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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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#1
Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Numan.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
I just saw Gary Numan in concert earlier this year and he still kills it!!! Such an amazing performer :)
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#2
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.
Final score:
395points
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
Also, polar bears are very friendly and like to wave at photographers.
Cheryl Ramsay 3 years ago
waving picture of the polar bear is awfully cute but if you were to get closer, you'd be his dinner!
Load More Replies... Antonio Peñ¹⁵ 3 years ago
Sometimes algae grows inside the hollow part and it turns the bear green. Doesn't hurt them, though.
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
They often hold a paw over their black noses when hunting, as it makes them harder to see...
Queen Shay 3 years ago
This is the same with “blue” pittbulls. They look grey. I used to yell bring your blue grey black a*s here when he was in trouble 💜💜. Called blue, grey fur black skin lol. Oh and he was a brendel (sp) so he had gold streaks just beautiful
Mary Bricklin 3 years ago
Okay, I knew about their fur being clear but they have black skin? I didn't know that but that's pretty cool.
#3
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.
Final score:
356points
blobby_grrl 3 years ago (edited)
well, its actually because they have super jacked arses so it literally is like a play-dough shaper for their poop
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Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
How do you spell autsch in english? Ouch? You know, that word you say to express that something hurts? Oh well, just imagine I wrote it in the correct way: "ouch?"
KombatBunni 3 years ago
I had the opportunity to pat one once, at a wildlife rehab. It was liking touching a scrubbing brush, only cuter :) A mum and her baby, they made really cute noises while being pet!
#4
Iceland is much less icy and much more green than Greenland.
Final score:
332points
Bettie-Jean Neal 3 years ago
I had a teacher tell me that Iceland is green and Greenland is icy.
That pigeon -> 3 years ago
Die to the fact Vikings wanted to hide Greenland from everyone else so they made it sound less appealing
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Angela Letterman 3 years ago
Greenland's land is full of ice, while Iceland's land is very nice..
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
Remember former president Trump wanting to buy Greenland from Denmark? Denmark had to literally reject this demand.
alfonso 3 years ago
Demand? To be honest, I’d want to buy Greenland to if I was president
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Merlina Merlin 3 years ago
It's just wrong translation.... in Germany Greenland is Grönland and not Grünland. Nothing to do with green (Grün). And Iceland is called Island and not Eisland. No ice (Eis) here!
Squilmo 3 years ago
I learned that from The Mighty Ducks. "Greenland is full of ice, but Iceland is very nice." Also, the knuckle puck.
ShellsBells 3 years ago
Travel tip: this spot where this pic was taken, Dyrólaey, is the best spot to take pics of puffins during season, for free.
cadena kuhn 3 years ago
Greenland is full of ice and Iceland is very nice...d2 the mighty ducks
#5
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Final score:
319points
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Like walking forward through a train and technically going faster than the train.
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
The direction of the wind, no matter how slight the wind, will have a much, much greater effect on the throwing distance than the rotation of the earth.
Chris Largent 3 years ago
It will be thrown further in space, relative to a "distant observer" (a fixed point, not attached to the earth or moving through space) within the solar system. However, relative to the thrower, the thrown distance is the same, either way, and the planet's spin doesn't matter, since both the thrower and the object exist in the same place, and the same relative velocity at the point from which the object is thrown.
Chris Largent 3 years ago
Stand at the front of a plane and drop a ball. It will still fall "straight down," from your perspective, and form the perspective of everyone else on that plane. To an observer outside of the plane, the ball is falling at an arch, and may appear to have been thrown at whatever the speed the plane is flying.
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RandomPanda 3 years ago
Okay, I need a compass and something to throw. I'm testing this one out.
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
Maybe not. Is the atmosphere rotating with the Earth? If so, then it would be better to throw east.
Hanni 3 years ago
Sharpshooters have to take the Earth's rotation into account when aiming at a far-away target.
#6
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)
Final score:
307points
ThatSunniChick 3 years ago
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 😝
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
The very best way to induce labour is to make a huge 'to do' list of all the things you want to do before the baby arrives. The baby will come at the worst time. :o)
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Samantha Green 3 years ago
Speaking of pineapple- if your canine eats thier bowel movements, it is because they are not digesting properly and it doesn't smells like poop- it still smells like dinner. If you mix some pineapple into thier next meal, it will become more acidic and stink to high hell and they will not eat it. A honey bee scout will butt you at least 3 times before it stings. The stinger is barbed and will stay with you, pulling a venom sac from its abdomen as it flies away. The sac has its own heart that will activate and begin to pump the fluid from the sac into you. Wasps have a smooth, straight stinger and will attack until they win. Yellow jackets bite but do not sting. There are sooooo many more but one last one just because its fun: Pnuemonultramicriscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis= Pnuemo- of the lung Ultamicroscopic- very small Silicovolcano- volcanic ash Coniosis- disease So... Disease of the lung by breathing volcanic ash Happy Saturday
𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
Was going to ask how many pineapples does it take to dissolve a body 🤭
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Brivid 3 years ago
In what way? I watched every episode and I never noticed. Is it always in the background?
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BannedFromABoatShow 3 years ago
When my dad was in the army he said he picked a fresh pineapple and it was the most delicious thing he’d ever eaten. So he ate another one. Two entire pineapples. He got open sores in his mouth and couldn’t eat for a week. He doesn’t eat pineapple any more.
Joyce Plaate 3 years ago
The right way to share this knowledge is to say: "When you eat a pineapple it eats you right back!"
smugdruggler 3 years ago
The enzyme in question is actually called bromelase (the " ase" suffix usually indicates an enzyme).
#7
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.")
Final score:
273points
Bruce Robb 3 years ago
I remember seeing something from the Addams Family book written to promote the TV series. One of Lurch's duties was to dust the furniture. It usually took about 30 buckets (of dust).
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VanGrusz 3 years ago
I don't agree that 'left' is a contranym then. In the second part of your sentence 'were' is the verb and 'left' is an adjective pertaining to the remaining sheep. To explain it in another way, if you use the sentence, "The sheep who were left, were left by the sheep who left" then the sheep who did the leaving performed the action, while the other were in a state affected by the action. It would be the same as to say, "The magician amazed the audience, how many members of the audience were amazed?"
Michelle Paquette 3 years ago
Called passive subjunctive. The remaining sheep were left by the three sheep. So you are correct, this is not a contranym.
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George Anderson 3 years ago
Unfortunately "literally" has been added to this list. The dictionary definition of literally has been changed to include figuratively because it's so commonly misused.
Lenn 3 years ago (edited)
umfahren (to run over something while driving) and umfahren (to dodge something while driving).... same words, slightly diffrent pronounciation, completely opposite meaning.
Rahul Pawa (Submission author) 3 years ago
I'm unfamiliar with this word...I just googled it...that's German! I hadn't considered other languages would have these too. Very interesting! Thanks for sharing
Load More Replies... Karen Clark 3 years ago
This is fascinating. I'd never heard of "contranyms".......🤷♀️.....thank you.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
"Sanction" is another. It means either to condone behavior or to punish for it.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
As does "endorse". It used to be in Britain that driving offences would see your licenced endorsed.
Load More Replies... Seraphim 3 years ago (edited)
Oversight 1a : watchful and responsible care you to whom oversight of the University is entrusted — N. M. Pusey b : regulatory supervision congressional oversight The new manager was given oversight of the project. 2 : an inadvertent omission or error whether by oversight or intention — G. B. Shaw The error was a simple oversight.
Apatheist 62 3 years ago
Temper - means to strengthen (as in tempered steel) or to weaken (as in a logical argument).
Turnip and a Frog 3 years ago
The whole Present Perfect Tense - as something that has just finished and something that still continues. I like that kind of weird.
#8
Finland is home to the most metal bands per capita, with around 53.5 metal bands per 100,000 people.
Final score:
270points
Sar-kei Scyence 3 years ago
With an average of 4 members per band that means 0.214% of the population is in a metal band.
