Amazing Facts About Anything Thread

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During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police. lol

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The 100 folds in a chef's toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

In the early days, the number of pleats in the chef's hat represented the number of recipes a chef knew for a given food item, like egg or chicken. Having a hat with 100 pleats meant he knew 100 recipes to prepare with an egg. The same applied to the height of the hat. The taller the toque, the more a chef knew.

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Guinness once estimated that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone.

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Dogs are one the three most dangerous animals in the UK with bees and cows.

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The first hand-held mobile phone call was made on April 3rd, 1973, in NYC.

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No number before 1,000 contains the letter A. Not sure this is a amazing fact but weird none the less. lol

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Dogs have the ability to “smell” time, and they do this by detecting how scents change and fade throughout the day. According to Psychology Today, dogs don’t just detect scents, they sense how those scents change and fade over time, giving them a kind of olfactory clock. With up to 300 million scent receptors (compared to our 6 million), dogs can pick up on incredibly subtle shifts in the environment. This allows them to track not just what happened, but when it happened.
For example, when you leave the house, your scent begins to dissipate in a predictable pattern.

According to The Animal Cave, dogs learn to associate the fading of your scent with the passage of time. Over days and weeks, they build a mental timeline of how long you’ve been gone, so when your scent reaches a certain “low,” they know you’re due to return.

Dogs also notice how the scent landscape of a home changes throughout the day. As Small Dog Guides explains, they can detect when breakfast smells fade, when the sun warms certain parts of the house, or when the air shifts before dinner. These scent cues help them anticipate daily routines and events. So while dogs can’t read clocks, they experience time in a way that’s just as precise, through their noses. It’s one more reason why your pup always seems one step ahead.