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.
More Info: Reddit
This post may include affiliate links.
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.
My mom would mention she could feel her organs moving after roller coasters. She made that mistake a few times and gave up. The woman had a LOT of surgeries and internal staples
Load More Replies...
Why the hell is "r e c t u m" censored? BP is getting up its own bum!
Thanks goodness we have someone keeping us safe from being exposed to the medical terms for our universal anatomy!
Load More Replies...
Really BP Censors? R****m? Really?! -- The only thing stupider was one of the MMOs I was on starred out the name of a day as profanity... >sigh<
I definitely felt all my organs shift down when I stood up for the first time after delivering a baby. It's very unpleasant.
That first move from labor bed to regulate hospital bed is very unpleasant
Load More Replies...
After my second pregnancy I have occasional feelings that are comparable to the feeling of a baby moving/kicking. My youngest is seven, so I would assume this is my organs moving around.
I feel much more aware of my belly organs since the emergency C-section with my twins. It started when I had to have a weighted pillow on my lower belly right after. Maybe it's to do with the fact that my abs are still that weird pregnancy shape like they haven't slipped back to the middle yet, and my twins are 18 months old now... Anyway, I recently had a stomach bug and I kind of felt the p*king develope from deep down, that was absolutely new for me... Urgh.
Load More Replies...
I was told there simply aren't nerves connected to our internal organs. I don't know if this is true, but why would the body bother the make nerves if it never uses them?
Gas and active bowels will let you know they are there. Gurgle, gurgle.
After they removed my large intestines, gallbladder, and a full hysterectomy, I could 100% feel my organs shift. Yes, they are still attached to the mesentery but they do shift to the empty space.
I suddenly became very aware of my organs moving around thanks to reading this. Like.. not that I can feel them fully, but like a weird feeling in my stomach ...
I could definitely feel my doctor touching my ovary when I had an ovarian cyst! PAINFUL!
Wrong, we feel bowel movements....stomach rumbles, when we swallow we feel it....
urgh...never really thought about this. Like when you sit and your organs adjust themselves to fit....oh....
Your brain blocks you from seeing your nose. Your nose is right in the sightline though your brain just blocks it from your conscious.
Not true. Women feel uterine cramps which is the movement of the uterus same as labor.
Well why quit with blocking internal organs ? What about blocking the pain caused by bumping your shin on the opened didwasher door, hum ?
If you've ever worn a tight corset for a number of hours you can definitely feel your insides move back into their right place when you take it off 😄
That's unless you get post infection or post surgical adhesions! Then, you can get abnormal sensation and pain! ( many years in an operating theatre)
I doubt your organs 'move', normally. I mean, they kind of shift and slide over each other while you're moving around but it's not like your stomach swapped places with your liver and now wants to get back in place.
Fun Fact: My sister was a vet tech. She said that when they spay a cat they take out all the organs in the way and then after they are done they just put them back in and pick up the cat and jiggle everything back in place.
Large abdominal hernia, surgically caused. I can feel my intestines moving…
Bru BP, that is a SCIENTIFIC image why is r-e-c-t-um (Romeo Echo Charlie Tango Uniform Mike) blocked? even doctor publishments mention it and the docs dont get minus points.
So when I'm laying on my side too long and I shift positions, it feels like my insides are moving back into place. I've always felt the sensation but was always told that it wasn't possible and I'm crazy (not by any professional). Guess there's something wrong with my brain cause it's kind of a painful experience and it would be nice if my brain did block it.
It would be so funny to hear our eyes make clicking noises when we think (because people can see it in our eyes when we think a lot).
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.
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
Load More Replies...