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Person Asks Others “What Is The Most ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Fact,” Receives 30 Random Answers
The world is full of randomness, no doubt about it. But there’s nothing more amusing than catching your friend, or even yourself, in the middle of a sentence… that makes you go "why the heck do you know that?!"
This phenomenon is also documented on r/AskReddit, where one user, u/IamDK003, decided to find out some of the most oddly random facts people for some inexplicable reason just know.
The 71.1k upvotes indicate that there has been a whole lot to share, so let’s dive into some of the most interesting facts that will raise your brow, and hair. Feeling like you know an interesting fact or two to share? Don't be greedy, share in the comments!
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#1
Probably the most innocent fact here but- chickens (hens) have an egg song when they lay an egg. It’s like them yelling “I JUST LAID AN EGG! WOOOO!” And then the other hens chime in yelling “YAAAS SHE JUST LAID AN EGG! WOOO!”
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#2
A sock over a baseball bat is a really effective home defense weapon. If they grab the bat, the sock will make the bat slip out of their grasp and you can continue beating them until they get out
#3
Fidel Castro loved dairy so much that he invested in trying to breed a cow that could survive in the climate of Cuba and still produce a lot of milk. He failed over and over for years until one day a cow that was exactly to his specifications. She produced obscene, record breaking amounts of milk even for a regular cow and could live in Cuba’s sweltering climate. There were regular updates on her health in the Cuban national newspaper and he loved her so much that when she died he erected a huge marble statue of her in her honor
#4
I broke my collar bone and had to have physical training to strengthen it. They had me squeeze some equipment to measure my grip strength. I hit 140 lbs. He said "Holy crap, thats great! You know, It only takes 50 lbs to strangle someone." My first question was why the f*** do you know that??
#6
Many deaths in the Middle Ages resulted from pigs wandering into peasant homes and eating babies out of their cradles
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Piglets like the one in the photo are not baby-eating monsters, but a fully grown pig weighs between 50 and 350 kg (110 and 770 lb) and they are, like us, omnivores. In fact, we have a lot in common. We even eat piglets, you know.
glowworm2 5 years ago
Pigs were often put on trial in France back then for eating people. They were usually found guilty.
Red Hair Blue Soul 5 years ago
More like Thomas Harris. It happened in one of his books. Someone got fed to hogs. He wrote the Hannibal Lecter series.
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
Pigs are pretty vicious, they will even eat their own if there is blood (the reason why piglets have their tails docked, because they will nibble on the tails and then start eating). If you ever need to get rid of a body, try to toss it into a pig pen. The pigs will eat it no problem.
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Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
So *this* is why I was never allowed near pigs when I was little! No one had told me about the reason, but it worked so well, they still creep me out.
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
well i am still scared of grown pigs and hogs especially when they have tusks and teeth
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I have read of ONE documented case and the pig stood trial and was executed. MANY? I don't know about that.
glowworm2 5 years ago
That's the one I've heard of. Animal trials were common back then.
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Leodavinci 5 years ago
While it was not uncommon for dogs and pigs (and some other "domesticated" animals) to roam free during the Middle Ages (in most communities, people knew who owned what animal), I suspect most MA deaths resulted from the Plague as it continued on and off every 10-25 years until the mid 1600s.
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
there's a kind of dog that can fight off wolves and basically looks like the hellhound from Percy Jackson
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F. H. 5 years ago
The "many" is a lie. Sure it happend somewhere, but it was also good excuse why a baby disappeared suddenly due to the parents making a mistake. And that surely happend often.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Oh, yea, get rid of an unwanted baby and blame it on a poor pig. Humans are "awesome" creatures, so gentle, so compassionate.
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LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
Pigs in general are a lot less cute and cuddly that people think lol
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Pigs are a lot more humane than humans, they don't hate, don't destroy our planet, so they are even smarter.
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CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
Pigs have as much fondness for human flesh as humans have for pork.
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
That is how Louis Capet's brother Philip died. (I don't know which one, but he was married to Eleanor of Aquataine) Horse spooked or tripped over a pig (google it for details). Louis was not really geared toward being a king, he was more in line with becoming clergy. Hence Eleanor had an affair with Henry's dad and then divorced L and married Henry II (and unlike any other woman in history took a f*****g huge parcel of real estate with her to slap under the English crown - war and all fuckwitery ensued)
Lindsey Mae 5 years ago
How in the hell do you not wake up to your baby crying when the pig starts to nibble? The f**k?!
