Obscure facts ya know!

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Glass Gem is a unique strain of corn with kernels that look like pieces of rainbow-colored glass.

Similar to the situation in North Korea, in Uzbekistan, performers couldn't appear in public without the consent of now deceased leader Islam Karimov and criticizing the government brought stiff penalties.

chloroplasts contain their own DNA - evidence that may suggest chloroplasts are derived from prokaryotic organisms an ancestral, eukaryotic plant cell may have engulfed and appropriated for its own use.

That's really interesting. We've understood mitochondria for a while, but lately scientists have begun to realize all the different ways we've taken other organisms into our cells and the roles they play throughout our bodies

If you take a saliva sample from yourself and sequence all the DNA in it, you can identify all your own DNA and eliminate that, then identify all the other genetic material for the bacteria in your mouth, and the bits of food and everything else we understand, and eliminate all of that. Most of the genetic material will still be left, and we don't know where it comes from or what it is for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_dark_matter

People who go to concerts regularly are happier, according to a new study. Listening to music alone doesn’t produce the same effect– it’s the act of experiencing music as a community that makes the difference.

The original Japanese voice actor for Sakaki (Giovanni), Hirotaka Suzuoki, died of lung cancer in 2006 and was replaced by Kenta Miyake who still does the role today.

Turkish Van Cats love to swim.

There are an unusual amount of knitting supply stores in Alaska.

The newest knitting fad is 'Arm Knitting'.

Sleep deprivation kills your sex drive. It can also ruin your memory, age your skin, put you at risk for depression, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, and can impair your judgement to the point where you believe you’re ok when you aren’t getting enough sleep.

Forks were invented in Italy, and originally had only two tines

I was surprised to learn that Gandhi was a racist. He hated black people.

che guevara was also not very kind towards american blacks, if the quote i'm thinking about was indeed real.

virulent bacteriophages differ from temperate phages in that their genetic material is immediately used to hijack host cell mechanisms to produce copies of the virus, leading to the host cell lysing and dying, releasing the viral particles.

temperate phages can enter a lysogenic phase, a sort of "dormancy", existing alongside the host genome and dividing alongside it, wither as a separate plasmid or integrated completely and physically, for many generations until all the daughter cells contain copies of the virus genome, at which point a lytic phase activates and the virus genome hijacks all the cells it has "inhabited" and produces copies of itself, killing the hosts.

It is said that Siamese cats have to think before doing something clumsy.

Axe body spray once shut down a school because the 6th grade boys produced such an excessive stench that 8 kids had to be hospitalized.

On that note, there’s actually a term called ‘Wall of Axe,’ which refers to at least “8 boys, dousing themselves in Axe body spray (usually after gym) and standing together in a stairwell to create a Wall of Axe.”

Axe was Lemmy's aftershave.