Fact Of The Day

Flatfish (halibut, flounder, turbot, and sole) hatch like any other “normal” fish. As they grow, they turn sideways and one eye moves around so they have two eyes on the side that faces up.

 

October is one of the most dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. (Attributed to Mark Twain.)

 

Measured in straight flight, the spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies 106 mph (170 km/h). Second fastest is the Frigate, which reaches 94 mph (150 km/h).

 

The graveyard of St Peter’s Church in Liverpool, where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met, contains the gravestone of an individual named Eleanor Rigby. – Source

 

The Peregrine falcon can hit 200 MPH in a dive.

 

I did not win the Mega Millions.

 

NBC news correspondent Hallie Jackson was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar while attending Johns Hopkins University.

 

Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

 

Conservationists found the bones of at least 15 people in the basement of a house belonging to Ben Franklin, most likely bodies smuggled from graveyards for an illegal anatomy school. – Source

 

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Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their cousins.

 

A Boston Dynamics robot can dance to Uptown Funk.

 

It would be hard to find a living creature on this earth as wonderful as an elephant.

 

Rick Allen, best known as the drummer for the British rock group Def Leppard, is the world's only regularly-performing professional one-armed drummer. After losing his arm in 1985, he remarked that the band would need to search for a new drummer. The group responded "NO F*CKING WAY!" He has continued to perform and record using his left foot for snare, tom-tom, and other sounds.

 

There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 21 million people.

 

Pretty impressive that whoever counted them could stay awake that long!



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A "Choke Exchange" or "Choke Prefix" is a telephone prefix (3 numbers following the area code in the US and Canada) which is designed to handle extremely large call volumes, such as those generated by radio contests and ticket vendor promotions.

 

New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.

 

Joel Sartore is an award-winning photographer and regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine.
He is the head of the NG Photo Ark Project, a 25-year effort to photograph and document the approximately 12,000
species of wildlife living in the world's zoos and sanctuaries.



"The goal of Photo Ark is to celebrate all creatures great and small and to let people know that as these other species go away, so could we," he says. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37991269

 

There are absolutely no streets named High Street anywhere in the vicinity of the High Street subway station in Brooklyn.