30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know

Welcome to English, the mongrel in the pet store of languages.

I choose to celebrate this fact.

same as 'e' in Mercedes...

For the record, there's only one other way to pronounce c. It is in the combination ch

I tutor reading at an elementary school. Explaining these types of things to a first grader is tricky. Rules are more like suggestions.

Spock’s blood is copper-based

My favorite octopus fact is that apparently they randomly punch fish, just because they can. 🐙

Since "octopus" derives from the Greek for "many-legged very smart and able to squeeze through holes smaller than you could possibly imagine" rather than from the Latin for "Cassius! This squidgy sea-thing is squeezing my face off!" I understand "octopodes" to be technically correct. Just don't get into this argument with your daughter's high-school biology teacher. He won't take it well, even when you present volumes of evidence to support your position, including some which has your name on the front as author.

don't forget the "007" pronunciation

Another interesting thing about octopuses: they have a brain in each arm and a central brain. So each arm does its own thing with general control/guidance from the central brain.

That's some self absorption they got going on.

I've got a fun fact about ladybugs, too. They taste like utter shite and you'll be spitting and gagging for quite a while. Source: check before you suck one up your drink straw. 😱

I've known guys this could happen to

Well if he'd have at least invited her to dinner first...

It's wonderful to know that there's someone out there who spends hours watching scatterbrained necrophiliac ladybugs.

That's perfectly cromulent

if you can get the word to enough people, you can invent your own words, which is very chobblesome.

Hahaha - I laughed when my son said he "crunked" the lawnmower to make sure it would still run. He looked at me all crazy when I said it should be "cranked". I didn't know they had added "crunk" to the dictionary. Even the spellcheck on here keeps telling me it's misspelled!

guess GULLIBLE is me I Googled it :-(

Isn't that worthiness though?

Me, a person with no concept of which keys are for which hand: Huh?🤔🤔

On the top row only it's 'typewriter'. Using the middle row it's 'Shakalshas'. On the bottom row it's 'CV'.

YOU JUST TRIED IT, DIDN'T YOU?

Irrelevant to me as I use the peek and pole method of typing...

Waaaay too much free time on you hands here, but exceedingly good information!

And it all ends up at my house.

there are sites you can go on to lessen your junk mail load. I now check my mail twice a week at most.

one of the saving graces of USPS is the handling of Amazon. Our rural carriers added an extra person/hours. Glad to see my neighbors who work there keeping busy.

I'm in Australia. Last month I ordered a bicycle bell on-line from China - cost $1.95 with free delivery. It arrived well packed in a 9 inch X 6 inch X 3 inch box with tracked delivery and requiring a signature (equivalent of our registered mail). Now how is that financially viable for the sender, the Chinese postal service or the Aussie postal Service?

Only 80%, that's lower than I thought.