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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It’s not heli-copter. It’s helico, meaning spiral. And pter, meaning wings. Like pterodactyl.
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*
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.
Most people like watermelon, even slow ones who carry their houses with them.
The mammoths died out after the pyramids in Egypt were built.
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.
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".
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.
The famous circus music we all know is actually an 1897 military march called 'Entry of the Gladiators'.
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"? 😊
Mine is that baby carrots aren’t real, they are just cut and shaved full size carrots.
Technically called baby-cut carrots, as in the picture but marketed as baby carrots. Proper baby carrots do exist but are normal carrot shaped.
Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch with Jim Carrey is now the singer of a punk rock/metal band: The Pretty Reckless
Buffalo sauce is just hot sauce and butter. Rocked me to the core.
"Buffalo Sauce" generally means something else in animal husbandry.
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."
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%.
*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.
I figured that when i saw my mom's ashes and they were an orangish color, I was expecting more an ashtrayish look.
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.
Elected official get things like lifetime healthcare or lifetime pensions after leaving their elected job, NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY SERVED.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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
Just to be clear, "Blucifer" is a nickname derisively given it by people who think it looks strangely evil.
That the bananas we eat today have been domesticated/modified to remove their seeds. Blew my mind
Now they're bred and raised to be measuring devices.
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.
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.
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
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.
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.
Murdered isn't a dirty word... seriously BP, stop censoring language.
Over half of Canada's population lives south of Seattle.
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)
There were many species of humans. We carry genes from most of them.
And new species are still discovered every once in a while.
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wait til the OP hears about "hobbits" who were found in indonesia and contemporary within living memory.
Homo floresiensis. Cause they were found on the island of Flores.
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i was taught about evolution in a catholic school what catholic schools are you guys going to.
It does depend on WHEN you went to Catholic school. They started in the 50's as part of the Science curriculum and then in the mid 90's the pope (John Paul II) deemed it (evolution) did not interfere with Church doctrine. Basically, saying the faithful can choose which(or both) to believe. Evolution vs Creation kind of.
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What sort of Catholic school doesn't teach evolution? The church recognises evolution as a valid theory and not out of keeping with doctrine. I was taught it at Catholic school in the 80's.
Exhibit A of why I would never send my kids to Catholic/Christian schools. University professors are not going to care why they don't know the basics of Evolutionary Theory and this kind of gap in a young person's education is just "hamstringing" them before they even start the game. I witnessed it myself in Anthropology classes in college.
I go to a christian school and there are a lot of christian schools in my area (I live in the South). All of them teach evolution, sex ed, etc
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Other posters note that we carry genetic traces of these earlier types of humans. The fact that we carry those traces indicates that the different types of human interbred, and produced fertile offspring. As i recall from the little biology that i learnt, this indicates that those types were not different species at all. (Happy to be corrected by anyone with appropriate biology quals.)
I went to Catholic school, my whole life, and we most definitely learned about evolution. Catholics are not hung up on stuff like that. They believe in science.
AND we mated with them. So anyone who isn't African has a tiny (like 1-3%) amount of archaic human DNA. The Neanderthals went west to Europe and the Denisovans went east to Asia. Then when homo sapiens left Africa, they met up and made babies with them.
I did 23&me, and was tickled pink to find out I have more than average amount of neanderthal DNA
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I was trying to post an interesting fact about history, there was a typo, and I accidentally deleted it trying to edit.
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I think the whole hands-for-feet gimmick in primates was lost with the Australopithecus
And why aren't all the different ones around still? All combined to form, humans? Damn apes are still around too. go figure!
They *were* humans, i.e. of the genus Homo. They weren't moden humans, i.e. of the species Homo sapiens. Leading theories as to why they aren't still around are mainly "we outbred them" and "we killed them all". Also humans are a type of ape.
Load More Replies... Neanderthals are Homo sapiens. Other hominid species include Homo erectus, Homo habilus, etc. They are "hominid" meaning "human-like," but not necessarily human. All modern humans are descended from a single female about 100,000 years ago, which is VERY recent compared to the age of hominids. However, these other hominids did survive past the time of that single female, and bred with her descendants.
Neanderthals are NOT homosapiens. They are 2 different species that interbred with each other, around 55k years ago. There's only a small percentage of people alive today that have a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. I do not have any Neanderthal DNA. Think of a Liger. Part lion, part tiger. Both are felines, but 2 different species that mated and produced offspring. This does not mean that all lions are tigers, nor all tigers lions. Edit-the liger example.
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Squirrels can't die from falling from any height
Define "any". If a squirrel falls out of an airplane, it's not going to be wearing a parachute.
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.
Humans can regrow the tips of their fingers if they get cut off below the nail bed.
The Anno Domini dating system wasn’t created until 525 AD.
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.
That Bald Eagles don't make noise and that it's Redhawks that they use for the sounds of Bald Eagles in movies.
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.
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.
Yodeling has had the same purpose, communicating over long distances in the Alps.
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.
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.
I love the fact that OP managed to use 2 different measurement systems in just one fact
Toucans are actually very omnivorous, and sometimes predatory.
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.
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.
More people have been to space than have explored the depths of the ocean.
Cherry seed has cyanide.. (Crushed)
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,
No one knows how eels make more eels. Seriously, look it up
The fact that there are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy
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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.
I posted this one before but it's still pretty interesting. Longtime bandmate Derek St. Holmes has been shot by Ted Nugent. TWICE!
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/
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)
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... 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.
I posted this one before but it's still pretty interesting. Longtime bandmate Derek St. Holmes has been shot by Ted Nugent. TWICE!
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/
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)
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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