These aren't the kind of
facts that will save your life. They are not the kind of factoids that might prove handy someday. You will never wake up one day, far from now, remarking on how radically different your life would've been had you missed
that one fact inside an eBaums World gallery.
Think of this collection of facts like a bowl of nutritionally-disgraceful
brain candy. It's not the kind of food for thought that builds big ideas and makes the impossible possible. It's the sort of candy your brain would eat alone on its couch in its underwear, chewing away through yet another weekend.
1
There are roughly 800 corn kernels arranged in 16 rows on a cob.
2
Baboons can’t throw overhand
3
In the early ’80s, a Toyota Corolla trunk key could open any Corolla trunk.
4
The banana tree is not a tree and is in fact the world’s largest herb.
5
And bananas are berries. And strawberries are not berries.
6
My brother’s girlfriend had a pet bat. I learned that bats, or at least this species, purr somewhat like cats when petted.
7
Annually, there are fewer shark bites in the world than the number of people bitten by other people in New York alone.
8
Sharks have been around longer than Saturn’s rings
9
Barnacles can have penises up to 8 times their body length. While length doesn’t vary significantly between populations, thickness does, with barnacles in more turbulent waters having girthier c**ks to prevent them from snapping off in the current
10
The first person to be convicted of speeding was speeding at 8 mph.Walter Arnold of Kent, England, for those curious.
11
Birds don’t fart but spiders might.
12
Mario has overalls so his arms could be distinguished from his torso even with very primitive sprites. Similarly, his hat and mustache are to hide his hair and mouth.
13
Geckos can’t climb Teflon.
14
At the busiest times of the day, there can be as many as a million people in the air in airplanes at a given time.
15
The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.
16
Due to the shape of the North American Elk’s Esophagus, even if it could talk, it would be unable to pronounce the word Lasagna.
17
Flowers arrangements at funerals originally served to mask the stench of a rotting corpse.
18
“Helicopter” isn’t heli + copter; it’s helico (spiral) + pter (wing).
19
Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck bones.
