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What's that silly and interesting piece of trivia you know but never have the chance to share? (sh.itjust.works)
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Here’s mine:

Mozart had a pet starling, and when it died he arranged for a full funeral and burial, and composed a poem in memory of his bird, which he read at the service.

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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Armadillos are the main cause of the spread of leprosy in the southeastern United States.

For one hour each year, the clocks in part of Florida and part of Oregon have the same time.

Sharks have been around the galaxy - twice.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Okay what's that one about sharks?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I don't remember how long sharks have existed, but they're one of the older animals out there. So the implication is that sharked existed while the solar system orbited the centre of the galaxy twice. I didn't think the earth had been around twice, I thought it was once-and-a-bit, but I'm too lazy to look it up - but that's what the're saying.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Lightly edited:

    Just as the Earth rotates around the Sun, the Sun rotates around the center of the galaxy. [...] this means we take around 230 million years [...] to complete an orbit around the galactic center of the Milky Way. [...] sharks, which evolved around 450 million years ago, have hitched a lift on our planet around the galaxy twice. To put it another more flattering way, they are around two galactic years old.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I lived 15 years in Bay County, FL, which is the easternmost county in Central Time in Florida on the Gulf Coast. Weird enough that the county border is the time zone border, but a couple of miles inland it actually splits Gulf County in two - part of the county is in Eastern time and part is in Central.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    specifically holocephali, aka chimera and thier relatives back in ancient times, they just convergently evolved to look like elasmobranchs, they were the dominant cartilaginous fish at the time, before fleeing to the deep sea(where most the chimaeras live now). stethacanthus, helicoprion were all holocephali relatives.

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