Our brains, supposedly, should be good for keeping us alive by allowing us to remember vital information used for our survival. However, I often catch myself, especially in a minute of dire need, remembering weird facts that are totally useless, unrelatable, and just a tiny bit interesting rather than something truly helpful. Why on Earth do I remember stuff like who invented the dinner knife, that there are more lawn flamingos in the world than real ones, and how to cut bale twine with bale twine? It's probably only the brain that could answer this question. But, be as it may, some of these useless facts do sometimes come in handy as they make excellent conversation starters or fill in the gaps of awkward silences, only to make them even more awkward afterward. And so here we are with our collection of random useless facts - they might be worthless, but they are hella entertaining.
So, you might want to know under which categories these funny useless facts fall. A short answer would be, 'oh, you know, this and that.' More accurate would be this - sports, science, politics, history, biology, animals, music, pop culture, and plenty more. Basically, a random fact on any topic you'd like to learn something useless about! And you know what the best part about this list is? All of these bits of trivia are undeniably fun facts - none of them will weird you out or make you feel discombobulated, giving you pure enjoyment instead.
Now, are you ready for some totally useless but nevertheless very interesting facts? Of course, you are! So, scroll on down below, check them out, and give the coolest facts your vote. Also, we think your friends would like to read these useless bits of information, too, agree?
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Ready for Anything
Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.
IF you count them as Disney characters. I for don't count characters that Disney bought later
Load More Replies...I literally just watched the Mat Pat film theorists video yesterday wtf
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Quiet Strength Uncovered
Marie Curie's 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive.
Knowing how long does it take the radioactivity to decay, this isn't that much of a surprise
Well, it strongly depends on the isotope - Iodine-131 (Chernobyl!) has a very short half-life of 8.02 days.
Load More Replies...Anybody who wants to examine her notebooks has to sign a disclaimer acknowledging the dangers.
Old-School Cool
The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.
This sounds like a comment that would get in the best comments post.
Load More Replies...Yes. A portion of his ashes were buried in a Pringles can.
Load More Replies...Close Enough Colors
If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called "eigengrau."
Thank you, I will now forget that and tell all my friends about it sans word.
It should be I would love to see what they would come up with.
Load More Replies...Royal Flair and Fun
Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic.
At least now she's reunited with all the corgis that passed over the Rainbow Bridge.
Load More Replies...How does this help in your everyday life? The chances of calling the AA and having Lizzy2 turn up to fix your car have gone down considerably in the last few days.
Load More Replies...Looks Like A Pound, Feels Like A Slice
Pound cake originally included a pound of all of its ingredients.
I knew this one, the teacher in my cooking class explained this. It actually works perfectly too.
And a pineapple upside down really has pineapples on it and is served upside down. And the color of a yellow cake really is yellow.
I’m not from the US, but I’d guessed this the first time I heard it mentioned onscreen.
Proving you don’t have to be from the US to be stupid.
Load More Replies...Small Town, Big Stories
Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. capital without a McDonald's.
Vermont is a very special place. There is a reason Bernie Sanders was one of their senators.
Load More Replies...They are also the only state in the contiguous 48 without a Chick-fil-A
Doll Designer\'s Delight
Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004.
February 14, 2004: Barbie and Ken officially broke up. on Valentines day of all days, She is savage
She left him for a new lad called, I think, Blaine, but he didn't last. I think they're back together now.
Load More Replies...At work, some guy was trying to tell a lame joke about divorce Barbie. She comes with half of Ken's stuff! I turned around and said, 'Ken owns a suit and a swimsuit!" That dream house is Barbie's! That Corvette is Barbie's! That veterinary practice is Barbie's!
Yeah, Babs is damn lucky they lived in a separate property state. Otherwise, Kenny could have gotten her to convert everything into communal after they got hitched and walked away with half of everything that blonde little cookie worked her whole life for.
Load More Replies...Almost There
"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with "mt."
That is not the only one. Other words include outdreamt, daydreamt, redreamt, and undreamt. Yes, these are all real words.
Yes, but they're all variations of 'dreamt' so I don't think they count.
Load More Replies...and TMESIS is the only word in the English language to start with tm. It's when you split a word and insert another word. eg: abso-bloody-lutely.
Hah! Yes, yes( said in a poorly impersonated Ed McMahon voice)!!!
