The fun fact thread

Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Fun fact: 'ukulele' translates to 'a jumping flea'
Fun fact (not fun for italians): kids in Italy don't have an autumn break
Another Italy school fact: in high school the classes can start at 8 in the morning and end at 12.
 
Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Fun fact: over half of the replies here are from me. Not farming messages, I'm just putting stuff as I think about it. Will try to include more multiples in one reply tho.
Fun fact: plectranthus has really cool leaves
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Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Dreyski said:
Fun(?) fact - Whales don’t die of old age, they just lose their energy and drown
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Similar fact: caimans die because eventually their teeth rot and they can't hunt anymore, so they starve to death.
Also after fights some of them end up with V-shaped tails.
 
Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Fun fact: for whatever reason my kindle can show time it'll take to finish the book, to finish current chapter, percentage read, time and literally everything else but the page I'm on.
Fun fact: the text is displayed by having tiny capsules filled with black and white pigments which have opposite charges, and when a page is opened they get pulled up or down to form a pattern that we see as letters
 
Contented-Slime

Contented-Slime

Local Legend
Nonak said:
Fun fact: Mine technically has the option to show it, but its grayed out and can't be turned on
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Fun fact: in a similar way, my phone is stuck on dark mode, and when I try to turn it off it says to change something in power saving settings BUT THERE IS NO POWER SAVING SETTINGS and I hate dark mode
 
Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Contented-Slime said:
Fun fact: in a similar way, my phone is stuck on dark mode, and when I try to turn it off it says to change something in power saving settings BUT THERE IS NO POWER SAVING SETTINGS and I hate dark mode
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Wierd. idk why that happens cause mine has power saving settings and they do turn on dark mode everywhere.
Fun fact: yesterday I accidentally turned them off and couldn't figure out how and why it happened.
 
Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Nonak said:
Fun fact: over half of the replies here are from me. Not farming messages, I'm just putting stuff as I think about it. Will try to include more multiples in one reply tho.
Fun fact: plectranthus has really cool leaves
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Fun fact: I also had a fittonia with leaves like
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but even more pink and I only know because of a picture from like 10 yrs ago
 
Nonak

Nonak

Local Legend
Fun fact: one of the first bicycles made in 1791 is still used now, just in a more modern form but without significant changes to how you ride it.
Edited for another fun fact: russian 'ё' looks good and kinda funny but most of the time 'е' is used instead of it
 
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