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As absurd as it can sound on paper, the truth is that facts are just fun, the more obscure, weird and random, the better. After all, everyone needs a handful of interesting trivia to pull out at parties or during very awkward silences.
Someone asked “What is the most unusual fact you know?” and thousands of netizens answered the call, sharing the bizarre and fascinating parts of the world that most people don’t even know about. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and if you have your own “fun facts,” be sure to share them in the comments below.
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#1
Otters carry around their favorite clam-opening rock in their armpit, and mothers will even pass on their favorite rock to their baby.
Captain Kakapo 11 months ago
Also this is river otter, the one with personal stone is a sea otter
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#2
When a caterpillar enters a chrysalis and becomes a butterfly, it doesn't just sprout wings and legs. It essentially disintegrates into goo, and a new butterfly is built from that.
But that's not the weirdest part. The weirdest part is that it's possible to teach something to that caterpillar, and after it becomes goo and then re-forms as a butterfly, it still remembers what you taught it.
#3
I noticed this when visiting museums, looking at old paintings: hands are often ‘hidden’, covered by flowers, clothing or they disappear in the shadows. I researched it later and learned it is true. Even the best painters struggled with drawing and painting hands. I look for hands in every painting now.
T'Mar of Vulcan 11 months ago
Apparently that's one reason why Da Vinci is so highly regarded - he could paint hands properly.
#4
Chickens have the DNA for teeth, it’s just not turned on.
#5
That divider at grocery stores that separates stuff on the conveyor belt is called a spratchet.
#6
A weird fact is that honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly good to eat!
LaurieAnnaT 11 months ago
Medical-grade honey is used by medical professionals for wound care. I know because honey was just used on my sister’s terrible fracture blisters. After 9 weeks they are healed. Never any infections. (Fracture blisters are pretty much like 2nd degree burns and honey is used in those cases too.)
keyboardtek 11 months ago
I had a customer who applied Manuka honey to his mom's diabetic sores and they healed in a few weeks. He was convinced he found the cure for COVID and started to experiment on himself by inhaling an aerosol form of homey. I wonder if he is still alive or drowned breathing in honey. There are many crackpots out there.
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ZuriLovesYou 11 months ago
Nice. So we can all eat Twinkies and honey when the apocalypse comes.
TruthoftheHeart 11 months ago
if you're about to travel somewhere and you're worried about allergies eat a little honey from there for a while first. It exposes your body to the local pollen at a steady rate that it can adjust to
Mental Liberals 11 months ago
It sure crystalizes in my pantry! I know it's not bad, just crystalizes...
medcrest 11 months ago
Just reheat in a pan of water covering it to about half way.
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Rico Paz 10 months ago
It is undoubtedly the tastiest of all the insect vomits I've tasted.
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keyboardtek 11 months ago
It does crystalize though and requires heating up to turn back to a goo state.
Roz H 11 months ago (edited)
Run the bottle under warm water. It crystallizes because the bottle is cold
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#9
The minimum number of humans required for the species survival is about two hundred. The minimum number required for *any* level of survival is fifty. Below that, the inbreeding becomes a problem in the long term.
#11
If you eat polar bear liver it will kill a human and if a polar bear eats your liver it will too.
#12
Great white sharks have never been seen mating. Ever. By anyone. Zero record made by a human. Strange considering what a mighty presence they have on humans.
#13
Spiders curl up when they die because the thing that keeps their legs out is blood pressure, which releases when they die.
#14
All cheetahs are genetically cousins. They almost went extinct thousands of years ago, down to like 100 individuals.
#15
LASER is an acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) but in most cases should be LOSER because the light is oscillated, not amplified.
Rhonda Espinosa 11 months ago
"Now playing My Chemical Romance loser ligh show!" Business owners; "Omg! I'm doing another Scrooge McDuuuuuuck dive over here!"
#16
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood so fascinating!
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
And nine brains - each for every arm and a central dominant one. Going further, one arm serves the purpose as reproduction organ which means that male octopusses really are able to think with their d**k
#17
Off the top of my head, maybe that fact that the great cats roar, but do not purr; lesser cats purr but do not roar.
#18
Your eyes have their own immune system. If your "normal" immune system discovers this it will attack your eyes and you'll go blind.
#19
John Tyler, the 10th US president, was born in 1790 - that is during the first US president George Washington’s first term.
His grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, is still alive - that is the current US president Joe Biden's term.
Think about it - just three generations (father,son and grandson) to cover the entire US presidential history.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
He's 96, so this one isn't going to remain true for too much longer. John Tyler was 63 when Harrison's father was born, and his father was 75 when Harrison was born. While technically correct, this factoid stretches the concept of "generation" pretty tightly. Each of them barely knew their fathers, and were decades away from having been able to meet their grandfathers.
#21
Australia is wider than the moon.
#22
The only animal other than a human that can perform a headstand is an elephant.
#23
The spinal cord has the consistency of a ripe banana.
I’ve Seen Things 11 months ago
I have recently recovered after crushing mine. Paralysis, wheelchair, learning to walk again, all with more pain than anyone could ever imagine. But I pushed through and I am walking unaided again. 💪
#24
The first public game of basketball was played the same week and less than 100 miles away from the last American vampire hunt.
