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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered
Every person wants to know everything there is to our existence. Small things, big things – it doesn't matter as long as we constantly feed our minds with bits of information. Besides, knowing stuff is good even if you understand that you'd probably never need that knowledge. Just think about it, curiosity is an essential part of our everyday life, all that social media, magazines, books, TV shows – we're always learning, yet we're never fully satisfied.
We want to know exactly how the universe was formed; we want to know if we'll be stuck in traffic on the way back home tomorrow and whether that new movie truly is as great as people say it is. Our brain constantly processes things, and sometimes all you need is to read about some facts to have a good night's sleep.
A member of one of Reddit's online communities asked fellow Redditors to share a few random facts that folks absolutely needed to know. The post received over 7K upvotes and 5.1K comments, revealing things about everything and anything.
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#1
Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.
We’ve been quick!
Leesquee 3 years ago
Wait. 'Witnessed' the Wright brothers' first flight in person, or was alive when it happened? I mean, they were only separated by 66 years; a LOT of people were alive for both events.
Seabeast 3 years ago
He was 7 at the time, so he was alive when it happened. It's not very likely he witnessed it though, his family lived in a different state.
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Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
Once you understand aerodynamics and know things can fly it really isn't that much of a leap.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Nope, he didn't witness the first flight - he WAS friends with Orville Wright several years afterwards though ; the rest of this is correct though ....
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#2
Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi. In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies
Charlie Taube 3 years ago
If my chihuahua finds out I upvoted your comment, that trembling hell spawn will kill me
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Fat Harry 3 years ago
It's worth pointing out that the Welsh for dog is actually "ci" in most circumstances. It's "gi" here because "Cor" in front of it has caused what's called a "soft mutation" in the initial letter of the word that follows it. The plural, for those interested, is cŵn.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I’m guessing Welsh is the reason for “sometimes Y and sometimes W” in vowels...especially the W part.
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Kalmar 3 years ago
I envision the cutest battle in history, corgis charging valiantly into combat
13 3 years ago
And then being completely distracted by a spectating squirrel.
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AnnaBanana 3 years ago
Totally! I had a school friend whose family had a corgi and we were all scared to death of it. It's the ONLY animal I haven't been able to make friends with in my entire 51 years!
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Human's ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark's ability to smell blood in water.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Microorganisms called actinobacteria are mostly responsible for this lovely smell; the smell is because of the alcohol they produce after decomposing organic matter.
K Witmer 3 years ago
Best smell ever. I love love love when it rains. Especially thunder storms
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
My big old kitty boy—the late great Petrushka—had a smell in his neck when he slept that was like a drug, and I huffed him regularly. One of my favorite smells ever.
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Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
I can confirm this. I can smell rain in the air long before it hits the place. Not always, mind you.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
Omg! For years I've thought I'm the only one who can smell it's going to rain soon.
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Nopety 3 years ago
My guess (completely unscientific) is that if we can smell wet earth then we know where it has been raining recently so we may find a water source in that direction.
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The Penguin Bandit 3 years ago
Who is conducting or even funding the research that discovers odd facts like this because I got a whole list of stuff I'd like investigated please
#4
the first 1080p video on youtube was the muppet's rendition of bohemian rhapsody
Ladedah 3 years ago
As a grown-ass human being, the only Muppet video I've ever seen on YouTube is "the censored count"... and I still just about die laughing... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. 🤣
Ladedah 3 years ago
For those of you interested in a good laugh to start your day, here's the YouTube link to the video [The Count (censored)] : https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM
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Jasper Cool 3 years ago
This is one of the greatest things that exists on the internet. Or anywhere really. Definitely watch it if you're a Queen fan
AnnaBanana 3 years ago
I took your recommendation and damn! That's absolutely AWESOME, particularly Animal and Miss Piggy!!
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Israel Martinez 3 years ago
Oh, to know this after the many times I've seen it ... outright joy ... going to watch it again now ...
#5
Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
WOW! The thought of training bees is kinda mind-boggling. How did someone even figure this out?
#6
Tigers are orange and black to humans, but to animals with hooves, their prey, they appear green and black and blend in with the jungle around them.
KariLovesHerKat 3 years ago
My cat is calico and when she went for surgery and they shaved her i could not believe the design and colours on her skin. So beautiful
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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
Not disputing the statement, just wondering how they determined that. I mean, it's not like they asked a cow, "what color is that big toothy thing over there?"
Fat Harry 3 years ago
They can determine it by examining the prey (for example, a horse's) eye and looking at the distribution and type of rods and cones in them. Cones are sensitive to specific wavelengths of light. Humans have cones receptive to red, green and blue wavelengths, whereas most prey animals lack those for red wavelengths and we can therefore assume (pretty safely) that they see the world in shades of blue and green.
