Bored Panda can be used for a lot of things. Education is one. Facts are fun to learn. I want to know, what are some facts that you know and would like to share?
#61
Human bodies, gram for gram, emit more energy than the sun. The sun only reaches the temperatures it does because so much mass is concentrated in one place.
11points
#62
Money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy anything!
11points
#63
That the average seagull has 1.7 legs
11points
#64
That Leonardo do Vinci was gay. And Sally Ride.
10points
#65
-Pirates believed that putting a ring on their ear could give them better eyesight.
King Louis XIV believed he was a direct representative of God
King Louis XIV believed he was a direct representative of God
10points
#66
I have few if you don't mind:
- A half litre bottle of sea water contains the same amount of energy as two barrels of oil in form of deuterium (if used in fusion reactors)
- The booster rockets for NASA spacecrafts can't be wider than two horse butts due to a train tunnel they have to be transported to. The trail width is based on an ancient roman cart meassurement standard... two horses wide
- Flamingos are pink because the shrimps they eat contain a pigment that colours their feathers
- The Wehrmacht in World War 2 was the first army to utilize mass-produceable helicopters (FA-223 and FI 282). Due to the destruction of the factories only low numbers were produced.
- The FA-223 was the first helicopter to cross the English Channel
- The mitochondria contains a complete DNA string of the offspring's mother, as the ovocytes are providing the only source of them in the new organism
10points
#67
That Jughead Jones of the Archies' real first name is Forsyth!
9points
#68
You can pull a horses mane and the horse wont feel it. But dont pull it on purpose!
9points
#69
Not amazing but certainly interesting: In all, there are 40 Broadway theatres. Despite the title, only 4 theatres are actually located on Broadway, and in order to qualify for Broadway theatre status, a theatre must have 500 seats and be located between 40th St. to 54th St., and from West of 6th Ave. to East of Eighth Ave., including Times Square.
9points
#70
Pablo Picasso was a communist in the French National Communist Party
9points
#71
You can fit a light bulb in your mouth no problem, but if you try to take it out, it'll break :)
9points
#72
Lava doesn't taste hot. Lava tastes like rocks
9points
#73
When you touch something you don't pass through it not because it's solid but because the electrons in the atoms of the object and your body repel each other. Actually, you can never really touch anything!
9points
#74
Male sharks have two penises
9points
#75
Until recent breeding methods vastly improved cows milk production, they would stop producing milk if you took their claves away. But if you left their claves with them, the claves would drink all the milk.
There are several methods to trick the cow into thinking they still have a calf, but the oldest method known to get around this natural mechanism was to blow air into the cow's anus or vagina. Today, we know this irritates their cervix and causes them to produce oxytocin (the hormone responsible for both cervical dilation and milk production), but 5,500 years ago, how the hell did people discover this?
8points
#76
pufferfish breath in water, not air, to make it expand.
thought it breaths in air at first now that i think about it i feel dumb
8points
#77
The largest known star, VY Canis Majoris, is so big, it would take 1,100 years for a passenger jet to fly once around its circumference.
8points
#78
It's 8:43 and you are loved.
8points
#79
Sarah Palin can rap
7points
#80
By the time you reach 40yo you have already lost around 6kg of dead skin and over 15kg of hair.
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