20 Facts That Most People Don't Know.
Nathan Johnson
Published
06/26/2023
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The Earth rises up by a very small bit when you jump. -
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Human placentas now contain microplastics. -
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Bounty hunting and Bounty Hunters are active in the United States as well as here in The Philippines. While The practice of bounty hunting is illegal under the laws of most other countries. -
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John Tyler, 10th president of the United States (1841-1845), still has a living grandson. -
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Pug owners are expected to know how to re-attach it's eyes. -
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Data on the effects of radiation on human beings was largely obtained by tests performed by various governments on unwitting civilians, soldiers & POWs (even the US government is guilty of this). Some of these tests were performed knowing full well that the subject would die of or be severely harmed by the radiation exposure (and the details of what happened with each increasing dose of radiation make for some pretty disturbing reading). -
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Fungi are much closer related to animals than either one are to plants, and specifically to protostomes: bugs and worms of all sorts. Fungus cell walls are made of the same polymer that arthropods' exoskeletons are made of, and are coded for by the same gene. There have been proposals to reclassify fungi in the animal kingdom. -
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JFK's convertible wasn't scrapped after he got shot in 1963. A roof was welded on and it was used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter - right through to 1977. -
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The creator of chocolate chips sold the idea for like a dollar. Or some other number that’s too low. -
10.
The newborn baby megalodon shark was the same size as an adult great white shark. -
11.
The astronauts in the Space Shuttle Challenger were still alive after the failure of systems and rapid expansion of fuel commonly viewed as an explosion. -
12.
Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramids. -
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The United States has the largest prison population on earth, surpassing even China. On the other hand, China executes more prisoners per year than every other country on earth does combined. The majority of these executions occur in Autumn. -
14.
The methods being used to create artificial human muscle grafts are pretty much the same methods used to make lab grown meat. -
15.
Elephants can control their d**k like a second trunk. -
16.
If a man falls on they’re back and they have a boner you should’t move them because it means they got a very bad back injury. -
17.
That koalas carry chlamydia. -
18.
There are more slaves in the world today than there has ever been, ever. -
19.
A lot of people probably buried their hamsters alive because they didn’t know hamsters hibernate. -
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More aircraft were lost during WWII than there are airworthy aircraft flying today. The level of death and destruction in war is difficult to comprehend.
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