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“Now That’s Gonna Be Stuck In My Head”: 45 Worthless Bits Of Trivia Or Knowledge Shared By Our Community
Sometimes we don't realize how big the storage of our brains is. We might forget some facts or happenings now and then, but it's only natural when considering we have to digest new information every day! However, some snippets of knowledge appear to be unforgettable so that even the most random and useless thing might be stuck in your brain forever.
So, I got curious about what worthless bit of trivia or knowledge is forever stuck in our pandas' heads! Here's what people had to share.
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Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Numan.
Polar bears have black skin. Their fur is actually clear, not white, and each strand of fur is a hollow tube made of keratin (the same stuff as our fingernails) to trap heat and keep them warm.
That wombats poop cubes. It has something to do with their intestines being really good at removing water and compacting waste and it comes out in cubes.
Iceland is much less icy and much more green than Greenland.
I had a teacher tell me that Iceland is green and Greenland is icy.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
A proper one this time. Pineapple 'eats' you as you eat it. Pineapple contains a chemical called Bromelain that deconstructs (and will eventually dissolve) proteins, including human tissue. So if you're wondering why it tingles on your tongue now you know (thankfully our stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve concrete so takes care of Mr Pineapple)
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 😝
Some words are contranyms, meaning a word that has two different meanings that are the opposite of each other.
The three examples I know are:
Cleave (can mean either to cling to or to separate from)
Left (can be used to refer to the part of a group that departed or the part that stayed. "Three sheep left the flock, how many were left?")
Off (can mean either to activate or to deactivate. "The alarm went off, so I turned it off.")
Finland is home to the most metal bands per capita, with around 53.5 metal bands per 100,000 people.
A day on venus is longer than a year on venus
A city in California has the Goodyear Blimp as its official bird.
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.
Teeth pop like popcorn when heated.
That the angels do not naturally have a human form. When you actually read in depth about them, they are said to be both beautiful and yet among the most terrifying beings in the universe. When they say "Be not afraid" there is a reason for it, and it's not because they popped out of nowhere in front of your face.
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?
The word for thinking about your thinking is metacognition. It only comes in handy when you're trying to impress teachers.
Cats have 38 muscles in each ear
To be fair, it takes quite a few muscles to consistently ignore you lol
Many years ago, when wood was in short supply it was a common practice to dig up and reuse coffins.
Quite often the grave diggers would see scratch marks on the underside of the coffin lid, left there by someone who was buried but still alive!
This happened so often, in fact, that all newly buried people had a length of string tied to their finger, leading all the way aboveground where it was tied to a bell.
When someone buried alive would move their hand trying to desperately claw their way out, the bell would ring aboveground.
Those people were called "Dead Ringers".
The men hired to listen for the bells during the night were known to be working the "graveyard shift".
The tip of your elbow is called your wenis.
It’s possible to put a lightbulb inside your mouth, but you can’t get it out without breaking either the glass or your jaw. And no, I don’t know why.
Rockets/spaceships are launched from positions near the equator to the east because the Earth's rotation makes a start more fuel efficient that way.
Squirrels don’t remember where they buried their acorns. They just bury so many that it’s easy to find one wherever they dig.
Pigs can actually run faster than people. As prey animals, they evolved to run away a lot.
Without mucus your stomach would digest itself.
That giraffes mostly sleep standing up and only for like 30 minutes a day.
Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.
Not trivia, just a Spanish word my nutty, Mexican friend from college made me learn, for some weird reason. It's the word for "ear, nose and throat" - otorrinolaringologo. I've found myself repeating it over and over in my head whenever I'm in a lot of pain, especially with migraines. I don't do it intentionally, it just happens. Thanks for the subconscious coping mechanism, Hermès!
Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to us in time than they were to stegosaurus.
The average person has four to six dreams a night.
And the brain has certain setups that occur every now and then in your dreams. I often dream of the same fictional places.
The okay hand symbol means "pay me" in Japan. Thanks, Nat geographic!
Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
Americans spend around 2.5 days each year in total looking for their lost things.
Giraffes use their necks to generate momentum with their heads when they fight.
Yooo! have any of you seen a video of giraffes fighting each other?? it's some pretty scary stuff. I thought they were gentle creatures, but nah they just a tall version of bulls. They got the horns and everything. O.O
The bits at the end of shoe laces (metal or plastic or whatever) that make it easier to lace up your shoes are called aglets.
For all of you Phineas and Ferb watchers out there, you must recognize that. There was an entire episode all about aglets.
LEGO is the number producer of wheels in the entire world.
that squids brains are doughnut shaped, and their esophagus goes through the middle of their brain before going to their stomach. so food passes through a squids brain before it gets to their stomach.
That DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. I've known it since the 4th grade. I'm 57
Heteropaternalsuperfecumdation is the term for when a woman has twins with different fathers. It's very rare.
My twins looked so different as babies that a handful of strangers actually asked me if they had the same father!
If you burn dust it smells like burning flesh and you can get rid of your roommate really fast this way. A professor told my mom's friend that a long time ago and I tell almost everyone I meet.
That makes sense. I remember reading that the majority of dust is mainly skin cells that have come off the body.
That a narwhal horn is actually a tooth ._.
They found 7 tons of human hair when they liberated Auschwitz.
A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in the year 2000 would be amazons like Wonder Woman.
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "A B C D E F G" sound the same
That the smell of rain is called petrichor. We get it. Read it a few thousand times from people thinking their smart.
aardwolves, a type of hyena, are one of the few insect-eating canine-appearing mammals. (hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs). I have all the facts I can find about aardwolves living inside my head
Australia is the only country which eats its National animals. And they’re delicious!
Australia do eat Kangaroo and Emu yes but Americans eat Bison which is one of their national animals Nepal has the cow as one of their national animals...It would be more accurate to say Australia is the only country which eat all their national animals
Valid. I accept your argument. Let's have a bbq!
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Nope : French people also eat theirs. Roosters : Coq au vin ;-)
Scotlands national animal is the unicorn so that would be interesting
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Bit hard for us in Scotland to eat our national animal given it's a unicorn. But I've tried kangaroo, I'd eat it again, it's tasty
I'm pretty sure this is false. There's a number of countries with fish and deer as their national animals. I'd be surprised if some of them were not eaten.
Emu meat is available in Australia, but nearly all of it comes from 'farmed' birds, same as for chickens or geese etc. Not widely marketed, and i've never tried it myself.
Kangaroo meat is very lean, practically no fat. Strong taste, needs careful cooking. Kangaroos are really very large rodents, and breed in massive numbers. In some places, the numbers of kangaroos get so great that their pressure on the environment places other native animals in jeopardy. Some species are 'endangered', but kangaroo shooters (professionals, who aim for 'clean' kills) don't target them. The much more numerous species are in no danger at all of being wiped out, or even put at risk, by the hunters.
I've had it twice, once in Australia, once in the Netherlands. Better than the best steak I ever ate.
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kangaroo meat is quite healthy, little fat and loads of protein (Aussie here), once cooked its quite dry but goes great in stews and stir fry!....
You've overcooked it then. It needs to be cooked rare,like any game meat
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Emus.... had a whole war over it and everything. The Emus won, so they were named the national animal. lol.
That's just not true because more countries do this.
Woodpeckers have a special membrane between their beak and skull that act as a shock absorbent.
Their tongue go from their throat, up and wrap around their brain before leading to their mouth to keep their brain from moving as they peck.
Numbers can always get larger therefore they are infinite.
Number can always get smaller therefore they are infinite as well. Both infinitely large and small.
“I’m angry at numbers! There’s like, too many of them!” Will always be my favorite Bevis and Butthead joke.
