Strange But True #28 · 11:26pm Jul 20th, 2020
Here's your weekly dose of facts! Enjoy!
1. There is a hybrid animal bred in some stockyards for its meat called a beefalo -- a cross between a cow and a buffalo.
2. Samsung tests the durability of their phones with a butt-shaped robot that sometimes even wears jeans.
3. A man in Texas was hospitalized after he was hit with his own bullet after it ricocheted off of an armadillo he shot.
4. That tiny pocket on your jeans was not originally intended for coinage -- it was invented for you to store your pocket watch.
5. The world's largest desert is Antarctica, not the Sahara. Also, only a quarter of the Sahara is even sandy -- it's mostly gravel and mountains with the occasional oasis.
6. The Eiffel Tower grows and shrinks by up to a foot with the seasons.
7. The longest record jump for a human is longer than the longest record jump for a horse.
8. Pregnancy tests date back to 1350 BCE. Women would urinate on wheat and barley seeds. If the barley grew, the baby would be male. If the wheat grew, the baby would be female. A test of this method in the last few years proved it to be 70% accurate.
9. The Pope cannot be an organ donor.
10. Bananas fluoresce blue under blacklight.
Ah, this is the kind of fascinating but useless information I like! I love it! Where do you get these?
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I simply go on a hunt for awhile before posting these. :)
They also make bio plastics out of banana peels. :3