Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever come across the myth that bald eagles mate while flying? It goes several ways. One way is that they free-fall, legs entwines with each other as they plummet towards the earth, managing to end their copulation either quite effectively and with plenty of time to spare, or just in the nick of time. Another […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSloths do not grab their own arm and fall to their deaths. This is just preposterous to say the least. But it has gained a fair bit of attention and notoriety online over the years, but why? Why is it that such a statement is adhered to as being an actual factually correct assertion? Have you
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Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you heard the story that lobsters are immortal? I’m guessing that by now that there’s a very good chance that you have heard a brief rumor about their uncanny ability to cheat the rigors of old age. Well, how can I put this? Lobsters aren’t immortal. In fact, they don’t even come close to
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Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you read a fact that bats always turn left when they leave a cave? It’s a truly remarkable fact when you think about it. For an animal to know the difference between left and right, or to have a distinct preference for one direction over the other. But it does obviously raise several questions.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat are the number of spiders eaten in your sleep every year? We will try to shed a little light on this often heard of fact, and point out that it’s utterly and completely false. There’s an often quoted factoid that circulates on the internet that says the average person will eat eight spiders in their
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Reading Time: 3 minutesNow we will work about debunking the pitbull nanny dog myth. Pitbull. The mere utterance of the word evokes the image a ferocious fighting dog, bred for the sole purpose of fighting for entertainment and gambling purposes. It’s with little wonder that this breed of dog, renowned as the supreme fighting dog breed, has a fearsome
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSimple enough question. Are polar bears left handed? This is a relatively easy factoid to find, and can be found just about anywhere online. But like so many out there, and believe us when we say that there’s are a lot, this one is just simply wrong. All polar bears are not left handed. It
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOh no, yet another interesting, but otherwise false and misleading factoid to contend with. Do hippos have pink milk? No they don’t, not at all, not even a single solitary drop. But as with many of these misleading claims that can raise their heads from time to time on the wonderful internet, they contain just
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Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion. Do elephants stand after death? This is a topic that got my attention after I saw it pop up on an app that I have installed on my phone. At first I thought that it would probably be false, but it was still worth looking into as there could be just that slim chance that
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