Making out burns 2calories for every minute you kiss-snapple lid
Gonna be skinny-- kiss for 8 days straight! (This is clearly a joke. I haven't even did the math)
The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was mad because of his actual hat. They used to use mercury in the process of making a hat. Mercury poisoning made people crazy.
For a photon traveling the speed of light, time does not pass. Looking up at a star that is millions of light years away, when the photon strikes our eyeball, from the photon's perspective it JUST left the star.
Edit: too bad I can't edit - somebody's gonna call me out on the colloquial "millions of light years away" because only other galaxies are visible at that distance, not individual stars. Realistically we're talking stars from the Milky Way which could only be about 100,000 light years away at most. The point stands about time not passing for photons though.
Mercury is the planet that is closest to all the others in the solar system.
There are 142 staircases in hogwarts according to book 1 chpter 8 line 13 words 3-5. The more specific things could be off slightly, but the count is 142.
and before anyone asks, ive read all the HP book 20 times each (i counted :) )
The line and word count could vary depending on edition and language. The book and chapter citations should be consistent.
penguins propose to eachother with their favourite rocks :))
The stethoscope was made because a French doctor, René Laennec, felt uncomfortable putting his ear up to a women’s chest to listen to her heartbeat.
As did the women feel before the stethoscope was invented. Thanks Doc!
"The Earth is an oblate rotational ellipsoid - but you don't have to remember that." - my geography teacher 20 years ago
The sun is 93 million miles away
Carpenters do have 9½ fingers on average...
The Beatles’ first band name was the Quarrymen and their original drummer was Pete Best, soon to be replaced by Ringo Starr (sorry I’m a Beatles nerd)
You can sing the lyrics of Amazing Grace to the tune of:
The House of the Rising Sun
Yankee Doodle
Gilligan's Island theme music
You can't unhear it.
Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.
A platypus doesn't have nipples. They basically sweat out the milk when nursing their young.
The female voice you hear singing on the song ‘Keep It In The Closet’ by Michael Jackson on his Dangerous album, is Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
Koalas feed their babies their own poop for the first 2 months of their lives to build up their immune system since their diet consists of nothing but eucalyptus leaves which are highly toxic.
Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd."
This is not really true. There's an interesting article about the word here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-history-nerd
Koalas can survive most snake bites because they literally eat poison
"The temperature inside your mouth is a steamy 98.6 degrees. The same as a sweltering jungle. But inside a Winterfresh mouth, it tastes much, much cooooooler!" Thanks Channel One!
California has a higher population than all of Canada.
A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
Everyone is talking about the square poop... But did you know koalas poop roughly 360 times a day? Little green pellets. Even while they're sleeping!
That humans share a lot of DNA with bananas.
One horse power equals to 2849.61 duck power.
Sloths only urinate and defecate once a week.
There were 75000 lbs of ham on The Tiranic when it sunk
The reason why Elvis never performed outside of the US, is because his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was an illegal immigrant. He was born in the Netherlands and entered the US when he was 20.
Mine is that did you know that dogs don't give kisses when they like you they are actually tasting you
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13
Butterflies taste with their feet. Always thought that was an odd little fact.
Sharks don't pee normally. To use osmosis efficiently, sharks store their pee in their bloodstream to maintain a higher salinity than the water they live in. This way, sharks are able to stay hydrated as water moves to the area with higher salinity. Excess is excreted through their skin.
I can't tell if this is way too simplified to make any sense, or just a troll
Thomas Jefferson had a bird named D**k that ate out of his mouth.
I know a lot about Thomas Jefferson and all the facts are this weird.
A decapitated head takes twelve seconds to lose consciousness
I guess it would be that the creature or animal with the most teeth is a snail.
That it is illegal to walk out of a Oklahoma county fair with a popsicle in your pocket.
Dogs don't feel remorse, they only feel sadness.