ToyWyvern 3 years ago
What if all 100,000 people were in the 53.5 metal bands? Each band has 1,869 people, but the never play out because they all want to be the songwriter.
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rumple slunkskin 3 years ago
They're not angry, simply leaning into the darkness🌚
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#9
A day on venus is longer than a year on venus
Final score:
266points
Sabs 3 years ago (edited)
The time it takes to rotate around the sun (planetary year) is shorter than the physical rotation of the planet (day night cycle) basically it’s slower at rotating around its own axis than around the sun.
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Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
As the Venusians say, "Sometimes it feels like this day will never end."
Dawn ;))) (Submission author) 3 years ago
Also, colorado is called the centennial state because it was founded exactly 100 years after the US became a country, in 1876.
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago
Looking at the picture, I thought it was some kind of muffin seen from above.
Draga Millani 2 years ago
So it rotates on its axis slower than it goes around the sun I guess
#10
A city in California has the Goodyear Blimp as its official bird.
Final score:
265points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
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.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
Did you know certain states have Bigfoot hunting season but you have to buy proper tags just incase you nab one
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January Tempis 3 years ago
I used to live there. Wherever we heard the blimp going over, we felt compelled to yell, "da blimp, da blimp!" And somehow I had no idea that the thing was our official "bird."
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RandomPanda 3 years ago
Yeah, as a Californian I can confirm. We do some pretty weird s**t.
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TheBadHalfofHel 3 years ago
Redondo Beach When officials in Redondo Beach went looking for a vehicle to promote the city's virtues before the 1984 Olympics, it decided to ride the blimp's good name onto the airwaves. The city, with Goodyear's blessing, adopted the blimp as its official city bird and made headlines across the nation.
#11
Teeth pop like popcorn when heated.
Final score:
263points
FreeBird * 3 years ago
So burn my victims so they can't be identified via dental records. Noted.
Orange Is Aging 3 years ago
Why didn’t I learn this when I was 3 so that I could make a lost tooth collecation and pop them. I 100% would have
#12
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.
Final score:
257points
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
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?
Mr. Sasquatch Guy (Submission author) 3 years ago
Their appearance can change to human, if necessary, but yes, a truly evil person would be terrified regardless of form. A truly good person who sees an angel may be startled but will gaze in awe and wonder.
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𝙸'𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚘𝚋!(new account) 3 years ago
I read that as "angles" and the whole thing started getting weird real quick. Literally my thought process: "...both beautiful and yet among the most terrifying beings- wtf. is this really about angles?? *concerned face*"
Mr. Sasquatch Guy (Submission author) 3 years ago
Hehe. A triangle with wings, now THAT would be hilarious.
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JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
I think the top three are most accurate and have the most biblical description.
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Ty Stratton-Quirk 3 years ago
"Be-- Be not af-- How am I supposed to tell you 'Be not afraid' if you won't stop screaming?!?"
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Is this a fact though? Should we be doing "facts" about make-believe creatures? And the Bible isn't even original in coming up with angels. There are sculptures of winged humans dating back to ancient Sumeria (about 3000 BCE). That's before humans came up with monotheism as a thing. So this is like saying that in real life elves are really these tall beautiful immortal creatures because that's the way Tolkien describes them. But stories about elves existed for hundreds of years before Tolkien was born (maybe thousands). Relatively speaking, Christianity is just a Johnny-Come-Lately as far as angels are concerned. So FALSE, and also there are no FACTS about FICTION!
Aspen Wolf 3 years ago
Hey I know everyone has different beliefs, but could we all just respect each other please? Not trying to sound mean or anything, just asking
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Earl Grey 3 years ago
But how many of them can dance on the head of a pin? That issue remains unsettled.
oddly_informed_raven 3 years ago
well, most of them are bad at dancing, but Aziraphale can
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
It's okay, if you can get them to look at each other. Then they're quantum locked forever.
Load More Replies... Shoto Todoroki 3 years ago (edited)
The one made entirely of rings and eyes, but I think I read somewhere that there is a ranking of types of angels. Kinda link wolf pack ranks. And the humanoid ones are lower ranking. And the ones who ask you not be afraid are higher ranking.
Kevin J. Henning 3 years ago
My wife is both beautiful and fearsome. It just depends on how far I think I should push her.
#13
The word for thinking about your thinking is metacognition. It only comes in handy when you're trying to impress teachers.
Final score:
256points
Leon Lewis 3 years ago
The word for not quite remembering a specific word or name (i.e.,that "tip of the tongue" feeling) is "lethologica".
Mikawa 3 years ago
I guarantee you later I will be trying to share this with someone and experience lethologica while trying to remember lethologica while experiencing metacognition thinking about why I can't remember lethologica.
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Wise beauty 3 years ago
We were going through a logic course in ela and metacognition came up, I have an identity crises or two during that time.
#14
Cats have 38 muscles in each ear
Final score:
255points
KittenLord 3 years ago
To be fair, it takes quite a few muscles to consistently ignore you lol
Mary Bricklin 3 years ago
I didn't know that but i can believe it. Grew up around cats, I've seen how they move their ears.
Ladi Fuller 3 years ago
I wonder how many dogs have. My doggie can be laying down and I call his name and he doesn't answer. But when he hears a bag of chips open he pops right up.
#15
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".
Final score:
245points
Lisa Edwardsen (Submission author) 3 years ago
Thanks! I spent some time researching the origin of popular phrases and found them very fascinating.
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Jon Lee 3 years ago
Unfortunately completely untrue. Most people couldn't afford a coffin and were buried in shrouds. If they could afford one, they wouldn't reuse one. See here for the origin of dead ringers. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead-ringer.html
Lisa Edwardsen (Submission author) 3 years ago
Well as they say, you can't believe everything you read on the internet. Thanks!
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josh wampler 3 years ago
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.
Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, as in look-alike people also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ringer_(idiom) Here's the other connected to that... https://grammarist.com/idiom/saved-by-the-bell/#:~:text=Saved%20by%20the%20bell%20means,be%20awarded%20to%20his%20opponent.
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Only if by "not entirely true" you actually mean "completely incorrect"
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Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
You believe wrong. "Saved by the bell" was popularised in the 1930s as a boxing term. None of this post is true.
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Crissie Laugesen 3 years ago
BS. The term originated in the USA in 19th century horse racing slang: it means a useless horse presented falsely under another, better horse's credentials.
Oliver Nelson 3 years ago
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."
Stephanie Barr 3 years ago
I've read this before but I think this is apocryphal. I don't think the string and bell were a widespread tendency, though I know it was a concern of Poe's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ringer_(idiom)
#16
The tip of your elbow is called your wenis.
Final score:
236points
Pearl 3 years ago
what a perfect name..especially as everyone is trying to lick it all the time
Glynna Bowood 3 years ago
Weenus (or weenis or wenis) is a slang word for the excess or loose skin at the joint of one's elbow, which is technically referred to as olecranal skin.-per Merriam- Webster
Allen Lavine 3 years ago
Stop making things less funny with you College definitions ( jp thanks for that have a Merry March 16th)
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Jojo Dancer 3 years ago
Don’t you just hate when you accidentally bang your wenis on something?
BravePanda 3 years ago
I am married now but after years of online dating, I must admit that if I got a weenis pic from a nerdy linguistic type, I'd be in tears laughing. This could be a solid game plan.
Load More Replies... Jenna Anderson 3 years ago
The tip o the elbow is technically called olecranal skin. Wenis is a slang term.
Penelope 2 3 years ago
'friends' moment. "The . . . the wenis?" don't quite recall who said it.
Jeremy Williams 3 years ago
I don't remember who specifically asked him like that (maybe the newer hired lady in office?) but it was Chandler that first said it. WENUS - Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistic, iirc
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lapis lazuli 3 years ago
everyone at my elementary school would always say wanna touch my weenis?! then people would be grossed out but they would just show their elbow lol.
#17
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.
