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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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#1
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.
Beansie-never-visited-me-once 1 year ago
I read this just after I fished a load of biscuit crumbs out of my bra and ate them. Yeah, I'm exquisite.
JB 1 year ago (edited)
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
Pyla 1 year ago
It's possible at this very moment you are breathing a molecule of air that Plato breathed.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
It's facts like this that I find more moving and miraculous than the concept that it was all created intentionally by some deity.
Who cares what I think, but... 1 year ago
Maybe when we look to the stars, we're actually seeing ourselves...
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#2
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".
Danielle 1 year ago
There's a really fun book called The Naming of the Shrew which is all about why things are called what they are. It gets pretty nerdy at some points but if you are interested in language/nature/history of science it is a good time.
Shirley Heyn 1 year ago
I always wondered if you could hear them overhead. . . or were they silent stalkers?
#3
octopuses, octopi, and octopus are all accepted plural spellings for octopus
also stop eating them
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
That's interesting. Now someone tell me where I can aquire that stupendous lantern, please.
Otto Katz 1 year ago
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=shop&hl=en&psb=1&ved=2ahUKEwjcyozA-oOEAxWrjFoFHSpADBEQu-kFegQIABAN&q=octopus+paper+lantern&oq=octopus+paper+lantern&gs_lcp=Cgtwcm9kdWN0cy1jYxADUABYAGAAaABwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEA&sclient=products-cc
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Phil 1 year ago
I'm guessing the OP said 'stop eating them' is because recent research is showing that they are probably more sentient than dolphins. There's actually signs that they have a sense of humor!
arthbach 1 year ago
I've not come across 'octopus' being an accepted spelling of the plural of 'octopus'. 'Octopuses' is standard English - steal a word from another language, and add an 's' or 'es'. 'Octopodes' take the Greek root, and adds a Greek plural. 'Octopi' uses the Greek root, and adds a Latin ending to make a hybrid linguistic mashup.
digitalin 1 year ago
I am an avid meat-eater and am in no way a vegetarian. But I do not like the idea of eating octopus. They're so smart.
Manuel Delgado 1 year ago
Pigs are really smart too. If we start eating according to the meat's IQ, Scientologists would be on the run while cows graze peacefully.
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Nick Triantafyllidis 1 year ago
There is no "should" when it comes to human language. By that measure "selfie" should not be a word.
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BarBeeGirl 1 year ago
Octopi are very intelligent creatures and it pains me when I see people eat then
#4
Elephants can purr, like Cats..
Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago
"mom that elephant was purring". Mom"no it was not, elephant don't do that. Only cats do that." Years later. Bam.
Hagebumi 1 year ago
They can ! Studies have shown that when elephants see a human the same area of the brain becomes active as when a person looks at a cute puppy. They think we're cute.
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#5
The four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus is called a thagomizer. Far Side comic strip artist Gary Larson coined the word.
#6
Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets.
One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
Living proof that wearing armor 24/7 does not protect you from pick-up truck driving, drunken hillbillies leaving The Booby Bungalow at 3am.
digitalin 1 year ago
Now I want to open a lactation consulting place for new moms and call it the Booby Bungalow.
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Gene Perry 1 year ago
And they're adorable. Quad baby armadillos are born pink and squishy, so handle carefully.
#7
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*
Jane Doe 1 year ago
and the corollary, the number of non WASP/tradition white men vs men whose social or national background does not typically include John. There may be more women than in previous decades, but there are still more men. But now the men are coming from diverse groups. So good for everyone, I think.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
Honestly, this is sad to me. Likely demonstrates systemic bias against women.
Danielle 1 year ago
For a really long time it was common to talk about how there are more men called John running Fortune 500 companies than women, so whilst this statistic is pretty bad it's actually proof that things are improving!
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#8
The purpose of golf is to play as little golf as possible.
Martin Kaine 1 year ago
“I tell ya, golf courses and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate.” -Al Czervik
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Sven Petersson 1 year ago
I believe it was Mark Twain who called it: "A primitive form of agriculture".
