Those cute furry bits inside a cat’s ear are called “ear furnishings.” They ensure that dirt doesn’t go inside and also help them to hear well.
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There is a United Arab Emirates territory inside Oman’s territory that itself is inside the United Arab Emirates country. It is called Madha village.
Somebody hid an episode of South Park inside Tiger Woods 99 as an Easter egg, causing EA to do a massive recall.
The military has used silly strings to detect tripwires in Iraq. Before entering a room, they can squirt it inside. If it hangs in the air, it may have revealed a wire.
Leather products like handbags or shoes can be polished with the inside of a banana skin, simply rub it on and wipe it off with a cloth.
Our dead cells are eaten by other cells in our body. Don’t worry; it’s meant to happen. When cells inside your body die, they’re scavenged by phagocytes – white blood cells whose job it is to digest other cells.
You’re likely familiar with the concept of fingerprints, but people also have a “noseprint,” a set of distinct and unique impressions on the inside of your nose.
There’s enough gold inside Earth to coat the planet. Turns out, there’s quite a bit of gold on—or, really, in—our planet: 99 per cent of the precious metal can be found in the Earth’s core, Discover Magazine reports. How much is there? Enough to coat the entire surface of the Earth in 1.5 feet of gold.
Wimbledon tennis balls are kept at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature of a tennis ball affects how it bounces. At warmer temperatures, the gas molecules inside the ball expand, making the ball bounce higher. Lower temperatures cause the molecules to shrink and the ball to bounce lower. To make sure the best tennis balls are used, Wimbledon goes through more than 50,000 tennis balls each year.
Lobsters taste with their feet. Tiny bristles inside a lobster’s little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds. Meanwhile, lobsters’ teeth are in one of their three stomachs.
British military tanks are equipped to make tea. There’s a boiling vessel inside so the crew can make tea and coffee anytime—including during battle. How frightfully English.
Your heart beats 100,000 times a day. A fun fact for when you feel dead inside: your body is working hard to keep you from being dead on the outside.
Space travel makes mice run in circles. NASA once sent 20 rodents to the International Space Station to see how the effects of space affected mice. Not long after they got there, the mice all started running in loops inside their cages. No one is exactly sure why this occurred, but researchers stated that the critters might’ve just been enjoying their time in space.
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are banned in China. Anyone caught using these platforms while inside the country can and will be arrested. Over 8,000 other domains are also blocked within the country. This rule is also implemented for visiting foreigners.
The Japanese have their word for book hoarders. ‘Tsundoku’ is the Japanese word for people who love to buy books but never read them. More often, these books are just left piled up inside their homes and never used.
Sourtoe cocktails are served in Yukon. The drink has been served since the 1970s and contains a shot of whiskey and a human toe floating inside the glass. All toes that are served with the drink have been mummified beforehand.
Ripe cranberries can bounce. Cranberries have air pockets inside of them that cause them to float and bounce. Unripe berries can be easily segregated by seeing if they have damage from an attempted bounce.
Swishing wine inside your mouth allows all your taste buds to detect its flavour. Sweetness is detected at the tip of the tongue and bitterness at the back. Sour tastes are detected on the sides of your tongue.
Our bum crack is medically referred to as the intergluteal cleft. The crena is another formal term used for the cleavage of the buttocks. We have butt cracks mainly due to the preliminary muscles that sit inside the evolved pelvic bones.
The Indiana University library is constantly sinking. It sinks over half an inch annually. This is because engineers failed to calculate and include the estimated weight of all the books that would be placed inside the building.
Wisdom teeth have no purpose. Wisdom teeth are vestigial third molars that have helped in grinding plant tissue. It was believed that the jaws of human ancestors had larger jaws with more teeth. Often wisdom teeth are removed to prevent complicated problems that could occur if they continue to grow inside the mouth.
Scientists discovered a new bacteria that lives inside hairspray. Microbacterium hatanonis was discovered in 2008 after isolating the many properties inside the hairspray.
Grapes will explode inside the microwave. For it to explode, you must split the grape almost in half and place it inside. This will create a fireball of plasma which is caused by radiation and heat.
You can turn coal mixed in peanut butter into a diamond. With enough high pressure and equipment, the carbon material inside the coal can turn into a diamond. However, this process takes an extensively long time to complete.
Peanut butter contains insect fragments. According to the DFA, about 100 grams of peanut butter can include 30 or more insect fragments inside it. This includes hairs, scales, shed skin, etc.
The hair of a reindeer is hollow. The hair inside their noses is also efficient heat exchangers that warm up the cold air they breathe in. This makes them good insulators.
Only hard-boiled eggs spin. Soft-boiled eggs and raw eggs do not spin like hard-boiled eggs do mainly because of their liquid inside. Hard-boiled eggs spin faster and more equally because the yolk inside is hard.
Refrigerated rubber bands last longer. When a rubber band is placed inside the fridge, the polymers in the band will become more relaxed. However, when the rubber bands are exposed to warmer conditions, the polymers in the band will tighten and cause it to break more easily.
The human liver has 500 functions. This is also the only vital organ inside the human body that is capable of regenerating. One of the more well-known functions of the liver is producing bile which helps in the process of digestion.
Birds have hollow bones which help them fly. Birds are unique creatures with many interesting facts to feature. However, one of their more creepy features is their hollow bones. Deep inside, birds are pretty much paper mache. While humans have dense bones filled with marrow, most birds of flight have only air and struts in their bones.
Malls and casinos fool us with the Gruen Transfer. One thing that malls and casinos have in common aside from crowds and spending is that there are barely any clocks and windows. To the people inside, this creates a “scripted disorientation” called the Gruen Transfer that makes them lose track of time.
