Fun Fact: giraffes have black tongues.
Not so fun fact: there will be no fun facts featured in this article.
Why? Cause folks on Reddit have actually been sharing "fun facts" that are anything but "fun". But don't you worry, it's not the fun that makes a fact interesting, but the educational factors or just the straight up "I never thought about it that way" element.
So, strap yourself for it's gonna be a peculiar ride as you scroll down the top submissions found on the now-viral Reddit post. Be sure to upvote, comment, and tell us your not-so-fun facts about everything that truly matters in this life.
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Crows are currently in their own Stone Age. They’ve been seen making very articulate tools.
‘Money can’t buy happiness.’
A phrase taught that you don’t need money to be happy, conveniently though those on $50k + salaries tend to live longer than those on the bread line.
Speaking from personal experience here, but your body can randomly decide to become allergic to damn near everything edible at any time. Not very fun.
Deaf schizophrenics don't hear voices, they see hands or lips as mental images that tell them what to do.
The oldest person alive was born with an entirely different set of humans on the planet.
Your brain blocks you from feeling your organs moving around inside you.
Not always. After major surgery I am very aware of my organs jostling to regain their rightful positions.
Thanks to pregnant women, the average skeleton count per person is higher than one.
50% of Americans diagnosed with cancer will lose their life savings.
if you ever had the chance to accumulate savings, that is. Not an easy tasks with student loans, mortgages, low minimum salary, costs for medical treatment of any sort..
If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.
This is why I think Elvis may have died in infancy, and all of us have actually been listening to the rock-and-roll stylings of his twin, Jessie.
The united states has misplaced or lost 6 nuclear weapons over the years.
There have been 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents, which are unexpected incidents involving a nuclear weapon. Of those 32, 6 were lost and never found.
That Washington Sqaure Park in New York is essentially a graveyard, with an estimated 20,000 bodies buried below the surface; many were yellow fever victims, wrapped in yellow sheets and buried by the poorest residents. When the foundation for the famous arch was dug, a number of these were exposed.
Guests love to dump the ashes of their loved ones on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. In theory, this seems fine and like an okay place to do that, but when the ashes get dumped custodial cast members come in and vacuum up the ashes.
If you are ever tasked with spreading ashes somewhere, do it anywhere but Disneyland. Because their ashes will not be in the park for long.
Antarctica smells like penguin poop.
Antarctica is a desert, it is too cold for bacteria to live. Nothing there to clean up penguin droppings. If you are close enough to see penguins, you will also smell them.
Um. It may smell like penguin poo, and maybe not the right sort to break down said poo, but there are plenty of bacteria in Antarctica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_microorganism
In the books, Stuart Little was never explicitly called a mouse. He's pretty much described as a deformed mouse-esque person born form human parents.
Only one in a thousand sea turtles born actually make it to adulthood.
A Teratoma is a kind of tumor that can grow hair, teeth, or even eyes.
Fun fact: the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction, but also the dodo.
Giant tortoise meat was supposedly better tasting than chicken. Its fat tasted better spread on bread than butter. Also, it was the perfect food for sailors at the time, as their bladders stored 1 litre of purified water, and they could survive without food in hibernation for almost a whole year in the hull of a ship. Not to mention, because they evolved without humans, they were easy to hunt. You could tie one to your back, and roll another to the ship and they would just let you. It was so delicious, they went unrecorded for a long time because expeditions to bring living samples of wildlife to Europe kept eating them on the way.
Conversely, the dodo, while as easily captured by sailors, tasted awful. It was completely unpalatable. HOWEVER, one day, someone discovered if you cooked dodo meat in the more delicious tortoise fat, it tasted just like chicken. So now, sailors were hunting a few tortoises at a time for their fat and water, storing them, and then hunting dodos on the daily.
Overhunting, plus the introduction of rats to the environment (because sailors) which would eat eggs, led go the population to decline at a rate they could not breed to keep up, leading to both animals going extinct.
