It’s not April anymore, the month that has a national circus holiday, but there’s no bad time for circus fun facts. “Circus” comes from the Latin word circle or ring. Rome’s Circus Maximus could fit an audience of over 150,000 Romans. A typical circus is a traveling company of acrobats, performers, trained animals and clowns. …
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What do you think of the ride known as the merry-go-round? The national day for them is today, July 25th and here’s a bunch of fun facts, too. Some German carousels were made with two stories or decks. Because of transportation, they weren’t common in other places. Golden age carousels had manes carved so that …
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The craziest of the fun facts about monkeys is that monkey babies are considered adults at four or five years old! Can you imagine that in human society? Groups of monkeys work together to take care of the young monkeys and to play and cuddle with them. Monkey babies are considered adults once they hit …
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Do you know all these koi fish fun facts? National Koi Day was earlier this month on July 7th and here are all the facts you don’t already know. The Largest The world’s largest koi is over 90 pounds! Many of these fish grow up to three feet long and weigh dozens of pounds. The …
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The year 2023 was a weird one when it comes to animals and cocaine. First came the movie Cocaine Bear, loosely based on the real story of a black bear that devoured a discarded cocaine shipment. A few months later, the Discovery Channel broadcast the documentary Cocaine Sharks. It speculated that sharks could be in …
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These monkey fun facts may surprise you! What do you already know about monkeys? The Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys are the furriest and they live in the cold snowy mountains of China. The loudest monkeys are Howler monkeys, they are also the loudest land animal with howls so loud they are heard up to three miles …
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Oh no! You’re out swimming on a Long Island beach when a leg cramp renders you helpless in the water. Luckily, help is on the way. In slow-motion, clad in a red swimsuit as suspenseful music plays in the background, a savior comes running to your aid. Did we say running? We meant flying, since …
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Zoos are great places to see exotic animals, and many of them do important work for helping vulnerable animal species. That said, they can get a bit old, with the same turtles, penguins, and whatnot. Seeing truly rare animals in zoos is a fascinating treat. The problem with that, though, is that finding the zoos …
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Life can be a strange and wonderful thing. It always keeps finding new, unexpected ways to surprise us. Recently, it made a male snake give miraculous virgin birth to more than a dozen babies. Well, at least everybody thought the snake was a male. Ronaldo, the birth-giving serpent, was identified as a male when “he” …
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Human history is filled with legendary animals. And by that, we don’t mean mythical creatures like dragons or unicorns. Some very real animals attain legendary status throughout their lives. It may be because they did something heroic, belonged to a famous person, or were simply in the worst possible at the wrong time. Here are …