P R 1 year ago
"I believe it was..." should not be posted. That's Fox "News" and mAGA territory
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Sky Render 1 year ago
This fact has resulted in "golf" becoming nerd culture shorthand for "doing something in as few steps as possible".
arthbach 1 year ago
There's a number of activities like this. Chess, darts, 100m front crawl... etc. The objective is to get it done as quickly as possible, before anyone else does it first.
Mary Peace 1 year ago
How is this a 'fact'? There must be some people who play golf because they love it.
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I'm glad I discovered the comment below. I and most other folks, though it was a Mark Twain quote.
#9
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.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
Pornos?!? You learn something new everyday. Now pardon me, I have some Googling to do...
Xenon 1 year ago
Hows about i pass on that. The one still picture was more than enough for me.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 1 year ago
I've heard that from another actor who was also directing the movie he played lead in. Not only did he get not get paid double, which... you know, wouldn't be unreasonable but okay, I get it - but actually got paid LESS. And it's double the work! And it wasn't because he kicked out some great director - there wasn't anyone else to do the directing. Oh wait ... maybe that was the reason they had to keep a low budget ;-)
Agent of Karma 1 year ago
I don't even like boxing movies, but I can't see Burt Reynolds carrying that off.
#10
From my giraffe loving 7yr old- A giraffe’s horns are called ossicones which are mostly cartilage
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Only, they are born with ossicles. Horns are called horns because they are made of a keratin substance called - wait for it! - HORN!
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Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
They have the same number of vertebrae in their neck as humans do; seven.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
Mmm! Gonna get me one a them ossicones! Do they come in strawberry?
Debra Newell 1 year ago
Such a beautiful and peaceful herbivore creature. So graceful. I love giraffes too!
#11
“Chat GPT,” pronounced with a French accent, phonetically translates to “Cat, I have farted,” in French.
Ryan-James O'Driscoll 1 year ago
This problem is similar to why the Toyota MR2 was just called the MR in France.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
Is anyone else trying to test this theory out loud? And why is my cat looking at me funny?
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Mitsubishi Pajero in Spain was called Montero. Pajero mean vvanker in Spanish.
Momten Jillian 1 year ago
Just wait til he makes it to his box. He will pay you back. Count on it
Wm Paul Robinson 1 year ago
Can confirm as someone who speaks French with an Ulster/Scots accent.
#12
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.
Sky Render 1 year ago
An easy way to remember this is that hotels are like houses, while motels are accessed from the motorway side.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I have stayed in establishments calling themselves motels where all guest rooms were accessed from the inside.
BrownTabby 1 year ago
Same. They TEND to be outside access, but the real difference, as far as I’ve seen, is that motels are more self-catering. So you tend to have a kitchen in there and fewer services provided to you, whereas in a hotel you don’t tend to have a kitchen but there’s more likely to be a restaurant and you’re more likely to have other services provided by them.
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A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
I called them motel hotels, not motor hotels, when I was a little kid. Bugged my mother no end. This is when I discovered the sheer glee of learning something bugs someone. 50+ happy years and more annoying people to come!
#13
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
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
When I'm ready to mate, I generally move my rook.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
Agree. I didn’t need to know about a echidna gang bang gladiator match 😬
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Focusing the breast-producing cells near the nipple was a later-evolved trait, along with live births. Yeah, echidnas also lay eggs.
Floeckchen 1 year ago
Though they got Knuckles and Tikal all wrong in all that "fan comics"....
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Fr, this was simultaneously the most wholesome horror I've ever learned 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
#14
A peregrine falcon can dive at over 200mph.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
So can I, if I fall out of a plane flying high enough. But the peregrine falcon can do it twice.
Falcon 1 year ago
No you can't. Even if you assumed the most aerodynamic position air resistance would limit your speed to a max of 180.
Load More Replies... MurderMittens 1 year ago
Humans can dive at 200mph also. Freefall stable is around 120mph, but stand on your head with arms and legs streamlined, and you too can reach 200mph.
celeste hall 1 year ago
nostrils pointed out to the side so they can breath in dive, otherwise the wind blowing up their noses would prevent them from exhaling
#15
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.
