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7. A person stays conscious for about twenty seconds after being decapitated.
Jul4_1776 wrote:
7. A person stays conscious for about twenty seconds after being decapitated.
8. the same applies to hearing, its the last sense to go, also meaning you can technically hear after death
9. there are only around 26 known survivors of rabies
10. humans shed and regenerate all their skin cells in roughly 27 days
Mar 13, 2022
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light travels 186,000 miles per second;
well over 1,000,000 earths could fit inside the sun;
the surface of venus is hot enough to melt lead;
the winds of jupiter would sandblast your skin off;
the rain on neptune would freeze you into solid ice.
16. The chills you get when you listen to music are caused by your brain releasing dopamine, a neurotransmitter that causes pleasure. The brain releases these same feel-good hormones during sex and eating too.
17. i am abnormally dexterous with my feet/toes
18. blue eyes are actually caused by a lack of pigment (melanin), and brown is caused by an over abundance. melanin also protects the eyes better, and means that people with blue eyes are slightly more sensitive to light
19. grey is the rarest eye color, with red (severe albinism) being the 2nd rarest, and violet being the 3rd (natural, and mild albinism)
Mar 14, 2022
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#7
Seiiren wrote:
5. almost every single notable civilization has/had a legend about a sea monster similar to the kraken
I would be very surprised if any of the inland civilisations, such as the Mongols had a myth about sea monsters.
20. the human eye can rotate left and right
21. the most expensive single NFT ever sold was "Everydays - The First 5000 Days", a collage of images made by a 3d artist named Beeple, and sold for 69.3 million USD, roughly 27k etherum at the time
22. legend of zelda majoras mask has sold over 6 million copies
23. roughly 30% of the US population has hitchhikers thumb
24. ticks can carry a disease called Alpha-Gal Syndrome, which can make you allergic to red meat (specifically a type of sugar found in red meat)
25. florida contains funny city names, such as:
Couch, Lorida, Dogtown, Two Egg, Yeehaw Junction, Niceville, Christmas, and Possum Bluff
EDIT: i accidentally edited over the original 6 facts, and they're now lost forever because im stupid