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So, I just realised that cockroaches have white blood.
I never killed one (maybe never in a way that made me see their blood), so I never knew!
My sis just told me and I googled it to confirm!


Cockroaches have white blood because cockroaches lack hemoglobin in their blood.

That’s crazy! I never knew that. I think once I have killed them I never look at them again. lol!

Corgis were originally used as herders

The Welsh used the short dogs as herders as early as the 10th century. In those days, pastures were considered common land, so there were no fences. In order to keep a farmer’s cattle together and separated from other herds, corgis would nip at their legs to herd them. Because of their closeness to the ground, corgis had easy access to the cows’ ankles and were difficult targets of the retaliatory kicks of cattle.

Southern California hosts an enormous corgi meetup

SoCal Corgi Beach Day started as a humble meet-up event at Huntington Beach in 2012. At first it only had 12 attendees, but the last event had over 600. According to the SoCal Corgi Beach Day Facebook page, the event happens four times a year. Some of the owners will dress up their corgis in costumes: one woman dressed like Katy Perry and put her dogs into Left and Right Shark costumes.

Christine wrote: "That’s crazy! I never knew that. I think once I have killed them I never look at them again. lol!"

Haha, yeah I never thought about that 😅

Seadrift wrote: "Corgis were originally used as herders

The Welsh used the short dogs as herders as early as the 10th century. In those days, pastures were considered common land, so there were no fences. In orde..."

It's so cool. I didn't know that. It's interesting. Thanks for sharing :)

I love corgis. My pleasure.

The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.

And what remains of the head?

What?

Haha me too!
This was good :)

I thought there would be an answer.

Why don't you find one?

How about: The head will gain the space of those 150 calories. It'll be swollen as hell lol

There’s a word for loving the smell of old books



You guys, you know you love the smell of old books. They have the aroma of dust and a whole lot of history. Well now you can call it something. “Bibliosmia” is the word you’ve probably been searching for your whole life.

*lol*

Haha damn right!

Seriously?

Really Weird!
Poor Judges but then again, it's kinda fun learning only the curse words lol.

Why not keep judges of the same country as that of the player?

An estimated 755,755 new books are published every year. As of mid-2017, there are an estimated 134,399,411 total published books in the world. That’s a lot of books.

P.S. I'll never get to read even half of the books published per year!

Aqsa wrote: "An estimated 755,755 new books are published every year. As of mid-2017, there are an estimated 134,399,411 total published books in the world. That’s a lot of books.

P.S. I'll never get to read e..."

Wow!

Guess we'll never catch up!
Should've started reading thousands of years ago!

If anyone was to ask you what the first U.S. settlement was in America, your answer would probably be Plymouth. And if that is your answer, than you are wrong.

Plymouth was the first long-lasting colony in Massachusetts, and was settled in 1620 , during the Great Puritan Migration. Most of the pilgrims were farmers from Holland and England. However, despite common belief, this colony was far from the first.

In April 1513, Florida was claimed by Ponce De Leon, for Spain, though it wasn’t settled for 52 years, when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés set sail for Florida along with 2,000 other people, half of which were soldiers. The journey was extremely unsuccessful- the deaths were worse than the ones you have all heard about Plymouth! Of 2,000 people, only 70 ever reached Florida. St. Augustine, as they called the new settlement, struggled badly. When the British pirate Sir Francis Drake attacked the village in 1586, things only got worse.

So, is that the first U.S. settlement in America? Its dates even beat Jamestown, founded in 1607! Answer: no. Because at that time, Florida was not part of America at all! After the American Revolution, Florida was bought from Spain, meaning that this settlement was not even American!

So, that means that neither Plymouth OR St. Augustine are qualified to take the crown of oldest American Colony.

However, Jamestown was founded in 1607. Despite the fact that it lasted an entire 100 years, its settlement ended in disaster, as plague and starvation killed off most of the settlers. In fact, the settlers there got so desperate that they began eating their pets, and when things still got worse, many of them resorted to Cannibalism, said George Percy, who was governor at that time. “…Notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them. And some have Licked upp the Bloode which hathe fallen from their weake fellowes.” (source https://www.history.com/news/evidence...) He said. This was just counted as a gruesome exaggeration until recently, after having only found horse, cat, and dog remains with signs of being eaten, when they found a hidden corpse of a fourteen year old girl with ax or cleaver and knife marks on her skeleton. I won’t go into detail. But that gives you a pretty good picture of just how awful life in Jamestown was.

