Odd Facts Thread! 

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Odd Facts Thread! 

Odd Facts Thread! 

Hello everyone! I was just reading my Cricket mag last night and some of the messages in the Letterbox inspired to start an Odd Facts thread! This thread will be a place where you can but random information you happen to know out for the world to see! I don't know if anyone else is like this, but when I hear a fact like this, I have to share it with someone! So go ahead and share your knowledge and knowhow with the world! 

 

submitted by Neverseen
(May 4, 2021 - 1:43 pm)

Ah, yes! I have seen snipets of an old thread like this in the Letterbox as well! I can't think of any off the top of my head, but if I come across one, I'll share it here!

submitted by pangolin
(May 4, 2021 - 5:42 pm)
submitted by top
(May 5, 2021 - 7:17 am)

This is actually a REALLY good fact for when you're eatin' ice cream or somethin' frozen:

You can actually BEAT brain freeze by pressin' your tongue to the roof of your mouth.

 

Bradley just said "gtemy". I'm listenin' to "BAMM!" from ZOMBIES 1, so is he tryin' to say "Bet ya can't do it like I can"?

(Yeeep!!)

You've been sayin' that too much, you know that.

(Yeeep!!!)

KNOCK IT OFF, BRADLEY AND STOP SAYIN' YEP!!!!!

(Yesss)

*Squeaks* Ok-you-can-go-back-to-yep.

submitted by Emekittycon Kitten, age 12, Kitten Kingdom
(May 5, 2021 - 1:01 pm)

Well, I love ice cream, so thanks for the tip! :)

submitted by pangolin
(May 5, 2021 - 3:58 pm)

A crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue. How weird is that?

submitted by Princess Juniper, age she/her, Nowhere
(May 5, 2021 - 6:42 pm)

When the Hadron Collidor first came out, some people thought it would make thosands of miniture black holes! It didn't, but if we were able to make particles collide fast enough, we could make super small, harmless black holes! 

submitted by Neverseen
(May 6, 2021 - 10:29 am)

People are training bees to stick their toungues out when they smell covid. They even put little harnesses on them!

submitted by Feline Fantasy
(May 11, 2021 - 3:36 pm)

May 10th was National Clean Up Your Room Day.

Dolphins never chew their food.

Circus Peanuts inspired Lucky Charms Cereal.

A dentist invented cotton candy.

Christmas actually has bigger candy sales than Halloween.

Lavender (the flower) symbolizes distrust. 

submitted by Milly Sunstar
(May 12, 2021 - 10:23 pm)

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, one of the Quidditch players for Bulgaria is called Volkov. Volkov is also a font. 

The only president that didn't get married was James Buchanan.

Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Kentucky. 

Flamingos pee on themselves to cool off. 

When we see the light of stars, it's already old. In theory, without time and distance in consideration, yesterday's light is seen today.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.  

submitted by Leila, age 10, In one of my many lives
(May 22, 2021 - 10:31 pm)

Vultures relieve themselves on their legs to kill bacteria picked up from sitting in carcasses.

submitted by Peregrine
(May 23, 2021 - 10:41 am)

Okay, so today, my friend taught me about Ackee fruits. 

-Ackee fruits are banned in Jamaica 

-Ackee fruits are poisonous when not ripe

-Ackee fruits have killed, like, a bunch of people 

-And my friend apparently knows a lot about poisonous food than I thought they did. (I also had a lesson on two other fruits and a how a type of meat can affect your health - where does my friend learn about this stuff?)  

submitted by Neverseen
(May 27, 2021 - 12:10 pm)
  • The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
  • In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee.
  • Black apples exist
  • There are now giant pigs as heavy as polar bears
  • The Greenland shark has an average lifespan of 272 years, some of them can even live as long as 500 years
  • Mantis shrimps can punch with the force of a bullet
  • A Shot of Espresso Contains Less Caffeine Than a Cup of Coffee
  • Dinosaurs Were Feathered
  • Dinosaurs Sounded Like Giant Geese
  • Poisonus Lead Was Once Used in Makeup
  • Spaghetto, confetto, and graffito are the singular forms of spaghetti, confetti, and graffiti
  • Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes
  • Butterflies will drink your blood, sweat, and tears
  • There's a jellyfish whose sting will inflict you with a sense of impending doom
  • Earth is not flat, but it's not perfectly round either. Earth has never been perfectly round
  • There weren't always several continents
  • Hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan
  • Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard
  • There is a technical name for the "fear of long words."
  • In the winter, the Eiffel Tower shrinks by 15 centimeters
  • In the 18th century, Benjamin Lay temporarily kidnapped the child of a slave-owner to show him what it feels like when your relatives are sold overseas
  • Sharks can grow up to 50,000 teeth in their lifetime
  • The heart of a shrimp is located in its head
  • A snail can sleep for three years
  • The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene
  • Slugs have four noses
  • Elephants are the only animal that can't jump
  • Raspberries are a member of the rose family
  • Apples give you more energy than coffee
  • Pistachios are actually fruits
  • A shrimp's heart is in its head
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
  • One species of jellyfish is immortal
  • There are 1 million ants for every human in the world
  • A blue whale weighs as much as three elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses
  • A bat can eat up to 1 thousand insects per hour
submitted by AuburnFairy13, age 9, The Garden
(June 8, 2021 - 9:42 am)
submitted by TOP
(June 8, 2021 - 11:58 am)


Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, one of the longest words in the dictionary, is the fear of long words.  It is pronounced

 hi·puh·paa·tuh·muhn·strow·suh·skwipt·a·lee·ow·fow·bee·uh

submitted by AuburnFairy13, age 9, The Garden
(June 9, 2021 - 8:55 am)