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People Share 31 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think ‘How The Hell Do You Know That?’
Article created by: Viktorija Ošikaitė
There’s certain information that you can share without receiving many follow-up questions. Australia is wider than the moon. "Oh, wow. That's interesting!" It’s illegal to own only one guinea pig in Switzerland, because they’re social animals who get lonely. "Hmm, that makes sense!" M&Ms got their name from the businessmen who created them, Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie. "Huh, never knew that!"However, there are also plenty of topics that we’re not necessarily expected to know much about, or to even be curious about. Where to bury a dead body, how to pick up a severed human head, and what spinal fluid tastes like are not exactly ideal small talk conversations to have with your colleagues… But one curious Reddit user asked others to share their best fun facts that make other people respond, “Why the [heck] do you know that?”, and readers certainly came through in the replies.
Enjoy this list of facts that you might not want to share with other people upon your first time meeting them, and be sure to upvote all of the wild facts you could have lived your entire life without knowing. Keep reading to also find interviews with J. Keith van Straaten, host of the Go Fact Yourself podcast, and Tara Dorrell, Researcher and Scriptwriter at the QI offices in London. Then, if you’re interested in learning even more bizarre, and perhaps unsettling, tidbits of information, check out this Bored Panda article next!
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#1
Opossums eat ticks like we eat potato chips. They'll hoover up 5,000 ticks a week and never get lyme disease themselves.
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#2
If you feed a human body to pigs, they will eat just about all of it except the teeth. Several murderers in rural areas have used this fact to their advantage.
#3
That you should always use two hands to pick up a severed human head.
Human heads weigh about as much as a standard-size bowling ball, but unlike bowling balls, they are not perfectly spherical. Therefore, gravity is not evenly distributed across the entire head so they have a tendency to topple out of your hand if you try to hold them with just one. And nobody wants to be the person who drops a severed head.
#4
So let’s say you wanted to make a sword, an average sword requires about 1.5kg of metal. So if you were to take the blood out of 600 humans, roughly 3,000 litres of blood, and extract the iron, you could smelt it down and create a sword with it. Then boom, a sword literally made out of your fallen enemies.
#5
Most victims in "survivable" plane crashes died of jet fuel burning and choking them. Smoke hoods could save hundreds of lives if installed on airplanes, likely many more than flotation devices since ditching is incredibly rare. BONUS: backwards facing seats would make a plane crash much easier to survive thanks to the g forces pressing you against the seat instead.
#6
If you want to burn down a building, put potato chips in a toaster with a trail leading from the toaster to other highly flammable things. The potato chips leave no residue and the toaster will pop back up after the chips catch fire so there's no way to find the start of the fire.
#7
Ancient Egyptians used to shave off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
#8
Owls have tube shaped eyes, rather than spherical ones. This makes it difficult to move the eyes in their sockets, but is counteracted by the ability to rotate their heads 270 degrees in either direction.
#9
If you plan on using a baseball bat as a weapon, put a long sock over the end. When someone tries to grab the bat you can rip it away with ease and continue with the baseball beatdown
#10
This will get buried but - Don't ever bury a dead body in an Area without any vegetation. The high nitrogen content in our bodies helps plant to grow and there will be a weird grassy patch at the top of burial Site and anyone would be able to spot it.
#11
Spinal fluid tastes like a mixture of bananas and a 9volt battery.
And I don't want to talk about it.
#12
It is illegal to carry a fish suspiciously in the UK.
Goony 8 months ago
Yes, in the UK, it is technically illegal to handle fish in suspicious circumstances under the Salmon Act 1986. Originally, this law applied only to salmon, but it was later expanded to include other fish like trout, eels, and freshwater species. The law was designed to combat poaching by making it an offense to possess fish that were obtained illegally
#13
There are 923 words in the English language that break the “I before E” rule. Only 44 words actually follow that rule.
#14
The fact that mushrooms are more genetically related to humans than they are to trees.
#15
A nursing sperm whale’s milk comes out in the consistency of cottage cheese so the calf can “eat it” in the water.
#16
Eating your boogers gives your immune system an extraordinary boost. Those who do rarely get sick- by ingesting very small amounts of foreign bacteria caught in the nose, the immune system forms necessary antibodies to fight that same bacteria when it’s dominating your coworkers.
Gross people FTW!
Goony 8 months ago (edited)
The idea that eating boogers boosts the immune system has been suggested by some researchers, but there isn't strong scientific evidence to support it. The theory is that consuming mucus exposes the body to trapped bacteria, potentially helping the immune system recognize and fight similar pathogens in the future. However, studies have also found that nose-pickers are more likely to carry harmful bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, which can lead to infections
#17
When you are drowning in salt water, the salt water makes your lungs bleed and you end up drowning in a mixture of water and your own blood.
Goony 8 months ago
Drowning in salt water can cause serious lung damage, but the idea that it directly makes your lungs bleed isn't entirely accurate. When salt water enters the lungs, it disrupts the alveolar-capillary membrane, leading to fluid buildup (pulmonary edema). This can cause severe respiratory distress, making it harder to breathe and leading to drowning
#18
Lemons are a cross between a citron and a bitter orange. Either they were a rare naturally occurring hybrid or they were man made, in which case... life does not give you lemons.
#19
According to some cannibals, the most delicious part of the human body are the eyeballs, they like licking them.
Edit: I´m not the cannibal.
Goony 8 months ago (edited)
There isn't much verified evidence to suggest that eyeballs are considered the most delicious part of the human body by cannibals. Most accounts from historical or criminal cases describe human flesh as tasting similar to pork or veal. However, some anthropological studies have examined nutritional value in different body parts, with fat-rich areas being more desirable for sustenance. While ritualistic cannibalism has existed in various cultures, the idea of licking eyeballs seems more like a sensationalized myth than a documented preference.
#20
Bones can be some of the most effective and terrifying shrapnel, second only to liquid copper. Bones splinter when you put them in bombs, and can do horrific amounts of damage to soft tissues. Liquid copper, on the other hand, which is not that difficult to get in an explosion, can get through almost any armor like it's nothing. Learned that from a friend who did a tour in Iraq as an infantryman
#21
If you're going to stab something, always make sure to stab and twist the knife. If you stab without twisting it will just leave a slit that can easily be mended. If you twist it leaves a hole that can't be so easily mended.
#22
Most men who climb Mt. Everest or other very tall mountains experience an erection due to how the altitude impacts blood pressure.
#23
At a single time, the sloths body mass can be comprised of one third feces. It takes several hours for the sloth to excrete its bowels completely.
#24
Blood bounces when it hits ice.
#26
It takes 10,000,000 bananas to kill you from radiation poisoning if you ate them all at once or 274 everyday for 7 years to die from radiation poisoning.
#27
Alcoholics decompose faster when they die.
Source: was a crime scene cleaner.
Edit: So I posted this last night while falling asleep so here is some clarification: when people die they decompose, but people that are alcoholics will decompose faster than normal dead people.
Why? I have no idea. It's been so long since I was in that line of work I just remember enough stories and facts to stay interesting.
Love yall.
#28
Tarantulas taste like shrimp.
I told this once to a random stranger because they brought up how they didnt like shrimp. They immediately hounded me about how I knew this.
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