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Jennifer .S 3 years ago
I always wondered why they said their fur is supposed to help them blend in, cause that never made sense to me before
Downunderdude 3 years ago
(David Attenborough voice) ...and because the tiger appeared to the pumpkin to be green and black, the unfortunate vegetable's fate was sealed.
Klas Klättermus 3 years ago
One would think that herbivores should have excellent sight when it comes to seeing diffrent shades of green, or at least be able to tell them apart from the dirt on the ground
Fay Kneuse 3 years ago
They are able to take the eyes of animas and make them work in a lab. Their prey can only see blues and greens. Why not make them green instead of orange? No one really knows. Its worth noting, though, that there are no green or blue mammals in the world. The only exception is the sloth,, but they're dyed by moss.
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#7
The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
The scream is coming from the lunatic asylum near the bridge. And the person in the painting is horrified by the sound.
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
Also, pretty interesting to note, there is a "secret message" within this painting that was added by Edvard Munch himself "Kan kun vaere malet af en gal mand!" which translates as "Could have only been painted by a madman!"
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
I used to be terrified by this painting... now I just think of it as "shocked voldemort" and it makes me laugh instead. x3
Johnny Rodriguez 3 years ago
Don't think about a badly drawn puppy-you won't unsee it..
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Joeshar 3 years ago (edited)
Another fact: There are not one, but four versions of The Scream, painted by Munch over the 17 year period (1893-1910). And each is unique.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Which rendition is the one we’re most likely to be familiar with?
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Jo Jones 3 years ago
“I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjörd and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 3 years ago
I love this painting so much. I've made a watercolour one for an art class Capture-62...6bf17d.png 
#8
Bob Ross was a Drill Instructor. When he stopped working as that, he promised he would not raise his voice at someone again. That's why he was so soft spoken.
Sanne H. 3 years ago
He liked to change his hairstyle a lot actually, but he was apparently stuck with this one when he became famous
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I couldn't imagine him as a drill instructor! He is just such a peaceful man.
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
'...annndd we're just gonna do some happy little target practice here...'
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
I love Bob Ross, but never wver buy anything with his name on it. Watch the Netflix Documentary
#9
Some people don’t have a inner dialogue, some can’t picture in their mind, and some have / can do both.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I can do both, but I really can’t imagine having no inner dialogue...what’s their brain doing all day?
Otter 3 years ago
I wish I could turn off my inner monologue! It never stops nattering away unhelpfully, not even when I need to sleep.
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Lisa Brown 3 years ago
i just thought about something. i like to read heroic fantasy, and when i'm reading, i see the whole "world" the author has built in my mind, including the characters. soooo many times, i find it off-putting when they make a movie out of it and it looks nothing like what was in my head. that being said, GoT, and WoT did a pretty good job of matching my mental picture, both with the geography and the characters. WoT especially did a fabulous job with the casting.
oddly_informed_raven 3 years ago
saaame. I had this great mental image and they ruin it
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Angela Turrall 3 years ago
I can't create a picture of things in my mind at all. I never knew anyone could until recently. My inner dialogue however, never shuts up. Non stop.
Needmorecowbell 3 years ago
Neither can I. When I learned people actually saw things in their heads, just a couple of years ago, I was blown away. I know the QUALITY of things, but no actual pictures in my head. I still think the others are lying. Lol
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Leet_loves_space 3 years ago (edited)
my maths teacher in 8th grade said that she pictures the words she hears however, I hear what I read and even while typing this I can hear my voice speaking the words. brains are weird (no wonder I'm bad at spelling)
Manners are free 3 years ago
I literally having a backing track of a song playing in my head at all times. It’s pretty cool actually
Panda-riffic 3 years ago
Same. My ear worms are so bothersome sometimes that I can't sleep. I have a hard time changing the tune!
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Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 3 years ago
Aphantasia. I have no inner dialogue nor can I picture stuff from description, also my memories do not "exist" if I do not tell them out loud. I lived most of my life thinking this was normal, untill I was told it is infact pretty rare to have a blank mind.
Ren 3 years ago (edited)
Same, for both! Spent most of my life not knowing nearly everyone else had such active minds and mine is just blank.
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Blep The Third 3 years ago
I have no inner dialogue. Mind readers would be getting soooo bored listening to me.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
How do you think of what you're going to say?
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
I have both and never knew others did not. It's really annoying sometimes and makes it impossible to fall asleep. Knowing that I will not be sleeping makes it worse. It's like the voice gets louder. It's my voice, but sometimes I have to just get up and work the night through.
#10
Lamborghini started making supercars because Enzo Ferrari was being a jerk to Ferruccio Lamborghini.
James016 3 years ago
IIRC Lamborghini told Enzo how improve his cars. Enzo told Ferruccio to build his own. So he did.
