Did you ever notice that the brain tends to retain the most random information instead of the one you actually need? For instance, how come I can recite Baby Got Back word by word, but can't possibly force my brain to remember my postcode? I'm sure I'm not the only one and this thread that recently went viral on Twitter proves just that. When one person asked, "What’s the most random fact you know?", people delivered. Some of the facts are lesser-known than the others, some you may have heard already - nonetheless, we still found them quite amusing to read. So, the people here at Bored Panda have made you a list of 45 random, but interesting facts that people shared on Twitter. Scroll down below to see all the entries and tell us in the comments below what's the most random fact that you know!
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Bored Panda would like to note that this is just one of the theories of how clinking glasses originated.
I've always assumed it is also because the right hand was regarded as the, 'correct' hand and thus the sword hand. Can't properly wield a sword and shake hands. Also assumed it is why we (the Brits) drive on the left; when riding the right hand was free to wield sword/pistol to try to ward off attack.
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I'm so tired today that I when I read this, the first thing I pictured was people taking off their eyeglasses and tapping them with another's... I need to start today over I think
Sorry, I have to disagree. The tradition stems from harbor taverns. You used to hire sailors for your ship by giving them something called the "Heuerpfennig" (hiring penny). Like a pay in advance, and if you accept it, you have to board the captains ship for the next route. So if a ship didn't have enough people on board, they payed for someones drink in a tavern and snuck the penny in the drink. If they accepted the drink and finished it, they had been hired and had no choice but to come on board. So they started to touch glasses to hear, whether there was a penny at the bottom of their drink. (Beer mugs used to be from tin here, so you couldn't see the bottom.)
Scottish drinking vessel, the Quaich, is two handed so that you can't hold a weapon while drinking or even giving a drink to a guest..
I strongly suspect that, as with much of supposed highland culture, this is an amusing story they made up to sell tourists more souvenirs.
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Or maybe it just originate from a nudge on other people glass to ask them to drink together, and it blown into a kind of celebration thingy?
Military hand salutes originate from armored knights raising the face shield for recognition
We Europeans have the best ideas. What else are you to do...
Sure. People bang their glasses on the off chance that a bit will spill into each other's glass. Have you ever actually done that? Do you know how much you have to spill from your glass to get even a little into the other glass? Do you think that a few hundred years ago people didn't know how to, I don't know, pour a little bit directly into the other's cup, or even maybe exchange cups? Newsflash: people weren't any bigger idiots in the Middle Ages than they are today.
Like sticking your pinkie out when drinking tea.....hookers touting for business on the sly in a tea shop
Emperor Kitten. I was always told that in the Middle Ages men shook hands, each with their dominant hand extended, to ensure that neither of them would draw their swords on one another. I may be wrong. Just what I understood.
That sounds like something me and my friends would do. You know those conversations you have that would get you out in a mental hospital if someone overheard them?
when you clink glasses, it represents the last of the 5 senses - sound.
I’m not saying there aren’t extremely strong women out there and good for them, but this post is nonsensical. So one woman in one weight class is stronger than the strongest man in that same weight class. IN ONE CLASS. The strongest men in the world generally weigh 300-400 pounds. By the poster’s logic if a woman got to that size she’d be as strong or stronger. It’s simply not correct and it’s not sexist to say so...
Just walking into the room where I had the thought usually does it for me. Generally, the reason that something in the room was reminding me to get/do something in the first place. I might forget what when I enter a different room, but when I walk back (normally, not backwards) the reason is still there and I'm reminded again.
To see the proof for yourself, watch this fascinating BBC video.
we shall conquer the earth my fellow brothers and sisters we will rule the - SQUIRREL! ... As I was saying...
In Britain, most foods are exempt from the value-added tax, but potato chips — known as crisps — and “similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour,” are taxable. However, it was decided that Pringles are exempt from the tax, mainly because they have less potato content than a potato chip.
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YES! In my family, I'm the living encyclopedia. Exhibit A: Did you know Koalas sleep up to 18 hours a day?
Exhibit B: Did you know that supermarket apples can be a year old?
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I knew I chose the wrong species to be born as. I should have been a snail, oh precious sleep.
So do I, not in my garden when i was a kid though cuz i put them through some sh**
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My kids say I posses a Plethora of Useless information...I slay at Cash Cab and Jeopardy lol
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and the prince in Cinderella is "Prince Henry" (or "Henri" in French)
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Book recommendation": The-Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Request to become the Smartest Person in the World by AJ Jacobs. In it the author reads the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica and gives you lots of bits of information and it is very funny and interesting.
The little bit of extra skin on your elbow is called a wenis and if you pinch and squeeze as hard as you can in the right place it barely/won’t hurt because it has fewer pain detectors.
Kids in middle school always would say let me see your weenus and then it got old...
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My favorite fact is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the longest place name in the world
Wow, that's even longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
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Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. The horn of the Narwhal is actually the same material as a tooth.
