##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Cockroach Facts The primary reason cockroaches and many types of insects are so resistant to ionizing radiation is that their cells don’t divide that much between molting cycles. Cells are most susceptible to damage by ionizing radiation when they are dividing. Given that a typical cockroach only molts about once […]
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Today I found out “Killer Whales”, or Orcas, are actually dolphins. In fact, they are the largest member of the dolphin family, Delphinidae. Now strictly speaking, whales are marine animals of the order of Cetacea and occasionally Cetacea is used to refer to not just whales, but also porpoises and dolphins. However, it generally excludes these latter mariner animals, which […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Myths and Facts About Suicide About four men will commit suicide for every one woman that commits suicide. Interestingly, despite this fact, nearly three times as many women as men will attempt to kill themselves.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Find Out Why Poop is Brown The word “poop” comes from the onomatopoeia poupen or popen, which originally meant “fart”. “Poop” came into its current meaning around 1900.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About How a 50% Stake in Domino’s Pizza Was Once Traded for a Volkswagen Beetle The dots in the Domino’s Pizza logo represent the first three Domino’s Pizza restaurants opened. Originally, Monaghan had planned on adding a dot for every store he opened. This quickly became impractical.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Turkeys are Called Turkeys A group of turkeys is technically called a “rafter”, though they are often incorrectly referred to as a “gobble” or simply a “flock”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Twinkie Facts Being a vegan and raw-foodist, Woody Harrelson did not actually eat any real Twinkies in the movie Zombieland. Rather, the “Twinkies” he was shown eating were made from cornmeal and were vegan-safe.
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Today I Found Out is now available on the Amazon Kindle. If you’re interested in getting the Kindle Edition of Today I Found Out, go here to subscribe: Today I Found Out Kindle Edition The Kindle edition of Today I Found Out is specifically formatted for the Kindle and has no advertisements. It is also automatically delivered wirelessly to your […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Houdini Facts In the early part of his career, Houdini often performed as a Wild Man in circus shows. Wild men were sideshow acts where the performer would do crazy things, such as bight the heads of live animals. “Wild men” were also where the word “geek” came from.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About the First Robot Created Around 400 BC The first known human killed by a robot was in 1981, when a robotic arm, no doubt in a diabolical plot to try to take over the world, crushed a Japanese Kawasaki factory worker.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes The first cracker was made in 1792 by John Pearson in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Pearson was looking to make a type of biscuit that would last longer than traditional sailor’s biscuits without spoiling. He eventually mixed just flour and water, baked it, and called his invention “Pearson’s Pilot Bread”. This later became […]
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Today I found out the guy who did the voice for Optimus Prime also did the voice for Eeyore, in the Winnie-the-Pooh series, and was the first person to voice Nintendo’s Mario character. The man is Canadian voice actor Peter Cullen. Cullen not only did the voice of Optimus Prime in the original Transformers series, but he also did the […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Used to Have to Use #2 Pencils on Scantrons The metal band that attaches the pencil body with an eraser is called a “ferrule”.
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##EMBED## Click Here to Learn Why Milk is White Lactose intolerance is caused by a lack of the enzyme lactase, which resides in the small intestine. Once a baby is born, their lactase levels slowly diminish unless milk is consumed on a regular basis. When the lactose is passing through your small intestine, it will become attached to the lactase […]
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##EMBED## Click Here to Find Out Why Salt Enhances Flavor Salt works amazingly well as a stain remover if the stain is from spilled liquid and the spill is recent. Next time you spill some red wine/Kool-Aid/etc. on the carpet, cover it with a very generous pile of table salt. Wait an hour or two (the longer the better), then […]
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Today I found out there is nothing that comes after the sequence “once, twice, thrice”. Interestingly, even though these words are roughly equivalent, differing only in the numeric value they refer to, it is now considered poor English to use “thrice” instead of the equivalent “three times”. At the same time, it is considered poor English to use “one time” […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Prohibition Facts As happens quite often when people are told they can’t do something, the banning of the sale, transporting, or distributing alcohol in the United States resulted in alcoholic beverages being consumed at an estimated three times the rate it was before the banning took effect.
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Today I found out how one-way mirrors work (also known as “two-sided” mirrors). Interestingly, there is no such thing as a true one way mirror. This would actually violate the laws of physics (for more on that see the Bonus Factoids below). What’s actually going on here with one-way mirrors is that we have a piece of glass with an […]
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