Joel Hopkins 3 years ago
IIRC, Lamborghini was complaining to Enzo about a clutch problem on his 275, which it definitely had. Enzo called him a "stupid tractor maker". My complaint about the Ford vs Ferrari movie is they made Ford out to be a bigger d**k than has really was an Ferrari much less of the a s s h o l e than he really was. Ferrari was very much an egomoniacal prick, and we he lost to Ford, he never raced Le Mans again as a factory team. Turd.
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Lamborghini made (and still makes) tractors. This is his first model from 1948: timthumbph...7-jpeg.jpg 
Sue User 3 years ago
Oh so i could buy one and tell everyone i own a Lamborghini ?
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Ferruccio Lamborghini is my kind of guy. He went full "I'll make my own supercars".
Muff_Fluff 3 years ago
Yeah we fancy like Applebees on a date night… why did this post make me think of that?
Chancey 3 years ago
Maybe because you're craving a Bourbon Street Steak and an Oreo shake with the whip cream on the top too!!!
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Shane O'hEibhrín 3 years ago
Well yes and no. Lamborghi Tracttori were bought by SAME in 1973.
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Phill Healey 3 years ago
The Lambougini is a'Raging Bull' because Lambougini wanted to mock the 'Prancing Horse' logo of Ferrari.
#11
The sun is not yellow. When viewed outside earths atmosphere it is white. It only looks yellow due to our atmosphere "pulling" the blue light out, leaving it looking yellow. It's an illusion.
Colin O Keeffe 3 years ago
NASA purposely edit pictures to look yellow so they look familiar to people.
Marcellus II 3 years ago
Sure, it's all a conspiracy to hide the flatness of our earth. Sigh.
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Guy Incognito 3 years ago
The reason you don't see green stars is because green is in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum. The light emitted is strongest in green but equal on both sides of the spectrum making it appear white. Green star = white star.
Monika Rhodes 3 years ago
And sky isn't really blue either, I thought that was common knowledge.
Phill Healey 3 years ago
The Lambougini logo is a'Raging Bull' because Lambougini wanted to mock the 'Prancing Horse' logo of Ferrari.
Miriam L 3 years ago
I wonder why - what about the heat distorting the air (guessing so far) makes the colour seem more white/less interfered with? (No further information to guess with )
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#12
Sharks existed before trees existed.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Am I to believe that you have cut up a watermelon with a megalodon tooth?
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
The perfect evolution form: 1) a cylinder with lots of teeth 2) a flat pancake with teeth
Leona V. 3 years ago
Unfortunately it has never done me any favors. I’ve always suspected it might be a plus if I was ever in a lifeboat-lost-at-sea situation, because I might outlive other more lean companions. But it is to date an untested theory.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Grass is the most recent newcomer. Imagine living at a time when all the grasslands, like the Great Plains were bare rock, like desert.
Gaya Knust 3 years ago
But - from what I've heard - not the species of shark we have today. Their ancestors.
#13
There are more people living in California than in the whole of Canada
Beatrice Multhaupt 3 years ago
Get some info about our weather before you sell your house!
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
Yes but in comparison to Canada a bunch of them are insufferable 'influencers' 🙄
Tammilee Truitt 3 years ago
Neil Young is Canadian, though he calls California his home.
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The danish woman 3 years ago
I don't think that I ever read or heard anything bad about Canada. It must be an awsome place to live😊
Tammilee Truitt 3 years ago
Texas' wide open spaces are quickly filling up with Californians, among others.
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Photo of Bridgeway (road) in Sausalito California, Marin county. Just on the other side of that hill is the Golden Gate Bridge. The town is a tourist trap and is freezing in the summer when the fog rolls in.
Jennifer 3 years ago
"The coldest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in San Francisco."
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#14
There are so many different varieties of apple that if you ate a different one every day for 20 years you will still not have eaten them all.
Manu 3 years ago
Let's erradicate the ones whose battery stops holding charge and ask for constant updates every month
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
Due to extreme heterozygosity, every apple seed would yield a technically different variety of apple. We are able to get so many trees of a particular variety by cloning the parent tree through grafting.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
I have a mild apple intolerance, but if I'm willing to risk a sore throat I can still eat them.
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Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
All these apple variteties....yet I can't find a damn Bramley Apple anywhere in America. They make THE best apple pies, and Americans have never heard of them.
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
Every seed in every apple will grow a tree with a different kind. Cloning and grafting is the only way to stabilize a particular variety. Apple variation is nearly limitless.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
I'm old and an apple a day keeps the doctor away so if I start now I'm good for the next 20 years?
#15
If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.
