“Now That’s Gonna Be Stuck In My Head”: 45 Worthless Bits Of Trivia Or Knowledge Shared By Our Community

I just choked on my water laughing! 😂 this is really cool!

Reindeer also have tubular hairs

ha! I came here to share this one.

I had a teacher tell me that Iceland is green and Greenland is icy.

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

I also heard bromelain can help bring on labor when I was pregnant with one of my kids. My poor mouth was raw from eating so much of it 😝

Dust is another. Something can gather dust or you can dust something off.

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OMG, I snorted in laughter just reading that. Did you know it is illegal to hunt bigfoot in a certain state (Washington?) because it would technically be an endangered species? This has been in my head for a long time.

I did not need to know that one....but thanks for sharing?

This is the first description of an angel that has made sense to me, but now I have more questions. Going by what you said, if they appear to be both beautiful and fearsome, do you think, if they do appear to humans, that their appearance can vary from human to human, depending on said human's disposition? If you're an evil person, would your angel come off as fearsome and terrifying, whereas a good human would get the beautiful image of that angel?

I'll just think about that later 'procrasticognition'.

To be fair, it takes quite a few muscles to consistently ignore you lol

I find this interesting

Such misleading nonsense. People were afraid of being buried alive, but not because of lots of evidence like scratch marks. Premature burial was a possibility, but it happened much less than people worried about it. Most people could not afford safety coffins, so there would not have been enough of them to justify hiring people just to listen for them at night (and why would nighttime be when this happened? Day time is two times more likely). And dead ringer originated as a horse racing term, meaning the same thing you always thought it meant.

I believe this is the origin of the saying "saved by the bell ..."

And almost entirely untrue.

This isn't true. We have no evidence that people were often buried alive. From my understanding in every case where the bells were used they never actually alerted to a person who was alive. Same with people having been kept in mortuaries until they started to decompose, we have no records of anyone ever "waking up."

Not sure how true this is, but I think there were lots of false alarms as the remains shifted during decomposition.

Poe wrote a short story about this. mid 1800s I believe, and the old advertisements of the day had lots of devices to prevent premature burial.

but a dead ringer for someone means a lookalike??

so when did the term "dead ringer" come to mean someone who looks just like you?

So back then there wasn’t a good medical examiner then??

Not accurate. This was something wealthy people would PAY for. This was not done for just anybody. Often the sculpture over the grave would have a bell, that would indeed have a string leading to the person's finger or hand. They could ring the bell to be dug up. But these were expensive, and not common. If you go to old cemeteries, you can still find a few of these head stones with a whole cut out, where the bell would have gone. Another oddity is finding bodies with a stone placed in the mouth. These were often people who died of consumption. It was believed that they were vampires, and the stone was to stop them from biting people.

It's a safety coffin. Taberger's model being the one I see the most

Saved by the Bell!

I find this terrifying. Shake and bake me, please. If I happen to be alive, it won't be for long.

Imagine working that graveyard shift on a windy night

see this is what i want when i’m dead, to be cool and all

Is this why the expression is ‘saved by the bell’?

Wowee.

Hence the term 'saved by the bell'.

That would make sense.

The buried alive tragedy would have been avoided if we had gotten away from preserving dead folks in boxes instead of cremation. Less land would be wasted as well.

Facsinating! I wonder how Dead Ringer morphed to mean someone that looks like someone else.