McDonald's once created bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
Honey bees have two sets of wings which can be(e) used independent as a pair of forewings and a pair of hindwings . This allows the bee maximum mobility for hovering for nectar and pollen collection. Once loaded down the 2 sets of wings can bee locked together to form a more a more efficient and heavier lift surface. The locking mech is a series of hooks from the hindwings that locks onto a "gutter" trough on the forewings. It's been suggested that was the inspiration for the modern zipper. Other bees in my bonnet are two other great special "tools" that Hbees have evolved are a special pick/comb to groom pollen from their antennas- hard to smell the flowers otherwise. The other adaptation is a 3 part comb and collection basket for carrying pollen back to the hive for food on the hind pair of legs. Way2B Bs
If Hitler's father hadn't changed his name, it would have been Heil Schicklgruber.
The marsupial, quoll's new born is one of the smallest, weighing only 18mg which is equal to 30 sugar grains.
Starlings, squirrels and snails are invasive species brought over by Europeans.
The first player in the NBA to break a backboard by dunking a basketball was Chuck Connors (aka The Rifleman). During pre-game warm-ups with Boston.
The first colors babies see when they are born are red and black.
Outer space smells like static electricity.
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey screeching in pain.
Ironically, there was a comment above this by someone called Red, and he said he removes the squeaker
BANANAS ARE THE ONLY FRUIT THAT CANNOT REPRODUCE! They are a breed of two different plants
Not entirely true! The commercially grown eating bananananas are non-viable, but there are some banana types with seeds that are fertile. Find that particular non-hybrid wild banana with viable seeds, and you can make some catch. You can also buy banana seeds on the internet and grow your own tree, but it most likely won't have edible fruit.
4 million people in the Netherlands live below see level
Blob fish are ugly because a blob fish doesn't really have a skeleton, and it doesn't really have any muscle. So, up here, it's saggy and droopy.
The minimum dynamic hydroplaning speed, in knots, of a tire to be 8.6 times the square root of the tire pressure in pounds. If it's pouring out, assume your tire pressure if you don't know it, to be 25 (square root 5), so 5x9 (8.6 rounded up) is 45, which is about 51 mph. Better to err on the side of caution, and slow down. I think of this every darn time it rains
But the weight of the vehicle and the tire footprint & construction also factor in. The question is, how?
The little hard part on the roof of your mouth behind your top front teeth is called informally the pizza ridge, cuz that's the part you burn first when you bite into a pizza that's too hot.
Called formally the alveolar ridge, because it contains alveoli, the cavities that hold the roots of your teeth
Triangle can only have one 90 degree angle; unless you draw it on a sphere, then you can have two 90 degree angles in one triangle....
Okay, this is a hell of an oversimplification of non-Euclidian geometry.
If you string all the DNA in your body together in a single chain, it's as long as 30 round trips to Jupiter
That light travels at 186,300 miles per second
There are 17 steps to 221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes residence).
Freddy Mercury’s last words were “Pee pee”
I remember this. That's hilarious for someone so talented to go out like that.
You breathe out of one nostril at a time. It goes in a cycle and is why you only really have one clogged nostril when you are sick and/or have terrible allergies.
This, as it is, is not true (and easily testable), but much like with handedness, you do favor one nostril over the other.
There are 23 stars in the paramount logo. Bonus points if you know why (I do!)
There is no word for "sad" in Japanese and lobsters urinate from their faces.
Peppers have sexes. I believe they are able self pollinate but am unsure (this made even more confusing for me). There are male and female peppers determined by the number of chambers in the pepper. Either 3 or 4.
I'd read this many, many times and then found it has since been disproven. But it's still stuck in my head when I buy peppers!!
The largest french fry is the potentater. Sadly the smallest isn’t the impotentater, it’s the minutater.
Thank you Rich Hall
Fake lashes were actually invented by prostitutes to keep c*m out of their eyes. At that time they referred to them as c*m umbrellas.
I have a ton of useless trivia knowledge, but anytime anyone asks me to just name one at random, I can't think of any. Makes me good at trivial pursuit, but bad at conversation.
