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There’s certain information that you can share without receiving many follow-up questions. Australia is wider than the moon. "Oh, wow. That's interesting!" It’s illegal to own only one guinea pig in Switzerland, because they’re social animals who get lonely. "Hmm, that makes sense!" M&Ms got their name from the businessmen who created them, Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie. "Huh, never knew that!"

However, there are also plenty of topics that we’re not necessarily expected to know much about, or to even be curious about. Where to bury a dead body, how to pick up a severed human head, and what spinal fluid tastes like are not exactly ideal small talk conversations to have with your colleagues… But one curious Reddit user asked others to share their best fun facts that make other people respond, “Why the [heck] do you know that?”, and readers certainly came through in the replies.

Enjoy this list of facts that you might not want to share with other people upon your first time meeting them, and be sure to upvote all of the wild facts you could have lived your entire life without knowing. Keep reading to also find interviews with J. Keith van Straaten, host of the Go Fact Yourself podcast, and Tara Dorrell, Researcher and Scriptwriter at the QI offices in London. Then, if you’re interested in learning even more bizarre, and perhaps unsettling, tidbits of information, check out this Bored Panda article next!

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' If you plan on using a baseball bat as a weapon, put a long sock over the end. When someone tries to grab the bat you can rip it away with ease and continue with the baseball beatdown

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To learn more about why we should never end our education when it comes to fun facts, we reached out to J. Keith van Straaten, Host, Co-Creator, Co-Producer and Co-Writer of the Go Fact Yourself podcast. "What makes life interesting and expansive is a willingness to examine the stories we tell ourselves -- and a willingness to change the narrative," J. Keith told Bored Panda.

"What usually makes a fact fun is that it challenges an existing narrative. In a small way, fun and random facts remind us to stay humble and be open to being surprised," he explained. "Plus, if you need something to talk about at a party or on a date, you've always got something in your pocket."
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' This will get buried but - Don't ever bury a dead body in an Area without any vegetation. The high nitrogen content in our bodies helps plant to grow and there will be a weird grassy patch at the top of burial Site and anyone would be able to spot it.

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Bury the dead body and then bury a piece of rotting chicken leg or something on top, so if the police dog digs it up they have a tiny chance of thinking the doggo was after the chicken leg. To be extra safer, plant a critically endangered plant on top so the area can’t be dug. (Please do not actually do this.)

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Spinal fluid tastes like a mixture of bananas and a 9volt battery.

And I don't want to talk about it.

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We also asked J. Keith if he has learned any fun facts through his podcast that might make people ask, "Why in the world do you know that?" "So many!" he shared. "A few that come to mind: Famed astronomer Carl Sagan sued Apple for calling him a butt-head. The Bellagio Hotel's lake is wider than the Titanic was long. The currency of the Cook Islands featured a topless woman riding a shark... Harley-Davidson once sold its own fragrance called Black Fire."
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Back in the day, poor families would collect their urine so they could sell it to tanners. Hence, “p**s poor.”

If you were poorer than that, well, you didn’t even have a pot to p**s in.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Optimistic: the cup is half full Pessimistic: the cup is half empty Me: I have a CUP? Cool dude

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Opossums eat ticks like we eat potato chips. They'll hoover up 5,000 ticks a week and never get lyme disease themselves.

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The reason for this (and that they don't get rabies either) is by the way because of their low body temperature. Most viruses and bacterias that usually affect mammals can't live in a body this cold

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And when it comes to how J. Keith and his co-host Helen Hong find the fascinating facts they discuss on the show, he shared, "Dozens of hours of internet searches go into each episode of 'Go Fact Yourself' -- and sometimes even visits to our local library."

"A great resource for lesser-known facts are interviews on YouTube," J. Keith noted. "You pick up a lot in a spoken discussion that hasn't already been disseminated in articles. Of course, when possible, we go to the sources themselves -- making calls to professors and authors to make sure we have our facts straight."
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' It is illegal to carry a fish suspiciously in the UK.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' If you feed a human body to pigs, they will eat just about all of it except the teeth. Several murderers in rural areas have used this fact to their advantage.

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just reminded me of that one criminal minds episode i watched the other day

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But despite all of the research they do for every episode, it doesn't sound like J. Keith will get his fill of fun facts any time soon. "Our show is based on the interests that our guests have, many of which I don't share. So there's always more facts to investigate and more knowledge to celebrate," he told Bored Panda.

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"'Go Fact Yourself' uses trivia about topics our guests love, to bring people together with experts on that topic. It's always a point of pride when we ask a question of our guest that even our expert didn't know the answer to," J. Keith shared. "Or to discover something NOBODY knew about (Did you know Celine Dion sang the wrong words to one of her songs on a best-selling album??)"

