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50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For”

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Not all knowledge is made equal. Some you get from books and uni days, some of it you learn from practice. The main chunk of information we digest arrives from the internet, and an equally big part of it we don’t need at all.

On the other hand, the internet is notoriously good at cherrypicking the most entertaining parts and separating them from boring things. Hence, all the lost hours we lose while procrastinating on a daily basis! And this thread is living proof of it.

“What's a 'fun fact' that nobody asked for?” asked Redditor SoggyCereal12 and received an overwhelming amount of responses. People rolled up their sleeves and took out their best cards in what turned out to be the most random amusement dressed up as real-life facts. Check out our previous features for more weird, interesting, and creepy facts.

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#1

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” On 8 April, 1942, a detachment of Polish soldiers, deployed to Iran by the Allies, bought a bear cub from an Iranian boy. In August the bear was given to the 22nd Artillery Supply company and named Wojtek by the soldiers.

They fed him condensed milk, honey, fruit, and beer, which ended up being his favorite drink. He also picked up smoking, and enjoyed wrestling with his human friends, and bunking in on cold nights.

When the Polish II Corps was redeployed it Italy to fight alongside the British, the Brits wouldn’t transport mere mascots on a troop ship, so Wojtek was formally enrolled in the Polish army as a private.

During the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino Private Wojtek helped keep the guns firing by hauling boxes of ammo, each containing four 25 pound shells. These crates normally took four men to haul. For his bravery and service in battle Wojtek was promoted to Corporal, and his visage became the emblem of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company.

After the war the 22nd was sent to Scotland, before being demobilized, at which point Wojtek was given to the Edinburgh Zoo, where he was often visited by Polish soldiers until his death in 1963.

That is the story of Corporal Wojtek, the Polish artillery bear.

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Donnie Mc00 2 years ago

and he has a statue in Edinburgh too!

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#2

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” When Haiti was fighting the French in a civil war the French send some polish to deal with it when they saw how the slaves were treated the Polish joined the Haiti revolution

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Ilsa Laszlo 2 years ago

And they settled there and started families. They blended into Haitian society.

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#3

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” On 1939, February 14th a German battleship was launched and was sank with only 118 of the 2,200 crew members surviving. Among them was a black and white cat named Oscar which was found floating on a board and was picked up from the water by a British ship.

On October 27th, 1941, the ship sank to the west of Gibraltar and Oscar was found clinging to a piece of plank and was later brought to the shore establishment in Gibraltar. When British officers learned what happened they named him “Unsinkable Sam”.

After that he was adopted by the crew of the HMS Ark Royal and in 1941, November 14th, a torpedo hit the ship. Sam was AGAIN found clinging to a piece of plank and was described as “angry but unharmed”.
By this time it was enough for the por cat and remained it’a days on land hunting mice in Gibraltar and then being transferred to the UK where he lived his final days.

And this was the story of “Unsinkable Sam”

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Láďa Durchánek 2 years ago

Sure, it was a torpedo that sank Ark Royal, not Sam being angry they put him on a ship again.

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“As humans, we are naturally curious creatures. We are always trying to understand our place in the world and how things work,” Alex Wong, the marketing expert, book author and creator of “Hijack Copywriter” told Bored Panda.

Wong believes that facts and stats help to give us a better idea of how everything fits together. “Without facts and stats, all we have are theories, which may or may not be true. That’s one thing I love about science. It’s the pursuit of gaining a deeper understanding and knowledge of the world around us. And with this scientific knowledge, we can solve complex problems and make better decisions.”

#4

Baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own. Their mothers lick their genitals and anuses to prompt them to do so and then also cleans it up. Most people don’t know this if they happen to be taking care of an orphaned young kitten or puppy so this it ends up being a cause of death for a lot of them. If you ever take care of an orphaned kitten/puppy or know someone who is you must use a damp paper towel or wash rag to wipe their bottoms until they urinate or defecate. 🌈 *The More You Know* ⭐️

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

Did this with a 3 week old abandoned kitten, until he could pee and poop on his own, in a litter box, at about 7 to 8 weeks old. Even when they’re about 5 to 6 weeks old and no longer need that stimulation, they’re a lot like babies who need diapers because they aren’t ready to be potty trained yet. They can pee and poop on their own, but lack the muscle control to hold it until they get to the litter box—-which most kittens take to right away (second experience with abandoned 5 to 6 week old kitten—-we live on a dead end street where f*****g waste of oxygen worthless m***********s who should be taken out and shot sometimes dump animals, including tiny kittens taken from their mothers way too soon. BTW, both kittens grew into beautiful, much loved, and very healthy cats).

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#5

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Elephants can purr, like cats.

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$cagsy 2 years ago

Imagine one of those climbing up your curtains.

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#6

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Alligators don’t age biologically, they don’t die from old age, they die from starvation or a disease. Blew my mind.

