Interesting Facts and Trivia
By Anna
@LadyDuck (457412)
Switzerland
January 14, 2019 7:14am CST
While dusting the books in our library, I found a booklet about funny facts and trivia.
I peeked through the pages and I found some that I want to share with you:
- Banana fruits are curve, because they grow toward the sun and not toward the ground.
- A group of crows is called "a murder of crows"
- Snakes can sense an earthquake up to 5 days before it happens.
- After he died, the inventor of Frisbee (Pluto Platter) was cremated and made into a Frisbee.
- Honey bees are capable to recognize human faces.
- Seamen and pirates wore earrings because they thought they improved their eyesight.
Do you know some interesting uncommon facts?
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
14 Jan 19
does this mean snakes will always survive earthquakes? 
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
14 Jan 19
@LadyDuck too bad we're not as small and move fluidly as snakes to be able to follow them
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 19
@hereandthere I think I would be too scared to follow a snake.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
I have been eating bananas for many years and never ever wondered why they were curved. I just accepted it and enjoyed eating them.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
@LadyDuck I would love to visit a banana plantation but my health does not permit travelling and so will have to look up some videos.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 19
@1hopefulman 
The times of travels are gone for us too.
The times of travels are gone for us too.2 people like this
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
Knew none of them... I'm a bit smarter this morning ;)
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
14 Jan 19
Blue whales tongues can weigh as much as an elephant
Octopuses have three hearts
A flock a ravens is called an unkindness
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
15 Jan 19
@Happy2BeMe Octopus salad is pretty popular in the Mediterranean countries.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 19
@responsiveme Correct, it's was I was suggesting to this user, he confused the two Armstrong.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Jan 19
@LadyDuck I love his song La Vie Rose.and the one who went to the moon was Neil.
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@wolfgirl569 (94778)
• Marion, Ohio
14 Jan 19
I knew a few of those. Dont want to play with that Frisbee
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No, I do not want to play with that Frisbee, it's creepy.
@Marilynda1225 (79592)
• United States
14 Jan 19
I didn't know any of these facts so I feel smarter already. I'm going to see how many of these my grandchildren know
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
15 Jan 19
Every day, more money is printed for the game of Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone of the cartoon series Flintstones. It was very controversial and revolutionary at the time.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
15 Jan 19
@JudyEv They are carrying on these researches in India in an area where there are frequent small earthquakes. They have set up cameras and they monitor what the snakes do. They have noticed that every time there is even a small quake, they get out from their hiding place and they all move away.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Jan 19
Is that your library. It looks do good.
Those facts are new to me except about the crow group. Let me see if I can find some strange fact.
When we were young there was this series Ripley's Believe it or not
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 19
@responsiveme It is the place where my husband usually stay to work.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Jan 19
I just found one..A duel between three people is called a truel
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@snowy22315 (169638)
• United States
14 Jan 19
Interesting facts. I wonder if snakes react in any way to earthquakes. They must do something..because otherwise how would researchers know they were "sensing the earthquake."
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@snowy22315 (169638)
• United States
14 Jan 19
@LadyDuck That's good to know actually..if I see the snakes acting up, I might think a quake is on the way. We have a had a couple of bad ones.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 19
@snowy22315 We do not have quakes here, but I will keep an eye at the two snakes that roam in my garden.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
14 Jan 19
wow. your library books and shelves look almost the same as i had when i had my own house i was buying. it's wonderful. i did not know bananas grew pointing up ward , thought they hung down. and as for the bees, maybe that is why they would not sting my dad. he said it was because they could smell if you had fear of them. he would pick them up and put them all over him with bare hands and arms etc.
i know that an owl never defecates from behind like other creatures and us
it digests the food and comes right back out the beak. yuck. i was surprised when i heard that. 
it digests the food and comes right back out the beak. yuck. i was surprised when i heard that. 3 people like this
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
16 Jan 19
@LadyDuck i guess we will never know if it is bees sight or smell being why some they don't sting. they still stung me a few times
but i think you and my dad must just be some special people.
but i think you and my dad must just be some special people. 1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
16 Jan 19
@bunnybon7 I have read some articles and I am not totally convinced that they can recognize people. I know that they do not sting me, they stay around going from flower to flower while I work outside.
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@marguicha (215178)
• Chile
15 Jan 19
Those were interesting. Should I have a pet snake with me to help me with my dread of earthquakes?
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@marguicha (215178)
• Chile
15 Jan 19
@LadyDuck We don´t have snakes where I live but we have quakes every day. Nothing is perfect in this world.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
15 Jan 19
@marguicha The dangerous snakes are up in the mountains, those that live in the gardens are not venomous. I try not to meet them, because I do not like snakes.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
15 Jan 19
I have to say that I hate snakes, I cannot stand to see them, it's a phobia. Anyway I do not kill the two that are in my garden, they are not venomous and they eat slugs and small insects. I will keep an eye on them... right now they are both hibernating.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 Jan 19
I did not know any of these facts. Thank you.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 19
@andriaperry I want to get rid of some that are not interesting, we have too many.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 Jan 19
@LadyDuck I plan to go through my books soon as well.
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