JF special thread kwaajili ya Facts

Light doesn't always travel at the speed of light. The speed of light is only constant in vacuum. When it passes through matter it can slow down. Photons pass thru water at 3/4ths the regular speed of light. Light was once slowed down to 38MPH.

Humans don't just shrink with age. They shrink everyday. Humans shrink and regain height daily, sometimes as much as 3/4" a day. When we move in the day, the fluid disks in our spine compress and we shrink. When we rest our backbones reabsorb the fluids.

A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 100 calories.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

It's amazing that in Iceland, they have an app to detect whether or not your date is a relative, due to the country’s small population.

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale. We all know that blue whales are absolutely huge, but this puts it into a whole new perspective!

Jay Z, the notorious B.I.G, Busta Rhymes and DMX(R.I.P.) went to the same high school. George Westinghouse, a vocational public high school, boasts four alums who are members of the rap god pantheon.

Beards can slow the aging process by stopping water from leaving the skin, keeping it moisturized.

In 2001, a seven foot bull shark bit off a boy’s arm. His uncle not only saved the boy, but dived in after the shark, wrestled it to shore where the shark was shot, and he retrieved the boy’s arm.
"Talk about balls of steel, hehe, he got them for sure!" 👏🏽

You typically only breathe out of one nostril at a time.

In some extreme cases, where there are long periods of extreme weather, snails will sleep for 3 years, although it is not very common.

Most Korean people don’t have armpit odor. Studies conducted by the University of Bristol found that only 0.006% of the Korean population have the ABCC11 gene, which is the cause of armpit odor.

If you have no confidence in yourself, you're twice defeated in the race of life, but with confidence, you've won even before you start ~Marcus Garvey

Kim Dawizzy said:

If you have no confidence in yourself, you're twice defeated in the race of life, but with confidence, you've won even before you start ~Marcus Garvey

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Inabidi tuweke daftari la mahudhurio, wadau wa huu uzi wamekua watoro

Abrianna said:

Inabidi tuweke daftari la mahudhurio, wadau wa huu uzi wamekua watoro

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Hehehe, naona nyuzi zingine zimewakaba koo... 😂

Kim Dawizzy said:

Hehehe, naona nyuzi zingine zimewakaba koo... [emoji23]

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Wakaamua kuutelekeza uzi wao kabisa, we miss them though

A man in Costa Rica nursed a crocodile back to health after it had been shot in the head & released the reptile back to its home. The next day, the man discovered “Pocho” had followed him home & was sleeping on his porch. For 20 yrs Pocho became part of the man's family

Ethiopia broke the world tree-planting record in an effort to tackle climate change. They planted more than 350 million trees in one day. They're expected to plant more than 5 billion trees in 2020.

In a diary entry on October 1st, 1861, Charles Darwin wrote: ‘I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’