Fun Facts That’ll Actually Make Your Life Better

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Scientists put fake tails on chickens to understand how T-Rex might have walked.

As the closest living relative to a T-Rex, any practical testing falls to the humble chicken.

So researchers from the University of Chicago and University of Chile found that chickens with raised tails walk vastly different over chickens with natural tail features, showing them how a T-Rex would have walked.

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Mock naval battles were sometimes held in Rome’s Colosseum.

Often thought of as the home of just the gladiatorial games, the Romans would sometimes flood the Colosseum with water from a nearby aqua-duct and hold full-scale mock naval battles for entertainment and to test out new technologies and tactics.

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Millions of birds a year die from smashing into windows in the U.S. alone.

The actual number is somewhere between 365 million and 988 million!

While the exact number of the bird population is uncertain, this comes out to about 2 to 10 percent of birds in the United States.

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During WWII, The British Navy destroyed French vessels after France fell to Germany.

The British feared the French naval vessels would bump up the numbers of the Axis fleet, so they sailed to Algeria and destroyed them whilst they were at anchor, killing 1,300 French sailors.

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The first death in the American Civil War was a horse.

In fact, the only casualty during the Battle of Fort Sumter – the war’s first battle – was the poor confederate officer’s trusty steed.

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Johnny Cash has a species of tarantula named after him.


Scientifically named “Aphonopelma johnnycashi”, this tarantula was discovered in 2015 near Folsom Prison, California, and was named after Johnny Cash in honor of his song Folsom Prison Blues.

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The word “disaster” means “bad star” in Ancient Greek.

This is because back in Ancient Greek times, astrology was often used as a means of predicting things such as the weather, or natural events like earthquakes.

So by seeing a “bad star” it would mean a calamity was inbound.

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The start-up sound for Window 95 was made on an Apple Macintosh computer.


It was created by composer Brian Eno specifically on a Mac as he’d never used a PC – because he doesn’t like them. Ironic.