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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic
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We learn many different things throughout our lives. But while some of this knowledge might serve a very real purpose in our lives, there are those pieces of information that we know just because we do, and we have no idea what to do with it.
But despite being useless in the practical sense, some of these facts can actually be quite thought-provoking, interesting to ponder, and fun to share with others. That’s why, when one Redditor asked people online about the most useless pieces of information that they know, then answers came pouring in. Scroll down to read what they said!
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#1
The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a corner and a cranny is like an narrow opening.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Michael McIntyre: "Tidy this room! I want all the odds in the nooks, and all the ends in the crannies - when you've finished, I want this place looking spick!"
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
On tenterhooks” means “waiting nervously for something to happen.” The word tenter means “a frame used for drying and stretching cloth” and is related to tent, so being “on tenterhooks” compares the tenseness of the stretched fabric to the tension of nervous waiting.
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Belle Miles 1 year ago
I thought they were the bubble holes in my English muffin where the melty butter drips in. Oh well, now I know. LOL.
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#2
If the Sun was the size of a white blood cell swimming through your veins, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States. (Really puts into perspective just how small we are.).
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
And our galaxy is one of about a trillion galaxies in the observable universe. There's literally no knowing what lies beyond that, and everything we know about science says we will never know. But the observable universe could itself be a speck in a vast sea. To call it big kind of misses the point. It is well, well, well beyond imagining,
Gordito Sandwich 1 year ago
Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind bogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen!
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New Everywhere 1 year ago
I can't think about the size of the universe too long before I get an error 404 in my brain
M Kovacs 1 year ago
Laughable when you think humans came up with the idea the entire thing is all about themselves, isn't it.
Pewpie Diaper 1 year ago (edited)
If the sun were the size of a ping pong ball, then the Earth would be about 28.2 feet (just over 5.5 meters) away from it and the size of a pen tip's ball-point.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
If our sun and Proxima Centuri were the size of basketballs, the distance between them is the same as between London and Kiev.
Terry Fergusson 1 year ago
If the largest known star in the universe was placed in our galaxy, it would extend from the sun to Uranus.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
Here's a fascinating website that shows you how vast the sizes are just in our solar system. Ever since I found it, I think about this webpage, so beware if you're running out of space in your head: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
Miss Violet Knightchild 1 year ago
Thank you for this, now my space anxiety is even bigger lol
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Doctor Robert Jastrow said that the universe is stranger than we can even imagine.
#3
Otters hold paws while sleeping so they don't drift away, and can form some pretty impressive structures called "rafts" when they're in a large group.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Sea otters ONLY. Fresh water otters almost always sleep on land, where drifting is less common.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
it's for sentimental reasons for the fresh water otters
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Aballi 1 year ago
I live in a beach town where I regularly see otters floating in the ocean. They're super adorable. They also rape and murder baby seals. Cute psychopaths of the sea.
Fussy1 1 year ago
Comforting to know psychopaths aren't just regulated to land.
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marianne eliza 1 year ago
It's a sadly common event for the wrong animal to be pictured in these lists. If you're going to publish, at least look up the right animal image.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
Otters' lung capacity is 2 1/2 times greater than other similar-sized land mammals'. Sea otters can stay submerged for 5 minutes, river otters for up to 8.
Marno C. 1 year ago (edited)
Oh! And they will roll themselves up in some of the fronds of bull kelp (seaweed) to anchor themselves. The bull kelp are like magnificent ocean forests and this is the sea otters wrapping themselves in the top branches. The fronds wrap around like a little girdle-ish seatbelt, so those otters -- and any they are holding onto -- stay put as they snooze. Also, otters have a little furry fold in their armpits where they can stash a favorite rock. Then, when it is time to eat, they pull this rock out of their armpit pocket, and use it for smashing open their shellfish dinner. They do this on their belly, like some teenager who refuses to get out of bed to eat.
We loved reading through all the answers that the question of this thread brought out, and so we wanted to learn what the original inspiration that ignited this discussion was. To do that, Bored Panda reached out to LoneVentriloquistSFW, who loved our interest and was glad to answer our questions.
The OP shared that he decided to ask this question minutes after learning that E is the most used letter in the alphabet, which he also shared in the comments of his thread. “It just sparked my interest in knowing a ton of useless information from people,” said the author, adding that he didn’t find any other use for it yet.
