Strange / Fun Facts

Did you know —beautiful beach is known as Hokkaido Beach in Japan – features snow on one side, the sea on the other, and a man walking on the sand right in between them.
Hokkaido Beach

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The guy who invented the whirlpool bath was named Jacuzzi.

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Birds require gravity to swallow.

Birds cannot chew their food and instead swallow their prey whole. The esophagus of a bird is wide enough to swallow larger meals. They depend on gravity to push their food down the esophagus and then later be propelled into their stomachs.

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Ironic I lived in a town called Windsor, in Pennsylvania, it was named after Windsor England.

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Now that is cool — Now I want to visit Windsor England.

Windsor, Ontario was settled by French farmers shortly after 1701, when a fort was established at Detroit. The city was known as “the Ferry” and later as Richmond before it was renamed in 1836 for Windsor (New Windsor), England.

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In 2008, man in Japan paid $6,125 for a nearly-black watermelon . The specialty fruit is grown only on the island of Hokkaido
Black Diamond Watermelon sold for over $6k

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The lyrebird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws.

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The subway sandwich bread is officially not a bread but a snack as it contains too much sugar.

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The shiniest living thing on earth is the Pollia Condensata, an African fruit.

Pollia condensata, sometimes called the marble berry, is a perennial herbaceous plant with stoloniferous stems and hard, dry, shiny, round, metallic blue fruit. It is found in forested regions of Africa. The blue colour of the fruit, created by structural coloration, is the most intense of any known biological material

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Thats flippin cool. I wonder what they taste like

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yeah - i’m trying to figure out if i can find a description of the taste – surprised i’ve never heard of them

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Wow- thats a fun thing to Learn

Love getting origin of phrases and words.

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Peas are the oldest vegetables.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea which tracks back to Stone Age settlements over 8,000 years ago. This vegetable has been cultivated by humans for centuries.

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And they didn’t have veggies like peas that was really eatable until the late stone age during the Neolithic period.

So the Paleo/ Stone Age diet people follow today is in fact a modern idea on how we thought they should have ate.

Most People during this era was lucky if they survived into their late 20’s.

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ok - mind blown! thanks for sharing Mischa

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Ok seriously…Mother Nature never ceases to amaze…wtf!
Thanks for sharing such cool shit!

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Mushrooms are so cool. Look at those



Dead man’s toes fungus, the creepy Xylaria polymorpha, is pure nightmare fuel. Is it the fingers of a corpse or a mushroom? You don’t want to find this in the woods.

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