A mushroom in Oregon is 3 ½ miles wide.
The Armillaria ostoyae, more commonly known as the honey mushroom, began as a microscopic spore and has been constantly growing and taking over eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Forest for the past 2,400 years!
This mushroom is the LARGEST LIVING ORGANISM EVER FOUND. It spans 2,200 acres – which is an area equivalent to 1,665 football fields!!! As it grows, it covers the forest and kills trees!
For more info, check out the news story at ABC…
The only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable is ‘W.’
W has three syllables (“duh-bull-you”). Therefore, when you begin a web url with “www,” you are actually saying nine syllables when “world wide web” would only be three! So much for abbreviations, eh?
Akon’s real name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam.
Akon’s father is Senegalese percussionist Mor Thiam. He was born in St. Louis, but lived back in Senegal until the age of 7. After that, he split time between living in the United States and Senegal until finally settling down in New Jersey at age 15.
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Watch Akon pronounce it himself!
In Forrest Gump, each time Forrest ages he is shown wearing a blue plaid shirt.
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There are no New York Fries restaurants in New York City.
New York Fries is a restaurant chain that was founded in Brantford, Ontario by Jay Gould and his brother. In 1984, they decided to buy a small fry stand at the South Street Seaport in New York after having read a recommendation for it in the New York Times.
Ironically, that original stand has since been closed, so there are no longer any New York Fries stands located in New York City!
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The shortest song ever recorded is 1.316 seconds long.
The song is entitled “You Suffer” by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. Apparently the lyrics are “You suffer, but why?” but it is so short that you can’t really hear it.
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Twinkies do NOT have an indefinite shelf life.
A couple popular (untrue) twinkie facts:
~They remain edible for anywhere between 50 and 100 years.
~They have a shelf-life that lasts longer than their cellophane wrapper.
~They are not baked, but instead they are made through a chemical reaction that makes produces a foam.
~They contain a chemical present in embalming fluid.
Contrary to popular belief (and the movie Zombieland!), Twinkies only stay good for about 25 days. That’s…
Scientists have invented a spray-on clothing that can be washed and reused.
Spanish fashion designer Manuel Torres developed this amazing product with the help of scientists at Imperial College in London. The revolutionary spray is made of short fibers mixed into a solvent with polymers that bind the fibers together to form cloth! The solvent allows the mixture to be sprayed by either a spray gun or a can.
It takes only 15 minutes to spray on a new T-shirt! It can also be washed…
A teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh about 10 million tons.
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Brazil is the only nation to have played in every World Cup.
Out of the 19 tournaments, Brazil has won 5 titles and finished in the top three on 9 total occasions!
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Sea cucumbers “breathe” through their butts.
A sea cucumber extracts oxygen from the water in a pair of ‘respiratory trees’ that are located inside of their body. In order to get the water into these ‘trees,’ it must draw water in through its anus!
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