Chicken Nugget 3 years ago
Type in thanos and click the glove. Or, type text adventure, click inspect, and a mini text adventure game will appear.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
Thanks for sending me down a rabbit hole of exploring a world in text lol
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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
Best one I have done is if you have an apple iPhone ask Siri what zero divided by zero is. I also learned if you swear at Siri it doesn't like it. And yes I did apologize.
not your average weirdo 3 years ago
Hit ctrl + alt + shift + reload on a Chromebook laptop keyboard . Just do it.
Yehudit Hannah Cohn 3 years ago (edited)
How many of us tried it! (It works.) And it turns out that there's a whole site of tricks like this!
#16
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. Their wings can rotate 180 degrees in every direction.
UncleRussian 3 years ago
I... Somehow picturing that low-key terrifies me. It's just so weird... Then again nature is full of surprises, just look at owls and their 360° turning heads. Why didn't humans get any cool sh*t like that? I am still mad at mother nature for taking our tails away, I want a tail god damn you!
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
I learnt there is a creature that resembles a humming bird but is in fact a moth- the hummingbird hawk moth... I did a double-take when I spotted one in my driveway a few years back. Hummingbir...343185.jpg 
Robert T 3 years ago
Interesting thing I learned from a TV show last night is that although the motors in Teslas can go backwards as well as they can go forwards, the oil pump that lubricates the gearbox doesn't work in reverse, so it would be a bad idea to drive one any distance backwards, for example in a reversing race.
Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
I once saw a girl have and happy freak out while seeing a hummingbird. She had never seen one before and didn't even know what they where called. She was from China and I didn't realize until later that day that hummingbird's are only in the Western Hemisphere.
CultOfBambi 3 years ago (edited)
The only time I've seen a humming bird IRL is in the garden at Bob Marley's house in Kingston, which is now a museum. It was right near the back steps where he was supposed to have sat and written the song "Three Little Birds". I will admit seeing it -and just being there, made me bawl like a baby.
#17
Australia is wider than the moon
Natasha 3 years ago
Are you sure? I mean have you not seen moon kangaroos?😂
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Grant Barke 3 years ago
One small step for man, one giant leap for kangaroos. kmleroek36...ca41af.jpg 
Phill Healey 3 years ago
Whilst the Australians will wish you G'day . The moon wishes you G'night.
Mark Howell 3 years ago
The moon can only kill you one way, Australia has had a few million years to be inventive ;o)
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Read Bill Bryson's In a Sunburnt Country. Both flora and fauna are murderous.
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Australia's largest diameter (4000 km) is wider than the diameter of the Moon (3400 km). The diameter of the Earth is 12 700 km, that's to say 3.7 Moons, 3.2 Australia and 1.9 Russia (6600 km). That means Russia is larger than the radius of the Earth. In term of surface area, the Moon (38M km²) is 2 Russia (17M km²) and 5 Australia (7.7M km²). The Earth (510M km²) is 13.4 Moon, 32 Russia and 71 Australia. That's also about 1 250 000 000 Vatican.
#18
That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Fun Fact: There’s a single fire hydrant in San Francisco that’s painted gold because it was the one that put out the last of the fire from the 1906 earthquake.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
All of the grateful dead green vinyl Wake of the Flood albums were lost in a flood.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
I can believe that if the US mail can loose a letter for 30 years which it has - so this must be true!
#19
Elizabeth II has been Queen of England for 70 years. Only 9% of the world's population is older than 65. This means that only about 1 out of 12 people in the world today have lived in a world where she was not the queen.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
For a while, King Bhumiphon of Thailand was in the forefront...but then he died
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
The longest officially verified reigning Monarch ever was Louis XIV of France, at 72 years, 110 days. Which means that Elizabeth only has to reign for 2 and a half more years to beat this record. Which is entirely possible given her mother lived to over 100. Though technically - Louis had a regent for a number of years, so technically Elizabeth has continuously reigned for a longer period of time as she has never had a regent iirc.
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My dad is one out of 12, my mom isn't. My grandmother is also 1/12, she just turned 99. So she is slightly younger than Betty White was and older than Queen Elizabeth II. She is lady of steel who was a refugee, served in war as civil defence worker, had her own business among other things and in her later years she learned to use internet and smartphone. She is determined to make it to 100.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
That’s great stuff! Fingers crossed on making it to 100!
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Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Well I'm in the 9 %, I remember her dad dying. And watching her Coronation!
Liz Muerlebach 3 years ago
Trophy Husband...to us she is the Queen and to the rest of the world
karl briggs 3 years ago
"Only about". I'll have to remember that, when asked for an amount or figure... How many children do you have? Only about 1. How many grams does this recipe need? Only about 1. Etc. Etc. Etc....
