Join the Fun!

oregonlive.com , incommunicado, CC BY 2.0 DEED Report

#2

Man with a bike standing near a city sign Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, have been sister cities since 2012.

180points

POST

Headless Roach 2 years ago

Are there any bored pandas in Boring?

37points

#3

Sherlock Holmes movie scene In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not.

UKTV Gold Report

166points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

If Sherlock Holmes wasn't real then who defeated Moriarty? Honestly, some people.....

104points

top-online-bookmakers.com Report

#4

Michael Jordan playing golf Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

161points

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Jules 2 years ago

That's obscene

196points

#5

Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

lib.usm.edu Report

160points

POST

Ronda News Channel 2 years ago

They're very fortunate

29points

miraclelearningcentre.com Report

#6

Man Walking and balancing on Train Rail Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.

156points

POST

$cagsy 2 years ago (edited)

There is also a very rare sense which few people seem to possess nowadays: 'Common'.

283points

worldatlas.com , Oona Räisänen (Mysid) Report

#7

Map of The Canary Islands The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds.

130points

POST

Paula Pattison 2 years ago

And the bird is named after the islands

75points

#8

Boston Terrier Wearing Unicorn Pet Costume The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

visitscotland.com Report

128points

POST

Official Cat 2 years ago

Best national animal ever!

46points

Chinese Academy of Sciences Report

#9

The "most typical human" is right-handed, makes less than $12,000 per year, has a mobile phone, and doesn't have a bank account.

126points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

Typical!

40points

theconversation.com Report

#10

A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

124points

POST

Headless Roach 2 years ago

Yet you can't travel to the moon on a calculator. Just sayin'

43points

CPSC , Florida Museum of Natural History Report

#11

Lighted Vending Machines on Street Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year.

120points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

At 9pmTonight! When Vending Machines ATTACK!

82points

#12

In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally.

Hal Erickson Report

120points

POST

ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕣.𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕕 2 years ago

That's cool to know 😊

23points

#13

Marie Curie portrait Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.

nobelprize.org , Henri Manuel Report

120points

POST

Przemek Soroka 2 years ago

Her name was Skłodowska-Curie, not just Curie. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and lived there until the age of 24, when she moved to Paris to study there.

32points

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office Report

#14

A Person Making Cotton Candy Machine-spun Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist.

115points

POST

Skara Brae 2 years ago

Job security.

134points

#15

Man at the Wooden Table Eating Hamburger More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.

thelancet.com Report

114points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Uh, go us?

59points

#16

You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

drozshow.com Report

113points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Well, yeah. That person was a size 10!

145points

#17

Five Orange Ants on a tree branch All the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans.

bbc.com Report

113points

POST

Mike Crow 2 years ago

Heavy

24points

#18

Small kid with mom walking on branch The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day.

Littlewoods Report

104points

POST

David Smith 2 years ago

How else will they learn?

7points

journals.ametsoc.org Report

#19

Building Beside Shore in Hawaii The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.

101points

POST

Sawdust 2 years ago

Seems legit.

22points

#20

Airplane food plater Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights.

bbc.com , Tiia Monto Report

99points

POST

Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

And also because it's processed shite.

158points

#21

The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for 55 people.

scribd.com Report

98points

POST

Alyn Mann 2 years ago

And a lot of the U.S.'s "patriotic" songs are old drinking songs. They really set the U.S. up for success, didn't they?

38points

#22

Red and Gray Pagoda Temple in Japan Japan is the world's most earthquake-prone country.

usgs.gov Report

98points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

When you have Godzilla trampling up and down your country you are bound to feel a few earthquakes.

122points

#23

Purple and Orange Starfish on the sand Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.

John Edward Gray Report

96points

POST

DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

Tis but a scratch.

140points

latimes.com , tobaccocontrol.bmj.com Report

#24

Multiple "Marlboro Men" have died from lung cancer.

96points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago (edited)

Odd fact: 100 years ago, Marlboros were marketed to women. The slogan was "ivory tips protect the lips." Men refused to buy the cigarettes, so the company wooed them back with images of a rugged cowboy alone on the range.

