# Strange / Fun Facts
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653
**Category:** Knowledge
**Created:** [April 27, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653 "2021-04-27T19:52:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/24 "2023-06-23T23:50:52Z")
I’m not that patient, though. I usually chomp into it as soon as that middle becomes visible.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/25 "2023-06-23T23:54:00Z")
no patience here either – i would always end up biting into it after a few licks… 😂
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### Author:  [@DLS](https://talkingsober.com/u/DLS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/26 "2023-06-24T00:00:48Z")
Back in my day, we had Mr. Owl and his wise words, 😉
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/27 "2023-06-24T01:29:39Z")
During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear “cow shoes.” The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/28 "2023-06-24T02:00:30Z")
Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
[Notoriously nice, Canadians are so polite that they had to introduce an Apology Act. In 2009, an act was passed which made apologies inadmissible in court. So, saying “sorry” meant “an expression of sympathy or regret” not “an admission of fault or liability in connection with the matter to which the words or actions relate.” Otherwise, there’d be a whole lot of Canadians in trouble.]
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/30 "2023-06-24T12:47:15Z")
Wasnt sure where to post this…so here it is
Love this song!
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7-k0SQTtsHQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Man gets entire park to sing "Livin On A Prayer" and it's 'Majical'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-k0SQTtsHQ)
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/32 "2023-06-24T15:49:18Z")
Lol…grew up in Windsor and always questioned why everyone thought we were so polite…🤣
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### Author:  [@BLOODSHOTJOKER](https://talkingsober.com/u/BLOODSHOTJOKER)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/34 "2023-06-24T17:32:05Z")
You have rocks in your head… heres an article about the quartz crystals in our pineal gland.
> **[Calcite microcrystals in the pineal gland of the human brain: first physical...](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12224052/)**
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> A new form of biomineralization has been studied in the pineal gland of the human brain. It consists of small crystals that are less than 20 microm in length and that are completely distinct from the often observed mulberry-type hydroxyapatite...
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/35 "2023-06-24T17:38:40Z")
whoa - that is a very cool fact (one i had not ever heard about before)…thanks for sharing
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### Author:  [@Mira\_D](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mira_D)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/36 "2023-06-24T17:40:15Z")
One of the most beautiful languages. Spot on!
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/37 "2023-06-25T03:16:10Z")
A blue whale’s heartbeat is so loud that it can be heard from almost 2 miles away. But that’s not the only interesting thing about a blue whale’s heartbeat. On average, when it is at the surface of the water, the blue whale’s heartbeat is around 25 - 35 beats per minute.
The world’s largest animal’s heart weighs [about 400 pounds](https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/31/how-big-is-a-blue-whales-heart/) — approximately the size of a small piano.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/38 "2023-06-26T01:47:28Z")
The female Kangaroo can produce both full fat and low fat milk at the same time in order to feed two joeys at different stages of development.
This ability to suspend a pregnancy is called **embyonic diapause** and almost all kangaroos and wallabies are capable of it. The advantage to this is that mum can replace a joey very quickly if she loses one.
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/39 "2023-06-26T02:38:00Z")
Did you know: Mickey Mouse actually used to be a rabbit? Originally known as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney changed the character to Mickey Mouse in 1928.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/40 "2023-06-26T22:20:08Z")
Just so fascinated by the Blue Whale
Blue whale. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale parvorder, Mysticeti. At up to 29.9 meters (98 ft) in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 173 tonnes (190 short tons), it is the largest animal known to have ever existed.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/41 "2023-06-27T23:46:43Z")
The “Windy City” name has nothing to do with Chicago weather
Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”
[Why is Chicago called “The Windy City”](https://www.rd.com/article/chicago-windy-city/#:~:text=It's%20got%20nothing%20to%20do%20with%20the%20weather.&text=But%20it%20turns%20out%20that,the%20weather%20but%20the%20people.)
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/42 "2023-06-29T16:06:41Z")
So just HOW MUCH wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? According to researchers at Cornell University, about 700 pounds.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/43 "2023-07-03T00:01:45Z")
The filling in Kit Kats is made from damaged Kit Kats.
The folks at the Kit Kat factory sure know how to recycle! Whenever a Kit Kat bar is somehow made imperfect during production like air bubbles or some other issue, the chocolate bar isn’t thrown out. Instead, they ground up into a fine paste and turned into a filling that’s then incorporated back into the production process to create new Kit Kat bars!
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/44 "2023-07-03T00:06:50Z")
Did you know the Twitter bird has a name?
It’s Larry! The infamous bluebird of social media was named after former NBA player Larry Bird, who used to play for Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s home-state team, the Boston Celtics.
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### Author:  [@JazzyS](https://talkingsober.com/u/JazzyS)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/45 "2023-07-05T01:17:36Z")
**Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick**. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). That’s enough to submerge much of the Gulf and Atlantic coastal areas of the US!
But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37°C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting.
Adding on here since 3 posts is the limit.
Only 18 out of 1 million Lego pieces are defective.The molds at the manufacturing plant at Lego are so precise and effective that just 18 out of 1 million are found to be defective. That’s out of the 20 billion pieces that are manufactured every year!
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### Author:  [@WilliamBloke](https://talkingsober.com/u/WilliamBloke)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/strange-fun-facts/116653/46 "2023-07-16T04:24:08Z")
Kitchen Secrets: Did you know that the meat used in Wendy’s chilli is from “reject” hamburger
patties? Patties that get scorched on the edges during cooking or break apart aren’t cosmetically suitable to use for hamburgers, so that meat is collected in a bag and later ground up and used as chilli meat.
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