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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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#1

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Crows are currently in their own Stone Age. They’ve been seen making very articulate tools.

coolboiiiiiii2809 , Nikita Report

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E B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, this is an actually fun fact! Go dinosaurs, you can do it!!

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Alma Muminovic
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crows are smart, they have the intelligence of a 4 yr old child apparently.

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Pizzagirl 91
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And when I act like a 4-year-old, I'm "immature" and "stupid" - crowful double standards!

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Andrei Stanescu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

your money and complacence are enough, in fact they would refuse anything else no matter how much you try. but maybe not before letting you fall for it few times.

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T5n
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is my favorite fact of the thirty. I’m quite a fan of corvids

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John Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are we sure 'articulate' is the right word? Maybe looking for 'intricate'?

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DennyS (denzoren)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine how they'll evolve. That would be so awesome to see. If only we could have lived to see it.

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Asher Tye
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How long before they're constructing their own Hadron Super Collider.

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Alia Hood
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a murder of Crows that I feed. My little buddies leave me little trinkets. They are super smart, that's for sure. Watching them as a group over the last 6 years or so has been interesting to say the least. I swear to God they have elections for their leaders with debates included. I watched them gather in one place (about 15 of them at the time) with one of them in the center "talking". They would all start talking and then a different one would stand in the center and talk. It was wild to watch!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Certainly not. This is just some anthropocentric bias. Crows existed long before the human kind itself and have certainly been making and using tools for a very long time, it's just us who failed at observing it correctly until now. And that doesn't mean they would be slowly on the same evolutionary path as us. We need to stop thinking we are a role model for all other animals. Evolution is not a contest humans have already won and condescendingly watch other species give their try at. It's a very diverse dynamic of life perpetuating itself, and we are not necessarily at the top of it, since there might be no such thing as a "top" for it. Crows are smart in their own way and use tools as they feel the need to - they certainly don't need to mimic our own wicked and disastrous history (which in itself is not even an unambiguous way either, by the way : thinking it all has to go from "stone age" to "f****d up industrial age" without other options is extremely reductive).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is this "not fun"? First of all, mostly Madagascar ravens have been found to make tools. Crows and ravens, however, are brilliant birds. Research has just started on how brilliant, exactly. Just kind of weird that this is a new "fact" to the OP and it's not fun? Go Corvids!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was on vacation in the Dominican Republic and having lunch in their open-air restaurant next to a pond when I saw a bird fishing. It was standing on a ledge about 5 feet away from me and as I watched, this bird picked up a crumb and dropped it into the water. Then he waited for a fish to come for the crumb. When one did, he grabbed it with his beak and ate it! I don't know what kind of bird it was, but it looked like a small sea gull and I could tell that it had been getting fish that way for awhile because of the relaxed way he did it. It was amazing!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bruh I read it as "cows" and was so confused why every was talking about birds.

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Sarah
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did I read that as 'Stone Henge', that's not even how it's written, I was so confused as to how crows could be in their own Stonehenge...

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Maryanna Baldridge
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw a crow rehydrating a Cheetoh Puff in a drinking fountain in the desert. I was both in awe and terrified.

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Alan Green
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can also talk just like parrots. How much is pure imitation and how much is actually understanding is anybody's guess.

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#2

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver ‘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.

WorldFinnaMad , Keith Cooper Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Money might not buy happiness but it solves a lot of problems.

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

smallemochick , osseous Report

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Deaf schizophrenics don't hear voices, they see hands or lips as mental images that tell them what to do.

woodyslw , Jeff Hitchcock Report

#5

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver The oldest person alive was born with an entirely different set of humans on the planet.

randomname1561 , Nenad Stojkovic Report

#6

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Your brain blocks you from feeling your organs moving around inside you.

Aydengeist06 , William Creswell Report

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Jill Bussey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not always. After major surgery I am very aware of my organs jostling to regain their rightful positions.

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#7

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Thanks to pregnant women, the average skeleton count per person is higher than one.

Jacoobic , Fábio Goveia Report

#8

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 50% of Americans diagnosed with cancer will lose their life savings.

memesmanthecanadian , Cristian Ramírez Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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..

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#9

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.

TheActorAl , Ewen Roberts Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#10

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

404-soul-not-found , aaron_anderer Report

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

MissNightTerrors , ajay_suresh Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cross-rail (the new Elizabeth line) in London has unearthed several graveyards. A significant proportion of the budget for the project went on archaeology. It is almost inevitable that such things will be found when digging in highly populated areas.

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

Destronoma , fortherock Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why does it seem "ok in theory" to just dump human ashes in a theme park?

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

gummby8 , Eli Duke Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

Red_Beard47 , Movieclips Classic Trailers Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IIRC, he wasn't explicitly born from human parents. He "arrived," though it's not said how.

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Only one in a thousand sea turtles born actually make it to adulthood.

Sebs_123 , Daniel Chodusov Report

#17

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver A Teratoma is a kind of tumor that can grow hair, teeth, or even eyes.

TheBassMeister , Internet Archive Book Images Report

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#18

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"leading to both animals going extinct" You sure? What's in the picture then?

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#19

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver There's a bird that feeds its younger offspring to the eldest.

[FYI, roadrunner].

Teacup_Cult , Kevin Gill Report

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Sloths sometimes mistake their arms for tree branches and fall to their [doom].

Sarpe783 , Michael Culbertson Report

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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’.

cosimascherry , Roman Harak Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.

omegasix321 , Trump White House Archived Report

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Otters look cute but are pretty vicious animals that often threaten their own family if food is scarce.

Mephist0n , Dulup Report

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#24

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Alzheimer's disease can cause you to pass away since your brain will no longer be able to chew, swallow, breathe, etc.

vickycthomas , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver When you're four months pregnant, the baby starts to pee inside you.

Beautiful-Card7976 , Jerry Lai Report

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Robert T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the hair on the baby's body can be digested by the baby and comes out as baby's first poo. See https://www.pampers.co.uk/newborn-baby/care/article/meconium

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Malaria is the #1 cause for human [mortality] of all time.

FlirtyFox69 , Katja Schulz Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

tiffanyjcruse , Klaus Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hopefully the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward is helping 🤞

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#28

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Vending machines [are more lethal] than sharks [are].

Ayothatsusboi , midorisyu Report

#29

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

Majoishere , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Radiation, not light. And it will terminate you and every other living thing.

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Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 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.

Alexastria , timlewisnm Report