The success of his post caught the OP by surprise. “To be honest, I didn’t expect my post to blow up like that,” said the poster, talking about how this was probably the highest interaction he has ever gotten from Reddit. “It felt awesome. It felt like I was a celebrity for a moment *lol*.”
#4
A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It's 1/100th of a second.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
In some other places, it's called "vacation".
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Steve Hall 1 year ago
It actually means a moment, the definition above was created by the computer animation companies.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I. don know if it is really a saying but if somebody ask you to do something and you say in a jiffy, are you saying that you will do it in 1/1000 of a second? And is this where this saying came from?
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I was double-checking whether it's 1/60th or 1/100th, and I discovered that it's mostly BS. The word predated the measurement BY A LOT. There have been SEVERAL proposals for how long a jiffy is, the first actually being that it's the distance that takes light one second to travel. None of them is official in any way, as millisecond (1/1000th of a second) is a standard unit.
#5
Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton.
Surenu 1 year ago
On Earth. Bring 'em on a neutron star and see that smug smile leave their ant faces on the quantum level.
similarly 1 year ago
Ants use tools, practice agriculture (including domesticating other insects and larva, and "farming" fungi), and have special rooms that regulate nest temperature. Another fun fact: Argentine Ants can form supercolonies, the largest of which spans 6,000km across Europe. Usually, ants from different colonies, even from the same species, are enemies and will attack one another, and Argentine ants are no different ... unless they're from one of the major supercolonies. Supercolony Linepithema humile ants carry the same chemical signature which identifies them as being the same clan ... and causes them to be friendly, even when they're from different continents. Ants are cool.
AxleMunshine001 1 year ago
They also practice slavery. One species of raids other ant's nest just for the purpose of stealing their eggs. The kidnapped eggs will give birth to ants that will work for their new masters, believing it is their own colony.
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Gordito Sandwich 1 year ago
Ants are fun. Ants are best when there's more than one.
Load More Replies... tullotoe underfoot 1 year ago
"Can't take fall damage..." I know what you are doing on Saturday nights.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Fun fact (BUT DO NOT EXPERIMENT ON YOUR OWN BECAUSE THIS ISN'T 100% TRUE IN 100% OF ALL CASES): Cats can avoid terminal velocity by their posture as they fall through the air. But to be extra clear: This means there is hope for kitty if he accidentally falls from a railing on the 130th floor of a skyscraper. It does not mean that there isn't plenty of chance for kitty to get badly hurt by falling. Ironically, moderately high falls are more dangerous than crazy high falls because they give kitty less time to air break themselves and prepare for landing.
Falcon 1 year ago
If you just let yourself fall from a skyscraper your terminal velocity could be as low as 120 mph (193 kph). If you assume the ultimate posture you can reach 190 mph (305 kph). If, like a cat, you manage to land on your feet your pants will then be too long to fit properly.
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Otto Katz 1 year ago
"Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton." I can't parse this sentence.
Sydney B. 1 year ago
Ants are so lightweight that they can't be hurt by long falls.
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Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.
Fussy1 1 year ago
If a Velociraptor and a Canada Goose had babies together, that'd be some next level scary shït right there!
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WindySwede 1 year ago
There are the Utah Raptor, much more the size of the movies. But was discovered after the movies or so..??
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James Paulsell 1 year ago
if they are the pack hunters they are portrayed to be, they could still do fatal damage to a human size animal.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
According to a person from Australia they had the big ones like from movies.
There is a certain type of knowledge that we define as useless. But when you stop and think about it, no kind of information is ever truly and completely without any use, is it?
While you may not be able to practically apply some of the knowledge you come in contact with, and if you’re forced to learn it anyway, it might feel like a waste of precious time, as Brian Tomasik wrote in his blog, there are many other ways in which it can be valuable.
And we don’t look as deep to find that value. Learning in itself is a fun thing that can bring a lot of enjoyment. For example, you can learn by reading books or watching films, and while the stuff you come across there will rarely find practical application in your life, few would argue that it’s not entertaining. Plus, any kind of learning can come with some unexpected discoveries, as it can often be difficult to predict just what kind of information you’re lacking or what thing you don’t know you might like.
#7
Vomiting can ease the migraine but dehydration and muscle flex caused by vomiting can cause the migraine….
Bec 1 year ago
As a child, throwing up was my go-to move when I had a migraine. Thank goodness for Sumitriptan.
Jonathan Gerow 1 year ago
Depending on severity throwing up is still my go-to move. Started having migraines at age 7, I’m 46 and still get them. I too am thankful for Sumatriptan.
