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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?
Bored Panda has put together a list of our personal favorites from the page for you to scroll through ahead of that family gathering you're meant to go to. Let us know yours by upvoting them.
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#2
70% Alcohol is a better disinfectant than 99% Alcohol (extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness).
#3
A teaspoon of honey is the lifetime work of 12 bees.
#4
The creator of the fire hydrant is unknown because the documents for the fire hydrant was destroyed... in a fire.
#7
Frogs can freeze solid in winter, stop their hearts, and then thaw back to life in spring.
#9
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.
#11
Today I learned that moons can have a moon and they are called moonmoon.
#12
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.
#13
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
#14
There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.
#15
A single bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
#16
Nostalgia is proven to reduce stress and make you feel less lonely — your brain uses memories to heal.
#17
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.
#18
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 1 day 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)
#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.
#21
The expiration date on a water bottle isn’t for the water, but for the bottle itself...
#23
Richard Nixon’s resignation letter was 11 words long.
"I hereby resign the office of President of the United States."
#24
If you go north long enough you will eventually go south but you can go east or west forever.
#25
10% of British people asked in a survey said that Australia was further away than the moon.
#26
1961 was the last upside down year till 6009.
RomanceRadish 1 day ago
Sorry to be negative but if the human race is alive and well in the year 6009 that'd be shocking.
#27
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 1 day 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.
#28
The distant part of the sea that is hazy and joins the sky is called the offing.
#29
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).
#30
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.
#31
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.
#32
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
#33
In your lifetime, you’ll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
#34
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.
#35
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 1 day 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!
#37
Louis XIX was a king of france for just 20 minutes.
#38
One gram of uranium is 20 billion calories.
Tucker Cahooter 1 day ago
Which I always refuse it if ever the host offers it for dessert, I need to watch my waistline
#39
Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica in the late 1700's.
#40
The phobia of phobias is phobophobia.
Pandemonium 1 day ago
So, in 1933 when FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was he scared of having phobophobia?
#41
2520 is the smallest number to have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 as factors.
#42
I was today years old when I learned that the color orange was actually named after the fruit.
#43
If you smell something, particles of it get into your nose. Now imagine a public restroom.
#44
If all the land on Earth had the population density as NYC, there would be about 5.3 trillion people on Earth.
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Becky Samuel 1 day ago
These are even worse than usual. They're poorly explained, inaccurate, and have appalling grammar.
Miss Ann Thrope 1 day ago
If my mother was at a party that wasn't going well, she's proudly announce a Blue Whale's p***s is six feet long. It never occurred to her why she was never invited back.
Andy Frobig 4 hours ago
And nobody asked "which blue whale in particular?"
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Apatheist Account2 1 day ago
Actually, you'll never get any time of your life back, even if you enjoy it :)
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 1 day ago
These are even worse than usual. They're poorly explained, inaccurate, and have appalling grammar.
Miss Ann Thrope 1 day ago
If my mother was at a party that wasn't going well, she's proudly announce a Blue Whale's p***s is six feet long. It never occurred to her why she was never invited back.
Andy Frobig 4 hours ago
And nobody asked "which blue whale in particular?"
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 day ago
Actually, you'll never get any time of your life back, even if you enjoy it :)
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