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Nicky 2 years ago

The Greenland shark also doesn't seem to age. Let's study these animals!

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It's no secret, however, that much of the information that gets shared online is presented as facts although we can never be sure. When asked how not to fall into the traps of fake and misleading facts, Wong said that “the only way to avoid this trap is to expose yourself to as many different ideas and viewpoints as possible. This means you have to educate yourself about the topic before coming to any definitive conclusions.”

#7

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” There is a forest that is 107 acres, but made up of only one tree. Thousands of aspens that share a single root system.

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

That tree is called Pando, look it up, it's fascinating. All tries to recreate a second tree like that from the DNA of the first one have failed so far

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#8

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” In starship trooper, the actors agreed to do the coed shower scene only if the director got naked with them and he did.

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mulk 2 years ago

ahahahah: nice move!

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#9

Your nipples are your perfect "natural lipstick shade".

Do not recommend colour matching in stores though.

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Xottel 2 years ago

Thank you, henceforth I will call it 'nipstick'.

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Wong urges people to be open to different points of view and look for weaknesses from your side. “Read as many types of resources as you can and never assume you know everything,” he added.

Another great tip is, when reading a news story or post, to check the source and see where it is coming from. You may want to ask yourself these questions, Wong argues: “Are they credible? Who wrote it? Is there a bias? Are they leaving out specific facts? A news story from BuzzFeed is going to be presented very differently from Fox News.”

#10

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” The world's largest tire producer by total number of tires made is Lego.

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That other Panda 2 years ago

Lol

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#11

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Ground cinnamon is technically sawdust

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Mama Penguin 2 years ago

Sawdust rolls with cream cheese icing. Yum!

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#12

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” When a rooster crows it partially pinches shut its ear canals so it won't deafen itself...

KlutzieKelpie , Sarah Halliday Report

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Local foodie 2 years ago

So those f*****s ARE self aware

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According to a study by three MIT researchers, false news travels faster on social media sites, such as on Twitter, than real news. Wong noted this quote from their study:“...false news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories are. It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people.”

“If this is true, this is frightening!” he added. Although, Wong is not surprised at all. “False news stories are generally crafted in a way to maximize views and clicks. This helps with advertising. In contrast, a real news story may be less exciting and glamorous,” the marketing expert explained.

#13

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” If you ever see someone using an iPhone in a movie, they are not one of the bad guys. Apple requires as a condition of licensing their products for use in film/TV, that only protagonists are allowed to operate them on camera. So, if a character is using an iPad in a horror movie, they will not end up secretly being the killer.

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Flexiegirl94 2 years ago

But if the protagonist was evil then they could use it??

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Eff the haters 2 years ago

Schroedinger's protagonist

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BG 2 years ago

The face of evil... images-62d...d4e697.jpg

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Jo Davies 2 years ago

Since I learnt this a few years ago it has spoilt a lot of movie ending for me.

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Nicky 2 years ago

And if you see the logo on a commercial plane in a movie, it won't crash.

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WatermelonTheDutchie 2 years ago

oh yeah cuz of marketing reasons?

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Ansgar 2 years ago

Wasn't there a movie that used exactly this as an "easter egg"?

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Music Panda 2 years ago

Knives Out used this as an easter egg

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Nicole Trabucco 2 years ago

Goddammit- I knew Snape had an iPhone. I just knew it.

2points

Agent 8433599 2 years ago

Thank you! I will remember this!!

1point

Mark Berry 2 years ago

This is too big an all-encompassing spoiler for me.

1point

Toby Flenderson 2 years ago (edited)

Dexter (the serial killer in the eponymous tv show) used a Mac laptop.

1point

Moonwatcher the NightWing 2 years ago

You just spoiled years worth of movies for me...

1point

Moonwatcher the NightWing 2 years ago

Can someone pls explain why I got a downvote. I don't understand and I would like to correct it so that I don't do it again in the future. Thank You

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Don't tread on me 2 years ago

How insecure can you be. Bad people enjoy apple products too

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Josurf 2 years ago

Not evil... just sad sheep.

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Michael McKinnie 2 years ago

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Julianne Hannes 2 years ago

I hate capitalism

0points

Courtney O'Donnell 2 years ago

But the killer used AirPods in After Party?

0points

Jane Doe 2 years ago

so a modern remake if rebel without a cause, the teen antihero would use an android?

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Analyn Lahr 2 years ago

I'd be a bad guy then.

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Elton Thomas 2 years ago

Yawn. Nobody cares about anyone else's phone brand.

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Nadira Abdulla 2 years ago

Spoiler alert!! Well now this sucks…I’ll know who the killer is not

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Strahd Ivarius 2 years ago

That applies only if the producers asked for Apple products ; see Iron Sky II for an example of what you can do when you don't sign a devil's pact with Apple...