George Lucas got stuck in the Jaws shark’s head. During a set visit, George Lucas thought it would be funny to stick his head in Bruce The Shark’s head. Steven Spielberg closed the jaws of the animatronic shark, and George Lucas got stuck inside. So much for funny facts.
Singapore has a 15-story car vending machine. Inspired by diecast toy cars, Autobahn Motors unveiled a building that “dispenses” luxury cars in 2017. The building is located in Bukit Merah and can hold up to 60 luxury cars inside.
There’s an apartment inside the Eiffel Tower. When Gustave Eiffel designed the tower, he added a hidden apartment on the third level—but he never lived there, nor did anybody. Instead, Eiffel used this space to entertain guests such as Thomas Edison. Though it wasn’t big, the apartment was decorated with wallpaper, furnished with wooden cabinets, and even had a grand piano. Nowadays, you can get a peek at the unique space through a window if you ride up the tower.
Wimbledon tennis balls must be stored at perfect room temperature. Wimbledon tennis balls must be kept at 68 degrees Fahrenheit because the temperature affects how it bounces. If it’s warmer gas molecules inside the ball expand, which makes it bounce higher. If it’s cooler, the molecules will shrink, making the ball bounce lower.
Chip bags are full of nitrogen. The excess air in chip bags isn’t there to fool buyers into thinking there are more chips inside. Instead, bags of chips are filled with nitrogen. Oxygen would spoil the chips fast, but nitrogen preserves freshness, prevents combustion, and creates cushioning during shipping.
Your liver can regenerate in three weeks. We’re carrying a little Wolverine inside us, after all.
The sun contains over 99% of the mass in our galaxy. Over a million Earths could fit inside the sun.
Scientists used to believe there were little people inside sperm. In the 1600s, “preformationism” was a widely believed theory: People believed that tiny, fully-formed humans were curled up in sperm cells or egg cells. Sounds like a surrealist horror concept, if you ask me.
Starfish eat with their stomachs outside their body. Starfish may not have brains, but they’ve got a hell of a stomach. Mostly feeding on clams and mussels, the starfish wraps its arms around its prey’s shell and squeezes it open. The starfish then pushes its stomach out of its mouth and into the prey’s shell. Once it digests the animal inside the shell, the starfish will retract its stomach back into its body. Who knew these innocent-looking sea creatures were so hardcore?
Scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest animal while trying to learn its age. Everybody makes mistakes. When scientists found an ancient ocean quahog, they decided to examine it from the inside to determine its true age. However, in doing so, they accidentally killed the ancient clam. And all for nothing, too – they ended up using the outside of its shell to determine its age. Ming, named after the dynasty it was born, had been 507 years old at the time of its discovery.
Snapple’s 1001 “Real Facts” aren’t true. In 2002, the manufacturers of Snapple began printing “Real Facts” inside the bottle caps. However, most of this information is outdated or simply myths.
Fungi can control the mind and make them a zombie. Ophiocordyceps is a kind of tropical fungus that affects the ant’s central nervous system. After nine days, when it’s been inside the ant’s body, it has complete control over the host’s movements. It can influence the ant’s behaviour too by making them climb the tree and then fall.
The highest winds ever measured inside a tornado were about 302 mph.
British military tanks are equipped to make tea. If the crew needs hot tea or coffee, they can just reach for the boiling vessel inside the tank.
There is enough gold inside Earth’s core to cover the entire planet.
5 billion Suns could fit in UY Scuti, one of the biggest known stars. Compared to the rest of the worlds of our Solar System – even colossal Jupiter – our Sun is pretty big. But it’s nothing compared to the biggest stars we know of red hypergiant stars that would positively dwarf our Sun if ever there was a cosmic ‘who’s the biggest star?’ contest. UY Scuti is one such stellar giant. It’s often referred to as the biggest known star in the Universe (although this can’t definitively be proven). But what calculations have revealed is that if UY Scuti were to replace our Sun, its outer edge would sit beyond the orbit of Jupiter. 5 billion Suns, 7 trillion Jupiters or 7 quadrillion Earths would fit inside UY Scuti! What’s more, UY Scuti is 300,000 times brighter than the Sun but is so far away you wouldn’t know this when observing it in our night sky.
One million Earths could fit inside the sun!
Over one million Earths could fit inside the sun.
One million Earths could fit inside the Sun – and the Sun is considered an average-size star.
In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies by turning cats into listening devices. The program, called Acoustic Kitty, involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and antennae inside cats.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child inside.
The biggest tapeworm found inside a human body was 35 meters long.
The black dot on the inside surface of a monarch’s wing distinguishes the male monarch butterfly from the female, which has no spot.
The Pringles creator’s ashes were buried inside a Pringles can.
What’s inside a Kit Kat? Broken Kit Kats that are damaged during production—they get ground up and go between the wafers inside, along with cocoa and sugar. That’s a way to not let anything go to waste!
The two tiny holes in every BIC pen ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.
The small indents in the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles from forming inside the dough.
Self-mummification. A 1,000-year-old Chinese Buddha statue was taken to a Dutch hospital for a CT scan in 2017. The scan revealed a mummified monk inside the golden figure with its internal organs missing. The monk was believed to have self-mummified before being encased in the statue.
Moving statues. The only statue from classical Rome to remain largely unmolested and on public display for nearly 2,000 years is the Equestrian statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius. Erected in the late 2nd century AD, it was finally put inside a museum in the 1980s.
London’s Big Ben is not the name of the tower but the name of the bell inside the tower. Its actual name is “the clock tower”.