Boredpanda is officially so stuck for content that they're recycling their own posts from 6 months ago.
IKR? It explains why I randomly get likes for things I wrote months ago! Man, so weird when you don't remember writing it, lol.
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The first name Madison didn't exist until the movie Splash.
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The bit of trivia I know is that the velocity of a liquid flowing through a a narrow tube (such as a blood vessel or a catheter) is directly proportional to the pressure of the liquid and the fourth power of the radius of the tube and is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the liquid and the length of the tube.
The compound that makes lightning bugs glow is called luciferin. Etymology of the word is from the Latin lucifer which means light bearing.
Vulgar latin of the medieval era, likely not the latin spoken by Julius Caesar. Lucifer is from the latin word "lux" (meaning light) and the suffix "fer" meaning carried (think of the words confer, ferry, defer, transfer). Luciferin - light carrying.
Load More Replies... Was there even ONE actually NEW "fact" on this list? I didn't have to read more than five words on each one to recognize it. Even the personal "facts" (which... why are those even included? WHO CARES???) aren't new. This is boring. Fitting, I guess. Grrrrr.
According to monty python there was a composer by this name: (from memory, spelling may be off) : Johann Gambol Putty Devon Ausfern Splaindenschlitter Crass Krenbon Fried Digger Dingle Dangle Dongle Dungle Bearstein Von Knackerthrasher Applebanger Horovitz Ticolinsinc Granderknotty Spelltinkle Grandlish Grumblemayer Spelterwasser Kurstlich Himbleisen Bandwagon Guten Abend Bitte Ein Nuremburger Bratwurstle Gespurten Mit Weimach Luber Hundsfoot Gumberaber Schoenendanker Kalbsfleisch Mittler Aucher Von Hautkopf, of Ulm. First hubby memorized it, then I did as well. We are major geeky dorks and love it!
I turned my head full of trivia into cash on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' during its first season. It's on YouTube. Look up "Stan Flouride" and it's your first hit.
If you eat an earthworm from the wrong side, it can crawl up your esophagus
What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half of a worm in your apple.
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The fact that two of the great Romantic composers died of tertiary Syphilis - Schumann and Schubert.
My entire brain is full of useless knowledge. I was blessed with a phenomenal memory, so I can tell you the name of every kid I was in class with in alphabetical order. I can tell you the names, addresses, telephone numbers and birthdays of people I haven't seen in 50 years. I can recite poems ad nauseam. I literally could entertain people all day long with the useless crud my brain is full of.
Either "CALL JG WENTWORTH 877-CASH-NOW" (specifically the one with the opera Viking) or damn it I had another one but I forgot it so :(
Does anybody else find when they try to submit a story from their phone, it limits your text to only a few characters?
if you take acutain (the acne stuff, idk how to spell it) there is a good chance your bones are green
The denty bit of skin above your lip is called your filtrum (not sure on the spelling?).
philtrum. from the ancient greek meaning love charm.
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That you aren't supposed to give any honey to a baby, because it contains small amounts of botulism in it, but small enough that it won't affect children or adults. Botulism is a toxin that can cause muscle paralysis and maybe even death. They also use botulism for Botox injections, so it will permanently relax your muscles and erase wrinkles.
Ok I remember the haiku Hyde created about Jackie in that 70s show My heart aches with pain. When I see you I vomit Die away from me I also remember spikes poem that he wrote as William in Buffy the Vampire Slayer My soul is wrapped in harsh repose Midnight descends in raven colored clothes My heart is full, tis grown a bulge in it When I espy your beauty effulgent. I also memorized the musical episode of Buffy the vampire slayer ... So. Yeah.
I can't get it out of my head that almost half of Americans buy into and repeat the obvious BS of a willfully ignorant, racist, NYC con artist who spreads tinfoil hat rumors like the one you just spouted.
Load More Replies... I have a ton of useless trivia knowledge, but anytime anyone asks me to just name one at random, I can't think of any. Makes me good at trivial pursuit, but bad at conversation.
