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In this day and age, we are constantly being bombarded with information. We have a 24-hour news cycle and countless articles, books, podcasts, documentaries and more available at our fingertips. But despite the access to information that we have, it’s still impossible for us to know everything.
So if you’re interested in learning some fun facts that you’ve never heard before, we’ve got a fascinating list for you down below, pandas. From interesting info about geography to facts about your favorite furry animals, enjoy reading through this information that Reddit users have recently shared, and be sure to upvote the knowledge that you find particularly shocking!
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#1
It’s not heli-copter. It’s helico, meaning spiral. And pter, meaning wings. Like pterodactyl.
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#3
The year JRR Tolkien died is the One Ring verse but backwards.
1973!
*Three rings for the elven kings*
*Seven for the Dwarf Lords*
*Nine for mortal men*
*One Ring to rule them all*
#4
Yesterday I was on YouTube and I stumbled upon animal ASMR. And there I was watching a snail eating a yellow watermelon. I never realized they make sounds too when they eat. Man I feel bad. Snails are underrated.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Most people like watermelon, even slow ones who carry their houses with them.
#8
That we have a means of transplanting a full heart into a human being but if your colon stops working the best thing we have is to make a hole in your navel and have you s**t in a bag.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
You could have phrased the last bit better. The hole is generally made on the abdomen and not through the navel. It's called a stoma and is often a life saving procedure, I've had mine for 14 years now and would be dead without it. I'm probably over sensitive, but hate it being described as "s**t*ing in a bag".
#9
Mine is that there’s only 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. I don’t know why it’s so surprising to me but it is.
#10
The famous circus music we all know is actually an 1897 military march called 'Entry of the Gladiators'.
still tired 2 years ago (edited)
The "da da duh da duh de, da duh da duh du deh, da da dah du deh, da da dah du de, ba ba buh ba ba buh da ba da bah boo beh"? 😊
Boris Long-Johnson 2 years ago
Now it’s known in our house as the Audi music after they used it in an advert implying all other drivers were clowns. The irony - we sing it when we see Audis being d1cks.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Audi is a lovely kitten! (Ok, he's quite often a d!ck, particularly to Bouche's tail)
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Bike Angel 2 years ago
Yeah, also a song composed by a guy whose surname is one typo away from an expletive
The Scout 2 years ago
It was revolutionary at the time because it made use of very recent improvements in instrument buillding - it would literally have been impossible to play with older instruments because of the fast chromatic scales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance_of_the_Gladiators).
Lorraine R 2 years ago
And it was a type of circus march called a "screamer" !
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Bob Brooce 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that even if I'd never associated it with the circus it would still seem totally wrong for gladiators doing anything at all.
Actively Lazy Cat 2 years ago
Haha imagine the military marching looking all serious with that song blaring🤣🤣
afia kooma 2 years ago
Now we call them clowns, but historically they have much of the same role, so that is fitting.
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
Not to be confused with "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite," which is the one many of you are probably thinking of.
#11
Mine is that baby carrots aren’t real, they are just cut and shaved full size carrots.
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Technically called baby-cut carrots, as in the picture but marketed as baby carrots. Proper baby carrots do exist but are normal carrot shaped.
#12
Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch with Jim Carrey is now the singer of a punk rock/metal band: The Pretty Reckless
#13
Buffalo sauce is just hot sauce and butter. Rocked me to the core.
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
"Buffalo Sauce" generally means something else in animal husbandry.
#14
Heteropaternal superfecundation. It's a thing.
"In rare cases, fraternal twins can be born from two different fathers in a phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation. Although uncommon, rare cases have been documented where a woman is pregnant by two different men at the same time."
#15
Dragon flies used to have a 21 inch wing span. They are also the greatest fliers of all flying creatures even better than humming birds. They are also the most successful predator in the world with a success rate of 75% to 80%. Most canine and feline species are at around 8%.
