Hello, Happy Friday, and apologies for missing last week 
This week’s question is:
What’s the most random fact you know?
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Birds lack the receptors that allow them to taste/experience spice from capsaicin in chilli peppers
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Molotov Cocktails were nicknamed as such in response to the Soviet Minister of Interior Something Molotov. As the Soviet had been bombarding Finnish cities while calling them Care package.
Japan has 2 Power grids, which aren’t compatible due to being at different frequency, and it can’t be fixed without 1 side needing to change everything cause they’d need to adjust every electrical component.
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Julia need vacation too!
since were birding…
Magpie’s will sometimes gather around a deceased fellow and have a short funeral before dispersing. (both American and Australian Variants)
This one maybe just my own speculation…
I consider hiccups a mental murmur, usually caused by thinking of too many things at once or other stress… so I usually stop everything I’m doing and try to refocus by bringing two fingers together as close as possible without touching… and 90% that clears it up for me 
…oh a really random inside information…
My grandfather was a child of German missionary in Japan during the bomb strikes, who then moved to the US, enlisted in army, assigned as German translator sent back to Germany at one point translated for Elvis Presley, received a gifted signed record from Elvis… and then my Grandmother gave it away as payment for babysitting -.-
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Don’t worry about it! You came out swinging this week, doing that Dev Blog in Quickpaw’s absence and all.
Regarding your question… I, uh… I know a lot of random facts… so many, in fact, I cannot begin to decide which one I want to use…
My mamma says that my brain is like a filing cabinet! 
Oh, I have one! I have one!
The Roman Emperor Hadrian had his younger male lover, Antinous, posthumously deified and even kept a collection of marble busts that were made in Antinous’ image. Antinous’ cause of death was drowning, with his death having occurred during his time on a flotilla that was cruising the Nile River.
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It’s all right, sometimes things get crazy and you have to deal with what you have on hand first. Thanks for Dev blog, and hoping to hear news for VT2 as well soon.
As for most random fact that I can think of at the moment, the Actor Brian Blessed, who voices the most infamous slayer in the Total War: Warhammer series, Gotrek Gurnisson, also voiced the Hawkmen leader in the Cheesy Sci-Fi classic Flash Gordon.
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Your eyes don’t work like cameras, and the brain is constantly guessing, ignoring, filling in or blatantly lieing to stop us going utterly insane. From the fact your brain actively ignores (And doesn’t see) your nose in your field of vision unless you deliberately close one eye and try to “see” your nose with the other, to things like purple isn’t a colour in that it doesn’t have its own wavelength of light and cannot be registered by the eyes so the brain makes-up purple when it sees a combination of blue and red wavelengths. Your brains is spectacularly subjective and basically bullsh!ts you a lot triggering a profound conversation about perception of the world.
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The bottom of the Kola Superdeep Borehole is so hot that any equipment that goes down there melts before it can even try to start and dig further - and it’s not even close to the Earth’s mantle.
Also, during the Cold War, the US military drafted a proposal to blow up a nuke on the moon. Thankfully, it never came through.
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Oh and amount of nukes that are just lost during the cold war… scary.
Not surprising we also have battle plans on invading every country just in case.
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Actually this channel is great for random animal facts
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