"leading to both animals going extinct" You sure? What's in the picture then?
There's a bird that feeds its younger offspring to the eldest.
[FYI, roadrunner].
Sloths sometimes mistake their arms for tree branches and fall to their [doom].
When North Koreans defect to the South, one of the biggest struggles reported by them is often how many English words there are in South Korea (like coffee being 커피/ko-pi) that they just do not recognise. That’s because South Korea takes a lot of linguistic influence from English speaking countries (namely the US), while North Korea creates new words based off Russian/pre-existing Korean words
Not overly depressing in general, but you can never really count a fact about North Korea as ‘fun’.
They basically have to relearn Korean. And since their accents will give them away, some find it hard living in SK and decide to locate to other countries. The linguistic aspect is super interesting to me, I wrote a paper about the differences between Pyongyang and Seoul accents in college. Extremely limited sources, understandably
The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.
Otters look cute but are pretty vicious animals that often threaten their own family if food is scarce.
Alzheimer's disease can cause you to pass away since your brain will no longer be able to chew, swallow, breathe, etc.
Many alzheimer and dementia patients end up dying from pneumonia and other infections. It becomes a quality of life issue and the medical care staff usually bring up DNRs and withholding medications (except pain killers) to let them pass peacefully. Alzheimers is rarely a COD on paperwork
When you're four months pregnant, the baby starts to pee inside you.
Malaria is the #1 cause for human [mortality] of all time.
I think this post is referring to Sonia Shah's research, which found that malaria is most deadly infectious disease in history. That doesn't mean it's the leading cause of mortality. Heart disease is now responsible for almost 1/4 deaths in the US. Historically, heart disease was probably less likely to be the cause of death, but was definitely a leading cause of death even in the ancient world (we see signs of plaque build-up in Egyptian mummies).
In some regions of Australia, 90 percent of koalas have chlamydia, which poses a threat to the species' extinction unless a vaccine is created or widespread koala culling takes place.
A gamma ray burst could [unalive] everyone on Earth within a few seconds and because it's just a beam of light coming from space, nobody would find out until we would be cooked.
Radiation, not light. And it will terminate you and every other living thing.
the best way to hide generational genocides is by giving them a cute name.
Load More Replies...The censorers have exposed themselves with too much blue, purple and UV light
Load More Replies...gasp! bored panda please censor this my tiny little heart almost had an attack looking at this scary trigger word.
Load More Replies...advertisers don't like "controversial words". BP likes ad money.
Load More Replies...I remember when that movie came out years ago, Unalive Bill, with Uma Thurman.
Well, and no warning because we can't perceive it until it's happening! Though it might just unalive everyone on one side of the planet, depending on the duration...
Nope. Radiation on that scale wouldn't even know the planet was in the way. Everyone within its "beam" cooks, on any side of the planet.
Load More Replies...I'm being triggered by the censoring. Maybe that will counteract the people who were triggered by the language originally.
I curse whoever came up with the word unalive. Which I am dubious is even a real word…
Use the work kill when relaying a fact like this please BP. It is not going to bother anyone as much as the ridiculous term 'unalive'
Why the heck does BP keep censoring words for death and dying? That's just stupid.
I'm really hating this 'unalive' thing, BP. it was funny at first, but after the 700th time... less so.
Unalive???? What in tarnation is that???? Did you mean that people were killed? BP's euphemisms are absolutely ridiculous!!!
Saying unalive is the same as when reporters on the news say. : “ mortally wounded” lol
i think mortally wounded means something like, wounded in such a way as to cause the onset of unaliving, but, they are not unalive yet.
Load More Replies...Unalive??? Why not say kill/dead, they ar the correct words, not some made up nonsense.
"nobody would find out until we would be cooked." No one would find out then either as all life would be dead.