J. Normal 5 years ago
Hog (large) would grab and run. Look up wild hog and you will get an idea of size.
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Red Hair Blue Soul 5 years ago
Hogs and sows can be particularly vicious. Why do you think everyone freaked out when Dorothy fell into the hog pen on The Wizard of Oz?
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Maybe they were "vicious" because they were freaked out by humans.... and you can't blame them. Humans even get freaked out by other humans.
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Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
You should apologize to pigs; I don't know about Kristen.
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Katie Garr 5 years ago
can confirm that pigs can and will eat meat.. there's a reason the horses at my farm are scared of them! its a prehistoric wiring in their brains that say pig=bad because when horses were developing, packs of pigs would occasionally come and munch on them as a snack.
Katie 5 years ago
Makes sense. I was afraid of pigs when I was a child, and never wanted to get near their pound alone.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
No, it does not make sense, Katie. Is there even a reason why you were afraid of pigs?
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#7
Hedgehogs [poop] when they run fast therefore if sonic the
hedgehog was real he would [pooped] himself to death
#8
Butterflies sometimes drink blood. Dogs like squeaky toys because the noise reminds them of small animals dying. It's not actually known how anaesthetics work. Also on the note of anaesthesia, until the 80s they weren't used on babies because it was believed they couldn't feel pain. On average, you walk past 15 murderers in a lifetime.
#9
Imagine this:
You’re walking down the road, and you see a car crash. Someone gets out of a car, and you realize it’s someone you know, so you call their name. They turn, and crumple to the ground.
What happened? They dislocated a bone in their neck, and when they turned their neck, they fully snapped it. There’s a bunch of stories of this happening to people, which is very scary.
#10
You can fit ×8 250lb* (intact) human bodies (supine) in the back of a 2001 Subaru Outback wagon. Fold down the back seat and toss em in. Source: moved training dummies for an Army first aid class. Got pulled over because a hand was out and "reaching." Sherriff walked up, saw the dummies, laughed and told me to have a nice day after explaining the call.
#11
If you feel the need to stab someone, stab oranges. They're the same consistency as human flesh
#12
Licking marshmallows and sticking them on a car on a night below freezing will cause the marshmallows to adhere so strongly that if they are removed while still frozen they will take the car paint with them
#13
It's illegal to be intoxicated in a bar in Alaska.
I won a trivia game at work because I happened to know this obscure fact. The lady organizing it accused me of cheating because no one had ever known the answer to "in which state is it illegal to be drunk in a bar?"
I've known it for so long I don't even remember where I learned it.
#14
If you squeeze a male's testicles hard enough, the adrenaline overload can kill him. Do with that information as you wish.
postboredom 5 years ago
This one is quite testable for bad situations, but dont go testing it out on everyone cuz that would be nuts
#15
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a really popular novel, and was made into a stage play. The actor playing the eponymous role(s) was so good at switching from the good doctor to the evil Hyde that people wrote to the police claiming that he absolutely had to be the real Jack the Ripper (who was thought likely to be a qualified doctor based on the way he dissected his victims). They thought no normal person would be able to make such a transformation.
#16
Arigato" is Japanese for "Thank you." "Obrigado" is Portuguese for "Thank you." Portugal was the first European country to really make meaningful contact with Japan, which was the easternmost heavily-populated country/region in Asia. Portugal happens to be the westernmost country in Europe. The two words, Arigato and Obrigado, are linguistically completely unrelated. Those two very similar words developed in completely isolated contexts on opposite ends of the world's largest landmass, and they mean the same thing.
ADHORTATOR 5 years ago
so the first portugese sailors made a good impression.."These white guys are so polite!"
#17
Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins
#18
An important predator to the Canadian Moose is the Killer whale. The Moose will swim over seastraits and get picked off by the killer whales.
#19
If you shake/jangle your keys at a moth, it will do a backflip (it’s a defence mechanism)
postboredom 5 years ago
Were you just jangling your keys at different insects to see what would happen lol
#20
Male hedgehogs masturbate for pleasure and you have to be careful picking them up because sometimes they have semen on their feet. It’s something you have to look out for when you’re a hedgehog owner like myself
#21
Necropants are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man, which are believed in Icelandic witchcraft to be capable of producing an endless supply of money
#22
You can neutralize the smell of a rotting corpse by covering it with the ashes of a common camp fire! any wood ash should work, friends.
