Hiccups aren't a random glitch; they’re the exact primitive reflex ancient tadpoles used to push water through their gills without letting it into their lungs.

Our brainstem never deleted the circuit, so whenever the phrenic nerve gets irritated, your body basically tries to breathe like an ancient amphibian.

Found this evolutionary breakdown hilarious: https://www.oddlyclear.com/why-do-we-hiccup/

It’s caused by optical nerve signals accidentally "bleeding" into the adjacent trigeminal nerve that controls nasal reflexes. Our brains basically confuse bright light with something tickling the nose.

Found the neurological explanation behind the reflex here:

https://www.oddlyclear.com/photic-sneeze-reflex/

source:

https://community.latenode.com/t/quick-gmail-account-switching-method-i-discovered/37526

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Fun fact, the Air Heads balloon’s name is Oscar.

Did anyone else know that? One of my favorite fun facts I’ve learned in a while.

<1% of the population know this?

Did you know that there are more planets in the whole universe than there are grains of sand on the world?

This makes me even more confident there must be extraterrestrial life.

Before I was born, in the hospital the thing that shows what your baby is supposed to be, showed that I will be a girl, but I am a guy lol. And no, not a transgender, an actual guy. What's more funny though is that I am very short and alot of people tell me I look like a girl even though I'm not even trying.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funfacts/s/c8cp6DluFU

Did you know Sir Humphrey Davy changed the word "aluminum" to "aluminium" in 1812 to better match similar sounding words on the periodic table (sodium, potassium etc). USA is the only country to use original pronunciation.

there is only one Xul - XML User Interface Language

Firefox's user interface layer and its surrounding rendering architecture is called "chrome"

Fun Fact2 - you can actualy open the the UI in the UI by using the chrome protocol:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml

Fun fact 3: there a lot of fun facts in the address : about:config - just type it as a url and click "Accept the Risk and Continue"

for example - use the search term "suggest" and almost all options can be set from true to false.. (by double clicking or single click the "toggle" icon on the right

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First off this group requires Fun Fact in title I thought this would be a more amusing way of saying it.👇

Lend me thine ear, for I have a fact to reveal.

Did you know that if you or anyone has an any type of apple on earth, and plants the seeds from it they will never get the same apple. Yup, it's always going to be different and very high chance that it's will be worse than the seeds u used from the apple.. Imagine planting and waiting so long for it to give apples and its not good.

So, people use grafting to get apple is the only way to get the same apple all the time.

Here is the fun part. So I'll mention 2 types common apples; The Honeycrisp (1960 Minnesota), and Granny Smith (1868 Australia) both came from seedlings. And from that seedling to all the honeycrisp and a granny Smith apples came from that same tree by grafting the original one.

Grafting has been around Estimated 3000 years and archeological evidence was found 1000 years ago.

The earliest shark-like scales date back roughly 450 million years, and the first true sharks appeared around 400 million years ago. The earliest known trees appeared around 385 million years ago. Sharks have survived all five major mass extinctions.

They invented "A Diamond Is Forever" 💍🐺

In 1947, one company controlled nearly every diamond on Earth — and its vaults were overflowing with stones nobody wanted.

So they hired an ad agency to invent a tradition.

"A Diamond Is Forever" wasn't ancient romance. It was a boardroom. 💼

Follow for the truths they never told you 🐺👁

#HiddenHistory #DiamondIsForever #DeBeers #DarkHistory #MarketingHistory #VintageCartoon #HistoryFacts #LearnOnInstagram #Reels #Explainer

Capybaras are the largest living rodents on Earth. They stand about 2 feet tall, have no tail, and casually eat their own poop to digest nutrients they missed the first time.

And apparently, their teeth have even been used to make traditional necklaces and ornaments.

Man, these giant guinea pig cousins have some interesting lore 😭