The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear's snout is called the rhinarium.

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Someone who habitually picks their nose is called a rhinotillexomaniac (rhino=nose, tillexis=habit of picking at something, mania=obsession with something).

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A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a silentium.

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The ear-splitting sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a skirl.

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The fleshy projection above the bill on a turkey is called a snood.

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People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.

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4 gills of ale and beer is 1 pint, 2 pints = 1 quart, 4 quarts = 1 gallon, 9 gallons = 1 firkin, 2 firkins = 1 kilderkin, 3 kilderkins = 1 hogshead, 2 hogsheads = 1 butt.

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The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy
Most insects are edible. According to eatbug.com, there are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects. And they're quite nutritious. For instance, 100 grams of cricket contains only 121 calories, less than half of beef. A cricket contains only 5,5 grams of fat, compared to 21,2g of beef. Beef contains more protein (23,5g - a cricket 12.9g) but the 100g of cricket also contains 5,1g of carbohydrates, 75,8 mg calcium, 185,3 mg phosphorous, 9,5 mg iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin.

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Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

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The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.

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The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

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No president of the United States was an only child.

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Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

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Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.