Load More Replies...Apart from the derivatives including undreamt, daydreamt, and redreamt…but I'm being picky!
Royal Heart Moves
The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
Delicate Precision in Blue
Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk.
They can fly backwards. Who needs to walk when you can FLY BACKWARDS! ;-)
That’s impressive. I only have two legs and can’t walk. But I have a wheelchair, so I can roll.
Divine Mosaic Moments
In old Christian art, good angels were red and Satan was blue.
"Angels are red - And Satan is blue - Don't believe in either - How about you?"
Well...the ninth ring of hell is apparently dark and freezing down there so blue makes sense
Ohhh, so that’s why all the good conservative Christian Republicans 🙏🙏 live in the red states, and the evil Satanic Democrats 👿 live in the blue states.
It's unsurprising Lucifer is a Democrat, he being the light bringer who refused to worship a psychotic tyrant.
Cosmic Size Showdown
Jupiter is twice as massive as all the other planets combined.
Jupiter is a badass planet, so you're in very good company and should be properly proud of yourself.
Load More Replies...98% of the Solar System mass belongs to the Sun, 1% to Jupiter ,and the last 1% for the test of the planets
I very much doubt that, after all the universe has quite a lot of planets.
Thanks to his gravitational influece, Jupiter influence the sun. Basicaly the "dance".
Behind the Scenes Vibes
Movie trailers got their name because they were originally shown after the movie.
Versus now where we're forced to watch before the movie. Manipulation - I mean marketing.
Marketing is art of manipulation, or just the same thing.
Load More Replies...Before it became accepted to subject those who have purchased a product to advertising. Now that advertising _is_ the ultimate product, that would never do.
Don't forget the subliminal messages pushing the horribly overpriced snack bar. $5,000,000 for a box of popcorn.
Word You Should Know
Sleeping through summer is called "estivation."
wouldn't the opposite be "not sleeping through summer" ?
Load More Replies...Black Hole in a Box
There's a trademark on the world's darkest shade of black.
I happen to have a link to a whole thread about the jerk who holds that trademark and his archnemesis: https://cheezburger.com/8875525/tumblr-thread-on-the-art-worlds-most-hated-elitist-anish-kapoor-and-his-bean
The only celebrity drama that's worth reading, still think we should paint the bean pinkest pink
Load More Replies...Other trademarked colors include: John Deere Yellow, John Deere Green, DeWalt Yellow, DeWalt Black, Fiskars Orange, Post-it Canary Yellow, 3M Purple, UPS Brown, and Cadbury Purple.
I can understand that companies that have some distinct colors in their branding can trademark it to prevent other companies “steal” it. But the whole Vantablack affair is something else - Kapoor did trademark the color many other artists wanted and look forward to (and is no easily achievable or replacable), so only him could make money from it. Imagine every artist on earth did the same with some shade of color they used in their art - no one would be able to paint anything anymore without facing the lawsuit.
Load More Replies...Under capitalism, every thought, feeling, instance of energy, and molecule has a price tag, thereby justifying a world where nothing has value.
The battle between the artists vying for the darkest black pigment is pretty hilarious. But Vantablack, which is a coating technology not a pigment, beats them both.
Sterling Archer's tailor has to pay a licensing fee every time he makes a tactleneck this color
As a painter, I'd love to get ahold of this stuff! It's called VantaBlack. It absorbs 99.98% of visible light. Everything coated with it just looks like a black hole of shadow This Kapoor that people are talking about doesn't own the trademark. He's an artist and happens to be the only person licensed by the company (that owns it) to use it.
Fossil Flex Goals
The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
They. And be vicious wee buggers, clearly still think they're mighty creatures
Have you ever p!ssed off a rooster? And don't get me started on what a angry ostrich can do to you. They are the tyrannosaurus Rex reincarnated!!!
Load More Replies...I don´t feel an ounce of pity for eating chicken. They had a choice. Ultimate predatory badassness. Or chicken.
Oh, I have chickens who know they are dinosaurs. I have an old hen who roars when she is displeased, and I rarely wear shorts because of the way one of my roosters has marked up my legs, but he'll fight a stray dog to the death to protect his hens. I have had incursions by stray dogs, and he and his hens are still standing.
Load More Replies...I have a hen who will pull on the leg of your pants when she wants picked up. A long fall for the Tyrant Lizard King
Birds. Nasty little failed dinosaurs that do nothing but shriek and poop.
