Hey Pandas, Give Me A Random Fact

Must be most obscure in this post - Tellurium is added to molten steel so that when Boron is added to strengthen the steel it does not form Boron nitrides.

There is a chord known as "The Devils Chord", which just so happens to be a half step different from a chord commonly played in churches.

Source: Middle school band class. There was a resulting "sacrifice" of the bass player.

Random fact? This website won't let me comment on anything despite the fact that I literally did the verification. Been lurking for ~2 years and I finally make an account and seriously regret it because of how infuriating this site can be sometimes. :sigh:.

For each kernel of corn on a cob, there is a silk. The silks helps to pollinate each kernel so if there are undeveloped kernels, the silk was probably disturbed or damaged in the growth process.

It’s technically illegal kiss for more than 5 minutes at a time in Iowa and to sing in a bathing suit in public in Florida, but 20 countries, including some states in the U. S., have acquitted rapists of their crimes because they married their victim. These facts are not connected, I just found all of them interesting, and the last one disturbed me.

A polar bear’s skin is not white but black!!!

People are complicated

The space between puzzle pieces is known as a kerf, which is defined as a cut made with a saw.

Hmm, oh I know. All cruise ships have to have morges in case of a reenactment of titanic

Oyster mushrooms are carnivores. Their myceliums ("roots", basically) grow these little balloons full of neurotoxins that pop and paralyze nematodes (roundworms) on contact, and then the myceliums grow into and digest the worms.

More of an . . . Interesting fact

But sea pickles have spikes up their a**s so that way smaller animals don't take shelter where the sun don't shine.

Hippos can run 30 mph.

frogs can breathe through their skin

Pom Pom crabs are the only animals known to help another animal reproduce asexually

You can upvote yourself on BP

The term "skyscraper" existed well before we were building tall buildings with elevators and steel frame construction. The term was used for the tall ships. In port in many cases their masts were the tallest thing in town, except for the church steeple of a large enough church in a large enough town.

Facts to give you an existential crisis:

- You're not actually solid. You're mostly empty space. You're made of atoms, and they're just a tiny nucleus and some tinier electrons with a ton of space between them.

- The Big Bang had a bunch of really short, exotic eras a fraction of a second long. That seems short to us. The era of stars and life seems like the point of the universe that the short seconds of the Big Bang were a precursor to. But this isn't the universe's final form. After the stars go out, the era of black holes will last so much longer than the era of stars that the era of stars is on the same scale as the split-second-long eras at the beginning of the Big Bang. We are still living in the Big Bang.

- There are 2 trillion galaxies.

Dave Grohl has been part of two losses (Each of them were flipped)
Nirvana: Drummer loses singer
FF: Singer loses drummer

A sea anemone appears to have one large eyeball. It's really a mouth/a**s.

"OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917