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
About half of my migraines start off with an aura and I try to take something immediately to hopefully stop the migraine before it really starts or at least, hopefully lessens the symptoms. Once the pain starts and my nausea kicks in, I look forward to vomiting just because I tend to get a little relief, but not always. It's truly a vicious cycle
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
Add diarrhoea to the vomiting and head splitting pain and you've got the lot. Maybe with an aura (eye sight disturbance) thrown in for luck.
LuciBelle 1 year ago
I smell things that either aren’t there or usually only a dog could smell. Helps a lot with the vomiting. 🙄
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Marilyn Holt 1 year ago
vomiting while you have a migraine is like being beaten by bricks when you're already being beaten by bigger bricks
Karri Berkowitz 1 year ago
I get nitroglycerin headaches at work all the time. It's a migraine on steroids and will make u throw up. So this now makes sense
#8
You have to stick your finger inside an alligator to find out its gender.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
LOL!! Thank you for the new pictures inside my head.. Never went there before!
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
And THIS, boys and girls, is why it was such a bad idea for the technicians in Jurassic Park to fill in the gaps in their dinosaur DNA will alligator/crocodile DNA.
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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
personally, have no pressing need to know or find out, thank you. Now, what exactly would some alligator pervert be looking for once inside a mouth?
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Yeah....I don't think it involves sticking your finger in the MOUTH. :)
Load More Replies... Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
To find out its sex. I could be wrong, but I don't think the average crocodilian has any concept of gender. They're typically less about living in a society and more about fúcking shít up
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
Same with most, if not all, reptiles. Their genital opening is called a cloaca; when not in use, everything is tucked away inside
#9
The back of tigers ears have a white spot to resemble eyes so they scare off things that look at them from behind, sort of like a peacock.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
I have spoken with many things that look at tigers from behind, and universally they deny being frightened - by white spots. They all laugh at the idea. As an alternative they suggest the small flashes that show up in the dark night as the tiger twitches ears back an forth- are used by juvenile tigers to be able to follow momma tiger at midnight in the jungle.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
it seems more logical, which would be stupid enough to attack a tiger, even from behind
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago
What hunts a tiger other than other cats? I know humans, but they clearly didn't evolve for us
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
It's a cat thing. Cat's like to count coup on other cats. Startle them when they least expect it. I guess tigers have the faux eyes just to give pause to potential ambushers. Kind of like, "the jokes on you, buddy". Since tigers are not likely to have natural predators except man. Maybe it's to mess with hunters...
Ari Maranichi 1 year ago
I'm afraid of what might hunt them then instead of tigers. True story- I actually am not super scared of tigers because when I was 5 I got to pet a live one that was sitting in some dude's backyard. thinking back makes me wonder why he had 2 tigers and a lion in his backyard.
Internet wanderer 1 year ago
I'm more scared of what tigers are scared of than the tigers themselves.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
Aren't they there so tiger cubs can easily see and follow their moms through tall grass?
David Paterson 1 year ago
Not peacock, butterfly. If a tiger flicks her ear it just looks like a butterfly and so the game are not disturbed. Good camouflage in long grass.
At the same time, learning new things plays a big role in shaping your worldview. Our brains change with every experience. While we might forget a lot of the stuff that we learn, we retain the wisdom we gain from it. Moreover, it also improves our intuition and pattern-recognition abilities, as well as our general understanding of how the world functions.
Acquiring new information and skills also works as an intellectual exercise that can be compared to a professional athlete going to the gym. Even if the stuff you’re learning doesn’t seem to matter at the moment, it can help you get into a habit of learning and prepare you for when you need to learn something actually important.
#10
Sometimes pandas are too lazy to have [intercourse]. And in order to reproduce them, there is a special person who infuses the female with ejaculate.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Pandas, you will be amazed to learn, are not humans. Nor are they "bears". In the fairly short period of time humans have studied pandas there have been multiple points where - they did not behave like humans, nor bears- therefore the panda students declared "pandas are deficient in..." Only to learn later, that pandas are NOT deficient in anything (Oh, look- pandas living in the woods without us...) - they are just, um; not humans, and not bears. Too lazy for sex? Um. I'll bet they just don't wanna, whey YOU wanna. But they manage to have babies all by themselves. Somehow.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The actual reason why they won't make babies is because they are shy and not comfortable in zoos. Guess what happened during the lockdown when zoos were closed? Many pandas got pregnant
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Sara Frazer 1 year ago
....then on the flip side, that means there is a special person who...uhh....gets the ejacuIate..?? 🫥
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Jimmy Carr has a hilarious bit about that in one of his Netflix specials.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
This explains a lot, especially about our own BP!