Bec 1 year ago
I saw a story about a company that developed a process that would recycle both the ink and paper for reuse
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Ploppy McPlop 1 year ago
Professional printer here - printer toner these days is made of soy products, so is very ecologically friendly.
Orion Red 1 year ago
close. the laser writes to a drum, and that trump picks up a static charge where the laser hits. the drum rolls through a little long cloud of toner that is charged in the opposite polarity. so the toner sticks where the laser already hit. then the drum rolls past the paper and releases the toner. then the hot rollers.
Isabel Care 1 year ago
When you get covered in toner, wash it off with COLD water, unless you want it to stay permanently
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
I kinda knew that without thinking much about it, but I didn't know toner is plastic
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Wished more people knew this as a copier tech i get calls saying that the printer is hot and that is why it is messing up.
Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
Interesting...not technically true (the photoconductive drum handles the charge and development not the paper) but interesting.
#16
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.
Zaphod 1 year ago
From a segment by Rich Hall on NNTN-Not Necessiarily The News on HBO back in the 80s.
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TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
I learned it from BP. So I guess I need to go watch Phineas and Ferb
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Katy McMouse 1 year ago
What's wrong with learning this from Phineas and Ferb?!? I was 35 when I finally cemented that word in my brain. Before that, I could never remember the word.
BitchinintheBurgh' 1 year ago
Yep, Daughter told me when she was wee. Learned it from Phineas and Ferb. :)
Agent of Karma 1 year ago (edited)
The funny thing is I've learned this every years since coming onto the internet, but I never remember it, or use it.
The wee giant 1 year ago (edited)
I remember the episode , they were all wearing shoe laces around the their fingers.
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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".
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
I think you just added a new word to the language...
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bill marsano 1 year ago
Thank god there's two of us who know this. The word was coined, by the way, by Norman Mailer.a small fact would be a factette, perhaps, but not a factOID because the -oid suffix means "-like," as in "sort of, but not really.
David Jeffery 1 year ago
Factoid was first coined by Norman Mailer and it is, indeed, an item of unreliable information, taken as fact. Norman never failed to mention this as often as he could
#18
Australia is wider than the moon.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Australia delegates the killing to critters and plants, the moon does its own dirty work
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
This is because the width of Australia is greater than the width (diameter) of the moon. People have complained about this comparison between a two-dimensional object and a three-dimensional one. But since everything between its surface and the center of the earth is part of Australia, Australia's depth is also wider - much wider - than the moon.
You stole that from Robocop 1 year ago
Also the moon is shrinking and will eventually have a surface like a raisin due to moonquakes.
Meilin Kai 1 year ago
This is disturbing. I thought the moon was bigger. I must reevaluate my life now.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
Was that the complete sentence? Why do I get the feeling that the ending was left off? Like, "Australia is wider that the moon is wet," or something?
Casey Ironmonger 1 year ago
Seriously, the only things that will ACTIVELY hunt and kill you are crocodiles. Yeah, sometimes sharks, but most of the rest of our critters will get out of your way. Humans are the biggest killers here, just like in most other countries.
David Stutzmann 1 year ago
Why always use Australia when you want to talk about something gigantic? Russia is 2.5 times the size of Australia!!
#19
A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."
Mocha the Lion 1 year ago
ohh i thought some groups of people were called an "anoyence" (the joke is people are annoying)
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#20
a lethal dose is also a life supply
Anonymouse 1 year ago
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...
#21
Whale milk is the same consistency as toothpaste.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Yeah considering how fast calves grow, makes sense. Brushing my teeth will never be the same though.
Load More Replies... Purplescales 1 year ago
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Agent of Karma 1 year ago
It has to be thicker than water because it is ejected and the baby scoops it up.
3 Trash Pandas (She/They) 1 year ago
*flashes back to when my family would joke that tres leches was made from cow milk, goat milk, and whale milk*
#22
All tennis rackets are strung manually. There are no machines that use automation to string rackets.
shanila.pheonix_ 1 year ago
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
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Can't say for sure, but this is probably also true for fiddle bows, and fiddles
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
Don't you mean " racquet " ? Whatever, I won't make a racket over it.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
But they don't actually use catgut, and never have - so cats and ailurophiles can relax.
