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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!”
Layla Babb 5 years ago
Had chickens and this is totally true, although "song" is not what I would call it. They would sound like fax machines
Carol Anne Benoit 5 years ago (edited)
The hobby of collecting trivia is called Spermology. (also seed collecting) A hippo has pink milk and red sweat. Metallic surfaces touching in the vacuum of space can stick to each other and fuse. This is known as the "cold welding". It can be quite the problem for the ISS. Those are my weirdest facts for tonight.
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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
Electric Ed 5 years ago
I read this 3 times before I finally realized it wasn't about baseball tactics...
Bill 5 years ago
depends on who's socks. After a full day in construction using the bat would be more humane
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Michelle C 5 years ago
But what if they try to grab it again and get a grip on it? Better to just keep the end of the bat lubed up with some Crisco or Vaseline then they will never get a grip! Don't ask how I know....lol
#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
Molly Block 5 years ago
I live in FL and yes, it is hot and humid and sweltering here. It's like a sauna outside. I was born and raised in Miami, and the keys. Is it really that much more hot in Cuba? Where if live in FL, cows are everywhere. Our neighbor has a dairy cow, in fact.....
Maria R 5 years ago
If only all dairy farmers in the US loved their cows as much and didn't mutilate like they do.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
..... if only people everywhere in the world would be compassionate and smart consumers and would choose non-dairy milk, cheeses, yogurts for their own sake (for the reason I already mentioned in this section) and for the sake of exploited, tortured cows.
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago (edited)
There are cows in central Arizona - it can be a hazard if people speed at night around open grazing areas. Goes into triple digits (Fahrenheit) for months. Maybe they aren’t dairy cows... ?
#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??
BusLady 5 years ago
I've been strangled several times. I would have died if it weren't for the people who intervened or distracted the person. It's been many years, but you never forget how it felt.
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
So what you are saying is that you could kill two adults and a child with one squeeze?
Pauline Bennett 5 years ago
May take only 50 lbs to strangle but you have to hold it 3-4 minutes.
Mshauri Mazuri 5 years ago
That's actually always my question whenever I read facts that is you know, something anyone will never know until someone did it.
#5
Redheads require more anesthesia drugs to remain unconscious during surgery
Zophra 5 years ago (edited)
You usually talk to the anesthesiologist before your surgery. You could then tell the person.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Wow. Odd fact. And here is another one: The medical science and the doctors who practice it know very well that anaesthesia works, but they still do not know exactly why it functions.
ChimeraBubbles 5 years ago
I love this fact. I've been under general anaesthtic loads and time literally stops. It's weird. There's just nothing, not even a concept of time passing, you don't even know you're unconcious. It's scarier (for me) to have the cannula put in for the anaesthesia than to be under general.
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Isabella 5 years ago
And more painkillers too. And more sunscreen. Sjit, but hair color is worth it :D [I'm natural ginger :D ]
Shawna Kimble 5 years ago
Lucky you! I love red hair, wish I'd been born with it. ;-)
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Gayatri Chitale 5 years ago
Sometimes I wish I was this woman. With flawless hair sitting in gentle bright sun reading a book.. possibly eating a croissant from the bag
Louloubelle 5 years ago
I knew this one! Because I have a red headed husband and two redheaded children. In addition, it affects you if you carry a gene for red hair, which I do. And I do require more as well. Novacaine as well.
Louloubelle 5 years ago
I've heard that one too, however, my husband seems impervious to pain. But that could be his upbringing; he was raised by wolves.
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BUMMERS 5 years ago
Proven in a recent study. I'm a redhead-just had spinal surgery-anesthesiologists knew about it, but not a single doctor. But it's not remaining unconscious that's a problem-that's controlled by their readouts, & they adjust. It's more about the semi-conscious state they supposedly put you in for minor procedures. I felt every cut during my cataract surgery, & don't even ask about the colonoscopy. We also require significantly higher doses of pain relief. Try convincing your idiot doctor that their normal dosage is insufficient & you're immediately pegged as a drug abuser.
