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Nothing makes you more of a nuisance than sharing random trivia without any context. Broadening our knowledge about the world, however, is something we can't avoid. It's too interesting and too easy to get lost in. To teach you everything you need to know to bore people to death we've compiled some of the most surprising truths from Fact Republic.

From a carrier pigeon racing with internet technology to a badass Titanic passenger, the things on this list will surely spark your interest in random trivia. Scroll down to learn a thing or two and upvote your favorite entries! If, however, this series doesn't ease your thirst for knowledge, check out these 30 happiest random facts as well!

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

It is always pleasant to read about bravery and altruism rewarded with luck.

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

They weren't dirty. He knew the Pap's would be waiting outside the stage door of EQUUS every night, so he'd bring the same outfit and wear it home every night.I'm pretty sure he had it washed.

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

Good! Get the bastards. Child slave labour and molestations are rampant. They are disgusting people- I'm SHOCKED they aren't out for these guys how they are for the polygamy cults. They SHOULD be. They aren't just crazy, they r CRIMINALS.

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

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck loaded with hard drives on a highway!

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

Someone who got voted down mentioned "China Girl". If you pay attention to the lyrics, you will understand that it's about the subjugation and annihilation of Asian cultures by Europeans. Similarly, if you listen to the lyris of "Fashion" carefully, you can see it's about political and social leanings. In particular, it's about how the higher status people copy the style and culture of lower status people despite decrying it as inferior. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/20/how-david-bowies-china-girl-used-racism-to-fight-racism/?utm_term=.17ae4ff2b7c7

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

If I am remembering it correctly, PoC movie did have one female Chinese pirate in the sequence where they showed a meeting between all the pirates.

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

i wish they name the next one after Trump or Pence and then we'd hear it on the news: "Trump is causing great distress in the state of Louisiana!" or "Here we can see Pence wandering aimlessly"

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

This shows the humanity of a number of Germans in contrast to how the nation had been swayed to follow Hitler blindly. Its a brilliant fact and I'm glad you shared it.

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

The US national anthem's melody is based on an English song, BTW. (Another fun fact: the melody of "My Country Tis of Thee" is the same as "God Save the Queen" which is taken from a Prussian song, "Heil dir im Siegerkranz", 'coincidentally' the British monarchy is an extension of various German monarchies. So WWI was nothing more than a family feud, using millions of people as pawns.)

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

The divers were using an underwater communication system and the captive male beluga imitated their order to get out of the water and the diver surfaced thinking it was real. He had learned to imitate the patterns and frequency's of human speech, after several years he stopped doing it. Belugas rock :) they also shout like children in the wild, and the bump on their head is used for echolocation and scientifically called its "Melon"

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

If everyone participated, yes. But I agree, the idea is very creative!

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

Perfect illustration of how priorities differ from one discipline to another!

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

...but then the Stark foundation developed a serum/process to give him super strength and thus, Captain America was born.

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

she can run at the age of 70 and I debate whether a shower is more important than sleeping for extra 20 minutes.

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

Thank you for bringing more colour n beauty into the world!

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

This is a good one. And nowadays, for people who can only wear a shoe on one foot, there are groups/stores who sell single shoes, while only able to wear for example the left shoe. They let others buy the right shoe and vice versa. At least I know this is a (small though) thing in my country.

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

Well there you go. But its sad that a life was taken to prove a very important safety fact. Some of the laws are there to help you and keep you safe, I wish more people understood that.

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

"wrestled the 200-pound shark to shore" That's superlative of Badassery.

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

And, whith chemo, you feel always tired (fatigue), therefore this is a huge help.

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

The nutrient-rich soil conditions are due to high concentrations of organic matter buried below. Don't assume that some divine order of things are playing a hand here; it's simple chemistry and biology.

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

She will sail to the undying lands when she passes. Lord Elrond will greet her there.

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

Agreed! I remember feeling the deepest of loathing for her when I was reading the 5th (and my favourite) book!

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

Just. Why. I'm an atheist, I don't like most of the religious views or the priests, but the last 2 popes were so damn awesome, why would someone shoot the pope?

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

So, engineers are no smarter than slime mold? What does that say about the rest of humanity. lol ;P

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

"Gee, this is great!" Ah to be thirteen again. I say the same thing when I go to bed at night.

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

Well my horoscope for today read that I would get to know an unknown fact. :P

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

Another fun facts about her. She give birth for her first child at age 14. She married 4 times. Her 3. husband was beheaded. Her revenge was aid by the english. So she was not a pirate, but a priveteer.

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

I love the history of clock-making and watch-making. It seems to me that this is the foundation for much of the technology that we use and enjoy today!

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

Pink Floyd's double album 'The Wall' starts with a quiet voice saying ..."where we came in?" and ends with "Isn't this..."

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

Some in Sweden say that he was Astrid Lindgren’s inspiration for Pippi Longstocking’s father. Although, I cant find the source now.

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

Please, if you can afford it, donate to places like this. They really are making an impact.

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

They act like cats, they smell, are very noisy,are destructive and require special care. But they are adorable

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

This is true I'm in highschool and waking up at 6:00 in the morning is ridiculous considering the fact that so many kids are sleep deprived like my older sister who stays up all night doing school work

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

And I'm all like, wait, their Rite Aids have ice cream by the scoop???? WTF??? OUR Rite Aids where I live don't have that. In Hollywood, even the drugstores are better.

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

Or there could be a man, that was born in Austria-Hungary, went to school in Czechoslovakia, got married in Soviet Union and died on Ukraine without ever having moved from Uzhhorod.

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

if something is chasing you, you can achieve olympic performance.

