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Fun Facts! Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 00:19:25 No.113909

Does /qa/ have any more fun facts to share?

I learned recently that prior WWI, many towns in the US spoke the language of the immigrants who moved there, but due to intense Germanophobia, schools began teaching in English exclusively and gradually the US became a de facto English-first speaking country despite having no official language.

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 00:24:20 No.113910

That's not very fun

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 00:54:43 No.113911

Why English? That seems so random

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 01:05:48 No.113912

Had to happen in the modern age. Even in countries like India where many many different languages are spoken a Lingua Franca is adopted

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 01:21:51 No.113913

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here's a fact i learned in middle school: did you know that pennies cost more to produce than they're worth?
in canada, they stopped printing pennies for this reason.

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 02:04:41 No.113915

>>113911
English was the most widely spoken language. My great grandparents actually changed their last name to sound less German as well. I've also heard that quite a few German towns changed the name of their city as well as renamed their streets.

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 02:46:49 No.113916

A fun fact I learnt is that there are introduced populations of Redback Spiders in some places in Japan.

Anonymous 09/21/23 (Thu) 08:47:31 No.113924

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Anonymous 10/05/23 (Thu) 18:58:23 No.114673

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Anonymous 10/05/23 (Thu) 23:40:17 No.114679

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Did you know?

Anonymous 10/06/23 (Fri) 02:10:10 No.114683

>>114673
for some reason this makes me a little angry

Anonymous 10/06/23 (Fri) 02:21:09 No.114684

I had one but I forgot...

Anonymous 10/06/23 (Fri) 04:08:24 No.114688

>>114684
that is pretty fun!

Anonymous 10/06/23 (Fri) 08:41:00 No.114699

>>114673
The sixth power of the 39th root of 92, isn't that just the square of the 13th root of 92?

Anonymous 10/06/23 (Fri) 08:42:57 No.114701

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>>114699
It's part of the American Wire Guage Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge#Rules_of_thumb

Anonymous 10/15/23 (Sun) 23:53:34 No.115161

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Have you ever wondered why vanilla is so expensive? Well, I did, and I decided to look it up. Vanilla is an orchid and it takes 3 years before it can produce, and then it blooms only once a year for one day. Its native pollinators are tiny bees in Mexico, but the vast majority of it is grown where there are no natural pollinators that can handle it. Farmers need to monitor each individual plant and manually pollinate the delicate little flower by hand without destroying it. After its pollinated, it takes 1 to 9 months for the vanilla fruits/beans to mature. Then the curing process takes 4-5 months.
I was thinking of trying to grow a vanilla plant for fun, but I don't think this sounds fun at all.

Anonymous 10/15/23 (Sun) 23:55:07 No.115162

my mother buys vanilla beans and keeps them in vodka to difuse flavour. But I don't think it's one of those things that will work for casuals. You probably would have to do manual polination to get it to work

Anonymous 10/16/23 (Mon) 03:48:58 No.115179

>>113909
Fun fact: did you know that cats are super awesome

Anonymous 10/21/23 (Sat) 10:43:45 No.115371

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Kyaaaa? Mya mya!

Anonymous 10/21/23 (Sat) 18:54:19 No.115376

>>115371
Yet another example of SI units being traaaash.
kya > ka, mya > Ma, Gya > Ga.

Anonymous 10/21/23 (Sat) 18:59:34 No.115378

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>>115371
myaa myaa catsies

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