If you're interested in learning some fascinating fun facts about various celebrities' favorite interests, be sure to check out Go Fact Yourself on their website right here, wherever you listen to podcasts, or if you're in the Los Angeles area, you can go to one of their live-audience recordings!
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' That you should always use two hands to pick up a severed human head.

Human heads weigh about as much as a standard-size bowling ball, but unlike bowling balls, they are not perfectly spherical. Therefore, gravity is not evenly distributed across the entire head so they have a tendency to topple out of your hand if you try to hold them with just one. And nobody wants to be the person who drops a severed head.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' There are 923 words in the English language that break the “I before E” rule. Only 44 words actually follow that rule.

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To learn even more about the beauty of fun facts, we reached out to Tara Dorrell, Researcher and Scriptwriter at the QI offices in London. QI produces a variety of fun shows that will actually teach you something, including QI, The Museum of Curiosity, Why Workshop, and No Such Thing As a Fish. When it comes to why we should always keep learning new facts, Tara told Bored Panda, "It’s a way of constantly indulging your curiosity. Learning doesn’t have to be dry and systematic; finding random facts about the accidental creation of mauve, or the original uses for chainsaws is still learning. At QI, it helps to admit you don’t know something, because then comes the fun of discovering more about it. It does make you realize just how much you don't know about, but learning through peculiar trivia stops it being so daunting." 

"It could also help you uncover a newfound passion for tardigrades, Icelandic history, or Bartitsu," Tara added. "At the very least you’ll be the most popular person at a pub quiz! And we’ve managed to get 20 series of a TV show out of finding fun and random facts, so there are clearly some benefits."

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Blue whales have an average ejaculation of 150 litres out of which only 15 litres enters the female. The 135 litres remaining just.... And you wondered why the ocean is salty.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' So let’s say you wanted to make a sword, an average sword requires about 1.5kg of metal. So if you were to take the blood out of 600 humans, roughly 3,000 litres of blood, and extract the iron, you could smelt it down and create a sword with it. Then boom, a sword literally made out of your fallen enemies.

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Tara was also kind enough to share some of the wild facts that she's learned through working at QI that might raise some questions from others. "People might recognize the 19th century ballet dancer Marie Taglioni as the first person credited with dancing on pointe. It’s less well-known that she was so popular at the time that after her final appearance in Russia, a group of her fans supposedly paid 200 rubles for a pair of her shoes - which they then cooked as a fricassee and ate," she told Bored Panda.

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"There’s also plenty to be said about the very first treadmills (originally used as a punishment for inmates), how ants measure distances (by counting their steps - researchers tied tiny stilts to their legs to check), and why the Thames has so many hyperactive eels (cocaine in the water)," Tara added.

"It’s the bizarre facts about supposedly mundane topics that usually spark the most interest. They’re more likely to be mentioned in everyday conversation than, say, an Ulfberht (first trademarked Viking sword) is, and no one ever expects you to have a wealth of knowledge about ant stilts and treadmills," she noted.
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' The fact that mushrooms are more genetically related to humans than they are to trees.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Most victims in "survivable" plane crashes died of jet fuel burning and choking them. Smoke hoods could save hundreds of lives if installed on airplanes, likely many more than flotation devices since ditching is incredibly rare. BONUS: backwards facing seats would make a plane crash much easier to survive thanks to the g forces pressing you against the seat instead.

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In backward facing seats, more people would get motion sickness...

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We were also curious about Tara's research methods for QI shows. "Everyone approaches it slightly differently. Our office is really just an eclectic library, with books on 17th century Scottish slang, the cheeses of the world, the many uses of laudanum, and everything in between," she told Bored Panda. "Book research isn’t for everyone though, and some resilient researchers spend hours trawling the depths of the internet for the most fascinating (and least disturbing) facts they can find."

"Some people take a more hands-on approach by going to exhibitions and lectures, or by speaking directly to the actual experts - scientists, researchers, and historians with the most eccentric specialist subjects," Tara added. "They’re always keen to discuss their work, as it’s often so niche that no one else ever asks them about it."
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' A nursing sperm whale’s milk comes out in the consistency of cottage cheese so the calf can “eat it” in the water.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Eating your boogers gives your immune system an extraordinary boost. Those who do rarely get sick- by ingesting very small amounts of foreign bacteria caught in the nose, the immune system forms necessary antibodies to fight that same bacteria when it’s dominating your coworkers.

Gross people FTW!