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Featherytoad 2 years ago

Interesting

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Chris 2 years ago

But Apple is the evil one.

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TKA 2 years ago

I think Squid Games gave a hint on who the good guy was by having an iMac (I think)

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#14

Between 1913 and 1914, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Emperor Franz Joseph, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Leon Trotsky lived in Vienna within 4km of each other. Talk about sitcom idea!

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Torbjorn 2 years ago

They did actually make a sitco about Hitler called "heil honey I'm home" Cancelled after one episode

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#15

Lucille Ball helped bankroll the first script and episode of Star Trek

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Eric G 2 years ago

Lucy! You have some trekking to do!

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Moreover, social media constantly bombards us with news snippets that conform to our points of view. “And once we see a news story that confirms our existing beliefs, we want to share with it our group, who go on to spread it to their friends, and so forth,” Wong concluded.

#16

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” The "little piggie" that went to market...

Wasn't shopping.

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$cagsy 2 years ago (edited)

For those of you that might be worried, it's not what you think. She was off to market for a pedicure. She returned to her shoddily constructed little home with snazzy trotters and was the talk of the town. At least, she was until a wolf came by, looking for woefully inadequate dwellings. And he wasn't there to repair them. But that's another story.

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#17

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Alexander the great, Mussolini, Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Hitler allegedly suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.

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That other Panda 2 years ago

They obviously thought cats would take over - and they will, one day…. So relatable.

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#18

The story of "Beauty and the Beast" was probably based on the tragic life of Petrus Gonsalvus.

According to Refinery 29, in 1537 there was a young boy named Petrus Gonsalvus who was regularly called a beast. Reportedly, this was most likely because he had a case of hypertrichosis, a condition that causes a person to grow hair all over their body, often referred to as "werewolf syndrome."

Gonsalvus was just 10 years old when he was taken from his native country, Spain, and sent to the King of France to operate as a type of court jester. "King Henry decided to take on Gonsalvus as his little pet project," Refinery 29 wrote, "the king groomed Gonsalvus to be a nobleman."

Eventually, King Henry's wife, Catherine de'Medici (who took over after the king died), found Gonsalvus a wife — coincidentally another woman named Catherine. Though it took some getting used to, the beauty fell in love with "the beast." They were married for 40 years and had seven kids together, four of which also had hypertrichosis.

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D. Pitbull 2 years ago

Sooo... a solid 40 year marriage with seven kids... with each other... Unless it was a rather unhappy marriage - how is this... 'tragic'? I dunno... 40 years seems like a goodly chunk of "life" to me...

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#19

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Your immune system doesn’t know your eyes exist. They have their own immune system. If your body’s immune system ever learned about your eyes it would view them as a foreign invader, and your white blood cells would melt them straight out of your sockets.

wheresmychin , Victor Freitas Report

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

Luckily this usually doesn't happen, it's an autoimmune disease.

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#20

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” There was a Finnish soldier named Aimo Koivunen who got separated from his unit. He had no food or weapons, and to avoid dying, took enough methamphetamine for 30 men. During his insane drug binge, he skied about 250 miles, passed over a landmine and survived, and caught and ate a bird raw. That's just a few details, I recommend actually reading about this absolute legend yourself.

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unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago

Meth is a hell of a drug! Ben there done that. Never again. Will be clean 17 years come October.

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#21

I really like the Christmas Truce of 1914 where almost every German and British soldier decided to just stop the war for that special day. I think there are some stories of them playing some good old football (soccer if you will), exchanging hats, Christmas presents they got from their families.
It is one of my favorite wholesome facts about WWI

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Zwiebel Suppe 2 years ago

To be fair, there are probably not too many "wholesome" facts about a World War.

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#22

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Dragonflies suck water up their butts and shoot it out like jets when they get tired.

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Vector 2 years ago

phew, glad im not the only one

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#23

Dr. Seuss invented the word nerd.

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Flexiegirl94 2 years ago

Woah!! Did not see that coming lol

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#24

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” German submarine U-215. Sank during WW2. Didn’t decompress though. It’s still sealed on the bottom of the ocean with 49 people inside. I’ve always wondered what went down in there…

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unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago

That is absolutely horrifying. Worst nightmare s**!

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#25

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” A baby could swim in a blue whale's veins. That's how huge it is.

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Kenneth McCartney 2 years ago

Yes, yes they can. Picture the Nirvana's Nevermind album cover.

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#26

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Humans share 99.9% of their DNA with any other human on the planet. Humans share 99% of their DNA with their closest relative, the chimpanzee. Humans also share 60% of their DNA with bananas.

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Arun Manickam 2 years ago (edited)

Thats why we use them to scale🤣

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#27

I used to work as a checkpoint manager in airport security. I would get called over for strange or unusual items, to make a determination if said item was a "threat to aviation safety".

