You know what they say: knowledge is power.
Learning is crucial to our existence – think of it as sustenance for the mind rather than the body. It helps us develop new abilities, perspectives, and values; it gives us a feeling of accomplishment and unveils endless opportunities; it boosts our confidence and allows us to engage in the most random conversations.
Some might argue that with the development of the good old internet, basking in new things doesn't feel as necessary perhaps as it would have before – however, now that knowledge is at everyone's fingertips, why not learn a fact or two to impress a couple of your pals?
“What is your go-to fact that blows people’s minds?” – this netizen turned to one of Reddit’s favorite communities asking members to share their go-to facts that never fail to impress others. The thread has managed to receive over 12K upvotes, as well as 9K worth of comments and mouth-opening statements.
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I just learned this: there are more castles in Germany than McDonalds in the U.S.
When it's so quiet you can hear snow falling, you're actually hearing the static discharge of the snowflake hitting the ground. It gathers the electricity while it's falling to Earth.
I love that sound! When it's late at night, and the weather isn't safe to be out in. When most folks have gone to bed, and noise pollution has essentially ceased. I step outside into the cold and listen. The sound of snow and nothing else.
Same! I moved from Alaska to Texas recently and I miss just going out late at night while there's no one around and there's a gentle snow falling. Everything is so quiet and peaceful. Dang, now I just made myself sad and homesick. :(
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Makes it seem you'd be offended every time someone turned on a light.
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Can we harness it and power our homes? It's getting to the point where it will be cheaper to just burn money to stay warm rather than pay the energy bill.
Alaska: come for the sound of static discharge when snowflakes hit the ground, stay for the northern lights.
Even being born and raised in a seasonally snowy location I cant say I've ever heard snowfall! I feel cheated! I must pay more attention
Had an experience of that sort: I watched a meteor shower a few years ago, and every time one streaked across the shy I could hear it at that very time - which is, of course, impossible because a). it wouldn't make a sound loud enough to get to the earth's surface, and b). the sound would take a looooong time to get to the earth's surface. I figured out that what I really heard was the electromagnetic induction between my hair and the frames of my glasses caused by ionization of the superheated air around the meteorite.
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When I was a kid, I'd go outside at night to shovel the driveway. One of most precious memories is standing there alone and listening to the snow fall.💕
I knew it!!!! When I said it before, people think I'm imagining things!
Same. My family thinks I'm weird. Now, I have proof for at least one of my nutty observations.
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A graveyard is connected to a church while a cemetery is not.
Oxford University existed 250 years before the Aztecs existed. Oxford University first opened in 1096, the Aztec period was from 1345-1521. Oxford University is second only to the University of Bologna for continuous operation.
Greenland sharks can become up to 400 years old and don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150
Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn.
Edit: It's an easy Google. The rings of Saturn formed no more that 100 million years ago, we know what they are made of, how fast they move, and the rate of decay. Sharks have been around for about 450 million years. We have fossilized records of this.
This is why we need to protect sharks. We can and still are learning so much from them.
that sahara desert used to be under the ocean, and you can still find seashells in the sand there
Neptune was originally discovered as apparently inexplicable changes in the orbital path of Uranus. Because a man named Le Verrier observing these alterations decided that there must be an orderly reason for it, he calculated where another planet would have to be to cause Uranus to act like that, and still keep the laws of gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac newton. He then sent his calculations to Royal Observatory in Berlin, and the prediction was within 1° of its actual position.
The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds like this: "di-di-di-dah".
That is the Morse code representation of the letter V: (...-)
V is the Roman numeral for five.
Purely coincidence, as the Fifth was written 40 years before Morse code was invented.
The Goonies go underground on the exact same day (Saturday, Oct. 26, 1985) as Marty travels back in time to 1955.
All the Botox in the world, literally every gram, is produced in a factory in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
you know when you get up too fast and feel dizzy? squeezing/stiffening your buttocks together stops the dizziness.
There are more trees on planet earth (~3 trillion) than there are stars in our galaxy (~800 billion).
Note it says our galaxy (the milky way), not the entire universe. Still I find the sheer number of trees on our planet impressive
Whales are closer to artiodactyls (even toed hoofed animals) than they are to seals or manatees.
Whales are *essentially* just wet deer with extra steps.
Tamales are one of the oldest dishes on earth still commonly eaten today.
As an Italian in the us it’s that Pepperoni actually would mean peppers in Italy and has absolutely nothing to do with thinly sliced meat.
George Washington died in 1799.
Dinosaurs were discovered in 1824.
George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed.
In Volkswagen’s official Parts catalog, one of the official Volkswagen parts, with its own part number (199 398 500 A), is a currywurst sausage they serve to their staff in Wolfsburg, Germany.
199 398 500 B is ketchup.
"The product has been described as the most produced of any of Volkswagen's parts, some 6.81 million sausages being manufactured in 2018. In many recent years the company has produced more sausages than cars."
When airline pilots are trained to fly a new type of jet, the first time they fly it is with paying passengers on board. All the training and testing is done in a simulator.
Of course they have a lot of flight time in other airplanes and there is a specially qualified training captain in command. However my first jet takeoff was LAX-DEN with 68 unsuspecting passengers.
The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've travelled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space.
You can see your nose all the time.
It is always within your field of view, unless you force your eyeballs to roll up as far as they go.
Your brain filters it out of your perception to save resources, but if you pay explicit attentio to it (as you may be doing now), it becomes obviously visible.
Do not despair, tho.. after a brief time, you forget about it and it "disappears" again.
The earth's crust (which is too deep for humans to drill through, much deeper than the deepest ocean) compared to the rest of the planet is similar to the skin of an apple compared to the rest of the apple.
I heard this when I was little and did not understand it. I always got scared if my dad or older brothers were digging in the yard hoping they would not fall into lava.
Black apples exist.
We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside.
The gene for six fingers is dominant, five fingers recessive.
Almost 100% of the matter that composes plants comes from the air, not the ground.
Water and minerals come from the ground but the carbon and other elements come from the air, that’s why a 1,000 ton tree is a bigger carbon sink per square meter of land then anything else. But the biggest land based carbon sinks are actually grass land and bog land because they turn that CO2 into soil through composting, think peat lands…
German Chocolate Cake was invented in New York by it’s baker Samuel German who wanted to do his version of a Black Forest Cake
"OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.
Even more surprising is that it was first found in a letter that the British admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher a British statesman named Winston Churchill.
A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage.
I doubt anyone here will know what I'm talking about, but they did this experiment on the show Duck Quacks Don't Echo. Worth watching, it's very entertaining! Besides, you can't get any funnier than Lee Mack :D
In the US, the dash lines on highways are generally 10 feet long, not 2-3 like most people assume.
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.
Those look a little like dixit cards. By the way, I highly recommend dixit to anyone who hasn't played :)
In a group of 23 random people, the probability of two of them sharing a birthday is over 50%.
I married someone with the same date of birth as me. It was not a good reason
In the 1920s, Hawa‘ian music was the biggest selling category of sheet music.
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