Fun and Interesting (T&C Friendly) Daily Facts

Penguins used to be 6 feet tall.

Whether a terrifying or adorable fun fact: bones found at Seymour Island showed that penguins stood at 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds 40 million years ago.

Gross:

Of the total 2,368 species of bacteria identified in 60 belly buttons swabbed in an experiment by researchers, 1,458 species may be "new to science." One person's belly button had bacterium that has only been found in soil in Japan, but the person had never been to Japan.

a reply to: chiefsmom


Excuse me, what?

originally posted by: chiefsmom
Gross:

Of the total 2,368 species of bacteria identified in 60 belly buttons swabbed in an experiment by researchers, 1,458 species may be "new to science." One person's belly button had bacterium that has only been found in soil in Japan, but the person had never been to Japan.

I saw this the other day - sort of along the lines of your post.



I've been avoiding those dryers ever since!

Mitsubishi launched it's 'Pajero' four wheel drive without realizing that 'Pajero' is Spanish for 'Wanker'.

a reply to: karl 12
Way back in the day, I worked in the Marketing and Promotions team for Mitsubishi UK. A chap called Michael Orr was the CEO. He knew that Pajero meant w****r in Spanish and refused point blank to name it that here, given so many Brits holiday in Spain and would most likely be familiar with what Pajero meant.
At the time Shogun was a very popular TV series and book here in the UK. The UK holding 51% of the shares here, went with Shogun..... and it worked! Every time I see an old imported Pajero.... I have a quiet giggle to myself.
Rainbows
Jane.
PS.... love this thread!

originally posted by: karl 12
Mitsubishi launched it's 'Pajero' four wheel drive without realizing that 'Pajero' is Spanish for 'Wanker'.

Wow - Chevy made the same mistake in the 70's when they brought out the Nova. "No va" in Spanish means "does not go"

Awesome stuff.

This one probably isn't true anymore lol.



More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.

• The creature with the largest brain in relation to it's body is the ant.


Bonus pic lol

Nikon photo competition shows us what an ant's face looks like up close, and it's straight out of a horror movie

It's impossible to belch in space. The lack of gravity in space prevents air in your stomach from separating and rising up from food you've eaten.

a reply to: Moon68

And as consequence, you fart more in space due to the air being trapped at the bottom end of your digestive system.

The male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it's business time.

a reply to: underpass61

Ozzy Osbourne has a species of frog named after him



A new species of frog was discovered in 2014 in the Amazon that made bat-like sounds. Due to the Prince of Darkness's ... interesting ... history with bats, it was named Dendropsophus ozzyi.

Seen it a half dozen times and never noticed -

In the film, "National Treasure" the good guy team of history sleuths led by Nicholas Cage use Google to research the clues they uncover while the bad guy team uses Yahoo.

Jimi Hendrix played left-handed using a right handed guitar upside-down and backwards

True and false
Jimi did play a right-handed guitar upside down, but he reversed the strings so it would play like a normal lefty.



The King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale actually DID play upside-down. He was self-taught on an old beat-up guitar as a teen, not realizing he had it backward. As he rose to prominence in the So Cal Surf music scene, Leo Fender built him his custom made left-handed Stratocaster which came to be known as The Beast. Since he couldn't play a "correct" string arrangement he promptly re-strung it with the heavy strings on the bottom which made it essentially a right-handed guitar. I don't know of anyone who can play a guitar like that, and it still amazes me to this day how he did it!

Neither Kangaroos, or Emus, can walk backwards.

a reply to: PorkChop96

Classic post.





Apparently '9 out of every 10 living things live in the ocean'.

Every time you shuffle a deck of cards you are almost certain to have created an order never before seen in the history of the world.

originally posted by: underpass61
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards you are almost certain to have created an order never before seen in the history of the world.

And, if you were to shuffle the cards enough times, you would, theoretically, get the cards into the exact order as when you started.