[HAFF] The world has over 1.4 million lakes, and over 62% are located in Canada. The country counts more than 31,000 lakes, and a whopping 20% of the planet’s freshwater resources.3yr ⋅ dunphish64 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Bottled water is marked up 4,000%. A $2.00 bottle of water costs the company only about $0.05 to make.3yr ⋅ OakFace ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Despite only coming once every four years, February 29th is not the rarest birthday. There are actually 19 other dates on the calendar that are more rare to be born o.3yr ⋅ dunphish64 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Around 3% of the worlds population was killed in World War II3yr ⋅ alicedoesstuff ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] There are 23 lost and hidden treasures around the world waiting to be found6yr ⋅ Sy3Zy3Gy3 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The reason beaver teeth are colored orange is because they’re strengthened with iron6yr ⋅ mybustersword ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Cherries are the only edible source of melatonin and consuming them daily can help you sleep better5yr ⋅ Artemistical ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Male, the capital city of the Maldives, is so heavily urbanized that it covers the entire island it is situated on.10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] It would take 72 years for the Niagara Falls to fill up the Grand Canyon.8yr ⋅ FactKingdom ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Northern white-faced owl changes its appearance to respond to threats.9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Red Square is not named after communism or the colour of the bricks surrounding it, but actually from the term 'krasnyi' - which used to mean 'beautiful', but is now used as 'red'.8yr ⋅ purpleslug ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Ancient Assyria elected Substitute Kings during eclipses to protect the king from a prophecy of death. Once, the real king died during this period while eating porridge, so his substitute, formerly a random gardener, stayed king for 24 years.9yr ⋅ ARTexplains ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III is the penguin Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard.8yr ⋅ purpleslug ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A man sued Pepsico after the company refused to redeem his 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier II jump jet as advertised in their commercial.9yr ⋅ dirtandwater ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting8yr ⋅ k_princess ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] When the first iPod prototype was shown to Steve Jobs, he dropped it in an aquarium and used the air bubbles to prove there was empty space and it could be made smaller.9yr ⋅ dirtandwater ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Elephant trunks contain sixty thousand muscles. Coordination of the trunk is not innate and must be learned over time with practice.9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] According to his wife Mary, Abraham Lincoln's hobby was cats. (x-post /r/FunFacts)8yr ⋅ ForTeaSicks ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads; its buildings are connected entirely by canals, footbridges and trails.10yr ⋅ dirtandwater ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The diet of the Bearded Vulture is 85-90% bones, allowing it to return to a carcass long after other scavengers have removed any soft tissues. Bones too large to swallow are dropped from great height to crack them into smaller pieces.10yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A&W introduced a burger that was bigger and less expensive than McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but it failed because customers assumed 1/3 was less than 1/4.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The first colour photograph was that of a tartan ribbon and was taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861.8yr ⋅ purpleslug ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Great Pyramid of Giza contains enough stone to make an almost 2ft high wall around the Earth8yr ⋅ postdarwin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] “The Blue Marble” is the only whole-earth photo taken by human hands. No one has since been far enough from earth to take a similar picture.10yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Tea bags were invented accidentally -- in the early 1900s Thomas Sullivan sent out small 'sample' bags which people used without opening8yr ⋅ postdarwin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] William Hitler, a nephew of Adolf Hitler, was in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He changed his name after the war8yr ⋅ capecodcaper ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.10yr ⋅ howlonghowlongahonng ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Jainism is a religion so dedicated to non-violence that some Jains cover their mouths and sweep the path they walk to avoid killing smaller creatures. An extremist Jain literally wouldn’t hurt a fly.9yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Pablo Picasso's full birth name is: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso8yr ⋅ Dittestark ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Historically, the Tuareg people of North Africa were often recorded as Blue People, because most men wear indigo-dyed veils, which can rub on their skin over time and make it appear blue.8yr ⋅ Alatorr ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] MP4 is a rock band consisting of four British parliamentarians.8yr ⋅ purpleslug ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] It is against law in Switzerland to keep pet guinea pigs alone. A service even exists that provides a guinea pig companion to keep a lonely guinea pig company if its partner dies.9yr ⋅ Alantha ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.8yr ⋅ SohaibSdq ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The claws of the Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) are adapted to excavating ants and termites, so they are poor climbers. Being less able to flee predators, the sloth bear is considered one of the more dangerous bears.8yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Australia and the contiguous United States are almost the same size8yr ⋅ postdarwin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The bark of the white willow tree can be used as an alternative to aspirin.6yr ⋅ capecodcaper ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] It can take up to 1,000 years for certain types of plastic to break down6yr ⋅ Gard3nB1rd ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In 2000, Blockbuster Video turned down a chance to purchase a one-year-old company called Netflix for $50 million.9yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A routine service visit for a Bugatti Veyron will cost the owner an average of $21,0006yr ⋅ capecodcaper ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Standing like a Superhero for as little as two minutes changes our testosterone and cortisol levels, increases our appetite for risk, causes us to perform better in job interviews, and generally configures our brains to cope well in stressful situations.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is the smallest species of bat and arguably the world's smallest mammal. It is about 3cm long and weighs about 2g.8yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru.9yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] IKEA is an acronym: IK are the founder's initials, E is for the farm he grew up on (Elmtaryd), and A is for Agunnaryd, his village. (x-post /r/FunFacts)9yr ⋅ ForTeaSicks ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF]Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute8yr ⋅ capecodcaper ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Since 1945 all British tanks have come equipped the ability to make tea.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] On July 19, 1969, John Fairfax became the first person to row solo across an ocean. His fame was short-lived, though, as the very next day humans landed on the Moon for the first time.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] jazz musician Billy Tipton decided to pass as a man to help her jazz career; she tricked almost everyone she knew for 53 years, convincing 5 wives (at least two of whom she had sex with) and 3 children that she was a man.9yr ⋅ garfieldsam ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A type of marsupial, the bandicoot, has a ridiculously short gestation period. Two species have a pregnancy lasting only 12.5 days.9yr ⋅ ARTexplains ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The worlds most expensive number plate was bought by a businessman in Dubai for $14.2 million. It read 19yr ⋅ TheHmed ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] This tiny crustacean called an Ostracod, is a shrimp-like organism about 1mm in size. When eaten by another fish, the Ostracod immediately releases a bioluminescent chemical in an attempt to illuminate the fish from the inside making it identifiable to predators.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Fruit bats are exposed to alcohol naturally in fermented fruit. A study in 2010 in which tipsy/drunk bats navigated obstacle courses found that they are unaffected by ethanol8yr ⋅ ARTexplains ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] It would take 852 years to walk all the roads in the world.8yr ⋅ FactKingdom ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] When doing the motion capture for Rise of the Tomb Raider, Camilla Luddington's face was applied with Mova florescent paint to give game designers 7000 points of reference [xpost /r/geekboners]8yr ⋅ ZadocPaet ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] If you started visiting one Australian beach per day, you wouldn't finish them all(10,685) until 25 June 20458yr ⋅ postdarwin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The first written words started here... and another fun fact - this sign exists. Uruk, Iraq.8yr ⋅ ultrafidelio ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The koala's gestation period lasts 33–35 days. After which time the female gives birth to a joey, although twins occur on occasion.8yr ⋅ ForTeaSicks ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] When female aphids are born, they are already pregnant with their own embryos! This is called Telescoping Generations, in which a grandmother technically gives birth to the next two generations at once.9yr ⋅ ARTexplains ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Peregrine Falcons were nearly eradicated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century, but after significant efforts, they have made an incredible recovery. They are now regularly seen in many large cities.9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Despite China spanning five geographical time zones, the time in China follows a single standard time offset, because of this the sun rises as late as 10am in some places in China.8yr ⋅ ForTeaSicks ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The term riding shotgun originated in the old west, referring to the person who rode alongside the driver of a stagecoach, whose job it was to hold a shotgun and scare off