75points

MarshalGrover , Alejandro Mallea, CC BY 2.0 DEED Report

#25

Elmo and Cookie Monster in the street Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.

96points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago (edited)

I didn't know this. Apparently this was revealed in the 2004 song "The First Time Me Eat Cookie," 35 years after the birth of Sesame Street.

30points

northamericannature.com Report

#26

Three Prairie Dogs on a Brown Rock Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

93points

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Kate 2 years ago

They also tend to carry bubonic plague (or rather, their fleas do), so please don't go kissing prairie dogs.

45points

#27

Two Brown Goats Goats have rectangular pupils.

Science Advances Report

92points

POST

$cagsy 2 years ago

I didn't even realise goats were teaching.

181points

Rob 2 years ago

That’s hilarious

13points

Ada Hunter 2 years ago

*angrily upvotes*

9points

Mitchell 2 years ago

You win the internet

6points

Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago

And it takes 3 sheep to make a sweater... TIL that sheep could knit!

5points

David Beavers 2 years ago

Well, how are the "kids' spposed to learn?

2points

Khavrinen 2 years ago

That's mean. Those poor pupils were already angular, why'd the goats have to wreck them?

2points

Shelley DuVal 2 years ago

0points

CalicoKitty 2 years ago

So do hippos. And other ungulates, but I can't recall any others off the top of my head...

4points

Ash 2 years ago

horses, pigs, deer

2points

Upstaged75 2 years ago

Yeah, goat's eyes freak me out for some reason. Goats are awesome, but the eyes just look scary.

3points

3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago

I had a goat who was a genuine psychopath (also inbred so a little crazy) Her eyes made her even more terrifying 😂

2points

ItsJess 2 years ago

I absolutely love their eyes, goats are the best. Far superior to sheep imo.

3points

3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago

That sounds like something a goat would say 🤔

5points

frog 2 years ago

Is this really a lesser known fact tho? I think this is pretty common knowledge.

2points

Mayrene Chester 1 year ago

Immediately googles it....

0points

A. Starhawk Hunt 2 years ago

So do sheep and horses

0points

#28

Two Women Standing Inside Parking Lot Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.

journals.plos.org Report

92points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

And, as Mark Twain said, we're the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

47points

#29

The Simpsons series scene If "The Simpsons" aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season.

Report

90points

POST

Aunty Fairy 2 years ago

OH PLEASE NO DON'T DO THIS TO ME

34points

Science and Technology Studies , science.nasa.gov Report

#30

Planet Neptune Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.

86points

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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago (edited)

Uranus was discovered in 1781, but it’s orbit didn’t make sense, so they started looking for another planet. Neptune was found in 1846, it’s approximate location predicted ahead of time. Fun fact! At the time Neptune was discovered, asteroids Ceres (1801) and Pallas (1802) were considered planets, and were only demoted as the real nature of the asteroid belt because apparent. Pluto is not the first to get the boot.

36points

#31

Dump Truck filled with food Across Buildings The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

unep.org Report

81points

POST

DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

Highly believable and depressing.

53points

#32

Pac-Man Protagonists Cutouts While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed.

80points

POST

Skara Brae 2 years ago

Sounds like he had an all-nighter at the office. Does anybody know what choices he rejected? And by the way: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GameOn/pac-man-10-secrets/story?id=13084900

12points

Volume of Earth's Oceans Report

#33

Person Holding Drinking Glass There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

80points

POST

DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

I'd really like to thank the person that did the math for this. Lol

33points

guinnessworldrecords.com Report

#34

The English word with the most definitions is "set."

80points

POST

Waite Forit 2 years ago

The word "set" has the largest set of definitions.

30points

#35

Whale's Tail sticking out of the water Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.

science.org Report

76points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

oooOooOOo wheee OooOO WHEE ooOO! Translates as That's where our Dave lived after he left Phyllis.

66points

nationalgeographic.com , Thisisbadri Report

#36

Snowy Mount Everest Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.

