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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).

A page on Instagram called ‘Did You Know?’ collects and shares interesting and unusual facts that are guaranteed to surprise you in one way or another. And if this post isn't enough, we urge you to check out our previous post sharing some of the best facts from the page!

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

I’d need a dog or cat for emotional support every time I have to talk to my boss

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

When my granddaughter had to have her appendix removed, my daughter cried so hard they gave her an emotional support dog to hang out in the waiting room with her.

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

This would be so much better than any human support could be. Genius idea.

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

This goes hand in hand with the fact about empathy. We don't deserve doggos, they are absolute heroes

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

The cousin of a friend was convicted of 14 counts of rape on children under 12. An emotional support dog was with them as the 2 girls testified. Despicable human, brave girls. This POS got life in prison.

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

they should do that with cats too, therapy cats ar great. also cat purring can relieve anxiety, by th rythmic sensory feedback, and can help regulate heart rate and breathing

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

Whoa i think this is a Hard job for someone. For humans for Sure and for animals a lot more because as far as we know they are not that capable of reflecting as humans are. On the other side, they can leave the past Better behind them very often... But i think this is a stressful job and hope they earn twice the time as fun time to hopefully not gain a Depression

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

None in the courthouses where I used to live. A real shame given the high number of domestic abuse cases they had.

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

I'd also wish more psychotherapists would have dogs or (petable) cats for emotional support. Therapy sessions can be really hard

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

I'm not a dog fan but I find this so comforting and would probably use it.

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

(Excuse my insensitivity here, please.) Court records - Witness: So then he threatened to . . . who's a fluffy wuffy good boy then . . .

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

And then I would have the dog trained to attack the attacker when a special word is spoken.

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

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

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

This is a pretty cool factoid (micro was one of my favorite subjects in college) but it's not exclusive to influenza; viruses in general have a coating called a capsid that protects the material inside while allowing it to attach to the host cell and replicate/infect.

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

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

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

I may have tricked you but I tricked you into thinking that you tricked me(repeat seven times with progressively louder tones)

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

I'm fortunate enough to be in this category. Love her like crazy.

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

Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.

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

I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol

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

Ravens are considered to be among the most intelligent of birds (along with other members of the corvid family, e.g., crows, jays, magpies, etc.). They make and use tools and can solve simple problems.

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

Makes sense. Character relations often leak into relations amongst actors. Same reason actors playing love interests often fall in love for real.

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

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

10 verses of there’s a hole at the bottom of the sea plays in the background

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

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

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

All of this was very normal in this period. He was just following the fashions. (Men COULD wear wigs, but they also often styled their own hair.)

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

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

What I can't figure out is how people climbed on and got them going. It's not like a "normal" bike where you can stand with it propped between your legs and push off ..

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