A collection of odd, interesting, and helpful facts that you may not have known, or may currently believe an incorrect version of.
Throughout our lives, we are taught many things by schools, parents, friends, and of course TV, movies, and the internet. Some of these things are true while others are maybe a tad incorrect or blatantly false. So check out this collection of odd, interesting, and helpful facts that you may not have known, or may currently believe an incorrect version of.
1
You don't actually bite down. You bite up because of your lower jaw.
2
Cats, dogs, and other similar animals can't see directly below their faces. Because their snout gets in the way. (That's why you have to point out the treat a million times, they're not stupid, the thing is just in their blind spot)
3
Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8 and one of them is much easier to do in your head.
4
If you touch a baby bird, the mother will not reject it. I don’t even know who came up with it.
5
Pufferfish are filled with water, not air. It wouldn’t even make sense, yet a lot of people are like *what??*
6
Most cats are like super lactose intolerant, and drinking milk is really really bad for them.
7
Just like humans, British cows moo in regional accents.
8
Baby porcupines are called porcupettes.
9
Covered bridges are designed with roofs to protect and preserve the wooden structure from the elements. Without the cover they'd last about 20 years, with the cover they can last up to 100. They're not built that way just to look charming.
10
When a nurse gives you an IV - they aren't leaving the metal needle inside your arm - they actually remove that and only a soft plastic tube remains - so you don't need to keep your arm that straight, relax.
11
911 operators have no clue where you are instantly unless you're on a landline. You HAVE to say where you are. It's not our fault movies made you think we have a spy level video of you in your car. Know your location.
12
There's a 'd' in fridge but not in refrigerator. It really bothers me...
13
Antisocial means that you are hostile or harmful to organized society. As in being or marked by behavior deviating sharply from the social norm. Asocial is rejecting or lacking the capacity for social interaction.
14
Words that are spelled the same but pronounced with emphasis on different syllables is actually indicative of the part of speech it is. Stress on the first syllable is a noun. Stress on the last syllable is a verb. Examples: CON-tract and con-TRACT. The former is a noun ( sign this contract) whereas the latter is a verb (the muscles contract). Same with record, address, impact, object, and a few others.
15
World Wide Web contains fewer syllables than its intended short form - WWW, thus making the shorter version longer to say.
16
Tear ducts drain tears, they don't produce them.
17
The modern keyboard layout is designed to make you type slower. When typewriters were a new thing, they had did the obvious thing and put the most-used letters on the home row. Result? People typed too fast and got the hammers tangled. You’re not an idiot, learning to type fast IS hard. It’s supposed to be!
18
It was never mentioned that Humpty-Dumpty was an egg.
19
My favorite thing to tell people: Penguins swim faster than Michael Phelps. Remember that discovery special that pitted a shark against him to see who was faster? Completely stupid, because even shark FOOD swims faster than he does! (Sharks eat penguins, to clarify)
20
Oil paint doesn't dry, it hardens. There's virtually no water in it, there's ... well, oil.
21
When water boils it is the same temperature no matter how big the bubbles are.
22
Do you get mad that dictionaries add new words like "crunk" or "bling"? They add them because people use those words and people need to understand what they mean. That's why they are in a dictionary.
23
Just like a dormitory is a place where you sleep, a laboratory is a place where you labor.
24
The little piggy didn't go to the market for shopping
25
The words Laser and Scuba are actually acronyms and they stand for: Laser- Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation. Scuba- Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
26
The word "helicopter" has two components. They aren't "heli" and "copter". They are "helico" and "pter". "Helico" (helix) and "pter" (wing, like with "pterodactyl")
27
a chipotle pepper isn't its own type of pepper. its just a smoked jalapeno pepper.
28
Thee and Thou were actually the *informal* forms. The King James Bible used them so that the relationship with God would seem more personal.
29
The Los Angeles Angels is basically saying "The The Angels Angels" when all in English.
30
Potatoes didn't arrive in Europe until the 16th century. It's so ubiquitous, you'd think it would've been a part of English culture since 10,000 BC.