Eight-Limbed Mastermind
Octopuses and squid have three hearts.
No, not octopi. It is not a Latin word. Octopuses is correct
Load More Replies...Legacy in Every Line
Around 16 million people alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.
Because he had an estimated 200 children. (Many, if not most, were not consensual)
Play Dough Priorities
The Play-Doh scent is patented.
Mmmm - that smell. That's the equivalent of patenting a memory.
I wonder if Stuart Semple will free the Play-Doh smell too. of course make it open to everybody except Anish Kapoor.
Load More Replies...Salty and since 2/3 of taste is smell play-doh.
Load More Replies...Did anyone here sniff Play-Doh and then lick it? Because I did. And my friend. And my friend's friend.
Play-Doh was originally invented as a product for cleaning wallpaper.
And you can actually buy licensed Play-Doh perfume. No really; I have a bottle of it in my bathroom, which I bought out of sheer curiosity.
Play Doh was originally developed to clean up coal dust from homes. When people began to switch away from coal, a family member asked for some because they were a schoolteacher and the kids liked to play with it. So it was remarketed.
Mastering The Art Of Mustaches
Mustache shields were a thing in the Victorian Era.
I'm thinking they were more like the big metal shields knights carry, just with mustaches painted on the front, so it looked like you had a really stylish curled mustache when you held it up in front of your face.
Load More Replies...remember my dad hada mustache mug....it hada little guard in it to keep his mustache dry when drinking tea/coffee. didn't work for him since it was designed to be held in the right hand and he is a lefite
Nickname for mustaches was 'soup strainer.' Can sometimes find cups with built-in shields as well.
Chasing Endless Light
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
Thanks I just got why the pc game is called Lemnis gate, it,s about time loops
Thrill Seekers Unite
Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones.
Right. It's not all roller coasters. This one, in particular, has a curious history of aiding in the passing of kidney stones.
Load More Replies...Just wondering can you get a front of the line pass if you have a stone? That would be torture to have to wait in line.
I had one once. The last thing I'd have thought of doing was going to an amusement park.
I love roller coasters but I would need pain killers to be able to stand i
Pollination in Progress
Bees have 5 eyes.
Retro Toy Madness
Mr. Potato head used to be made of actual potato.
I seem to remember, as a kid, that Mr. Potato Head was just the parts (ears, nose, etc) and you had to supply a real potato to play with him.
I'm old enough to remember this, it was just the plastic parts you added , the potato had to come from mom.
I can also remember playing with it when it was a potato Does that make me old!!!!
My brother always got to play with the plastic potato. I always had to use a real potato. He was bigger and hit harder, so he always won.
I am pretty sure that it was several years after the plastic body had become part of the content before I knew about it. My friend across the street had the original set and her mother always gave us potatoes that had sprouted. She liked to come to my house because my mother would wash and dry the parts before giving us two apples. We would return the parts to be washed by my mother who would cut up the apples and give us a piece of buttered bread and a glass of water. It was a nice way to spend a quiet afternoon. If we had been especially good, my mother would read to us. I still smile when I think of Mr. Potatohead.
Actually you bought the potato the little box of parts is what you got from store.
Yup! That's what my dad always told us and he bought us a nostalgia kit that's just the box of parts. Supply your own potato.
Load More Replies...Electric Vibes Only
Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes.
Mosquito 1: Let's go over to that house. Mosquito 2: Nah bro, he listens to a lot of EDM.
Eating garlic can have the same effect. Works with some people, too.
Maybe we have different blood types so they can enjoy different flavours?
Chance Encounters
The opposite sides of a dice will always add up to seven.
Depends on the die in question. Opposite sides of a d6 will always add up to 7.
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Red Alert Ready
Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
Really? I have the feeling it is the opposite. Im right-handed and my nails on the left are always longer... 🤔
Your nails will grow LONGER on your non-dominant hand because they don't get as much use as your dominant hand, but nails grow FASTER on your dominant hand.
Load More Replies...I'm right-handed but qualify as ambidextrous, since I can throw a ball, draw, write my name, and thread a needle with my left hand. My fingernails grow at the same rate!
I'm a guitarist and I'm constantly wearing down and filing my nails. They grow really quick on my picking hand, and slow on my fretting hand.