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Thank you for mentioning ailurophiles, I love that word!
Load More Replies... Debra Newell 1 year ago
I used to work at a place called “Hackett’s, and part of my job duties included stringing broken rackets. It was a lifetime ago, but I remember my manager was really nice
#23
There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear.
Marie Dahme 1 year ago
My cat used to hear me …(from his sound sleep)…silently go to the kitchen for water. How can I learn this trick o wise and masterful cat. ?
Dave In MD 1 year ago
I'll buy that that 322 muscles control a cats ear but I don't believe any of them are in the external portion of the ear.
#24
The most expensive liquid is scorpion venom priced at $39mil per gallon.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
The hardest part is finding that tiny bucket and stool.
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Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
To give this some perspective, the second most expensive liquid is King Cobra venom, and it's a bargain at $153,000 per gallon.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
I've heard it's an ingredient for drugs used during neurosurgery
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Willem Andries Oosterhof 1 year ago
10 million a liter??! (For those not stuck in the a*s of imperial measurements)
VikingAbroad 1 year ago (edited)
The race horse Secretariat had a stud fee approx 6 million dollars, if I remember. A straw for breeding was between 5 and 15 ml then. You do the math, but I do think race horse semen may be the more expensive than scorpion venom.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago (edited)
Don’t worry, I use the much less expensive dragon drool. Works fine in most recipes.
#25
A B2 stealth bomber has retractable cup holders and a mini microwave in the cockpit
David 1 year ago
Well it needs to stay up in the air for longmissions. The b52 even has bunks and crew rest.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago (edited)
It would be a shame if a microwave 'beep' ruined the stealthiness.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago (edited)
I always open it at 1 second left to prevent this. 👍...Can't let them know my Hotpockets are done or they'll want some..
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I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
All fun and games until Kevin decides to microwave some fish
Marie Dahme 1 year ago
Does the B-52 also have a LOVE SHACK BABY. ???? (Because that’s where it’s at….🎶)
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Does it also have screens in the back of the head rests so the folks in back can watch Paw Patrol?
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Would it possible to borrow the mini microwave, when it isn't in use? It would be really handy in the bedroom for midnight snacks!
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
No doubt the microwave is handy for boiling all those cauldrons of oil we pour on our enemies.
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Sorry to nitpick, but I don't think a mini microwave would be big enough for a cauldron of oil.
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Any cupholders right next to vital electronic parts that are not sealed off? My Ford Tourneo was in the shop for a month due to idiotic design flaws.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
Can you imagine the stink if someone microwaved popcorn or fish? Because there’s always that ONE person who thinks the rules don’t apply to them….
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
wait, popcorn? popcorn smells wonderful unless you let it burn!
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#26
Up 33% of hip fractures in the older population result in death within a year.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
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.
Vermonta 1 year ago
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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Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
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.
Tamra 1 year ago
Yeah, those are a lot of serious challenges to an 84 year old body. I'm sorry about your dad.
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Marnie 1 year ago
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?
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
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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Mary Bates 1 year ago
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.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
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.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
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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Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
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.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
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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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.
Libstak 1 year ago
I'm hoping the 2 discoveries did not arise out of one event.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Is this implying that a raccoon could fit in whatever a "human a**s" is? Why would any living human want to know this piece of information?
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Please do not test this with the cute trash panda. Looks like it has already seen enough...
#28
Seattle is further north than all of Maine and most of the population of Canada.
arthbach 1 year ago
95% of the population of the UK and Ireland live further north than 95% of the population of Canada.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
The westernmost point of mainland Britain is in Scotland. It just looks neater to have the south coast horizontal.
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SolitaryIntrovert 1 year ago
Also, Alaska has the U.S.'s northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost points
Agent of Karma 1 year ago
So the majority of the Canadian population is in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa?
