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We all have different life experiences, and because of that, we all have a unique set of knowledge floating around in our brains. You might know off the top of your head that Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was the first woman in the world to be elected president of a nation, or you might be able to list the capital cities of every single country without having to pause and think. 

Some of us also have interesting information living rent free in our brains that might immediately lead to some follow-up questions. Reddit users have recently been sharing their “don’t ask how I know” fun facts, so we’ve gathered their most bizarre responses below. Enjoy reading through this list, and be sure to upvote the information that makes you wonder why in the world anyone would know that!

#1

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts If your cat chews on fresh eucalyptus, they might start hallucinating and fall over repeatedly, leading to a $400 emergency vet bill just to be told she’s just kinda high.

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Kylie
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Affects Koalas the same way. Another reason they're called drop bears.

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#2

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify chew the Starburst not the pigeon.

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#3

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts TV shows and movies go out of their way to make military/intelligence officers look bad a*s. Real life “spies”, by design and training, are boring. Regular house, standard 2nd hand cars, dress down, have vague boring”-job titles (accounts receivable) as cover and do not draw attention to themselves. Most come from specialized academia.

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#4

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts The German guy who sought to meet men on the internet so he could cut of their genitals, with their permission, and fry them up and eat them. When asked by the judge why he rejected other ‘applicants’, he replied: There was a guy from Italy who wanted to be electrocuted first. I thought he was a bit weird.

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Jesse
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Rotenburg Cannibal, Armin Meiwes. Do not read his wikipedia page, it's disturbing.

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#5

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts There's a guy in Germany who has a 1 year waiting list and makes 6 figures making leather harnesses and masks for people who like to roleplay as horses.

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“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts If you overfill a fast food gravy cup then put a lid on, it will create a pressurized gravy stream that sprays all over your face and uniform while your coworker looks on in horror.

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#7

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Everyone here with the creepy crime stuff and I'm just "A soft-furred rat has 22 nipples".

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#8

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts When a drowning victim is revived, get them to a hospital as soon as possible. Drowning is the leading cause of death of kids from the age of 1 to 7 and is ruled as accidental drowning when it comes to secondary drowning or dry drowning. Basically your lungs are full of water despite being revived. Your lungs will absorb the liquid, but not before your body acidifies from high levels of carbon dioxide. The only chance to survive is to have the lungs pumped with oxygen via cpap machine and time.

Also drowning is extremely quiet. You don’t hear the victim go under. And if you see flailing, do not attempt to save the victim otherwise you’ll become another drowning victim. Throw them a life line and hope their amygdala realizes that there’s a rope or something floating near them and grabs on it.

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Stephanie Did It
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It always annoys me when, in a movie, an unconscious "drowning" person is pulled from the water, hurks up a splash, coughs and wakes up and is smiling and carrying on moments later. Cue the passionate kiss. I wouldn't want to be the kissee!

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#9

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Old human bones are very porous so if you lick them, they’ll stick to your tongue.

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#10

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Chlorine gas in ww1 was made industrially by running an electric current through salt water.

The more worrying one: bacon grease mixed with lye makes glycerine. Glycerine with nitric and sulfuric acid makes nitroglycerine. Nitroglycerine with wood pulp makes dynamite.

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#11

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts The antidote if you drink antifreeze (ethylene glycol) is whisky (or any hard alcohol).

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#12

Doctors, or surgeons more specifically, that make too many mistakes during surgery, ie, leaving instruments in patients, frequently gets ‘quietly traded’ to other hospitals where they continue their path of destruction with the patients not being aware of their past record. Hospitals tend to keep quiet about the matter to avoid lawsuits.

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#13

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Bleach alone doesn’t get rid of blood from a UV light however hydrogen peroxide does for the most part. If you need to clean out a large amount of blood pour hydrogen peroxide on it, wait about 5 mins scrub it then use bleach. After cover the smell with candles or if it’s in the bathroom open a window and turn on the shower for about 10-20 mins.