It was quite common to be called by screening officers to verify that the oddly shaped organic mass, was in fact, a b**tplug. Everyone knows what a dildo or vibrator looks like, but f****n' kids these days, they wouldn't know a b**tplug if it jumped up, started dancing and sang Hello My Ragtime Gal.

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Angela B 2 years ago

*Drives to airport in hope of seeing/hearing singing and dancing b******g*

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#28

There is a thing known as the Half-life of Facts, where there is an amount of time that will pass before 50% of the facts you know in a subject will be either proven false or superseded with more detailed knowledge. This duration differs based on the field of knowledge.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge)

This means it's almost certain that a large percent of the fun facts in this thread will be wrong or outdated, which is likely a leading cause of arguments online.

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Jon Steensen 2 years ago

... and apearantly there is also a halflife of teaspoons. By a bunch of them, and after certain period, only half of them will still be there, while the rest has disapeared into thin air.

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#29

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” The potato was once so undesirable that even the poor of Europe wanted nothing to do with it. They believed it caused leprosy, sterilization, and an over active sex drive.

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Unknown 2 years ago

And overactive sex drive and sterilization sounds like a win-win combination for me!

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#30

Lake Superior does not give up her dead. The waters of Lake Superior are so cold that the bodies and the majority of stuff from shipwrecks is preserved.

The Great Lakes (all of them) are basically just giant ship graveyards.

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A James 2 years ago

That's why one of them is Eerie!

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#31

2% of people can hear their eyes move and blink.

Edit: I hate to be that person but, MOM IM FAMOUS.

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Bored Person 2 years ago

I can't hear them move but sometimes I hear them blink

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#32

Queen Victoria gave the rights of her will to her physician who she trusted more than her family. The royal family is still trying and failing to get the will from the doctor’s family.

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

Just to be clear, this is the rights of ownership of the piece of paper that the will is written on, NOT the contents of the will. The family donated it to Windsor castle with the condition that they be responsible for it preservation and that if they ever wanted sell, move or destroy it, it MUST got back to the oldest living heir of the family.

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#33

Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian or African

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Lance LaRocque 2 years ago

She was half Macedonian Greek. Her mother is unknown but could have been a local Egyptian.

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#34

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” "Louie Louie" was a #2 hit in 1963 for The Kingsmen. The vocals were so garbled and slurred, rumors spread that the lyrics were dirty. The FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics were "unintelligible at any speed."

Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling "F**k!" at 0:54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY

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James016 2 years ago

IIRC that's because the drummer made an error and it was picked up as they were recording live off the floor

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#35

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” There's a surgery called a rotationoplasty where they remove the middle of your leg, then re-attach the foot (backwards) to your thigh so that your ankle can be your new knee for a prosthetic leg.

Seems gross but it really improves the quality of life over the other option, which is no knee at all.

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

But if the leg hasn't been blown off/the foot is still there, why does it need to be removed in the first place?

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#36

Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one. Bonus fun fact: He was also a licensed bartender.

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The Fabulous Killjoy 2 years ago

Lincoln could beat the c**p outta you then make you a drink

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#37

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg. The smallest is the male sperm.



The largest and smallest cells create life.

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Dynein 2 years ago (edited)

This makes sense biologically though. Creating new cells take energy so it would be better to make fewer cells for reproduction - but on the other hand, *fertilization* is a matter of chance, so you want to produce many to increase you chance of creating offspring! So many organisms developed a labor division: Female regenerative cells are large but only come in small numbers and are stationary, while male regenerative cells are basically shrink-wrapped DNA with a tail for locomotion but come in vast numbers. That way, both sexes get to save on the cellular material for reproduction: males save in cell size, females in number. It's a very successful system.

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#38

the word deja vu gets its name from what its thought to be. Deja vu happens when your brain identifies something that is normally unfamiliar as familiar. However, it has a little known counterpart.

Jamais vu is the opposite, when something familiar suddenly seems unfamiliar for some reason. Jamais vu is actually much easier to activate than deja vu because you can do this by simply saying a word 100 times in a row. By the end of it, the word no longer sounds like the word anymore and just sounds like strange noises. Jamais vu!

Edit: it was bothering me so I fixed the spelling

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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago

That happens with teachers too: if enough children spell an incorrect word the same way, it starts to look right, and the correct spelling starts to look wrong. I've literally gone and looked words up in the dictionary because of this phenomenon.

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#39

The day that Michael Jackson's hair famously caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial was on January 27, 1984, the 9,282nd day of his life. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, and died on June 25, 2009, living to be 18,563 days old.

The day of his accident was the exact median day of his life. He had a literal mid-life crisis!

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Deeelite 2 years ago

One of the kids who accused him retracted his statement 20 yrs later and said his parents put him up to it. He obly confessed to the lie after his father died. But of course, the media didnt cover that story as thoroughly as the fake allegations.

