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15 fun facts I enjoy sharing

Please do not judge! Also, always happy to learn more fun facts.

  1. New Mexico voted that Pluto is a planet when it passes over New Mexico (otherwise it is not)
  2. Orcas are dolphins
  3. An owl's eye color indicates what time (roughly) they hunt
  4. Andorra has co-princes, one of whom is the president of France
  5. If you were born before May 25, 2025, you shared this planet with, at least, a grandson of the US's 10th president, John Tyler (who lived from 1790-1862)
  6. Sharks are older than trees
  7. At one point, there were three simultaneous popes
  8. The Travels of Marco Polo were not, in fact, written by Marco Polo
  9. Since NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, alligators are commonly found on the grounds of NASA
  10. The oldest dog on record lived to be a little over 31 years old
  11. In Arkansas, you can have 6 bobcats if you caught them in Arkansas, but 7 rabbits you caught in Arkansas is, legally, too many rabbits
  12. Andrew Jackson's parrot was banned from his funeral because he'd taught it to swear
  13. Wonder Woman was co-created by William Moulton Marston and he was inspired by his wife Sarah Elizabeth Marston and their partner Mary Olive Byrne
  14. Cinderella is a folk tale variant found across thousands of years and tons of cultures
  15. The genre of science fiction was, arguably, started when a teenaged Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

(Prompt by me)

Photo by NASA on Unsplash


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