RANDOM FUN FACTS

[✪ ROOK1E ✪]

The sun is actually white. Not yellow.
Source [www.nasa.gov]
Source [eclipse2017.nasa.gov]

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İlk olarak Enterprofilenamehere tarafından gönderildi:

There is a town in Quebec that until 2020 was called Asbestos (It changed its name to "Val-des-Sources).

This is because it contains what was once the world's largest asbestos mine; A massive open-pit mine as large as the town itself.

Asbestos mining in the town ceased in 2011.

I wonder how high was the lung cancer rate there. Poor moose baguettes...

[Albemouff]

Your nervous system is about 150.000 km long.

[Vinh]

I committed a war crime in cold war

[✪ ROOK1E ✪]

Only one plane was allowed to take off after all others were grounded on Sept 11th,2001. It was a plane carrying antivenom to a man who was bitten by a highly venomous snake. THe plane was escorted by two fighter jets.

Source [www.businessinsider.com]

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I see this thread has come back to life thanks to OP's necromancy.

Here's mine:
During the Winter War, the Finnish would take Soviet soldiers corpses and make them stand up on snow to scare the enemy. The temperature was so low the corpses could stand on their own, about –43 °C or –45.4 °F was the coldest recorded at Karelian Isthmus.
Imagine being a soldier and seeing a comrade just standing there and once you take a closer look just to find them dead. Must be horrifying.

[L1qu1dator]

İlk olarak ✪ 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗜 ✪ tarafından gönderildi:

There's a full-time ob for defending our planet from aliens.
NASA's official title for this postition is "Planetary Protection Officer" and it pays $187,000 a year.

https://sma.nasa.gov/news/articles/newsitem/2021/05/27/nasa-announces-new-planetary-protection-officer

https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection

So he gets 187k $ a year for doing nothing... How do I apply for the job?

[Devsman]

53 fun fact #8:

53cm is the average length of a human arm

[✪ ROOK1E ✪]

If a female fox dies, her mate will stay single forever. But a widowed female fox will look for a new mate immediately

[Devsman]

İlk olarak ✪ 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗜 ✪ tarafından gönderildi:

If a female fox dies, her mate will stay single forever. But a widowed female fox will look for a new mate immediately :f2_suprised:

Man, female foxes are... Wait...

*google.com*
Are foxes dogs?
Ok, just checking.

Man, female foxes are such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[CRITICAL HIT]

Also bonus fun fact, did you know there once was a camel who killed their owner. Now this would be bad enough...if the camel wasn't trying to have sex with her.

[Amuro0079]

400 rads of ionizing radiation is normally enough to kill 50% of humans. 1,000 rads kills pretty much everybody.

Retired Russian particle physicist, Anatoli Bugorski, managed to survive a massive dose of 300,000 rads of proton radiation when a narrow 2×3 millimeter high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his brain during an accident in 1978. The particle accelerator had a maximum beam energy of 76 billion electron volts per proton.

Some of the country’s best radiologists were assigned to the case, but there was little they could do. Over the next few days, Bugorski’s face swelled to a hideous size, and the skin on his head began to peel off, revealing the path that the proton beam had burned through parts of his face, his bone, and the brain tissue underneath. The damage to his nervous system was extensive enough to completely paralyze the left side of his face. He began to experience seizures. The doctors resigned themselves to watching him die.

Then, astonishingly, a miracle happened: Bugorski began to recover. Only a small part of his brain was harmed, and as it happened, this area was destroyed so completely that tumors could not form. Meanwhile, the rest of his brain simply worked around the injury. His neurons reconnected along new pathways. Eventually, he regained almost all of his previous intellectual capacity.

In a year and a half, Bugorski was back to work at the accelerator. He’s still alive today. “I am being tested,” he says. “The human capacity for survival is being tested.”

Sadly, the radiation Bugorski was exposed to did not give him superpowers. But he did receive one small benefit: there are no wrinkles on the left side of his face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

[Devsman]

İlk olarak Amuro0079 tarafından gönderildi:

Sadly, the radiation Bugorski was exposed to did not give him superpowers.

Evidently he doesn't need them.

[Et tu, B?]

Latvia used to own the island of Tobago, they had some governors ruling over it for a while.


Just note that at the time they had it, they were the "Duchy of Courland", actually, not Latvia.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

During WW2, British Arial Bombardment Command developed and used a weapon called "The Grand Slam". This thermobaric weapon was designed to punch 40 meters deep and detonate, earning it the additional nickname of "The Earthquake Bomb."

[Hat Person]

A group of pandas is called an embarrassment