“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers)

The beautiful thing about life is that we all have completely unique experiences. Sure, it may not feel that way when you open a birthday card and pretend not to see the money inside or realize you’re not the only one to end searches with “Reddit” to find the most honest results online. But when it comes to the knowledge we acquire throughout our lives, we all have some niche fun facts floating around our brains that the average person has no need to know.

Below, you’ll find some of these interesting and bizarre facts that people have been sharing on Reddit, so even more of us can be aware of this information. Have fun scrolling through and learning something new, and don’t bother wondering how people know these facts… Just enjoy the ride!

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Manatees control their buoyancy by farting. Toot toot floaty sea cow.

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SCamp 1 year ago

My spirit animal

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Opossums are immune to rabies. Immune in the sense that their core body temperature is too low for the virus to live and multiply in their nervous system. They can be bitten and "infected" with the virus, but it won't survive in the animal long enough for it to take hold and make them rabid. They also love to eat ticks, mosquitoes(especially mosquito larvae), and even garden slugs and snails. All the general bugs that we consider pests, they happily eat. They may be ugly as sin, but having one regularly visit your yard at night keeps away the real pests. If you live in a more metropolitan area, then their mere presence at night will generally also keep raccoons away, since it would be easier for a racoon to simply walk across the street or a few houses down instead of worrying about dealing with another nocturnal scavenger. Opossums are a mutant rat looking blessing in disguise. They're also not hostile to humans at all, unlike raccoons.

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Tree P 1 year ago

I find them very cute. They look like they are wearing fingerless gloves.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) The national animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.

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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago

Do you know the backstory? Mythologically, the only creature that can defeat a Lion is a Unicorn. The national animal of England is the Lion.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) No person born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.

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DforDory 1 year ago

No wonder. Seeing all these people around me makes my go nuts too.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Some tribes of ancient people used to tie up a goat, whisper their sins to it, then allow it to "accidentally" escape so it would carry their sins away and thus resolve them of guilt.

It was, literally, their "escape goat" and that's where the term scapegoat comes from.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Uhhhhh... no. That doesn't seem consistent with the biblical usage of "scapegoat." RESEARCH: Not entirely wrong, but not accurate. The biblical sacrifice of a pair of goats directs one to be slaughtered, and the other to be sent away into the wilderness. A scapegoat was called "azazal" meaning "appeaser." In the Latin bible, "azazel" was translated as "caper emissarius," or "ambassador goat." Tyndale's bible apparently mistook the meaning of "caper" (goat) and referred to a "capegoat," later extrapolated into "(e)scapegoat." But such a name is merely the product of several translations between cultures, and would be entirely alien to the culture that actually had scapegoats.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) A Buttload is an actual unit of measurement for about 126 gallons of wine.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

126 gallons? Baby got back!

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More Iraq veterans have died by their own hand than that of the enemy. This is America.

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

We see what you wrote but we know what you meant.

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SparkleFarts 1 year ago

The US military has never taken care of their service members mental health, and the isn't much better. On average, 22 veterans a day commit suicide

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Mimi La Souris 1 year ago

and we keep glorifying soldiers and war... poor people :(

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Nancy Marine 1 year ago

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SCamp 1 year ago

It is a major issue with Australian veterans as well

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KombatBunni 1 year ago

Yup. My father is a Vietnam Vet, and though we never really got along, seeing what the war and then how he was treated did to him makes my heart ache. I hope something is done to make some kind of reparation or apology for what happened

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Ian Webling 1 year ago

This was true of the Vietnam war too.

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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago

The same folks who wave the flag and brag about how much they support and love the military are the ones who consistently vote against support for veterans' programs. "They love the military they same way Michael Vick loved his dogs." -Bill Maher

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

Same in Australia, sadly. We are currently having a Royal Commission into exactly that.

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Kim Kermes 1 year ago

I'm not surprised, what with the hoops we have to jump through at the VA medical centers for routine care, and how many reservists were deployed - they don't have the same entitlements as vets from 'regular' service. I always had the deep, dark feeling this was deliberate. Many VA hospitals have had someone dive off the roof.

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MontanaMariner 1 year ago

Another area where we have to do better. They deserve better.

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Barbara Whitehurst 1 year ago

War is never pretty

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Laura Williams 1 year ago

Thank you. Mental health around the world. But the worst has to usa

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RJ 1 year ago

"Our hope is that they kill so many of us that they become depressed and commit suicide." - Saddam Hussein

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pfeils wife 1 year ago

RIP.

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Nina 1 year ago

Maybe they should've said soldiers that went to iraq. You don't become a veteran if you don't survive the war. (And there's little chance of Iraq killing them when they're back in the US)

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Danish Susanne 1 year ago

I heard we have a problem in Denmark with our veterans. Sadly it seems usual for politician to use soldiers as you use throw away plastic cups.

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Jon Lee 1 year ago

More British veterans of the Falklands war died by suicide than were killed in the war.