76points

POST

Elliot Fowler 2 years ago (edited)

I think that is because the Indian subcontinent is still moving and pushing against the rest of Asia. So the mountain is being squeezed upwards as it is located along the intersection between the 2 land masses

44points

#37

New creatures have been found in deep-sea volcanoes.

pnas.org Report

75points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Yeti crabs: "Oh, no, brother, we're not new. *You're* new."

54points

Human Microbiome Project Report

#38

Person Washing Hands The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.

73points

POST

Sawdust 2 years ago

But most of that bacteria is good, even vital, for your health!

43points

reviewjournal.com/ Report

#39

Abraham Lincoln Statue You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.

61points

POST

Skara Brae 2 years ago

There are so many assumptions in this statement that it is worthless.

34points

John Cage Organ Project Report

#40

The longest music piece in the world is being performed in the city of Halberstadt in Germany: John Cage's composition for organ ORGAN2/ASLSP.

53points

POST

Ozymandias73 2 years ago

It's not the "Song that Never Ends"?

19points

blogs.scientificamerican.com Report

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#41

If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

36points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago (edited)

Yeah, but the average human brain contains a lot of malware.

67points

#42

New Zealanders have more pets per household than any other country.

petsecure.com.au Report

34points

POST

Official Cat 2 years ago

Most of them are sheep, the USA holds the record for most pet cats per household.

9points

#43

Bee hummingbirds are so small they get mistaken for insects.

birdnote.org Report

32points

POST

Mia Black 2 years ago (edited)

Just red the size from beak (top) to tail (end) of a bee hummingbird is 5-7cm.

9points

#44

Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.

stevens.edu Report

31points

POST

James016 2 years ago

Tension Sheet (TM)

20points

#45

Recent droughts in Europe were the worst in 2,100 years.

ncei.noaa.gov Report

31points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

Great. Now I'm thirsty.

14points

#46

Climate change is causing flowers to change color.

cell.com Report

31points

POST

UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

People that think climate change isn’t real because it got extra cold outside yesterday are like those who would insist during the Great Depression that the economy was doing great because that one bakery down the street was doing good business. Talking to you, David.

20points

copenhagenizeindex.eu Report

#47

Copenhagen is the most bike-friendly city in the world.

31points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

🎶 I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like. 🎶

10points

#48

Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

techcrunch.com Report

30points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

People in 2022: "Who's Excite?"

42points

Noé Pineda Portillo Report

#49

"Rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the Honduran city of Yoro.

30points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

How do the specific fish get chosen? Do they have to apply?

18points

New York City Health Department Report

#50

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.

30points

POST

Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Well I mean it's probably higher because of babies and kids.

11points

#51

All giant pandas in zoos around the world are on loan from China.

history.com Report

30points

POST

Meredith Lawrence 2 years ago

Not loan. Rented.

14points

guinnessworldrecords.com Report

#52

The first person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph. (13 kmh)

30points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

One of the American presidents (I think it was Harrison) was ticketed for speeding while in office. When the cop realized whom he had ticketed, he tried to take the ticket back. The president insisted on paying the ticket.

22points

#53

The hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you.

dailypost.co.uk Report

29points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Evolution: wiping out people who will put anything in their mouths since 300,000 BCE.

24points

#54

Tokyo is the world's largest city with 37 million inhabitants.

worldometers.info Report

28points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

*waves at all the Tokyoians*

9points

#55

Half of all humans who have ever lived have died from malaria.

nature.com Report

27points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

I blame the mosquitoes.

10points

#56

More people visit France than any other country.

e-unwto.org Report

27points

POST

dxisy xo 2 years ago

Overrated

12points

#57

Creedence Clearwater Revival has the most No. 2 Billboard hits—without ever hitting No. 1.

slate.com Report

27points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

They did "Proud Mary" first, and even wrote the song, I believe. Once I heard Tina Turner's version, I was like-- CCR who?

8points

The American Society of Human Genetics Report

#58

You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan.

26points

POST

Skara Brae 2 years ago

What is the chance I have ancestors that were murdered by him and his people?