On March 11, 1892, James Naismith debuted his new game in front of a crowd of 200 spectators at the Armory Hill YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, on March 17, 1892, in Exeter, Rhode Island, a crowd of concerned villagers dug up the grave of 19 year old Mercy Brown. She had died two months earlier and locals had become convinced that her vampire was feeding on her sickly brother. In an effort to stop the undead Mercy, the crowd exhumed her corpse, burned her heart and liver, and gave the ashes to her brother in a tonic.
Doug the Special one 11 months ago
I think I'd prefer to have the second one done to me instead of watching a game of basketball.
#25
I grew up on a dairy farm1960's. US milk production today is twice what it was then and there are half as many cows. Each cow produces four times as much.
#26
The Grand Canyon is so large that you could fit EVERYONE who ever lived inside it and still not fill it.
#27
The mantle plume hotspot that is half the cause of Iceland's intense volcanism (the other half being the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) is believed to have been the cause of the largest mass extinction event in the planet's history, back when it sat under what is now Siberia.
#28
The career that has the most s****des per year is dentist and then serving
Second most is veterinarians.
#30
Most polar bears are left handed.
Joshua Russell 11 months ago
So is that the paw they do the murderin' with, or the paw they sign their name with?
#31
To forcefully remove a human ear requires the same force as opening a new jar of peanut butter.
#32
After WW II Belgium had a lot of stray cats. They decided to put these cats to use. They outfitted them and trained them to deliver the post. This experiment was as successful as you may imagine. .
#33
Platypuses lay eggs and give milk so they’re basically a portable source of omelette.
#34
If you have tattoos your body is constantly trying to remove them.
#35
The closest state in the USA to Africa is Maine.
#36
Sharks are older than Saturn's rings.
#37
Web-casting spiders have such incredible night vision that the sun's UV rays *melt their eyeballs* every morning because they don't have an iris. They rejuvenate at dusk.
#39
The chainsaw was invented as an aid to childbirth. Yes. It is as Gothic and horrible as you are imagining.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
This stupid meme has to die. A hand held chain with saw teeth was invented to cut a baby stuck in the birth canal out of the body of a dead mother. It is -less- Gothic and horrible than you imagined, because it opened a possibility for the baby to survive instead of both dying.
#40
Edit:
Pin worms I sometimes get my butt worms mixed up.
Tape worms lay their eggs on the outside of your a**s while you’re asleep, then wiggle their tail just enough so you’ll feel a tickle and unknowingly scratch your bum hole.
When you wake up in the morning you’re going to find a way to put your hand to your mouth and the cycle continues and life goes on.
They tickle.
sofacushionfort 11 months ago
You can rid yourself of them with a cookie, a hammer, and a friend with steady nerves. Lie down pantless, put the cookie just next to your butt, and when the tapeworm sticks its head out to bite the cookie, your friend bashes it.
#41
If the sun were to disappear we would still orbit it for approximately 8 minutes even though there's literally nothing there.
We'd see it too, feel it's warmth and everything.
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
Not correct, we would see it in the sky for 8 more minutes but the gravity would be gone in an instant and Jupiter would create chaos in the solar system. Edit: I stand corrected as Gravity appearently has a velocity
#42
The bodies of more than 28 people were found in the basement of the house Benjamin Franklin lived in when he was in England. They were dated to the same time Franklin was living there.
Barbara Burns 11 months ago
The remains were actually the result of an illegal anatomy school run by Franklin's friend and protege, William Hewson. It is apparently a good bet that Franklin knew of this activity.
#43
Mini skirts are not actually called that because of their length, they’re named after the car! British fashion designer Mary Quant said the skirts were “exuberant, optimistic, young, and flirty… the perfect compliement to a Mini Cooper.”.
#44
Blue blood exist. Also yellow blood and green blood.
#45
There are 6 state capitals west of Los Angeles, CA.
#46
Pi is off the top of my head - 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
Silly, useless to know that much. And hilariously, it was because in grade school I helped a friend prepare for a contest to see who could memorize the most. I didn't even take part. Somehow that much is still stuck in my head.
Wintermute 11 months ago
Here's a funner fact. To calculate the circumference of the observable universe with an accuracy down to the size of a hydrogen atom, you would only need around 39 digits of pi.
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Sand Ers 11 months ago
Poll question option 1, addendum answer: especially if more of them are actually factual.
Trillian 11 months ago
They should be required to include a credible source
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Casey Payne 11 months ago
More artist collections. More artwork. More exploration of the world around us as chaos wins over order. More creepy. More weird. Fewer articles about generational anxiety. Fewer articles wallowing in nostalgia. Lose the Amazon Shopping Network BS. Quit reprinting Reddit articles. They're interesting, but they belong on Reddit. Fewer bad relationship woes. They can't possibly be shocking when there is 5 or more in a row. Throw some cat pictures in to break up the monotony. Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, your advertising animations are causing your website to freeze up and collapse. I do enjoy BP, but y'all can do better. I've seen you do it.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
Poll question option 1, addendum answer: especially if more of them are actually factual.
Trillian 11 months ago
They should be required to include a credible source
Load More Replies... Casey Payne 11 months ago
More artist collections. More artwork. More exploration of the world around us as chaos wins over order. More creepy. More weird. Fewer articles about generational anxiety. Fewer articles wallowing in nostalgia. Lose the Amazon Shopping Network BS. Quit reprinting Reddit articles. They're interesting, but they belong on Reddit. Fewer bad relationship woes. They can't possibly be shocking when there is 5 or more in a row. Throw some cat pictures in to break up the monotony. Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, your advertising animations are causing your website to freeze up and collapse. I do enjoy BP, but y'all can do better. I've seen you do it.
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