#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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#7
Hedgehogs [poop] when they run fast therefore if sonic the
hedgehog was real he would [pooped] himself to death
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
Horses can, too. Hell, I've seen horses in showjumping competitions poop between fences.
Nicola Hocking 5 years ago
I have a rescue African pygmy hedgehog and they go to toilet when they run on their wheels.
#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.
Molly Block 5 years ago
I was a preemie baby (at 23) weeks, and I had a hole in my heart. After I got out of the incubator and had put on a little weight, I had open heart surgery. You are telling me that back in 1968 I didn't have any anesthetic?! i find that impossible to believe!
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
I had tonsils removed w/o anesthesia in 1968.
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Kathy Richardson 5 years ago
How does someone know why dogs like squeaky toys? Did the dog tell them?
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Dogs bred for hunting small game show a stronger preference for squeaky toys over other toys compared to dogs not specifically bred for this purpose.
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#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.
Ellen Kamphorst 5 years ago
That’s why where i live (i teach first aid) we place our hand in front of the victim on the window and say; keep looking at my hand, not at me!
Markus Holstein 5 years ago
Most likely refers to atlanto-occipital dislocation, a dislocation of your top cervical vertebra (the Atlas) and the base of your skull (the occiput). This is almost always lethal, but you can survive it in about 30% of cases. The problem is, the atlanto-occipital joint is almost single-handedly responsible for your ability to turn your head, the rest of your cervical spine is pretty rigid. So if you try and turn your head you put shear stress on your now unprotected brain stem - which contains several vital structures, including the one that coordinates your breathing
Katy McMouse 5 years ago
My grandfather broke his neck and didn't know he had until he picked my mum up to carry her to the car after she had been discharged from hospital. He collapsed right as he approached the exit door. Talk about timing...they said his neck had broke days earlier from a work accident.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
Holy sh*t! This may be a dumb question but did he live?
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TheGirlFromTheNorth 5 years ago
A friend of my mom's died in a motorcycle accident. Fell of the bike, rumbled down on the side of the road and the car behind pulled over and called for help. At the time the paramedics came my mom's friend was up walking, a little dizzy but more concerned about his bike. For some reason he didnt take off his helmet, so the paramedics loaded him on the stretcher, took the helmet off and he died instantly. He'd cracked his head open and the helmet helped it to stay intact, and that was why he could walk around and stuff. Even if the paramedics had known about this there was nothing to do, the injury was to massive.
Clara Knaub 5 years ago
gahh I can see it in my mind (and probably in my nightmares tonight 😂)
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
Which is why the video of a girl being dragged off a motorbike and then the rider going back and making her stand up made me clench my teeth in fear. Movies and tv make it look like people can just get up after an accident, which is so dangerous.
Mishte Tine 5 years ago
This is what my car looked like - I had to climb out of my window. I crumpled to the ground because it felt like my ankles were broken - I couldn’t stand up. They’d weren’t broken, but I almost bled to death internally. Both lungs collapsed, spleen had to be partially removed. Messed up my back forever. This image makes me panic.
#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.
Just saying 5 years ago
And that's how you get away with moving one real body - put 7 training dummies on the top.
Philip Malchek 5 years ago
If I were that officer I would not have laughed and still questioned why you have 8 dummies in the back of your vehicle..
M O'Connell 5 years ago (edited)
A second-gen Outback will also transport 21 bags of mulch internally and tow a further 39 on a trailer without the rear suspension bottoming out. Edit: wet bags of mulch.
#11
If you feel the need to stab someone, stab oranges. They're the same consistency as human flesh
kennedy1209 5 years ago
Mom is an RN and wanted me to give her a flu shot one year (probably 25 years ago now), she had me practice on an orange for this exact reason... and its true.
postboredom 5 years ago (edited)
Please don't stab real people, stab oranges or whatever effing fruit you want, but not living people
Deb Johnston 5 years ago
When my mother was in nursing school, they would practice giving shots on oranges because it was similar to human skin. Perhaps that would have been a better way of comparing than "stabbing" someone.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
It is true, medical student use them in training; but if someone "feels the need to stab someone" please call a mental health hot line.