21points

#59

Space smells like seared steak.

space.com Report

26points

POST

James016 2 years ago

Enveloping the universe is the Cosmic George Forman Grill

16points

Michael A. Berthaume, Anthony M. J. Bull Report

#60

Some people have an extra bone in their knee (and it's getting more common).

26points

POST

Hugh Cookson 2 years ago

Why ?

6points

#61

Jousting is the official sport of the state of Maryland.

msa.maryland.gov Report

25points

POST

Sawdust 2 years ago

Where do they get all the ostriches?

11points

science.howstuffworks.com Report

#62

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

25points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

Half a human for scale, please.

26points

#63

The longest place name on the planet is 169 letters long.

25points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

It's not Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, that only has 58 letters.

18points

#64

Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.

npr.org Report

25points

POST

Thorsten Massow 2 years ago

Under 0° C it goes clonk clonk.

30points

Robert A. Freitas Jr. Report

#65

An adult is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. For perspective, there’s a ‘measly’ 300,000,000,000 (300 billion) stars in our galaxy.

24points

POST

Kate 2 years ago

"We are stardust, we are golden/We are billion year old carbon"

17points

#66

90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

bigthink.com Report

24points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

5% of the world's population live in the Southern Hemisphere. 5% of the world's population lives in the Inner Earth.

10points

news.microsoft.com Report

#67

The world's quietest room is located at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.

24points

POST

Kelly Radcliffe 2 years ago

And yet, a guinea pig placed in the room will still imagine it hears a salad bag opening.

10points

#68

It's estimated that Sweden has more islands than any other country.

24points

POST

David Phillips 2 years ago

Why "estimated"? Can't they go on Google Earth and count?

12points

worldwidewords.org Report

#69

The dot over the lower case "i" or "j" is known as a "tittle."

24points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

Keep my tittles out of this.

15points

theoceancleanup.com Report

#70

There is a garbage swirl in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas.

23points

POST

Elliot Fowler 2 years ago

A company called Ocean Cleanup is doing a great job developing technology to clean plastic from the ocean

25points

datatopics.worldbank.org Report

#71

Four babies are born every second.

23points

POST

Alyn Mann 2 years ago

how many people die every second though?

8points

#72

Muhammad is thought to be the most popular name in the world.

ons.gov.uk Report

23points

POST

$cagsy 2 years ago

Are we counting all of the different spellings of Mohammed as the same?

13points

#73

The global adult literacy rate is around 86%.

uis.unesco.org Report

23points

POST

Jake B 2 years ago

Not so as you would notice reading BP and watching the news...

10points

#74

Interpol was founded in 1914 when legal professionals from 24 countries got together to discuss catching fugitives.

interpol.int Report

23points

POST

Pound Cake 2 years ago

But have they captured Carmen Sandiego yet?

16points

#75

Bees sometimes sting other bees.

mq.edu.au Report

23points

POST

Sawdust 2 years ago

Half the buzzing in the hive are apologies.

16points

Robert B. Payne, M.D. , J. H. Scholefield Report

#76

Nutmeg can be fatally poisonous.

23points

POST

Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

Water can be fatally poisonous if you drink enough of it.

17points

KTH The Royal Institute of Technology Report

#77

Human fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car.

22points

POST

Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

Well, yes. One goes vroom when you push it.

15points

whalescientists.com Report

#78

A Blue Whale's heart is the size of a VW Beetle and large enough that you could swim through it's arteries.

22points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

I can't swim.

5points

#79

The heads on Easter Island have bodies.

eisp.org Report

22points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

This was on the previous list from last week.

11points

#80

The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months.

Royal Society Report

22points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

I wish I could hold mine for eight minutes.

13points

smithsonianmag.com Report

#81

Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard left his post at Ford's Theatre to go for a drink.

22points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago (edited)

Oh, please. He was just scoping out the perimeter. Next he was going to scope out the perimeter at the nearby whorehouse.

15points

#82

For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.

smh.com.au Report

22points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

This pointless fact was on the last list, also without any context.

