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06/26/2025 “ODD FACTS”   2 comments

Here is a list of trivial items you’ve always wished you knew.

  • You could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
  • The white-throated snapping turtle of Australia breathes through it butt.
  • In order for Earth to become a black hole, its entire mass would have to be compressed into a space less than 1 inch in diameter.
  • In 1929, the famous television dog Rin-Tin-Tin received the most votes for the Academy Award for best actor but didn’t win.
  • The leading role in the movie Forest Gump, was originally offered to John Travolta.
Deviant Artistry

  • John Wayne was offered the lead role in Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks but turned it down.
  • The famous Dr. children’s book Green Eggs and Ham contained just 50 different words.
  • At various points in history the Olympics included competitions in categories such as painting, engraving, architecture, literature, and town planning.
  • During World War II, so many NFL players were fighting in the war that the rival Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers temporarily teamed up to form a team called the “Steagles“.
  • Until recently, Russia did not consider beer an alcoholic drink. Anything containing less than 10% alcohol is considered a soft drink in Russia until 2011.

ONE OF MY FAVS

More people are killed by vending machines each year than sharks.

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02/25/2022 My Animal Farm   Leave a comment

I’ve been an animal lover all of my life. I’ve had all sorts of pets from ferrets, snakes, dogs, cats, and the list goes on and on. Today I thought I’d share with you some odd and trivia type facts on the animal kingdom. With this started . . .

  • A group of apes is called a shrewdness.
  • A group of alligators is called a congregation.
  • The blue whale has the largest penis of any organism on earth (8-10 ft).
  • The female barkfly has a penis, which is used to extract sperm from the male barkfly’s vagina.
  • A group of cockroaches is called an intrusion.
  • Boars can ejaculate continuously for up to 7 min.
  • A severed cockroach head can survive for hours.
  • The decapitated cockroach can live for weeks before it starves to death.
  • Fleas can survive for up to 100 days without a meal (without sucking your blood).
  • Cats are more popular pets and dogs.
  • The canine nose has more than four times as many scent receptors as the average cat nose (and more than 14 times as many as the human nose).
  • A dog on average has 42 teeth, compared to 30 teeth for domestic cats.
  • Cats can be left-handed.
  • Each year nearly 4,000,000 cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.
  • Electric eels generate enough electric charge to kill a horse or a human.

I think that’s enough for today and I’m sure you learned more than you ever cared about knowing of the weird and wonderful world of animals.