#16
*Regarding cremations:*
The word "ashes" is typically used instead of *cremains*.
But contrary to common belief, cremains are not ashes at all. For the most part, they are dry calcium phosphates together with some other minerals, including potassium and sodium, which in simpler terms means bone matter.
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
I figured that when i saw my mom's ashes and they were an orangish color, I was expecting more an ashtrayish look.
#17
You can easily fly a spacecraft through the asteroid belt because asteroids are very far apart and there's an extremely small chance of colliding with one.
#18
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
#19
Elected official get things like lifetime healthcare or lifetime pensions after leaving their elected job, NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY SERVED.
#20
That Narwhals have a long tusk protruding from the left side of their jaw. That is correct, it isn't centered, and it isn't a horn or antler... Oh did that not blow your mind enough? Well some Narwhals have two long tusks.
Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago
Because of incredible PBS shows such as Wild Kratts my children will never know a time in their life without such knowledge. I, however, in my 30’s was learning right along with them! 🤣 Also, like dolphins, beluga whales, orcas and pilot whales, they’re porpoises, not whales. They have teeth, and hunt their prey as opposed to filter feed. Another fact about narwhals is that none have ever survived in captivity.
#21
The salinity in the human body almost equals that of the sea.
It was less the fact itself but the realization that we have such a strong connection to where we all came from.
Annik Perrot 2 years ago (edited)
We took the sea with us when we crept up to land. Our cells need saltwater to survive, our eyes need saltwater to be able to see... and à human fœtus needs to swim in saltwater while it evolves from à single cell to fish to human.
#22
Tetris helped a group of scientists learn some pretty intresting s**t about Alzheimer's.
We learnt that our brains will still store memories, but they can't retrieve them anymore.
This was discovered from a experiment involving people who had akzeiheimers, playing Tetris.
It was found that people could subconsciously dream about tetris with out remembering having ever seen it or played it.
The phenomenon was called "the Tetris effect".
#24
If you go by Greco-Roman Mythology within the Disney universe, Ariel and Heracles are relatives. Heracles's dad is Zeus, who has a brother, Poseidon. Now, Poseidon has children of his own, including a merman named Triton. Keep in mind, with this logic, this would make Zeus Ariel's Uncle, thus making her and Heracles cousins on a technicality.
#25
Blucifer (the Blue Mustang sculpture located at the Denver International Airport) killed its creator, Luis Jiménez, when a section of the sculpture fell on him, severing and artery in his leg
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Just to be clear, "Blucifer" is a nickname derisively given it by people who think it looks strangely evil.
#26
That the bananas we eat today have been domesticated/modified to remove their seeds. Blew my mind
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Now they're bred and raised to be measuring devices.
#27
71% percent of the green house gasses emitted in the world come from only 100 corporations. Not sure if it's true, but if it is, WTF.
#28
Your skeleton is wet while you're using it.
It makes perfect sense but it DEEPLY upset my brain to have 2 and 2 put together.
#30
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
#31
Bar code scanners, scan the white part of the bar code and not the black part. It doesn't scan just the white part, it looks for whatever isn't black.
#32
I just found out that Abigail Folger (Daughter of Folger's coffee chairman Peter Folger and heir to the multi-billion dollar company) was m******d by the Manson family and her death was overshadowed by Sharon Tate.
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
Murdered isn't a dirty word... seriously BP, stop censoring language.
#34
That there were different species of human. Neanderthals in particular absolutely blew my mind. I only really understood this was absolute fact in my early 20's. (Catholic school, not taught about evolution)
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There were many species of humans. We carry genes from most of them.
#35
Squirrels can't die from falling from any height
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Define "any". If a squirrel falls out of an airplane, it's not going to be wearing a parachute.
#36
Cats are safe from injury in any fall as long as they fall from a certain height or higher. Basically, small animals are so light that air resistance slows their fall to a safe speed. For cats, they have to have enough time to adjust their body and spread out to increase resistance and slow their fall.
