🧠✨ Fun Fact Friday! Ready to learn something unexpected?

This isn’t just an excuse to use this emoji, but I am thrilled I get to.

🦥 Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins, up to 40 minutes by slowing their heart rate.

Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t. 🍌🍓

Botanically speaking, a berry is a fruit produced from a single ovary and typically contains multiple seeds. That means bananas qualify as berries, while strawberries do not—because strawberries form from a flower with multiple ovaries. So, next time you eat a banana, you’re technically snacking on a berry

Haha - great one ​@Tracie_Bouye! I must admit, I saw that one too and I did know that about strawberries but did NOT know that bananas are considered berries! 

Ok friends - queuing up this Friday’s fun fact:

Did you know...🤔

Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the international sporting event awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. 🔗

Have a great weekend everyone!

Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood! 🐙

Two of their hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. And their blood is blue because it uses copper (not iron like ours) to carry oxygen. Wild, right?

Wow! 
 

There’s a species of jellyfish that can technically live forever.

The Turritopsis dohrnii, aka the “immortal jellyfish,” can revert its cells back to an earlier stage of life, essentially starting over when it’s injured or aging. It’s like hitting a biological reset button. 🧬✨

Ahh ​@Tracie_Bouye I knew I could count on you to keep us going while I was out of the office! We seem to have an ‘ocean’ theme (or Gulf!) which tells me you and I both are in a summer state of mind! 🏖️ ☀️

OK, since I’m late, and today is Monday, mine is a Monday-themed fact. Did you know…

Monday is the only day of the week that is an anagram for single word, that word being "dynamo". 

⭐️ BONUS FUN FACT: Anagrams are words or phrases that can be rearranged to make an entirely different word or phrase. For anagrams to work, both words or phrases must contain the same letters in the same quantity. A phrase can be an anagram of a word, and vice versa.

(I add that in because admittedly, I was thinking ‘palindrome’ and challenged the Monday fun fact 🤦🏼‍♀️)

Have a great week everyone!

Hope you enjoyed your time away! Yes, we are definitely in a summer state of mind. 😎👒🌴

Also, where can I get that biological reset button?! 🪼

Haha! If you find it, please let me know!

🎉 Cheerleading was originally an all-male activity! 

→ When it began in the late 1800s at American universities like Princeton and the University of Minnesota, cheerleaders were men who led crowds in chants and cheers at football games. It wasn’t until World War II, when many men went off to war, that women began to dominate the sport—and they’ve been leading the charge ever since!

Very interesting. I did not know this ​@Najat Andreozzi.

And cheerleading today is not the cheerleading it was! 💪🏽 As someone who has spent countless hours at cheer competitions over the past 15+ years, I am absolutely blown away by how it has transformed over the years!

Fawns can stand and walk within just a few hours of being born—and by the time they’re a week old, they can outrun most humans! 🏃‍♂️💨