Final score:
232points
Allen Lavine 3 years ago
I will not try this when I'm drunk I will not try this when I'm drunk I would not try this when I'm drunk hand me that lightbulb let me show y'all a trick
Partsqueen 3 years ago
LMAO!!! Exactly! This is kinda a dangerous thing to tell people because now I really need to know if it's true or not. I can see this being the next : "hold my beer, I got this" challenge.
Load More Replies... Nora12 3 years ago
There is no proof this is the case. This is an urban legend which said that if you put an ordinary (those round, not energy efficient) lightbulb in your mouth it will get stuck and you will need to get to a hospital or break it in your mouth. The legend may have come about due to the fact that if you put the wide end in first, it feels like it is trapped behind your teeth. Of course, if you can open your mouth wide enough to put it in there, you can get it out again. The problem could be people panicking when it becomes difficult to remove (children etc), and end up pulling it out too quick and breaking it with your teeth.
Sleepy children love Moon 3 years ago
What... I think I want to hear the story behind this please
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Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago (edited)
"Either this guy has a lightbulb up his a$s or his colon has a great idea" - Dr C0x, Scrubs (yes, it censored C0x)
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#18
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.
Final score:
228points
Phyzzi 3 years ago
I, personally, use this fact every time I launch a space-bound rocket. :)
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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
I guess that pertains to "you can throw further if you throw to the east"
Stephanie Barr 3 years ago
The "to the East" is so that they can launch over water rather than possibly populated land. Launches from the West coast are often going for polar orbits.
#19
Squirrels don’t remember where they buried their acorns. They just bury so many that it’s easy to find one wherever they dig.
Final score:
220points
Breeezy78 3 years ago
They use spatial memory.. and can use landmarks as reference points and distance between each stash. Sometimes even placing the same types of nuts in each different stash. I believe it's called chunking. Just from research and study.. we'll never really know what those twitchy little shifty fuzz balls are up to
Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
Okay, I read on a previous Panda post that they buried their nuts in a grid pattern. It leads me to believe some of this stuff is just being made up on the spur of the moment.
Satan Laughs 3 years ago
You called it! Agree 100%. Which, is not cool if you’re here to learn something cool as the title of the article suggests.
Load More Replies... Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago (edited)
I don't believe that is true. If it was why should they trouble themselves to hide from other squirrels where they bury them? If they forget some, that is understandable, when they are hiding so many
Piper L 3 years ago
You're right, and the caches they forget can, globally, equate to millions of trees sprouting.
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over it already 3 years ago
Well, spring is showing me that _my_ squirrels didn't eat my tulip bulbs in the fall as I thought, but rather redistributed them in multiple random spots across my yard.
#20
Pigs can actually run faster than people. As prey animals, they evolved to run away a lot.
Final score:
205points
Hope Cows&Chickens 3 years ago (edited)
I lived on a farm and became the go-to pig catcher cuz I was young (& dumb) enough to dive for those back legs! Always thought it was weird, how they'd wheelbarrow walk without a fight once their hind legs were raised.Now if I tried that I'd probably break a hip or something!
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E B 3 years ago
Very many things can run faster than humans, we just run longer without overheating. (Also, try catching a toddler running for the road sometime, it's terrifying!!)
Dynein 3 years ago
Right. Compared with other species, humans are champion marathon runners. And since endurance requires a different type of muscle than quick strength, this means that a lot of animals can outrun us over a *short* distance. Over a long distance, though, humans can chase animals until they collapse from exhaustion.
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François Carré 3 years ago
You also get to know that quite an unfortunate way if their cousin the wild boar is charging at you.
Carter Theothermichael 3 years ago
Prey animals? Other than man not too many creatures (even carnivores) wiIl mess with a 400-600 lb pig let alone piggies wild bro the Boar 🐗
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Having once had to chase escaped piglets, I can confirm this to be true.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
Give one an orgasm before you go to kill it. Then you've got 30 minutes of it going nowhere.
Lizzie Smith 3 years ago
My great great grandad won a pound for catching a greased pig at a fair in Australia in 1860!
#21
Without mucus your stomach would digest itself.
Final score:
197points
Dawn ;))) 3 years ago
You wouldnt be able to taste it. If it was already in your stomach then the taste buds wouldnt be there
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Elizabeth Guss 3 years ago
Bile is produced by the liver, not the stomach. It is caustic though. The stomach produces hydrochloric acid.
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🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
So I may out myself as a weirdo with one but what the hell...a lot of times I'll do that thing where I kinda snort and then just swallow the mucus that collects in the back of my throat instead of blowing my nose. It's always been my belief that I don't have the same GI problems that my siblings do because of this, the theory being that all that extra mucus provides me some extra protection in my stomach.
#22
That giraffes mostly sleep standing up and only for like 30 minutes a day.
Final score:
189points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Me too. Also their tongues are blue to act as sunscreen.
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Unknown 3 years ago
Sorry, untrue, I used to work with a small herd in a zoo, my favorite part of the day was coming into the giraffe Barn in the morning, and seeing them curled up with their heads wrapped up their backs. They can't let their heads drop below their hearts, their blood pressure is so strong that it will cause an aneurysm or stroke almost immediately and kill them. Their hearts can theoretically pump liquid up into an airplane from where they stand....
Jennifer Crompton 3 years ago
If they can never put their heads below their hearts, then how do they ever drink water?
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Warrior Mama 3 years ago
I stayed at a hotel once with giraffes on property. Was excited to be there and woke early - opened the curtain a little, and saw a giraffe sleeping right outside the window. It was lying down, but its neck was vertical and swaying slightly as it breathed
That Random Pjo Fan 3 years ago
"and only for like 30 minutes a day" me in the corner be like ✋ that's me
Elizabeth Butler 3 years ago
Dolphins and whales must breathe at the surface or drown. To avoid drowning while sleeping, they sleep with only one side of the brain at a time.
Stymied Egan 3 years ago
Prey animals can't sleep for long periods. I wonder if they sleep in shifts.
#23
Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.
Final score:
184points
Swastik34 3 years ago
Your thinking about writing "I am speed" is actually speed.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago (edited)
order some more myelin sheathing to cover your nerves with
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#24
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!
Final score:
174points
Manuel Delgado 3 years ago
Nope. The doctor is the "otorrinolaringólogo".
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L. Antonio Hidalgo Rodríguez 3 years ago
Actually, we don't use 1 word to describe ear, nose and throat. The otorrinolaringólogo(a) is the ear, nose and throat specialist in medicine. The specialization is called otorrinolarongología. Otorrinolaringologista is not a word in Spanish.
LakeMonster 3 years ago
That's why we call ear. nose, and throat doctors otolaryngologists. And THAT is why we call them ENT's for short.
OneHappyPuppy 3 years ago
It's a greek word for the ear nose and throat doctor, I didn't know Spanish people use it too
#25
Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to us in time than they were to stegosaurus.
Final score:
174points
oktopus 3 years ago
Cleopatra is close to the iPhone in time than Salvador Dali was to the Brontosaurus.
#26
The average person has four to six dreams a night.
Final score:
170points
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
And the brain has certain setups that occur every now and then in your dreams. I often dream of the same fictional places.
Jonathan K 3 years ago
I have a reoccurring mall that doesn't exist. Stores may change but the general flow of the mall never changes. I'll wake up and recall a dream that took place in a store and realize it was at this dream mall from some small fact or parking lot feature.
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Piper L 3 years ago
You cannot create faces in your dreams. Every single face you dream, you have seen in waking life, even if only for a microsecond.
LittleWombat 3 years ago
I always wonder if we dream not of fictional places but other lives, either prior lives or concurrent lives on a different plane of existence.
Tris Hunt 3 years ago
So basically Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness? It does seem plausible.
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Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
I have a house that reappears in dreams, but it always looks different.
