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We know how much you enjoy learning new things, dear Pandas. We do, too. Luckily for us, the internet has a nearly-inexhaustible supply of fun trivia, interesting facts, and intriguing tidbits about the world to whet our appetites for knowledge. If you’re constantly curious about things, then this article might be right up your alley.

Redditor u/Not_a_Replicant_ asked people to share the cool facts that they think others should definitely know, and they were not disappointed. Their thread quickly went viral and got over 41.5k upvotes in 3 days. We’ve collected some of the most interesting answers that are bound to reignite your curiosity about science, history, and other areas of knowledge. Perfect for that Ravenclaw living inside of you? We like to think so.

Scroll down and don’t forget to upvote the facts that you enjoyed learning about the most. Got some great trivia to share with all the other Pandas? Don’t be shy, drop on by the comment section.

Bored Panda reached out to Steven Wooding, a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK, to talk about how to keep ourselves constantly learning as we grow up, how we ought to approach random facts we stumble across online, and where to start if we feel that we’ve reignited our passion for science, history, and other areas. Steven is a member of the Omni Calculator Project and recently helped create the Weird Units Converter, a calculator that helps you make conversions from standard units to unusual ones like football fields, cats, and, yes, even Harry Potter books. They've even got a fun challenge set up.

“Getting information from a known, reliable source is an excellent shortcut to having to fact-check everything yourself,” Steven said that we should all put in the effort to find reliable news sources. “You should be very wary of believing something online from a source you don't recognize. When you do find something, search for it on other websites you have heard of and see if they are all saying the same thing.” Read on for the full interview.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.

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If two drunks keep on arguing after showing them verifiable facts, whack them in the head with the book.

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Steven agreed with Bored Panda that many of us can feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and feel like we don’t have much free time for leisure, let alone learning, as we grow up. However, all is not lost! There are ways to break out of the routine of stress and monotony.

“It's all too easy to get caught up in the stress of modern life and forget to notice extraordinary things around you. Go for a walk in nature and try to observe everything. Ask yourself, what's that? And if you don't know, take a photo and look it up,” Steven suggested.

One of the main things that you should aim to do is to remember what it was like to be a kid. Try to get back into the mindset you used to have when you were little to reignite your curiosity in the world. “The main problem is that once you're an adult, you think you know everything (or you think you should do), so you stop asking questions. You'll notice kids do it all the time. So to stay curious and learn new things, keep asking questions.”

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.

We’ve been quick!

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I think you mean "went on". I don't think he went to the moon to watch his son land!

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi.

In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies

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I was interested to get Steven’s opinion about where we could start learning about science and other topics if we feel completely lost. He told Bored Panda that a pretty good place to start would be mainstream science TV programs on the topics that we’re already interested in.

“They'll cover a subject with easy-to-digest information that you can rely on and could inspire you to investigate further. Then you could move on to popular science books that go a bit further and deeper,” he shared. “Science podcasts and YouTube channels can also be a good idea. If you can't think of a topic, you could look at the science section of Wikipedia and go through the featured articles. If one grabs your interest, read it in full and follow links that interest you.”

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Bob Ross was a Drill Instructor. When he stopped working as that, he promised he would not raise his voice at someone again. That's why he was so soft spoken.

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We shouldn’t believe everything that we come across online, whether it’s on social media, a news website, or Reddit, the front page of the internet. It’s vital to look at things from a scientist’s point of view so you don’t get lost in the morass of potentially fake news.

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Previously, I spoke to Lee McIntyre from Boston University’s Center for Philosophy and History of Science about how to separate good news sources from bad ones and why it’s important to be well-versed in media literacy.

"Repetition is important in making us believe things, whether they are true or not. There is a cognitive bias called the 'illusory truth effect' which is when we are repeatedly exposed to false information over and over and, over time, it begins to seem more plausible," Lee explained to Bored Panda.
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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know There was a phantom poop on an Apollo mission. A poop, floating around, that none of the astronauts said was theirs.

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Upvoted because I’m imagining the astronauts all arguing about who was going to capture and dispose of the floating turd, whilst denying any responsibility for it and simultaneously worrying about catastrophic toilet failure.

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If you skip to the end of a long YouTube video and press replay you can watch the whole thing without adds

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know The technology for the fax machine was invented in 1843. The feudal era in Japan ended in 1868 abolishing the samurai class. Abraham Lincoln lived until 1865. All of this combined lead to a 22 year period in which Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.