So kill is scarier than being cooked? I think the computer creating these headlngs needs to be reprogrammed. This weird language distortion is triggering my language sensitivity. As someone who has two degrees in English I demand better grammar and an end to euphemisms. My feelings are being disregarded. 😶
"Unalive" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I lose all interest in whatever I'm reading the instant I see the censor and "unalive" replacing the original text. Everything is a trigger for everyone these days. Jesus. I HATE the term "snowflake," but "unalive" is so friggin snowflakey, guys.
Fortunately the bursts are pretty focused and generated under relatively rare conditions
"...nobody would find out." The rest of the sentence is illogical unless "until" is changed to "because".
can they stop making the ridiculous "unalive" edit...it's so f'ing annoying!!
.... is this a real concern or like... is it the equivalent of worrying about quicksand as a child?
Unalive, so BP you mean turn us all in to zombies? Or did you mean kill? Why is this namby pamby overly sensitive nonsense still going on? It's in every English dictionary, why so hard?
Having: make perish, make cease to exist, bring the demise, cause to lose their life, and many other expressions, how in hell did they come up with "unalive"?
In a sense, that makes it something of a non-issue. By the time it happens, no one's here.
If we didn't know about it until we was already cooked.then we still wouldn't know about it because we'd be cooked and dead
And killed and dead and will have been mortally finished off and of course, unalive because we were microwaved. I hope the computer will go boom and end up nonfunctional, because I've fried its stupid innards by using the appropriate words instead of meaningless porridge. Ugh.
Load More Replies...I hope it’s that fast when it happens. Unlike a meteor that would have 30 days notice, the impending doom would be torture.
In the Bible it does say that end will come in a blink of an eye. We will have to wait & see if that is correct.
Clowns make $30/h on average. Who is the real clown?
In spite of the comments disbelieving that clowns can get work on weekdays I may just get one for my Monday D&D group now.
Sweet jeepers BP, what is with all the chuffing censoring of words. For example, the original post on reddit said "Vending machines kill more people than sharks do", you changed it to say "Vending machines [are more lethal] than sharks [are]". This is getting quite quite daft, quite daft indeed.
Supposedly, their sponsors are making them do it. I say get some new sponsors - preferably ones who aren't [furry animal with wings]-[guano] [mentally unwell].
Load More Replies...So many of these 'facts' have a little nugget of truth, but have been badly expressed. This takes them from being facts into 'unfacts' - they are almost there, but not quite close enough.
Agreed. And some citation on each "fact" would be great!
Load More Replies...I tried to make a witty comment on one or two of these, but now I'm just left alone and afraid.
I met a giraffe once. I gave it some rabbit pellets in a big coffee can. That tongue reached the bottom of it. Their tongue is a purple color. Safari horse. Was an amazing experience.
If a bear has been eating human flesh, their scat will be white. You learn some strange things in Search and Rescue.
They're not-fun facts. Says it in the title
Load More Replies...Sweet jeepers BP, what is with all the chuffing censoring of words. For example, the original post on reddit said "Vending machines kill more people than sharks do", you changed it to say "Vending machines [are more lethal] than sharks [are]". This is getting quite quite daft, quite daft indeed.
Supposedly, their sponsors are making them do it. I say get some new sponsors - preferably ones who aren't [furry animal with wings]-[guano] [mentally unwell].
Load More Replies...So many of these 'facts' have a little nugget of truth, but have been badly expressed. This takes them from being facts into 'unfacts' - they are almost there, but not quite close enough.
Agreed. And some citation on each "fact" would be great!
Load More Replies...I tried to make a witty comment on one or two of these, but now I'm just left alone and afraid.
I met a giraffe once. I gave it some rabbit pellets in a big coffee can. That tongue reached the bottom of it. Their tongue is a purple color. Safari horse. Was an amazing experience.
If a bear has been eating human flesh, their scat will be white. You learn some strange things in Search and Rescue.
They're not-fun facts. Says it in the title
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