19points

The Hummingbird Handbook: Everything You Need to Know about These Fascinating Birds Report

#83

The average hummingbird's heart rate is more than 1,200 beats per minute.

21points

POST

James Edwards 2 years ago

When I see my crush!

3points

Stephanie L. King, Vincent M. Janik Report

#84

Dolphins have names for each other and can call out for each other specifically.

21points

POST

Jake B 2 years ago

Does Google translate work for Dolphin?

7points

#85

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

21points

POST

Fred L. 2 years ago

Meanwhile she could touch the pyramids and couldn´t land on the moon.

0points

#86

Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.

global.oup.com Report

21points

POST

Thorsten Massow 2 years ago

Nice

8points

http://conf.montreal-protocol.org/ Report

#87

The Earth's ozone layer will make a full recovery in 50 years.

21points

POST

David Smith 2 years ago

Oh, good. I can go back to using my deodorant now.

6points

#88

People who are currently alive represent about 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived.

prb.org Report

21points

POST

Fred L. 2 years ago

Which means we have way too many people currently alive.

5points

#89

The oceans contain almost 200,000 different viruses.

cell.com Report

21points

POST

Aunty Fairy 2 years ago

Funn

4points

Sayaka Mitoh, Yoichi Yusa Report

#90

The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body.

21points

POST

Virginie Michaud 2 years ago

What about squished? So many of those gross invasive leopard slugs... 🤢

2points

science.howstuffworks.com Report

#91

Pineapple works as a natural meat tenderizer.

21points

POST

James Edwards 2 years ago

So does a wooden mallet.

8points

internationalliving.com Report

#92

The healthiest place in the world is in Panama.

21points

POST

Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago

Well, NOW. Not always.

4points

#93

Koalas have fingerprints.

livescience.com Report

21points

POST

Samantha 2 years ago

I wonder how many Koalas have committed murder and framed people for it. 🤔

6points

Marc A Mitchell, David D Wartinger Report

#94

Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone.

21points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

If I were on a roller coaster, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't need help passing anything.

12points

Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth Report

#95

Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the "Like" button the "Awesome" button.

20points

POST

Kharyss 2 years ago

And they still think we’re too fragile for a “dislike” button 🙄

10points

#96

Canada has 9% of the world's forests.

nrcan.gc.ca Report

20points

POST

Jake B 2 years ago

And soooo nice about it

7points

homeandroost.co.uk Report

#97

Rabbits can't puke.

20points

POST

Nicole Weymann 2 years ago

Neither can rats and/or horses

12points

#98

The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple.

cnet.com Report

20points

POST

Peign Gaming 2 years ago (edited)

It was made by InfoGear in the late 90s and was a landline phone.

3points

education.nationalgeographic.org/ Report

#99

Two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.

19points

POST

Rob 2 years ago

You Northerners don’t know what your missing

0points

nationalgeographic.com Report

#100

The entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.

19points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Do you want monkeypox? Because this is how you get monkeypox.

21points

#101

Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world.

telegraph.co.uk Report

19points

POST

David Smith 2 years ago

Did Randy Newman live there?

3points

#102

Only two countries use purple in their national flags.

19points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Dominica and Nicaragua. This is because purple dye used to be so expensive in the past.

15points

data.worldbank.org Report

#103

Africa and Asia are home to nearly 90 percent of the world's rural population.

19points

POST

#104

There are 41 countries that recognize sign language as an official language.

19points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

There are far more than one sign language.

8points

#105

"New car smell" is the scent of dozens of chemicals.

compoundchem.com Report

19points

POST

Chocolate llama 2 years ago

The same is technically true for the smell of flowers

19points

#106

The moon has moonquakes.

usgs.gov Report

19points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

*pets Nathan's trolls*

6points

hersheyarchives.org Report

#107

The "M's" in M&Ms stand for "Mars" and "Murrie."

19points

POST

Blitzø 2 years ago

I'm wearing an M&M shirt rn

3points

#108

Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

19points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

Well, yeah. One of them's good.