#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
ChimeraBubbles 5 years ago
That has got to be a sentance no one has ever written before and I love it.
Load More Replies... Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
I can see this being used as revenge against people who can't park.
Martin Forbes 5 years ago
Does this still work if you simply wet it instead of licking it ? Asking for a friend.
Mishte Tine 5 years ago
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.
#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.
Shelp 5 years ago
Being accused of cheating because you have some culture always infuriated me
Sam Cook 5 years ago
Something similar happened to me at a Chick-fil-A. I happened to know who voiced SpongeBob's grandmother, what year some certain events took place, and what the three most-watched series finales were, among many others. One of the few I didn't get was about the names of the four Golden Girls (remembered half, but I've never watched the show myself, so…). We won everything, including gift cards and a free meal, and everyone glared at us like we had cheated.
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Gibberint Dark 5 years ago
It's illegal to serve someone in a bar or pub in Britain if they are drunk...
Electric Ed 5 years ago
Isn't that a pretty common law? Though how to separate "drunk" from "tipsy"...
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Michelle Geiger 5 years ago
I’ve been intoxicated in many an Alaskan bar and never been arrested ;)
#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
Steven Essex 5 years ago
An Asian woman did that to her abusive husband... She literally hung from his testicles while he was trying to beat her and it ended up killing him.
DforDorothy 5 years ago
Works with people too? Asking for a friend, in case she gets unsolicited offers in clubs again...🤔
Carolina Fernández González 5 years ago
A kid died in his school because he was kicked there by a classmate. That happened in my country years ago :'(
Katy McMouse 5 years ago
Exactly how many pounds of pressure are we talking here? Asking for an acquaintance.
#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.
CbusResident 5 years ago
Also, the name is pronounced Jee-kill, not Jeck-il, as I'd thought it was for the longest time.
Phil Boswell 5 years ago
I heard the other day that it's entirely possible that the same real man was the inspiration for both "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "Dr Doolittle"…I need to look that up sometime ;-)
Pauline Bennett 5 years ago
Personality can change in an instant but a transformation physically I think next to impossible.
#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!"
Jacob Ross 5 years ago
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.
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Nizumi 5 years ago
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.
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
No doubt. This is such a bad one, Bored Panda. It's like some nitwit thought they sounded alike.
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Saint Thomas 5 years ago
Old French "Mirer" and japanese "Miru" both means "to look at". There's a lot of these coincidences between languages. Bound to happen.
NMN 5 years ago (edited)
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
K.Kobayashi 5 years ago
But Tempura does come from Portugal - it's based on the fried foods the missionaries ate during the Ember Days (Quattuor Tempora).
#17
Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins
MrTree1779 5 years ago
You're right. Those are Scots terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwise
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troufaki13 5 years ago
In Greek it's "right rotation" and "left rotation" but I think I prefer clockwise :)
ChimeraBubbles 5 years ago
I didn't realise other poeple didn't until recently!
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Jewels Vern 5 years ago
Clockwise is the way a shadow goes around a stick in the ground. That's why it is considered the "right" or "natural" direction. I learned that in a dance class.
Katherine Boag 5 years ago
Widdershins was popularised in recent times by Terry Pratchett in his Discworld books
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
It also is a prominent part of the set up in the fairy tale "Childe Rowland", which is (arguably) part of King's inspiration for the Dark Tower series.
Load More Replies... K.Kobayashi 5 years ago
deisul/deasil is the direction of the Sun moves, which means the sundial shadow moves in the same direction. This is why our clocks move in that direction.
Miss Cris 5 years ago
The shadow moves the opposite. If you're in the northern hemisphere and looking towards the north, east is on your right and west on your left. Sun moves from your right, up above your head and then on your left. That's counterclockwise. But its shadow, as seen in sunclocks, does the opposite: clockwise. This is why wise clocks move in that direction.
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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.
Vanta Black 5 years ago
Both are scary! Imagine being out in a kayak, seeing a moose swimming nearby, and then watching as it's grabbed and dragged underwater by a f*****g orca!
