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The document contains 11 random fun facts about various topics including clouds weighing millions of tons, giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning than humans, identical twins not having identical fingerprints, the Earth's rotation slowing down over time, and a chicken once living without a head for 18 months.

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Factykos

The document contains 11 random fun facts about various topics including clouds weighing millions of tons, giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning than humans, identical twins not having identical fingerprints, the Earth's rotation slowing down over time, and a chicken once living without a head for 18 months.

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101 of the best random fun facts

1. A cloud weighs around a million tonnes. A cloud typically has a volume of around
1km3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m3 – that's a density that’s around 0.4 per
cent lower than the air surrounding it (this is how they are able to float).
2. Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. True, there
are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and
2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it
makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30
times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
3. Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. You can’t blame your crimes on
your twin, after all. This is because environmental factors during development in the
womb (umbilical cord length, position in the womb, and the rate of finger growth)
impact your fingerprint.
4. Earth’s rotation is changing speed. It's actually slowing. This means that, on
average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million
years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.
5. Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where
cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the
system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your
grey matter.
6. The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and
over two litres in volume. Believed to be a Tyrannosaurus rex turd, the fossilised
dung (also named a 'coprolite') is helping scientists better understand what the
7. .
8. Animals can experience time differently from humans. To smaller animals, the
world around them moves more slowly compared to humans. Salamanders and
lizards, for example, experience time more slowly than cats and dogs. This is because
the perception of time depends on how quickly the brain can process incoming
information.
9. Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s
ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet,
but can make other objects wet.
10. A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head. Mike the chicken's incredible
feat was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular vein and
most of his brainstem were left mostly intact, ensuring just enough brain function
remained for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless chicken dies in a matter of
minutes.
11. All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion
light-years. Together, Earth's 0.001mm-long microbes could wrap around the Milky
Way over 20,000 times.

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