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.
It can also mimic dementia while the infection is present.Saw it happen to my MIL a few times. Antibiotic fixed it.
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My dad passed 4 months after his. That being said, he nearly died during the operation, he had covid 3 months prior to the fracture and he had advanced vascular dementia so we don't really know what the root cause was. 84 years young, only 2.5 bad years so there's that.
Yeah, those are a lot of serious challenges to an 84 year old body. I'm sorry about your dad.
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Is it a cause and effect, or a correlation? I thought I heard that actually a lot of times, the hip breaks, causing the person to fall (not the other way around). This means the person is in very, very poor health when their hip broke. So, the poor health means they don't have long to live. Is that not correct?
There are a lot of possible explanations. It takes a lot of energy and bodily resources to recover from that kind of an injury, and older persons have lower reserves of those. Your theory is another possible explanation in many cases. Hip injuries result in decreased mobility, during which time the person is at increased risk for cardiovascular issues, stroke, and other complications.
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I think this confuses causation with correlation. As I understand it, experts estimate that some 18 to 33 percent of all older adults who have suffered hip fractures will die within a year. This could mean that the hip fracture did, in fact, cause the death, or it could mean that the person died of an something else, perhaps something in which hip fractures are more frequent.
My poor MIL fell, broke her hip, went into a coma and died in a week. The fracture wasn’t even a bad one. It went from “you’ll be up and running in a week” in the morning to cardiac arrest in the evening. I’m not sure why they are so deadly.
Probably because major arteries and veins can be affected too. Arterial involvement could result in a heart attack and veins could be compressed leading to pulmonary embolism.
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I think mainly because the long bed rest required for recovery means the patient loses both muscle mass and mobility, which makes it more difficult to get up and walk again after the fracture has healed.
Often people who are afraid to get up and moving after a hip replacement, either because of pain or fear of falling, are the ones who don't recover from that either. You need to get moving as soon as possible. Plus, people who have mild dementia and then have surgery requiring an anaesthetic, often have their dementia worsen dramatically.
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I'm no specialist, but that Xray looks like a rib cage and only small area of the hip bone. . .?
First, why ? Second, why is there a chest radiograph to illustrate a fact about hip fractures ?
My 95 year old grandma broke her hip in November. My son and I made the 6 hour drive to see her, just in case. She was happy to see us and fussed about us driving all that way to see her. I guess it's a good thing she didn't think we were there to say goodbye just in case she doesn't make it to the summer.
Probably most people will be surprised at how they die. Get hit from the car on your left while looking at traffic coming from the right. Smokers who expect to die from lung cancer, have a stroke instead.
My kids used to poke fun at me when I drive. I'd look left, if clear, look right, if clear, look left again and if clear, pull out glancing right again. Comes from riding a motorcycle - gotta look everywhere all at once...
Load More Replies... yep whenever an old person takes a fall, it seems to be a sign that they've only got a few months left. I never understood why
I think it’s because being bedridden causes bedsores that can become infected, and being sedentary can cause fluid buildup resulting in pneumonia.
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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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Great article. I'm a facts junkie and I actually learned a few things. Thank you!
"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.
Load More Replies... Great article. I'm a facts junkie and I actually learned a few things. Thank you!