As for the oldest colony it is only Jamestown that is still in the running, right? Got you again. In fact, Roanoke colony, which was located in Dare County off the coast of modern-day North Carolina beats Jamestown, as Roanoke was founded in 1587. The history of Roanoke is highly interesting and mysterious, as it is still one of history’s unsolved mysteries today.

In 1587, 115 settlers arrived in Roanoke. That same year, one of the settlers, John White, sailed back to England for supplies to aid their survival. However, when he returned, a major war between England and Spain broke out, and the Queen, Elizabeth, ordered every boat to fight. Therefore, there were no boats to sail John back. When he finally did sail back, everyone was gone. Everyone. There was no sign of a battle or struggle, and no bodies to suggest death by plague or sickness. The only clue was a single word, Croatoan, carved into a wooden post. This mystery should have easily been solved.

Croatoan was the name of an island South of Roanoke. John White thought this meant that they had moved there. Boom! Easy as that right? Wrong. There were no signs of the settlers there. John White did discover one other thing- the Native American tribe that inhabited the island shared its name. John White wondered if the Croatoan Native Americans had killed or abducted the settlers. But may I remind you of the fact that there was no sign of a struggle.

Modern day Historians have suggested that the settlers intermarried with the Croatoan indians- however, the settlement only existed for three years in total, and John White was not gone for all of that. Was that enough time for an entire settlement to get up and marry the Native Americans?

Another theory is that the Roanoke colony got scared that John White wasn’t coming back with supplies and tried to sail to him. They may have been drowned in a storm, or caught up in a certain naval war we know was raging on, as their boats would have been similar to the fighting ones. What about the word Croatoan? You may ask. No one knows!

So, in conclusion, Jamestown was NOT the oldest U.S. settlement!
I like history LOL.

Whoa. Never knew that.

Barack Obama loves comic books.

The X-Files did an episode called 'War of the Copenhagen 's '
What!
Copenhagen is a name of a bettle

Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.

Due to confusion in their names, the staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meets once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail.

fun fact about me:
Once a big log fell on my head and wow it did not split my head open!

Mylien wrote: "Due to confusion in their names, the staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meets once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail."
👍

Hazel wrote: "fun fact about me:
Once a big log fell on my head and wow it did not split my head open!"

What?!?!

A snail takes 33 hours to crawl one mile.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Helios rises from a golden palace beneath the sea and drives his fiery chariot across the sky every day, providing daylight, and he is the father of Circe.

Studying just one hour before exam ...Does it make sense ...Because its not gonna happen ..

Is that a fact?

Fun fact: Laid end to end, an adult’s blood vessels could circle Earth’s equator four times!

The average person has 67 different species of bacteria in their belly button.

I love these two! No one at homes believes me about that first fact.

95 million photos are uploaded on Instagram every day.

Haha not a surprise

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Lol. I wonder why.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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Won't that be fun to watch?

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

I've always loved this fact.

Aqsa wrote: "A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

I've always loved this fact."

Woah! I hate roaches!

During the last 3,000 years of civilization, there have only been a little over 200 years of peace. Rest have been spent in wars

Humans shed about 40 pounds of skin cells in their lifetime which equates to a new skin every month.

Zainab wrote: "During the last 3,000 years of civilization, there have only been a little over 200 years of peace. Rest have been spent in wars"

That’s a really sad fact 😞

Zainab wrote: "During the last 3,000 years of civilization, there have only been a little over 200 years of peace. Rest have been spent in wars"

Yes, it's a shame.

Zainab wrote: "Humans shed about 40 pounds of skin cells in their lifetime which equates to a new skin every month."

I wish we shed fat cells like that too!

Aqsa wrote: "Zainab wrote: "Humans shed about 40 pounds of skin cells in their lifetime which equates to a new skin every month."

I wish we shed fat cells like that too!"

Lol, second that!!