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
She was still a mere princess when I was born so she hasn't quite been Queen-Empress for my whole life, but close enough. And she outlasted Atari. Try that yourself sometime.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Already there, and I’m only in my 60s. I can remember Pong!
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If you find a four leaf clover then there is a good chance you'll find more not too far away.
TheVioletDragon 3 years ago
One time I found a whole patch of four leaf clovers! Me and my friends had so many between us, it was a very nice time
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
I had some growing by my washing line, but sadly no more. My dad helped me out by spraying the weeds and I hadn't warned him I wanted to keep the clovers 😔
Load More Replies... Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
As a kid I was able to find dozens a day when I looked. Most people would just never bother sifting through all the three leafers to notice. I think the "luck" part is just being lucky that youre the kinda person thats able to notice and appreciate the little things in life.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 3 years ago
I was the same way when I was little. My mom used to say I could see them in infrared, lol. Sadly, I seem to have lost much of that ability, as I've grown older. Ah well, that's life, I guess.
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Peppermallow 3 years ago
As a child, I found a four leaf clover once. I bent down to pick it and suddenly saw a dollar coin on the ground. Luck immediately granted
Rijkærd 3 years ago
As in ..Lets say you meet an idiot then there is a probability of more idiots in the vicinity....
Load More Replies... Rachel Wilson 3 years ago
My son found 3 in a row a couple of years back, he was only 9, such a proud moment for him
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I don't know if it's because she is an artist, but my daughter can just be casually walking and will immediately notice if there is a 4 leaf clover amongst numerous regular ones. It's quite bizarre how she can do it.
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
My dad finds them all of the time. He's found a few five leaf clovers. I put one in epoxy and my son wears it on his jacket.
Robin Roper 3 years ago
The clover at my grandparent's house has tons of four-leaf clovers. If you sit in a patch and look, chances are you'll find dozens.
#21
Dogs that are slightly underweight live an average of two years longer than dogs that are slightly overweight.
Bexxxxx 3 years ago (edited)
Actually weirdly enough, studies tend to show that humans are opposite. We tend to live longer with a little extra squish to us :) (there is a bit more to it than that so I suggest giving it a Google!)
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#22
Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Also, if you’re bitten by one the chances of you dying from infection is exceptionally high because they have so much dead matter on their teeth
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
YES! This is the first fact I learned by watching Steve Irwin on Animal Planet. Thank you for posting it here.
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Troux 3 years ago
I've always wondered...is asexual reproduction voluntary? Like how awful would it be if you're a lizard and you hate baby lizards and you love having free time to do lizard travel and then all of a sudden you're preggers.
madbakes 3 years ago
After eggs are laid, the parents are done. Reptiles do not raise their young.
Load More Replies... The Penguin Bandit 3 years ago
Wait so like literally one day you got one dragon just chilling and then poof suddenly they make their own minions and is anyone else now worried the dragons might figure out this is the best way for them to take back their island and start world domination
Marcellus II 3 years ago
No, there's one case of a virgin dragon kept lifelong alone in a zoo, suddenly laying a viable egg. So it's the largest know animal ever to reproduce asexually.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Self cloning. Look up "rusty crayfish" they are some of the most prolific asexual reproducers and most articles explain the process.
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#23
Whenever you learn a new skill, like learning to play guitar or learning to skate, new connections are formed in our brains in the neurons.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
That why we old ones should learn something new all the time! I take free college courses all the time some are great, some are fun! (last one I took was how to swear in Latin!
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Phill Healey 3 years ago
Research has shown that multi-lingual people form desperate pathways for the different languages. This form a sort of destination between the different language based personalities of the person. This is so unexpectedly strong that such people will have different responses to the same question depending on the language the question is asked/answered in For example when asked to state their favourite colour in French they might say blue. But when speaking in English the colour might be green. It isn't multiple separate brains or personalities but there is some distinction. The research is very interesting
CatFist 3 years ago
That's fascinating. I love these random little tidbits on the mind!
Load More Replies... karl briggs 3 years ago
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test". George Dubya Bush.
Leet_loves_space 3 years ago
like the ones made when you learn how to wash your hair with peanut butter?
Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
Eh...yeah....everyone knows this is how the human brain works, you're taught that at 12yrs old in biology class. Did....did you think there was a wee man in all our heads sitting there furiously writing everything down that we see and hear?
#24
It was forbidden to ride on moose in sweden until 1973. An old law forbade such for fear of rebels
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Experienced horse rider here - just getting on the back of a moose would be a challenge, as for avoiding the antlers would be bloody impossible !!!
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sturmwesen 3 years ago
I would rebel to ride a moose ...just imagine...the movie Mad Max but on moose.
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
How cool! A mad max type of movie but set in overgrown forests instead of the wastelands.