Boredpanda is officially so stuck for content that they're recycling their own posts from 6 months ago.
IKR? It explains why I randomly get likes for things I wrote months ago! Man, so weird when you don't remember writing it, lol.
Load More Replies... The first name Madison didn't exist until the movie Splash.
Load More Replies... The bit of trivia I know is that the velocity of a liquid flowing through a a narrow tube (such as a blood vessel or a catheter) is directly proportional to the pressure of the liquid and the fourth power of the radius of the tube and is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the liquid and the length of the tube.
The compound that makes lightning bugs glow is called luciferin. Etymology of the word is from the Latin lucifer which means light bearing.
Vulgar latin of the medieval era, likely not the latin spoken by Julius Caesar. Lucifer is from the latin word "lux" (meaning light) and the suffix "fer" meaning carried (think of the words confer, ferry, defer, transfer). Luciferin - light carrying.
Load More Replies... Was there even ONE actually NEW "fact" on this list? I didn't have to read more than five words on each one to recognize it. Even the personal "facts" (which... why are those even included? WHO CARES???) aren't new. This is boring. Fitting, I guess. Grrrrr.
According to monty python there was a composer by this name: (from memory, spelling may be off) : Johann Gambol Putty Devon Ausfern Splaindenschlitter Crass Krenbon Fried Digger Dingle Dangle Dongle Dungle Bearstein Von Knackerthrasher Applebanger Horovitz Ticolinsinc Granderknotty Spelltinkle Grandlish Grumblemayer Spelterwasser Kurstlich Himbleisen Bandwagon Guten Abend Bitte Ein Nuremburger Bratwurstle Gespurten Mit Weimach Luber Hundsfoot Gumberaber Schoenendanker Kalbsfleisch Mittler Aucher Von Hautkopf, of Ulm. First hubby memorized it, then I did as well. We are major geeky dorks and love it!
I turned my head full of trivia into cash on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' during its first season. It's on YouTube. Look up "Stan Flouride" and it's your first hit.
If you eat an earthworm from the wrong side, it can crawl up your esophagus
What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half of a worm in your apple.
Load More Replies... The fact that two of the great Romantic composers died of tertiary Syphilis - Schumann and Schubert.
My entire brain is full of useless knowledge. I was blessed with a phenomenal memory, so I can tell you the name of every kid I was in class with in alphabetical order. I can tell you the names, addresses, telephone numbers and birthdays of people I haven't seen in 50 years. I can recite poems ad nauseam. I literally could entertain people all day long with the useless crud my brain is full of.
Either "CALL JG WENTWORTH 877-CASH-NOW" (specifically the one with the opera Viking) or damn it I had another one but I forgot it so :(
Does anybody else find when they try to submit a story from their phone, it limits your text to only a few characters?
if you take acutain (the acne stuff, idk how to spell it) there is a good chance your bones are green
The denty bit of skin above your lip is called your filtrum (not sure on the spelling?).
philtrum. from the ancient greek meaning love charm.
Load More Replies... That you aren't supposed to give any honey to a baby, because it contains small amounts of botulism in it, but small enough that it won't affect children or adults. Botulism is a toxin that can cause muscle paralysis and maybe even death. They also use botulism for Botox injections, so it will permanently relax your muscles and erase wrinkles.
Ok I remember the haiku Hyde created about Jackie in that 70s show My heart aches with pain. When I see you I vomit Die away from me I also remember spikes poem that he wrote as William in Buffy the Vampire Slayer My soul is wrapped in harsh repose Midnight descends in raven colored clothes My heart is full, tis grown a bulge in it When I espy your beauty effulgent. I also memorized the musical episode of Buffy the vampire slayer ... So. Yeah.
I can't get it out of my head that almost half of Americans buy into and repeat the obvious BS of a willfully ignorant, racist, NYC con artist who spreads tinfoil hat rumors like the one you just spouted.
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