TIL the record for most words learned by a bird is held by not an African Grey or a Cockatoo, but a Parakeet named Puck who had a confirmed vocabulary of 1728 words
guinnessworldrecords.comu/Energylegs23 — 3 days ago
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Did you know that that while "The Number of the Beast", stemming from the Biblical Book of Revelation, usually is written as 666, some of the earliest manuscripts have 616.
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Did You Know The Guy Who Bought Google.com for $12 (And What Google Did Next)
In 2015, a former employee accidentally bought "Google.com" for $12 on Google's own domain service—and owned the most visited website on Earth for 1 minute.
In late 2015, Sanmay Ved was browsing Google Domains late at night and noticed something impossible: Google was listed as available for purchase. He clicked add-to-cart, paid $12 with his credit card, and the transaction went through. For about 60 seconds, his search console dashboard was inundated with internal Google administrative notifications and webmaster controls. Google’s security team realized what happened and promptly cancelled the transaction. Instead of punishing him, Google rewarded him with a bounty of $6,006.13 (numerical code for "G-O-O-G-L-E"). When Sanmay told them he was donating the entire reward to charity, Google doubled the payout to over $12,000.
Source: BBC News
u/Flaky_Claim_3022 — 5 days ago
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Fun Fact: A sugar-cube-sized piece of a neutron star weighs 100 million tonnes
That is roughly the weight of 250,000 fully loaded Boeing 747 jets squeezed into a volume you could hold on the tip of your finger!
u/Hot-Marsupial6584 — 4 days ago
A transparent dome over Manhattan, proposed by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao in 1960. Two miles wide and about a mile high, it would turn Midtown into a climate-controlled paradise.
u/Altruistic_Ranger_57 — 12 days ago
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Did you know bananas help with depression?
Bananas & Avocados: These fruits contain small amounts of bioavailable dopamine and the nutrients required to aid its natural production.
u/TheCucumberIncident — 12 days ago
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Fun fact: It took 2 years and a team of 10 of some of the best animators and artists to make the 4 minute scene of Moses parting the red sea in Prince of Egypt.
It took 4 years to make the full film, and the animators that were doing a bad job were sent to work on a much more low budget film that was projected to fail: Shrek. They called it getting 'Shrecked'.
u/I_like_carbss — 11 days ago
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Did you know? Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan has 99 of the 105 elements in the periodic table beneath its soil — vast mineral and energy resources 🌍 www.countrywheel.com
u/Fair_Education7413 — 10 days ago
Nick Vujicic was born in Melbourne on 4 December 1982 to Serbian immigrant parents, with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare condition marked by the absence of limbs. He married Kanae Miyahara on 12 February 2012, and they have four children: two sons and twin daughters.
u/BumblebeeTemporary44 — 10 days ago
Ancient and beautiful amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago!
u/Sea_Fox_4265 — 11 days ago
Before and after surgery for craniofacial duplication (diprosopus), an extremely rare congenital condition in which facial structures are partly doubled. The second photo shows the healed result, with a thin scar running down the middle of the forehead.
u/Shiyyin — 11 days ago