1. Cats have over 100 vocal chords. Makes you wonder how many keys they can say “Meow” in! And cats can sleep 16 hours or more every 24 hours.
猫咪可以发出超越100种声音,你或许会想了解喵星人到底能发出来多少种音调的“喵” 叫声。另外猫咪天天能睡16个小时甚至更久。
2. Shrimp can only swim backwards, turtles breathe through their asses, fish can drown and a duck can't walk without bobbing its head. This always looks so funny to me.
虾只能往后游,乌龟用屁股呼吸,鱼也会溺水,鸭子不摆头就不会走。这类我都感觉好有趣!
3. 11% of people in the world are left-handed. Makes you wonder about all those left-handed desks there were in elementary school. When you mistakenly sat in one everything was wrong with the world.
世界上有11%的人是左撇子, 这或许会叫你想到小学里有些左撇子课桌。如果不小心坐到了左撇子课桌,你会发现全世界都混乱了。
4. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows!
蒙娜丽莎没眉毛。
5. The average raindrop falls at 7mph, which is I guess why it hurts so much when hail is pelleting you from the sky.
雨点平均降低速度为每小时7英里(约为11千米),我猜这也是为何冰雹从天空中降落砸到大家会感觉那样疼。
6. Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia — just a few of of the States that are named after a real human.
特拉华州、乔治亚州、路易斯安那州、纽约州、宾夕法尼亚州、马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州,美国50个州当中只有这几个是依据真实名字命名的。
7. No matter how hard you try, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. I just tried it — it can't be done.
不过你多努力地尝试,你都没办法将一张纸对半折超越7次,我试过了,我办不到。
8. If you think about it, “Typewriter” is the longest word you can type on a keyboard that only uses a single row of qwerty letters.
假如你仔细想想,你会发现“Typewriter” (打字机)是键盘上只用一行字母就能打出来的最长的英文单词。
9. Because things get expand when they heated, hot water is actually HEAVIER than cold water.
由于物体遇热膨胀,所以热水其实要比冷水重。
10. Unfortunately, we daydream less as we get older and older. I guess reality and bills set in.
不幸的是,伴随大家年龄愈加大,大家做的白日梦就会愈加少。我猜是由于残酷的现实和堆积的账单的重压吧。
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