Tell me a "Fun Fact"
@catsalad a Davenport is another name for a sofa or a suitcase (as well as a lovely place in Tassie)
@catsalad The Wiggles Fruit Salad song is about Cat Salad Accounts
@catsalad Switzerland has never invaded any US state whose name contains the letter "a."
"Trees" are not a biological grouping the way, say, "mammals" are. It's just a body plan. An oak tree is more closely related to a daisy than to a pine tree.
@catsalad butterlies taste with their feet and retain their memories from when they were caterpillars 🐛🦋
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Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.
@catsalad fun fact: too many of my fun facts start out with "One time when I was plastered..."
@catsalad your brain lies to you when you move your gaze from one thing to another quickly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
@catsalad we discovered planet Uranus before Antarctica
@catsalad on average, a person swallows 10 fediverses a year while they’re sleeping
@maddiefuzz @catsalad this is a common misconception, most people swallow no fediverses in their entire lives.
Fediverse Georg, who lives in a cave on a hill and eats 10,000 fediverses a day is an outlier and should not be counted.
@catsalad if you hold a crab up to your ear you can hear what it sounds like to be attacked by a crab
@catsalad Woodpeckers' tongues wrap around the back of their skulls.
@theorangetheme I should call her...
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kangaroos can’t jump backwards!
@catsalad your intestines flattened and spread out would cover most of a football field
@catsalad There is no We in Fun.
@catsalad "mustard" in Estonian is "sinep" - or "penis" if you read it backwards.