Here's your (not so) totally useless fact(s) of the day:

[phkrause]

Africa is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres.

James

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Elephants do not have 4 knees, what looks like the elephant's front knees are actually its wrists.

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In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans hockey team became the first American team
to win the Stanley Cup.

James

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I borrowed this from my friend Shonna. Thanks!  ?

A pig can have an orgasm which lasts 30 minutes. (OMG!!) A cockroach will live
nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy. I'm still not over the
pig.) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. (Honey, I'm home.
What the...?) The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes. Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of
a pond?) Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still can't believe that pig
...quality over quantity.) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always
wanted to know.) Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Okay, so that
would be a good thing.) A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder how
much the government paid to figure that out.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain. (I know some people like that.) Starfish have no brains. (I know some
people like that, too.) Polar bears are left-handed. (Talk about a southpaw.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What
about that pig? Do the dolphins know about the pig?)

James

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The Scots have a word for that panicky hesitation you get when you can’t
remember someone’s name: tartle.

James

[phkrause]

Londoners in the 1600s were advised to keep "fart jars"—consisting of trapped
fart odors—on hand to combat bubonic plague. The idea was that the potent
smell would somehow purify the air.

James

[phkrause]

When swallowed by toads, bombardier beetles project hot, noxious
chemicals from their anuses, which sometimes forces the predators
to puke them back up.

James

[JoeMo]

6 hours ago, phkrause said:

When swallowed by toads, bombardier beetles project hot, noxious
chemicals from their anuses, which sometimes forces the predators
to puke them back up.

James

Bombadier beetles are an amazing tribute to creation.  The hot noxious chemicals in their emission is produced in a chamber by their anuses that resembles a modern rocket engine.  Two highly reactive but non-toxic substances are mixed in this chamber; and the violent exothermic reaction results is a highly toxic substance that resembles rocket fuel at a temperature approaching 100 degrees Celsius.  Even hard core evolutionists have a hard time explaining how this system could just "evolve".

[phkrause]

The Giraffe may be well-known for its incredibly long neck and tongue, but those
are hardly the longest features of this majestic animal. The giraffe has the longest
tail of any land mammal. Their tail can grow to be 8 feet (2.4 meters) long.

James

[phkrause]

If you're feeling nervous, start chewing gum, your brain will reason that you're not in danger because you would not be eating if you were.

James

[phkrause]

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins.

James

[phkrause]

The  medical term for writer’s cramp is graphospasm.

James

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A “contronym” is a word that’s its own opposite. For example: if you seed
the lawn you add seeds, but if you seed a tomato you remove them.

James

[phkrause]

Pentheraphobia is the intense irrational fear of your mother-in-law.

James

[JoeMo]

36 minutes ago, phkrause said:

Pentheraphobia is the intense irrational fear of your mother-in-law.

James

Just because you are afraid of your mother-in-law does not mean she's not dangerous!

(In case my dear mother-in-law is reading, I don't mean you! You are a sweet, kind, wonderful woman!)

[phkrause]

The first Hershey’s chocolate bars with almonds were produced in 1908 because
they were cheap to make. The nuts took the place of some of the more
expensive milk chocolate, which meant Hershey’s could keep the price of the
candy at a nickel.


James

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“Q” is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in any U.S. territory or state name.

James

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There are 328 people named "ABCDE" in the United States.

James

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The name “Jessica” was made up by Shakespeare for his play The Merchant of Venice.

James

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Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed in one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.

James

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The roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico.

James

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Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on broadcast television,
airing as a one-time experiment on July 1, 1941. However, the series did not
appear on TV again until 1950, when the medium had caught on commercially.

James

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When Bob Kane drew his first concept of Batman, it was very different from what
we think of Batman today. In his original sketch, Batman wore red tights and a
domino mask that didn't hide his blonde (yes, blonde) hair. Instead of a cape,
Kane designed Batman with two wings on his back that always stayed up. Kane
claimed the design was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's diagram of the
ornithopter, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings.
Link with image

James

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Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material.

James

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When playing tennis, grunting increases the ball's velocity by 4 percent.