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Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
Monty Python and the Holy Grail came out in 1974. Coincidence? I think not.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 3 years ago
It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A 180 pound rebel could not hold on to a 1500 pound moose.
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Comfy Panda 3 years ago
My dreams can come true ROFL. I love moose, but from afar. I would never try to get close to one cause yea I've heard they can f**k some s**t up.
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#25
There was a short period of time when Picasso and Snoop Dogg were both alive together.
Betsy Novack 3 years ago
But did Picasso ever become friends with Martha Stewart like the Dogg.
#26
The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.
#27
It's against the law to use an elephant to plow a cotton field in North Carolina.
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
What about if you trained the elephant to drive a tractor and attached a plough?
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
What if the elephant trained a moose, and we rode that moose while the elephant ploughs?
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New Everywhere 3 years ago
Then what the hell are we doing with all the out of work elephants?
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
Does this concern elephants pulling a plow or elephants plowing the field with their tusks?
#28
Finland isn't scandinavic, its nordic (its not random but people still think its scandinavic)
John Baker 3 years ago
Another bit of language trivia. Japanese is linguistically unrelated to any other known language.
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Klas Klättermus 3 years ago (edited)
Well it is not that weird that there is some confusion. Scandinavia is namned after a mountain range called 'Scandinavian mountains" that stretches trough Norway, Sweden and a little bit into Finland. Not Denmark though. But even though Finland used to belong to Sweden, we are more culturally alike between Norway, Denmark and Sweden because we have more history and come from the same people (vikings) that all basically lived around the Nordic Sea and spread out from there which you can tell from our related languages, where as Finland is more ethnicly Baltic or Russian like since they came in from the south on the east side of the Baltic sea.
Klas Klättermus 3 years ago (edited)
Not to mention that what we call "Norden" includes Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland (Icelandic people are of scandinavian descent) and Finland. When I tried to translate "Norden" to english google says it is called Scandinavia as well in English. So if google is right it would be correct to say both that Scandinavia consist of 3 ('Skandinavien') and 5 ('Norden') countries.
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Sanni Salo 3 years ago (edited)
My hometown Oulu (located in northern Finland) still uses the ridiculous slogan, "Capital of Northern Scandinavia". 😂
#29
A platypus makes venom. One of several interesting things about them.
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
But deedee blows their experiments to smithereens ....there is doom and gloom and things go boom, in the platypus lab!
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
As an animal that both lays eggs and nurses its young, the platypus is the only animal that can make its own custard. ;-P
Poppy 3 years ago
It's the males who produce venom and have a spur on their hind legs with which to inject it with. I've heard it's excruciating.
buttonpusher 3 years ago
It's like nature couldn't decide what direction it was taking so they have a bit of everything.
Ricky Hunter 3 years ago
They also lay eggs and produce milk but I have yet to see one make custard
Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago
It’s in the back claws of the males as they use it to fight each other and hunt food and then if necessary they use it to fend of the humans that pick it up thinking it is cute (which to me it is) or are hunting it
#30
When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.
Joanie 3 years ago
No. They do not shove them to the side. That's ludicrous. The two original kidneys remain in place and will ultimately shrink and become completely non-functionable.. The new transplanted kidney is placed, typically, in the lower right abdomen which is then connected to the bladder. There will always be a small pooched out area visible where the new kidney resides. My son is a transplant recipient. We are forever grateful for his anonymous donor who left this world.
Scott N 3 years ago
(Former 25y transplant professional- you’re spot on … the kidneys are also often flipped to accommodate connecting arteries and veins and ureter- Knowing your son is doing well makes every minute of the calling worth it as well as fulfilling the gift of his donor … keep on keepin on…!!
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Joanie 3 years ago
Wow! That's amazing. There are so many people who are waiting for a healthy kidney. Perhaps we all want to leave something behind, to feel that we have made a difference. The priceless gifts from my son's donor saved a total of seven lives. We can only hope to be so remembered.
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Bettie-Jean Neal 3 years ago
I'm currently on the transplant list for a kidney. My left one is where is supposed to be and my right one is behind my pelvic bone, so they'll put the new one where the right one should be. They biopsied the left, but can't get to the right, so we're assuming, since I still produce urine, that all of the function I do have is from the left. And why do I need a kidney if I still produce urine? Well, it's not a lot and what is produced is not filled with the toxins it should. I'l lucky because I can be a little more lenient with my fluid intake, whereas others are limited to 32 oz./day. That's it.
Shelby Moonheart 3 years ago
I received a kidney transplant on 10/9/21. Now I have three kidneys. The new one is located just above the fold between my right leg and abdomen, like where a pants pocket would be. I am very grateful for the donor who was able to give both kidneys to people. I am doing well.