#23
1 pound of sugar per 1000 pounds of concrete will ruin the concrete and it will never set firm
#24
If you have a shrimp allergy you also can't eat cicadas
#26
The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet
#27
If you put a needle into the gum line between the 7th and 8th tooth you’ll hit a nerve that runs past your nose and up to behind your eye. Hitting this nerve causes excruciating pain that no painkiller will help you with. You’ll basically need to be given local anaesthetic or put in an induced coma to stop feeling it.
#28
The Defense mechanism of the sea cucumber is to eject its toxic internal organs out of its anus, causing the predator to eat them and die.
Also they reproduce by having the female shoot out the egg cell and the male shooting the sperm at it
#31
Bees can vibrate their bodies super fast which produces a lot heat. In order for a hive to defend themselves from intruders like wasps they will dog pile the wasp while vibrating and it will eventually cook the wasp alive
#32
The last person who died building the hoover dam was the son of the first person who died building it
#33
Not only is an elephant's penis prehensile it's strong enough to throw a grown man around.
#34
Most dying people don’t just slow down breathing and stop silently like the movies. The agonal breathing they do the last few hours or minutes is often startlingly loud. But it makes their CO2 so high that they are unconscious and not suffering, it’s just hard on the hearer.
#35
All mammals over the weight of 3kg take approximately 21 seconds to pee, whether that be a housecat, a horse or an elephant.
#36
The Hawaiian state fish is called a "humuhumunukunukuapuaa".
#37
"Rats constantly leave a trail of urine while dragging their tails. You can follow the trail with a UV light."
#38
MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case their pants split during a game
#39
You can substitute blood for eggs in any recipe! 65g of blood can be used in place of one regular egg
#40
About 1 cup of ground apple seeds contains enough cyanide to kill a human. Smoothie anyone?
#41
Urine is historically one of the biggest exports that Newcastle UK ever had. It was used for a variety of purposes especially for making ammonia to make paint
#42
Julius Caesar's soldiers used sing a marching song about how much caesar liked it up the ass
Lathari 5 years ago
Sung by the legions during the Gallic Triumph: "Urbani, servate uxores: moechum calvom adducimus. Aurum in Gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum." Translation: "Home we bring our bald whoremonger; Romans, lock your wives away! All the bags of gold you lent him Went his Gallic tarts to pay."
#44
It takes roughly 400 people to forge a sword out of "the blood of your enemies"
#45
Horses can masturbate by hitting their 70cm long dong against their bellies
#47
Three barleycorns laid end to end is the basis for the inch
#48
In order to get bones really white it's best to leave them in bucket of hydrogen peroxide (ideally between 3-6%) for a minimum of 48hrs, or up to a week.
It's easy to buy online, but not so easy to buy in large quantities, as it can also be used to make bombs.
Princess Procrastination 5 years ago (edited)
I CAN MAKE BOMBS FROM THE BONES OF MY ENIMIES WHILE CLEANING THEM
#49
The longest German word where every letter only is used once is 'Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung' and outside of stating this fact I have so far never needed it in my life
#50
It would only take about a month and a half to collect enough shed skin cells to completely replace the flour in a traditional pound cake recipe, about 438g. We shed about 9 lbs of dead skin each year, and 438g is only .966 lbs, so at a rate of .75 lbs of skin per month you would only need a way to collect shed skin for a little over 5 weeks. Being high in protein, your skin flour should have a consistency close to a bean flour and can be used in a similar way to make a pound cake. It would take between five and six weeks to make a skin cake.
#51
Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel
#52
1st of January, 100000 is Thursday
#53
Rams are about the same size as football players. The iconic curled horns of a male bighorn sheep can weigh up to 30 pounds, which is more than all the bones in his body combined. From head to tail, rams usually fall somewhere between five to six feet long, and they tend to tip the scales at 260 to 280 pounds, occasionally exceeding 300 pounds.
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BusLady 5 years ago
Now I have some things to talk about at the next party. If there ever is one.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Woah, Some of these facts are quite frightening like Replacing eggs for blood, making swords from blood, making pants from a dead person, putting ash over a body to hide the smell etc etc. Gotta wonder what the hobbies of these people are lol.
Kesam 5 years ago (edited)
The oderr of ltretes in a wrod is not esniesalt to uedtndsnnairg waht is wtietrn, as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lteters are in the crcoret psiiootn.
Sharon Hahn 5 years ago
The order of letters in a word is not essential to understanding what is written, as long as the first and last letters are in the correct position. You're welcome!