#37
Humans can regrow the tips of their fingers if they get cut off below the nail bed.
#38
The Anno Domini dating system wasn’t created until 525 AD.
Peter Panda 2 years ago
It's not even universal amongst Christians: The Ethiopian church uses a different biblical event, and even if they used the same one they think other Christians are a few years out. We probably are.
#39
That Bald Eagles don't make noise and that it's Redhawks that they use for the sounds of Bald Eagles in movies.
Lyrica Melody 2 years ago
No such animal - there are Red-tailed Hawks, and Red-shouldered Hawks, but there is no bird with the common name of Redhawk. It's the Red-tailed that usually provides the sound effects.
#40
I was mostly surprised because I thought “man, wouldn’t it be cool if that existed?” So I googled it and found out it existed!! A language made of whistles. That way you can communicate from far off. It was developed in some mountainous place where people had to communicate from mountain peak to mountain peak before the use of binoculars.
Daya Meyer 2 years ago
Yodeling has had the same purpose, communicating over long distances in the Alps.
#41
That you can re-use a lint roller by tearing off the used sticky one. I always thought, "Why would people pay for this?" I was 50 years old when I realized I was an idiot.
#42
Here's a random and highly specific fact: a piece of embroidery about the size of a sheet of paper (8.5 x 11 inches) uses almost half a kilometer of thread to make.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I love the fact that OP managed to use 2 different measurement systems in just one fact
#44
That Kyle Gass from tenacious d is a julliard graduate with a masters degree in classical guitar. He's also the youngest master from there, earned at 12 years old. I knew he was good but that blew my mind.
Nicola Roberts 2 years ago (edited)
While appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on November 15, 2006,[6] Gass claimed to have been the youngest graduate of the Juilliard School of Music with a degree in classical guitar studies at the age of 13. Juilliard did not have a guitar program in 1973, but began its graduate level guitar program in 1989 under Sharon Isbin, and its undergraduate program in 2007. Earlier, in an article in the Sunday Times on October 29, 2006, Black stated that Gass was the youngest graduate of Juilliard.[7] On May 13, 2008, Gass was a phone-in guest on the Adam Carolla Show. When Adam Carolla asked him "... And did you go to Juilliard?" Kyle replied "I didn't. I—you know, I made that up as a joke," he continued, "and I thought it would be hilarious, and then I've been hearing about it ever since. Apologies to Juilliard."[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Gass & @Dogfaceboy 1980 for making me curious.
#45
Peanuts are grown underground
#47
Cherry seed has cyanide.. (Crushed)
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
Most stoned fruits from the same family have it in small quantities; almonds have probably the highest concentration of any that are eaten as nuts, such that you could ingest enough to kill you if you ate 1000 per day. But your digestive system would probably not allow you to do so. No, I'm not about tho try and test this,
#48
No one knows how eels make more eels. Seriously, look it up
#51
That Einstein was an actual person!! I always thought he was a *theoretical* physicist.
#52
I recently found out that the uterus can like... sag or cave into itself and a doctor has to get up in there to push it back in place. It's rare but extremely painful. I wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it after finding this out.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Prolapses affect a much higher proportion of women that you might think, they are just *very* rarely spoken about. People with EDS suffer very badly from prolapses.
#53
The first manmade object to ever leave the Earth’s atmosphere was a manhole cover launched into space from a nuclear bomb test. I think it is also still the fastest moving object humans have ever created.
Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
We don't know if it actually left the atmosphere, it might have been vaporized. The Parker Solar Probe is currently the fastest manmade object, roughly 3 times faster than the manhole cover..
#54
That pirates are responsible for the US not being on the metrics system.
Everything about pirates is so commercialized or just b******t, but that's one they get to have forever.
#55
Stainless steel isn't magnetic...I didn't have stainless steel appliances growing up, but we bought all stainless for our kitchen and I got some cute magnets. My fiancé told me they won't stay on and why, and I was genuinely surprised and disappointed.