Load More Replies... Shelp 5 years ago
Everyone knows that on the internet. There's even a comic dedicated to this fact!
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Why do you call a predator important? The unimportant, biggest predator to the any wild life anywhere is sub-human being.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
This reminds me of the only successful cavalry charge against a naval fleet. Look it up.
#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
Chich 5 years ago
The keys create sounds similar to a bat's echo location. Over the eons moths have evolved to take evasive action when they hear it.
Sean Baxter 5 years ago
It's actually a defense against bats. Moths can hear the bat's echolocation and then do backflips to try and ovoid being eaten.
politecat 42 5 years ago
They are the best insects. Like out of all of them. Little fuzzy guys. I always make time for moths and help em out
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Shinomi Chan 5 years ago
Neat, and I don't even need to yell at it to do a backflip this time!
#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
Esca Sav 5 years ago
I'm kind of laughing at the fact that it says "masturbate for pleasure." I was not aware there were other reasons for doing the deed
Debbie 5 years ago
And they are vicious creatures, we caught one trying to steal/eat/kill one of our older chickens...we didn't lock the coop properly that hot summer day. I heard strange noises in the middle of the night. Went out to investigate and saw the chicken being dragged across the grass, wings flapping. We just thought the chicken had a stroke or something. When my partner arrived with a towel and light to catch the chicken, we saw it was a Hedgehog that held him!! He let go when my partner came near. Bothr animals ran into the bushes....we found the chicken (alive!) a few days later. And there was this time when our cat had an injury on his paw, and after a few days we noticed a spot in too too, like something had gone through.... Also, hedgehogs are terribly noisy! Still they are the cutest vicious murderous monsters around here ;)
Zophra 5 years ago
Trying to think of when I can just casually slip this little nugget of knowledge into a conservation.
postboredom 5 years ago (edited)
I predict this is going to be an interesting article..i know it was said in the title but this just proves it
#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
Vic 5 years ago
Or and endless sentence, if the person was alive before you made the pants..
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Sara-Marie Hartwig 5 years ago
Omg The Disturbing Interests Podcast did an episode about these. The money came from the...um... coin purse area too 😆
glowworm2 5 years ago
Exactly! First you had to steal a coin from a poor widow and then place the coin, along with a magical sign inside the s*****m of the pants. The coin would then draw additional money into that part of the pants, so long as it was never removed.
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glowworm2 5 years ago
Same here. I was just randomly looking up various folklore stuff on wikipedia one day and BAM! Necropants!
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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.
AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
Hmmm. Another one of those facts that will help folks with a homicidal bent. There seems to be an inordinate percentage of those here....
F. H. 5 years ago
As someone who has buried a barrel full of overly ripe deer entrails I can tell you that this does not work. You probably need a really big amount.
Carol Anne Benoit 5 years ago
Hardwood ash is best. It contains potassium hydroxide, which is a form of lye. Lye helps to dissolve the body. Entrails, depending on how much fat and water content is on them, might require more potash. Water + Lye = exothermic reaction. In fact, there are now 'aquatoriums' that use warm water and lye to dissolve corpses. It's a much more eco-friendly way to dispose of a corpse. It's how I want to be disposed of, because I'm a soap maker and it seems so fitting.
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1 pound of sugar per 1000 pounds of concrete will ruin the concrete and it will never set firm
Scagsy 5 years ago
I feel for the poor builder who discovered that. "When's my house finished?"/"Um... never. Spilt the sugar sorry"
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
It is common knowledge in concreting. When concrete trucks breakdown they sometimes use sugar, cans of coke etc to stop the hardening process and ruining the truck. My hubby has used the sugar technique when doing exposed aggregate but mostly he uses the proper concrete retarder.
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Molly Block 5 years ago
This i have heard, and in another story; it caused a year long problem of ants and a huge situation.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Or you can use a litre of red cordial to 9 litres of water. BTW I am being serious, my hubby is a concretor.
Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
It would be more interesting to know how someone discovered this fact!