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I feel like this entire list was written by serial killers. *_*
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
Another random fact: Truth serum is sort of real, (though exaggerated in movies) but if the person using it on you don't know what they are doing, it can kill you
CbusResident 5 years ago
During WWII, a fairly large number of Nazi-POWs were brought to the USA, tens of thousands of them, possibly hundreds of thousands. Many were required to work on American farms, and it's thought that some probably had relations with the farmers' daughters - so we likely had some number of little half-Nazi babies scattered across the US from that!
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
There are all kinds of "Nazi" all over the world.
Load More Replies... AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
Seems there were a lot of "facts" that would be of greatest use to murderers....
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
I think the "quenching your sword in the blood of your enemies" is awesome. Gives me the number i need to reach. That was a joke..........maybe.........i think.........
Jack Lowry 5 years ago
As both a medical professional and an historian who grew up on a farm I state most of these are B.S. Notice how none have any supporting information...
Jack Lowry 5 years ago
As both a Medical Professional and an Historian that grew up on a Farm I find most of these to be BS. Notice how none of them link to other sources?
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
Probably well known, but...You can poison (and kill) someone with toothpaste (ingested). And Candy Corn is named that because if you stack them right, they look like an ear of corn.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
A male elephant can use his penis as a fifth leg to steady his weight while on uneven ground. Built in kick stand.
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
During the drafting of the United States' Constitution he term 'President of the United States' was intended to sound like an office of minor significance - to imply that the person in this role would merely preside over the country, which would be understood to be doing minimal things to oversee the country.
Pauline Bennett 5 years ago
This, I think proves how gullible some people an be and its so sad. Most or them if you really think about the comment are a mostly agood laugh.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
That is why some "wise" people down-voted your comment, Pauline. Human stupidity is limitless.
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Little Wonder 5 years ago
Bored Panda is an aggregator site, they just pull stuff from all over the internet - these are all from reddit, so ebaums world did the same thing.
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BusLady 5 years ago
Now I have some things to talk about at the next party. If there ever is one.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Woah, Some of these facts are quite frightening like Replacing eggs for blood, making swords from blood, making pants from a dead person, putting ash over a body to hide the smell etc etc. Gotta wonder what the hobbies of these people are lol.
Kesam 5 years ago (edited)
The oderr of ltretes in a wrod is not esniesalt to uedtndsnnairg waht is wtietrn, as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lteters are in the crcoret psiiootn.
Sharon Hahn 5 years ago
The order of letters in a word is not essential to understanding what is written, as long as the first and last letters are in the correct position. You're welcome!
Load More Replies... Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I feel like this entire list was written by serial killers. *_*
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
Another random fact: Truth serum is sort of real, (though exaggerated in movies) but if the person using it on you don't know what they are doing, it can kill you
CbusResident 5 years ago
During WWII, a fairly large number of Nazi-POWs were brought to the USA, tens of thousands of them, possibly hundreds of thousands. Many were required to work on American farms, and it's thought that some probably had relations with the farmers' daughters - so we likely had some number of little half-Nazi babies scattered across the US from that!
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
There are all kinds of "Nazi" all over the world.
Load More Replies... AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
Seems there were a lot of "facts" that would be of greatest use to murderers....
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
I think the "quenching your sword in the blood of your enemies" is awesome. Gives me the number i need to reach. That was a joke..........maybe.........i think.........
Jack Lowry 5 years ago
As both a medical professional and an historian who grew up on a farm I state most of these are B.S. Notice how none have any supporting information...
Jack Lowry 5 years ago
As both a Medical Professional and an Historian that grew up on a Farm I find most of these to be BS. Notice how none of them link to other sources?
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
Probably well known, but...You can poison (and kill) someone with toothpaste (ingested). And Candy Corn is named that because if you stack them right, they look like an ear of corn.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
A male elephant can use his penis as a fifth leg to steady his weight while on uneven ground. Built in kick stand.
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
During the drafting of the United States' Constitution he term 'President of the United States' was intended to sound like an office of minor significance - to imply that the person in this role would merely preside over the country, which would be understood to be doing minimal things to oversee the country.
Pauline Bennett 5 years ago
This, I think proves how gullible some people an be and its so sad. Most or them if you really think about the comment are a mostly agood laugh.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
That is why some "wise" people down-voted your comment, Pauline. Human stupidity is limitless.
Load More Replies... Little Wonder 5 years ago
Bored Panda is an aggregator site, they just pull stuff from all over the internet - these are all from reddit, so ebaums world did the same thing.
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