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"Social psychologists have known since the 1960s that repetition works, for truth or falsity. In fact, this idea goes back to Plato who said that it didn't hurt to repeat a true thing. And of course, for falsehood, this was one of the main propaganda tactics in Nazi Germany, where Hitler's propaganda minister understood the 'repetition effect.'"

However, double-checking and cross-referencing every single fact that we find online and every tiny item we hear on the news would be utterly exhausting. So we need a different approach.

“It would be exhausting to fact check every single news item we hear. In fact, insisting on this degree of skepticism is something that demagogues use to get us to be cynical, because when we doubt that it is possible to know the truth—even when it is staring us in the face—we are riper to their manipulation. So I'd say the best thing with news is to do a little investigation into finding a reliable source," the expert said.

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Human's ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark's ability to smell blood in water.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence

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Imagine if they could add this feature to Minecraft.

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You know that feeling like you’re falling you get when you’re falling asleep? That happens because sometimes your muscles relax and your heart rate slows down too quickly that your body thinks you’re dying. So, it gives you that falling sensation which jolts you awake.

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"Look for an organization that does investigative journalism (and doesn't just repeat information from other sources), double sources its quotations, discloses conflicts of interest, etc. Once we've found that we can relax a bit and trust the reporting behind the stories. Do we still need to be on guard? Yes. Even The New York Times can make mistakes. Or individual reporters can have biases. But that doesn't mean 'all sources are equal.'"

Lee highlighted the importance of raising media literacy, as it helps sift through news and facts. "There are various sources for media literacy that can help. They teach this to KIDS in Finland! It's easy to learn. Is the story copyrighted? Is it dated? Is there a byline? Are other stories by the author solid? Is it published in a source that has been reliable in the past? Does it seem plausible— if not then you can do some research," he said what we should be aware of when looking at any news article.
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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Some birth control pills can cause vitamin B deficiency. Vitamin B is used to make seratonin. I’ve know a few people that got super depressed after starting birth control and taking B complex made a huge difference

*consult your doctor

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That’s mighty interesting. My wife feels alot better since she doesn’t take the pill anymore, and that might have been part of the reason. I know she was low on Vitamin B, amond D, potassium and Iron. Besides Iron we were able to get the rest up to a healthy level mostly by changing our meal composition, and for Vitamin D supplements.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Andrew Jackson had a interesting assassination attemp. The person who was going to kill him pointed his gun and it jammed. Jackson then beat him up wjth his cane. The guy got back and pulled out the second gun which also managed to jam. This is a 1 in 125,000 chance.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Australia is wider than the moon.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, Australia has more snakes per square foot than the moon does as a whole!

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"Will we get fooled sometimes in doing this? Yes. But we're going to get fooled sometimes anyway. It's analogous to how scientists form their beliefs. They are skeptics, but they also—at some point when the evidence is sufficient—give their assent. Scientists deal with warrant, not 'proof.' They are what philosophers call 'fallibilists.' You give your belief to things that are well-sourced with evidence, while always holding out the possibility that if further evidence comes to light that contradicts your belief, you should give it up because you might be wrong."
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Some people don’t have a inner dialogue, some can’t picture in their mind, and some have / can do both.

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I have aphantasia, I can't visualise things in my head. Since I discovered this, I've found that it's not really that uncommon, and I know several other people who are the same.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know When the Rubix Cube was first released a mathematician said it would take the average person 30 years, working 8 hours a day, to solve a cube saying it was impossible for someone without a master's in mathematics to solve it in under a month.

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How to solve the Rubix Cube in less than five seconds without a masters in Mathematics: Get a paint brush.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know NASA discovered a planet outside of the milky way a few days ago for the first time in human history

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"Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time. This intriguing result, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, opens up a new window to search for exoplanets at greater distances than ever before. The possible exoplanet candidate is located in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), also called the Whirlpool Galaxy because of its distinctive profile." — https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/chandra-sees-evidence-for-possible-planet-in-another-galaxy.html

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. We would not even know this cake existed, except for the internet. (German here, obviously) If you want a German cake, then try Donauwelle, Marmorkuchen, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (that's a "Torte" tough - fancy cake), Böhmischer Apfelkuchen...... Edit to add: Frankfurter Kranz, Streuselkuchen, Käsekuchen, Bienenstich, Erdbeerkuchen, Kalter Hund and Hefezopf

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Opossums generally cannot get rabies. Their body temperature is too low for the virus.

Also the stomach acid of a vulture is so highly acidic it kills rabies virus and most bacteria, which is why they can eat dead disgusting rotting things.