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Multa Nocte
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just in case one of us here on Bored Panda needs to make use of that knowledge later.

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#14

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Rare af, but sometimes 2 ova are released during ovulation. If you have multiple partners and either very poor (or very good. No judgment) timing, the resulting twins could have different fathers. It's called heteropaternal superfecundation.

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Ace
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The two-egg release is very common, all non-identical twins are formed this way. It's only the different father thing that is so rare, and that rareness is more a result of social behaviour than biology.

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“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts You have quite a lot of time, certainly more than ten seconds, to turn back on the main pumps of a nuclear reactor once you have accidentally turned them off.

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#16

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts If you ever trying to survive in the arctic, don’t eat polar bear liver. It is so high in vitamin A it will [end] you.

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you see a polar bear in the wild, maybe consider running before it sees you. If it sees you, byebye

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#17

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts During the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by Native American protestors, a drunken Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike of the island, but the order was ignored.

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#18

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts [Ending] someone by smothering them is not a foolproof way to commit m**der, as smothering-caused asphyxiation damages a specific capillary in the eye. The pathologist will check the eye and immediately pronounce the corpse a m**der victim, and there are many, many people in jail around the world that did not know this prior to their conviction.

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#19

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Hershey’s chocolate has the strong smell of vomit or feces to some people (me), and that’s because they use butyric acid as a preservative. Butyric acid is the compound that makes vomit smell so bad.

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#20

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts A severed human head has a strange uneven weight distribution. So you better hold it tight or you will be known as the guy that dropped the head.

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#21

Most people put effort into "hiding the body" however what you need to focus on is ANYTHING that can link you TO the dead body.

"I don't know, he was dead when I got here!"

Don't say anything else. It's up to them to link fingerprints, DNA evidence etc. Anything else is just circumstantial evidence.

Of course you should avoid any circumstantial evidence to a dead person obviously if you can.

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#22

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts When Marie Antoinette was awaiting her execution , Her best friend Marie-Thérèse Louise de Savoie Carignan, Princess of Lamballe was taken and tried..They offered her grace only if she swore to Liberty and Equality, and hatred of the King and Queen. She agreed to the first part but refused to claim hatred and denounce her best friend even after her father begged her to in order for her life to be spared..... she was taken to a slaughter yard and a mob brutally m**dered her. Then... the mob decapitated her and crudely impaled her head on a pike... and then placed the pike on front of Marie's cell window so she could see what had become of her best friend and what fate awaited her.

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#23

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Wikipedia has shockingly accurate nuclear munitions counts for locations and weapon types.

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Zaphod
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Transparency is good, I guess. Btw, everyone should see, *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* It's a 1964 comedy about nuclear war by Stanley Kubrick. It stars Peter Sellers in 3 roles and is super funny! Spoiler alert: this photo looks like the end.

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#24

Asbestos tastes like chalk. And if you lick it, it has the texture of extremely gritty sandpaper. Which is actually the feeling of microscopic asbestos needles piercing your flesh!!!

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#25

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts There is a species of turtle that can breathe through its butt.

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#26

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts A significant component to what makes stealth aircraft stealthy comes down to how their parts are painted.

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#27

If you are going to dismember a corpse after m**dering them, when pulling the teeth, don't forget the impacted wisdom teeth. They may contain enough mitochondria DNA to allow an ID

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#28

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts If you work 40 hours a week and spend 10 minutes a day pooping it equals a whole week of paid vacation per year.

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Ample Aardvark
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you spend 10 min pooping you need a lot more fiber and water in your diet

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#29

The smell of a dead body can stick with you for a day or two no matter how many times your wash your hands or shower.

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#30

The act of cannibalism is not illegal in the Netherlands. If you were to aquire human flesh in a legal way, you are allowed to eat it.

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#31

Male and female beavers have different colored fluids that come out of their anal glands. In males, brown, and in females white or clear. It is one of the main modes of gender identification, as they don't have external genitalia.

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Zaphod
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Castoreum is used as a flavoring in many food products, including vanilla ice cream

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#32

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts The Zoroastrians leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by vultures.