The nail on my right pinky grows noticeably slower than any of the others. I'm left-handed.
It could be that it seems the opposite b/c the nails on our dominant hand break more often?
A topical application of blood causes nails to grow faster and stronger.
Actually i dont think its true,my left nails are faster,im right handed
I am right handed and my nails on my left hand grow faster... explain that Mr. Science! :)
Actually, Mr. Science wins again. The nails on the right hand do grow faster but they also wear down quicker and break more often due to more use. The left hand gets used much less often so the nails on that hand will last longer even though they do in fact grow a little slower. So your right hand nails may grow quicker but the left hand nails are longer.
Load More Replies...Well I'll be... as a lazy person I haven't cut my fingernails in a week, so I could do a quick comparison and the difference is actually really clear 😲
Lost and Found Logic
The average American spends about 2.5 days a year looking for lost items.
My entire house consists of nothing other than lost items. It doesn't matter what I'm looking for, but it's always an adventure no matter where I go. It's an endless treasure hunt of shiny distractions. Several hours have passed, I've completely forgotten what I was searching for in the first place, yet I have filled my pockets with other random items that I won't need anytime soon; so that they have time to become lost once more.
Unless this statistic is only based on studies in America, I have to assume it would be the same regardless of nationality. We’re all human. Also, has anyone seen my car keys?
I plan an extended weekend each year to get all my searches done in one fell swoop.
The weekend before that will be fun, looking for places to lose stuff you have not lost yet, so you'll have something to find.
Load More Replies...Cookie Overload Vibes
Oreo has made enough cookies to go to the Moon and back 5 times.
The filling actual can, if mixed with an oxidizer. Not very powerful though.
Load More Replies...Oreo will up that stat soon. Have you seen all the flavors they come in lately?
And they'll travel ten times faster on a track slicked with the excess fat of the people who ate them.
Golden Hour Truths
The sun makes up more than 99 percent of our solar system's mass.
This is true. Here's the link from the University of San Diego, USA. http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/ita/08_1.shtml
University of California at San Diego (UCSD). VERY different than USD (University of San Diego)
Load More Replies...Want to be astounded? Look at a comparison chart of star sizes. There are stars that, if they replaced our sun, would go beyond Jupiter's orbit.
because stars' density and subsequent high gravity is the only thing keeping them intact and initiating nuclear fusion
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/ita/08_1.shtml (provided by Laura Ketteridge a few comments above)
Load More Replies...Tropical Slice Debate
A Greek-Canadian man invented the "Hawaiian" pizza.
Pepperoni and pineapple is much better than ham/pineapple. I thought is was going to be disgusting the first time I tried it. It's really good.
Cheese Pull Therapy
The cheesiest pizza ever was topped with 154 varieties of cheese.
I went into a large chain just before closing after a college party and ordered a large pepperoni with extra cheese. The guy stuck his hands into the cheese bin and picked up about 5 lbs of cheese and asked if that was enough and dropped it on the pizza. Best pizza I've ever had.
I say we eliminate the middle man and just serve pizza topped with the medical waste from liposuction.
Quiet Moments Among Blooms
You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.
This is because, scientists say, if you are "near" death and you have an important day coming up you will hold on until it is over. My mom died the day after her birthday.
Also, people have been known to "celebrate" by doing some really stupid s**t.
Load More Replies...I think this number has more to do with babies that die during birth. Technically, that would be their birthday.
My husband died when I left to go home to shower. What does that mean.
Retro Fiesta Vibes
Taco Bell was named after its owner, Glen Bell.
And once a year, the family still sacrifices a child to the grinder in his memory.
Oh man, you remember the enchirito! Remember the black olives on top? I don't think they even have olives anymore.
Load More Replies...Snack Goals Achieved
Chicken meat is not a main ingredient of chicken nuggets.
If it is almosy half of breast fillet, chicken is the main ingredient.
I doubt that is correct for the EU, though. We're kinda sticklers for food-rules.
Part of me feels like this is something that is technically true. The most common ingredient is probably something in the breading. It's just phrased this way because it sounds worse.
Load More Replies...They did a docu on this and showed it to kids. Seems chicken nuggets are made out of gizzards. They showed it to the kids, who continued to eat chicken nuggets.
If gizzards are edible too, why waste them? Seems like the chicken nugget is the most palatable option.
