So, I thought I could talk about the Winter Olympics that start today, but I thought I'd leave that update to next week when something has actually happened by the time I get over to writing. But I will make a prediction: things will go sooooo wrong. I am waiting here with very mixed feelings of dread and anticipation. They are not prepared. At all. Oh dear.
But yeah, I'll talk more about that next week. Now for more fun facts.
1. Almonds are a part of the same genus as plums, cherries, peaches and the sort, the prunus family, and actually even to the same subgenus as peaches, the amygdalus.
2. There is a word that literally means the feeling you get when you're walking down the street or sth, and you realize that all the people who walk past you are all PEOPLE WHO HAVE THEIR OWN LIVES AND OWN PROBLEMS AND DREAMS AND LOVED ONES. That word is sonder (n.)
3. A bunch of bananas is called a hand. Logically, one banana is therefore called a finger.
4. If you flip a shark so that it's belly up in the water, it goes into a trance like state. Orcas sometimes do this just for kicks, being the bastards they are.
5. There is a total of 185 Supernatural episodes currently aired. With the average episode length at 41-42 minutes, it adds up to a total of 7768 minutes, or 128 hours, or 5 days and 8 hours. Personally, having watched the entire show twice and several episodes multiple more times, I have probably spent some 12 days watching the show.
6. The fake name Mulan uses in the Disney movie, Fa (read as "Hua" in Chinese) Ping, means "flower vase". It is also slang for "effeminate or gay man".
7. If you bury a body 2-3 meters under the body of a dead dog, the body sniffing hounds will dig up the dog and the police will think it's a false positive.
8. There is an octopus called Indonesian Mimic Octopus, and man that thing is a ninja. It can mimic a crab, lionfish, sea snake, flatfish, and jellyfish and uses it's skills to evade predators and hunt. Have a picture.
That is all the same animal. Yeah. This guy is crazy awesome.
Just look at that. Wow. What a ninja.
9. Peter Jackson makes a cameo in both the The Fellowship of the Ring and Desolation of Smaug. He plays a man eating a carrot in Bree.
10. Mantis shrimps can solve Rubik's cubes, because they see color differently from us.
Welp, this was a weird list. I hope you liked it. I'm gonna go now. Bye.
Pie out.
Why are your fun facts more fun than mine? Or is it just that I knew mine already, so yours seem more interesting cause they're new?
ReplyDeleteOh, and we have literally just hit 2000 page views. That's kinda cool. Though a lot of them are probably our own.
~matu