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
To stop the concrete from going off. It is sometimes used in concrete trucks when they break down preventing the truck from getting ruined by mass dried concrete. Some people use it as a replacer for proper concrete retarder, which is used when doing exposed aggregate concrete.
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If you have a shrimp allergy you also can't eat cicadas
Death Metal Kitty 5 years ago
Alternative protein source. The UN is trying to promote insects as a sustainable future food source. The amount of resources needed to produce 1 pound of cricket protein is minute compared to producing 1 pound of bovine protein. They also produce significantly less by-products. Here's the report: http://www.fao.org/3/i3253e/i3253e.pdf It's been a while since i read it, but if the whole world were to transition to insect protein over bovine, we'd significantly reduce enough methane to actually impact global warming. Also, nice fact, the most nutritious milk in the world is cockroach milk... and it doesn't at all taste disgusting.
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Jimifan 5 years ago
I live in China, and it's cicada season right now (you can't escape the extremely loud buzzing coming from the trees), and it's a popular food item here. You see A LOT of (mostly older) people walking around with a fishing-pole-like rod with an apparatus at the end for plucking cicadas out of the trees. The hardcore harvesters will often pop a live, just-snatched cicada into their mouths and wolf it down as they go about their business. I can't adequately describe how revolting it truly is. But I once had an Ethiopian buddy who thought the same way about us eating shrimp, so there you go.
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
Idk, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, crayfish (aka mudbugs) are pretty insect like...
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#25
Pigeons sing in 5/4 and 17/8 time signature.
Candace Fitzpatrick 5 years ago
Danny Carey played a bird in the movie Free Birds lmao
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
I was thinking today that what would pigeons do for food if we didn't keep dropping bits? They seem to rely on us.
#26
The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet
GirlFriday 5 years ago
It isn't the fall that kills you, its the landing.
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Truth Monster 5 years ago
Assumes the parameters of this require normal earth gravity and for there to be no other mitigation devices to slow fall. Apparently the record holder's name is Vesna Vulovic, if any of you are curious
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
Interesting as I'd think you'd likely be able to reach terminal velocity in a shorter fall (granted terminal velocity increases the further up you go as the air/air resistance gets thinner/smaller). I'd hazard a guess that starting around 33000 feet temperature and oxygen concentration start becoming more and more of a danger.
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Heather Daugherty 5 years ago
a serbian flight attendant survived an airliner crash after a suitcase bomb ripped a hole in the plane. she was trapped alone behind a food cart in a section of the fuselage that was intact upon impact, keeping her from being sucked out upon depressurization. this section landed at a low angle, & was heavily cushioned by foliage & snow. doctors think a pre-existing low blood pressure condition caused her to pass out almost immediately which kept her heart from exploding on impact...anyways, she did actually return to work for awhile...
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
I heard that she had survived because she got sucked out while the plane exploded then fell through some trees which slowed her down a bit before landing in a snow drift.
Load More Replies... Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
I guess if you landed on something that is the perfect density to break your fall but not harm you, the height doesn't matter. Like a medium-sized bag of marshmallows or something. Also, when you're reached maximum velocity, the height is irrelevant.
John M 5 years ago
This is actually true. Vulović's survival to her being trapped by a food cart in the DC-9's fuselage as it broke away from the rest of the aircraft and plummeted towards the ground. When the cabin depressurized, the passengers and other flight crew were blown out of the aircraft and fell to their deaths. Investigators believed that the fuselage, with Vulović pinned inside, landed at an angle in a heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside, which cushioned the impact. Vulović's physicians concluded that her history of low blood pressure caused her to pass out quickly after the cabin depressurized and kept her heart from bursting on impact.
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
how did they figure this out? were they just chucking death row inmates out of a plane and yelling "CALL US IF YOU SURVIVE"?
Flare 5 years ago
no, the sole survivor of an airplane crash, who was also a flight attendant, fell that far and she survived thanks to the fact that some trees kinda broke her fall
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W Bruce Jaworski 4 years ago
WW2 airman was in a B29 back from a bomb run and was hit by flack. No parachutes left. Didnt want to burn in crash so he bailed. Said it was peaceful falling. He hit a snow covered steep hill side in the Swiss Alps and rolled down onto a road where a person in a horse drawn carrige soon passed by who turned out to be the town doctor. Lived to tell the tale.
