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Fun Fact: giraffes have black tongues.
Not so fun fact: there will be no fun facts featured in this article.
Why? Cause folks on Reddit have actually been sharing "fun facts" that are anything but "fun". But don't you worry, it's not the fun that makes a fact interesting, but the educational factors or just the straight up "I never thought about it that way" element.
So, strap yourself for it's gonna be a peculiar ride as you scroll down the top submissions found on the now-viral Reddit post. Be sure to upvote, comment, and tell us your not-so-fun facts about everything that truly matters in this life.
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#1
Crows are currently in their own Stone Age. They’ve been seen making very articulate tools.
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#2
‘Money can’t buy happiness.’
A phrase taught that you don’t need money to be happy, conveniently though those on $50k + salaries tend to live longer than those on the bread line.
#3
Speaking from personal experience here, but your body can randomly decide to become allergic to damn near everything edible at any time. Not very fun.
#4
Deaf schizophrenics don't hear voices, they see hands or lips as mental images that tell them what to do.
#5
The oldest person alive was born with an entirely different set of humans on the planet.
#6
Your brain blocks you from feeling your organs moving around inside you.
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Not always. After major surgery I am very aware of my organs jostling to regain their rightful positions.
#7
Thanks to pregnant women, the average skeleton count per person is higher than one.
#8
50% of Americans diagnosed with cancer will lose their life savings.
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 2 years ago
if you ever had the chance to accumulate savings, that is. Not an easy tasks with student loans, mortgages, low minimum salary, costs for medical treatment of any sort..
#9
If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.
Jef Bateman 2 years ago
This is why I think Elvis may have died in infancy, and all of us have actually been listening to the rock-and-roll stylings of his twin, Jessie.
#10
The united states has misplaced or lost 6 nuclear weapons over the years.
There have been 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents, which are unexpected incidents involving a nuclear weapon. Of those 32, 6 were lost and never found.
#12
That Washington Sqaure Park in New York is essentially a graveyard, with an estimated 20,000 bodies buried below the surface; many were yellow fever victims, wrapped in yellow sheets and buried by the poorest residents. When the foundation for the famous arch was dug, a number of these were exposed.
#13
Guests love to dump the ashes of their loved ones on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. In theory, this seems fine and like an okay place to do that, but when the ashes get dumped custodial cast members come in and vacuum up the ashes.
If you are ever tasked with spreading ashes somewhere, do it anywhere but Disneyland. Because their ashes will not be in the park for long.
#14
Antarctica smells like penguin poop.
Antarctica is a desert, it is too cold for bacteria to live. Nothing there to clean up penguin droppings. If you are close enough to see penguins, you will also smell them.
Monique Reed 2 years ago
Um. It may smell like penguin poo, and maybe not the right sort to break down said poo, but there are plenty of bacteria in Antarctica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_microorganism
#15
In the books, Stuart Little was never explicitly called a mouse. He's pretty much described as a deformed mouse-esque person born form human parents.
#16
Only one in a thousand sea turtles born actually make it to adulthood.
#17
A Teratoma is a kind of tumor that can grow hair, teeth, or even eyes.
#18
Fun fact: the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction, but also the dodo.
Giant tortoise meat was supposedly better tasting than chicken. Its fat tasted better spread on bread than butter. Also, it was the perfect food for sailors at the time, as their bladders stored 1 litre of purified water, and they could survive without food in hibernation for almost a whole year in the hull of a ship. Not to mention, because they evolved without humans, they were easy to hunt. You could tie one to your back, and roll another to the ship and they would just let you. It was so delicious, they went unrecorded for a long time because expeditions to bring living samples of wildlife to Europe kept eating them on the way.
Conversely, the dodo, while as easily captured by sailors, tasted awful. It was completely unpalatable. HOWEVER, one day, someone discovered if you cooked dodo meat in the more delicious tortoise fat, it tasted just like chicken. So now, sailors were hunting a few tortoises at a time for their fat and water, storing them, and then hunting dodos on the daily.
Overhunting, plus the introduction of rats to the environment (because sailors) which would eat eggs, led go the population to decline at a rate they could not breed to keep up, leading to both animals going extinct.
Corey Smith 2 years ago
"leading to both animals going extinct" You sure? What's in the picture then?
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
Yeah, the dodo is extinct. I think the giant tortoise is extinct in the wild, one step away from joining the dodo
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Laura Ketteridge 2 years ago
"the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction" No, no, no! This was most definitely not something giant tortoise were responsible for. They didn't ask to be eaten, and certainly not to extinction. It was humans all the way. Humans did this. Language is important. It was not the tortoise's fault.
LeeBreezy 2 years ago
if the turtle wasnt meant to be eaten, why was it made out of food then? /j
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Izzy Curer 2 years ago
People are hungry. They didn't know animals could become extinct back then, and nobody was counting the animals. It was the wilderness.
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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago
They just re-released a Radiolab episode about the Galapagos tortoise and the impact of goats. Fascinating stuff.
Cat Goodwin 2 years ago
It's one of my fav episodes of radiolab - did you see the YouTube video of the helicopter going around shooting the goats?!
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Paul Davis 2 years ago
Europeans kept sending ships to pick up these tortoises but they were so delicious most of the tortoises got eaten before the ship could return home.