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Castoreum, used as a substitute vanilla flavoring, is actually harvested from the an*l glands of beavers. They use it combined with urine to scent mark territory. Beaver butt also has a raspberry taste to it. It’s a common “natural ingredient” in raspberry-flavored sweets.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Putting enough eye drops in someone’s food or drink will, in fact, kill them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was an episode of CSI where someone was killed due to having eye drops put in their drink.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know There’s a vast difference between a million and a billion. A simple way to visualize it: a million seconds is over 11 days. A billion seconds is just under 32 years.

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Is this UK or USA billion? http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04440/SN04440.pdf

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The sun is not yellow. When viewed outside earths atmosphere it is white. It only looks yellow due to our atmosphere "pulling" the blue light out, leaving it looking yellow. It's an illusion.

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Note: It's not a good idea to look directly into the sun... unless you really hate having eyes ;)

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When a Camel spider (or wind scorpion) is chasing you, it's just chasing your shadow. All they want is a little bit of shade! They'd never have the intent of harming you

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sounds like a camel spider wrote this to stop its prey from running. im on to you camel spider

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There was no “s” sound for the letter c in ancient Roman Latin. Thus Gaius Julius Caesar was pronounced “Gaius Julius Kaiser”. His name is where the Germans and Russians got their name for king (Kaiser and Tzar respectively).

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes sense. It would probably be unnecessarily traumatic for a sick body to lose an organ if it didn't have to.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Gases and particles in Earth's atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. Now you know why the sky is blue.

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Wow, I have never been wondering why the sky was blue, but this is an interesting fact indeed!

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually

Edit: y’all I just found this on google when I was curious one day don’t ask me how it works I’m failing biology

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Due to evolution, humans share genes with all living organisms. For example, 60% of your DNA is the same as a strawberry.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know More people die from vending machines than sharks

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Because no one suspects a vending machine will be lurking in the water

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Emma Morano of Italy was the last (documented and verified) person to die that was born in the 1800s. 29th November 1899 - 15th April 2017

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Stephen Hawking died on March 14, the Pi Day, which is also the birthday of Albert Einstein.

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American Pi Day. Rest of the world should be 31st April, but that would really be Ten Pi day. ;-)

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know There was a short period of time when Picasso and Snoop Dogg were both alive together.

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Picasso: 25th October 1881 - 8th April 1973. Snoop Dogg: 20th October 1971 - Present day.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know The shell is part of the turtle’s skeleton.

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Butterflies and Moths can drink blood and tears in order to get nutrients. It’s called Mud-puddling. I think more horror movies should use this.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Butterflies will land on sweaty shoes or hiking pole handles even t shirts left on a river bank while the owner takes a swim in order for the insect to get to the salts and minerals left by sweat. Critters living in mountainous regions will do the same, more than one hiker has had hiking pole handles and gloves chewed on.

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The amount of water in, on, and above planet earth does not increase or decrease. It's always in a constant cycle. Even the water humans use.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, yes. There's a good chance the water you drink has been through a dinosaur's system.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know 90% of the population on Earth lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Lamborghini started making supercars because Enzo Ferrari was being a jerk to Ferruccio Lamborghini.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The inventor of cruise control in cars was blind. Universities refused Ralph Teetor's applications based on his disability. He eventually got enrolled at the U. of Pennsylvania in the engineering department. He later became the President of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

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Your oral health is very important , poor oral health is more than just bad teeth / bad breathe it can lead to heart problems , infections and more

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True. My daughter is a dentist and explained how bacteria can move from teeth / gums to the heart, etc. Keep brushing! 😂

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Sharks existed before trees existed.

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The “Easter Island Heads” actually have bodies, and some were excavated in 2017.

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Where there are heads, there must be bodies. Old detective saying.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know If you stare at your own reflection in dim lighting for a few minutes, your face will begin to distort and you will essentially begin to hallucinate. Don’t do it. It’s a trap.

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Penguins trade nice rocks for sex.

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Not as simple as that. Penguins give rocks during courtship. If the female penguin likes the rock/penguin she will take that penguin as a mate (most penguins are monogamous) and the female will use the rock gifts to help build their nests.

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As the result of a collision with another moon eons ago, Neptune's moon "Triton" has a retrograde orbit; meaning an orbit in the direction opposite to its planet's rotation. Triton is the only large moon our solar system to have such an orbit. Not impressed?

The collision eons ago also altered Triton's orbit of Neptune in another, far more sinister way. Despite obviously emerging victorious from the collision, the impact ever so slightly threw Triton off course. Every year, Triton creeps a fraction of an inch closer to Neptune.