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detective miller's hat 1 year ago

My cousin had an absolute blast in the Middle East, but he's also a total sociopath. :/ I heard about a year ago he's hit some kind of record for the amount of time spent in active service.

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Beatrix Bennet 1 year ago

Now Im kinda glad that my grandpa couldn't serve in the Vietnam war cuz he had had polio recently and his heart was backwards🙃

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Potato 1 year ago

The part where their government expects them to sacrifice their lives but not provide mental health support in return was really lost on you. Or you just have no problem with them having PTSD after their service, which is worse.

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Dragonflies are the most efficient killers on the planet with a 98% kill rate.

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Giles McArdell 1 year ago

They are also the only insect that can fly backwards and can even fly upside down, they are truly fascinating.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) That dead ants produce a pheromone that alerts the other ants that they need to move them to the ant graveyard. If a drop of this pheromone is placed on a live ant, it will take itself to the graveyard and stay there until the pheromone dissipates.

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DforDory 1 year ago

Ohh,so that's why when I put an ant killer dispenser,I observed after about a week that they started to bring out small black "balls". I followed their path and found that they were bringing their dead out from the nest in the wall and gathered them outside in one of the corners nearby. I also saw them bringing out their eggs and moving them to another hole in the wall... couldn't get rid of them yet, but it is fascinating.

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If you have a d*ck and you take a pregnancy test and it comes out positive, you might have testicular cancer.

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

A warning to male duck owners everywhere.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) You can duplicate your liver.

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A liver consists of two distinct lobes. When doctors perform a transplant from living patient, they remove half the donor’s liver and give it to the recipient. Eventually, both patients regrow their missing half of a liver.

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Wubbleyew 1 year ago

So could you do this multiple times and have infinite livers?

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) When you get a tattoo laser removal, you pee out the ink particles.

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Brittania Kelli 1 year ago

I peed radioactive dye for a week and wasn't allowed to use public toilets after a cardiac test to check what damage chemo was doing to my heart. Fun being injected with something it a metal biohazard container by a tech in a hazmat suit. Fun times.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) The island of Java has more people than the entirety of Russia. Despite being 170 times smaller in size.

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

Java population 151.6 million people. Russia population 143.4 million people. Amazing but true.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Australia is wider than the moon.

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

But much nicer for a holiday.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Elephant penises are prehensile and can move on their own like trunks (I.e. to scratch their belly or as an extra support leg on uneven terrain).

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

An extra LEG support????

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That drain hole at the inside top of a sink is called a porcelator.
Won $1000 on a radio show back in the day for knowing that.

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Jaaawn 1 year ago

Thought it was just called the overflow.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) By the time the Aztec empire was founded, Oxford University was as old as the United States is today.

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Can we just use dates with this one?

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Horny toads can squirt blood from their eyes up to 30 feet.

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

Just a quick clarification, the photo is correct and the "horny toad" is a lizard not a toad.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Spiders purr.

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DforDory 1 year ago

Still not keen on giving them a belly rub...

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Cockroaches will be able to smell when another cockroach dies. If you ever see one in your home, 1) obviously there’s more, but 2) they will come out in droves to look for the dead roach. They don’t “starve out” like mice or weevils, they cannibalize.

We had a roach problem for a bit, we couldn’t afford pest control so I had to handle this s**t myself LMAO certified roach annihilator here.

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

'Cockroach died in my kitchen' 'So - that's a good thing!' 'Yeah, except for the 500,000 who came for the wake'.

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The name of the shape of Pringles crisp/chip is “hyperbolic Paraboloid”

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

Good name for a heavy metal band. (Hyperbolic Paraboloid, not Pringles. That would be a boy band)

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The sun is actually white not yellow/orange. It’s earth atmosphere that shifts the color of the light rays. It’s the same reason a sunset is so much more colorful than mid day. The angle at sunset means the light rays have to travel through more atmosphere before reaching your eye.

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jon gilbertson 1 year ago

And a beautiful green when viewed by an X-ray telescope.

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It is physically possible to be so constipated that your stool will back all the way up your digestive tract and you can vomit feces. Witnessed it first-hand when I was an EMT- it's quite a sight to behold...

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Katie Everswick 1 year ago (edited)

Aww, that happened to my grandma years ago. It's a funny story, actually. She had an oncologist who was the biggest a**hole in the world. So my grandpa called and told him that my grandma had not pooped in like 3 weeks, and first he asked him which patient he was talking about, because he didn't know his patients' names, just their id numbers. He had been seeing her for YEARS. Then he said he was LEAVING ON VACATION the next day and to just give her a laxative. Well, my grandpa took her to the hospital anyway and the minute the doctor saunters over, she vomited sh*t all over his expensive shoes. My mom said it was priceless! She died not much longer after that. Stupid doctors who think they're god. Don't become a doctor if you won't even bother to think of your patients as human! Funny but not funny, he died just a few years later from a heart attack.