Load More Replies...I've had a look (online) at the ingredients of 8 different packs of chicken nuggets, and all of them have chicken listed at the main ingredient.
Possibly chicken yes, but not the muscle meat you might hope for
Load More Replies...Rollercoaster Vision
You produce about six pounds of stool per week.
Absolutely. This subject is not to be poo-pooed.
Load More Replies...Unless you're a kardashian.....then it's doubled as it comes out both ends...
Classic Confidence
The longest time without sleep is 11 days.
What this fact doesn't mention is that there's such a thing as fatal familial insomnia where you literally can do nothing to 'shut the brain up' and then you watch as your family member goes insane from sleep deprivation and eventually dies. All the while, knowing that you also carry this gene and can look forward to this in your own future
Yeah basically your brain can't clean itself and so you just kind of turn into a zombie.. I think I read you forget to eat and drink or something too
Load More Replies...can you say a little bit more of that experience? like what you saw or felt? please, i am quite curious
Load More Replies...Fun fact, toxic mould exposure in certain people can cause insomnia also, amongst many other debilitating symptoms. Even if you lose consciousness for two to three hours, you're still not actually sleeping; in the sense of your brain not being able to do what it needs to. This will carry on indefinitely, for as long as you are exposed to it. Two and a bit years was not a fun experience. Would not recommend.
make the points stay at 11 please just like the person who didn't sleep for 11 days
Fun fact from your panda nerd (thanks dr seuss): Guinness world records stopped these records after the attempt
I did 7 once. Not purposely. Even drugs couldn't knock me out. Began to hallucinate after 5. Don't screw around with your sleep schedule. It's not worth it.
Sunny Side Thoughts
The largest scrambled eggs ever made weighed nearly 3.5 tons.
Odd that the Mississippi man who ate it weight only 2.3 tons afterwards. Biology is magic.
What are you on about. Do you think gens sit there mourning unfertilised eggs?
Load More Replies...Useless-Facts
You can’t bring a Furby to the Pentagon.
The U.S. satellite intelligence operation has banned Furby - in essence, accusing the toy of being a Chinese-manufactured spy, a secret-stealing bugging device capable of eavesdropping on sensitive conversations. The NSA, in this unclassified policy, reminded employees personal audio equipment is forbidden. (got it from google)
Useless-Facts
The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.
Useless-Facts
An earthquake might have shrunk Mount Everest.
Earthquakes regularly shrink Mt. Everest (and many more mountains in active zones). The Earth's crust can only bear so much weight so as the coming together of continents pushes up the mountains, once they get too heavy the crust cracks and the mountains drop a little bit.
Useless-Facts
Sloths can hold their breath for longer than dolphins.
Yeah, but who's going to throw down that challenge first? My money's on the dolphin!
So how do they get the sloth to hold its breath so they can test it???
Useless-Facts
Frank Sinatra was offered the starring role in Die Hard when he was in his 70s.
Die hard is technically a sequel. Frank was in the first so they were obligated to offer him the role
This is the first I'm hearing of this. This may be a stupid question but Sequel to what?
Load More Replies...Useless-Facts
Golf balls tend to have 336 "dimples."
https://golf-info-guide.com/golf-tips/equipment-choices/golf-ball-dimples/
What does "tend to" mean in this context? It's not like golf balls naturally grow these dimples.. They either have 336 or not.
Useless-Facts
4 out of 5 children recognize the Mcdonald's logo at 3 years old.
The fifth one will live to be a hundred after a long and healthy life.
Useless-Facts
The oldest piece of chewing gum is more than 9,000 years old.
As far as I can see, the oldest piece of chewing gum is over 10,000 years old. It was found in Sweden, and was made from birch bark pitch. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-oldest-scandinavian-human-dna-ancient.html
I can cite an older one, https://phys.org/news/2019-05-oldest-scandinavian-human-dna-ancient.html
Load More Replies...Useless-Facts
Cap'n Crunch's full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.
Useless-Facts
People used to answer the phone by saying "ahoy" instead of "hello."
That was actually started by Alexander Graham Bell sometime around 1880. That is why Mr. Burns on The Simpsons TV show says "Ahoy, hoy" when he answers the phone. The writers are trying to emphasize the fact that he is extremely old.
It was suggested 'ahoy' would be used. However, it wasn't. 'Hulo' (an exclamation of surprise) was used, and morphed into 'hello'.