This means that one day billions of years in the future, Triton's orbit will get too close to Neptune and Neptune's superior gravitational pull will tear Triton apart.

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Hyenas are actually more related to cats than dogs. Hyenas are part of the Suborder Feliformia along with cats.

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You can make tasty fresh bread yourself in four or five hours with flour, salt, yeast and water, no kneading and zero skill. It literally takes less than 10 minutes of actual effort. Since finding out about this last year I've done it dozens of times. Google no-knead bread!

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Big bird was almost in the Challenger explosion

Big bird was planned to go so they could do something to get kids interested in space, but the costume (over 8 feet tall) was just too f**king big to fit.

They sent a school teacher instead. And then the shuttle exploded

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It's terrible that seven people died, but imagine the childhood trauma of that generation if all those children watched Big Bird die in it.

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Spit will instantly harden super glue.

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A platypus makes venom. One of several interesting things about them.

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Shaq hit almost 12,000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.

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If you search for 'recursion' on Google, it will ask you if you meant to type 'recursion' instead. When you click the suggestion, you land on the exact same page and Google will ask you if you meant to type 'recursion'. Fun little easter egg

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Acacia trees were shown to send chemical signals to other trees that they were being overgrazed on, causing the other Acacia trees to increase the production of a specific chemical that would kill the animals overgrazing on them.

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True, during a long drought in Africa, a number of giraffe were found dead after eating from acacia tress that had increased levels of the chemical

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If you were born in 80,000 BC and made 10k a day up till now.

You still wouldn't be as rich as Elon Musk.

Not sure how accurate it is. Saw someone post it a few days ago here.

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82,021 * 365 * 10,000 is 299,376,650,000 and Musk is worth 316.5 billion today. It both checks out and makes me very sad.

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#56

The word “Helicopter” isn’t a combination of heli and copter, but rather “helico” like a helix and “pter” like a pterodactyl.

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another basically pointless etymology. "Pter" is related to english "Feather" in the same way as "Pater" in Latin is related to english "Father". In both cases we see P->F and T->TH. This is also known as Grimm's Law.

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If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the exact order they’re in has almost certainly never been duplicated in the history of shuffled decks.

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~80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 possible combinations (52!)

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Big spiders adopt little frogs and they protect their little spider eggs from predators.

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I had a quick google, this has been observed in several different countries with different species of frog and spider. I’m scared.

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In the pineal gland in your brain, over time it will start to form tiny calcification, little mineral buildups. There is no known function for these but scientists named it corpora arenacea also known as dream sand.

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David Dastmalchian, the actor who plays Polka Dot Man in the new Suicide Squad, actually has vitiligo irl and got called "polka dots" as a kid.

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Since anteaters had to break through termite mounds as strong as concrete to get their food, they’ve evolved claws bigger a than bears. This, combined with the fact that they’re legally blind, means these homicidal vacuum cleaners can put f**king jaguars in caskets.

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The first imaging satellites used to drop film from space which was either caught by aircraft or recovered in the ocean. Check out the Corona space program.

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The film was huge too. My father worked on this program. It was so top secret that no one knew anything about other parts of the project. Now it's all available on Google.

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A banana is a berry

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The More You Know: Internet Users Share 50 Cool Facts That Everyone Should Know Penguins have knees

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If you find a four leaf clover then there is a good chance you'll find more not too far away.

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My daughter finds literally dozens on an almost daily basis just going for walks locally! Plus 5, 6, and 7 leaf clovers too, though not as frequently. To be fair, she has a great eye for it - I walk over the same areas and miss them all! Her collection is insane!

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President John Tyler was born in 1790 when George Washington was President. He has a grandson currently alive. 3 generations span all 46 presidencies.

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It only takes a couple of people having children late in life to produce situations like this. Oscar Wilde's grandson is still alive, Richard Wagner's grandson died quite recently...and Julio Iglesias has a half-sister 63 years his junior!

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Dogs that are slightly underweight live an average of two years longer than dogs that are slightly overweight.

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Dogs need to exercise a lot (their wolves ancestors are built to travel about 80 km a day). Due to that same ancient condition of having to actively and permanently search for food, they also are always hungry and will eat at any occasion they're given to. A slightly underweight dog might not have enough to eat but is still genetically conditioned to live with it. A slightly overweight dog is lacking exercise and/or eating too much and is not genetically conditioned to cope with this problem and the kind of diseases it creates, hence the lower life expectancy.

