Let's Learn Something V. 2.0

[KaydeeKrunk]

did you know?

The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

Do you listen to SawBones too?

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Wow, all humans have red blood. I think only spiders have a different color of blood.

Horseshoe crabs have blue blood!

 

[supercat]

The way light penetrates and interacts with veins close to your skin is probably what gives us the perception that they are blue. Human blood is always red. The blood carried through veins is darker than arterial blood.

Yeah, this. Sorry if I sounded a bit rude, I just thought it was basic Science that everyone knew. If your teachers actually taught you that x2k5a7y then wow.

 

[Born2BWild]

Fact: The most common first name in the world is Mohammed.

 

[Chocorin]

Your 'funny bone' isn't bone at all. It's actually a nerve, known as the ulnar nerve, that runs just under your skin in each elbow.

 

[Rosie11954]

The German word for "pimple" is "Pickel" (but pronounced just like pickle)
I learned this when my cousin from Germany came over and didn't understand why I kept talking about how much I loved fried pickles.

 

[Ken1997]

Do you listen to SawBones too?

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Horseshoe crabs have blue blood!

I have no idea what horseshoe crab is. However I do know what a regular crab is.

 

[Born2BWild]

I have no idea what horseshoe crab is. However I do know what a regular crab is.

Feast your eyes on Mr. Horseshoe Crab. They're actually closer relatives to scorpions than crabs!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

 

[X2k5a7y]

Did you know that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was actually based off of serial killer Ed Gein, in Wisconsin?

 

[Jamborenium]

Spoiler: Cursing warning

 

[itai]

Yeah, this. Sorry if I sounded a bit rude, I just thought it was basic Science that everyone knew. If your teachers actually taught you that x2k5a7y then wow.

All my teachers say/said that its blackish blue before it hits air, also so..



Did you know Super Mario Bros, the bush art is copied and pasted as the cloud art, just colored differently.​

 

[supercat]

All my teachers say/said that its blackish blue before it hits air, also so..



Did you know Super Mario Bros, the bush art is copied and pasted as the cloud art, just colored differently.​

oh dear. well they are very wrong. it's usually a dark red but nothing near blue.

fact : The shock of an electric eel has been known to knock a horse off its feet

 

[Ken1997]

Did you know that mast cell activation syndrome is a disorder that causes you to be allergic to almost everything?

 

[Born2BWild]

Did you know: Only three countries worldwide still don't use the metric system. They are Liberia, Myanmar (Burma), and the United States.

 

[Born2BWild]

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Did You Know: Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. He changed his name to avoid confusion with the actor already named Michael Douglas.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

Random Fact: Desert kangaroo rats survive for long periods of time without water by extracting the hydrogen from the barely pants they eat and mixing it with the oxygen in the air creating metabolic water.

 

[X2k5a7y]

I for some reason read that as, "Kangaroo desert rats explode." I could explain why, but that would take too long xD

Don't mind me. I've got no facts right now.

 

[Captain Crazy Chicken]

For no discernible reason, Shigeru Miyamoto inspired the Chain Chomp on a dog who narrowly missed him due to a stake.

 

[Jamborenium]

did you know?

Mushrooms are fast-growing organisms that quickly pop up after the rain. These time-lapse gifs record the mushroom buds bursting through the soil and elegantly expanding their caps.

 

[Jamborenium]

 

[X2k5a7y]

Did you know: After they tore down serial killer, John Wayne Gacy's home, no grass ever grew where the plot had once been. Grass only grew around it.