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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!
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#1
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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#2
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.
#3
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.
#4
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.
#5
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.
#6
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.
#7
Everyone here with the creepy crime stuff and I'm just "A soft-furred rat has 22 nipples".
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
great.now some fool is gonna make bikini tops for a taxidermized rat.
#8
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.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
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!
#9
Old human bones are very porous so if you lick them, they’ll stick to your tongue.
#10
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.
#11
The antidote if you drink antifreeze (ethylene glycol) is whisky (or any hard alcohol).
#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.
#13
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.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Just in case one of us here on Bored Panda needs to make use of that knowledge later.
#14
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.
#15
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.
#16
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.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
If you see a polar bear in the wild, maybe consider running before it sees you. If it sees you, byebye
#17
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.
#18
[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.
#19
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.
#20
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.
#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.
#22
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.
#23
Wikipedia has shockingly accurate nuclear munitions counts for locations and weapon types.
Zaphod 1 year ago
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.
#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!!!
#25
There is a species of turtle that can breathe through its butt.
#26
A significant component to what makes stealth aircraft stealthy comes down to how their parts are painted.
#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
#28
If you work 40 hours a week and spend 10 minutes a day pooping it equals a whole week of paid vacation per year.
Ample Aardvark 1 year ago
If you spend 10 min pooping you need a lot more fiber and water in your diet
#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.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
its sooooooo hard to get out of clothes, i've lost so many t-shirts this way.
Deeelite 1 year ago
Yes! Found a relative that had been deceased in the home for a month. Had to throw out the clothes i was wearing and called in to work the next day cuz after 12 showers I could still smell it
Bored Birgit 1 year ago
Sorry you had to go through that experience. Must be horrific.
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Valdemar 1 year ago
The rotting body fats are very sticky and it translates into the odor. The grocery store next to where I worked in the 90's has a waste bin for the butcher shop and it was kept behind the building and all the fat and scraps went into it. One summer it sprung a leak and the liquid run off traveled across our back parking lot to a storm drain in the hot August sun. For two months it smelled like absolute rotting death and no amount of rain and power washing would get rid of it. That smell is still ingrained in my memory and I have a heightened sense of smell for decaying flesh and have to hunt down dead rodents and other pests that get in my workplace to keep my sanity.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
I am sorry to say I can confirm this. It has a smell unlike anything else.
Nimitz 1 year ago
Yeah. Discovered this doing fire/flood/restoration work. 2-3 days for the smell to fully get out of your nose and off your skin. The Vicks vapor rub trick really does help, especially if you have facial hair cause it will make the hair smell like menthol instead of... that...
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
And in mobile phones - well they did back in the 3210 Nokia era, I had to replace it.
Apollo 1 year ago
I work at a care center that has a hospice wing. Most of the hospice rooms reek of death, they can't get the smell out unless they strip the room. The smell clings to surfaces. It's not a smell you forget easily. I've found that I can usually accurately predict when someone is going to pass based on smell, it smells like a mixture of nail polish remover, steak that's just starting to go bad, and peanut butter balls with Merlot wine in them.
Michelle Reynolds 1 year ago
Rubbing stainless steel on your hands under running water helps get onion and garlic smell off, maybe dead bodies too!
Lee 1 year ago
I don't know why people make comments like this, as if the ONLY people that would know morbid facts are crazy murderers. There are a massive number of careers where facts like this apply!
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The Bearded Viking 1 year ago
Once you smell a dead body, you never forget it and you will recall it whenever you think about it. It is one of only a handful of smells our brain is hardwired to respond to it and to remember and it does so as a defence mechanism.
Boris’ Mom 1 year ago
So those metal bars to take the scent off (like garlic or onion) won't do any good?
Joshua David 1 year ago
Can confirm. Dad died and I had to throw out the clothes I wore to clean out his apartment after 3 days of him laying there.
Mark Howell 1 year ago
Out, out damned spot. Can all the perfumes of Arabia not sweeten this hand
Andy Smith 1 year ago
The smell also sticks in your nose for the rest of the day. Although, green apple jolly ranchers cuts down on that surprisingly. I always carry some at work, just in case
Emily Kerkstra 1 year ago
like in your nose, so you keep smelling it? or on you so other people smell it?
Jaguarundi 1 year ago
This is true. The smell stays in your nose for several days too, even when using a mask if it doesn't have a rebreather.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
You've got to use a decongestant and scrub vigorously. nose-clean...f5689e.jpg 
David Paterson 1 year ago
If you smell rancid human fat up in the bush in the top end of Australia, run. Warriors used to cover themselves in it for rituals.