Joanie 3 years ago
Shelby, it is great to hear that you are doing well. My son is nearing his three year transplant anniversary. The first year was so very hard, but with time he became more tolerant of the immunosuppressive medications and their side effects. Be good to yourself. Each day you will get stronger. Donors and their families deserve our highest honor and respect for their gift of life. I am sending hugs and well wishes your way.
Load More Replies... Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
It's a kidney shaped bear given to kidney recipients.... It means congratulations on your new kidney, here's some comfort for your recovery....
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I’m just going to go out on limb here and say that it’s a good thing kidneys don’t learn by example...
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 3 years ago
This is true. We have a family friend who has FOUR kidneys now. His two natural ones, that failed, in their natural positions, his first transplanted one, that eventually failed as well (after many years), and his newest transplant, that is working wonderfully, one on each side of his abdomen. He's skinny, and you can see his stomach sticks out a little, where the transplanted ones are. They feel kinda hard, lol. But as Joanie below said, no, they don't shove the old ones to the side. It's safest for the patient to just leave them alone, and put the new ones in, in front.
#31
Kangaroos can’t hop backwards
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
There is a gorgeous wallaby that I often see on my mum's driveway. Apparently there are more on the property, but I've only seen that one.
Load More Replies... UncleRussian 3 years ago
Yup. Thats why if a kangaroo ever attacks you then your best bet is to try run past it cauz to turn around they have to do a u turn basically
Marcellus II 3 years ago
They have a very heavy tail though, could easily knock you out when passing. Not sure who tested your suggested strategy & its alternatives.
Load More Replies... John Baker 3 years ago
They also can't move their hind limbs independently (except tree kangaroos, which are a different family).
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago (edited)
That's why, along with Emus, they're on the Aussie coat of arms.
Will Young 3 years ago
That one in the photo looks so disappointed. Like it just found out it can't hop backwards
#32
If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the exact order they’re in has almost certainly never been duplicated in the history of shuffled decks.
Chicken Nugget 3 years ago
The probability of getting the same deck twice in a row when shuffled thoroughly is about one over one followed by 72 zeroes.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Do we even have a name for that number??? Imma check that...if not im naming it something Einstein bonkerish and request my Nobel be sent via pigeon mail
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#33
Peanut butter glows in the dark. (It’s faint but it does)
C C 3 years ago
K. So I just tried this with Jif creamy pb, went into the dark bathroom and saw nothing. Called in my colorblind 13yo to see if he could see anything. Notta. I asked him bc he sees PB as green in color lol
Cyd Charisse 3 years ago
Thank you for saving the rest of us all the trouble! ;-)
Load More Replies... The Penguin Bandit 3 years ago
Of course it does, it's such a perfectly heavenly awesome food like quite literally in my top 5 why would it not come with an angelic glow
#34
There was no “s” sound for the letter c in ancient Roman Latin. Thus Gaius Julius Caesar was pronounced “Gaius Julius Kaiser”. His name is where the Germans and Russians got their name for king (Kaiser and Tzar respectively).
User# 6 3 years ago (edited)
Except that it's not the word for 'king' but for 'emperor'. A king in German is a "König"
King Kashue 3 years ago (edited)
No, it wouldn't have been because the 's' isn't the only missing sound - the J in classical Latin was merely the consonant I (i.e., they were the same letter). His name would have been pronounced "Gah-ee-oos Yoo-lee-oos Kai-sar" with the emphasis on the first syllable for all three and with the middle syllable of Gaius being short but still enunciated.
The Penguin Bandit 3 years ago
So... Caesar, salad... And now Kaiser, roll. In other words this dude was a meal all by himself.
#35
The smell when rain hits dry earth is called petrichor
#36
Hyenas are actually more related to cats than dogs. Hyenas are part of the Suborder Feliformia along with cats.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
The female hyena has a long narrow "penis" like the males, and they give birth through this long narrow tube. Painful.
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
Only female Spotted Hyenas - but yes. It makes me cringe to think about. Though I love hyena's, I find them adorable.
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#37
If the sun exploded right now we wouldn't know about it for about 8 minutes.
Gabby M 3 years ago
This is a comforting thought if you have anxiety. Why worry about the little things when it's possible the sun exploded 7 minutes ago and in just a moment we'll all go *poof*. Live your life as if the sun just exploded.
J. F. 3 years ago (edited)
We could be hit any second by a gamma ray blast from a very distant super nova that would cook of 99% of the life on this planet with radiation.
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#38
90% of the population on Earth lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
Chaostheory 3 years ago
They don't spin a different direction, you're just looking at them from the bottom.
Load More Replies... Grant Barke 3 years ago
10% of the population on Earth lives in the Southern Hemisphere. Teehee.
Marcellus II 3 years ago
And what is the Eastern/Western hemisphere balance? Why come up with this one fact and not the other?