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Inseminate the panda you can't infuse them. Infusing something is filling it up with something else. Insemination is putting male sperm from same species into a female.
Belle Miles 1 year ago
Now My dirty brain wants to know how they get the "ejaculate". Good thing I'm not in charge of those things, they just wouldn't make it.
#11
Some people have voluntary control of their Tensor Tympani muscle in their inner ear. They can make a rumbling noise in their ears at will by tensing it.
Hand when there is loud noise around to kinda reduce it as you walk past.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago (edited)
I have this too! It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's pretty easy! (For clarification: I guess what I mean by this is that I think I know how to make the rumbling noise, but sometimes doing what seems to be the same action won't cause it to happen, it's usually much easier after the rumble was caused naturally, like by yawning.)
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leendadll 1 year ago
I can't. Never even heard of it till about a week ago (I'm 61 yrs old).
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Ru Bee 1 year ago
I LOVE this post and the amount of replies to it. I absolutely can NOT do this 😊 but it sounds kinda useful. I found out recently that a lot of people don't have an inner monologue I asked friends about there inner voice and a fair few of them where like "What?! Nah if no one's talking to me it's quiet and blank inside my mind ” ..... Must be soooo peaceful.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
I can do that but I have no idea how I control that muscle - it's the rumbling you hear in your ears when you yawn. I also hear loud noises/bangs in my head just before I fall asleep. It's called exploding head syndrome (EHS). It's nothing to worry about, it doesn't do any harm.
Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
Such a violent name for a condition that’s harmless lmao
Load More Replies... Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
Oh cool, finally a there's a funky thing I can do with a bodypart that's kinda rare AND I CAN'T EVEN SHOW IT TO ANYONE!!!
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
I can do this. But it still doesn't drown out the sound of the tinnitus in my left ear. :(
Tyranamar 1 year ago
Most people have a muscle in the ear that helps to reduce loud sound. People without it are very sensitive to noise. I've never heard of the hearing the rumbling thing with it though. Or it being voluntary. It's usually an involuntary process. I forget the name of the muscle.
Alicia M 1 year ago
I have it and I am still super sensitive to noise. I can tense something up in my ear, but I can't describe how I do it. It just works. Sort of feels like I'm tensing the muscles up that make me clench my jaw, but I'm not actually clenching my jaw. To me it sounds like a mixture of white noise and the ocean.
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#12
Fish don't fart.
They continuously secrete waste gasses through their skin.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Here's something wilder: a fish bladder is an organ with a high interior surface area that evolved so fish can remain buoyant; Air comes out of their bloodstream and enters the fish bladder, allowing the fish to accumulate a pocket of air inside of it. In oxygen-poor waters, air can move back out of the fish bladder into the bloodstream. Eventually, this ability became so important to certain fish that they evolved connections between the fish bladder and their gills that allowed them to gulp fresh air. And the conquest of land commenced.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Fish certainly do fart. Some even use it as a method of communication.
Johnny Briones of Medium further expands on this subject, writing about how memory techniques that can help to recall and retain information are best learned using so-called useless information.
Memory techniques sound and are quite wonderful. However, the problem is that people sometimes don’t realize that these, too, have to be learned first and you can’t just jump right in, learning everything that you want with ease.
#13
The spikes at the end of a stegosaurus tail is named after a character from the Far Side cartoon.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The Thagomizer, named after the late Thag Simmons.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
*sigh* Yes, yes it was. But the Paleontological community had never settled on a universally agreed-to name for that tail weapon, and, having senses of humor, when the Far Side cartoon came out, they laughed at it, agreed, and voted to make the name official.
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As a child of the 80's (born 1983), I still remember my mother and my grandmother's landline phone number.
My mom moved at least twice since then and don't even use a landline anymore.
My grandmother died like 10 years ago.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My parents' and grandma's last four digits are my numerical passwords. Totally random numbers to anyone else, but very easy to remember for me.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I was born in the 70's and still know my parents' house phone number. Because they still have the same one they've had since back then! They haven't ever left the town I grew up in. I still live nearby as well.
Lee Henderson 1 year ago
I was born in 1960. We have had the same landline number for over 60 years.