Shiva Ho 1 year ago
It's why I hate going to the hospital because of the smell of death is everywhere
Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 1 year ago
what hospitals are you going to???
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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.
#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.
#32
The Zoroastrians leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by vultures.
Zaphod 1 year ago (edited)
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)
#33
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.
#34
Although never technically illegal, oral sex has officially been legal in England since 1828.
#35
Earthworms, specifically nightcrawlers are way crunchier than you think.
What do you think ?
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Is one of the Bored Panda staff quietly putting tips together so they can murder someone and get away with it later?
the quickening 1 year ago
it certainly is starting to feel that way lmaao
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Ace 1 year ago
Why are so many of these supposedly random facts all about covering up murders?
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
The Green Lynx Spider is capable of spitting its venom and said venom is extremely bitter. -1000/10 never tasting again omg
Hlon 1 year ago
Another fun fact: when people panic while scuba diving, their initial reaction is to rip out their breathing regulator and take off their mask. I never understood why anyone would do that until it happened to me. Your brain wants things back to normal so you involuntarily remove everything that isn’t “normal”.
Julia Ford 1 year ago
And like my husband, try to swim to the surface. Luckily I was able to stop him.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
Another don't ask how I know. It takes a lot more poison to kill a person than you think, when taken orally. So long as you have a healthy self-preservation instinct, there are really only three chemical poisons that can kill you when ingested in small doses : these three are ricin, botox and radioactive isotopes. Ricin only in its purified form. And even then almost all of the deadliest poisons can be cured completely or partially by taking a different poison with the opposite effect. Much of this is because the majority of the deadliest poisons act on the operation of the acetylcholine neurotransmitter pathway, and the effects of some are opposite others.
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
What about cyanide? I have read that this kills instantly in relatively small doses as well.
Load More Replies... Jaguarundi 1 year ago
Cauterized/seared/burning human flesh smells just like good quality BBQ pork being cooked.
Sky Render 1 year ago
If it were possible to override the prostatic utricle and urinate immediately after sex, the resulting stream of urine would be prone to being released in short, intense bursts. If kept sustained, the stream could easily exceed 6 feet in length.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
I need to alter my genes so that I can release an extremely pressurized beam of supperheated urine at attackers like Shin Godzilla's Atomic Breath.
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My O My 1 year ago
Mice consuming vast amounts of Epo (the stuff that was used for doping cyclists) get really aggressive
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
So many of these are things I don't want to know about how they were first discovered.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Is one of the Bored Panda staff quietly putting tips together so they can murder someone and get away with it later?
the quickening 1 year ago
it certainly is starting to feel that way lmaao
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago
Why are so many of these supposedly random facts all about covering up murders?
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
The Green Lynx Spider is capable of spitting its venom and said venom is extremely bitter. -1000/10 never tasting again omg
Hlon 1 year ago
Another fun fact: when people panic while scuba diving, their initial reaction is to rip out their breathing regulator and take off their mask. I never understood why anyone would do that until it happened to me. Your brain wants things back to normal so you involuntarily remove everything that isn’t “normal”.
Julia Ford 1 year ago
And like my husband, try to swim to the surface. Luckily I was able to stop him.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
Another don't ask how I know. It takes a lot more poison to kill a person than you think, when taken orally. So long as you have a healthy self-preservation instinct, there are really only three chemical poisons that can kill you when ingested in small doses : these three are ricin, botox and radioactive isotopes. Ricin only in its purified form. And even then almost all of the deadliest poisons can be cured completely or partially by taking a different poison with the opposite effect. Much of this is because the majority of the deadliest poisons act on the operation of the acetylcholine neurotransmitter pathway, and the effects of some are opposite others.
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
What about cyanide? I have read that this kills instantly in relatively small doses as well.
Load More Replies... Jaguarundi 1 year ago
Cauterized/seared/burning human flesh smells just like good quality BBQ pork being cooked.
Sky Render 1 year ago
If it were possible to override the prostatic utricle and urinate immediately after sex, the resulting stream of urine would be prone to being released in short, intense bursts. If kept sustained, the stream could easily exceed 6 feet in length.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
I need to alter my genes so that I can release an extremely pressurized beam of supperheated urine at attackers like Shin Godzilla's Atomic Breath.
Load More Replies... My O My 1 year ago
Mice consuming vast amounts of Epo (the stuff that was used for doping cyclists) get really aggressive
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
So many of these are things I don't want to know about how they were first discovered.
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