Allen Lavine 3 years ago
If there's some kids jumping rope singing "1,2 Freddys coming for" wake up set up some booby traps ask your dad to wake you up in a few minutes go have a conversation with your mom then go back to sleep
Load More Replies... Shana Hay 3 years ago
I don't remember my dreams very often, but last year I was in a coma and hallucinated/dreamed SO much. I was out for 3 weeks and lived a couple lifetimes in my head. I had to sit with my family when I woke up and ask if things were true memories or not because they were so vivid!
Vic_UA 3 years ago
I wonder why some people often remember their dreams, while others done? I remeber having a dream just like several times, all other nights it's just blank.
LittleWombat 3 years ago
You can actually work on remembering them - your dream memories fade very quickly when you wake up because during sleep, you don't create new memories. Try saying out loud, writing down, or just recalling repeatedly what happens and you'll become more adept at bridging that gap between no memory and being able to create a memory. Eventually you do remember more dreams! I finally remember almost every dream every night!
Load More Replies... ThatBiBookLover 3 years ago
Sometimes I’m actually able to control dreams. The one time I was able to open portals to other worlds was awesome :D
Kyria Denton 3 years ago
My favorite dreams are the ones I control, I usually choose to fly
Load More Replies... #27
The okay hand symbol means "pay me" in Japan. Thanks, Nat geographic!
Final score:
170points
Holvnn Olive Ntivuguruzwa 3 years ago
This is the reason I stopped using that emoji
Load More Replies... UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
And white supremacists are trying to claim and ruin it now. 🖕🏼racists for messing with 👌🏼!
Jupiter Davis 3 years ago
it started as a joke on 4chan but then the media got wind of it and took it seriously.
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September 3 years ago
It means many different things all over the place. The human hand is only capable of so many easily made configurations of palm and digits so it's inevitable.
*Displayname*=idk (Submission author) 3 years ago
If I am correct, I believe my mother said something like that. And I find cultures all over the world interesting.
Load More Replies... Jupiter Davis 3 years ago
yeah it was a joke at first but then the media took it seriously and here we are today.
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#28
Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
Final score:
168points
Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago
Some cats simply want to have what you are having, but if it is made with cream that explains this
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Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago
It is not really a defect. They are not fruit eaters, so they need not be able to taste if the fruit is ripe
Kim Kermes 3 years ago
I caught my cat licking powdered sugar off of a donut. She was getting something out of it.
Sharon Jahnke 3 years ago
Mitty kitty likes the frosting off donuts. And eats the take and bake bread if left on the table to bake later
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
If they can't, then why are people warned that cats are attracted to antifreeze (which is poisonous) because of its sweet taste?
Shannon Mallory 3 years ago
Tell that to my cat who would climb your body for a piece of your Hershey bar! No one ever told her chocolate is toxic to cats, either, and she ate chocolate until she died peacefully at age 19.
Allan Breum 3 years ago
This is, technically, not entirely true; Most cats can't taste sweet things, about 70% of them, but the last 30% can taste sweetness.
Ann Dennis 3 years ago
Now that I can believe. I've had too many cats that were clearly fond of sweet things to believe that all cats can't taste sweetness.
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Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
It's true. Cats lack the taste receptors for sweetness. Here's an interesting explanation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-cats-cannot-taste-sweets/
Alonso Victoria 3 years ago
As a Veterinary in the school told us it's because cats relate sweetness on the food with decay, so if something is sweet it taste rotten to the cat.
#29
Americans spend around 2.5 days each year in total looking for their lost things.
Final score:
161points
Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago
I think there must be pixies here, because even quite big things can be hard to find. Once we spent a week looking for a 7 m gutter
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Jason Marin 3 years ago
That's not true. I've spent practically my whole life looking for my marbles. Still can't find them.
Sturgeon 3 years ago
Worse still, I have things I keep because I can't remember their purpose - strange keys, plugs. plastic bits etc. Recently a half meter white painted metal bar with a u shaped cut turned up on the landing - neither my wife or I have any idea what it is but feel we can't throw it out in case its important!
Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
I wonder if Jimmy found his shaker of salt yet. Maybe those cowboys Paula Cole sang about know something. 🤨🤔
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
How long do people from other countries spend looking for their money?
Hey! 3 years ago
Zero for me. I only use my credit cards or my husband pays.
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Giraffes use their necks to generate momentum with their heads when they fight.
Final score:
153points
𝙸'𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚘𝚋!(new account) 3 years ago
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
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
A standing group of giraffes is called a tower, but a group of traveling giraffes is called a journey of giraffes. I love them.
Sabs 3 years ago (edited)
They can also strike with enough force and momentum to break not only their rivals neck but their own. There was a giraffe that was found with a healed neck fracture, he had a noticeable angle to his neck. https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/giraffe-survives-battle-injury-adapts-to-life-with-zig-zag-neck-photos/
Hope Cows&Chickens 3 years ago
I've seen videos of guy giraffes fighting over a girl giraffe. They get vicious! And the sound of their head hitting the other guys body, freaky!
Hanni 3 years ago
And some scientist think (and so do I) that's why giraffes' neck is long, beacuse the longer the neck the bigger the slam and the longer necked giraffe wins the fight. And it will mate with the females. And the next generation inherits the longer neck, so it's an evolutionary advantage.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Well, one of the reasons. It is rare that evolutionary change happens because of a single evolutionary driver.
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Carol Ramsey 3 years ago
Which animal has more bones in it's neck, giraffe or pig? Trick question. All mammals have 7 bones in their neck.
#31
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.
Final score:
150points
Madeleine Flowers 3 years ago
For all of you Phineas and Ferb watchers out there, you must recognize that. There was an entire episode all about aglets.
An Unpopular Opinion. 3 years ago
I was looking for this :) I knew it had to be somewhere (thanks, Phineas and Ferb)
Lyoness 3 years ago
Unless you've seen the Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail". In which case they're called "fluglebinders".
Wendell Mitchell 3 years ago
I learned it from Justice League Unlimited. Their true purpose is sinister.
Seadog 3 years ago
According to Brian Flannagan (Tom Cruise) they're called Flugelbinders.
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#32
LEGO is the number producer of wheels in the entire world.
Final score:
142points
Sarah Grace Bennett 3 years ago
How dare you open my eyes to this reality 😳
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Lsai Aeon 3 years ago
I'm guessing they were typing too fast for their brain to keep up. LEGO is the number one (1) producer of wheels in the entire world
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
I had to scroll up again to check if the "one" was really missing - my brain just added it on its own... Also, why am I seing an article that seems to be months old?
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Robert T 3 years ago
They are also the largest tyre manufacturer in the world (by number of tyres produced).
C.M. 3 years ago
If fairly confident that is what OP was trying to say, not realizing that wheels and tires are actually different things. But, I suppose both would be true.
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All's Gravy 3 years ago
No! Incorrect! LEGO are the number 1 manufacturer of tyres in the world.
cogadh 3 years ago
Indeed. Though I can't imagine they produce fewer wheels than tires.
Load More Replies... Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
The number producer? They produce the numbers that are on all wheels in the world?
#33
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.
Final score:
141points
Sunny Day 3 years ago
On that note - What is the last thing to pass through a bug's mind as it hits the windshield of a car going 65mph? Answer - its a**
Chris Osborn 3 years ago
Some days you're the the windshield, some days you're the bug.
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RJ 3 years ago
There's a serious lack of appreciation for dad jokes on BP
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 3 years ago
Mine too! I think of food then it goes into my stomach.
Sven Anderson 3 years ago
According to the Nat Geo animal show I just watched, squid (and cuttlefish) don't have a "brain" but have most of their neurons in their tentacles.
#34
That DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. I've known it since the 4th grade. I'm 57
Final score:
139points
over it already 3 years ago
No worries, just act basic and it'll all even out.
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Karen Armadillo 3 years ago
Yeah! I'm 70 & I learned it way back when. Mrs Eaton always included science words in our vocabulary lists and spelling bees.