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#40

A trapper caught a mama bear in Winnipeg, Canada, and the baby was there. He got the baby and sold it to a Canadian soldier. The soldier took it to his base, and everyone loved the bear. They trained the bear, and was great for morale.

But they had to go to World War 1, so they gave the bear to the London zoo. The zoo saw that the bear was good with everyone, including kids. Kids could play with, and even ride the bear. The kids made many memories with the increasingly popular bear. One of those kids Christopher Robin. His father saw Christopher Robin playing with his bear, named after the bear at the zoo.

Since the soldier found the bear in Winnipeg, he shortened the name to "Winnie".

That's right. You know this bear as the classic children's story, "Winnie the pooh." Christopher Robin was Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A A Milne, who wrote the "Winnie the Pooh" books.

Edit 2: where did pooh come from? When Christopher Robin would get goose down feathers on him, he would excitedly blow them away with a "pooh! Pooh!" His father thought it was adorable, and so added "the Pooh" after Winnie.

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correction:

The bear cub was from White River Ontario, not Winnipeg. Harry Colbourn purchased the bear cub for $20 and named it “Winnipeg”, (“Winnie” for short) after his hometown in Canada (Colbourn was originally from Birmingham England). On Dec 9 1914, Colbourn donated Winnie to the London Zoo.

thanks u/Loverboy_Talis

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Linda Roy 2 years ago

As an adult, Christopher Robin said the fame from those books ruined his life

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#41

A man named Louie le prince is technically the first person to invent a motion picture camera ( movies) however he went missing during a train ride and was not able to show his invention before Edison.

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Mistiekim 2 years ago

He went “missing”. Edison you shady son of a b**ch

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#42

Netflix has trouble recommending you titles after viewing Napoleon Dynamite

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

The algorithm either thinks that that is the pinnacle of video entertainment or that it no longer wants anything to do with you.

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#43

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Chainsaws were originally made for assisting in difficult childbirth (breech, etc).

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The Fabulous Killjoy 2 years ago

Terrifying

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#44

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Michael Jackson owned the original pair of scissorhands from the movie Edward Scissorhands .

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That other Panda 2 years ago

Random, but cool

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#45

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters it out.

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

And what does it smell like?

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#46

Octopus detaches and throws a modified arm penis covered with sperm at their mate.

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Angela B 2 years ago

And I can't even find a guy to buy me a bunch of flowers or cook me a meal.

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#47

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” A majority of near-death experiences(being clinically dead but brought back) are positive. Do with that as you will.

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Vera1 2 years ago (edited)

I’ve read an interview with a director of a hospice once. She said( and I’m paraphrasing): humans are amazingly clever. If death truly is an awful thing, the dead would have found their way back by now. That stuck with me ever since.

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#48

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” In toddlers, their adult teeth are right underneath their eyes.

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

To be more accurate, they are above the deciduous teeth, Some (Usually the upper front 6 teeth) are in the sinus area. Just google 'toddler panoramic x-ray' for a decent example. For a horror movie style nightmare just google 'toddler skull' and select images.

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50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” The speed at which an insect can run is limited by its leg length.

Cockroaches have hind legs which are longer than the front four legs.

In some cockroach species, when running at full speed over flat ground, the front four legs leave the ground. The cockroach’s body acts like an aeroplane wing, flying just above the ground, kicking along with its back legs.

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Sue Lynn Chan 2 years ago

We are all brave till that thing can fly!!

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#50

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Queen Elizabeth made the first transatlantic phone call as a teenager to her parents while traveling abroad.

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General Anaesthesia 2 years ago (edited)

Sometimes 'facts' are not so factual, and just don't feel right. A short search tells me the first transatlantic phone call was in 1927 between AT&T in the US and the British General Post Office in London. The first long distance phone call unassisted by a telephone operator (called a trunk call) in England was indeed by Liz, from Bristol to Edinburgh in 1958. https://www.britishtelephones.com/histuk.htm

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#51

Rubbing a dog's ears releases endorphins that induce a feeling of calm and mellowness. It can even be used to reduce pain!

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Xottel 2 years ago

Are we talking about the dog or about the one who's rubbing their ears?

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#52

The creation of a character in Star Trek Voyager to appeal to horny nerds directly lead to the election of President Barack Obama.

The year is 1997. The third season of Star Trek: Voyager has come to an end, and the fourth season is about to begin. Ratings are beginning to flag, and the writers believe they know why. One of the greatest strengths of Star Trek is the inclusion of characters who aren’t human, but want to be, or are at least interested in studying the human condition. Spock in TOS, Data in TNG, Odo in DS9. Voyager had yet to really introduce such a character, so in the first episode of the fourth season, they introduce Seven of Nine, a former member of the Borg collective whose journey back to humanity formed the core of the emotional serialization of the remaining seasons of Voyager. This was a fantastic decision; Seven of Nine is a brilliantly-written character, and her blatant, shameless sex appeal drew a lot of eyes to the show. The back half is by far the best part of the series, and it’s due primarily to Jeri Ryan absolutely *nailing* the role.