#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.
Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 5 years ago
Trigeminal neuralgia? No painkiller will work. The pain feels like someone stabbed you into the face with a knife make out of burning ice.
Gibberint Dark 5 years ago
Who the hell discovered that sticking pins into your gums was a bad idea and what was he (or she) trying to accomplish...?
PurpleUnicorn 5 years ago
That'll be the trigeminal nerve - trigeminal neuralgia is supposed to be one of the most painful experiences ever
Jan Feline 5 years ago
I have it, and it really sucks. Never been anesthesized for it, though. Google, 'Suicide Disease,' if you want more details.
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Bonnie Osborne 5 years ago
This explains my utter fear of dentists!! This happened to me as a child Will never forget. Will never forgive.
ML 5 years ago
which side and where do you start counting. From the middle or the back? Also upper or lower row?
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
From the middle, probably upper as the nerve goes past the nose
Load More Replies... Flare 5 years ago (edited)
I know this too well. Had an inflamed gum there thanks to a power chain on my braces that was too tight. Was in pain every time something touched it. And I MEAN inflamed. Had to get the inflamed gum, both in the front and the back, AND my upper frenum (muscle that connects the gum and lip). Later, the periodontist that performed the surgery said that although it was not the worst gum inflammation, it was the first time he ever saw inflamed gums behind the teeth.
Chuck 5 years ago
Not only a nerve but some of the upper left teeth are so long they contact the sinus, which means that if you have a stuffed left sinus, you might feel it in your tooth
Lillukka79 5 years ago
I get sinusitis quite easily and always my teeth ache.
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#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
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
perfect definition of the reproduction of sea cucumbers
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Chrissie M. 5 years ago
BUt wouldn't the sea cucumber need its internal organs to survive? So it would die anyway?
#29
The last wild cow died in Krakow, Poland in 1627
Shelp 5 years ago
Although they were protected by the king of Poland himself! Sadly, as the protection program began, there were already too few cows left
Nicolas Pilot 5 years ago
I like your eloquent style of writing, Shelp, thanks for sharing this extended info
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Nicole Tomme 5 years ago
Not a joke but a real question: Does this have anything to do with the city being named Krakow? Because it used to have a lot of wild cows?
Jadzia 5 years ago
Nope. Polish word for cow is "krowa". Also Polish pronounciation of word Kraków is very similar to "crackoov", so as you see - no cows here in any language. Krak is the name of legendary lord of the city and -ów is just very common word ending for towns' names, e.g. Rzeszów, Augustów, Bełchatów.
Load More Replies... Lemonclouds20 5 years ago
Never knew wild cows were a thing. I thought Al cows had to be milked or they would die.
manon M 5 years ago
if they have their young and are not taken away, they manage their lactation. It must also be said that the current cows are the result of crossbreeding and genetic selection
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Gackowa Gackowa 5 years ago (edited)
Well, using a COW here is mighty misleading. Look up " auroch"
#30
It takes approximately 140 bananas (in one sitting) to kill someone
panda_legerdemain 5 years ago (edited)
I know someone who witnessed a 2 year old that died after eating too many bananas.. it was very sad.. For the one who asked how many below.. the child was eating 7-8 bananas everyday for many months. That was the only thing he ate. If only the parents knew..
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David Higginbotham 5 years ago
In nursing school I asked how many bananas it would take to kill someone. The instructor did not know and the rest of the class thought I was a psychopath.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
From asphyxiation: 1. All the other ways are highly variable.
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#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
Sofie 5 years ago
"Did everybody look at the recipe? Okay, let's get cooking!"
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MantisKeeper 5 years ago
they do this specifically with asian giant hornets, aka murder hornets
Phil Boswell 5 years ago
I thought this was common knowledge, given all the hype about Japanese Hornets in recent times?
Flare 5 years ago
World's deadliest, specifically season five, episode 8: When Prey attacks.