Catlady6000 1 year ago
I still know the phone number we had until we moved when I was six. 52 years ago. Do not ask me what I was doing 2 hours ago, I can't remember
soro doeth 1 year ago
This takes me back in a warm place but i dont think this post belongs here.
#15
Morphologies of onomatopeias are written differently according to the language and I appreciate how to say "meow" in different languages.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We meow in American English, but then, we're American shorthairs, so there you go.
Astro 1 year ago
Don’t quite a few languages use a word that sounds incredibly similar to “meow?” (Miao, mau, miaou, mjau etc)
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Suzy Lee Ferry 1 year ago
It's miaou in french ! But the best exemple of that is the sound of the rooster. Cocorico in french, quiquiriqui in spanish, c**k-a-doodle-do in english...
Aldhissla VargTimmen 1 year ago
It's nyan actually, look up nyancat if you will ☺
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Reminds me of David Sedaris's "Six to Eight Black Men" essay (from Me Talk Pretty One Day) that talks about how people in different countries make dog bark and rooster crow noises differently (amongst other things he hilariously discusses). The rooster discussion starts at 2:35 but the entire thing is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEJto6kN6Qoworld/customs/netherlands/sedaris
Running into problems at first is expected, and when you do, you’ll likely spend more time looking for solutions than actually learning what you set out to learn. This can be frustrating and make it seem like the techniques you’re using are not working.
However, if you first practice these methods using useless information, you won’t feel the pressure if you can’t remember something that doesn’t really matter to you. Thus, you will be able to easily identify problems you run into and find ways to solve them.
#16
In 16th century Italy duels often took place where the chosen weapon was very hard maths questions.
EarthGrowl 1 year ago
If only all conflicts could be solved in this manner. Isreal vs Gaza math duel, winner take all, losers pack up and move to Kansas.
#17
Ohio is the only state in the US that doesn't share a letter with the word mackerel.
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 year ago
Da heck? How do you work this out? And why mackerel? (I’m an Ohioan)
Kat Ashworth 1 year ago
St Johns Wood is the only London Tube station that also fits that definition (one of those things that's a classic pub quiz question).
#18
That most car horns play an F4 on the first space of the treble clef.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
Unless someone cuts me off, then it goes BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
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Dan Holden 1 year ago
Not unless your horn plays F, Bb, and C simultaneously. The 4 is used to denote what octave you're playing.
Load More Replies... Definitely a Human 1 year ago
Note quite true. Most car horns play a tritone, which is two notes. Also an F4 is definitionally on the first space of treble clef
In conclusion, we can confidently say that while not all information is equally important, no information is ever truly useless, even if it may seem that way at first glance. So read up because you never know when some random fact you encounter in Reddit threads like these might prove to be a lot more valuable than you thought.
What did you think of these facts? Do you have anything you’d like to add? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
#19
Male swallowtail butterflies have eyes on their [male genital] so they can position themselves correctly when mating.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
I think the (male genital) of swallowtails is known to Entomologists as the "winkie.". Technically; and the ejaculation is about 3 jiffys.
#20
When a body was placed in a coffin after being guillotined, they didn't always put the head above the shoulders. Sometimes it would be between the legs, face first into the crotch.
#21
Where do I start?
Nepal is the only country in the world whose flag isn't a rectangle
Raptors will sometimes take tortoises to the top of a cliff and drop them from midair, breaking their shell
Earth was uninhabitable for the first few hundred million years of its existence, but life emerged more or less immediately once Earth became inhabitable
You may have heard that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s (no matter how fast you're going), but that's actually precisely how much it is, we define a meter to be such that the speed of light is that number, no decimal point
Cleopatra lived between 69-30 BCE and the pyramids were built around 2780 BCE, meaning she lived closer to today than to the building of the pyramids.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
a planet becomes inhabited when it becomes habitable, strange, isn't it ?
JK 1 year ago
I think it's meant more in the sense that life began almost *exactly* when conditions were adeqaute and didn't take a long stretch of time to begin/evolve/adapt
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Claudia Stieble 1 year ago
Crows and raven drop walnuts down on the streets in front of car. When the car has smashed the walnut open, they come back and eat it. The pyramids were already 1000 years old when Ramesses II was pharao. He sent out a team of "archeologists" to study them.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Some birds also drop rocks to smash things they're trying to eat. Specifically one uses them to crack open bones. I'll have to look up which one it is. Saw a video of it and it's incredible.
