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Welcome to Daily Facts on Bluesky! 🌟 Your go-to source for intriguing, enlightening, and fun facts every day. Dive into a world of knowledge as we explore everything from the wonders of nature to astonishing historical tidbits.

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 1

Fact: Found on the coast of Vancouver Island, the Sea Wolves are truly unique in their hunting practices. 🐺

Unsurprisingly, they have adapted to become excellent swimmers, which allows them to access food other wolves wouldn’t normally attempt to catch 🐟🐠

#fact #canada #wolf #seawolf #fish #facts

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 29

Fact: Sonic the Hedgehog has registered itself in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest gaming character ever.

#fact #facts #dailyfacts #didyouknow #sonic #games #videogames #worldrecord #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 28

Is this real? can anyone confirm?

#TACO
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Trump
Always
Chickens
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#trump #isthisreal #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 24

Fact: 🐕 Petting a dog can actually benefit your physical and mental health. Studies have shown that petting a dog for 15 minutes can lower blood pressure by 10%, can help lower feelings of stress, depression, and combat loneliness. 🦮

#fact #facts #dogs #pet #dogsky #trending #didyouknow

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 24

Did you know‼️
The Universe's average colour is called 'Cosmic latte'. In a 2002 study, astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige colour that’s close to white.

#facts #fact #latte #cosmic #color #trending

Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 21

Did you know❗
In the film Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, every single one of the clone troopers was produced using CGI effects. ❇️

#fact #facts #didyouknow #starwars #clone #trending

Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 20

Did you know❗
Hares are born with fur and can see whilst rabbits are born “naked” and blind. 🐇

#facts #fact #didyouknow #rabbits #hares #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 16

Did you know‼️
You have a 50 per cent chance of sharing a birthday with a friend. In any group of 23 people, two people will share a birthday, according to the maths.

#facts #didyouknow #trending #birthday

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 13

Did you know‼️ 😶
Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would.

#fact #flowers #lol #didyouknow #facts #dailyfacts

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 9

Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg revived The Walt Disney Studios by producing their biggest hits: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast & Aladdin. After these, he requested a promotion & was then abruptly fired by them. He then swore revenge & founded DreamWorks Studios‼️ #disney

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 7

Fact: You can’t fold a piece of A4 paper more than eight times. As the number of layers doubles each time, the paper rapidly gets too thick and too small to fold.

#paper #fold #trending #didyouknow #facts #fact

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 4

Hamilton!!
Get Vettel in as his Race Engineer

#hamilton #ferrari #miamigp #f1 #formula1

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 4

Did You Know‼️

'New car smell' 🚗 is a mix of over 200 chemicals. These include the sickly-sweet, toxic hydrocarbons benzene and toluene.

#facts #didyouknow #car #smell #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 2

As of May 1, 2025, no U.S. state has an average gas price of $1.88$ per gallon. The lowest is Mississippi at $2.66 per gallon, and the lowest this year was Oklahoma at $2.57 per gallon in January, but the national averages have stayed above $3.00 per gallon in 2025.

#justFYI #gasoline #gas

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · May 1

Fact: 🌝 📸Someone left a family photo on the Moon. When Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke landed on the Moon in 1972, he decided to leave behind a photo of him, his two sons and his wife. The photo remains on the Moon to this day.

#moon #facts #fact #didyouknow #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 29

Fact: Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years! 🇦🇺🏖️🌊

#australia #beaches #fun #trending #beach #facts #didyouknow

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 28

First 100 Days Approval Rating ✔️
🔻Trump - 41%
✅ Biden - 53
✅ Obama - 63
✅ Bush - 62

Trump First 100 Days Approval Rating Double-Digits Below Biden, Obama

#approval #president #trending #trump #obama #biden #100days

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 28

🗿 👑 ⚔️ Did you know: The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

#history #factoftheday #didyouknow #todayilearned #surrendered #fact #war

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 28

Fact: PEZ candy even comes in a Coffee flavor. 🍲 ☕

#food #factoftheday #didyouknow #interestingfacts #flavor #coffee #pez #facts

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 25

Fact‼️ 🐺
Once a wolf has found a mate, they tend to stay together for better or worse, through sickness and health, often until death do them part. ❤️

#fact #canada #wolf #graywolf #seawolf #love #facts

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 24

Did you know‼️💎

There’s a planet mostly made from diamond. Called 55
Cancrie, it's around twice the size of Earth and some 40 light-years away from us within the Cancer constellation.

#diamonds #planet #facts #didyouknow #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 23

Fact: Famous Australian blood donor James Harrison OAM, aka "Man with the Golden Arm", who saved over two million babies by donating his rare Anti-D plasma, has died at 88.

#life #fact #australia #love #save #trending #babies

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 20

Did you know‼️ 😀

Finland is the happiest country on Earth. According to the World Happiness Report, it has been for six years in a row. It’s not really surprising, given that Finland is the home of Santa Claus, reindeer and one sauna for every 1.59 people.

#fact #facts #didyouknow #finland #happy

Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 18

Did You Know‼️

Dogs tilt their heads when you speak to them to better pinpoint familiar words. Your dog is tilting its head when you speak to it to pinpoint where noises are coming from more quickly.

#dogs #dog #dogsky #facts #fact #didyouknow #dailyfacts #trending

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Daily Facts @dailyfacts.bsky.social · Apr 17

Did you know‼️

Bananas are radioactive. Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. 🍌

#facts #fact #didyouknow #banana #dailyfacts

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