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We don't know about you, but we love it when random fascinating facts catch us off guard at times. For the most part, a lot of us tend to enjoy and are entertained by surprising or strange tidbits of information from the fields of science, history, and even some like pop culture.
Here is a collection of some random and entertaining trivia that can pique your interest if you've happened to turn into the family's glorified quiz master and are getting ready for the holiday weekend full of family gatherings. It's also perfect to use at your upcoming dinner party (holidays aside).
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Fish Fingers 2 years ago
Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!
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Michael Sanders 2 years ago
Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?
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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings
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Lennart 2 years ago (edited)
That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.
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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish
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spirit wolf 2 years ago
Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.
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MissMePhoenix 2 years ago
I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol
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WindySwede 2 years ago
Then you really start wondering if you are the same person if every molecule in you have changed. Are you still the same person as 10 years ago, or did you change and the old you faded away? I guess it's the same at the philosofic question about if you change every plank in a boat, is it still the same boat. Sort of the same.. :P To much philosofical drivel before lunch!
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Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
Then why doesn’t it use the original plans and not include those wrinkles or chronic disease? That would be really handy!
Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
Think of it like photo copying, something always gets missed in the next copy until a copy of a copy of a copy becomes really degraded
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Katy McMouse 2 years ago
If this is true, my body's been shopping at Ollie's Bargain Outlet for the past couple of decades. And, I'm pretty sure it didn't think to save a single receipt.
Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 2 years ago
For the last decade and a half, my body’s been shopping at Walmart. No wonder why my brains doesn’t work.
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Key phrase here is most of your body. Cells in the brain, neurones, and those in the centre of the eye lens are as old as you. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-cells-in-the-human-body-live-the-longest/
Victor Trejo 2 years ago
Obviously this is playing with data and not factually correct. Internal organs get OLD and so does skin. And don't get me started with eyes.
Mary Rogers 2 years ago (edited)
The reason for aging isn't because the cells are not replaced. It's the actual replacement process that introduces errors into the cells. Every time a copy is made, you accumulate more errors. That is what causes aging.
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T. Unnamable 2 years ago
But, unfortunately, our body's cells are not replaced with "young" cells. So we continue to age.
Mary Rogers 2 years ago
Even in your brain there is at least some new cell growth. That is the reason for neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to rewire itself.
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Mary Rogers 2 years ago (edited)
Because cell replacement isn't perfect and errors accumulate. That is in essence the process of aging.
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Heather Menard 2 years ago
I wish my joints would renew themselves. Instead they break down and hurt
Georgie Montague 2 years ago
So how come I've still got c**p knees and a c**p back from accidents 40 years ago? Why would the body keep renewing faulty parts as faulty? I do agree that some cells regenerate, like skin cells, but am not so sure about the whole body renewing itself...
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
My tattoos, however, aren't going anywhere. At least I hope not. They were expensive.
LeeAnne B 2 years ago
But haven't you noticed them fading over the years?
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The danish woman 2 years ago
Then why does my body feels like it's 80 yo when I'm not even 50?
Libstak 2 years ago
The ink is not organic it just stays right where it has been put. Although old tattoos do look slightly faded, the colour pigment wears down very slowly by exposure to wind and sun and abrasion.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I've heard this new age BS before. The key word is "MOST". This is an AVERAGE. Cells in your liver replace themselves like every three days, but your nervous system is yours for life. Also the 10 years for your bones is a misnomer. Your smaller bones turn over faster than the larger ones. Again, AVERAGES. The bones in your spine, yeah take care of those. Take care of your teeth too. Not like those are growing back either.
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ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
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Zia Barrett 2 years ago
Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.
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Fish Fingers 2 years ago
But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.
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Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
I've spent my kid's entire childhood telling other parents this, they all just think I'm an idiot. Oh well.
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Will Cable 2 years ago
It explains why so many of us have low self esteem from what happened to us during childhood.
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Nunya Bidness 2 years ago
Or they could just make them in the USA again. You know, have regulated labor and environmental practices and such.
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alias D. 2 years ago
Yeah all the companies that made lightbulbs basically have a giant meeting and said our lightbulbs are gonna last way too damn long we’re not gonna make any money so they decided to make the s****y ones that die in two years and it stayed like that till this day that lightbulb is probably one of those long lasting ones before they decided to screw us over
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David Phillips 2 years ago
If children cheat on tests it's because the school values grades above learning.
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Donkeywheel 2 years ago
This is a tendon, not a muscle. Everybody has it, might be visible, might not be. This story of extra useless muscle is pure b******t.
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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
And on the internet it’s the wonderful, sometimes useless “/s”
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
And also because your hand has a lot of nerves so getting cut anywhere else would’nt hurt much
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Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
Wish this worked with chronic fatigue! (I’ve read this fact before and tried it on myself - it might give you some sort of temporary relief or distract you, but doesn’t work overall.)
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Dawn Marie 2 years ago
So if that is true, then Hanks and Clooney are related. Nepotism, I should have known. LOL!!!
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Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
I like, “ 30 days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 except February… “ which has 28 and no one cares how the rhyme ends because you’ve worked out the month you wanted.
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Nancy Reynolds 2 years ago
Mom always said, "if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
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Liz Downing 2 years ago
In 24 years, my partner and I have never fought. We know we can disagree about a few things.
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Zia Barrett 2 years ago
That is poorly worded. Of course they have muscles but not muscles related to motion. They do have tendons, which are strictly speaking part of a muscle, but now we're getting pedantic.
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spirit wolf 2 years ago
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Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
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