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!
This post may include affiliate links.
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!”
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
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
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??
Redheads require more anesthesia drugs to remain unconscious during surgery
Many deaths in the Middle Ages resulted from pigs wandering into peasant homes and eating babies out of their cradles
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.
Hedgehogs [poop] when they run fast therefore if sonic the
hedgehog was real he would [pooped] himself to death
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.
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.
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.
If you feel the need to stab someone, stab oranges. They're the same consistency as human flesh
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
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.
If you squeeze a male's testicles hard enough, the adrenaline overload can kill him.
Do with that information as you wish.
This one is quite testable for bad situations, but dont go testing it out on everyone cuz that would be nuts
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.
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.
so the first portugese sailors made a good impression.."These white guys are so polite!"
No, they didn't think that. The Europeans didn't bathe, and they ate food with their bare hands. The Japanese tolerated their presence because the Europeans brought guns for trade.
Load More Replies...
Obrigado is from the Latin obligare. It literally translates as "I'm obliged to you." You know how some people say "much obliged", instead of thank you? Yeah , that.
No doubt. This is such a bad one, Bored Panda. It's like some nitwit thought they sounded alike.
Load More Replies...
Old French "Mirer" and japanese "Miru" both means "to look at". There's a lot of these coincidences between languages. Bound to happen.
Portugese were great (maybe greatest) sailors at that time (Portugal started, then came Spain, only later other countries started). Here is a pic of Portuguese and Spanish routes to reach the far east. https://upload.wikim...rade_routes.png
Fun fact: apparently Tempura was actually introduced to Japan from the Portuguese, and is one of few foreign dishes to actually have a Kanji spelling instead of Katakana like Ramen (which hails from China).
But Tempura does come from Portugal - it's based on the fried foods the missionaries ate during the Ember Days (Quattuor Tempora).
I don't think this is comparable, but rather an ancient etymological origin within the Indo-European language family. Btw. In Sumerian belief, lord Enki (who had created humans as work animals) and his half-sister Mami gave humans intellect, emotions, spirituality. Mami was considered the mother of all humans.
Load More Replies...
A more real and relatable fact: Tempura was introduced by the Portuguese residing in Nagasaki through the fritter-cooking techniques in the 16th century.
Pa, bread, is another word that jumped from Portuguese to Japanese. I know there are others.
As I know "arigato" comes straight from "obrigado" because east languages didn't use verbal expression in the meaning of "thank you". But maybe I am wrong and it is only Portuguese interpretation.
Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins
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.
If you shake/jangle your keys at a moth, it will do a backflip (it’s a defence mechanism)
Were you just jangling your keys at different insects to see what would happen lol
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
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
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.
1 pound of sugar per 1000 pounds of concrete will ruin the concrete and it will never set firm
The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet
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.
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
It takes approximately 140 bananas (in one sitting) to kill someone
Note: this post originally had 53 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Now I have some things to talk about at the next party. If there ever is one.
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.
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.
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...
I feel like this entire list was written by serial killers. *_*
Do you already have the ingredients, or will we see you back here in about 6 weeks?
Load More Replies...
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
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!
There are all kinds of "Nazi" all over the world.
Load More Replies...
Seems there were a lot of "facts" that would be of greatest use to murderers....
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.........
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...
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?
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.
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal.
A male elephant can use his penis as a fifth leg to steady his weight while on uneven ground. Built in kick stand.
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.
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.
That is why some "wise" people down-voted your comment, Pauline. Human stupidity is limitless.
Load More Replies...
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.
Load More Replies...
Now I have some things to talk about at the next party. If there ever is one.
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.
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.
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... I feel like this entire list was written by serial killers. *_*
Do you already have the ingredients, or will we see you back here in about 6 weeks?
Load More Replies... 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
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!
There are all kinds of "Nazi" all over the world.
Load More Replies... Seems there were a lot of "facts" that would be of greatest use to murderers....
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.........
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...
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?
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.
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal.
A male elephant can use his penis as a fifth leg to steady his weight while on uneven ground. Built in kick stand.
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.
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.
That is why some "wise" people down-voted your comment, Pauline. Human stupidity is limitless.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies...