Weirdest / most interesting fact you've learnt recently

[MissMaidenMinx]

The longest word in the English language is nearly 190,000 letters long.That would be the chemical name of Titin, the largest known protein. It begins, “Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanylprolylthreonylphenylalanylthreonylglutaminylprolylleucylglutaminylserylvalylvalylvalylleucylglutamylglycylserylthreonylalanylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylalanylhistidylisoleucylserylglycylphenylalanylprolylvalylprolylglutamylvalylseryltryptophylphenylalanylarginylaspartylglycylglutaminylvalylisoleucylserylthreonylserylthreonylleucylpro” and goes on for tens of thousands of letters

 

[Fivemagicbeans]

I learnt that there are 10 separate species thpes of Orca killer whales around our world and there are one type of Orca species known as I think light coloured orcas that are colourised by the plankton staining there skin .

 

[cheekygirl75]

Alaska is technically the northernmost, westernmost, AND easternmost state in the US.

 

[ScarletDaisy]

That when the biggest piggy went to market, it wasn't to go shopping.

 

[mobleedzblue]

The reason sewer covers are round is because it will never fall through the hole.

 

[TheMrBurns]

How to use parallax to measure distances in parsecs.

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

Alaska is technically the northernmost, westernmost, AND easternmost state in the US.

How is it both the most westernmost and easternmost?

 

[billrokra]

Everybody pronounces Everest incorrectly.

 

[cheekygirl75]

How is it both the most westernmost and easternmost?

It’s the westernmost state, looking at the map. But there are islands that are part of Alaska that are on the other side of the international dateline so technically they’re eastern.

 

[Fivemagicbeans]

The bats have begun their activities of flying around anc hunting around my home ..
I didn’t realise that they make all sorts of wonderful sounds that are just barely audible and use echo high pitched sounds like dolphins to hunt insects in thd air

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

It’s the westernmost state, looking at the map. But there are islands that are part of Alaska that are on the other side of the international dateline so technically they’re eastern.

Wow! That's pretty cool

 

[MiloMcLeod]

Badminton shuttlecocks are made with duck or goose feathers taken from only one wing

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

Dead people can get goosebumps

 

[snexxer]

There is a gas cloud 6500 light years away, that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

If everyone on earth had just 1 pint a day, it would take 300 billion years to drink it all.

Now that's a huge pub crawl.

 

[snexxer]

So we all know the which came first, the chicken or the egg. Well here is a similar one.

Kit Kat.
The filling of a kit kat is.... blended rejected kit kat.

 

[Leigh81]

That instead of using Armor All you use 70% water & 30% baby oil to get it looking like new.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Using Dawn liquid dish soap and hot tap water is the easiest way to unplug a toilet...

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

The average person will walk around 75,000 miles during their lifetime, the equivalent of going three times around the Earth at the equator...

And...

While the next statistic is actually based on approximations, it is considered likely that every breath you take contains approximately 277 million air molecules that Jesus himself also breathed in while alive...

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

The chainsaw was originally invented as a medical tool to aid child birth.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Over 75% of all people believe in either ghosts or UFO's existing, with ghosts being the most common belief.

 

[cheekygirl75]

There are awards for award makers. https://personalizationpros.org/tradeshow/gold-obelisk-awards/