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Some people collect stamps. Others prefer art. And since you've clicked on this link, we're guessing you enjoy gathering interesting facts. A connoisseur of curiosity, a hoarder of trivia and perhaps even, a walking Wikipedia.
One can never have enough knowledge. The more random the better. You might never use the information you learn in a meaningful or life-altering way. But you probably will bring it up casually during a coffee date, or a boring moment of awkward silence. If your cup of facts is running dry, head over to a corner of the internet aptly called Random Facts.
The community is dedicated to sharing intriguing, unusual, and thought-provoking facts from across the world. They cover everything from science and history to everyday curiosities. You'll find gems like "cheese is the most stolen food in the world" and "frogs can freeze solid in winter... then thaw back to life in spring." Who could possibly resist?
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#2
Frogs can freeze solid in winter, stop their hearts, and then thaw back to life in spring.
#4
A teaspoon of honey is the lifetime work of 12 bees.
#5
The creator of the fire hydrant is unknown because the documents for the fire hydrant was destroyed... in a fire.
#7
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
#10
There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.
#11
A single bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
#12
70% Alcohol is a better disinfectant than 99% Alcohol (extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness).
Bruce Mardle 52 minutes ago
That's fortunate. You can't distil dilute ethanol to more than 95.6% ethanol. (There are various ways of making purer ethanol.)
#13
Me and my friend tested how many licks it took to finish a Trader Joe’s lollipop and it took 1393 and hers was 1395.
#14
10% of British people asked in a survey said that Australia was further away than the moon.
#15
Today I learned that moons can have a moon and they are called moonmoon.
#17
When a male penguin mates with a female penguin they search the entire beach for the perfect pebble and the places it in front of the female.
#18
1961 was the last upside down year till 6009.
RomanceRadish 1 hour ago
Sorry to be negative but if the human race is alive and well in the year 6009 that'd be shocking.
#19
There is a forgotten letter in the English alphabet.
The letter thorn (looks like a p but more of a line on top) was used to represent the th sound. That meant that it would be pe (pretend the p is thorn) there was one issue however. The French couldn’t pronounce it! They used y as a substitute. So ye came into creation. So ye is actually the. The letter became obsolete once printing presses were developed because the English who border France didn’t use the letter. Boom facts.
#20
When you're in a cold place and you suddenly feel hot don’t take off any clothing, because it means you have hypothermia.
Ace 8 hours ago
That's a rare phenomenon known as "paradoxical undressing". It's been found in individuals or groups of people who've frozen to death, presumed cause is "changes in peripheral vasoconstriction in the deeply hypothermic person. It represents the last effort of the victim and is followed almost immediately by unconsciousness and death." (From a paper on pubmed 541627)
#21
The character 'Biang' is the most complex character in the chinese language. It had 59 strokes and is the character for a type of noodle that makes the sound 'Biang' when it is hit against a table.
Chewie Baron 13 hours ago
When Beijing hosted the 2008 Olympic Games, the order that the countries came out in, was by how many strokes it took to write their name in Mandarin.
#22
The expiration date on a water bottle isn’t for the water, but for the bottle itself...
#23
The Earth is 1,086,781,292,542,889,208,714,362,880 centimeters cubed.
AdrenalineNod:
Okay but how do you say that number??
Kriilliin:
One octillion, eighty-six septillion, seven hundred and eighty-one sextillion, two hundred and ninety-two quintillion, five hundred and forty-two quadrillion, eight hundred and eighty-nine trillion, two hundred and eight billion, seven hundred and fourteen million, three hundred and sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty centimetres cubed.
#24
In your lifetime, you’ll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
#26
If you go north long enough you will eventually go south but you can go east or west forever.
#27
Richard Nixon’s resignation letter was 11 words long.
"I hereby resign the office of President of the United States."
#29
The average female lifespan is 81.2 years which is 2560723200 seconds.