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Your eyeballs have a separate enclosed immune system than the rest of your body. If somehow the two become aware of each other, your body will think your eyes are invaders and literally attack and dissolve them.

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I would have been happier not knowing this. My eyes feel weird now. Probably dissolving.

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Copper door knobs are self-disinfecting.

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This is only partially true. If enough dirt and/or tissue is left on the k**b, or resistant bacteria/viruses, the effect gets diminished or is even void. Not sure how rust affects it either. And too lazy to google.

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There are 5.6 popes per square mile in Vatican City.

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The General Electric Company for many decades owned NBC. The three chimes of the NBC jingle are the notes G-E-C. During the radio era if that chime ever had a fourth note, that was a signal for NBC employees to go into work because a major news story (i.e. D-Day) was about to break.

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The Michael Meyers mask is a William Shatner face mask painted white. Happy Halloween!

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Madagascar has a larger population than Australia.

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And Australia is approx 13 times larger than Mafagascar. A lot of Australia is uninhabitable though.

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Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.

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If an alpaca has blue eyes it is most likely deaf

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The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.

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Kangaroos will eat cat poop even though it is poisonous to them -learned this when a local zoo had a stray cat problem.

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Well my dog eats kangaroo poo, even though it makes her breath smell like farts

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Muscles do not develop the same in everyone and their exact origins/insertions can differ between people. In some the biceps have three or more heads, as opposed to the normal two. Some muscles are entirely absent, such as the psoas minor (found in about 40% of humans) and the sternalis (only 7.8%).

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The fact that there is all of these permutations of what we think of us as identical beings explains why some people's sexuality is outside of the norm but still normal as are the above examples.

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Cows can see almost 360 degrees.

Edit: Hi, I just woke up. Thanks for the awards!

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If your cow sees 360 degrees, you're burning it. You only need to get them to 145 degrees Farenheit :P

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1 billion people speak English. That's 1 in every 7 on Earth.

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To put this into perspective: about 1.4 billion people are speaking mandarin,

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The state of California in the USA has a higher population than the entire country of Australia.

(39,613,493 vs 25,892,511)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup. And the city of Washington DC that doesn't have representatives in Congress has a larger population than each the state of Wyoming and the state of Vermont. Both states each have one congress representative and two senators.

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The average blue whale ejaculate is 5 gallons

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Tigers are more likely to win in a fight against lions

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Flamingos aren't born with curved beaks. They start to curve as they get older.

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That the majority of people who get hurt on elevators are those who work on elevators

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every elevator repairman will tell you the job has its ups and downs...

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The Anglo-Zanzibar war. 38 minutes.

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After the death of the ruler, who was cooperating with the British, his cousin took office. The Brits did have another candidate in mind, but Chalid ibn Barghasch refused to step back. So they attacked his palace with five battleships, resulting in 300 dead and 200 injured there. Casualities on the british side: 1 injured, probably from incorrectly using a cannon. Being armed only with a few a century old handguns and a dozen of old frontloader cannons, the Zanzibarians had nothing to fight back.

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It takes 7 grams of cocain to kill you

Mosquitos kill more humans than any other creature including humans

The Tsar bomba is capable of releasing around 1.5k times for energy than fat man

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The European, Iranian, and North Indian languages are all related to each other and we've reconstructed some of what that original language might have looked like: Proto-Indo-European.

With the notable exception of some languages like Finnish, Hungarian, and Georgian which are part of other language families.

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Twister was the first movie released on DVD

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally 4 clicks: https://legacybox.com/blogs/analog/what-was-the-first-movie-made-on-dvd

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If you log into your Netflix account in a web browser, you can reset your viewing history for certain shows and watch the series again without messed up start/end times

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I wish Netflix and other streaming services had a watched list, not just a watch list. I have terrible memory and can't always remember of I've watched something. Having a watched list would make it much easier.

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The skeletons used in the original Poltergeist movie were real skeletons, because it was cheaper.

Blucifer of the Denver International Airport killed his creator when a part of him severed an artery in the leg of Luis Jiménez.

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Tom Brady has thrown more TD passes in his 40s than he did in his 20s

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He probably increased his skills in throwing to make up for reduction in distance speed as he aged. The best people in any sport shift skills as they age, as long as they are given the chance to keep going.

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It takes ~108 atoms laid in a row to span the width of a human fingernail (~1 cm.) If the same number of standard wooden pencils were laid end to end, they would circumnavigate the Earth’s equator more than 47 times.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I assume that’s supposed to say 10 to the 8th, or 10^8 atoms, rather than “approximately 108 atoms.”

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