SmooshyFries 3 years ago
My 4th grade fact I remember thanks to Mr.Bowman, the PE teacher, is there are 206 bones in the human body. I'm 52. Some things just stick in our brains
Chloe Barnes 2 years ago
why is basically everything in our body asid!? we have stomach acid, DNA ASID! WHATS NEXT?! A** ASID!?
#35
Heteropaternalsuperfecumdation is the term for when a woman has twins with different fathers. It's very rare.
Final score:
137points
Cheyanne Pavan 3 years ago
My twins looked so different as babies that a handful of strangers actually asked me if they had the same father!
Mousey 3 years ago
My best friend had twin girls. One looks just like her and one looks just like their dad and they don't look like each other at all!
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Nah, it's English. There are words for stuff that never happens. This is a scientific term, and likely does happen in the animal kingdom, so the term had to be invented.
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Mikey Kliss 3 years ago (edited)
How does that work? I have younger brothers who are twins that were 2 sperms that fertilized the same egg. Didnt know that was possible previously
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
Ovulate more than one egg. Have sex with more than one person in a short amount of time.
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Andrew Pugg 3 years ago
There is a story on my news feed about a 19 Yr old giving birth to twins with different fathers recently
Elaine Morinelli 3 years ago
How is this even possible? Ah no wait I get it. The twins are not identical.
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
My cat Fluffy had five kittens and all looked different. One had Fluffy colouring rest all from 4 different fathers I think.
#36
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.
Final score:
136points
Tara Quail 3 years ago
That makes sense. I remember reading that the majority of dust is mainly skin cells that have come off the body.
over it already 3 years ago
My garage can confirm that sawdust is a very different story. Also, don't try to burn your sawdust.
Shawnna Clement 3 years ago
And how does the average person know what burning flesh smells like :O
Kawaii Potato 3 years ago
one problem.... what if you don't know what burning flesh smells like?
Lorraine R 3 years ago
Burning skin smells much the same as burning hair.
Load More Replies... SmooshyFries 3 years ago
You tell almost everyone you meet, huh? Hows that circle of friends coming along?
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Oh yeah. Ever light a dusty candle? Turn on a heater without dusting it first? It is horrible.
Shawnna Clement 3 years ago
A body being cremated smells like french fries. I didn't realize that I was working near a crematorium and commented that I got hungry every time I walked outside. Cue the nausea once I was told.
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Hippopotamus milk is pink.
Final score:
134points
Phillip Hector 3 years ago
Wrong. Milk is a highly modified form of sweat.
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That a narwhal horn is actually a tooth ._.
Final score:
131points
the_casscass 3 years ago
My son got a book at his book fair, on narwhals, he was like WHAT when I read it to him. Then I was like, okay time to introduce him the the Wild Krats show. Lol
smugdruggler 3 years ago
That's correct. It's keratin, the same thing hair is made from..
Load More Replies... Nega Rosenberg 3 years ago
Technically it's a tusk. An elongated tooth is called a tusk. In Narwals it is the left canine tooth.
D. Pitbull 3 years ago
This is true... poor Narwhals with their single big-a-- spirally buck tooth... and there are still people out there who think a Narwhal is as made-up as a unicorn (sigh)... apparently narwhal tusk/tooth was what was often sold back in ye olden times as a "unicorn horn". it's got that nice spiral to it.
#39
They found 7 tons of human hair when they liberated Auschwitz.
Final score:
128points
Seadog 3 years ago
Worse yet are the schools that are actually teaching the Holocaust didn't really happen. Along with many other historical facts.
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Karolina Strużyńska 3 years ago
This amount was found when the camp was liberated. Throughout the war, these hair, clothes, rings, glasses and everything were transported out on a regular basis. What was found is a small part which the Nazis did not take away because the war was ending. It is out of imagination
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Of all the "useless" information I already have floating in my head, this is one I definitely did not need. :(
Petra Moon 3 years ago
Gut wrenching. The nazis processed humans through death factories. They used their hair to stuff mattresses, the gold from teeth and to recycled their jewellery, clothes etc. beyond evil.
Ladi Fuller 3 years ago
I actually been there on a field trip when I lived in Germany. Not pleasant at all
#40
A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in the year 2000 would be amazons like Wonder Woman.
Final score:
126points
Wolf gal 3 years ago
*grabs spear and bow* haha yeah losers we're all lesbians now (I mean what other explanation is there for a tribe full of ladies, they have to be lesbians)
Nega Rosenberg 3 years ago
The Amazons lived on the Black Sea in Anatolia. Not in South America like most people think
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
We had women flying invisible (stealth) aircraft by then. But on behalf all members of my sex I am glad they haven't developed a lasso that makes us tell the truth.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
Look up the Dahomey Amazons... Some women I definately wouldn't wanna mess with
#41
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "A B C D E F G" sound the same
Final score:
124points
Antony Aston 3 years ago
Baa Baa Black Sheep = Somebody That I Used to Know...
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Robert Boney 3 years ago
When my daughter was very young I sang to her a version of Twinkle, ABC, and Baa Baa Black Sheep combined; if I tried to sing any of them individually she would stop me and beg me to sing the “right” way.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
Papa Can You Hear Me (Barbara Streisand) and Do You Want to Build A Snowman (Frozen sdtk). Thank you, Deadpool.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
You can sing Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun and to the Gilligan's Island theme interchangeably.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
And you can sing all of Emily Dickinson's poems to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once you realize that, there's no turning back.
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#42
That the smell of rain is called petrichor. We get it. Read it a few thousand times from people thinking their smart.
Final score:
123points
Jonathan Nichols 3 years ago
It's not the smell of rain. It's the smell of the ground when rain has fallen on it.
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
Clarification: Petrichor is not the smell "of rain", it is the smell during or immediately after rain. You are actually smelling organic substances such as plant oils and soil-based bacterias that are being released into the air after being hit by raindrops.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
So, the definition of "petrichor" here is incorrect, as is the use of "their". Maybe shut up and listen to the smart people.
Robert T 3 years ago
It is the smell of billions of bacteria letting out little burps of joy! :D
Marcellium 3 years ago
my fave part about this is how we can smell it in concentrations as low as 0.4 parts per /Billion/! that's the real cool part to me :-)!
#43
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
Final score:
119points
Wolf gal 3 years ago
Aardwolves are the best. I like to imagine that they're actually the result of someone breeding g and aardvark with a wolf and not having the heart to get rid of it
Amaranthim Talon 3 years ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/cute-wild-animals-aardwolf/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Load More Replies... Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Hyenas are also relatives of mongooses(yes, that's the correct plural)and-TIL- meerkats!
Quitethedilemma 3 years ago
I've never heard of aardwolves before. Thank you I'm going check them out now.
Satya Bain 3 years ago
There's a play we did in high school in the 70's. Hair of the Aardwolf. The narrator was SO southern (yep, from the South) he pronounced it aardwoof. I had trouble with my lines after he said it in his narration. If you look it up, I played Pennylope. Pronounced the way it's spelled, not like Penelope.
#44
Australia is the only country which eats its National animals. And they’re delicious!
Final score:
114points
Danielle Williams-Smith 3 years ago
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
Captain Awesome (Submission author) 3 years ago
Valid. I accept your argument. Let's have a bbq!
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Jean-Daniel Mohier 3 years ago
Nope : French people also eat theirs. Roosters : Coq au vin ;-)
Zipzapzo 3 years ago
Scotlands national animal is the unicorn so that would be interesting
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Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
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
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
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.
#45
Woodpeckers have a special membrane between their beak and skull that act as a shock absorbent.
Final score:
49points
Gary chattin 3 years ago
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.
#46
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.
Final score:
47points
Sarah Schumm 3 years ago
“I’m angry at numbers! There’s like, too many of them!” Will always be my favorite Bevis and Butthead joke.
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
There are more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are on the entire number line. Not all infinities are the same...strange but true.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
But all the numbers between 0 and 1 are already on the number line. So the entire number line contains the numbers between 0 and 1 and infinitely many others, thus giving it more than the interval between 0 and 1. But yes, not all infinities are equivalent - there are hierarchies of infinity.