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The last person who died building the hoover dam was the son of the first person who died building it
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
The father and son died on the same day, 13 or 14 years apart. There is some question about that part.
#33
Not only is an elephant's penis prehensile it's strong enough to throw a grown man around.
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
Thats not something id want to witness nor something id want happen to me. and a prehensile d? dafuq?
#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.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
NO! Your death rattle is NOT agonal breathing. When you die, the last air still in your lungs will leave ---- assuming there's air ---- and its passing "rattles" the vocal cords, making the noise. AGONAL BREATHING IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT! .... And often precedes that death rattle for obvious reasons ---- if you're breahting like that, you're in deep trouble. A death rattle can be surprisingly quiet, for one thing. I have a medical degree & training, etc.
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thepinkrobot 5 years ago
My grandma had agonal breathing for about 3 hours and we just waited for her to pass. It was horrible.
Blue of the yams (They/He) 5 years ago
That must have been thoroughly traumatic. I'm so sorry you had to see that.
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#35
All mammals over the weight of 3kg take approximately 21 seconds to pee, whether that be a housecat, a horse or an elephant.
Claire Conroy 5 years ago
Where did you find 39 hippopotamuses and why did they want you to urinate in front of them?
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Donna Leske 5 years ago
That's unless they are a male dog. A male dog will pee in three second increments approximately 22 times per walk, or until you drag them back into the house.
Red Hair Blue Soul 5 years ago
This is only if you have a healthy functioning bladder of course
clive apps 5 years ago
The world record time for a human is 508_seconds almost 8 1/2 minutes, I can't even. get close to that done maybe 1:15 a few times though when I have been out all day. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a22725/urine-facts/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjqjdCf9tLrAhWEm1kKHUGABq8QFnoECAcQAg&usg=AOvVaw0TeE_iDhojYN-uUMT7Wfxj
Marissa Wyatt 5 years ago
can you PLEASE shut up. this is a website not school. nobody asked for that comment.. also, google isn't always right genius.
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#36
The Hawaiian state fish is called a "humuhumunukunukuapuaa".
Cuddles 5 years ago
Hoo moo hoo moo noo koo noo koo ah poo ahh. (If anyone wondered how it's said. Learned it from a kid's TV show.)
averageperson 5 years ago
When I was seven I got a shirt that said this, I spent hours trying to say it right.
#37
"Rats constantly leave a trail of urine while dragging their tails. You can follow the trail with a UV light."
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Anyone who has handled a rat knows they dribble, so scientists who use them, and pet owners, and probably exterminators.
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Claire 5 years ago
As someone who has domestic rats, I can attest to the fact that male rats do pee a lot. It is usually just a few drops at a time, not a constant stream, but it is often and meant to mark their territory (which unfortunately includes me). Neutered male rats don't scent mark nearly as much (I haven't noticed any of my 3 neutered boys doing it) and female rats also don't really scent mark. So saying that you can always follow rats around with a UV light is false. I find that when rats actually pee, not just scent marking, they sit there and get the job done before moving. They are also very good at using the litter box for both pee and poop.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
They do this for scent marking when they are out exploring, so it's easy for then to tell where they've been recently.
#38
MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case their pants split during a game
Flare 5 years ago
bending over. Saw a video of an umpire in some sport rip his pants doing this.
Load More Replies... Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Well, that's something I didn't know, but thank goodness for that! Who wants to see someone's tighty-whities or other colors during a game, lol!
#39
You can substitute blood for eggs in any recipe! 65g of blood can be used in place of one regular egg
troufaki13 5 years ago
Is it human blood or any blood would do? Never mind, I don't want to know
#40
About 1 cup of ground apple seeds contains enough cyanide to kill a human. Smoothie anyone?
Red Hair Blue Soul 5 years ago
A lot of people eat the whole apple though
Load More Replies... Mshauri Mazuri 5 years ago (edited)
I don't know about anyone else but I always take out the seed whenever I eat an apple or shake them.