15points

#109

A dozen bodies were once found in Benjamin Franklin's basement.

theguardian.com Report

19points

POST

Peign Gaming 2 years ago

Trial and error for his kite experiment

16points

news.nationalgeographic.com Report

#110

There's a giant fish with a transparent head.

19points

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Kylie Mountain 2 years ago

I think this refers to the Barrel-Eye fish, which is freaky as heck.

8points

#111

Chinese police use geese squads.

chinadaily.com.cn Report

19points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Now that's just vicious.

7points

#112

A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat.

npr.org Report

19points

POST

Kylie Mountain 2 years ago

Lone Star ticks carrying a certain disease, yes. Deer ticks give you Lyme disease, not meat allergies.

3points

#113

There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land.

atlasobscura.com Report

18points

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Luke Wensley 2 years ago

That sounds like it should be a joke.

9points

#114

Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughes' bodyguard.

powelltribune.com Report

18points

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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago

I don't know why I read that as boyfriend

2points

nationalgeographic.com Report

#115

The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit. (-98 degrees Celsius)

18points

POST

Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago

Recorded *in nature*. Important clarification.

10points

ps://www.guinnessworldrecords.com Report

#116

The most expensive coin in the world was sold for more than $7 million.

18points

POST

Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

Good luck getting change for that on the bus.

14points

#117

A record-breaking 92 countries competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

18points

POST

#118

The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years.

slovenia.si Report

18points

POST

Lane Bass 2 years ago

aROUND, you say?

10points

ontariochiropodist.com Report

#119

Many feet bones don't harden until you're an adult.

18points

POST

#120

Some sea snakes can breathe through their skin.

Royal Society Report

18points

POST

Benita Valdez 2 years ago

So subcutaneous respiration like frogs do

4points

#121

Only two mammals like spicy food: humans and the tree shrew.

PLOS Biology Report

18points

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Elliot Fowler 2 years ago

I wonder what a tree shrew tastes like. Imagine an animal that comes readily seasoned

13points

journals.sagepub.com Report

#122

Showers really do spark creativity.

18points

POST

3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago

I have my best anxiety in the shower

1point

American Medical Association Report

#123

Children's medicine once contained morphine.

18points

POST

Hugh Cookson 2 years ago

Although, back in the day, pretty much every medicine contained some sort of opiate, or mercury or strychnine .....

16points

#124

There are fossilized plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice.

pnas.org Report

17points

POST

#125

The world's most densely populated island is the size of two soccer fields.

thestar.com Report

17points

POST

MOOsaysCHICKEN 2 years ago

*futbol pitches

3points

#126

There are around 4 quadrillion quadrillion bacteria on Earth.

npr.org Report

17points

POST

#127

People 60 years and older make up 12.3% of the global population.

un.org Report

17points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

They're only making it up because they're getting older and can't remember so well any more.

17points

#128

A narwhal's tusk reveals its past living conditions.

cell.com Report

17points

POST

Trond Hermansen 2 years ago

Our own teeth do this as well.

5points

#129

The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer.

Victor Gruen Report

17points

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James Edwards 2 years ago

What about the "you are here" maps.

3points

#130

The human body literally glows.

journals.plos.org Report

17points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

So does Edward.

5points

science.howstuffworks.com Report

#131

Redheads aren't actually going extinct.

17points

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Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago

It's good that we no longer hunt them for their pelts.

13points

#132

Dinosaurs lived on every continent.

theguardian.com Report

17points

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David Phillips 2 years ago

Wasn't there only one continent then anyway?

9points

#133

There's a country (Benin) where twins are most likely to be born.

journals.plos.org Report

17points

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Hugh Cookson 2 years ago

Ah, unless you are an old acquaintance of mine who was French and adopted, who got married to a girl from St Helena (look it up) who had twins in her families make up ; turns out, as he found out later, both of HIS natural parents had a high instance of twins - and multiple births - So, long story short, the first pregnancy ended up with twins, the second one she gave birth just short of 10 months after the first was twins again (at this point most of us would've had a vasectomy or at least been careful), his wife was pregnant within 6 weeks of giving birth to the second set of twins and 9 months after that, pushed out TRIPLETS !!! I have never seen a more broken man in my entire life - he was 25 ..... They are still together as far as I know 20 years later.