Load More Replies... Robert T 3 years ago
Smaller as in fractions or decimal points, not just integers.
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Making out burns 2calories for every minute you kiss-snapple lid
Final score:
46points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
Gonna be skinny-- kiss for 8 days straight! (This is clearly a joke. I haven't even did the math)
David Fier 3 years ago
23,040 calories would be burned if you did nothing but make out for 8 straight days
Load More Replies... Jason Marin 3 years ago
Snapple lid: Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo is a gramatically correct sentence Me: No, it isn't. It just the same word being repeated.
#48
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.
Final score:
45points
#49
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.
Final score:
43points
John C (Submission author) 3 years ago
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.
Phyzzi 3 years ago
That's okay, quasars and supernova are individually visible at that distance and those are almost stars, and the light we see from other galaxies is largely made up of other stars, so it would be splitting hairs to call this out.
Load More Replies... Captain Awesome 3 years ago
I get your point, but I'd just like to point out that photons have no concept of time...
Phyzzi 3 years ago
I've been to a small conference made up of people teaching relativity (SR and GR) and trust me, even among people who "understand" time dilation, it's something most people have to sit down and work out. Anyway, don't feel bad at all if things like time dilation or quantum probability don't make sense to you, even really brilliant people struggle with them sometimes.
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Philip Castellano 3 years ago
If a photon is traveling the speed of light, and it take 8 minutes for light from our sun to reach earth, why would the photon's perspective be that it just left our sun? Light doesn't bend space and time to instantaneously reach a point across the galaxy/universe. It has to travel, right? So how could the photon have a perspective of instantaneous travel?
PolymathNecromancer 3 years ago
According to relativity, time slows as one nears the speed of light and stops at it.
Load More Replies... #50
Mercury is the planet that is closest to all the others in the solar system.
Final score:
40points
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
there is a video done on that by cgp grey:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU check it out
Load More Replies... Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Enjoy Mercury while you can. Eventually the sun's gravitational pull will suck it into oblivion and Venus will be the new Mercury, Earth the new Venus, and Mars the new Earth...muwhahahahaha!
Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago
But you will have som billions of years till then
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Eli's vlogs of awsome 3 years ago
Yes becase its orbit it stays the closest to all the other planets for a certain amount of time but the longest time than another planets time closest and im 9 im smart peaple
#51
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 :) )
Final score:
37points
William Stevenson 3 years ago
The line and word count could vary depending on edition and language. The book and chapter citations should be consistent.
Saucy Aussie 3 years ago
The number 7 is a very important number throughout the series. 7 books 7 years at Hogwarts 7 horcruxes Harry’s quidditch number is 7 Harry defied death at the hands of Voldy 7 times 7 core subjects 7 potters in deathly hallows 7 Weasley kids I wasn’t able to make my own post, so I commented here. Sorry
Elaine Morinelli 3 years ago
You should try listening to the audio books as well. Jim Dale, the performer, is amazing with all the different voices.
#52
penguins propose to eachother with their favourite rocks :))
Final score:
37points
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Their laws don't allow divorce. Code of Penguin.
Load More Replies... LittleWombat 3 years ago
We kinda do that with sparkly rocks we like... now if only we could stay with that one faithfully the rest of our lives too!
#53
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.
Final score:
37points
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
As did the women feel before the stethoscope was invented. Thanks Doc!
#54
"The Earth is an oblate rotational ellipsoid - but you don't have to remember that." - my geography teacher 20 years ago
Final score:
35points
InvincibleRodent 3 years ago
Technically "geoid" is also used (to describe the shape the planet takes underneath the oceans afaik), which pretty much just means "Earth-shaped".
FabulousMari 3 years ago
Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows the earth is a bunch of dirt on the back of a turtle. Here, let me cite my source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle
#55
The sun is 93 million miles away
Final score:
34points
smugdruggler 3 years ago
From the surface of the sun it takes around 8 minutes 30 seconds. A photon generated in the centre of the sun takes about 30,000 years 8 minutes 30 seconds due to having to overcome the sun's gravity.
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Living Example 3 years ago
What I think is crazy is that even though the sun is 92 million miles away it can still can burn you! Damn!
#56
Carpenters do have 9½ fingers on average...
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34points
L.N.a mm 3 years ago
Omg that's hilarious. My carpenter dad was missing half his thumb (non carpenter related accident)
Lenn (Submission author) 3 years ago
see? x'D I'm lucky I have still left all 10, but no warranty that I will keep them. I'm only 25 and pretty clumsy lol
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 3 years ago
When I got my radial arm saw my woodworking brother said that I just double the chance that a member of our family would have a finger reduction. We both still have them all, but there've been some close calls.
#57
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)
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33points
CelticElff 3 years ago
And when people bought his album "Best of the Beatles" they did not get what they were expecting!
Michael Largey 3 years ago
During Beatlemania, ex-Beatle Pete Best put out an album titled "Best of the Beatles". I forget who won the lawsuit.
Heather Daniels 3 years ago
He claims he does not regret not getting the bowl cut (which is what got him replaced), but I find that hard to believe.
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Brenda 3 years ago
Tom wasn't replaced until shortly before they came to the US for the first time.
🥖baguette~be~vibin🥖 (Submission author) 3 years ago
Seriously, who is Tom?
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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.
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33points
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
Here’s the lyrics if anyone wants to try singing it now lol: Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind but now I see 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come This grace that brought me safe thus far And grace will lead me home When we've been here ten thousand years Bright, shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first begun Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind but now I see
Michael Largey 3 years ago
"Amazing Grace" was written as a poem by John Newton in 1772, unconnected to any melody. Later people found various tunes to match up with it.
Mike Miller 3 years ago
Also Peaceful Easy Feeling (the Eagles). Keep the original chorus ᅳ it fits
Scott Anderson 3 years ago
I'm just sitting right back and hearing the tale of this fateful tip
#59
Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.
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30points
David Gripon 3 years ago
And the reason the bottle is labeled, "Tomato Ketchup" is because there were several varieties of ketchup from vegetables.
smugdruggler 3 years ago
As was Coca Cola (made with coca leaves and cola nuts) and 7up, which originally contained lithium carbonate, a mood stabilizer still used today.
#60
A platypus doesn't have nipples. They basically sweat out the milk when nursing their young.
Final score:
30points
K- THULU 3 years ago
And is only 2 egg laying mammals( the other is the echidna ) and is also venomous ( the male has poison spurs on its back legs )!
Seán Baron 3 years ago
It's actually 5, there are four separate types of echidna.
Load More Replies... Xottel 3 years ago
A Platypus is basically what happens when you're done with the main creation but still have some leftover parts to just smush together.
KDS 3 years ago
I always thought the Platypus was nature way of confusing human beings.
Load More Replies... LeeBreezy 3 years ago
"am i sweating milk" - candence from phineas and ferb when she was in perry's body
Ginny Weasly 3 years ago
Platypuses also glow teal and yellow under ur light. Google it- it is just like perry. And to think the writers didn’t know either of these facts about platypuses (they were both discovered later). They predicted it!
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Kel_how 3 years ago (edited)
Every new fact I learn about the platypus just makes them seem more fake, lol
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
Well the first dead ones that were sent for Europeans to look at, the biologists were going "Yeah, yeah, really funny, gonna give us more fake animals to puzzle"
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Richard Smith 3 years ago
Well, mammary glands are just, basically, modified sweat glands, so it makes sense.
BannedFromABoatShow 3 years ago
Platypus are abominations of nature! Everything about them is nasty! When the first ones sent to Europe were examined, the scientists thought they were being pranked. Creepy freaky parts-bin animals. Sorry, they just freak me out.
#61
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.
Final score:
30points
#62
Barcodes scan the white spaces, not the black lines.
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30points
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
A barcode reader analyzes the width of the white spaces and the distance between them. The distance is created by the black bars. Info Source: I made and tested hundreds of barcodes while working in the packaging business.