Jeri Ryan was, at that point, a relatively unknown actress, appearing in bit parts in TV shows here and there, most notably an 8-episode run of *Dark Skies*, in seventh billing. Voyager catapulted her to a household name (as long as the household had nerds in it), and to nominations and wins at the Satellite and Saturn Awards. At the time, she was married to a man named Jack Ryan, a partner at Goldman Sachs. She divorced him in 1999, a few years after joining the cast of Voyager.

In 2004, Jack Ryan decided to run for the United States Senate. He did well, and won his state’s Republican primary. In the course of this run, Jack and Jeri’s divorce records became publicized, and the salaciousness of the contents were driven in no small part by Jeri’s fame and reputation as a sex symbol on Voyager. The records are public, and I invite you to peruse them, but long story short, they involved Jeri being put into sexual situations with which she was very uncomfortable, in public.

The public-facing nature of both of their careers made this virtually impossible to bury. In the middle of the Illinois general election, Jack Ryan resigned the race. Ryan’s replacement in the race had no time to run any kind of campaign. As a result, his Democratic opponent, a young State Senator from Illinois’s 13th District, fresh off of a legendary speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, blew him out of the water, catapulting him to national renown. And the rest is history.

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unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago

I remember as an 18 year old watching the '04 DNC speech and telling my aunt and mom that I just watched our next('08)President. They laughed me out of the kitchen...

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#53

Pineapple is the only food that eats you back! It is the only natural sourve of the enzyme Bromelain, which digests Protein. This is why your tongue tingles if you eat a lot of pineapple, or chew it slowly. Once swallowed, the enzyme is destroyed in the stomach.

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smugdruggler 2 years ago

It's also why people that work processing pineapple have no fingerprints.

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#54

The girl who played Ducky in a land before time has "yep yep yep" on her tombstone

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Minath 2 years ago

I'm glad they put that on her gravestone. I haven't been able to watch the film since I heard about what happened to her.

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#55

Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln's presidency than his own.

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Katie Everswick 2 years ago

um

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#56

There are more fake, plastic flamingos for sale, than there are living flamingos on the planet

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Inigo Montoya 2 years ago

Sounds about right.

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#57

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth cut off his own testicles with scissors

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SCamp 2 years ago

Every single guy reading that just clenched big time

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#58

Goldish don't have 2 seconds memories, some can remember a face for years

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Jon Steensen 2 years ago

...and they can actually be trained to do certain tricks.

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#59

Everyone starts off their life as an a*****e: humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb the b******e forms before any other opening.

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Nico van Os 2 years ago

Why can't we just write full words nowadays?

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#60

The skin that makes up your lips is the same type of skin as that on your b****hole.

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Rory Ell 2 years ago

a new meaning of talking c**p

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#61

To keep with the bear theme, I work at a zoo. We have 4 different bears.

Bear 1 is Hope. She is a European Brown Bear and is I believe in her 20s (I’m fuzzy on the ages). She may seem gentle but she’s absolutely the meanest of our bears. She is also very picky about her food. All the bears get fed mostly fruit with some dry food (similar to dog food) mixed in. She hates melons. She won’t eat food if it has even touched a melon.

Bear 2 is Louie. Louie is a black bear and lives next to hope. I’m not quite sure about his age but the fun fact about Louie is that he has a crush on hope. Some bears make a humming noise to try to attract mates and Louie can be heard doing that for hope. He also puts his paws through the fence to try to hold her paw. Often hope will swat him away or ignore him but sometimes she allows him some affection. Louie also hibernates the longest of the bears.

Bears 3 and 4 are Ringo and Frankie. Ringo and Frankie are the sons of Hope. They’re currently about 8 years old and live together separate from Hope. We suspect their dad is a grizzly bear because they are much larger than Hope. During the summer they have a pool (all the bears have pools but hope and Louie don’t use theirs often). During hot days you can see the two bears in their pool play fighting. They also like putting rocks in the pool.

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Artsy Bookworm 2 years ago

This is adorable

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#62

Fire smells different depending on how far from the flame your face is.

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Šimon Špaček 2 years ago

For example, if you get only few centimeters from the flame, it smells like burned hair.

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#63

Chimpanzees have been discovered hunting gorillas with spears.

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Seval 2 years ago

Not gorillas but small primates and not spears but something similar: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/chimps-use-spears-to-hunt-mammals-study-says

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#64

Gatorade was developed for the Florida Gators football team, hence the name.

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Corey Smith 2 years ago

The original version was unflavored and tasted like sweat.

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#65

The playstation ToS include a phrase that prohibits them from being used as a control system for missiles.