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 year ago
I think I know the answer but can tortoises/turtles live without shells?
tullotoe underfoot 1 year ago
But it was near freezing the entire time, even when we had complete ice melt and tropical climate over the whole of the land.
#22
The a**s is the first part of the body to open up. We develop a**s-first.
Michael None 1 year ago
In Alabama an a*s is a child and all politicians are asses. So all their politicians are children. Logic!
Wheelchair athlete 1 year ago (edited)
We are deuterostomes so we developed a**s first. Protostomes embryonically develop mouth first from the blastopore
tullotoe underfoot 1 year ago
Food never enters the body there aren't enclosures, only sphincters between your lips and a**s. We are doughnuts with limbs.
#23
The wax/metal tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Orang lord 1 year ago
It’s Phineas. Sorry for correcting, It just bothers me a little that it’s misspelled.
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Tracy Wallick 1 year ago
I learned this from The Question ala Justice League: "The metal bits at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister."
Doctor Strange 1 year ago
Also fluoride makes teeth visible to spy satellites
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Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Jack Benny, Christmas shopping, vs. Store Clerk Mel Blanc, driving him crazy - "METAL tips! PLASTIC tips! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!" (Mel runs off, screaming...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYt-ESV1jBk
#24
I'm an expert with binary. Also- Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
Gordito Sandwich 1 year ago
I remember our holiday meals of salt growing up.
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LilliVB 1 year ago
Honey is also a food that, with the right environment conditions, never spoils. It has been found honey in the pyramids that was still fine to be eaten.
Becky Lombard 1 year ago
Maple syrup isn't a natural food. Sap comes from the tree and humans boil it to make syrup.
Load More Replies... Charles McChristy 1 year ago (edited)
I suppose you never heard of fruits, nuts, legumes, or seeds.
#25
You can calculate the circumference of the universe with a margin of error less than the diameter of an atom if you have 60 digits of pi. Thus, any further digits are completely useless. You're welcome to all of you that memorized 100+ digits back in school.
Editor's note: 38 digits of pi is sufficient.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
*visible universe. We don't actually know how big it is, only the bits that we can see.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
We less and less of it every second. In the far far far future we would only be able to see the local group, then only the milky way.
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Jimmy7 1 year ago
As an engineer, if you're doing fast math in your head, Pi=3 is good enough. Most people forget that or can't do it and are surprised how close an answer you get with this method. Same for a mile equaling 5000 ft; do the math and add a slight fudge factor at the end.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Or use kilometres and metres where 1000m is always 1km - really easy!
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#26
There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.
David 1 year ago
I mean we made several trips between 1969 and 1972, I dont think the astronauts wanted to take that back with them
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Quite right - mostly to reduce the take-off mass. Anything they could leave behind, they did. They left behind some very fine Hasselblad cameras, too. The human waste was sterilized long, long ago by the temperate extremes and exposure to vacuum. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/the-cameras-of-the-apollo-moon-missions
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#27
By volume, the sun generates heat at the same rate as a compost heap.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Oh, I think we need a bit more context and detail for this to be comprehensible.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Not complicated. The actual rate of energy output of the sun is fairly low, it makes up for it in size. This is a good thing for us, it means that burning ball of gas will be burning bright for billions of years!
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Hear me out: We should just take the helium out balloons, put them onto a ship, and make the ship fly into the sun, more helium! (/s)
#28
I memorized this as a song and I’ve never forgotten it since Exa Peta Tera Giga Mega Kilo Hecto Deka Deci Centi Milli Micro Nano Pico Femto Atto I don’t really use it in daily life or anywhere else but you never know.
Astro 1 year ago
It’s so catchy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgRCJQ6w48
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Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
They recently added a couple on each end: yotta, zetta, ..., zepto, yocto.
Judes 1 year ago
And more recently they have quetta (10^30), ronna, yotta, zetta, ... , zepto, yocto, ronto, quecto (10^-30) !
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CORGI QUEEN 1 year ago
I have memorized the US states in alphabetical order, Alabama, Alaska ,Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska ,Nevada, new Hampshire, New Jersey, new mexico, new York ,north Carolina, north Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode island, south Carolina, south Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, west Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Falcon 1 year ago
Why is alphabetical order a thing? I mean, who decided that letters should be in that order?
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Paul Olszaňski 1 year ago
I memorized the entire 15 verse poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service in 5th grade and recited it in front of the whole class.
