#weird facts
The pictures above were taken under a specialized, high power black light.
The first picture shows a cloud of pheromones around a sleeping subject.
The second picture shows the other subject reciprocating the hormones after they are inhaled.
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The above photograph is a “snapshot of sound” taken of the sky during a snow storm.
The highlighted, or white areas represent high pitch sound while the darker areas represent lower pitch sound.
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There are more combinations in a 52 deck of cards than stars in the known universe.
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If you were to compress earth’s existence into a 24 hour day, life would first appear at 4am, plants would first appear at 10pm, dinosaurs from about 11pm-11:40pm, and humans emerge at 11:59pm.
Source: From Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
We’re closer to the year 2051 than we are 1991.
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
Pre-sliced bread was invented in 1928.
Betty White was born in 1922.
Pluto didn’t even make a full orbit of the sun from its discovery to its demotion. In fact, Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun. Pluto will complete its first full orbit since its discovery on Monday, March 23, 2178, just a few years after Neptune turns 2.
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Anne Boleyn was recorded as taller than average… at 5′3″ (160 cm).
Elizabeth I was considered tall… at 5′4″ (162.5 cm).
Mary, Queen of Scots was FIVE FOOT ELEVEN (180 cm).
“If sound could be transmitted through space, the sun would be so loud on earth it would be the equivalent of standing next to a jet engine, even though it’s 94 million miles away.”
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“Pantone 448 C, also dubbed “the ugliest colour in the world”, is a colour in the Pantone colour system. Described as a “drab dark brown”, it was selected in 2012 as the colour for plain tobacco and cigarette packaginginAustralia, after market researchers determined that it was the least attractive colour.
“The Australian Department of Health initially referred to the colour as “olive green”, but the name was changed after concerns were expressed by the Australian Olive Association.”
Tectonic plates move about 1-2 inches (or 2-5 centimeters) per year. This is the same rate at which your fingernailsgrow.
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“America” was named for cartographer Amerigo Vespucci.
“Amerigo” is the Italian version of the name Emerich or Heimrich.
I live in the United States of Heimrich.
The average person is a 28 year old Chinese man.
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86% of British people live within 8 miles from where they were born.
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You can fit all the planets in our solar system between the Earth and the Moon and still have some room to spare.
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Animals have a lot of ways to avoid becoming dinner, but one particular beetle can get eaten and just…. well, let’s just say it’s all alright in the end.