Sound stupid, but that actually happened. Some countries military (USA maybe?) realized that the playstation (I think it was the PS2) was a powerhouse in terms of computing power, way above anything even several price classes higher. So they connected a couple dozen of them, and ran their missile control system with that.

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Jon Steensen 2 years ago

... and they are readily available, which makes sourcing them in case of an emergency that much easier than some specialised chip specially develloped for a very specific purpose.

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#66

Greater stick-nest rats, an Australian native rodent, glue its nests together using urine, which dries like cement.

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Hugh Cookson 2 years ago

Phew, glad it's not just me after a heavy weekend then .....

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#67

The average human head will pop off with three full turns.

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Mama Penguin 2 years ago

Lefty loosey?

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#68

Barnacles have penises 7x larger than the rest of their body.

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$cagsy 2 years ago

Just like the rest of us then, yeah?

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#69

50 “Fun Facts That Nobody Asked For” Penguin eggs turn transparent when hard boiled.

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Magickmaster 8 2 years ago

Which sick f**k boiled a penguin egg.

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#70

Fun Fact - Ancient Egyptians used Crocodile and Alligator s**t as a contraceptive.

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Nicky 2 years ago

And it works - would you mate with anyone covered in croc or alligator dung?

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#71

Walt Disney and Walter Knott, the founder of Knott's Berry Farm, were actually friends. Disney got a lot of his inspiration for Frontierland from Knott's ghost town. In the movie A Bug's Life, in the scene towards the end where the ants are fighting back and Heimlich pops his head out from his body, he says "mmmmm boysenberry." This is the berry that Knott's is most famous for and is a possible reference to the park. Source: I worked there.

Knott's Berry Farm started with the ghost town and was created because the lines for his wife's famous fried chicken were excruciatingly long. As you can imagine, hungry people plus long waits for food tend to make people upset, so Knott's came up with the idea of a working ghost town to keep people entertained. Everything there is fully functioning, from the livery to the blacksmith.

Knott's Scary Farm is considered the first haunt event and has been going on since 1973. However, when it started, it was a two or three day event and later became a month long affair due to its popularity. (I did a year there)

The rollercoaster Montezuma's Revenge has recently been made a landmark.

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unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago

Man I might seem old but I miss Knotts Camp Snoopy at old MOA. When I was a kid my 8 year old associate posed for a pic with Snoopy, punched him in the gut/gnads, and Snoopy keeled over. I felt bad for the costume person but it's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

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#72

I was born with an undescended testicle. Usually you will have a surgery to repair it at 12 months. My parents did f**k all until my preschool wouldn't accept me without a two year check up. Where my pediatrician discovered I never had the surgery. So now I had it very late at 3 years old, and it caused them to do some damage to my right testicle getting it through the pass without breaking anything. It caused it to not grow as expected, and as thus is about 1/4th the size of my left testicle. If I suck in my gut, my testicle goes right back up into my public bone area and you can see it clearly.

Unethical life pro tip: Since this has happened, I've used it to show my management a picture of a "hernia" and taking all my PTO before quitting without questions.

Edit: To clarify, I did not HAVE to show a picture of my "hernia". Policy for more than three days of consecutive absences requires a doctor's note to return to work. Basically a "clearance" to return. I obviously wasn't having surgery, so I'd just show them and nobody ever questioned why I needed time off after that.

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Fbomb 2 years ago

That's nuts.

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#73

1 field mouse has the caloric equivalent of 2 pizza rolls .

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Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago (edited)

Bet pizza rolls taste better. Edit: stupid autocorrect changed bet to but. Sorry for the confusion. Have changed it now.

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#74

The occupied space of atoms is very small. The vast majority of EVERYTHING is the empty space between protons and electrons.

The occupied space in an atom is roughly 0.0000000000004 %

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Petra Moon 2 years ago

I still have no idea what that means…..

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#75

Ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, as do some other animals.

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User# 6 2 years ago

So, the next time you have a riverside picknick and want to open a bottle of wine, you know what to do.

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#76

In 1985 a Serbian farmer stuck a beer bottle up his a*s, wide end first. This sparked a chain of events that eventually led to the collapse of Yugoslavia.
[Further reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident?wprov=sfti1)

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#77

You could thread fishing wire through your tear duct and out your bumhole. They’re connected, and fishing wire is thin enough.

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Jill Rhodry 2 years ago

I suppose this makes sense - your tear duct drains to your nose and the back of your nose drains down your throat which obviously goes to your digestive system.

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#78

Almost all mammals take around the same time to urinate

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

If anyone wonders: 25 seconds

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#79

You will never be stung by a male hornet. They are very docile, and don't even have stingers, since that really is an ovipositor.

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

For everyone who's not that versed with insects: an ovipositor is something like the "egg laying channel" of the insect (all bees, wasps, bumbles and hornets have that). However, only the worker females have it genetically modified to carry a toxin and sting. Males don't have a sting at all (since they can't lay eggs either), and neither can queens (at least in most species) which makes it harmless to pick them up and carry them around.

