The Daily Fact Thread

[marrowick]

Originally Posted by Marro_Warlord

Even in Diablo, nutrition is key to survival.

Indeed! Even pirates wanted to keep away scurvy.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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The Malleefowl makes its nest out of a compost pile. Its eggs are incubated by the heat given off by the decomposition.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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According to the Guinness Book of Records, the heaviest turkey ever recorded belonged to turkey farmer Philip Cook, of Leacroft Turkeys Ltd. Mr. Cook’s prize winning turkey name was Tyson, and weighed in at a record setting 86 lb (39.09 kg), it was then auctioned off for charity, bringing in $6,692.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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Kangaroos don't fart. In fact they convert the methane they produce into energy through a bacteria in their gut.

[Agent Minivann]

Originally Posted by Dr.Goomonkey

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Kangaroos don't fart. In fact they convert the methane they produce into energy through a bacteria in their gut.

That's pretty cool. If I recall correctly, kangaroo rats (I believe not related to kangaroos) have a mechanism that reclaims the water from their urine, so they can survive arid climates better.

[MegaSilver]

Originally Posted by Agent Minivann

That's pretty cool. If I recall correctly, kangaroo rats (I believe not related to kangaroos) have a mechanism that reclaims the water from their urine, so they can survive arid climates better.

Kangaroo rats have no relation to kangaroos.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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Black Friday is not the biggest shopping day of the year, usually the Saturday before Christmas is and sometimes the Thursday or Friday before Christmas is.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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(for yesterday)

An estimated 46 million turkeys were eaten in the U.S. on Thanksgiving 2012

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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In an experiment conducted by Mark Rober, an engineer for NASA, a bunch of rubber snakes, tarantulas, and turtles were placed by the side of a highway. He found that out of one thousand passing cars documented, as many as sixty went out of their way to squash them.

[Marro_Warlord]

Originally Posted by Dr.Goomonkey

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In an experiment conducted by Mark Rober, an engineer for NASA, a bunch of rubber snakes, tarantulas, and turtles were placed by the side of a highway. He found that out of one thousand passing cars documented, as many as sixty went out of their way to squash them.

We're cruel.

[mtl1998]

Originally Posted by Marro_Warlord

We're cruel.

I found that fact pretty funny, to be honest.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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Of the NFL’s 32 teams, 28 have made it to a Super Bowl. Four remain: the Houston Texans, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Detroit Lions, and Cleveland Browns. Of those four, however, Houston, Jacksonville, and Detroit have all hosted a Super Bowl, leaving Cleveland the only NFL city to never experience Super Bowl glory.