" and can be dried and used to color food. Oh. It's blue, like any guy who can't get a hold of a Clitoria Ternatea. Hehe. I'm going to make blue rice when I have enough flowers
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Cook some bacon or sausage in a skillet. Take it out with slotted spoon. Heat that juice/oil and whisk in a handful of flour til ya make a paste. Add 3 cups milk, cook for ten and wah-lah you got gravy
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In optical terms, “OD” means your right eye, and “OS” means your left (“OU” means both).
“OS” is short for “Oculus Sinister,” the ‘sinister’ being Latin for ‘left.’
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a cast-iron pan in a screaming hot pizza oven (800°+) is the best way to cook a steak at home 😋
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Mozart was a Freemason and a lot of the imagery in The Magic Flute is based on Masonic gender roles where three is masculine and five is feminine.
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How to keep food fresh in a plastic bag: 1. Place leftovers for freezer/fridge, into a freezer ziplock. 2. Place bag on a flat surface & press out ALL the AIR. Use fingers, wrist, arms to get air out . 3. Press on the zipper & listen for the “pops.” Press back & forth, until popping stops.
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Some Jellyfish are effectively immortal as they revert to polyps & start their life cycle again.
Portuguese Man of War is a mutualism of organisms, not one & isn't a jellyfish.
Spiders 'fly' in events called 'Ballooning'.
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The moment when the chemicals are released in the stem that tell the leaf to die is called apoptosis: an organism's programmed cell death.
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FRASS! Frass is insect excrement, particularly if from a wood boring species.
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The fax machine was invented before the telephone. youtu.be/4UcGRiPSi-E?...
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Karl Benz patented the first auto (1885) ahead of Henry Ford
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Grover Cleveland’s sister Rose served as acting First Lady before he got married. She was very well educated for a woman of that era, and used to pass the time while standing in the receiving line by conjugating Greek verbs in her head.
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Finnish is linguistically related to Hungarian, and neither are related to any of the other languages in Europe.
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Some Mormons have their own legend about Bigfoot—that he’s actually the biblical Cain, covered in hair and cursed to immortality.
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Most of what I know is old vocab! The legs/pokey parts on a fork are called tines. A hound dog's ears are/were referred to as leathers. Chewbacca wears a bandolier.
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The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. We can't see stars beyond 16B lightyears away because information can't travel faster than this expansion.
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Pencil “lead” is a combination of graphite and clay. The higher the clay content, the harder the pencil. When graphite was discovered it was initially called “black lead”, thus we still refer to it as lead. And the #2 pencil is #1 because of scantron being able to scan it best.
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In the iPhone calculator App, the there’s an icon of a calculator . If you tap it and toggle “convert” to on, you can use it to convert all kinds of things like currency, temperature, volume, weight, data, length, and more.
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Cats benefit from raised food and water bowls just like dogs do.
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The can opener was invented almost 50 years after canning food was patented...
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The formation of the APFA (which later became the NFL) was primarily a merger of the two most prominent football leagues of the 1910s, the Ohio League and the New York Pro Football League.
Likewise, the NBA was also a merger, of the BAA and NBL.
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The science of what happens to an organism after it dies is called taphonomy. Working with fossils, we think about this a LOT.
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In the international standard 17-character vehicle ID number (VIN), you will not find:
-the letters I, O, or Q anywhere -additionally, the letters U or Z, or the digit 0, in the 10th position (model year indicator) -any character except a digit or the letter X in the 9th position (check digit)
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The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health. Hence why we "raise a toast."
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FUN RANDOM TRIVIA STUFF?! Hippos cannot swim. They're too dense and heavy to float, despite their layer of fat. When you see a hippo 'swimming' - they are RUNNING (they have a land speed of 19-22mph!) underwater at about 5pmh and LEAPING to the surface of the water.
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Spadefoot toads smell like peanuts when frightened or harassed.
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The equals sign (=) means that two things have the exact same value, not that something is transformed.
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Wombats have cubed shaped poop.
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Kind of old knowledge now, but you could dial toll free numbers on payphones without depositing any money. My mom's office had (and probably still has) a toll free number, so if I wanted to call her from school and it wasn't an emergency, I used the phone in the lobby. (Worked in Canada, too.)
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My dog is deaf
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Just learnt this about the guy who invented the stetson
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An introductory adverb clause should always be followed by a comma.
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There’s only once, twice, and thrice
After three, they gave up
No fource
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In Spain, a tortilla is an omelette
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German soccer team Wolfsburg FC once had a manager called Wolfgang Wolf and his assistant coach was named Peter Panda.
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If you meet a strange cat, don’t look directly at them. To them, that’s a predator stare. Stand a little sideways, give them a slow blink (cat for “I trust you / I mean no harm / I am friendly) then look away. Repeat.
When your cat slow blinks, it’s a sign of love. bestfriends.org/pet-care-res...
What Do Cat Slow Blinks Mean?
A lot of memes show the squinty-eye cat face as cats being mean or judgy, but it’s quite the opposite. Learn all about cat slow blinks.
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Top 10 U.S. Presidents Found by a Court to Have Committed Acts That Constitute Rape in the Commonly Understood Sense
Donald J. Trump
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Alligators “sing” when you play B-flat youtu.be/UOvI7zl22wQ?...
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it's illegal to throw pickle juice at trolleys in Providence RI.
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The prime numbers are a subset of the natural numbers, who in turn are a subset of the rational numbers , and yet all 3 of these sets of numbers have the same number of elements.
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Peacock feathers emit lasers. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Peacock feathers can emit laser beams
The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots.
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The name George comes from the Greek for earth (geo) and work (ergon) and means farmer.
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I HAVE to drop this one, because I just learned it RIGHT NOW:
Initially, before Robin Williams landed the iconic role of "Mrs. Doubtfire," the studio initially wanted -- wait for it...
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................................. Warren Beatty.
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Disney fans, this one is for you:
Walt Disney was a coffee fanatic, insisting it be sold in multiple locations at Disneyland. However, he was quoted as saying it should never cost more than 10 cents.
A 16 oz cup of drip coffee currently sits at around $4.00 at Disneyland in California.
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the iditarod trail invitational is held in february.
you can choose to race 130, 350 or the full 1,000 miles.
you can choose to do it on foot, cross country skis or...
bike.
ITI
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Horses can sleep standing up with their eyes open. Never sneak up on a horse!
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Centipedes can have purple blood.
