#1 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
Are you guilty of this? I know I am.
#2 Honeybees can recognize human faces.
Whereas before it was thought that only large brained mammals could distinguish faces, but honeybees can do this as well!
They see faces in a compilation of 5,000 individual images – kind of like pixels.
#3 Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Because the temperature in the Antarctic is well below zero, the urine can’t evaporate and just combines with the glaciers.
#4 Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
This is a method mostly used by a mother and her pup to prevent them from separating.
Other than holding hands, they may also wrap themselves in kelp to keep from drifting away!
#5 J.K. Rowling chose the unusual name “Hermione” so young girls wouldn’t be teased for being nerdy.
The name Hermione came from Shakespeare’s “A Winter’s Tale.”
Rowling says when she chose the name, she “didn’t want a lot of fairly hard-working little girls to be teased if ever the book was published.”
#6 Hewlett-Packard’s (also known as HP) name was decided in a coin toss in 1939.
The name was always going to be a hyphenation of the two founders last names, so in order to decide between Hewlett-Packard and Packard-Hewlett, they flipped a coin.
#7 There is a total of 1,710 steps in the Eiffel Tower.
Standing 108 stories tall, there are 1,710 steps to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
However, guests are only allowed to climb the stairs until the first platform.
From there, they must take a lift to the top.
#8 The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
The third Pokemon of the Hitmons is also named after a martial artist.
Hitmontop is named after a lesser known martial artist, Larry Top.
If you love Pokémon, you’ll love these fun facts about the original 151 Pokémon.
#9 A woman tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind.
Standing almost 1,500 feet tall, there’s no way anyone could survive that fall.
However, when Elvita Adams tried to kill herself by jumping, a strong gust of wind blew her to the floor below.
The worst injury she sustained was a fractured hip.
#10 Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”
The original name was quite a mouthful. It translates to “town of our lady the Queen of Angels of the River Porciuncula.”
Now, Los Angeles is just “The Angels.”
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