The average male lifespan is 76.4 years which is 2409350400 seconds.
That’s 151372800 seconds longer for females and it also means you wasted about 20 seconds reading this. If you took 20 seconds to read this and you are a 16yo male you could read this 95238719 more times.
I am bored.
#30
If all the land on Earth had the population density as NYC, there would be about 5.3 trillion people on Earth.
#31
Nostalgia is proven to reduce stress and make you feel less lonely — your brain uses memories to heal.
#32
The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
#33
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
#34
Louis XIX was a king of france for just 20 minutes.
#35
One gram of uranium is 20 billion calories.
Tucker Cahooter 11 hours ago
Which I always refuse it if ever the host offers it for dessert, I need to watch my waistline
#36
The prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed in teens, so the decision making function is taken over by the amygdala, which is also the part of the brain responsible for emotions. This explains why teens usually make rash decisions based on emotions.
#37
The distant part of the sea that is hazy and joins the sky is called the offing.
#38
The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon.
Jeff White 11 hours ago
Not completely inaccurate, but VERY misleading "Fact". The area of the flat circular projection of the Sun (i.e., what we see on Earth) is about 400 times larger than the flat circular projection of the Moon. This is interesting because the Sun is about 400 times farther away from the Earth than the Sun, and thus the Sun disc and Moon disc look about the same size. However, if you say "The Sun", I think of the whole Sun, not just flat projection of the round shape of any circular object. The whole Sun, which I think most would think of as the volume of the whole Sun is approx 1.4 x 10^18 km^3. The volume of the whole Moon is approx 2.2 x 10^10 km^3. Thus the whole Sun compared to the whole Moon is 1.4x10^18 / 2.2x10^10 or 63.6 MILLION times larger
#39
You spend about one-third of your life sleeping — that’s roughly 25 years if you live to 75.
#40
If you're having an asthma attack, drink something with caffeine in it. The caffeine will pry open your lungs and help you breathe (trust me, I have asthma).
#42
Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica in the late 1700's.
#43
On the bottom of every Ferrero Rocher chocolate is a small gold letter that represents which factory line it came off of. Should there be an issue, they can pinpoint where the problem originated.
Daisydaisy 8 hours ago
Oh no! Now I'm going to have to go out and get myself some Ferrero Rochers to see if this is true! Bugger!
#44
In prison, cassette tapes are see-through to prevent prisoners from hiding contraband.
dewiCZ:
Not only casette cases, literally everything, TVs, walkmans, radios...
#45
In "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, Rick says the word "Gonna" 40 times.
#46
Companies use the phrase "military-grade encryption" just as a marketing tactic, since the encryption method used by the military is AES-256, which is the universal standard at this point.
Zig Zag Wanderer 8 hours ago (edited)
Universal standard? I think not. American standard, perhaps.... America isn't the universe. AND we use much better encryption outside of the US. That pîsses them off mightily, because it means they can't snoop on everyone like they do to their own citizens. (used to write software, with encryption. It had to be deliberately dumbed down encryption to 256 for the American market, just so their government could break it. I wish I was kidding.)
#47
The phobia of phobias is phobophobia.
Pandemonium 11 hours ago
So, in 1933 when FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was he scared of having phobophobia?
#48
Baby shark has the exact rhythm you need to perform CPR at.
Jeff White 10 hours ago
So, apparently, is "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gee's, which I think a much more apt tune.
#49
The T. rex (65m years)actually existed closer in history to humans than to the Stegosaurus (145m years).
Tucker Cahooter 11 hours ago
And here I was thinking we would have a dinosaur, pyramid and Cleopatra free list for a change
#50
There is a city in Turkey called "Batman."
Tucker Cahooter 10 hours ago
John Batman was a key figure in the founding of Melbourne Australia, so there's a lot of Batman references in that city too. Until recently they even had an electorate called Batman; I always wondered if someone ever dressed up as the caped crusader and ran for election on the slogan "Batman for Batman"
#51
It is completely illegal to sell chewing gum in Singapore, and you can only chew it with a medical exemption.