thieves.10yr ⋅ SpehlingAirer ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF]The alligator snapping turtle actually has a weaker bite than many other turtle. In fact, its bite force relative to body size is comparable to that of a human. (X-post from /r/TurtleFacts)8yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Nikon was accused of racist face-detection software – when Asian faces were photographed, a message would pop up on the camera screen asking, “Did someone blink?”9yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Humans have the ability to see ultraviolet (UV) light, but it is filtered by the eye’s lens. People who have surgery to remove the lens can see UV light. The condition is known as Aphakia.9yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] San Francisco held a referendum in 1993 to allow a police officer to carry a ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty8yr ⋅ postdarwin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Nostradamus wrote a cookbook which contained a recipe for love jam so powerful it would instantly persuade two people tasting it to have sex.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] 'Grass Mud Horse' (pictured) is a meme on the Chinese internet as the pronunciation sounds similar to saying fuck your mother. It's used as means of showing defiance to internet censorship9yr ⋅ TheHmed ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Al Hamra Tower, in Kuwait City, is the tallest sculpted tower in the world, at 414m.8yr ⋅ purpleslug ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles travelled have decreased from 5.17 in 1959 to 1.15 in 2009. Pictured is a 2009 car colliding with a 1959 car.10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The easternmost state in the United States is Alaska, not Maine. This is due to Semisopochnoi Island being West of the 180-degree meridian.10yr ⋅ Melaronius ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In an emergency coconut water can be used as a blood plasma.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The city of Melbourne, Australia, was originally called 'Batmania' after infamous explorer John Batman. His namesake exists today as places such as 'Batman avenue' and the electoral division of Batman.10yr ⋅ hypotheticalfive ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Date Nails were used to keep track of the age of the railroad ties for maintenance. This tie was installed in 1930 for example.10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A Czech Nurse was honored for sleeping with Nazi soldiers to give them STDs and kill them.9yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Nowadays, a lot of people say video games are a waste of time and lead to violent behavior. 150 years ago, they were saying the same thing about chess.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF]Pope Francis has a master’s degrees in chemistry, philosophy and theology from the University of Buenos Aries. When he was young he was employed running tests in a chemical laboratory.10yr ⋅ ILookLikePopeFrancis ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Goat kids begin taking their first steps within minutes of being born.9yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A single year on Pluto is longer than the whole history of the US9yr ⋅ Shadrack_Meshax ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] There is a cofffee shop in North Dakota that has no employees staffing it, it runs entirely on the honor system — and it’s working.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Romans believed eyelashes fell out from excessive sex, so women would use cosmetics to make their eyelashes look fuller and longer to demonstrate their chastity.9yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In 2002, Airbus filed a patent for a trap door positioned outside of the cockpit. Theoretically, should a terrorist or hijacker try to force their way into the cockpit, a trap door would open and send them into a security cell underneath the cabin floor.9yr ⋅ Fang88 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The U.S. state of Hawaii features the British Union Jack on its flag8yr ⋅ postdarwin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Koalas sing to defend their territories and win mates, like blue birds or Michael Buble. More beastly than Hank McCoy, these blue-grey creatures have razor sharp claws and a voice that sounds like a tiger dry heaving.10yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] There's an Island in Brazil where civilians are forbidden to go, it has up to 5 snakes per square meter. (x-post /r/FunFacts)9yr ⋅ ForTeaSicks ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Drivers in Ohio receive a yellow “scarlet letter” license plate if they have been convicted of a DUI.9yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Star Forts were the successor of castles, designed to deflect cannon fire and to make it difficult for opposing forces to approach by digging trenches. It was first seen in the mid-15th century in Italy. This particular star fort is called Bourtange and is situated in the Netherlands.10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] German two-handed swords were also called Gassenhauer, which translates to Alley-Hewer or Path-Cutter10yr ⋅ Roflkopt3r ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] When you remove the turbulence from water and get layers aligned instead of mixing you get laminar flow where the water is super smooth9yr ⋅ TheHmed ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Britain created the lie or myth that carrotts are good for your eye sight in WWII. The tactic was used to fool with Germans. Some believed if you ate enough you could gain night vision.9yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] This iconic photograph presents a stoic and determined Winston Churchill during World War II when, in reality, the Prime Minister was annoyed because the photographer snatched his cigar.