Learning random facts is always fun. At the same time, some of you might wonder why on Earth you would need to stuff your brain with things like that. Well, if you're into trivia, these random facts may come in handy for you. Maybe one of these facts will help you score that point you need to win. And if you're not a trivia person, these random facts might still be useful when you least expect it. Or it might be time for you to get into trivia.
Either way, let's take a trip through a list of random facts that were prompted to be shared when someone on Reddit asked: "What's a completely random fact no one asked for?"
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There are elements from exploding stars in your bones and oceans in your blood and your lungs use the same structures as coral does and your veins branch like trees or rivers and the same spirals you see in a shell on the beach are in your ears and there are miniature galaxies in your eyes. You are a miracle reflecting the beauty of the universe back at itself. That's incredible and I think about it a lot.
In 2005 new palaeontological discoveries meant that a scientific term had to be assigned to baby/juvenile pterosaurs.
The author chose to name them "Flaplings".
octopuses, octopi, and octopus are all accepted plural spellings for octopus
also stop eating them
That's interesting. Now someone tell me where I can aquire that stupendous lantern, please.
The four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus is called a thagomizer. Far Side comic strip artist Gary Larson coined the word.
Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets.
One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.
Living proof that wearing armor 24/7 does not protect you from pick-up truck driving, drunken hillbillies leaving The Booby Bungalow at 3am.
Among Fortune 500 companies, 2018 was the first year that the number of CEOs who were women exceeded the number who were named John.
*edit - grammar*
The purpose of golf is to play as little golf as possible.
Sylvester Stallone wrote *Rocky* in three days after watching a boxing match because the only acting jobs he could get were bit parts and [adult movies], and he was homeless for a while. The producers wanted Burt Reynolds to play the lead but Stallone refused, and accepted huge budget cuts to star in his own film.
Pornos?!? You learn something new everyday. Now pardon me, I have some Googling to do...
From my giraffe loving 7yr old- A giraffe’s horns are called ossicones which are mostly cartilage
“Chat GPT,” pronounced with a French accent, phonetically translates to “Cat, I have farted,” in French.
This problem is similar to why the Toyota MR2 was just called the MR in France.
The difference between a hotel and a motel is in a hotel your room is accessed from inside and a motel you access your room from the outside.
Male echidnas have a four-headed penis, although they only use two during mating (and they alternate which heads they use each time).
The two they’re using grow larger, to fit inside the female’s dual-branched reproductive tract.
Also, bonus fact: female echidnas lactate through their skin… so they sweat their milk out, and the puggles lick it off them.
Bonus bonus fact: when a female echidna is ready to mate, a group of males will follow her through the bush for a few days in a horny little conga line called a mating train. When she decides it’s time, the males circle her digging a ditch as they go, then push each other out of the way until there’s only one left.
Edit to add: Nat Geo video of echidna mating rituals
When I'm ready to mate, I generally move my rook.
The Xerographic process is how you get your office laser printer to work. Toner is plastic that sticks to the paper that got hit with a laser (laser printer) and is a different charge. The toner is being held on by static electricity. At the end it goes through two hot rollers called a fuser and is baked into the paper and that's why paper feels warm coming out because plastic is melted into paper.
The plastic piece on the end of a shoelace is called the aglet.
ETA: Jesus, for the record, I did not learn this from Phineas and Ferb, but good to know half a generation did.
A "factoid" is actually an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.
Not a "small fact".
Language and meaning are not concrete and unchanging. If enough people decide to use "factoid" to mean "small fact" then it will become true. Obligatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/2039/
Australia is wider than the moon.
a lethal dose is also a life supply
light a fire for a man, keep him warm for a while. BUT - light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life...
All tennis rackets are strung manually. There are no machines that use automation to string rackets.
yeah! i used to play tennis and. i would usually come across my dad changing the string on his racket! there are different strings too! though there is a contraption to aid the stringing process
There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear.
The most expensive liquid is scorpion venom priced at $39mil per gallon.
A B2 stealth bomber has retractable cup holders and a mini microwave in the cockpit
Up 33% of hip fractures in the older population result in death within a year.
And this past year I learned how a simple UTI can cause death in the elderly. A nurse told me it's more common than you would think.
The human a**s can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage.
A raccoon can squeeze into a hole as tight as 4 inches.
Seattle is further north than all of Maine and most of the population of Canada.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.
Peanuts aren't nuts, and Tomatoes are fruits. Whomever was responsible for naming foods really fu*ked up.
Scientists have calculated that there have been 117 billion people that have ever lived
The Giant Tortoise did not receive a scientific name for over 300 years due to the failure of delivery of specimens to Europe because they were so delicious that sailors invariably ate them during the voyage.
While this is interesting, this is the third time in two weeks that this fact has been on BP.
The human animal is the only animal with permanent breasts.
If you force a fly to keep flying for 10 minutes, it'll die of hunger
If I have to chase a fly around for 10 hours to make sure it keeps flying, I'll die of exhaustion.
There are only 25 blimps in use, worldwide.
Editors note: Only half of these 25 blimps are in use.
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"Bored Panda Recommends: We’ve got a feeling you’ll like these pieces, too..." Fact: NO, these injected clickbait links spoil the flow, they often lead nowhere, and can make me leave a topic prematurely just because it's so irritating. Only BP could think this "enhances the user experience".
It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls and Bodies by Drowning Pool are two songs about the same event.
There are roughly 4,000 planetariums in the world. Of those, 10 are in the state of Wisconsin. One of those ten happens to be in a public high school. And it gets used for community programs, some classes, and a bi-weekly astronomy club.
They almost tore down the Bradford HS planetarium in 2018. Thankfully community members forced the school board to reconsider.
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It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls and Bodies by Drowning Pool are two songs about the same event.
There are roughly 4,000 planetariums in the world. Of those, 10 are in the state of Wisconsin. One of those ten happens to be in a public high school. And it gets used for community programs, some classes, and a bi-weekly astronomy club.
They almost tore down the Bradford HS planetarium in 2018. Thankfully community members forced the school board to reconsider.
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