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Category: Facts to Blow Your Mind

Creatures Great and Small

March 2, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

“Panthers” are not actually a species of large cat, but rather are typically either jaguars or leopards. The thing that…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: african honeybees, dolphins, frogs, sharks, slugs, weird facts, weird facts about animals

Executive Branches

January 31, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois, and saved more than 75…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: abe lincoln, donald trump, ronald reagan, teddy roosevelt, weird facts

Predictions that Never Happened

January 3, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

THINGS PREDICTED BY 2020 WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED In 2008, an ABC video warned about rising sea levels and showed much…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: albert robida, isaac asimov, killer bees, weird facts

FACTS TO BLOW YOUR MIND: The Nature of Nature

December 2, 2019 AnnMarie Kennon

Isaac Newton’s apple tree is still alive and growing today…technically. The tree was blown down in 1820, but remained rooted…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: guarana berries, helicoprion, isaac newton, mosquitoes

The Final Frontier

November 5, 2019 AnnMarie Kennon

If aliens on a planet 65 million light years away looked at Earth in detail, they would see dinosaurs. An…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts to blow your mind, weird facts about space

Time Warps

October 2, 2019 AnnMarie Kennon

The first man to fly in a plane and the first man to walk on the moon were both alive…

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Posted in: Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts to blow your mind, time facts, weird facts

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