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
A barcode doesn't scan anything. The scanning is done by a barcode reader, also known as a barcode scanner.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
The white spaces only exist because of the black bars though. It's reading both
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
This is one of those "facts" that's just a bit disingenuous since you don't have spaces without lines, so it is really the lines that make it readable. It is the distance between the bars that create the code, so you have to scan the bars to be able to scan the spaces. In the end, this is the same as saying we don't read the black letters, we read the negative space around them. You simply can't do one without the other.
#63
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.
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28points
PolymathNecromancer 3 years ago
And if they flung their poop around like monkeys, would it be a pap smear?
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
well yeah, they just get high and sleep all day.. why be bothered making dinner
#64
Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd."
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25points
Bored Panda 3 years ago
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
V Michael Lazar 3 years ago
How about: His nom de plume is supposed to be pronounced Zoiss, but he got tired of correcting people.
Load More Replies... Taibhse Sealgair 3 years ago
And Bill Murray invented the phrase, "He's toast." https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/05/toast.html?toast
#65
Koalas can survive most snake bites because they literally eat poison
Final score:
25points
Moxitron Jazz 3 years ago
theyre also plaqued with a form of chymadia, it's wiping a lot of them out...I wonder if snake venom has any healing properties for them?...
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#66
"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!
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23points
Russell Rieckenberg 3 years ago
Actually the average body temperature is 97.5 these days. Speculation as to why includes: Lower metabolic rate, fewer low level infections, and more accurate thermometers.
#67
California has a higher population than all of Canada.
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23points
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 3 years ago
and California is currently burning and flooding due to a tropical storm at the same time of a wildfire. I love it here.
Kate 3 years ago
You mean the roughly average numbers of people relocating that the media periodically likes to make into a story on slow news days?
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A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
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22points
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
Well let me tell you about the wonderful world of animal husbandry and to be more exact the artificial insemination. The getting of those seeds to make baby animals involves a surprising amount of hand j*bs. Btw. Saw a doc once the Elephant dong is too dangerous to handle so getting a sample from them is done with massaging it's prostate... with your fist. No personal experience in any of this, just saying.
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Squeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!
#69
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!
Final score:
22points
#70
That humans share a lot of DNA with bananas.
Final score:
22points
OneHappyPuppy 3 years ago
Came here to post this! The number is 50% of code. With monkeys for example, we share 99%
#71
One horse power equals to 2849.61 duck power.
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22points
Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
And one frog power is about 45 horse power. (Frog as in frogeyed-Sprite).
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
One horse is capable of 14.9 horse power at peak power. And humans are capable of 5 horse power. Because James Watt designated horsepower to be equivalent to the amount of power that a horse can sustain for an extended period of time.
Carter Theothermichael 3 years ago
So a classic muscle car from the 60s/70s would equate to 1,250,000 duck power- nice mental image. Not to be confused with Daffy Duck power.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Simultaneously, the output of one horse can vary, but be up to 15 horsepower.
#72
Sloths only urinate and defecate once a week.
Final score:
22points
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
which they come down from trees to do and is when they get killed the most
#73
There were 75000 lbs of ham on The Tiranic when it sunk
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21points
#74
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.
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21points
S 3 years ago
I laugh every time I see you comment on something bc of your username lol
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Jude Corrigan 3 years ago
There was a rumour that the Colonel was the prime suspect in a murder case in his native Netherlands. He didn't want the police to catch up with him and also knew he wouldn't be let back into the USA.
#75
Mine is that did you know that dogs don't give kisses when they like you they are actually tasting you
Final score:
20points
Jonathan Nichols 3 years ago (edited)
Must be why I don't lick my wife's face repeatedly when I kiss her
Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
At that rate my son's dog loves tasting him!!!! She can lick his face for hours...
#76
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13
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20points
Ada Hunter 3 years ago (edited)
me with my very very extensive (and unnecessary) friends knowledge: that’s the word joey couldn’t pronounce while ross was holding his breath while they and chandler where playing the game that joey was auditioning for and ross said it was a fear of triskets because they have sharp edges
Actively Lazy Cat 3 years ago
Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere a duck is watching you.
#77
Butterflies taste with their feet. Always thought that was an odd little fact.
Final score:
20points
#78
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.
Final score:
19points
Jonathan Nichols 3 years ago
I can't tell if this is way too simplified to make any sense, or just a troll
Mary Zurlinden 3 years ago
Simple, but very true. Look up https://www.zubludiving.com/articles/zublu-insights/five-facts-you-may-not-have-known-about-sharks#:~:text=Sharks%20urinate%20continuously&text=Their%20urine%20is%20actually%20absorbed,water%20through%20their%20'skin'.
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#79
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.
Final score:
18points
#80
A decapitated head takes twelve seconds to lose consciousness
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17points
#81
I guess it would be that the creature or animal with the most teeth is a snail.
Final score:
17points
#82
That it is illegal to walk out of a Oklahoma county fair with a popsicle in your pocket.
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17points
Lady Fos-Boss 3 years ago
...he county fair is coming up at the end of the month. I'm tempted to try this...
#83
Dogs don't feel remorse, they only feel sadness.
Final score:
16points
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
No, just sad you're not happy about their accomplishment
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McDonald's once created bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
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16points
#85
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.
Final score:
15points
Carter Theothermichael 3 years ago
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
Magickmaster 8 3 years ago
I…I like the effort you put into this but, it’s a Thee Bee Movie reference.
Load More Replies... Taibhse Sealgair 3 years ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/bees-cant-fly-scientifically-incorrect-2017-12?op=1
smugdruggler 3 years ago
This is incorrect. It uses the same maths as that which " proves" that kangaroos can't jump. It fails to take in to account the energy that is stored, like in a spring, on each stroke.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
This is not even remotely true. Bee flight is very well understood.
#86
If Hitler's father hadn't changed his name, it would have been Heil Schicklgruber.
Final score:
14points
Mary Zurlinden 3 years ago
After Bart and Lili Von Shtupp spend the night together, getting up to Brooks-only-knows what, she fills him full of German sausages called “schnitzengruben” until he’s about to explode. When she tries to pump him full of one more piece of sausage he demurs and says that 15 is his limit. Obviously, the scene is meant to play to the audience’s basest instincts, and while it works on a juvenile level, there’s just something so funny and suave about the way says that he has a limit of schnitzengruben. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why this scene is so funny, but it does the trick.
Kate Jones 3 years ago (edited)
You know people would have called him Sh!tlgruber. He still would have become evil.
#87
The marsupial, quoll's new born is one of the smallest, weighing only 18mg which is equal to 30 sugar grains.
Final score:
14points
#88
Starlings, squirrels and snails are invasive species brought over by Europeans.
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14points
Antony Aston 3 years ago
Erm.. grey squirrels came over from America and are an invading species here in the UK - Decimating the population of our native red squirrels. Starlings were taken over to America - by Americans! They were kept as pets.
smugdruggler 3 years ago
We used to get murmurations of starlings over my street every year but they've not been here for ages. I miss them.
Load More Replies... #89
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.
Final score:
14points
#90
The first colors babies see when they are born are red and black.
Final score:
14points
#91
Outer space smells like static electricity.
Final score:
13points
Rachknits 3 years ago
I'm confused by this. Firstly as mentioned already, they are in space suits. Secondly, we smell due to tiny molecules in the air but space is a vacuum so there aren't any
Scagsy 3 years ago
I'm guessing here but... they could smell it in the air lock maybe after equalising pressure? Or they could (this one's doubtful, but anyway) take an empty container out of the airlock, open it, fill it with space air, and then close it again for smelling later? The vacuum thing, I don't know, but I think it's called that because of it's lack of matter rather than because it's like a Hoover. So if astronauts can exist in it, I guess that molecules of stuff can too?
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JoJo Anisko 3 years ago
Another recent BP post said it smelled like a charred steak (because that's how their suits smelled after a spacewalk). So which is correct?