Spannidandoolar 1 year ago (edited)
In the UK further can be used the same way as farther
Load More Replies... BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
This doesn't make a lot sense. Mexico is south of Seattle and to the north is Canada.
Astro 1 year ago
The Canadian border actually dips down into the US around Ontario, so there are cities in the USA that are farther North than some cities in Canada :) check out a map of Canada & the US if you can’t picture it! (Not sure what to say about Mexico as it wasn’t actually mentioned in the post)
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Justin Rogers 1 year ago
Freattle is a shithole ruined by the California scum and local druggies getting together to rob, steal and spread fecal matter along with their politics
#29
The Michelin Man's real name is Bibendum.
Mat O'Dowd 1 year ago
To add to this piece of information, it comes from the latin sentence « Nunc est bibendum », "Now is time to drink", because their slogan was " The Michelin tire drinks the obstacle" hence the Bibendum.
Anonymouse 1 year ago
And he is white because tires were white initially. It was only later that they changed the color as additional chemicals were added.
Adrian 1 year ago
And the Michelin Guide was designed to make people drive more and use up more tires.
Marc Wilson 2 months ago
The three star scale is: * - worth a visit ** - worth a detour *** - worth a special journey
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Pamela Christie 1 year ago
His 'real' name? I never knew he had a name at all. So, what's his alias, then?
#30
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
Peanuts aren't nuts, and Tomatoes are fruits. Whomever was responsible for naming foods really fu*ked up.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
If a tomato is a fruit does that make ketchup a smoothie?
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Shirley Heyn 1 year ago
And Rhubarb is a vegetable, not a fruit, and one of few perennial vegetables.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
"Strawberries are not berries because the meat of their fruit comes from a multi-ovary flower. This makes them not a true berry, which is a technical term used by botanists. True berries have their seeds on the inside, while strawberries have their seeds on the outside. In fact, strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside of it."
#31
Scientists have calculated that there have been 117 billion people that have ever lived
Marnie 1 year ago
Consider there are 8 billion people now. That's such a huge number compared to any previous time period that it is qualitatively different. If anybody says something like, "Humans will always solve their problems, they always have," just laugh gently to yourself, because we can't say that. Things are too different now.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
How many of them went to Heaven? Only a small percentage of people born since around 2000 years ago. Now if God is omniscient, He created bilions of people He *knew* were not going to Heaven. Doesn't sound like a benevolent, loving god to me.
Brent Hollett 1 year ago
That all depends on a) whether belief is required to get to 'heaven' or whether it's behavior, b) how do you know? Abrahamic Religions are the vast majority of religious faith and they all share the same heaven. Also, heaven doesn't exist and neither does Sky Daddy.
Load More Replies... John Smith 1 year ago
117bn people born and 8bn people alive = 6.8% survival rate. Based on this statistic, humans have only a 93.2% probability of death. This is why we need to learn how to read stats correctly.
Giles McArdell 1 year ago (edited)
Hmm, a while ago on this site I saw a TIL that the number of Humans on Earth now is approximately equal to the count of all humans who came before, which would be just 8 billion before + 8 billion now - which is allot lower than this - so which is it? EDIT: A bit of research from a bunch of sites agree that it's around 117 billion, so that previous post was b0ll0cks.
Brent Hollett 1 year ago
Previous post was bollocks but it's probably trying to say that our living population has doubled in the last 50 years. 4 billion in 1974, 8 billion in 2024.
Load More Replies... Xenon 1 year ago
The population has reached unsustainable numbers now. Kind of glad I am older and will miss most of the "We are so f*****g screwed" times to come. I feel for you younger generation, you will not catch a break. Wish I could change it but I can't.
Brent Hollett 1 year ago
The earth is capable of supporting far larger populations with technology, but humanity is likely to cap out at around 10 billion until we start colonising space anyway. Bring on the O'neill Cylinders!
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Rodney Thorp 1 year ago
Some statisticians calculate 50b, some 150b. Problem is, who do you include in this number? Babies that died within the first month or year or two? About 100 billion seems a logical approximation.
