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“Squirrels Use Their Tails As Umbrellas”: 65 Amusing And Random Facts People Learned Along The Way
It's impossible to know everything about any given topic, let alone all of the knowledge the world has to offer. You can be an amazing chef, but that doesn't mean you know how to whip up the world's best green curry or tastiest lasagna. And no matter how many languages you speak, there will still be thousands out there that you don't.
So if you immediately become overwhelmed when trying to pick a new subject to focus on or a new book to read, might we suggest that you simply start small? Netizens have recently been sharing the most random yet amusing fun facts that they've picked up from all over the place, so we've gathered a list of them below. Enjoy scrolling through these replies that we can almost guarantee will teach you something new, and be sure to upvote the ones you'll definitely share with your friends!
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#1
Pineapples have a digestive enzyme! That's why sometimes it tingles when you eat it! So while you eat it, it eats you!! :D
Skara Brae 15 hours ago
If you sprinkle a little salt on fresh pineapple and wait a few minutes, it neutralizes the enzyme. The Eating Well website has an article about putting salt on pineapple.
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#3
My Grandad taught me this one: the coins of Britain form a shield when put together.
#4
The movie the Madness of king George III had the 'III' removed because American audiences might think they missed the first two films.
#5
Penguin’s propose with pebbles.
Justin Case 16 hours ago
Humans also do this too - and then think they are more highly evolved.
#6
Snails can have up to 25,000 teeth.
#7
The youngest soldier who served in WW1 was 8.
#8
Not everyone has an internal dialogue.
#9
Squirrels use their tails as personal umbrellas in the rain and snow.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 15 hours ago
Squirrels are just rats with good PR. As said by Eddie Izzard I believe.
#10
Flamingoes are born grey or white and get their colour from foods like shrimp and algae.
#11
Elephants are pregnant for two years.
#12
Bananas are part of the berry family but strawberries aren’t.
WindySwede 11 hours ago
" Botanically, the strawberry is not a berry, but an aggregate accessory fruit." - wiki
#14
Deers can't see orange color, so in their eyes, tigers are green, blending in perfectly in their enviroment.
#15
When you recall a memory you're actually just remembering the last time you though about that memory. so over time your memories change a little, kind of like a game of telephone.
astheshadowsfall 16 hours ago
Which is why I am very conservative when relating what I remember. I don't trust my mind.
#16
The gender of turtles is determined by the warmth of the sand where they are born.
#17
Your nose is ALWAYS in your vision, but your brain automatically edits it out using unconscious selective attention and neural adaptation so you can focus on the world.
#19
The smell of the ground after the rain is not actually the smell of the ground but the microbes which are there. Those microbes produce a substance (geosmine) that is "moved" with the bacteria when it rains making it go up and in the end we can smell it. so, basically the scent of the ground after the rain is the scent of the bacteria in it.
#20
People get allergic reactions simply due to the immune system randomly deciding to overreact & tweak out at a certain food or thing that is getting into the body because they just assume it’s dangerous.
#22
Ducks have regional accents.
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago
They say "coin-coin" here in France. When I lived in the US I remember them saying "quack."
#23
Hedgehogs are lactose intolerant.
#24
Polar bear fur is transparent (or colorless) and contains no pigment. The core of each hair is hollow, the white color we see occurs because the fur's structure scatters and reflects sunlight, similar to what happens with snowflakes.
Skara Brae 15 hours ago
And clouds. The Boston, Massachusetts science museum has/had an exhibit showing several transparent containers, each holding a different size of clear glass marbles, from about the size of a large grape down to about the size of a poppy seed. The smaller the size, the whiter the spheres looked, due to the light bending and reflecting.
#26
Snow leopards dont roar they chuff which sounds like a cute little puffing sound.
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago
I am betting it doesn't sound that cute when you are being eaten.
#27
The word bed looks like a bed.
#28
If you see a tornado and it looks like it’s not moving, that means it’s moving directly towards you.
#29
There is a word for the day after tomorrow it’s called overmorrow.
Roman Arendt 14 hours ago (edited)
In Germany, this word is absolutely common, “übermorgen". So is its counterpart, "vorgestern". And we use to put just more "über-" or "vor" as suffixes, so "über über übermorgen" would be in four days. But this is less common. EDIT: I meant prefixes, of course. 😅
#30
“Baby on Board” stickers for cars were intended for First Responders responding to accidents so they know to look for an infant when rescuing!
#31
July 02 is the exact middle day of the year.
#32
When cows eat grass, they don’t spend much time chewing it. Instead, they quickly bite, swallow, and store the grass in a special compartment of their stomach. Later, when they stop eating and are resting, the grass comes back up into their mouth. They chew it properly this time and then swallow it again so it can continue through the rest of the digestive process. This process is called rumination. So, if you see a cow standing still and chewing without eating any grass, it is ruminating.
Jan Rosier 8 hours ago
'herkauwen' in Dutch... also used figuratively for thinking and reviewing internally something you experienced some time earlier
#33
Cheetahs are considered small cats because they purr.