I try my best to answer the phone to my mum or husband with the most random sayings I can think of at that particular time - was much easier to confuse then before they started video calling me
Useless-Facts
The U.S. Air Force introduced Bob Ross to painting.
Bob Ross started in the military as a medical records technician, and became a master sergeant. Whilst working in Alaska he was impressed by the snow on the mountains. When he left the military he decided he would never again do things that would require him to raise his voice.
That statement is misleading and definitely needs to be reworded. Perhaps "Bob Ross started painting when he was in the U.S. Air Force."
Useless-Facts
There is a metallic asteroid shaped like a dog bone named "Kleopatra."
Useless-Facts
Queen Elizabeth II's cows sleep on waterbeds.
Cows get comfy beds but not the many many homeless, plenty of whom were in the armed forces - priorities huh
What cows? I know she had corgies and of course i thought there is maybe some sort of royal lifestock but i never Heard of special treated cows. Are they for meat like kobe cows?
These "waterbeds" are the newest s**t when it comes to mats for cows. The rubber mats have been refined a lot over the last years. Basically you want a soft mat that wont build up pits where the cows stand. Time will show if these mats filled with a little bit of water really are better.
Load More Replies...And a little link to the tale of pampered cows. https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a20911905/bbc-countryfile-windsor-queen-cows-waterbeds/
Useless-Facts
The real name of Monopoly mascot Uncle Pennybags is Milburn Pennybags.
Jed Clampett's banker, Mr. Drysdale, look suspiciously like Uncle Pennybags - and he's named Milburn too! Just what's going on here?
Useless-Facts
More than two-thirds of millennials sleep nude.
I'm in the 1/3. Shirtless sure but definitely shorts. Partially due to the fear that I'll have to run out in an emergency.
Haven't slept naked since I woke up to a policy raid on my house. Learned why that roommate gave us the creeps.
Load More Replies...Tank top and panties. Sometimes no top if its really hot. But gotta keep panties on in case of emergency
Gen Z here: I sleep either without a shirt on or without a bra on. I don't have time for this underwire-stabbing c**p.
Useless-Facts
The average person has four to six dreams a night.
Useless-Facts
Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.
Not true. I declared myself King of Antarctica a long time ago. It isn't my fault if other countries of the world won't accept my position as leader of Antarctica.
No. There are areas of Antarctic that have been claimed, and some areas have been claimed by more than one country. However, there are areas that have not been claimed.
Yeah, areas. The remainder is still the biggest. (Sorry if I’m rude)
Load More Replies...Useless-Facts
Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
Cats lack the receptor for sweetness. Don't you dare say my cat is defective!
It's OK, there there, throws mousie for kitty x
Load More Replies...I guess what they mean (or what their source of information meant but which OP didn't quite understand): Cats do have the leftovers of a sweet receptor, but one of the gene mutated such that it isn't functional anymore. So *technically* it's a defect, even though from an evolutionary standpoint it's perfectly reasonable.
Load More Replies...Probably didn't taste anything of it, though.
Load More Replies...but still, my cat likes to eat all the things I get that are sweet...
Mine too. Not milk. Not meat. She will come running if you have any kind of dessert though.
Load More Replies...Useless-Facts
Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.
Useless-Facts
A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.
Bones do very well against compressive forces! Shearing ones not so much.
Tell that to my femur,, a compression fracture 3 years ago
Load More Replies...Showing that Americans will endure anything to avoid using the metric system.
Useless-Facts
If you plug your nose, you can't tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.
Even with my eyes closed, they have way different textures and juicinesses.
Useless-Facts
Pope John Paul II was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
Useless-Facts
Hershey's makes one million miles of Twizzlers every year.
1 million miles is the equivalent of driving from earth to the moon, back to earth and then back to the moon again.
takes a whole new meaning to to the moon and back
Load More Replies...Useless-Facts
Apple seeds contain cyanide.
So do apricot seeds, in large enough quantities to cause breathing problems. Apple seeds are too small to do harm, but cracking open an apricot stone to get the kernel inside is a bad idea.
Or is it? Just gonna jot this down for... scientific reasons. Yeah. That's it
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Rainbows were called "bows of promise" in Victorian English.
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Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn't bark.
They can. They just choose not to apparently. Had a basenji I heard bark on one occasion when he was excited watching the cat play. He wasn't even a yodeler, but he was moved to bark that once.
