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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!

#1

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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!”

squidlygreen , normanack Report

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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

TheFatMexican09 , Patrick Report

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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

celestialdragonlord , Ninian Reid Report

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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??

dubt53 , bailey.foster Report

#5

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Redheads require more anesthesia drugs to remain unconscious during surgery

WaterBearMoonCrash , Garry Knight Report

#6

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Many deaths in the Middle Ages resulted from pigs wandering into peasant homes and eating babies out of their cradles

ugagradlady , Jon Bragg Report

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Monika Soffronow
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Hedgehogs [poop] when they run fast therefore if sonic the 

hedgehog was real he would [pooped] himself to death

Minerx_Thomas_YT , Florian Straub Report

#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.

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#9

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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.

DelusionalDonut13 , Jason Burwen Report

#10

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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.

PanicEnthusiast , RL GNZLZ Report

#11

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you feel the need to stab someone, stab oranges. They're the same consistency as human flesh

OurLadyofMorningStar , Gunther Hagleitner Report

#12

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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

ImNotThaaatDrunk , Harsha K R Report

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Lin Baum
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word marshmallow comes from the mallow plant that grows in English marshes. It was originally used as a medicinal, then as a food.

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Martin Forbes
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does this still work if you simply wet it instead of licking it ? Asking for a friend.

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Mishte Tine
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don’t tell those people who attack bad parking drivers - I get the sentiment, but dont mob people. Put a removable sticker on, maybe , then walk away. Someone might be mishandling their car because a loved one just died. We need less physical confrontation, not more.

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Shinomi Chan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So if anyone has an a-hole ex... Welp they'll be surprised alright.

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Roselyn Park
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m intrigued by the thought processes involved in formulating and bench testing this phenomenon.

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Craymoss
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bologna does that and so do potatoes when you cut one and write with it on a car I have heard. Apparently when this stuff dries in the really hot sun, it takes the paint with it.

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Marcia Cash
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they are just glue, after all, think what they do to your guts!

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Vanta Black
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I was gonna eat them, but now I've got some vandalising to do!

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Lin Baum
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The name "marshmallow" comes from the mallow plants in marshes in England. It was originally used as a medicinal.

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Beast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i wanna know who and how that was first figured out

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Mayrene Chester
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

bet a kid stuck one he didn't want anymore out there and mum had to learn the hard way

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Jeremy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you can stick a wet gummy bear to the wall and it will be there till you pry it off

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John Smith
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But why wait for winter when you could use just about anything else like chemicals, paint, grease, ect, on a hot sunny day?

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Molly Block
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's good to know, but too bad it never freezes here in FL.

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#13

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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.

sharknado523 , PunkToad Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being accused of cheating because you have some culture always infuriated me

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#14

If you squeeze a male's testicles hard enough, the adrenaline overload can kill him.

Do with that information as you wish.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one is quite testable for bad situations, but dont go testing it out on everyone cuz that would be nuts

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#15

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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.

jelilikins , Rumble Press Report

#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.

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ADHORTATOR
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so the first portugese sailors made a good impression.."These white guys are so polite!"

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#17

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins

mikefranks88 , themtube2 Report

#18

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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.

artparade , Colin McMillen Report

#19

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you shake/jangle your keys at a moth, it will do a backflip (it’s a defence mechanism)

HushUK , Donald Hobern Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Were you just jangling your keys at different insects to see what would happen lol

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#20

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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

WhyY_196 , Franco Dal Molin Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*realises why hedgehogs always look so happy in photos * 😳

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#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

goblinsexologist , Jennifer Boyer Report

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#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.

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#23

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 1 pound of sugar per 1000 pounds of concrete will ruin the concrete and it will never set firm

cayden_13 , Zeyus Media Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel for the poor builder who discovered that. "When's my house finished?"/"Um... never. Spilt the sugar sorry"

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#24

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you have a shrimp allergy you also can't eat cicadas

mctoasterson , Erik Starck Report

#25

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Pigeons sing in 5/4 and 17/8 time signature.

neohylanmay , aimee rivers Report

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet

BoWiggly , USASOC News Service Report

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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.

A_Cuddly_Burrito , marissa anderson Report

#28

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 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

omXgabeasts , Colin and Sarah Northway Report

#29

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers The last wild cow died in Krakow, Poland in 1627

adstaylor77 , Lis S. Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although they were protected by the king of Poland himself! Sadly, as the protection program began, there were already too few cows left

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers It takes approximately 140 bananas (in one sitting) to kill someone

herbharlot , Fiona Henderson Report

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