Debrain – Amazing facts, random facts, interesting facts

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The Burramundy, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed. (i think papaya(papua?) trees are the same)
Most marine fish can survive in a tank filled with human blood (who even tried this?)
The Nile catfish swim upside down
A carp might be able to learn to differentiate music (blues from classical)
The drum fish hears with its air bladder which transmits sound into their ear bone otherwise known as the “Weberian apparatus.”

Flamingos are grey when they are born
Several hundred to several thousand flamingos are all involved simultaneously with ritualized postures and movements to synchronize breeding
Through slow-motion photography, researchers discovered that these birds pump water through their bills 20 times a second to filter their food which consist of algae, crustaceans and small fish
Flamingos pee on their legs to cool off (unsure)
Flamingos are pink because of the pink pigment in the shrimp and crustaceans that they eat
There are more plastic flamingos than there are real ones

Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph

Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain
Flies taste with their feet
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it. (Listen up all you fly haters)
Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies
A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny.It is a.k.a ‘the poor man’s weatherglass’

The first H1N1 ‘swine flu’ virus was isolated in a pig in 1930
Before 2009, there was approximately one human Swine Flu infection every 1-2 years in the USA. In 2009, it became a global pandaemic
You cannot contract swine flu from eating properly cooked pork or pork products
The normal flu vaccination received earlier this year are not effective in preventing swine flu
In Australia, 1 in 10 work leave associated with illness is due to influenza

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker

Benjamin Franklin used to keep a list of “13 virtues.” If he violeted one, he would check it off, and use it as motivation to improv e his moral standing.
Benjamin Franklin did not graduate from school but The Harvard and the Yale Universities awarded him honorary degrees. Later in 1762, the Oxford University awarded him a doctorate.
Benjamin Franklin interestingly founded the a fire fighting company
It is a fact that Ben Franklin once wrote in the newspapers under the anonym Mrs Silence Dogood.
Franklin also invented the glass harmonica
Ben Franklin did not like patents and so failed to patent many of his inventions

Charlemagne had a series of very bad omens before his death in 814AD. A fireball even fell from the sky causing his horse to buck
In the crusade by Pope Innocent III, the youngest crusaders were led by a 12 year old named Stephen of Cloyes. Most ended up sold as slaves or died from diseases
King Louis IX was the only French king who, at his burial, suddenly sat back up and continued to rule for another 26 years
The hundred year war started with victories for English archers but ended with a French archer, Michael Perunin
Back then in France, the Catholics called their enemies/non-believers “Cathars” which actually meant ‘Cat worshippers’. This was because the Catholics said that their enemies had to kiss the bum of a black cat.
When the pope moved from Rome to France in the 1300s, his palace at Avignon had 2 whole floors of toilets