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A fifth wheel was a concept to help with parallel parking in the 1950’s.10yr ⋅ dirtandwater ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Benjamin Franklin didn't want the American bald eagle as the symbol of the Great Seal because he thought it a bird of bad moral character because it steals food from other animals.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Plantaris is a small muscle in your calf that is believed to be used by our ancestors to grip with their feet. It is so weak that it is considered functionally obsolete and arguments have been made that humans are evolving it out. It is absent in 7-10% of the population worldwide.10yr ⋅ Balj ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] EA hired people to portray Christians to accuse EA of being the Anti-Christ as marketing scheme for the video game Dante’s Inferno.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometers away.10yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In-N-Out Burger has no freezers or microwaves in their restaurants; hence why they have so few locations. Food is never frozen therefore locations must be close to their CA and TX patty making facilities; its delivered by their own fleet of delivery vehicles to have complete quality control.10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Lenin liked to ski in his custom Rolls Royce when not erstwhile engaged with the revolution9yr ⋅ skizethelimit ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Skytyping was developed in 1946 which was 22 years before the first dot matrix printer.9yr ⋅ notbob1959 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Few animals pass the Mirror Test which tests for self awareness. Currently there are 10 animals, humans included who pass. Recently Manta rays may be the first fish.8yr ⋅ Alantha ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] After the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in an airplane crash in 1950, Stalin’s son Vasily, the manager of the team, covered up the disaster and replaced everyone on the team to avoid his father’s wrath. Stalin never noticed.10yr ⋅ 87grams3ozs1cup3tbs ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In 1808, two Frenchmen dueled by flying in hot air balloons and attempted to shoot each other down with blunderbusses. After his balloon was shot, the loser crashed into a house and was killed along with his second.8yr ⋅ ARTexplains ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Naturally fermenting fruits can range from 0.6% up to 4.5% ethanol in Central America. Bats can eat these without getting inebriated. Party on, bats! (x-post from /r/batfacts)8yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] We, humans have us as many hair follicles per square inch of skin as a chimpanzees and gorillas.9yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF]: Rabbits can conceive a second litter before the first is born9yr ⋅ kookingpot ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] An umbrella-gun was used to assassinate Georgi Markov in 1978. The low profile weapon shot a wax coated ricin pellet into his leg in public. The wax then melted at his body temperature.9yr ⋅ ARTexplains ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Measuring over 40 feet and weighing in at 2,500 lbs, the titanoboa was the largest snake that ever lived.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A man in Pennsylvania found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden in the frame of a $4 painting he bought at a garage sale.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] to combat brood parasites, Superb Fairy Wrens teach their young in egg a password they must sing to get food!9yr ⋅ Bird_Facts ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Although California residents, as a whole, contribute the most money in the US to charity, Utah residents contribute the largest percentage of their adjusted gross income.8yr ⋅ SuaveKevin ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] OJ Simpson was originally considered for the role of the Terminator in the movie with the same name. James Cameron did not feel that Simpson would be believable as a killer and cast Schwarzenegger instead.10yr ⋅ dirtandwater ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Mourning geckos are an entirely female species. They reproduce without mating, though they still go through the motions. This is called parthenogenesis and pseudocopulation, respectively.9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The amount of tweets made daily could fit in a 24 million page book.8yr ⋅ FactKingdom ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF]Heels were first made by the Persian cavalry to keep stability while shooting arrows.It later became populair in Europe as masculine symbool until 1630 when women followed the more masculine fashion of ''The Vogue''.First a military asset then a masculine symbool and now it is seen as sexy.9yr ⋅ RoyalWolf ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] 4 years ago American Samoa skipped December 30 entirely as they jumped to the other side of the international date line9yr ⋅ TheHmed ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds $600,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or nearly $100 billion per person alive.