Brent Hollett 1 year ago
Nearly 7% of all homo sapiens that have ever lived, are alive today. That's wild in context.
#32
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.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
While this is interesting, this is the third time in two weeks that this fact has been on BP.
Otto Katz 1 year ago
That's nice. It's the first time I've seen that fact, and I'm here every day. So I"m glad it was posted again.
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Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Sounds like Grogu and Mando transporting that "shipment' of baby frog-like aliens and Grogu kept eating them.
Barbara Turner 1 year ago
Tortoises were pretty common in many exosystems ...then humans show up.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Pretty sad, considering it as about as easy to name as the fireplace.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Giving a species a proper scientific name isn't as easy as just saying that it exists. Proper examination must be done of a 'type specimen' on which the full description can be based. 'Big tortoise' isn't good enough to define a species.
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#33
The human animal is the only animal with permanent breasts.
Meowzers! 1 year ago
Mine aren't.. Come on puberty, I'm 40 and still waiting for them to grow.
Alexandra Nara 1 year ago
50y here..it,s not worth it. the big ones transform into somethings I called flaplings ( but now I couldn't name them this way anymore,cause they are no baby pterodactyli dinos)
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Sky Render 1 year ago
Most mammalian breasts (indeed, nearly all of them) are not noticeable except when pregnant through the breastfeeding phase after birth. Human breasts are the only noted case where the tissue remains relatively swollen at all times.
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Mocha the Lion 1 year ago (edited)
(im a little slow) at first i thought that this was implying animals shed boobas ;)
Helen Rohrlach 1 year ago
If cows aren't feeding a calf or being milked, the udder shrinks back to a floppy sack. Same with sows.
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If you force a fly to keep flying for 10 minutes, it'll die of hunger
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
If I have to chase a fly around for 10 hours to make sure it keeps flying, I'll die of exhaustion.
#35
There are only 25 blimps in use, worldwide.
Editors note: Only half of these 25 blimps are in use.
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
Must be a very specific kind of blimp then, otherwise I can absolutely not believe this is a fact
Allen Packard 1 year ago
I've seen the Goodyear blimp dozens of times. I had no idea it was rare!
#36
There are millions of camels in Australia.
Adrian 1 year ago
I knew someone who literally sold sand to the Arabs. It was a traffic cone manufacturer and they had sand in the base to keep them from tipping over.
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DaisyGirl 1 year ago
Of which the original were from Afghanistan as camels are an introduced animal to Australia
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
And most of them are feral. I stayed at a camel station in King's Canyon where they caught feral camels. I can't remember what they did with them then, but at least some of them ended up as camel burgers.
#37
The youngest picture of yourself is also the oldest picture of yourself.
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
Only because you're mixing up antonyms, then applying them to the wrong nouns.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
And on a site devoting itself to serious scholarly research!
Load More Replies... ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
The picture where you're youngest is your oldest picture of you. (fixed it)
#38
Dr. MLK & Anne Frank were born the same year. I’m still shocked about it.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
Sir David Attenborough, Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were all born with 8 weeks of each other.
#39
I always go with Al Gore's son-in-law is the lead singer of OK Go
Boone Williams 1 year ago
Why they didn't name themselves "The Al Gore Rhythms", I suppose I'll never know.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
Damian Kulash's father-in-law used to be VP of the USA. He also won the popular vote in the 2000 USA presidential election.
Who cares what I think, but... 1 year ago
Explicit lyrics??? Should have been named the "Warning Labels"
#40
Lightning McQueen’s first name is Montgomery.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Monty Mac sounds like a pretty good nickname. Not as good as Lightning but still...
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Would be handy to prefix names with eg "Baseball star" or "Singer" for those (like me in this case) who have no idea who you're talking about.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
Okay. It's true, but why? Is it a random name starting with "M" or am I missing something? I'm so confused...
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Barry Manilow did not in fact write his hit “I Write the Songs”
arthbach 1 year ago
My Barry Manilow fact is he was surprised when people were not surprised when he came out as gay.