#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
Scagsy 5 years ago
They got burgled once and the local newspaper reported it as "Taking The P**s"
Wilf 5 years ago
Pre-industrial workers built entire industries based on the scientific properties of pee.. The Romans used it to process laundry, and in the 16th century urine was so important for the UK textile industry as a mordant (setting the colour dye) that 200 tons was sent over to Yorkshire processing industry every year.
troufaki13 5 years ago
So there are urine banks and urine donors? How does this work? Or do the exporters do all the peeing themselves?
Mme de Poppadom 5 years ago
I see you are also concerned about free-range, cruelty free, organic pee. Just read their online mission statement so see if it's ethically sourced.
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#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."
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Typical marching song, the more they like the commander the worse they insult him.
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Our local landfill will take your loved ones body and dispose of it for $35.
MN “MN Female” Female 5 years ago
Just keep handing over money till they nod.
Load More Replies... Truth Monster 5 years ago
This sounds like a regional thing. Pretty sure improper disposal of human remains is HUGE deal in the US
K.Kobayashi 5 years ago
I find this hard to believe, and I can't find anything to corroborate.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
That's a good deal. There's a business by me who's sign said "Dump bodies starting at $2000" for a very long time. (They were a truck/trailer dealer, like dump trucks)
#44
It takes roughly 400 people to forge a sword out of "the blood of your enemies"
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT BUT YOU BEAT ME BY ELEVEN HOURS
Load More Replies... Evil Little Thing 5 years ago (edited)
As in to get enough iron to forge a sword, or enough blood to quench a forged sword? Asking for a friend.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 5 years ago
Sounds like a great theme for the next episode of Forged in Fire!!
#45
Horses can masturbate by hitting their 70cm long dong against their bellies
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
There is a reason for the expression "hung like a horse"!
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M O'Connell 5 years ago
It's become much more common knowledge in the last 10 years.
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#46
The kangaroo is the only animal whose testicles are located above his penis.
Wubbleyew 5 years ago
Makes sense, wouldn't wanna be bouncing and squish those puppies on the ground
Shel Coburn 5 years ago
Not true. North American Opossums have testicles above their penis too. I imagine many other marsupials are the same way.
Daritania Tejin 5 years ago
Not the only animal. I've heard Virginia opossums also have the berries before the twig.
Nicole Tomme 5 years ago
I have heard that about male rabbits too but my bun will not let me confirm or deny.
#47
Three barleycorns laid end to end is the basis for the inch
Cristian Hain 5 years ago
I'm from the US and everyday I hope to hear that we have switched to metric
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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
Lillukka79 5 years ago
Best way is to leave them in direct sun light. Hydrogen peroxide makes the bones more brittle. Not a big deal with larger bones, but small bones will suffer.
TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago
Teacher: Can anyone list any uses for Hydrogen Peroxide? Me: BOMBS!!!!!!!!
Darwinist 5 years ago
Diy mouthwash, 5 units vodka and 5 units hydrogen peroxide. *Side note this mix is highly explosive so try burning it after rinsing your mouth.
F. H. 5 years ago
Alcoholic mouth wash is generally a bad idea. It gives you oral cancer in the same way as drinking the same amount of alcohol would.
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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
Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 5 years ago
Longest finnish word is kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuudellisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakaankopahan. And it has no meaning whatsoever.
Ruth Beaty 5 years ago
Except the weird symbol in the middle is a double s, at least that's what I learned in my German classes. Is it not counted that way?
#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.
Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago (edited)
who the hell is this person that spends his/her time computing such horror facts? Hannibal Lecter style
#51
Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel
F. H. 5 years ago
Yeah, and and the leading coroner of LA had the theory that the Tate murders only were commited because Manson thought a music producer who had screwed him over lived there. He had sold the house years earlier, though.
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Eunice Probert 5 years ago
He used a painting by Jonathan Earl Bowser, without permission, for the cover.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
being a romance novel, yes, one would assume so lol
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1st of January, 100000 is Thursday
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago (edited)
The first day of January, in the year 100,000...will fall on a Thursday.
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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.
Mme de Poppadom 5 years ago (edited)
Hey, unless you're using metric, anything goes in the wacky world of medieval measures!
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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....
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....
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