20 Fascinating Facts To Cram Into Your Brain Bag
But don't worry, we've done the heavy lifting for you, so sit back, relax, and scroll through some fun facts, sure to expand your brain size.
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"That when King Tut was buried the pyramids were already 2000 years old and when Cleopatra (the last Pharaoh) died King Tut had been dead for 1000 years." - prothrow72
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"Magnolia trees are so old they evolved before bees and are pollinated by beetles." - errdaddy
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"Vikings would give kittens to newlywed couples as a part of the household" - Least-Earth3082
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"Axolotls are actually a species of salamander stuck in a juvenile form due to a lack of thyroid stimulating hormone! Their bodies don't produce it, but if given it as a drug or the precursors in a food source they'll "grow up" into salamanders." - local_scientician
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"There are various species of Brood Parasite birds. This means that these birds will lay their eggs in another birds nest so that victim bird has to raise the young. When the baby parasite bird hatches, it will often try killing the other young. Victim birds have various defense, but the coolest ones to me are some of them basically printing barcodes on the eggs so they know if one doesn't belong, and some of them singing a specific song to the egg, and if the hatched chick can't replicate the song, it gets yeeted from the nest" - Silvinis
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"There's a species of jellyfish that can supposedly live forever. It has the unique ability to reverse its life cycle and return to an earlier phase of its life." - 8spitefulchicken8
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"Lobsters only die of old age because they would eventually need more energy than they could ever consume to produce a new shell. Their DNA is constantly repaired by an enzyme they have and could technically live forever if they could get enough energy to successfully molt after a few decades." - HereComesTheVroom
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"Some penguins prostitute themselves to steal pebbles for their nests." - hexagonsRbestagons
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"The summit of Mount Everest is made of marine limestone that was deposited on the bottom of the ocean." - heridfel37
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"According to the USDA, any squash with gold-colored flesh may be legally labelled as a pumpkin. So canned pumpkin pie filling can call itself "100% pumpkin" despite being butternut squash." - mlktwx
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"During the French and Indian War George Washington had terrible hemorrhoids. So terrible he couldn't ride a horse and had to be taken by wagon until he couldn't stand the swaying of the wagon and got out. This is all I remember from the book Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow. Great in-depth look book on ol' George." - libraryofwaffles
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