Diana Burnwood 1 year ago
Is this the "Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there She would merengue and do the cha-cha And while she tried to be a star Tony always tended bar Across the crowded floor, they worked from eight til four They were young and they had each other Who could ask for more? At the copa (co) Copacabana (Copacabana) The hottest spot north of Havana (here) At the copa (co) Copacabana Music and passion were always the fashion At the copa they fell in love Copa, Copacabana His name was Rico He wore a diamond He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there And when she finished, he called her over But Rico went a bit to far Tony sailed across the bar And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two There was blood and a single gun shot But just who shot who? At the copa (co) Copacabana (Copacabana) The hottest spot north of Havana (here) At the copa (co) Copacabana Music and passion were always the fashion" guy?
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
He discovered Bette Midler back when she was singing in gay bath houses. What did he think people assumed about why he was there?
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
He never said he had. When I was a teenager, about that time, I knew people who insisted he not only wrote it but he wrote it about himself!
#42
Octopuses have 1 central brain, then a smaller brain in each tentacle.
#43
You have about 10lbs of bacteria in your gut. 10lbs of cells that bear no relation to you whatsoever except that they colonize your body.
Editor's note: according to sources online the bacteria in a person's gut weigh around 4.4lbs (2kg).
#44
There are more pigs than people in Iowa.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
Especially during prom season. I speak from experience
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#45
Standard pitch is A=440, but it’s not uncommon for string orchestras to tune to A=441 for the change in timbre.
M Calad 1 year ago
So, sounds are frequencies in Hertz. Every musical note is at a specific frequency. When you play in an orquestra or a band, you need all instruments to be 'aligned' musically. That means that if I play the note A with my trumpet and you play A with your violin, the note A sounds the same. In order to do that, musicians always tune their instruments together using a specific note reference. That is the note A in 440 hz and it is internationally recognized as the standard. But sometimes tuning an instrument in a bit higher (or lower) gives the sound a bit of taste... Like adding more sugar or less sugar to a cake. But there is a point that if you add or reduce too much the sugar the cake is just c**p. Exactly happens like that with musical tuning.
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#46
The D in 'D-Day' also stands for Day. So really it was just 'Day-Day'.
David 1 year ago
Technically, D-Day means day of the day of the operation, like H hour is the hour of it, but it is why they use a + or - with a number before and after to know how many days or hours before or after the operation are we talking about. Further all operations day of launch are D-Day, the one most people think of is operation overlord
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
I always thought it just meant disembarkation, but that makes more sense. "D" in military terms means the first day of a campaign. It's the start of a count ("D minus 2"= 2 days before the start, "D plus 2" = 2 days after the start). You'd think I would have figured this out watching "Band of Brothers ", but apparently I can be slow on the uptake sometimes!
WindySwede 1 year ago
According to Katy and David (now posted here at moment), they have an other explanation. So the 'random fact' from the BP post is: don't belive anything is true on BP, cause no one fact checks it! (Including veterinary tips about cats and dogs!)
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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth
Sky Render 1 year ago
Very much more stars than sand. By several orders of magnitude. And that's just in the observable universe.
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David 1 year ago
Well number of stars is up for debate, traditional science books put it at 10 to the 19th power, some newer ones say it could be as much as the 22nd power, and a fringe theory puts it at the 24th power. Sand is 7.5 x 10 to the 18th power. So more stars than sand, but we dont know how many stars
What do you think ?
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"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".
James016 1 year ago
It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls and Bodies by Drowning Pool are two songs about the same event.
mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
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.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
They almost tore down the Bradford HS planetarium in 2018. Thankfully community members forced the school board to reconsider.
Load More Replies... Allen Packard 1 year ago
Great article. I'm a facts junkie and I actually learned a few things. Thank you!
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"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".
James016 1 year ago
It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls and Bodies by Drowning Pool are two songs about the same event.
mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
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.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
They almost tore down the Bradford HS planetarium in 2018. Thankfully community members forced the school board to reconsider.
Load More Replies... Allen Packard 1 year ago
Great article. I'm a facts junkie and I actually learned a few things. Thank you!
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