#29
You can hipnotize chickens by drawing a line on the dirt and made the chicken look at the line.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I applied to study this, but failed the hen trance exam....I'll get my coat.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Maybe under hypnosis, the chicken will at last answer those Big Questions - "Which came first, you or the egg?", "Why did you cross the road?", etc.
#30
I just learned today that E is the most used letter in the alphabet.
Red Foreman 1 year ago
F me, why was this the first comment I found pointing this out Also, alphabets and letters don't exist outside of the construct we use as humans to communicate. p.s. my cat said meow is the most common meow in the mewophabet.
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Peter H 1 year ago
I learned as a child (and am somewhat supported by Wheel of Fortune) that the top 12 letters by usage in English are ETAION SHRDLU
Cat Chat 1 year ago
I remember the most common selection for the finalist's puzzle was RSTLNE
Load More Replies... Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
E is *not* the most used letter in the alphabet. It only shows up once. U on the other hand, is in there 3 times.
pelemele 1 year ago (edited)
For the curious, you can read Georges Perec's novel "La Disparition". A nightmare to translate but nevertheless exists in English, Spanish, German and Italian. (And I won’t tell you any more 😋)
Hey! 1 year ago (edited)
The Void in English. It's called a lipogram and it can be any letters, not just E. Edit: The title is A Void, not The Void.
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Dorothy Reiser 1 year ago
And the one key of my typwriter that broke just when I was typing up my thesis (1992). I substituted "c" and crossed each one with a pen.
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 year ago
In wheel of fortune the letters they used (so maybe most common letters?) were r,s,t,l,n,e
#31
You can fit a lightbulb into your mouth, but will likely have a f**k of a time getting it out.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Oh, it's easy after you bite down really hard an shatter it- just spit all the blood out.
Bec 1 year ago
No, I watched the man in the sideshow eat a lightbulb, the secret is to crunch it into tiny pieces and avoid cutting your tongue, then eat a dozen bananas so it doesn't cut up the digestive system.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
"It's obviously meant to be there - why else would it fit so well?" /s
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#32
When Wizards of the Coast tried to expand Magic the Gathering to appeal to the Chinese market they released a set of cards based on Chinese mythology and introduced a new mechanic called horsemanship. It is functionally similar to flying, in that flying creatures are blockable only by other creatures with flying (or if they have reach), except that creatures with horsemanship can *only* be blocked by other creatures with horsemanship.
The cards never really took off and the horsemanship mechanic was buried, so the horsemanship skill was limited to this one set of cards which are quite uncommon these days.
What this means is that if you build a deck specifically around abusing the horsemanship mechanic, 99% of opponents won’t really be able to do anything about your barrage of attacks. Of course there are plenty of ways around this like removing the creatures directly or boardwipes that remove all creatures, and there are a handful of new cards that reintroduced it, but there’s a good chance you’ll get quite a lot of damage in before they can get their strategies to fire off.
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
There's a rare set of magic cards with an attack so unique that most decks have few or no defenses. Which means you get to play it against people exactly once. After that, when you ask if they want to play, they say, "only if you don't play that deck."
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago (edited)
Even if you don't play the game, I feel like this is pretty understandable? To make it a bit less confusing: Usually in MTG, some cards can block attacks. The way it's known if they can, is that at the bottom of each card (that is a creature, meaning it's not just an action, imagine it as a soldier) there is a number for the attack power, and defense, if the defense is higher, the attack is blocked. However, this "Horsemanship" mechanic (mechanics will show up on the card) apparently just means that said creature cannot be stopped, and will always do damage.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
To make it oversimplified: If you use a card with this perk, you basically just win.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 1 year ago
I was there Gandalf. I was there playing MTG when this happened. Still have a couple Zodiac Dragons in my collection.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Sadly I understood this, not from personal experience of the game but having a son in law who is ever so lightly obsessed with it.
Lemaire 1 year ago
I read and understood all of this. I... I really miss playing MTG.
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#33
A Chow Chow’s tongue must be dark blue/dark purple (as close as possible to black) for the dog to be up to breed standard. A Chow Chow with any red or pink on its tongue cannot win a best in breed, group, or show competition. .
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
...and don't turn your back on the little creeps. Bipolar little breed.
