21+ Fun Facts To Make A Brand New Day More Fascinating

Zoologist Anne Dagg described their swimming style as a "cumbersome stroke with its wings that resembled a human breaststroke." It's slow, but apparently steady enough to do the job.

Look, they're doing their best, okay?

In fact, the reason why we have so many apple trees here now is that early settlers thought crab apples weren't a satisfying substitute for the type we're used to and brought apple tree cuttings and seeds over from Europe.

Batman #1 had two stories about him, and the second one, "The Joker Returns," ends with The Joker getting stabbed by his own knife.

According to author Mark S. Reinhart, this was supposed to kill him, but one of the editors at DC Comics recognized how great of a character he is and asked for a slight rewrite.

According to Emmanuel Dormois, a head pool attendant in Paris, this is because tight swimwear is only be used in the pool.

Larger shorts, however, can be worn all day, which means that swimmers wearing those could mess up a pool's water quality by bringing in outside dust and dirt.

This phenomenon is called "thundersnow" and it usually happens when warm air quickly rises through the cool air above it, which is called convection.

Since Lake Ontario and Lake Erie have the right combination of a warm body of water and bitterly cold air to make this happen, they're both relatively common places to experience thundersnow.

Every 10 years, the snowshoe hare experiences a dip in population and the lynx numbers end up following suit. The lynx can also eat mice, squirrels, and birds, but that doesn't change how dependent they are on those bunnies.

Modern, fuel-efficient cars actually run fairly quiet, but manufacturers figure customers want to hear the engine growl, so some sound technicians will subtly pipe an amplified version of that purr through the car's speakers.

Even the satisfying "clunk" of a car door would normally sound tinny thanks to added safety features, but certain dampeners were added to the doors to get the old sound back.

According to Dr. Christopher S. Baird at West Texas A&M, a fire is capable of blocking and reflecting light, but it has to be brighter or just as bright as the fire itself to be noticeable. Sunlight will do it, but a flashlight won't.

Also, the soot in a fire absorbs light, which means it helps create that subtle shadow.

Henry demanded a ransom of 150,000 marks, but author Abigail Archer wrote that John and King Philip of France offered him 80,000 to imprison him for longer.

However, Henry held out for his original demand and released Richard once he got it.

Sadly, the school administration doesn't actually believe in unicorns. This was just a way that PR director Bill Rabe chose to promote the university back in 1971.Still, it was apparently a popular idea, since sending these licenses out pretty much described his son James' summer job.

She said her grandfather was reading the news in 1930 about a new planet and she figured it would make sense to follow the Roman mythology theme of the other planets and call it Pluto.

That grandfather was friends with an astronomer, who then passed the name on to the Royal Astronomical Society, who all seemed to love it.

Technically, this means she also named Mickey Mouse's dog.

Author Alex Hills said the name started in 1999 to describe wireless products that met certain technical specifications called "IEEE 802.11."They needed a catchy name that sounded less like a cat jumping on a keyboard, so they landed on "wifi" and the industry has used it ever since.

Apparently, this shape would be a little more noticeable if we were closer to the moon. However, our tides would also be a lot more intense, so maybe that's for the best.

An Oxford University report said that police horses help cops manage large crowds of people because they not only make the officer easier to spot, but apparently also make people more likely to talk to them.

It's one of the longest words in the English language, but it's pretty unclear why somebody would give such a relatable thing such a difficult name to remember.Maybe we're supposed to think that memorizing that word is an example of its own definition?

The pumpkin carriage first appeared in a French version of the story from 1697 and when this version was translated into English, people were still calling pumpkins "pompions."

So yeah, Cinderella is older than the word "pumpkin."

Not only do they grow quickly, but they're able to withstand both air pollution and soil compaction, which is what happens when soil gets squished together and water can't get in as well.

They're good for keeping the wind from getting too harsh, too.

Although they're handed out for essentially the same reason, what they look like will vary between chapters of the organization. There are thousands of different coins made of different metals, but they usually include the letters "HTWSSTKS" to symbolize an "ancient grandmaster."

They may end up giant, but the reason why they start so small is because they have to exit their mothers quickly. Mama's low metabolism thanks to her bamboo diet means she has lower blood oxygen levels, so the baby needs the open air.

Plus, there are fatty acids in the mother's milk that the baby can't get anywhere else.

This included meat and poultry, but a tomb's preparers would try to keep them from going bad by drying them with salt, wrapping them with bandages, and covering them with resin made from pistachio tree sap.

So, yes, they essentially mummified food.

Most E. coli strains can multiply in about 16 to 17 minutes, but the current record goes to the P. natriegens, which can produce some new friends in 9.8 minutes.

So, it may take a long time to make them form Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night," but it wouldn't take that long to make all the bacteria they used as "paint."

According to ornithologist Witmer Stone, this costume change doesn't have anything to do with their mating season, especially since it leaves them with much duller colors during this molting period.

And although ducks can't fly during this period, the duller colors help them blend into the scenery and protect them from predators.