Hey Pandas, What Are Some Cool Facts And Weird Facts You Know? (Closed)

peanuts are not really nuts, but they are called like that because of all the residue found on them in bars

I heard in many areas of the USA its legal to eat roadkill

Giant squids have doughnut shaped brains, and their food passes through the middle before getting to their stomach

You can actually buy an insurance policy for UFO / alien abduction.

When you are on a swing, there is a fraction of a second where the swing is still at the highest point.

This may be disturbing so you could stop reading. But if your curious to know I'll tell you. Some of you probebly know this, but my science teacher once said that we fart a lot of times while we're asleep. I dont know the specific number of times, but when I heard this I yelled, "is that why I wake up every morning sweating like I'm in hell?" Then she just started explaining to me why we fart a number of times but I forgot. I just nodded and went on with my buisness trying to forget I ever said that

If a car could drive straight up it would only take 1 hour to reach space at freeway speeds.

A single spaghetti noodle is called a ''spaghetto'' lol.

This is sort of random, but elephants use the same nail files as horses.

There is a certain form of benign tumour, formed from the ovum, that grows into anything and everything. It's called a teratoma, and they literally grow whole teeth and hairs (the rest of the material is usually unidentifiable, except under a microscope). Unfortunately, the sperm equivalent does nothing of the sort and mostly just acts malignant and nasty.

You can look teratomas up on Google, since there are pictures, but I wouldn't advise it if you're squeamish. There's a reason their name means 'Monstrous Growth'. Also, they're not potted specimens from what I can see, so they're... slimier than the sort you see in a university collection.

A "moonbow" is a rainbow that happens at night.

A human could swim through a blue whale's veins.

There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef.

2 weeks before JFK's assignation, two army (i think) intercepted a radio transmission saying that some dudes were gonna kill JFK. the guys told secret service but nobody believed them and they were sent to a mental hospital. now tbh i really could not give a crap about American history cuz im Canadian but i thought it was interesting.

The “Windy City” name has nothing to do with Chicago weather
Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”

Armadillo shells are bulletproof
In fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the jaw.

the tounge is the strongest muscle in the body

People say that humans eat a certain number of spiders in our sleep every year but this isn't true it was a rumor started to study hoe rumors are spread through the population.

In washington state its illegal to ride an ugly horse threw the town of wilbur. I have absolutely no clue on what grounds they base an ugly horse but it is fineable for $300!

Squirrels are one of the only animals that can climb vertically both up and down. Squirrels can also climb faster than they can run.