Did you know?//Random facts book

Random facts of the month

( I thought of a new idea. Every month one chapter will be a bunch of complete random facts that may have no correlation to each other. What do you think? Please let me know if you like this idea)

1. McDonald's once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
Unsurprisingly, the attempt to get kids to eat healthier didn't go over well with the child testers, who were "confused by the taste."

2. The first oranges weren't orange.
The original oranges from Southeast Asia were a tangerine-pomelo hybrid, and they were actually green. In fact, oranges in warmer regions like Vietnam and Thailand still stay green through maturity.

3. A cow-bison hybrid is called a "beefalo".
You can even buy its meat in at least 21 states.

4. Scotland has 421 words for "snow"
Some examples: sneesl (to start raining or snowing); feefle (to swirl); flinkdrinkin (a light snow).

5. Peanuts aren't technically nuts.
They're legumes. According to Merriam-Webster, a nut is only a nut if it's "a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel." That means walnuts, almonds, cashews, and pistachios aren't nuts either.

6. Armadillo shells are bulletproof.
In fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the jaw.

7. The longest English word is 189,819 letters long.
( it's to long to put in the book lol)
https://pastebin.com/wkKH8xD8
This is where you can see it)

8. Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time
The mother spends six months so devoted to protecting the eggs that she doesn't eat. The babies are the size of a grain of rice when they're born.

9. Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful
Those 457,000 calories are more than 240 times the energy the whale uses to scoop those krill into its mouth

10. The man with the world's deepest voice can make sounds humans can't hear
The man, Tim Storms, can't even hear the note, which is eight octaves below the lowest G on a piano—but elephants can.

11. Bananas grow upside-down
technically, we peel them upside-down. Naturally, they grow outward from their stems, but that means their bottoms actually face the sky. As they get bigger, the fruits turn toward the sun, forming that distinctive curve.

12. There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive
Most of the volcanoes probably stopped one billion years ago, but new NASA findings suggest there might still have been active lava flow 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still roaming.

13. Dogs sniff good smells with their left nostril
Dogs normally start sniffing with their right nostril, then keep it there if the smell could signal danger, but they'll shift to the left side for something pleasant, like food or a mating partner.

14. You only have two body parts that never stop growing
Human noses and ears keep getting bigger, even when the rest of the body's growth has come to a halt.

15. It's the Greeks that started calling Christmas "Xmas"
In Greek, the word for "Christ" starts with the letter Chi, which looks like an X in the Roman alphabet.

16. Movie trailers originally played after the movie
They "trailed" the feature film—hence the name. The first trailer appeared in 1912 and was for a Broadway show, not a movie.

17. Mercedes invented a car controlled by joystick
The joystick in the 1966 Mercedes F200 showcase car controlled speed and direction, replacing both the steering wheel and pedals. The car could also sense which side the driver was sitting in, so someone could control it from the passenger seat.

16. The U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017
Starting in 2018, the Library of Congress decided to only keep tweets on "a very selective basis," including elections and those dealing with something of national interest, like public policy.

17. H&M actually does stand for something
The clothing retail shop was originally called Hennes—Swedish for "hers"—before acquiring the hunting and fishing equipment brand Mauritz Widforss. Eventually, Hennes & Mauritz was shortened to H&M.

17. Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long
Their dark bluish black color is probably to prevent sunburn.

18. Humans aren't the only animals that dream
Studies have indicated rats dream about getting to food or running through mazes. Most mammals go through REM sleep, the cycle in which dreams occur, so scientists think there's a good chance they all dream.

19. Glitter was made on a ranch
A cattle rancher in New Jersey is credited for inventing glitter, and it was by accident. Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey was a machinist who crushed plastic while trying to find a way to dispose of it and thus made glitter in 1934.

20.
Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes
Despite physical length, there are more bones in the neck of a sloth than a giraffe. There are seven vertebrae in the neck of giraffes, and in most mammals, but there are only 10 in a sloth. Still, giraffes are among 23 of the world's biggest living animals.

21. Beethoven never knew how to multiply or divide
Ludwig van Beethoven is arguably one of the greatest composers in musical history. The renowned pianist went to a Latin school called Tirocinium. There he learned some math, but never multiplication or division, only addition. Once when he needed to multiply 62 by 50, he wrote 62 down a line 50 times and added it all up.

22. An employee at Pixar accidentally deleted a sequence of Toy Story 2
Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar, wrote in his book Creativity Inc. that the year before the movie came out, someone entered the command, '/bin/rm -r -f *' on the drive where the files were saved and scenes started to be deleted. It would have taken a year to recreate what was deleted, but luckily another employee had a backup of the entire film on her laptop at home

23. The world's first novel ends mid-sentence
The Tale of Genji, written by Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th century, is considered the world's first novel. After reading 54 intricately crafted chapters, the reader is stopped abruptly mid-sentence. One translator believes the work is complete as is, but another says we're missing a few more pages of the story.

24. A woman called the police when her ice cream didn't have enough sprinkles
The West Midlands police in England released a recording of a woman who called 999 (the U.K. version of 911) because there were "bits on one side and none on the other," she says in the recording. She was even more upset when the ice cream truck man did not want to give her money back.

25. Neil Armstrong's hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000

That's all for today I hope you liked this new idea.

See you in the next chapter!

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