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    Does anyone know any random bits of knowledge that are slightly interesting or even astounding to think about? Or you can just pull something from Google

    So for example..

    This amazing creature is Jonathan the Tortoise. He was born in 1832, and is still alive and nearing 190 years old. I believe the exact age I read was 187.

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    It's just amazing to me that this Tortoise was alive as far back as the Lincoln presidency, and if you think about it could have possibly met him at some point.

    Video of Jonathan for those who may be interested

    https://youtu.be/6YAXn5sZvjE

    Jonathan in 1886 (on the left) image of course pulled from Wikipedia

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    I'm very interested to see what people share, (It can be anything really)!
     
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    Here's a cool fact. The rainbow/colored dots we see when we close our eyes are called Phospene. I learned this awhile ago and found it mind blowing that this phenomenon had a name to it.
     
    That turtle is... the ultimate boomer. o__o

    Ba dum tss....

    Bad jokes aside... I'll contribute.

    As of May 2015, 2.3 Million Americans still subscribed to AOL Dial Up Internet.

    Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.

    The word 'quarantine' derives from the words 'quaranta giorni', meaning 'forty days'.

    The reason the taste of artificial banana flavoring doesn't taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950's.

    In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.

    The bag of gummy bears that I am eating right now does not contain any grape flavored bears, and I am disappointed by this.
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    Just assuming these are facts based on hearsay, because yk... there aren't any sources are anything. :D
     
    Here are some interesting animal related ones:

    Despite both being large grey terrestrial mammals, rhinos are more closely related to deer and even whales than to elephants.

    Classic goldfish does not occur anywhere naturally and was instead created by selective breeding of carps.

    Neither the sacred ibis or the hippos (both animals revered and closely tied to the ancient egyptian culture) are found in Egypt today.

    Speaking of Egypt, at the same time as the pyramids were being built, mammoths still lived on the Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean.

    The so called "New World dogs" were descendants of Asian dogs that came to Americas with humans across the Bering land bridge. They were all but eradicated by disease carried by "Old World dogs" and the few remaining living breeds such as the Chihuahua or Husky seem to be barely related to the original breeds, with no living individual having more than 10% of the New World dog genome.

    A Laysan Albatross by the name of Wisdom is currently the oldest known wild bird with the assumed age of at least 69 years. Despite her age, she still raised a chick last year.

    It is estimated that the Passenger Pigeon might've been the most numerous bird on the planet at one point, population possibly numbering 3 billion birds. The species finally met its demise in 1914 when the last one named Martha died in Cincinnati zoo. She has been preserved and is kept at the Smithsonian museum. Today, the most numerous bird is the domestic Chicken with 23,7 billion birds.
     
    Thanks @Palamon, @Her, @The Roniverse, removed posts but I appreciate the light hearted humor, EmTheGhost, @MarinaSpeaks, @LucarioBread for contributing! Quickly scrolling hopefully did not miss anyone

    I'm so so excited to read some of these, however I'm going to hold off until my birthday as a self present. I'm sure they're very interesting.
     
    PokeChu said:
    Mentioned this on the PokéCommunity Discord, but did you know that coffee has 10% cockroaches in it? That is why people allergic to cockroaches cannot drink coffee.
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    10% seemed an awful lot, so I decided to do some fact checking. The statement is half-correct.
    According to FDA, 10% is the maximum allowed amount of beans to be damaged by insects in any way, while the actual insect content is usually really small, but inevitable. If your coffee has 10% cockroaches, it's definitely not suitable for shelves. And it's not just coffee; it's also flour, chocolate and almost any industrial food.

    FDA's official website:
    https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredient...atory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
     
    Dark chocolate increases men's testosterone by over 15% if eaten 1 whole week.
     
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