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The first Nerf ball package claimed the toy "can't hurt babies or old people."
The nerf injuries I have experienced would beg to differ.......
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A British teen changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."
i know a person named justin who changed his name so it’s justin joylife, then his middle and last name. say it outloud
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There are giant technicolor squirrels in India.
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Ravens know when someone is spying on them.
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No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.
The way I was taught is "six hundred forty three". There is no "and" connecting them. I suspect some other languages do use the connecting "and". And that style is unknowingly brought to English for these speakers?
Load More Replies...Why stop at 999? Assuming that the poster is from a country that doesn't say 'and' in numbers over one hundred (one hundred one, etc) then there is no letter 'a' in the word form of any number until you reach a quadrillion.
OK, so I forgot about the 'a' in 'thousand'. How does one delete posts?
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A group of hippos is called a "bloat."
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Space travel makes mice run in loops.
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The average American produces 4.5 pounds of trash per day.
Does that include the average weight of the TikTok videos produced per American?
No idea, I certainly hope not. That would make my country look even worse lol
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Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.
Can someone say what it is in Kilometers per hour please? Too lazy to do it myself :D
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Most pandas in the world are on loan from China.
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The Bubonic plague encouraged Shakespeare to write poetry.
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A "jiffy" is about one trillionth of a second.
Haven't heard that term used in years. That was a grandma word in my family.
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"Spoonfeed" is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
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The largest bill to go into circulation in the U.S. was a $10,000 note.
I want to know how someone would check that. My fraud fighter at work only goes up to 100 dollars and I don't think we have any of the markers anymore. I'd be like "excuse me. I have to go ask my manager to deal with this as I have no f*****g idea what to do. While you wait, would you like a free glass of water?"
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Maryland tried to ban Randy Newman's song "Short People."
I could never believe I was hearing that on the radio. So awful. I changed the lyrics to "Dumb people got no reason... Dumb people got jut no reason to liiiiiive!" (And yes, replace "Dumb" with "Short" and those are the lyrics!!!)
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A Harry Potter book filled with typos sold for $90,000.
Alas, someone with 'stupid' money. A copy destined for the bin.....
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A complete sentence has a subject and a verb, like "I am", sentences lacking one of those are called incomplete, like "Go" or "Mine". All sentences are grammatically correct, just different terms.
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A frigate bird can sleep while it flies.
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Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
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Facial reconstruction was used to see what dogs looked like 4,000 years ago.
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The thumb nail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
My last two fingers grow their nails much faster than the rest. Also, I only get hairs on my legs if I've been in the sun.
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Salt used to be a currency.
There's a fascinating book called "Salt" that explores this history. I laughed when my dad suggested it. But I absolutely loved it!
Is this where we got the phrase "The prices there are rather salty."?
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Many oranges are actually green.
"honey, i packed you a green in your lunch! would you like some more green juice?"
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The little dot above a lowercase "i" and "j" has a name.
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Punctuation wasn't always a part of our written language.
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The tool used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called a "Brannock Device."
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There is only one walled city in North America.
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The most common password is "123456."
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According to the Bible, the chicken came before the egg.
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It's possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds.
Make enough money selling peanut butter, and the jeweler will sell you anything you like.
Pretty much anything that contains carbon can be turned into diamonds. It could be peanut butter, bread, jelly, dog poo, trees....
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Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
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There's a city called "Rome" on every continent except Antarctica
Antarctica? Asia? Australia? - it would seem three out of seven don't.
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Massachusetts is home to Busta Rhymes Island.
Not as interesting as it appears. The island in question is a tiny one in a lake in Shrewsbury.
Still, one more island than I have named after me.
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One man set a world record by putting on 260 T-shirts at once.
Well if you try that at Miami Airport then they'll pull you aside, act like they didn't just see you put those shirts on, and question you as to why you're wearing so many. Once they're done, then you can board the plane, take them off and put back in the carry-on bag they said was too full to fit overhead even though they didn't have any issue at JFK in New York, which was the first leg of the journey, and was smaller than the 5 people in front of you who they let through with no issue, but somehow your smaller bag is too big. Just saying.
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The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.
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The lint in the bottom of your pocket has a name.
WHY post this as a fact without the actual information???
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Ketchup was used medicinally in the early 1800s.