#56
An atomic bomb exploding doesn't make that terrifying roar you hear in movies. It just makes a regular *BANG!* like any ordinary explosive. Most of the footage of nuclear bombs has no sound, so directors add in the sound effect later.
#57
When the toilet bowl water splashes and "touches" your butt when you poop... It's called "Poseidon's kiss" Some jellyfishes are technically immortal.
#58
40% of the world's almonds are bought by chocolate manufacturers
ShellsBells 2 years ago
Fun fact- It takes 1-3 gallons of water to grow a single almond, and there are about 92 almonds in a cup.
#59
That the pirates were the first one with a kind of social insurance
Nae Nae BB 2 years ago (edited)
They also practiced democracy, where all adults (including women) voted for their leaders. There was a strict code to live by and offenders were exiled or worse. Women were allowed and expected to vote long before women were allowed to vote in European countries or the USA.
#60
Starting at Earth's orbit, it takes as much energy to fly into the Sun as it does to fly past Neptune.
Ian Webling 2 years ago
Curiously though, much of that energy to reach the sun is needed to slow down.
#61
The way pineapples grow. Was totally drunk on a Kenny Cooler in a Texas Roadhouse when I googled it. Never been able to forget it.
#62
The sound when you slap your fingers is not made by your fingers but by the middle finger and the palm
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I will say, when I try to keep my middle finger up and not hitting my palm, the sound made is far less distinct that it is normally.
#63
When I was 6 and found out that my grandma was my mom's mom. Mind blown.
#64
Many herbs have gone extinct in an attempt to help with birth control.
#65
Santa isn't real
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Ok, I really enjoy articles like that but I would absolutely love to see some sources to support the claims. Sure, I can google my butt off but sometimes it's so vague or so abbreviated, it's pretty frustrating.
DB 2 years ago
I posted this one before but it's still pretty interesting. Longtime bandmate Derek St. Holmes has been shot by Ted Nugent. TWICE!
howdylee 2 years ago
Here's my random fact I learned yesterday: Andre the Giant holds the world record for the largest number of beers consumed in a single sitting. These were standard 12-ounce bottles of beer, nothing fancy, but during a six-hour period Andre drank 119 of them. https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/
Don Adams 2 years ago
Very enjoyable! Here's one - more people have walked on the moon (12) than scored a run off Mariano Rivera in the post season (11 in 96 games)
Jaya 2 years ago
Nice one! The fun thing is that you can do this with many things. "More people have walked on the moon, than have been on holiday with my brother" "More people have walked on the moon than have been at today's party" "More people have walked on the moon than have been born to my mother" "More men have been on the moon than have been inside of my vagina", lol. Okay, that one I actually feel sad about, lol.
Load More Replies... Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Ok, I really enjoy articles like that but I would absolutely love to see some sources to support the claims. Sure, I can google my butt off but sometimes it's so vague or so abbreviated, it's pretty frustrating.
DB 2 years ago
I posted this one before but it's still pretty interesting. Longtime bandmate Derek St. Holmes has been shot by Ted Nugent. TWICE!
howdylee 2 years ago
Here's my random fact I learned yesterday: Andre the Giant holds the world record for the largest number of beers consumed in a single sitting. These were standard 12-ounce bottles of beer, nothing fancy, but during a six-hour period Andre drank 119 of them. https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/
Don Adams 2 years ago
Very enjoyable! Here's one - more people have walked on the moon (12) than scored a run off Mariano Rivera in the post season (11 in 96 games)
Jaya 2 years ago
Nice one! The fun thing is that you can do this with many things. "More people have walked on the moon, than have been on holiday with my brother" "More people have walked on the moon than have been at today's party" "More people have walked on the moon than have been born to my mother" "More men have been on the moon than have been inside of my vagina", lol. Okay, that one I actually feel sad about, lol.
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