#52
If you smell something, particles of it get into your nose. Now imagine a public restroom.
#53
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
#54
No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
#56
Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. The same chemical is found in a well-known antidepressant.
Made You Look 3 hours ago
Bananas contain chemicals like tryptophan, an amino acid your body uses to make mood-regulating serotonin, plus antioxidants and magnesium, which support brain health, giving them potential antidepressant and anti-anxiety effect
#57
Due to ocean tides and earthquakes days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds each century.
TotallyNOTAFox 23 minutes ago (edited)
The Sumatra earthquake in 2004 was strong enough to shave off 6.8 microseconds of every day after by speeding up the planet's rotation slightly
#58
I was today years old when I learned that the color orange was actually named after the fruit.
#59
The average human head has about 100,000 hairs with a similar number of hair follicles.
Huddo's sister 9 hours ago
I found out the other day that the reason some women's hair changes when they are pregnant is because their hair follicles become suspended. So instead of losing hair regularly, you stop losing it, then post-partum they begin dying off at the same time, which makes some women feel like they are going bald.
#60
Whales don’t [pass] of age, if they are older, they are just too weak to swim to the surface and drown…
#61
The top of UPS trucks are white.
Geoffrey Scott 4 hours ago
For a very good reason. I once worked for a regional trucking outfit in Florida. We had a trailer to unload that was painted black, d**n near k****d us from heat exhaustion.
#62
The U.S. has more cows than people in some states like Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota.
#63
That 'scratching' you'll sometimes hear when falling asleep is your heartbeat distorted from the pressure on your ear.
#64
Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
Pandemonium 12 hours ago
Not on a Dvorak keyboard. (This is a snarky parody of the 'Not true in danish' comment above, and a nerdy flex that I know about non-QWERTY keyboards.)
#66
The moon is 1.28 light seconds away.
RomanceRadish 50 minutes ago (edited)
So how long would it take the Millennium Falcon to reach the moon from Earth without going light- speed? I know somebody out there has the math know- how for this task (not me!)
#67
There are more possible chess moves than the number of atoms in the known UNIVERSE.
#69
If two pieces of the same metal touch in space, they will bond together and will be permanently stuck together.
Plentyofoomph 12 hours ago
Then how are astronauts using metal wrenches to tighten metal bolts?
#70
Scallops have teeth and eyes up to 200.
#71
If you were to spell out every number (one, two, etc.), you wouldn't use the letter 'b' until you reached one billion.
#72
Every single human in history has witnessed the same sun and moon as you have.
#73
California has four times the land area of Tennessee, and more than five times the population.
But Tennessee has eighteen times as many cemeteries as California.
Glix Drap 6 hours ago
FYI - A cemetery and a graveyard both refer to burial grounds, but a graveyard is typically associated with a church and is often smaller, while a cemetery is a larger burial area that is not linked to any specific church. Essentially, all graveyards are cemeteries, but not all cemeteries are graveyards.
#74
The average person has less than 2 legs.
FlamingZombies 11 hours ago (edited)
And on average, people have more than one skeleton. And less than 2 arms.
#76
If you lose the little cup to a Nyquil or Zzzquil bottle, to achieve a 30 mL dose you require 4 capfuls filled to the inside rim.
#77
Your tongue never fits comfortably in your mouth.
Also, you’re now focusing on both your tongue AND your breathing. You’re welcome.
Huddo's sister 9 hours ago (edited)
The position your tongue sits in in your mouth usually depends on what your first language is.
#78
997 is the largest prime spelled without the letter o.
#79
The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and it would take three and a half hours to say out loud.
#80
If the United States got a new state, the senate would have 102 seats, and a vote requiring a supermajority (like an impeachment) would requires a minimum of 69 votes.
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