#34
In the uk; all packets of crisps go out of date on a Saturday.
#35
Cleopatra was born closer to the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.
Kabuki Kitsune 15 hours ago
She also wasn't Egyptian, but Greek. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek royal family that ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years following the d***h of Alexander the Great.
#36
You can't run in ur nightmares bc your brain is signaling that you're in danger but it also knows you're asleep, so you become temporarily "paralyzed" as a safety mechanism, so you don't actually get up and start running.
Skara Brae 15 hours ago
This is written like it's some kind of absolute law, but there is no way to enforce this. Besides, I had a dream that I was running through a parking garage to escape assassins that were shooting at me. At least I think it was a dream...
#37
When Sweden play Denmark at football, the scoreboard shows SWE-DEN and the missing letters spell DEN-MARK.
#38
Music can help plants grow faster.
#39
Wrinkly fingers in water is actually an evolutionary feature. The idea is that if your body senses you’ve been in the water for a while, it assumes you didn’t end up there by choice and wrinkles your fingertips to improve your grip. Just like tire treads help on wet roads, wrinkled fingers may make it easier to climb slippery rocks or hold onto wet surfaces. Helps you to survive extreme conditions.
#40
Lightning is actually hotter than the sun's surface.
Justin Case 16 hours ago
As Queen would say, "Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me."
#41
Your middle finger nail grows the fastest of all the nails.
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago (edited)
I show this finger to people all the time so they can see the length of my middle fingernail.
#42
Everything you see is upside down and your brain just fixes it.
Justin Case 16 hours ago
As Diana Ross would say, “Upside down. Boy, you turn me. Inside out. And round and round.”
#43
Spiders' webs are a liquid until it hits the air turning it into a solid. Spiders also use a hydraulic system to move their legs.
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago
I believe that's why their legs curl up when they d*e.
#44
If you speak badly about yourself, your brain takes it as if someone else is saying that to you, making it more believable and hurtful, ALWAYS SPEAK LIFE OVER YOURSELF!
#46
An octopus has three hearts.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 13 hours ago
"She broke my three hearts when she left!" Octopus drama.
#47
Owls can run.
#48
Your organs are constantly moving but your brain ignores the sensations.
#49
Tarantulas and frogs can be friends.
#50
One pump of Dunkin caramel syrup is the equivalent of three sugars.
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago
Not the way that *I* pump it, you lightweight. You better stand back and wear an apron is all I've got to say to that.
#51
The compass was invented before the clock. Because it mattered more that you arrived instead of how long it took. This isn’t just about compasses though.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 15 hours ago (edited)
I accidentally posted my octopus comment into this box. Now edited my comment so you will never know my mistake....
#52
T. Rex lived closer to us in time, than it was to Stegosaurus.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 15 hours ago
Obviously, the 1970's and glam rock is not that long ago.
#54
When you start yelling out random things when someone says the need to sneeze for ex. “Pineapple, tree, cat” all in one sentence they are paying attention to what you randomly said and forget that they needed to sneeze
Lady Gypsy Rain 16 hours ago
If you yell anything at me and it makes me not have the release of the sneeze, I may want to punch you in the mouth. I won’t do it, but I will take great pleasure imagining it. You psycho. Let me finish my sneeze.
#55
That familiar “pool smell” we all know? It isn’t actually the chlorine. It’s created when chlorine reacts with things like sweat and urine, forming compounds called chloramines. So, the stronger the smell, the dirtier the pool—not the cleaner it is.
Violent Doll 16 hours ago
Unsure of this one. My parents recently got a new pool, had to replace their old.one, and we were visiting the day they filled it. No one had ever been in it, it had just been assembled, and it had that chlorine smell quite strongly.
#57
Jumping is a skill which u can lose over time...
#58
Ants don’t have lungs.
#59
Every atom in your body was once inside a star.
#60
Our brain have difficulty telling cold and wet apart.
#62
Fire doesn't have a shadow.
#63
Newborns don’t have a clear concept of space, meaning they don’t understand during peekaboo that mum is behind the blanket so, for a second, mum has vanished and then she magically appears out of nowhere.
#65
Your foot is the same length as your forearm.
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General Anaesthesia 10 hours ago
There are too many evidently untrue factoids for this list to be called Weirdly Interesting Facts .
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago
OK, BP. I posted a comment on one entry and it was somehow moved to another entry. There have been multiple glitches on this site this week. Is something going on up there that we need to know about?
Trillian 11 hours ago
Glitch-free site will become a premium-only feature 😇
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There are too many evidently untrue factoids for this list to be called Weirdly Interesting Facts .
Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 13 hours ago
OK, BP. I posted a comment on one entry and it was somehow moved to another entry. There have been multiple glitches on this site this week. Is something going on up there that we need to know about?
Trillian 11 hours ago
Glitch-free site will become a premium-only feature 😇
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