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] After 9/11, France constructed a memorial saying that the French would never forget9yr ⋅ nt337 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The markhor, a large wild goat, is the national animal of Pakistan.9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In August of 1835, The New York Sun ran a series of stories about an astronomer discovering life on the moon. The hoax was incredibly popular and the paper never issued a retraction.8yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Louis Armstrong played his trumpet so much that he got callouses on his lips. Eventually, they would crack and make playing extremely painful. So, once every five years or so, he would take a razor blade and cut them off by himself.10yr ⋅ Alatorr ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Despite Saudi-Arabia being associated with desert, center-pivot irrigation has converted large swaths of desert in agricultural land.10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Back in the 19th century, the American Acclimatization Society wanted to introduce to America all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare. They released 100 European starlings in New York. Today there are over 200 million all over the country and cause over $1 billion damage in crops every year.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Ortler was the location of the highest trench in World War One. The mountain itself is 3,905m tall.8yr ⋅ purpleslug ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Oxford University is older than the Aztecs. Oxford founding was in 1249. Founding of Tenochtitlan was in 1325.10yr ⋅ crinklecutfries ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Barn Owl is the most widely distributed owl species in the world. It is found almost everywhere except arctic regions, deserts, and some other geographically restricted areas, like islands.9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] If you cut open a chrysalis, you would not find a half-caterpillar, half-butterfly—you would find butterfly goo. The caterpillar dissolves and completely rebuilds itself.9yr ⋅ Alantha ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] It’s illegal to pee in an elevator in Singapore, and that some elevators have a Urine Detection Device which detects urine odors, sets off an alarm, and close the elevator doors until the police arrive.10yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF]White-cheeked Gibbons are unique in that infants are born with blonde fur like their mother, but by age 2 their color turns to black. When they reach adulthood, males remain black and females change back to blonde.9yr ⋅ Alantha ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was the first to suggest that unsterile working practices by doctors caused infections that killed patients and went mad because nobody would believe him. Now he's known as the Savior of Mothers.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A tablespoon would have to be used 92.4 sextillion times to scoop up all the water on Earth.8yr ⋅ FactKingdom ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead. He was the first and thus far the only jockey known to have won a race after death.10yr ⋅ dirtandwater ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Trinity Church on King George Island, Antarctica, is the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] Although film vampires are sometimes depicted as using hollow fangs to suck blood, vampire bats actually use their tongue to lap up the blood from a wound.10yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] All the American flags on the Moon are now white due to UV radiation.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In the German village Fuggerei the rent hasn’t been raised since 1520, it costs only 88 cents to live there for an entire year.9yr ⋅ _-dO_Ob-_ ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] To avoid deafening themselves with their calls, many bats restrict the movement in their inner ear bones, called ossicles, by flexing the stapedius muscle while echolocating. We have these same bones and muscles in our ears and they are similarly used to dampen our own voices when we speak.9yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] In times of great abundance, the snowy owl will line its nest with the carcasses of lemmings and voles.10yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Spanish word for skunks is zorrillo meaning little fox though they are not closely related to foxes and occupy their own clade: Mephitidae9yr ⋅ Aelegans ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The original Gameboy came packaged with Tetris. A game designer named Henk Rogers had told Nintendo that a Mario title would market the system towards boys, but Tetris would make the system appeal to everyone.9yr ⋅ jz88k ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game Yale students, costumed as a Harvard pep squad, gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read WE SUCK.10yr ⋅ HERES_A_FUN_FACT ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] A single colony of 150 Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus) eats an estimated 1.3 million pest insects each year!10yr ⋅ remotectrl ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The city of Crush, Texas was a temporary one-day city created as a publicity stunt for the Texas railroad in 1896. Over 40,000 people gathered here to see two trains collide on purpose which made Crush the second-largest city in Texas for a day.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact
[HAFF] The Ghost Army was a special unit during World War II comprised of actors, artists, illustrators and sound engineers who used props and misinformation to confuse and scare the enemy.9yr ⋅ Radu316 ⋅ r/HeresAFunFact