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Zaphod
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Zoroastrianism was the first monotheist religion. It also came up with the concept of "Light and Dark", good and evil. In Zoroastrianism, the only true God is Ahura Mazda, the representation of goodness, light, and truth. He is in conflict with the evil spirit Angra Mainyu, the representation of evil, darkness, and deceit. Angru Mainyu's goal is to tempt humans away from Ahura Mazda. Judaism and Christianity "borrowed" heavily from these concepts. (partially stolen from google)

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#33

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Even if you don't want to, if you sit in the back of the plane, you have a higher chance of surviving a plane crash.

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Mark
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does the first part mean? if you don't want to survive a plane crash or don't want to sit in the back?

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#34

Although never technically illegal, oral sex has officially been legal in England since 1828.

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Zaphod
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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oral counts as sodomy, too. Consentual sodomy is illegal in 14 states including: AL, FL, ID, KS, LA, MI, MO, MS, NC, OK, SC, TX, UT, VA and Puerto Rico.

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#35

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Earthworms, specifically nightcrawlers are way crunchier than you think.

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#36

“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Beginning in 1911 in anticipation of the outbreak of WW1 in 1914, two statesmen, one from England and one from France, began visiting locations in France that they believed would be the settings for a number of major battles that would occur during the great war. Long bike rides through these future battle zones in the countryside and weeks spent building a foundation for a French-Anglo codebook that would later prove important in helping win the war.

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Lee
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What an incredibly bleak and heartbreaking chapter of human history. Then not long after, an even darker and tragic chapter began. We as the apparent 'custodians' of this crazy spinning rock that we call home should really keep in mind that we're not the sole inhabitants of it. If only animals could speak...the stuff they would tell us about what we are doing to their home would be sobering for many.

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“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts If you eat a bunch of McDonald’s and then down about half a liter of vodka, then throw it all up, tastes just like funnel cake from a county fair.

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#38

Turmeric can be used as clothes dye. It is capable of permanently dyeing cotton cloth even after it has passed through the digestive tract of an adult male.

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“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts Your muscles can keep twitching for several hours after you die.

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Mark
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and your brain remains active for several seconds after decapitation

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#41

Both HPV & Epstein Barr seem to cause a measurable increase in breast cancer.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both are Herpes Viridae. Along with mono, simplex, chicken pox, shingles, and the cause of MS. The Herpes family of viruses are actually responsible for a wide variety of illnesses.

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#42

The most commonly overlooked item for residual blood in a room where a m**der took place is the frame of a standing mirror. You're technically supposed to remove the frame and clean it, or continuously apply a peroxide based cleaner to the edges until it stops bubbling, but in most cases insurance adjusters will allow you to throw it out and replace it if you tell them a standing mirror was affected

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#43

The US had the ability to view any American’s backyard via spy satellites about 15 years earlier than you would think could be scientifically possible.

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Thomas Klobucnik
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What blows my mind is the fact that the earliest spy satellites actually dropped film from orbit that was recovered mid air and developed.

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#44

Most traffic cameras have live feeds online, free. Never needed to do this for any reason myself, but pair that knowledge with an AM radio and knowing what frequency the local authorities are on, and you could become practically invisible.

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#45

There is an acceptable amount of rat droppings allowed in candy bars and some other foods.

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BigCityLady
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That included peanut butter and other forms of mass produced foods as well! You would actually look at peanut butter in an entirely different light when you consider the amount of insects that are found “acceptable” in your peanut butter. 😳😳

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#46

A nurse went missing in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in the spring of 1962. She went to mail a letter and go for a walk. Her body was found in a shallow grave by the river a few blocks away. At the time her next door neighbour, across the alley, was the 48 year old postman. In 1929 that postman was the unwilling accomplice of his serial ki**er uncle, leading the police to numerous shallow graves on his uncle’s farm. His story was told in the 2008 movie Changeling.

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SoozeeQ
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So ... did postman become a serial killer too? Wish this was more specific.

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