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We then asked Tara if she imagines she'll ever reach her fill of fun facts, or if there's always more to explore. "The ethos behind QI is that anything can be interesting if you’re curious enough. There’s always another question to ask, another lead to follow, and more information to be found," she shared.

"Even the most banal topics can become a source of fascination - did you know that lightning rods were a fashion fad in the 18th century? Or that Tiramisu was once used as an aphrodisiac in brothels? Our research always starts in a place of complete ignorance, the same as anyone else. That’s what allows us to question things we might otherwise dismiss or overlook - which in turn leads us down even stranger paths, and end up with even more questions," Tara told Bored Panda.

"As long as we remain inquisitive, there will always be something interesting to learn. Imagine how bleak the world would be if there was nothing left to wonder at!"
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' If you want to burn down a building, put potato chips in a toaster with a trail leading from the toaster to other highly flammable things. The potato chips leave no residue and the toaster will pop back up after the chips catch fire so there's no way to find the start of the fire.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' When you are drowning in salt water, the salt water makes your lungs bleed and you end up drowning in a mixture of water and your own blood.

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Finally, Tara added, "If this has whetted your appetite for random and bizarre facts, then there’s plenty more to be found on QI - new episodes out every Friday on BBC2 and all series available on BBC iPlayer (five and a half solid days of viewing if you’re hardcore). Our weekly podcast No Such Thing As a Fish can be found wherever you get your other, more conventional podcasts, and our many, many books are available online and in your local bookstores."

You can find QI's website right here, and No Such Thing As a Fish's website right here!
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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Lemons are a cross between a citron and a bitter orange. Either they were a rare naturally occurring hybrid or they were man made, in which case... life does not give you lemons.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' It takes 72 balloons to lift a 5 pound chihuahua off the ground.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Ancient Egyptians used to shave off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

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My cats already shaved off my eyebrows and hair with their superbly loud meowing that destroys everything in their path

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' According to some cannibals, the most delicious part of the human body are the eyeballs, they like licking them.

Edit: I´m not the cannibal.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Owls have tube shaped eyes, rather than spherical ones. This makes it difficult to move the eyes in their sockets, but is counteracted by the ability to rotate their heads 270 degrees in either direction.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Bones can be some of the most effective and terrifying shrapnel, second only to liquid copper. Bones splinter when you put them in bombs, and can do horrific amounts of damage to soft tissues. Liquid copper, on the other hand, which is not that difficult to get in an explosion, can get through almost any armor like it's nothing. Learned that from a friend who did a tour in Iraq as an infantryman

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Any shrapnel is bad. BTW, you want to see really effed up, try being in an ER when someone comes in with part of someone else's ribcage stuck to their own. Yeah, now *you* can't sleep at night. Neither did any of us for about a week. Two motorcycles collided. The assumption is that the two riders tangled up and bounced down the mountain together. Yes, the one guy survived. The other guy was minus everything but his ribcage, so, yeah, no, he didn't make it. Into the ambulance. or the body bag, really. This is why I like research. My nightmares are statistical.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Bears eat a ton of grass and twigs and stuff before the hibernate to constipate themselves and pretty much prevent waking up mid winter to s**t. However, when they finally do wake up in the spring, their first s**t is a mean one.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' If you're going to stab something, always make sure to stab and twist the knife. If you stab without twisting it will just leave a slit that can easily be mended. If you twist it leaves a hole that can't be so easily mended.

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For more fun facts on ways to kill something, follow my podcast at ...

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' That an empty kindle is actually slightly lighter (like we’re talking very very minuscule numbers) than a kindle completely filled with books which means that information in digital form has weight (electrons and protons and s**t) so then by that reasoning you can weigh the internet. Vsace did a whole thing on it and I watched it in sixth grade and are in college and still remember it. People don’t believe me so I tell them to look it up

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Computer scientist at the University of California, Professor John Kubiatowicz, has used Einstein’s formula e=mc² to calculate, that filling a 4GB Kindle would increase it by 0.000000000000000001 gram. Following the calculation method with the weight of an electron, the weight of the entire Internet is calculated to be around 50 grams – the same as a large strawberry.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Most men who climb Mt. Everest or other very tall mountains experience an erection due to how the altitude impacts blood pressure.

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... and in switzerland, this condition is known as "being matterhorny".

