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Fact 1: All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they essentially begin to sink and drown
Source: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-happens-when-whales-die.html
Extra fact: There’s a recording of the last Kaua’i Oo bird singing before it went extinct. It was a mating call sung by a male bird. The song has breaks for the female bird to respond. There’s no response because the male Kaua’i Oo is the last of its kind
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaua%CA%BBi_%CA%BB%C5%8D%CA%BB%C5%8D
Fact 2: The reason Elvis died on the toilet was because his heart was beating 200+ bpm and the quick rhythm change caused a myocardial infarction.
Source: https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/aa53422
Extra fact: Charondas was a Greek lawgiver from Sicily. According to Diodorus Siculus, he issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside but with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charondas
Fact 3: Your brain regulates how strong your muscles are. If your leg muscles were to contract at full strength, they would snap your femur.
Source: https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/brain.html
Extra facts: The tongue is the only muscle in the body connected at one end.
Fact or not:
#1 : The record for staying underwater is 22 minutes
FACT: huffpost.com/entry/breath-world-record-stig-severinsen_n_2144734
#2 : You cannot turn off the shutter sound in Japan
FACT: https://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/8053-why-all-cell-phones-in-japan-are-shipped-with-an-annoying-shutter-sound#:~:text=In%20Japan%2C%20that%20shutter%20sound,like%20up%20a%20woman's%20skirt.
#3 : Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn
Fact: https://twitter.com/whereisyvette/status/1293174433516072960?lang=en
Μπορείτε να μας βρείτε στο Instagram @getfactcy και στο email [email protected]
Fact 1: All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they essentially begin to sink and drown
Source: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-happens-when-whales-die.html
Extra fact: There’s a recording of the last Kaua’i Oo bird singing before it went extinct. It was a mating call sung by a male bird. The song has breaks for the female bird to respond. There’s no response because the male Kaua’i Oo is the last of its kind
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaua%CA%BBi_%CA%BB%C5%8D%CA%BB%C5%8D
Fact 2: The reason Elvis died on the toilet was because his heart was beating 200+ bpm and the quick rhythm change caused a myocardial infarction.
Source: https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/aa53422
Extra fact: Charondas was a Greek lawgiver from Sicily. According to Diodorus Siculus, he issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside but with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charondas
Fact 3: Your brain regulates how strong your muscles are. If your leg muscles were to contract at full strength, they would snap your femur.
Source: https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/brain.html
Extra facts: The tongue is the only muscle in the body connected at one end.
Fact or not:
#1 : The record for staying underwater is 22 minutes
FACT: huffpost.com/entry/breath-world-record-stig-severinsen_n_2144734
#2 : You cannot turn off the shutter sound in Japan
FACT: https://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/8053-why-all-cell-phones-in-japan-are-shipped-with-an-annoying-shutter-sound#:~:text=In%20Japan%2C%20that%20shutter%20sound,like%20up%20a%20woman's%20skirt.
#3 : Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn
Fact: https://twitter.com/whereisyvette/status/1293174433516072960?lang=en