6points

#134

Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

16points

POST

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

Nothing like taking your work with you.

3points

#135

The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Germany, where people danced without rest for a month straight.

history.com Report

16points

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Nicolas Schirvel 2 years ago

Thanks LSD (true story)

3points

#136

The Paris Agreement on climate change was signed by the largest number of countries ever in one day.

unfoundation.org Report

16points

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David Phillips 2 years ago

And so nice to see all of them taking it so seriously.

14points

#137

The world's largest man-made oyster reef was created in Maryland.

mentalfloss.com Report

16points

POST

#138

There are more than 24 time zones around the world.

timeanddate.com Report

16points

POST

M. L. Dew 2 years ago

This one deserves a DUH.

8points

#139

Hair and nails grow faster during pregnancy.

Report

16points

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Trex 2 years ago

That's because you have extra blood going on with the baby making.

3points

scientificamerican.com Report

#140

Goosebumps are meant to ward off predators.

16points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

And also this one was on the previous list from last week.

5points

discoverwildlife.com Report

#141

Humans are the only animals that blush.

16points

POST

Nathaniel 2 years ago

Someone is being a lazy barsteward posting all these same facts again.

17points

Louise Christine Noble Report

#142

Our European ancestors were cannibals.

16points

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IamMe 2 years ago

At some point in time, every continent had people who ate other people. There was a lot of starving going on in ancient times.

22points

#143

Sea lions can dance to a beat.

psycnet.apa.org Report

16points

POST

#144

North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.

bbc.com Report

15points

POST

Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago

You can buy Coca Cola in Cuba. They import it from Mexico.

12points

#145

South Sudan is the youngest country in the world.

15points

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Just Jeff 2 years ago

July 9, 2011

2points

unknoaworldometers.infown Report

#146

There's a website that tracks the world's population in real time.

15points

POST

Aishling O Leary 2 years ago

What's it called

2points

#147

More people speak Mandarin Chinese than any other language.

15points

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Chris Hutchinson 2 years ago

As a first language, otherwise it's English.

12points

British Psychological Society Report

#148

Chewing gum boosts concentration.

15points

POST

James Edwards 2 years ago

Unless you're walking!

4points

Grant Hayter-Menzies Report

#149

There's a decorated war hero dog.

15points

POST

Just Jeff 2 years ago

I think there's more than one

4points

visitcalifornia.com Report

#150

California is home to the "Artichoke Capital of the World."

13points

POST

#151

There are only two countries with names that begin with "The."

13points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

I've got four. The Bahamas and the Maldives. The Gambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United States. The Netherlands

8points

#152

Dolphins have been trained to be used in wars.

pbs.org Report

13points

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Bouche Clay 2 years ago

As what?

2points

#153

The Comic Sans font came from an actual comic book.

creativebloq.com Report

13points

POST

Mark Berry 2 years ago

There's a font out there called "STANLEE".

5points

#154

There are more twins now than ever before.

cdc.gov Report

12points

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Jihana 2 years ago

Well, there are more people than ever before.

14points

#155

There's only two countries in the world that doesn't use the metric system.

unknown Report

12points

POST

Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

The lack of subject-verb agreement in this sentence caused me to have a stroke.

20points

#156

The red-billed quelea is the most common bird on Earth.

birdnote.org Report

12points

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David Phillips 2 years ago

More than chickens?

3points

guinnessworldrecords.com Report

#157

The longest wedding veil was the same length as 63.5 football fields.

12points

POST

3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago

5.8 kms long. Huh. Not sure what the point of that is, I’d have stopped after the first km :p

2points

Oxford English Dictionary editors Report

#158

"E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.

12points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

Yet I always get stuck with a couple at the end of Scrabble.

3points

#159

Pringles aren't actually potato chips.

12points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

They're compressed "chips/crisp" made from a variety of flours and starch which includes potato but they are not potato chips/crisps. It's about 40% potato per basically every site that pops up on Google.

7points