You can use clawed frogs for pregnancy tests. In fact this was done in many countries till well into the 60s. Since their gamete development inducing hormone is sufficiently similar to human hCG injecting them with the urine of a pregant woman will induce ovulation or in males spermatorrhea
This just begs the question of Who thought of this first?????
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Did you know that ancient Greece or Rome (I cant remember which) had statues with heads that could be taken off and switched with a different one? I don’t remember why they did it tho.
IT was Rome and they do that because the emperors were Killed quite a lot.
Load More Replies... My contribution is that monkey nuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
"Did you know that the human head weighs eight pounds," I'm sorry Master Yoda, I could not resist the dark side!
Something I read only this week and it blew me away - A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching, and their surroundings create what are called "friction ridges", the faint lines you see on your fingers and toes.
Most "fish" species are more closely related to land animal species than to each other. It's kinda like every dna type evolved a land version and a sea version i guess?
it's rather that all bony fish or Ostheichthyes are more closely related to all land-dwelling vertebrates (because those evolved from the former) than they are to cartilaginous fish or Chondrichthyes
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The number google plex (a 1 with a google 0s) is so big if you typed it in size 1 font the paper wouldn't fit in the known universe!
Googolplexian: The worlds largest number with a name. A "1" followed by a googolplex of zeros.... Googolplex: The second largest number with a name. A "1" followed by a googol of zeros..... Googol: A large number. A "1" followed by one hundred zeros.....Interesting info at googolplexian.com 😀
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A whale's penis is called a "dork" and is probably where the legend of the sea serpent comes from. An echidna has a four-headed penis!
Female ducks have multi-chambered vaginas and can in fact direct an unwanted penis into a dead end.
Load More Replies... My go-to random fact was alway that Allosaurus had 72 teeth - but now that I wanted to write it down I felt compelled to double-check and this way I found that apparently they had 14-17 teeth in each half of both their upper and lower jaws, putting the actual number between 56 and 68
YES! In my family, I'm the living encyclopedia. Exhibit A: Did you know Koalas sleep up to 18 hours a day?
Exhibit B: Did you know that supermarket apples can be a year old?
Load More Replies... I knew I chose the wrong species to be born as. I should have been a snail, oh precious sleep.
So do I, not in my garden when i was a kid though cuz i put them through some sh**
Load More Replies... My kids say I posses a Plethora of Useless information...I slay at Cash Cab and Jeopardy lol
Load More Replies... and the prince in Cinderella is "Prince Henry" (or "Henri" in French)
Load More Replies... Book recommendation": The-Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Request to become the Smartest Person in the World by AJ Jacobs. In it the author reads the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica and gives you lots of bits of information and it is very funny and interesting.
The little bit of extra skin on your elbow is called a wenis and if you pinch and squeeze as hard as you can in the right place it barely/won’t hurt because it has fewer pain detectors.
Kids in middle school always would say let me see your weenus and then it got old...
Load More Replies... My favorite fact is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the longest place name in the world
Wow, that's even longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
Load More Replies... Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. The horn of the Narwhal is actually the same material as a tooth.
You can use clawed frogs for pregnancy tests. In fact this was done in many countries till well into the 60s. Since their gamete development inducing hormone is sufficiently similar to human hCG injecting them with the urine of a pregant woman will induce ovulation or in males spermatorrhea
This just begs the question of Who thought of this first?????
Load More Replies... Did you know that ancient Greece or Rome (I cant remember which) had statues with heads that could be taken off and switched with a different one? I don’t remember why they did it tho.
IT was Rome and they do that because the emperors were Killed quite a lot.
Load More Replies... My contribution is that monkey nuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
"Did you know that the human head weighs eight pounds," I'm sorry Master Yoda, I could not resist the dark side!
Something I read only this week and it blew me away - A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching, and their surroundings create what are called "friction ridges", the faint lines you see on your fingers and toes.
Most "fish" species are more closely related to land animal species than to each other. It's kinda like every dna type evolved a land version and a sea version i guess?
it's rather that all bony fish or Ostheichthyes are more closely related to all land-dwelling vertebrates (because those evolved from the former) than they are to cartilaginous fish or Chondrichthyes
Load More Replies... The number google plex (a 1 with a google 0s) is so big if you typed it in size 1 font the paper wouldn't fit in the known universe!
Googolplexian: The worlds largest number with a name. A "1" followed by a googolplex of zeros.... Googolplex: The second largest number with a name. A "1" followed by a googol of zeros..... Googol: A large number. A "1" followed by one hundred zeros.....Interesting info at googolplexian.com 😀
Load More Replies... A whale's penis is called a "dork" and is probably where the legend of the sea serpent comes from. An echidna has a four-headed penis!
Female ducks have multi-chambered vaginas and can in fact direct an unwanted penis into a dead end.
Load More Replies... My go-to random fact was alway that Allosaurus had 72 teeth - but now that I wanted to write it down I felt compelled to double-check and this way I found that apparently they had 14-17 teeth in each half of both their upper and lower jaws, putting the actual number between 56 and 68
