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The only mammals indigenous to New Zealand are bats and marine animals like seals and dolphins. Dogs and rats were introduced by Maori settlers in the 13th century, and there were no cats or cattle until European colonists brought them with them in the 1800s.
 
Favored if not favorite fact: Foxes are more closely related to cats than dogs.
 
A single day on the planet Mercury lasts approximately 58.65 Earth days.
A single year on Mercury lasts approximately 88 Earth days.
Mercury's iron core accounts for nearly 2/3rds of the planet's mass, making it the smallest planet in the Solar System while at the same time having the highest density.
 
Animals, including insects, faced the possibility of criminal charges for several centuries across many parts of Europe from the thirteenth century until the eighteenth.
 
Sync said:
A single day on the planet Mercury lasts approximately 58.65 Earth days.
A single year on Mercury lasts approximately 88 Earth days.
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On a similar note, a day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days, while it takes about 225 Earth days to orbit around the sun once -- a Venus day is longer than a Venus year! Due to its clockwise rotation (compared to Earth's counter-clockwise rotation), the sun also comes up in Venus's west, and depending on the weather, day lengths can vary by twenty minutes.

To continue this theme, a single day on Earth lasts almost exactly one Earth day.
 
The play, fast-forward, and rewind button logos were originally intended to indicate the direction the tape media would move if you pressed the button.
 
A meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the Earth's equator and the North Pole along a great circle.
 
The electrical energy a single person will use in their entire life can be powered by a soda can-sized piece of uranium. Making nuclear power the most bang for your buck energy compared to other sources. You can, quite literally, have a lifetime of excess energy with a standard pack (six) of soda-sized uranium pieces for a family of four.
 
I can't choose only one!

Maena said:
Foxes are more closely related to cats than dogs.
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Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs, so building on that, my fact will be that female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises — and yes, they give birth through these!
 
AstralHunter said:
I can't choose only one!


Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs, so building on that, my fact will be that female spotted hyenas have pseudo-penises — and yes, they give birth through these!
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I both knew that and hadn't actually pictured that. It is now stuck in my head. So thanks for that. XD
:p
 
The shortest War in history lasted just 38 minutes.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is considered the shortest war in recorded history.
It occurred between the British Empire and the Sultanate of Zanzibar and ended in British victory in less than an hour.
 
Barnacles have the largest penis-to-body size ratio in the animal kingdom, with penises that can be up to eight times the length of their bodies.

Lemons float, but limes sink.

A fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Just a few of my preferred gems.
 
TiedForAll said:
There's a version of Pythagoras' theorem for use on spheres.
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Regarding Pythagoras, do you know how he died?

He was being chased by a mob when he came across a field of beans, he refused to cross it either due to a fear or them or a belief that they were sacred, the mob caught him and killed him.

Not sure if that’s a fact but it’s one theory as to how he died 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Urine was a valuable commodity in the Roman Empire. There was, in effect, an industry based around its collection, as due to its ammonia content urine was sold as a chemical to be used in laundry and leather tanning. The urine collection business got so large that the Emperor Vespasian (69-79AD) began taxing urine.
 
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