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

Perhaps the following scientists apparently never cheated nor helped anyone cheat in exams

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

I had baby dolls with acurate genetalia as a kid (atleast the male dolls). I don't see anything wrong with it.

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

Picard is one of my all-time favourite captains, alongside Janeway.

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

although we've recently change the coins to a new shape and design...

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

Read her story...It is hilarious what our world of media & powerful attorneys can achieve. This woman Mrs Gimenez basically f****d up the centuries old Jesus fresco, but with all the media causing a stir, people & tourists actually started going to the church to see this terrible job, and someone started a Petition online to support her vision! She ended up filing a copyright claim...for this! HHAHAHAHAHAHA

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

According to Wikipedia this is a crater lake and "a pocket of magma lies beneath the lake and leaks carbon dioxide (CO2) into the water, changing it into carbonic acid." ..."over time the water becomes supersaturated, and if an event such as an earthquake or landslide occurs, large amounts of CO2 may suddenly come out of solution."

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

Marilyn Monroe showed a lot of courage in other respects as well. She stood by her husband, Arthur Miller, when he was accused of communism in the McCarthy-era, singlehandedly took on the very powerful studio system to negotiate a better contract for herself by relocating to New York for a year and spoke publically for equality and against racism. And last year unsealed church records showed she'd paid for someone's funeral when the family had been unable to, but making it seem like the church had done so.

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

I'm not Christian and don't know every detail of the story but the fruit came from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which God told Adam and Eve to eat from so it can be interpreted as both Good and Evil passed through Eve and went to her sons, Cain and Abel, as Cain later killed Abel.

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

Ha ha, i need to see behind the scenes/bloopers of these!!

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

There is no such thing as an Ex-Marine. It's former Marine. Calling a former Marine an Ex-Marine is a huge insult to us.

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

at least from the "canadians are overly polite" cliche point of view, this is necessary. if it's so ingrained in your culture to apologize for everything, unscrupulous people could try and take advantage of that.

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

It's a shame that this information didn't filter through to the people responsible for executing ten years later the Texan who was accused of killing his family by arson...

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

It really is horrid to keep such a wild animal in a tiny space.

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

This was the last Statesman the US has had as a politician, worried about what was best for America as a whole and not for himself.

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

Truth be told, it would probably do just that. People don't care much for Australian dollars outside of Australia, but I can see people wanting Dollarydoos just for the heck of it.

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

This is also the reason why the place where Hitler died was turned into a parking lot, with no signs or anything.

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The brave French apparently weren't too afraid of bullets in both World Wars.

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

Who the frack cares about his impact speed? He fell out of an airplane and survived, Jaysus! Go tell him that it's "his final velocity that matters, yawn." I'm sure those horrifying seconds will remain with him forever, I know they would with me. Imagine the fear of two chutes failing and what the ground would seem like as it was rushing towards you and you're thinking, I'm about to die!" I doubt his impact speed was the last fecking thing on his MIND!

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

sad to know he had to go through so much to receive the acceptance of his parents.

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

i love this guy he has made my favorite game legend of zelda i love it love the action n the game and getting to control the game awesome

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

This is a sport I would watch (original version, not so much the modern one)

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

I always buy Arizona Tea whenever I'm on the road. It's nice to know something so tasty is so cheap. :D

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

According to whom? Is this an actual law? The problem I see with this is that you'd NEVER get the airline to admit that it was their action that caused the wait. They'd lie. Airlines will say and do anything to avoid responsibility. They'll never admit any wrongdoing. I was recently on a plane that the captain announced they had mechanical difficulties and the entire plane had to deplane and sleep on the floor of the airport overnight. The captain announced it! To the entire plane! The airline later said it wasn't their issue, that it was inclement weather. It was incredible. After a lot of back and forth I got my satisfaction but this is the way it is now.

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

I have the exact opposite condition. I can sleep for 24 hours and yawn and be sleepy for the next 12 before needing to go back to sleep.

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

I hope that their medical costs are being covered and the families are being taken care of.

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

I love listening to the side effects, some sound worse then the illness.

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

Incidentally after the state investigation, speeding went up by 76%, just nobody got ticketed.

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

Not so genius, amendments are the norm, not the exception. The problem with the US constitution is it hasn't adapted to the modern world, still stuck in the 18th century.

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

Shocked to see no comments on this post.. The guy was a Hero...

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

now THAT explains it - I was so mad they didnt do that in the movies but I guess this is a good reason

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

Combat lock people.. never forget the combat lock.. that way no one will put grenades in your tank.

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

From Wikipedia: "Neighbours had assumed the flat was unoccupied, and the odour of decomposing body tissue was attributed to nearby waste bins. The flat's windows did not allow direct sight into the accommodation. Drug addicts frequented the area, which may explain why no one questioned the constant noise from the television. Half of her rent was being automatically paid to Metropolitan Housing Trust by benefits agencies, leading officials to believe that she was still alive. However, over two years, £2,400 in unpaid rent accrued, and housing officials decided to repossess the property. Her corpse was discovered on 25 January 2006 when bailiffs had forced entry into the flat. The television and heating were still running due to her bills being continually paid for by automatic debit payments and debt forgiveness."

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

Thank f**k! I don't think the earth could handle any more of us!

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

Let's do away with pennies, nickles, dimes in the US. Why has the US become SO afraid of any change?

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

Because appointing a celebrity to a position of political power is working out SO WELL RIGHT NOW....

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

For the second time on this thread I will say it - this is why I oppose the death penalty.

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

Berg also helped arranged for his team to play an exhibition game in Tokyo before the war - a game which he missed because he was photographing harbor defenses.

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

I am sure the horse would not perform if he wasn't up for it. Guy is probably having the time of his life.

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