• Trivia Facts

    From Warpslide@21:3/110 to All on Sun Mar 19 15:33:05 2023
    A recent purchase from Amazon included two cards with "Fun Trivia" on them (completely unrelated to the product):

    - Hummingbirds can fly backwards.
    - A tiger's skin is striped, like its fur.
    - Fingernails grow four times faster than your toenails
    - Water covers about 70% of the Earth.
    - Asia is the largest continent on Earth by size.
    - A shark doesn't contain any bones in its body.
    - On average your heat beats about 115,000 times a day.
    - Over one million Earths could fit inside the sun.
    - A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun.
    - Caterpillars have 12 eyes!
    - A hippopotamus can run faster than a human
    - Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
    - Barbie doll's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
    - Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
    - Octopuses have three hearts.
    - Frogs drink water through their skin.

    https://ibb.co/Wt0j8zF

    Some of these I've just heard before (bolt of lightning temperature)
    Some of these I already knew (have lots of hummingbirds here)
    Others seemed fishy & had to Google (sharks don't have bones, it's true)


    Jay

    ... I'm not a doctor but I'm losing my patience

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    * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)