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' At a single time, the sloths body mass can be comprised of one third feces. It takes several hours for the sloth to excrete its bowels completely.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you suggesting that sloths are full of shït? That's not very nice I think 🙃

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Blood bounces when it hits ice.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' If you're allergic to chocolate you're usually allergic to cockroaches.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' It takes 10,000,000 bananas to kill you from radiation poisoning if you ate them all at once or 274 everyday for 7 years to die from radiation poisoning.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With an average of 152 Kcal per banana this would ad up to 41.648 Kcal per day. The average male needs about 2.500 Kcal per day. I think you would die of obesity before dying of radiation poisining

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Alcoholics decompose faster when they die.

Source: was a crime scene cleaner.

Edit: So I posted this last night while falling asleep so here is some clarification: when people die they decompose, but people that are alcoholics will decompose faster than normal dead people.

Why? I have no idea. It's been so long since I was in that line of work I just remember enough stories and facts to stay interesting.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting, i would have thought the alcohol would act as a kind of preservative, making the person decompose slower.

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The stringy things inside bananas are called phloem bundles. They allow the nutrients of the banana to travel the length of the fruit; they're kinda like the vascular system of the plant.

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The best way to clean up blood without leaving a smell is salt. Just put salt and scrub, the salt helps the blood clump into pieces making it easier to clean too.

Edit: many of you asked about taking it off clothes, so... Baking Soda-Mix one part baking soda with two parts cold water in a bowl and dab onto the stain using a cloth. Leave for thirty to forty minutes, then wipe off all remaining residue. Lemon - To lighten dried-in blood, simply rub half a lemon over the stain and sprinkle some table salt on top

Edit 2: apparently it depends on the fabric ^ (I use that when I did RNA and got tired of purchasing new uniforms)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope the people needing this just had a bad nosebleed and nothing else

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Tarantulas taste like shrimp.

I told this once to a random stranger because they brought up how they didnt like shrimp. They immediately hounded me about how I knew this.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' A human tooth has 36 calories.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s why the pigs don’t eat them…

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Wombats have cubed poop.

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes sense, banks aren't open Sundays so you gotta get in early to make sure you can quit your job the following week.

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In ancient Babylon people would build their most valuable possessions (fine wine, among others) into the walls of their basement, which in the region was usually a naturally occurring cave, so when the taxman came he couldn't see it to count it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hiding from the taxman is probably as old as prostitution

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That Denmark had an ad called "do it for Denmark" to try and increase their population.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't Queen Victoria say: close your eyes and do it for England?

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The longest word in English. I have it memorized. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It's some sort of lung disease, if I'm not mistaken.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't get under the tree when it rains. The rain water will carry the poison from the leaves and burn you severely. Be careful when it is flowering as the pollen can also cause burns on the skin.

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That Disney is the biggest importer of explosives in the world

Edit: This commercially they don’t beat out the US department of defense

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am assumign that is for fireworks?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They use a lot of fireworks. From there this internet 'fact' has sprung up, even though there is basically no data on the subject.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially since large mining operations use hundreds of tons of explosives per year.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They supplied munitions to Pepsi. See https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2022/02/09/how-pepsi-came-to-own-a-soviet-naval-fleet/.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Across the street in Anaheim was a Vineyard church. John Wimber was preaching and thought he was having audio problems every night around 10pm. Turns out there was no audio problem, it was the nightly fireworks at Disneyland.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's rather amazing that there haven't been more catastrophes.

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Another name for the # sign is, "octothorpe"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Finnish old people call it "miukumauku" (kinda like mew mow) because it looks like cats tail

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Polar bear liver has lethal concentrations of vitamin a.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dog livers too, the Mawson expedition to Antarctica ended up with them suffering vitamin A poisoning after they killed and ate the sled dogs.

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Birds need gravity to swallow, so a bird in space would die very soon.

Edit: I understand there's no oxygen in space, but by that logic humans couldn't survive in space either. I meant if they had space suits like humans do.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exceptions are doves and pigeons. They are they only birds that can suck water up.

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A lobster's brain is in its throat

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Did you know that it was illegal to feed prisoners lobster more thAn 3 days a week?

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if you drink bleach and survive, doctors will have to remove your stomach and esophagus, and extend your intestines to your throat like a tube.
and it has to go over your ribcage

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A blue whale’s heart is about the size of a small car.

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You need to lose 2000ml (2 litres) of blood to actually die from blood loss

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is not that much, considering. Only about one third of the blood in your body.

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#51

That a male human body which weighs approximately 190lbs will literally melt into a standard Sears lazyboy recliner when left in the heat during the summer. Fusing itself onto the fibers.
Also, the smell is unforgettable.
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dying alone and nobody knowing you died really is sad.

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You are thirteen times more likely to die by a falling coconut than a shark attack.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't kill sharks! They're older than us and can live for hundreds of years!