Chris Osborn 3 years ago
So, dumb question but how do they smell it? I know they can't be out in outer space without a space suit, so what or how are they smelling?
Emilis101 3 years ago
Well... This isn't true. It actually smells like burnt steak, or rather, brimstone. One astronaut remembered finishing his spacewalk and getting back into the ISS. Once he took his suit off it smelt like brimstone, like a witch was just there. Pretty cool. People really got confused by this one.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Wasn't there just another factoid that claimed space smells like grilled steak?
#92
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey screeching in pain.
Final score:
13points
Kurtis Cobainus 3 years ago
Ironically, there was a comment above this by someone called Red, and he said he removes the squeaker
PandaPops 3 years ago
Mine thinks they are babies, she runs to them if they squeak, carefully picks them up and takes them somewhere safe to clean them up.
#93
BANANAS ARE THE ONLY FRUIT THAT CANNOT REPRODUCE! They are a breed of two different plants
Final score:
12points
Day Andie 3 years ago
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.
Ines Olabarria-Smith 3 years ago
And all bananas are very similar in their dna so if a disease arrives they all die. It’s happened once in the 20th century, that’s why there’s still people who can say “they don’t taste the same” because that variety disappeared.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
And probably gave us the song "Yes, we have no bananas"
Load More Replies... Christof Irran 3 years ago
It's the Cavendish banana that's sterile. It's also the exclusive (well, almost) banana eaten in the Western hemisphere.
#94
4 million people in the Netherlands live below see level
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11points
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
nah.. they're shorter than the rest of the population
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Carter Theothermichael 3 years ago
Yo Little Dutch boy, please keep your thumb in the dike. Lots of people depending on it!
#95
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.
Final score:
10points
Kelly Jo 3 years ago
When a puff fish expands, it fills with a poisonous gas to harm the predators. However, that gas gets dolphins "high" and they have been known to pass the puff fish around to each other.
Lazy_Panda 3 years ago
Well actually they are usually normal fish. When they are brought up to the surface very fast they get all saggy.
E B 3 years ago
Sadly, I think they explosively decompress because they are not meant for a single atmosphere of pressure.
Load More Replies... Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, when they're dead. They look different alive. https://www.quora.com/topic/Blobfish?q=blobfish
Mary Zurlinden 3 years ago
It looked ugly-because the speed it was dragged up from the ocean ripped it's skin off
#96
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
Final score:
10points
PolymathNecromancer 3 years ago
But the weight of the vehicle and the tire footprint & construction also factor in. The question is, how?
#97
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.
Final score:
10points
josh wampler 3 years ago
Called formally the alveolar ridge, because it contains alveoli, the cavities that hold the roots of your teeth
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
one time, while under influences, I saw a dude burn his mouth the pizza fall out then move fast enough to recatch the falling piece in his mouth.... he looked shocked, looked up and saw me jaw dropped and was like "YES , SOMEONE WITNESSED IT"
#98
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....
Final score:
10points
InvincibleRodent 3 years ago
Okay, this is a hell of an oversimplification of non-Euclidian geometry.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Like the old puzzle: a bear walks due South for one mile; makes a 90 degree turn and walks due West for one mile. Makes another 90 degree turn and walks due North for one mile - and arrives at exactly the point it started from. What color is the bear? Since this can only be done starting out at the north pole, the bear has to be white (yellowish-white).
#99
If you string all the DNA in your body together in a single chain, it's as long as 30 round trips to Jupiter
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10points
CelticElff 3 years ago
"If you string all the DNA in your body together in a single chain..." I'm guessing you'd be dead.
Alexander Myers (Submission author) 3 years ago
Oh yes definitely thoroughly deceased
Load More Replies... #100
That light travels at 186,300 miles per second
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9points
Taibhse Sealgair 3 years ago
186,300 miles per second. It's not just a good idea. It's the law.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Wrong. Only photons travelling through vacuum travel at that speed (i.e. 186282 miles per second). Speed of light through air or water is much lower.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
This why you shouldn't overpack for a trip. Travelling light is always the fastest.
#101
There are 17 steps to 221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes residence).
Final score:
9points
Laugh or not 3 years ago
Incorrect. At the time the books were written the 221 (b or otherwise) Baker street did not exist. It was created in the 1930's.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
Fictional character, so fictional facts. True within the world of the books.
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Freddy Mercury’s last words were “Pee pee”
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7points
Kurtis Cobainus 3 years ago
I remember this. That's hilarious for someone so talented to go out like that.
#103
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.
Final score:
5points
InvincibleRodent 3 years ago
This, as it is, is not true (and easily testable), but much like with handedness, you do favor one nostril over the other.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
My nose didn't get the memo on that. Have other people really not been clogged enough that it's mouth breathing or suffocating? I think this has to be some kind of misunderstanding
#104
There are 23 stars in the paramount logo. Bonus points if you know why (I do!)
Final score:
5points
Taibhse Sealgair 3 years ago
It was originally 24 stars based on the 24 actors who signed their contracts with the film studio in 1914. In 1974 it was changed to 22 for undocumented reasons. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/globaltvindonesia/images/5/5d/Paramount_Pictures_Logo_History.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20160109222431
#105
There is no word for "sad" in Japanese and lobsters urinate from their faces.
Final score:
4points
#106
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.
Final score:
3points
LittleWombat 3 years ago
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!!
smugdruggler 3 years ago
The term for plants that have distinct male and female types is "dioecious". Applies to Cannabis, don't know about peppers.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
and male cannibis actually have "balls" two nodes at the bottom. In high school, me and a friends two plants didn't show until they were about 6 feet tall.... males don't produce THC. we were pissed
Load More Replies... Allan Breum 3 years ago
Ahh, so thats why. I always thought the number of chambers were either chance, a different breed.
Dirk Thunder 3 years ago
I have discovered that the peppers with four bumps on the bottom (instead of three) are sweeter in taste. I thought this was a male/female dynamic.
Load More Replies... #107
The largest french fry is the potentater. Sadly the smallest isn’t the impotentater, it’s the minutater. Thank you Rich Hall
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InvincibleRodent 3 years ago
Right, it's a joke. A "potentate" is a monarch.
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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.
Final score:
-3points
Taibhse Sealgair 3 years ago
It's not. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-fake-eyelashes-will-make-you-never-want-to-wear-them-2017-7?op=1
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InvincibleRodent 3 years ago
This is just patently false. The first false lashes were parts of a wig glued to a Hollywood actress' eyes with spirit gum in order to make her eyes appear "supernatural" on film.
Actively Lazy Cat 3 years ago
Just checked this and it's not true...cumbrellas aren't what they were made for lol
josh wampler 3 years ago
Super super untrue. False eyelashes were originally sewn into the eyelid (i.e., surgery). Certainly not invented by a prostitute. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/prostitute-gerda-puridle-eyelashes/
Jill Rhodry 3 years ago
“a guard against the glare of electric lights.” but they really took off 'cause of Hollywood.
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Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
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.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Boredpanda is officially so stuck for content that they're recycling their own posts from 6 months ago.
Tiny Dancer 3 years 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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Jason Marin 3 years ago
The first name Madison didn't exist until the movie Splash.
Load More Replies... Daniel Yamada 3 years ago (edited)
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.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago (edited)
The compound that makes lightning bugs glow is called luciferin. Etymology of the word is from the Latin lucifer which means light bearing.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
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... Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
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.
Metallicd3ath 3 years ago
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.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Boredpanda is officially so stuck for content that they're recycling their own posts from 6 months ago.
Tiny Dancer 3 years 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... Jason Marin 3 years ago
The first name Madison didn't exist until the movie Splash.
Load More Replies... Daniel Yamada 3 years ago (edited)
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.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago (edited)
The compound that makes lightning bugs glow is called luciferin. Etymology of the word is from the Latin lucifer which means light bearing.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
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... Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
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.
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