Hey Pandas, What’s A New Fact You Recently Learned? (Closed)

Just to compete with Nathaniel, the only thing a great white is scared of is an orca. The orca likes to bite them in the side and eat their livers, leaving them to die slowly.

A predator of the moose is the killer whale.

I offer 2 facts, one I just learned and the other I knew for a while:

In a school in Florida, the statue David by Michelangelo is considered pornographic.

and/or

Michelangelo carved the 17-foot statue David in a proportional manner, to be viewed from the floor, which is why when you see pictures of David taken from the side, his head and shoulder seem a little larger than they should. Yet when you look at him from below, he looks just right, proportionally speaking.

In retaliation of censorshipsucks trying to compete, I offer this animals eating livers titbit. Crows have learnt to surgically strike at toads, swiftly removing their liver for a quick tasty bite. The toad knowing it is being attacked, puffs itself up, to appear larger, and explodes as it's guts are forced through the hole the crow has created.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/murder-crows-exploding-toad-epidemic/

I learned on BP that turning the calculator app on a phone sideways shows all the trig functions (and others). Never knew that, thanks BP!

Cats sleep for 70% of their life, I wish I could do that:

I learned that if you eat cashews without roasting them first, you can die from the toxin they contain.

Leopard sharks are near harmless to humans and in fact seek out human interaction.

Some jellyfish are immortal

You're less motivated to do something when you're struggling mentally

There are WAY more possible physical states of matter than the 4 we experience everyday

Eagle have very good eyesights which can locate a mouse 1 mile away. The downside of having such sensitive light sensors is they can get damaged easily. A mere quick glance at the sun will ruin them. So eagles have thick eyebrows to act as sun-visors. Whey they fly, their head are tilted down scanning the ground below looking for preys. The eyebrows block the eyes so eagles can't see what's infront of them. They are flying blind forward. Not a problem because eagles fly above tree tops anyways.

When human start installing tall wind turbines, eagles can't see them. Many eagles have accidentally hit these turbine while flying. The problem is so serious now wind turbine operators have to employ eagle spotters. They have to stop the turbines when an eagle is spotted nearby.

The famous sound when receiving an sms ‘bipbipbip biiipbiiip bipbipbip’ means ‘sms’ in morse code.

Ravens have started to domesticate wolves. Raven flocks will often adopt a wolf pack to hang out with, occasionally leading them to fresh carcasses and sharing in the packs kills, keeping other scavengers away while the wolves eat. They have also been seen playing with wolf pups, tug of war with stick and games of chase.
https://www.yellowstone.org/naturalist-notes-wolves-and-ravens/

I learned a monkey once ran an English town (Hartlepool) as mayor.

Most know that Mercedes-Benz was named for Karl Benz, who built perhaps the first gasoline-powered automobile (1885). But few know the other part of the name, Mercedes, was named for Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek, the beautiful daughter of Emil Jellinek, who funded the company. It is comforting to know that the Nazis were scaring the world in giant parade cars named for a Jewish girl.

some of the books in the harvard university library are bound in human skin because they're medical textbooks and ig doctors use to do that with the ~leftovers~ (please fact check me on this)

That I don't know what politicians mean by using "WOKE" as a bad thing to be. Some of the topics they refer to make no sense. Opposite of woke is what? Sleep?

USA has been at wars for 225 years out of 243 years. That's about 92 percent of all time.

I recently learnt that people with a higher level of education are more likely to develop tumors in their brains