Interesting Facts - Page 139

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The Inca Empire did not use wheels.
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There was once a street in Amsterdam named Stalinlaan in honor of Joseph Stalin.
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Thomas Edison sold houses made entirely from a single pour of concrete. When the homes proved unpopular, Edison tried to sell concrete furniture. That didn't work either.
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Male elephant seals can weigh up to 10 times as much as female elephant seals.
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Matter can emerge spontaneously from a vacuum.
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Level 40
Jun 1, 2021
Page 139! Yes!!!
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Level 71
Jun 2, 2021
Didn't the Aztec Empire also not use wheels? Or am I wrong on that?
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Level 37
Jun 2, 2021
I don't think any Ancient American civilization used wheels, they also really didn't domesticate anything other than llamas, and they aren't exactly the best for pulling things like carts.
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Level 54
Jun 5, 2021
Indus, Roman and egypt knew wheels i think
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Level 65
Jun 7, 2021
That's false @ARandomQuizzer.
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Level 58
Aug 31, 2021
No civilization in the Americas had wheels until after Europe came over, to my knowledge.
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Level 75
Jun 5, 2021
Peru is further away from Japan than any African or European country.

Did I say this before?

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Level 65
Jun 6, 2021
Hawaii had glaciers 13,000 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea#Geology

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Level 65
Jun 7, 2021
I just found this out, but on Paraguay's flag, the fern thingies around the stars are different.
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Level 60
Jun 8, 2021
On May the 29th, there is a national day called "put your pillow on the fridge day". Idk what for, I think it may be superstition but I found it hilarious anyway.
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Level 60
Jun 8, 2021
Sorry QM about selecting the box for you to see it. Accident!
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Level 55
Jun 8, 2021
On July 14th, their is a Fortune Cookies Day
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Level 25
Feb 25, 2023
Nobody is taking your fact seriously because of your horrible grammar.
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Level 60
May 31, 2023
nah it’s just you
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Level 42
Jun 9, 2021
3 out of Germany's 16 federated states are city-states (Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen), as they only consist of a single city or metropolitan region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany

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Level 42
Jun 9, 2021
New York City is made up of three principal islands: Manhattan Island, Long Island (containing Brooklyn and Queens) and Staten Island.

The Bronx is the city's only borough located on mainland North America.

https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2011/10/the-archipelago-of-new-york-city/#

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Level 54
Jun 10, 2021
1- birds can't urinate

2- Ants never sleep. They also don't have lungs.

3- If u lift kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hope. They use their tails for balance.

4- The horn of Rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather then bone.

5- Bat always turn left when leaving cave.

6- Snake can still see if it's eyes are close.

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Level 65
Jun 10, 2021
Poor kangaroos, dreams are ruined when you pick them up.
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Level 46
Jun 28, 2021
that happens with beavers teeth as well
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Level 64
Nov 7, 2021
Poor kangaroos. They have no hope when their tails are off the ground.
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Level 71
Jul 22, 2021
Kangaroos certainly can jump when their tails are off the ground, they have extremely strong legs, the tail helps balance when they are bounding along, it keeps them heading strait forward, so much so that they don't find it so easy to quickly change direction when travelling at speed.
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2021
I believe they fall over when they try to jump but Idk
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Level 58
Feb 14, 2024
Not sure if that's true about the bats. I let one out of the window of my house and it turned right, I don't live in a cave so that may be the reason,
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2021
I'm interested in Fact 695, where can I read about it?
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Level 77
Oct 28, 2021
Yeah, you gotta share the source for this. I want to know more.
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Level ∞
Oct 28, 2021
This is above my pay grade so to speak, but you can read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy

Throughout the universe, the vacuum has energy. As we know from the equation E = MC2, energy can be converted into mass and vice versa. Sometimes, particles arise in the vacuum. Usually when this happens, there is a particle and an antiparticle that quickly destroy each other. But sometimes this doesn't happen right away, allowing for newly-created particles to interact with the real world.

It's possible that our universe could have arisen as a quantum fluctuation in the vacuum.

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Level 68
May 12, 2022
Interesting, I think that's the concept of Hawking Radiation and Black Hole evaporation. If that happens at a black hole's event horizon, one particle can get sucked in and the other survives and the black hole loses some energy this way. Over billions of years, this will cause it to eventually evaporate.
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Level ∞
Oct 28, 2021
One more crazy thing about this phenomenon is that there are two different theories for how much energy the vacuum has.

One estimate is 10-9 joules per cubic meter.

The other estimate is 10113 joules per cubic meter.

The insane distance between these two estimates has been called "the largest discrepancy between theory and experiment in all of science" and "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics."

Which is to say that there is a lot we don't know.

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Level 60
Aug 29, 2023
an elephant fact under an Edison fact. Yikes.
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Level 58
Feb 14, 2024
There's still a street in Uganda called Idi Amin Road.
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Level 21
Feb 26, 2024
Interesting.