1000 Facts That No One Knows

[ShadowHunteress]

honey never spoils

Feeding a child under (2 I think) certain honeys can kill them.

[Acacia Lester]

if you pour a little drop of liquor on a scorpion
it will sting it's self to death

[Flightstar]

American Short Hair cats are not actual breeds -- They're all just various mixes.

[Wazaiyata]

Paul Revere's horse was named Brown Beauty
Turtles are deaf
Honey bees are deaf
Only two people that signrd the declaration of independence were related
MAFIA stands for "Morta Alla Francia, Italia Anela" (Italian for "'Death to France!' is Italy's Cry)

Yes these were off the top of my head

Turtles i do not beleive are deaf, but they do have a different way of hearing that makes them seem deaf compared to the way we hear ;3

[mekaiser]

Kangaroos usually give birth to one offspring annually. The young kangaroo, or joey, is only about an inch longno bigger than a waterbug.

The brain is surrounded by a membrane containing veins and arteries. This membrane is filled with nerves of feeling. However, the brain itself has no feeling; if it is cut with a scalpel, the person feels no pain.

It takes about 50 hours for a snake to digest one frog

After 7 years, a lobster will grow to be 1 pound.


The typical woman living in seventeenth-century America gave birth to 13 youngsters. Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was his mom’s 16th kid.


Cats, not dogs, are now the most common pets in America. Approximately 66 million cats to 58 million dogs are family pets, with parakeets flying a distant third at 14 million.

A bird sees everything at once in total focus. Whereas the human eye is globular and must adjust to varying distances, the bird’s eye is flat and can take in everything at once in a single glance.

THE AVERAGE HUMAN BODY HOLDS ENOUGH... carbon to make 900 pencils

A rat can fall from a 5-story building without injury.

A dolphin’s hearing is so acute that it can detect underwater sounds from 15 miles away.


Sharks can be dangerous even before they are born. One scientist was bitten by a sand tiger shark embryo while he was examining its pregnant mother.

Silly Putty started as a mistake in a New Haven laboratory, and was turned into a consumer hit in the 1960s. According to engineers, Silly Putty is a self-contradiction. Chemically, it is a liquid, but it resembles a solid. The molecular structure will stretch if the structure is slowly pulled. But if tugged, it snaps apart. The toy has a rebound capacity of 75 to 80 percent, whereas a rubber ball has only about 50-percent capacity. A silicon derivative, Silly Putty won’t rot; it can withstand temperatures from minus 700 Fahrenheit to hundreds of degrees above zero. On top of all that, it picks up newsprint, which often appears sharper than the original.


The strongest muscle in the body is not the heartit’s the tongue!


A skulk or leash of foxesA troop or mob of kangaroos
An army or colony of frogs
An ascension or exaltation of larks
A leash of greyhounds
A leap (leep) of leopards
A down or husk of hares

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. All species occur in the Old World, and in northern and eastern Australia. Only one, the Horned Lark, is native to North America. Habitats vary widely, but many species live in dry regions.

Is the thought of having kids stressful? A survey conducted at Iowa State College in 1969 suggested that a parent’s stress at the time of a baby’s conception plays a major role in determining that baby’s sex. The child tended to be of the same sex as the parent who was under less stress.

[ShadowHunteress]

if you poor a little drop of liquor on a scorpion
it will sting it's self to death

Some countries eat scorpions, and get them drunk to prevent them from stinging by soaking them in a cup of alcohol/

[Faymutt95]

When it's completely dark, we tend to actually see things in shades of Grey, rather than actual black.

[Uraiga]

If its a dark night and you have 0 light pollution you can see approximately 10,000 stars in the night sky

[Acacia Lester]

night vision is in green because humans can identify colors of green more than any other color
(( did you notice how in the font colors, on cs, the most common color in there is green?)
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[abney]

These are extremely rare occurrences, but if you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Wearing headphones can increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

It was widely believed in the Middle Ages that the heart was the center of human intelligence.