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#80

Maya Rudolph's mom is singer Minnie Riperton.

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Joshua Moon 2 years ago

I just be to old or too young to get this one. Curse you middle age

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#81

Capybara spend so much time in the water the Catholic Church allows their consumption during Lent classifying them as aquatic like fish.

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Minath 2 years ago

The Catholic Church are very good at changing the rules to suit themselves.

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#82

Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to correctly conclude that a human erection is caused by blood. Before him, everybody thought that it was air, and that a strong breeze could cause an erection.

[Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721040/)

Edit* I guess I should have phrased that differently lol. People used to think that erections were ‘powered’ by air, rather than blood.

***Here is some more info for those who don’t believe how little we knew about the human body up until quite recently. For example, the first World Congress on Impotence was held in Paris in 1984.

Here is a little excerpt from *Physiology of Penile Erection-A Brief History of the Scientific Understanding up till the Eighties of the 20th Century*

``Introduction: Understanding the physiology of penile erection is important for all who work in the field of sexual medicine. Aim: The aim of this study was to highlight and analyze historical aspects of the scientific understanding of penile erection. Methods: (i) Review of the chapters on the physiology of erection out of the author's collection of books dealing with male sexual functioning published in the German, French, Dutch, and English language in between 1780 and 1940. (ii) Review of the topic “physiology of penile erection” of relevant chapters of Classical writings on erectile dysfunction. An annotated collection of original texts from three millennia, including the study of all relevant references mentioned in these books. Main Outcome Measure: The main outcome measure used for the study was the scientific understanding of the physiology of penile erection. Results: In Antiquity, Galen considered penile erection as the result the accumulation of air. His ideas so dominated medieval medicine that nearly everyone then alive was a Galenist. The beginning of the Renaissance shows meaningful examples of experimental scientific work on the penis. Da Vinci correctly concluded that erections were caused by blood, and in the 18th century, Von Haller from Switzerland was the first who explained that erections were under the control of the nervous system. In the 19th century, a mindset that emphasized on experimentation determined a new direction, namely experimental physiology. Animal studies clarified that stimulation of the nervi erigentes‐induced small muscle relaxation in the corpora cavernosa. Nearly all were published in the German language. That may be one of the reasons that the existence of the concept of smooth muscle relaxation remained controversial until the first World Congress on Impotence in 1984 in Paris. Conclusions: As the Renaissance's innovative research defined neural and vascular physiologic phenomena responsible for penile erection. The concepts from animal experimentations in Europe in the 19th century significantly contributed to the current understanding of penile erection. van Driel MF. Physiology of penile erection—a brief history of the scientific understanding up till the eighties of the 20th century. Sex Med 2015;3:343–351.``

[That Source](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283960026_Physiology_of_Penile_Erection-A_Brief_History_of_the_Scientific_Understanding_up_till_the_Eighties_of_the_20th_Century)

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

You say it's blood not air/wind, and yet... if you blow it, it will get hard...

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#83

There was an experiment once to see how hope affects animals with higher intelligences, and they tested this by drowning mice. Mice that were put in a bucket of water drowned in something like 2 minutes. However, mice that were taken out after about a minute and a half, were given a chance to rest, and then were put back in the bucket? Lasted close to 50 hours.

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Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago

Please can someone explain to me WHY we need to know how hope affects animals? Pretty cruel to drown mice unnecessarily.

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Mistiekim 2 years ago

Why are there so many penis facts?

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Willa L 2 years ago

Wasnt there only 1?

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Dodo 1 year ago

I simultaneously want and absolutely do not want more information on the 'chainsaws were created for childbirth' fact...

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Stargazer66 1 year ago

Me too. Some things are just best unknown. lol.

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Tacet 2 years ago

Microwaves first use to deliberately heat something, the grandfather to your microwave oven, was by Professor James Lovelock an independent scientist, who used them to evenly reheat recently frozen solid guinea pigs and revive them. He also came up the the environmental Gaia theory and died yesterday 26/07/22 at 103.

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Stargazer66 1 year ago

Hamsters. Guinea pigs are too big.

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Mistiekim 2 years ago

Why are there so many penis facts?

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Willa L 2 years ago

Wasnt there only 1?

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Dodo 1 year ago

I simultaneously want and absolutely do not want more information on the 'chainsaws were created for childbirth' fact...

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Stargazer66 1 year ago

Me too. Some things are just best unknown. lol.

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Tacet 2 years ago

Microwaves first use to deliberately heat something, the grandfather to your microwave oven, was by Professor James Lovelock an independent scientist, who used them to evenly reheat recently frozen solid guinea pigs and revive them. He also came up the the environmental Gaia theory and died yesterday 26/07/22 at 103.

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Stargazer66 1 year ago

Hamsters. Guinea pigs are too big.

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