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An adult's collarbone will break with 8 lbs of perpendicular force. A child's breaks at 12 lbs.

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A bear fought in the polish army in WWII, the cub was discovered by polish prisoners in the mountains of Iran. They taught him how to puff and swallow cigarettes. Even taught him how learned how to turn on communal showers, pick up recruits, and carried empty ammunition crates on the front lines.

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That was Corporal Wojtek. He was assigned a military rank to allow him to be taken aboard a British military ship; there was a rule about no pets or mascots). Two Polish soldiers were assigned as his caretakers. After Wojtek's demobilisation, he was sent to Edinburgh Zoo. There, he lived out the remainder of his life. He would receive visit from his former comrades. There are at least 11 monuments of Wojtek. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13934034.memorial-wojtek-soldier-bear-adopted-polish-troops-brought-scotland-arrives-edinburghs-princes-street-gardens/

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In North Carolina, you’re not allowed to have a baseball bat in your car unless you also have a mitt.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

makes sense, because presumably if you don't have the mitt, you are keeping the bat to assault people. Now they just need to get onto the guns issue. Like, if you have a gun in your car you also need to have a psychiatrists' note saying you are in fact sane.

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The heart, if perfused through the aorta with an appropriate solution, will beat for hours outside of the body.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What for? I never tasted anything by balls...

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Moles have a multiheaded penis.

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OMG. I think I need to sleep now. Took me good 30 seconds to figure out it's mole the animal, and not moles on your skin. Hahaha. I really really tried to imagine that.

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going to google this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras#:~:text=Pythagoras%20managed%20to%20escape%2C%20but,students%20that%20he%20committed%20suicide.

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Hershey's *Kisses* are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

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With that little curl on top, I'd call them Hershey's poops.

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When you drop a human uterus on the floor, it will bounce.

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Did you know that it was illegal to feed prisoners lobster more then 3 days a week. I have a bachelors in history I have plenty of stupid fun facts just ask if you want more.

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Rat poison is actually an anti coagulant mixed with stuff like fiberglass. because rats are always scraping and squeezing into stuff they build up these minor injuries, the anti coagulant stops their blood from clotting properly and they internally hemorrhage to death.

since a human being is a lot bigger than a rat, rat poison is much less effective on us.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OTOH, if your dog gets into the rat poison, it's an immediate medical emergency and I do mean IMMEDIATE. The smaller the dog, the bigger the emergency. Get to the vet right away. The antidote for rat poison is Vitamin K and not every veterinary practice carries it so call ahead and explain what's happening. It can also be quite expensive (the VitK). Cats too, but they typically don't eat rat poison as it's usually flavored with sweeteners and cats can't taste sweetness. Source: years worked in veterinary general practice, emergency, and specialty medicine.

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A 2008 Prius can float, at least for short distances....

Car was not damaged in any way

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They all float. I drove a bus into a flood a couple of years ago, and that floated.

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The male Foosa has a thorny penis which not only hurts females during mating, but makes it nearly impossible to escape while doing so even if it's forced.

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When you hear a cat screech really loudly at night, it's most likely to be a female cat being mated.

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Cannibals often call human flesh long pig/long pork.

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Heard this one, human flesh apparently tastes very similar to pork. ~Grandma’s book about cannabilism that gave me nightmares for months.

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The man that assassinated archduke Ferdinand was eating a tuna sandwich with tomatoes in a lil tuna shop right before the assassination.

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The most interesting part of this is that there were tuna shops. Like you can get a tuna sandwich or a pan-fried tuna steak in the same place, but if you want a ham sandwich you have to go elsewhere.

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YKK makes 97% of the world's zippers.

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so of there's roughly 50% female and 50% male snakes on the planet there is as many snake d***s as there is snake's

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People Share 50 Random And Weird Facts That Make Others Think 'How The Hell Do You Know That?' Jeffery Dahmer tried to make "sex zombies" out of some of his victims by drilling holes in their heads while they were alive and pouring acid into the holes.

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Bee testicles explode when they finish, and they die... finish living with a bang.

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A woman broke the record for the worlds longest poop, at over 26ft long.
She pooped down a bowling alley as an art instillation after working with a team of doctors to help her develop her “art”

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Terminal velocity of an ant is around 3.9 miles per hour.

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That you can disembowel yourself if you lift weights that are too heavy.

Happened to my high school gym teacher, said he’s never felt anything quite like s******g out your intestines

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I know the average humans body proportions, ex., your torso is two heads, your forearms are the length of your hip bone, your shoulders are 3 heads long, one on each side.

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Your forearms are also the length of your foot, from inside elbow to wrist.

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