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Without mucus, your stomach would digest itself.

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

Knew there was a reason I love my mucus.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

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Downunderdude 1 year ago

Not if you throw it out of a plane.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Ah, the English language, where all you have to do is make up a word, convince people it's a word, and BLAMMO! it's a word. See "thagomizer" or "anatidaephobia."

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) There's no maximum length to a train, you just add another engine.

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DeShotz 1 year ago

There always will be a maximum. It comes when you either run out of cars or railroad.

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The brain named itself.

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Fat Harry 1 year ago

Mine is called Eduardo.

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The fastest man made object was essentially a large steel manhole cover. During nuclear testing decades ago in 1957 they capped a shaft for an underground nuclear test with it. By replaying the video frames and seeing its initial takeoff, it was calculated to have been going 125,000 miles per hour with the nuclear blast force behind it. They don’t know if it made it to space.

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Mimi La Souris 1 year ago

my grandmother threw her slipper faster than that

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Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day (February 12th, 1809).

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Saint Thomas 1 year ago

To add to the mystery, they have never been seen together...

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) McDonald’s holds a specific contract to get their Coca Cola syrup in a metal vat vs plastic bags which makes McDonald’s taste better.

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hitex 1 year ago

And yet the cheap cups causes ice to melt too quickly & it becomes as quickly awful

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) There are more Hydrogen atoms in a spoon of water than there are spoons of water on earth.

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

avogadro's number.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) For every human being there are about 2.5 million ants in the world, so if the ants one day spontaneously decide to attack us humans about 90% or more of the world's population would die.

There are about 20 quadrillion ants in the world.

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Fire is our friend.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Frederick Bauer (the guy who invented Pringles) had his ashes buried in a Pringles can.

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

BBQ flavour?

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Crabs have a muscle that enables them to release their claw if they have to.

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Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago

Saw this happen to a huge crab once. It was terrifying.

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Some military helicopters on aircraft carriers are made of magnesium and should they catch fire it's literally impossible to put them out as the magnesium will take the oxygen from the water and use that to keep burning. So the only thing that can be done is to push them overboard and even as they sink they will continue to burn until the magnesium is completely burned up.

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tom 1 year ago

well someone didn't think this through did they?

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“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers) Raspberries are not berries but watermelons are. This was a life altering useless fact to me. Mind blown....

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Supposedly, these fruits fit the more technical definition: bananas, avocados, citrus like oranges or lemons, cucumbers, kiwifruit, all squash including pumpkins, eggplants, coffee beans, and melons. I don't understand this claim, because part of the botanists' definition of "berry" is that it has a thin exocarp (peel or rind), and all of these have a tough or inedibly thick exocarp. (Yes, I'm including cucumber, you restaurant chefs! Get off your lazy asses and peel the damned cucumber!) However, cherries are drupes like apples and not berries. And raspberries and strawberries are composite fruits, which mean they're sort of like lots of tiny fruits which have grown together.

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Cowbird females lay their eggs in other species nests. But she keeps watch. If her egg is removed or damaged she may attack the nest and destroy the other eggs that are not hers. But she'll never help feed or nurture her baby. When the young cowbird is able to fledge (fly), the mother will take the young bird and introduce them into the cowbird flock so it can live it's best cowbird life. Nature is weird and wonderful.

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

"Has fledged, is able to fly." No, has fledged means has its flight feathers and can start flight training. Hence the term fully fledged. Fledge is from old english flecgan or flicgan meaning to fly, pronounced flidge-an. A similar bird-related word is Callow. It means naked. The term callow youth means an inexperienced youth. This is because baby birds are born naked. The word Callow has cognates in other germanic langages eg Kaal in Afrikaans means naked.

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A certain fish called koi tend to swim in groups of four. Ichthyologists usually label them A, B, C, and D.

If a threat is detected, the A, B, and C kois will scatter, leaving behind the D koi.

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

nice, but I wonder if the D-coy knows he's tanking for them. Get it ? Fish tank, tanking?

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When Phillips designed the cd, the hole in the middle was designed to fit a dutch 10-cent piece. It is still used in dvd's, blurays etc.

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Mimi La Souris 1 year ago (edited)

...why ? edit : I laughed a lot but I still don't have a (real) answer :D

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What do you think ?

A pleasantly high proportion of correct facts.

TMoxraaaar 1 year ago

here's one: the definition of "north" is from planetary rotation. If you are in space and looking straight at a pole, if it's rotating counter-clockwise ("anti" for you Europeans) it's north. There is no up and down in space.

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The deadliest gunfighters (fictional or real) were Matt Dillon (138 men and seven women) and Lucas McCain (120). John Wesley Hardin (25-40), Tom Horn (17-20), Jim Miller (12-15), Wild Bill Hickok, (8-10) [Also Chuck Connors was the first person in the NBA to break a backboard while dunking a basketball. During warm-ups while playing for Boston]