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Awkwardmollusk
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Posted: 11/3/2019 at 11:17 PM
Post #161
November 3, 2019
Did-you-know #304:
A group of pugs is called a grumble.
Edited By Goldennautilus on 11/5/2019 at 8:59 PM.
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Posted: 11/5/2019 at 8:58 PM
Post #162
November 4-5, 2019
Did-you-know #305-306:
Kilts originated in France.
Nintendo started out as a playing card manufacturer.
Edited By Goldennautilus on 11/5/2019 at 8:59 PM.
Awkwardmollusk
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Posted: 11/9/2019 at 9:38 AM
Post #163
November 6th-9th, 2019
Did-you-know #307-310:
About two-thirds of people on the planet have never seen snow.
Fortune cookies were invented in 1918 by an American.
Bruma, Libia, and the United States are the only countries that don't use the metric system for standard units of measurement.
Awkwardmollusk
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Posted: 11/14/2019 at 8:13 AM
Post #164
November 10-14, 2019
Did-you-know #311-315:
Some species of duck sleep with one eye open.
Unlike most other mammals, echidnas and platypuses have a body temperature of about 32 degrees C.
In Australia, there more venomous snakes than non-venomous snakes.
Chameleons are natrually camoflaged, and don't need to change their color to blend in. Their color usually changes based off of temperature and mood (i.e. Frightened or angered chameleons will turn bright colors.)
About a thrid of the world's population has ophiophobia, a fear of snakes.
Edited By Goldennautilus on 11/14/2019 at 8:23 AM.
Awkwardmollusk
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Posted: 11/15/2019 at 3:47 PM
Post #165
November 15th, 2019
Did-you-know #316:
Donuts used to be called "olykoeks", which is French for 'oily cakes'.
Awkwardmollusk
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Posted: 12/9/2019 at 7:35 PM
Post #166
November 16-26th, 2019
Did-you-know #317-327:
Tinsel was originally made from strands of silver.
There are 100 billion neurons present in the brain.
President Calvin Coolidge once adopted a raccoon named Rebecca.
Snow Leopards are incapable of roaring. They instead growl, yowl, mew, and chuff.
The World's Tallest Snowman (Snow-woman) was built in Maine, USA, and used trees for its arms in 2008. The snow-woman was affectionatly named Olympia.
December 26th is national Candy Cane day.
The practice of hanging Christmas stockings by the fireplace was originated in Europe.
Fruitcake dates back to Roman times. The Romans mixed pine nuts, barley mash, pomegranate seeds, raisins and honeyed wine and baked it into a cake they called 'satura'.
Humans DNA is 96% genetically similar to that of chimpanzees.
Human DNA is also 60% similar to bananas.
(I totally forgot about this thread, heh. The hoidays and some family emergencies got me distracted. Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I'm going to try and catch up. Huge thank you to Starpup5 and StrawberryShihzu for these facts!
Also, please let me know if you had a username change recently.)
Awkwardmollusk
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Posted: 12/14/2019 at 10:18 PM
Post #167
November 27-December 4, 2019
Did-you-know #328-343:
PEZ comes from the German word 'Pfefferminz', which means peppermint.
The Outer Space Treaty, ratified in 1967, states that no country can own the moon or any other celestial body. It also forbids nuclear weapons from being placed on them.
Cavendish bananas, the type most commonly found in stores, are incapable of producing seeds. Farmers must grow new trees from clippings of the actual plant.
The dot over a lowercase 'i' is called a tittle.
While it supposedly repels vampires, garlic actually attracts leeches.
Chinese checkers is actually a German invention that origionally went by the name 'Stern-Halma', meaning 'hoppity star'.
Edited By Goldennautilus on 12/16/2019 at 7:45 PM.
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