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
Muahaha y'all are missing out on a wacky hemisphere! We are closer to the sun during our summer than northern hemisphere places in their summer, so yay for sunburn lol (I could be wrong on that, I welcome corrections)
Walter Brameld 3 years ago
No, you're right. Earth is closest to the Sun in January, farthest in July.
Load More Replies... Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
Humid continental climates are predominately in the Northern Hemisphere, growing crops is easier in these zones. I've always taken a rule of thumb that you'll find more humans wherever you can grow apples easily. Seriously. Apples. Sounds stupid but have a look, you'll see it too.
#39
Cashews are from an apple
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
It's called a cashew apple and is an accessory fruit, the cashew nut is the true fruit. The apple can be used to make things like preserves or chutneys, can be used in curries and in some countries is also used to flavour non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks.
The Penguin Bandit 3 years ago
I'm sure it's a legit thing but what even is meant by accessory fruit because my brain is now picturing cashew apple earrings and purses and I might need those things in my life now
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third molar 3 years ago
Cashew fruit when ripe is extremely sweet with taste like pineapple + kiwi. But makes ur throat very coarse for few hrs (as if u got bad strep)
Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
I'd like to try the cashew apple and see if it's tasty, the nuts I could do without. Not a great taste on them and they make you fart like crazy. Pecans too.
#40
Bobby pins stay better bumpy side down
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
They probably do, but then you have the pointy bit sticking into your scalp all day. That can't be comfortable.
ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE 3 years ago
I wear my bobby pins bumpy side down and it's never been a discomfort
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Nami Tantrum 3 years ago (edited)
and then there are curved ones where the bumps are on the upper side anyway.. soo
#41
Twister was the first movie released on DVD
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I remember when DVDs first came out there was only like six available. One of them was twister and I remember boogie nights but I can't remember the others.
Laura Lett 3 years ago
Just so you know. The tornadoes are cgi. Real tornadoes are worse/scarier.
#42
Ants don't have lungs they kinda have slots on their sides that allow air in.
Adrian 3 years ago
The openings are called spiracles, that connect to the trachea...
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Walter Brameld 3 years ago
No, because basically all insects breathe like this.
Load More Replies... Walter Brameld 3 years ago (edited)
No, insects do not have book lungs. You are correct that spiders have them...but spiders and some other arachnids are the only animals that do. In insects, the tracheal tubes open by along the body and just branch into smaller tubes deeper in the body. No lungs, book or otherwise, are involved.
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RandomX123 3 years ago
Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages
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Dagnirath 3 years ago
Ruby and sapphire are the same mineral, corundum. Ruby is corundum in a narrow color band between strongly orangy-red and strongly purplish-red. Sapphire is every other color of corundum, and corundum forms in just about every color imaginable.
BorPand8 3 years ago
Orange sapphires used to be pretty cheap and they're gorgeous. They're still relatively cheap compared to rubies and blue sapphires.
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tuzdayschild 3 years ago
I googled it and Google says it is not possible, but I promise, I grew 1.5 inches after 40.
Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago
perhaps your posture improved & you started standing at your full height instead of slouching?
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RandomHumanBean 3 years ago
did you know that there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky? ;-)
Linda Tisue 3 years ago
Commercial turkeys have been artifically inseminated for so long they look to humans for sex. If one stands in one place in the barn for too long hens will smother each other trying to get bred.
Ghougle 3 years ago
Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930s. Before that, people used tp that gave them butt splinters.
karl briggs 3 years ago
In Wales they used newspaper, and were so called the black bottoms. In the middle east, I heard they used sand paper so got called the red bottoms.
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RandomX123 3 years ago
Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages
Load More Replies... Dagnirath 3 years ago
Ruby and sapphire are the same mineral, corundum. Ruby is corundum in a narrow color band between strongly orangy-red and strongly purplish-red. Sapphire is every other color of corundum, and corundum forms in just about every color imaginable.
BorPand8 3 years ago
Orange sapphires used to be pretty cheap and they're gorgeous. They're still relatively cheap compared to rubies and blue sapphires.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 3 years ago
I googled it and Google says it is not possible, but I promise, I grew 1.5 inches after 40.
Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago
perhaps your posture improved & you started standing at your full height instead of slouching?
Load More Replies... RandomHumanBean 3 years ago
did you know that there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky? ;-)
Linda Tisue 3 years ago
Commercial turkeys have been artifically inseminated for so long they look to humans for sex. If one stands in one place in the barn for too long hens will smother each other trying to get bred.
Ghougle 3 years ago
Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930s. Before that, people used tp that gave them butt splinters.
karl briggs 3 years ago
In Wales they used newspaper, and were so called the black bottoms. In the middle east, I heard they used sand paper so got called the red bottoms.
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