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Ask HN: What is your favourite obscure or surprising fact?
- sambeau 15y ago94% of sexual activity in male Giraffes is homosexual. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
- sambeau 15y agoLight has no mass so it does not experience time. Everything happens instantly for it. While it takes us 10 years to wait for light to travel 10 light-years, the light takes no time at all. This explains it perfectly: http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/07/q-does-light-experience-time/ http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/07/q-does-light-experi...
- sambeau 15y agoA lump of lead will float in a pool of mercury.
- Khao 15y agoLigers do exist. Lions and Tigers can breed and when a male lion and a female tigress mate, it makes a Liger. The liger is the biggest feline ever and they are extremely massive! To really see how massive they are, you can see an adult liger in this video next to a man : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOWYj59BXI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOWYj59BXI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
- albahk 15y agoA pickle (or Gherkin) is just a cucumber.
- tangentcity 15y agoThe brain is the most complicated object known to man. The number of possible unique thoughts by any brain is greater than the number of molecules in the universe.