ITT: Share fascinating facts! Made-up stuff that sounds somewhat plausible is fine too.
Cats have a small spot on their backs that will cause them to lick themselves, whatever is in front of them, or even the air, when you scratch there. It's involuntary, much like the kicking reflex when you tap your knee.
If you lined people up all the way around the equator, all facing east, and everyone farted simultaneously, it would change the earth's rotation enough to shorten a day by six minutes.
A Komodo Dragon's bite is not venomous to any degree that is harmful to humans. The danger comes from its mouth being so utterly filthy. E. coli, staph and various of the Proteus family are just a few of the dangerous bacteria present.
14% of all people on Earth suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. Most of them live in Sheffield.
Kidneys first entered our bodies as parasitic bacteria and have their own distinct DNA. At 3cm long, kidneys are the largest bacteria known to man.
Did You Know could be abbreviated as DYK.
You want DYK.
"It's crowded on the balcony" is a literal translation of a French phrase which means "She has a large cleavage"
Florida only seems so batshit crazy because the press has access to a higher level of detail for crimes.
In amphibians, birds, reptiles and monotremes, the cloaca is the single external opening for the gastrointestinal, urinary, and reproductive tracts. —Wikipedia article titled "Vagina"
I knew that was the case for chickens, but I did not know that was the case for the stated animals. What is a monotreme? Monotremes have disgusting vaginae.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vaginaCase _________ Singular ____ Plural--------------------------------------Nominative ___ vāgīna ______ vāgīnaeGenitive _____ vāgīnae _____ vāgīnārumDative _______ vāgīnae _____ vāgīnīsAccusative ___ vāgīnam _____ vāgīnāsAblative _____ vāgīnā ______ vāgīnīsVocative _____ vāgīna ______ vāgīnae
Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by one or more confederate soldier.
News you can use: coffee consumption decreases breast size.
Real "Traditional Chinese Medicine" (vs. the sanitized, mostly-placebo kind used today) used liquid mercury as a laxative. (This both works quite well, and isn't instantly-fatal like you'd think... liquid Hg is poorly-absorbed by the body.) However, the substance was expensive, so it was, well, re-used.