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White green, green, white blue, orange, white orange, blue, white brown, brown.

A kangaroo's testicles are ON TOP of its penis rather than below.

This is basically what I say whenever someone asks me for a fun fact too roflmao

Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.

The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.

Seth McFarlane slept in one morning and missed his plane home. Little did he know that this exact plane hit the World Trade Center.

Orcas are a natural predator of the moose

Ohio is the only state that doesn't share any letters with mackerel

Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees have.

2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for "complimentary metal oxide semiconductor". Its a 2032 watch battery.

How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:

• Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
• Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
• Repeat the above. You'll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.

In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.

...it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it's less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?

-All of the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon -Stoplights detect your presence with an electromagnetic field using wires and not pressure -There is a receiver above stoplights that EMS vehicles can trigger to change the light red for everyone -We left astronaut poop on the moon -The numbers on a toaster are not always in minutes -Most common mold is not dangerous when ingested or inhaled unless you are allergic -Celeste Tea was founded and made by a cult, maybe still is -Christian Science had laws passed in the majority of states in the 80s that prevented prosecution of child abuse due to religious practices -The statistical value of a human life in the US is 10 million at dollars -Jellyfish reproduce and are birthed as polyps on the ocean floor -The chiral version of the sugar molecule would taste identical to sugar but is indigestible, we have no practical ways to produce it though afaik -Only one president has failed to release his tax documents -There are multiple US presidents who were likely gay

I’ll stop there, and yes these facts do rotate through my head for no real reason, they’re just fun!

Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.

Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don't have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female's main body cavity for insemination

There are approximately π x 10^7 seconds in a year. It differs by less than 0.4%).

The buttons on suit jackets are a holdover from a time that buttons were new, and therefore fashionable. Well to do sorts had buttons all over their suits, even in places that would be considered silly these days.

If I was able to remember them on cue I would probably be a lot more interesting of a person.

The topic has to seed first and then all of the information I know about it rushes in.

Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. No idea where I learned that

About 30-some years ago I borrowed a book of facts from the library, and the two I remember are:

• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3x as nutritious as steak.

I have no idea if they're true, but they're burned into my brain.

rats can't vomit

The Moon is moving away from the Earth by approximately one inch per year. Which also means that millions of years ago it was much bigger in our sky.

Stanislav Petrov's name, for some weird reason. Lots of people can tell the story but just refer to him as 'a radar operator'.

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

The solar system is ~~99.98%~~ 99.86% (see thread) sun. The rest is comparable to a blood draw from a human.

The earth is a blood smear on a slide.

Bananas are 4011 when buying them.

Platypuses hunt underwater using bioelectric sensors in their bills. Also, you cannot beat the final boss in X-Men for Sega Gamegear unless you are using Iceman.

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Octopi have three hearts

The USS Texas in WW2 partially sunk itself (flooded watertight compartments, if I remember correctly) to gain a higher elevation to shoot fortified bunkers farther inland than it could reach otherwise. I learned this on Reddit and never forgot it, oddly enough.

Bicycle wheels with quick release axles have 9.525mm diameter, rounded up to 10mm. This is because the sizing is not actually metric, but 3/8 inch so imperial.

This is why it's most commonly called 9mm qr (quick release) /facepalm