LeeBreezy 2 years ago
i like all the comments saying "people suck" when the people eating the turtles were just hungry, like any normal human gets, and at the time the turtles were food. are we just hating humans for anything now? i get that the overhunting thing was extreme and its sad that the turtle is endangered now, but some people are acting as if people dont get hungry
MastroKost 1 year ago
"Fun fact: the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction, but also the dodo." Extremely insensitive and uneducated. And not due to the Speciesist undertone, but due to the lack of how causality works.
Ctirad Macháček 2 years ago
Not so fun fact: I want to taste a critically endangered species after reading this.
#19
There's a bird that feeds its younger offspring to the eldest.
[FYI, roadrunner].
#20
Sloths sometimes mistake their arms for tree branches and fall to their [doom].
#21
When North Koreans defect to the South, one of the biggest struggles reported by them is often how many English words there are in South Korea (like coffee being 커피/ko-pi) that they just do not recognise. That’s because South Korea takes a lot of linguistic influence from English speaking countries (namely the US), while North Korea creates new words based off Russian/pre-existing Korean words
Not overly depressing in general, but you can never really count a fact about North Korea as ‘fun’.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
They basically have to relearn Korean. And since their accents will give them away, some find it hard living in SK and decide to locate to other countries. The linguistic aspect is super interesting to me, I wrote a paper about the differences between Pyongyang and Seoul accents in college. Extremely limited sources, understandably
#22
The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.
#23
Otters look cute but are pretty vicious animals that often threaten their own family if food is scarce.
#24
Alzheimer's disease can cause you to pass away since your brain will no longer be able to chew, swallow, breathe, etc.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
Many alzheimer and dementia patients end up dying from pneumonia and other infections. It becomes a quality of life issue and the medical care staff usually bring up DNRs and withholding medications (except pain killers) to let them pass peacefully. Alzheimers is rarely a COD on paperwork
#25
When you're four months pregnant, the baby starts to pee inside you.
#26
Malaria is the #1 cause for human [mortality] of all time.
Jef Bateman 2 years ago
I think this post is referring to Sonia Shah's research, which found that malaria is most deadly infectious disease in history. That doesn't mean it's the leading cause of mortality. Heart disease is now responsible for almost 1/4 deaths in the US. Historically, heart disease was probably less likely to be the cause of death, but was definitely a leading cause of death even in the ancient world (we see signs of plaque build-up in Egyptian mummies).
#27
In some regions of Australia, 90 percent of koalas have chlamydia, which poses a threat to the species' extinction unless a vaccine is created or widespread koala culling takes place.
#29
A gamma ray burst could [unalive] everyone on Earth within a few seconds and because it's just a beam of light coming from space, nobody would find out until we would be cooked.
#30
Clowns make $30/h on average. Who is the real clown?
In spite of the comments disbelieving that clowns can get work on weekdays I may just get one for my Monday D&D group now.
What do you think ?
Phendrena 2 years ago
Sweet jeepers BP, what is with all the chuffing censoring of words. For example, the original post on reddit said "Vending machines kill more people than sharks do", you changed it to say "Vending machines [are more lethal] than sharks [are]". This is getting quite quite daft, quite daft indeed.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Supposedly, their sponsors are making them do it. I say get some new sponsors - preferably ones who aren't [furry animal with wings]-[guano] [mentally unwell].
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Laura Ketteridge 2 years ago
So many of these 'facts' have a little nugget of truth, but have been badly expressed. This takes them from being facts into 'unfacts' - they are almost there, but not quite close enough.
Terri D. 2 years ago
Agreed. And some citation on each "fact" would be great!
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TheOrangeGrape 2 years ago
I tried to make a witty comment on one or two of these, but now I'm just left alone and afraid.
marianne eliza 2 years ago
If a bear has been eating human flesh, their scat will be white. You learn some strange things in Search and Rescue.
LeilaOdinis 2 years ago
I met a giraffe once. I gave it some rabbit pellets in a big coffee can. That tongue reached the bottom of it. Their tongue is a purple color. Safari horse. Was an amazing experience.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
They're not-fun facts. Says it in the title
Load More Replies... Phendrena 2 years ago
Sweet jeepers BP, what is with all the chuffing censoring of words. For example, the original post on reddit said "Vending machines kill more people than sharks do", you changed it to say "Vending machines [are more lethal] than sharks [are]". This is getting quite quite daft, quite daft indeed.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Supposedly, their sponsors are making them do it. I say get some new sponsors - preferably ones who aren't [furry animal with wings]-[guano] [mentally unwell].
Load More Replies... Laura Ketteridge 2 years ago
So many of these 'facts' have a little nugget of truth, but have been badly expressed. This takes them from being facts into 'unfacts' - they are almost there, but not quite close enough.
Terri D. 2 years ago
Agreed. And some citation on each "fact" would be great!
Load More Replies... TheOrangeGrape 2 years ago
I tried to make a witty comment on one or two of these, but now I'm just left alone and afraid.
marianne eliza 2 years ago
If a bear has been eating human flesh, their scat will be white. You learn some strange things in Search and Rescue.
LeilaOdinis 2 years ago
I met a giraffe once. I gave it some rabbit pellets in a big coffee can. That tongue reached the bottom of it. Their tongue is a purple color. Safari horse. Was an amazing experience.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
They're not-fun facts. Says it in the title
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