#34
The sticks on modern game controllers are called "analog sticks," not "joysticks.".
leendadll 1 year ago
I call almost all people Fred! So easy to remember their name when I'm the one making it up.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 1 year ago
Is this actually forgotten information already? I remember when analog sticks were introduced back in the 90s with the N64. Hell, I remember actual joysticks on arcade units and early Atari systems.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
Mmm... I remember using analogue joysticks to play (a few) video games back in the early 1980s, connected to a BBC Micro home computer. They plugged into the joystick inputs (a set of four A/D converters mostly meant for use by joysticks, but could be used for measurement). Of course such controls are "joysticks" - the term dates back to at least 1909, referring to the very definitely analogue control sticks used to fly aeroplanes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick#Origins Now then, what a particular game console maker calls the things is a different matter.
Load More Replies... Dragons Exist 1 year ago
I couldn't care less what the dictionary says, if everyone calls them joysticks then they are joysticks
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
analog? are they really analog? All this time I thought they were fine resolution digital translators. Huh. My bad.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
Yes! They are analog! There are 2 main technologies used for this. The older technology is a variable resistor (potentiometer). These are being replaced by hall effect sensors.
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Astro 1 year ago
Of course, it’s a very common term for them in my part of the world
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#35
I learned abour elephants although it’s not useless in a sense could save somebody. It about how to determine if elephant charge is real or fake. If it’s ears are fanned wide and are upward it’s a fake charge. If its ear are tucked behind its a real charge. Whatever the case just get out of there.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Having actually been charged at by a bull elephant, I can confirm that this is BS.
DrBronxx 1 year ago
I accidentally skipped the first use of the word "charge", and for a split second I thought "Why would I need help determining whether an elephant is real or fake? And what would be the situation?"
Ms. Mack 1 year ago
If they are pink, they are fake, therefore it is time to stop drinking alcohol.
Load More Replies... Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
I don't f*****g care. Ain't waiting around to 'gauge' the threat level. MF charges, all systems on high alert and fight or flight is on full reverse thrusters.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
I assume, also with a lot of animals, if you run then they chase you. Try skipping like Pepe le Pew, works pretty well with him in terms of speed and endurance
Gordito Sandwich 1 year ago
Instructions unclear, ended up sexually harassing a female cat
Load More Replies... BoredPossum 1 year ago
I've been fake charged and I do think it had its ears out, but that's the last thing you think of at the moment.
#36
Germany used Messerschmitt Bf 109 attack planes during World War Two. They were very fast. Uk on the other hand used supermarine spitfires which weren’t as fast, but could turn more sharp. They were used to attack each other. I also know a lot about the Mitsubishi A6M Zero planes that Japan used. They were very light because they missed a lot of protecting shields, but because of that they were very fast. They were also the first attack planes where you didn’t use gas masks. Instead you sat in a pressure chamber. The planes that dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were B-29 Superfortress and were called Enola Gay and Bockscar.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
The Mosquito was faster than any of the early war fighters, and could carry 2/3 the load of a Lancaster bomber. It was also made of wood.
Russell Bowman 1 year ago
The Spitfire was a beauty ... but, the Hawker Hurricane downed twice as many opposition aircraft
SarCaustic 1 year ago (edited)
There were more Hurricanes in service during the Battle of Britain (the only time your fact is accurate), and the Spits went for the fighters (as already mentioned). The Hurribacks were easier to repair, and rounds often went straight through their canvas skin without causing much damage. The Spits were also one of few aircraft in constant manufacture AND improvement throughout WWII.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
As it happens, the Bf 109 and Spitfire were always quite close in performance of all kinds and leap-frogged over each other in top speed throughout the war, depending on their respective states of development (early Spitfires couldn't get into a dive as quickly as the Bf109 for fuel delivery reasons; Spitfires always had a more robust airframe, especially the tail plane). Also, WWII fighters existed largely to defend against or support bomber attack: when Bf109s attacked Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, it was to stop the Spitfires attacking German bombers. Finally, even modern warplane pilots wear oxygen masks - necessary for survival if the pressure cabin is breached.
#37
When we first switched from old, cheap coffins to new, sealed coffins they kept blowing up. It was later discovered that a decomposing body releases gases, ~~and the problem was fixed by installing valves in the coffins~~.
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So it turns out that the sealed coffin is just a scam that some people can fall into, not an improved coffin. Also the valve thing is BS, I misunderstood.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
When Grandpa died, the funeral director showed Grandma the caskets, and said, "Keep in mind, you're buying a box."
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
I think the hoops are sealed for legal and hygiene reasons, not for sale
What do you think ?
Mimi M 1 year ago
It is an objective fact that things that do not exist cannot get worse.
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It is an objective fact that things that do not exist cannot get worse.
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