Fun Facts

[Dizzy]

Fun fact did you know it takes a spider an hour or so to drowned

 

[Dizzy]

Lego mini-figures have the largest population on Earth!

 

[Dizzy]

Did you know that snakes have a sixth sense?

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[Dizzy]

There’s a 50% chance that two people will share a birthday in a group of 23 people​

 

[Maverick68]

Lego mini-figures have the largest population on Earth!

Um, as compared to what? There are around 4 billion LEGO mini-figures in the world – about half of the world's human population.

Rank	Animal	Population
1	Insects	10 quintillion
2	Fish	3.5 trillion
3	Birds	50 billion
4	Human	8.1 billion

 

[Dizzy]

Sorry @Maverick68 it was just what i read and thought it was a fun fact to know

 

[Dizzy]

Did you know Viking men wore makeup?​

 

[Brian D]

Did you know that snakes have a sixth sense?

dont most animals, including humans, have more than six senses ?​

 

[BobbinsPilot]

My wife has never used a hoover as she finds them repulsive

 

[Crash and burn]

Did you know some chemicals are known as left or right handed?

 

[Brian D]

A male lobster’s bladder is in it’s head

 

[ItsRalphy]

A male lobster’s bladder is in it’s head

In that case I know a few lobsters LOL! I even work with a few.

 

[Maverick68]

A male lobster’s bladder is in it’s head

Actually, both male and female. They urinate from their head (just under eyes) as part of communicating since pheromones are mixed in. 🦞

In order to grow, they shed their shell, this is when the female mates to be protected by the male. 🦞 💘 🦞

 

[Crash and burn]

Did you know some chemicals are known as left or right handed?

I got a WOW, so I though to add some details.....
Left handed rotates plane polarized light (like through polaroid sunglasses) to the left, while right rotates it to the right.
These chemicals are known as optical isomers, first discovered in 1848 in tartrates (wine diamonds) in the bottom of wine barrels.

Bonus useless fact: Simple optical isomers in biological life are all left handed! Which has significant impact on the effectiveness of drugs. Basically right handed drugs do not work.

 

[Brian D]

There are ten times more bacteria cells in your body than human

 

[Robbie Laker]

There are more bugs in Airport City than on your front lawn on a hot summer night.

 

[Jenn B]

There is a viral infection that makes male crickets more attractive to female crickets because the infection changes the male cricket's song to make it more appealing. The paper reporting this also has one of the best journal article titles of all time (below). However, this is not the perfect love story... the viral infection makes both the males and females sterile.