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The hottest day on record in Alaska and Hawaii are both the same at 100

Sharks existed 90 million years before the first trees.

We are closer to the time of the T Rex than the T Rex was to the Stegosaurus

Brown is just a really dark shade of orange.

The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.

Hippos are like 90 percent muscle.

People hunt pheasants

Men are roughly twice as likely as women to identify as atheist.

In Ancient Greek political thought voting for office was seen as a hallmark of an oligarchy. In Ancient Greek democracies leaders were elected by lot, not voting. For Aristotle the fact that the Gerousia, a council of elders, was made up of voted figures pushed Sparta more into the olifarchic camp.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80152501

there's a company that will take the cremated remains of a person and mix it with concrete, then you can etch a message into that concrete, and then the company will put that into a "reef ball" and drop it into the sea that ends up becoming a reef.

https://www.eternalreefs.com/

You can get a $20-30 Casio quartz wristwatch at Walmart that will almost certainly be more accurate over the course of a month at giving you the correct time vs a traditional mechanical/automatic watch that can cost tens of thousands of dollars.