This Week’s Curated Clickbait
This week’s collection includes some interesting facts that may spark curiosity. Gilded Age humor returns as well, so read on!
Did You Know?
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete a full orbit of the Sun.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't. While bananas meet the criteria of what a berry is, strawberries do not.
Sharks existed before trees. Sharks have been around for about 400 million years, predating trees by around 50 million years.
There's a species of jellyfish that can potentially live forever. Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its cells back to an earlier state and start its life cycle anew.
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one. Fred Baur had his ashes partially interred in a Pringles container per his wishes.
Scotland has 421 words for “snow.” From "sneesl" (to begin to rain or snow) to "skelf" (a large snowflake), the Scottish dialects have a snowy vocabulary as rich as their weather.
Gilded Age Jokes and Humor:
We’re back this week with some jokes from the Gilded Age. People in the Gilded Age loved quick jokes, puns, and humorous stories, much like people enjoy memes and stand-up today.
When was beef the highest? When the cow jumped over the moon.
Why has the shoemaker wonderful powers of endurance? Because he holds on to the last.
When is a boat like a heap of snow? When it is adrift.
Why are spiders good correspondents? Because they drop a line by every post and at every house.