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There's a tiny home in Virginia called the "Spite House" because that's why it was built.
Like the crabby neighbor on the corner. It's called the Spite House by some because John Hollensbury, the owner of one of the adjacent houses, built it in 1830 to keep horse-drawn wagons and loiterers out of his alley. Indeed, the brick walls of the living room have gouges from wagon-wheel hubs.Feb 29, 2008
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Sweat doesn't smell bad.
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A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in the year 2000 would be amazons like Wonder Woman.
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Americans eat enough burgers to circle the earth over 32 times.
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3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
Not in my house . . . My husband bought a can of Spam about 8 years ago. It's still in my cupboard.
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Chalk is edible.
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Legos have a uniform system.
Read up on why not to use LEGOs as the plural for LEGO bricks or LEGO pieces
if youre goin on abt the whole "iTs a PropEr NoUn" bs proper nouns can be pluralized with an s at the end
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And "tesseradecades," "aftercataracts," and "sweaterdresses" are the longest words you can type using only your left hand.
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"Schoolmaster" is an anagram of "the classroom."
Please don't downvote Mandy B's comment. Downvoting is for when people are outright rude or spamming, and downvoting is a way to ban their accounts. If someone is just incorrect, it't better to comment with the correct information.
Yup! And take it from me - downvoting can eventually lead to a total. Ban. I was never mean. And I didn't post lies. My tone was misconstrued, and I lost the account I'd used for years. I'm still bitter.
Load More Replies...Umm, they are there in both words. In 'schoolmaster' they are in 3rd and 10th positions, and in 'the classroom' in 2nd and 1sts.
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The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles has a hidden meaning.
Even though Heinz was already manufacturing more than 60 products at that time, Henry thought 57 sounded like a lucky number and began using the slogan '57 varities' in all his advertising.
No. Heinz chose it because he like the sound of the number.
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The average person spends 2 years using their phone.
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You would likely "mutate" in space without a spacesuit.
Which certainly is a mutation (Mondays excluded.)
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Bangkok has the world record for the longest name.
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratcha-thani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit – officially the longest place name in the world.
in 6th grade we had to do projects on different countries and i chose thailand. we had a spelling test that was all the capitals of the countries people in the class chose. my teacher put this down instead of bangkok cuz she wanted it to be accurate. everyone hated me.
Load More Replies...This sentence makes no sense. Bangkok is clearly not the longest name (e.g. Mississippi is a longer placename). I wonder what the original intent/meaning was?
What name you may give the country in question has no bearing on what the country's real name is. And yes, "Bangkok's" name is a great deal longer than the places you listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok#Name
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There's an optical illusion at bottom of the sea.
Image result for There's an optical illusion at bottom of the sea The temperature difference between the trapped water and the cool surrounding water is so great that it causes light to slow as it travels from the cool to the hot water, creating a false surface that appears with the shine of a mirror.
An extreme thermocline is seen more often in deep water in warmer environments, where the temperature variation can often be very dramatic. *Edit to add: it looks like a weird wavy mirror or liquid mercury but as you get closer the reflective state slowly dissapears.
Load More Replies...HUH?????? My god. Seriously. Anyone can just post anything on BP, can't they?
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Scientists discovered the fossil of a 430-million-year-old monster.
A real monster too. Apparently he put his milk in first and then added cereal.
Cthulu - this one's for one you! A team of U.S. and British researchers have identified a 430-million-year-old fossil as a new species related to today's sea cucumbers. They named the creature Sollasina cthulhu, after horror author H.P. Lovecraft's tentacled monster, Cthulhu (usually pronounced “kuh-THOO-loo”).
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Those metal studs on your jeans have a name and a purpose.
Known as 'rivets', they are placed on areas of the jeans that are most likely to be pulled apart by strain or movement and help hold the fabric together, thereby making them last longer.
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If we ever find the end of the Pi number, according to some scientists, that’ll mean we live in the simulation.
There is a street with a name in a town that also has a name. See? I can write FACTS too!!!
Useless Fact: When the author of the song "The Hokey Pokey" died, they had a difficult time putting him in a coffin. They would put his left arm in and his left arm came out, put his right leg in and his right leg came out, etc.
If we ever find the end of the Pi number, according to some scientists, that’ll mean we live in the simulation.
There is a street with a name in a town that also has a name. See? I can write FACTS too!!!
