I love little interesting “Did You Knows” and if you’re like me, here ya go…now you can be the smartest guy at the water cooler:
DID YOU KNOW? Samoa jumped 24 hours ahead by skipping a calendar day on the night of December 29, 2011 moving to December 31, 2011. Somoa did this so it could move to the west side of the International Date Line and align its time zone with its main trading partners, especially Australia and New Zealand.
DID YOU KNOW? Bumble Bees can solve a classic problem set previously solved by chimps and elephants, despite having brains roughly the size of a sesame seed, per new Science study.
DID YOU KNOW? Tyrannosaurus rex and other meat-eating dinosaurs evolved to have tiny arms because they developed strong, powerful heads to attack prey, causing their arms to shrink due to lack of use, new study finds
DID YOU KNOW? Blue whales are the largest known creature to have ever lived, with adults reaching ~100 feet in length and ~200 tons on average. Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant.
DID YOU KNOW? Pink doesn’t actually exist. Unlike red, blue, or green, there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to the color pink. Instead, our brains invent the color by blending red and violet lights, two ends of the spectrum that don’t naturally meet.
DID YOU KNOW? Missing Exit 193 for Yeehaw Junction on the Florida Turnpike would require you to make a 98-mile detour, the longest in the entire US highway system.
DID YOU KNOW? An active volcano in Antarctica called Mount Erebus spews an estimated $6,000 worth of crystallized gold dust into the air every single day.
DID YOU KNOW? In 1937, the US military approached Hershey’s about making a chocolate bar that should taste only “a little better than a boiled potato” for emergency rations. The Army wanted a bar that tasted bad enough for soldiers to avoid digging into their emergency stash of food before they truly needed it.
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