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You know what they say: knowledge is power.

Learning is crucial to our existence – think of it as sustenance for the mind rather than the body. It helps us develop new abilities, perspectives, and values; it gives us a feeling of accomplishment and unveils endless opportunities; it boosts our confidence and allows us to engage in the most random conversations.

Some might argue that with the development of the good old internet, basking in new things doesn't feel as necessary perhaps as it would have before – however, now that knowledge is at everyone's fingertips, why not learn a fact or two to impress a couple of your pals?

“What is your go-to fact that blows people’s minds?” – this netizen turned to one of Reddit’s favorite communities asking members to share their go-to facts that never fail to impress others. The thread has managed to receive over 12K upvotes, as well as 9K worth of comments and mouth-opening statements.

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group I just learned this: there are more castles in Germany than McDonalds in the U.S.

itijara , IMBiblio Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group When it's so quiet you can hear snow falling, you're actually hearing the static discharge of the snowflake hitting the ground. It gathers the electricity while it's falling to Earth.

KeithCSchatz , James Mann Report

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Alias Delfs 2 years ago

Whoa

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Veryish 2 years ago

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

I love that sound! When it's late at night, and the weather isn't safe to be out in. When most folks have gone to bed, and noise pollution has essentially ceased. I step outside into the cold and listen. The sound of snow and nothing else.

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Random Panda 2 years ago

Same! I moved from Alaska to Texas recently and I miss just going out late at night while there's no one around and there's a gentle snow falling. Everything is so quiet and peaceful. Dang, now I just made myself sad and homesick. :(

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Vae 2 years ago

As a snow lover... This blew my mind. You can live 30ish years in a snowy state (or country), and still learn about it...

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Solidhog 2 years ago

Electric Snow Flakes. Great name for a band!

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XenoMurph 2 years ago

Makes it seem you'd be offended every time someone turned on a light.

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Linda HS 2 years ago

As kids we use to open the windows to “listen” to the snow falling

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$cagsy 2 years ago

Can we harness it and power our homes? It's getting to the point where it will be cheaper to just burn money to stay warm rather than pay the energy bill.

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Veryish 2 years ago

Steam engines bro

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pink_panda 2 years ago

Alaska: come for the sound of static discharge when snowflakes hit the ground, stay for the northern lights.

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Joshua Moon 2 years ago

Well I learned something new today. Neat

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Thomas Ewing 2 years ago

Amplify the sound, and it sounds like a car crash. CRUNCH!

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Bananaramamama 2 years ago

Even being born and raised in a seasonally snowy location I cant say I've ever heard snowfall! I feel cheated! I must pay more attention

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Christof Irran 2 years ago

Had an experience of that sort: I watched a meteor shower a few years ago, and every time one streaked across the shy I could hear it at that very time - which is, of course, impossible because a). it wouldn't make a sound loud enough to get to the earth's surface, and b). the sound would take a looooong time to get to the earth's surface. I figured out that what I really heard was the electromagnetic induction between my hair and the frames of my glasses caused by ionization of the superheated air around the meteorite.

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InupiaqGal 2 years ago

That's wild!!

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Barbara Vandewalle 2 years ago

Explains why snow falling has its own sound of silence.

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William John 2 years ago

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Ramirez rachael 2 years ago

I love this!!!! Can’t wait for the snow fall now!!!

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PVR 2 years ago

Very cool!

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Jo Kidd 2 years ago

Yes,you actually do hear it if it's quiet enough

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El Dee 2 years ago

I've never heard anything when snow falls?

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Jaya 2 years ago (edited)

Wait, you can actually hear snow falling? My mind is blown.

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JPotts 2 years ago

The sound of snow falling on dead leaves that are still on the trees. So relaxing.

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Stefanie Veatch 2 years ago

When I was a kid, I'd go outside at night to shovel the driveway. One of most precious memories is standing there alone and listening to the snow fall.💕

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DuchessDegu 2 years ago

I knew it!!!! When I said it before, people think I'm imagining things!

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Katy McMouse 2 years ago

Same. My family thinks I'm weird. Now, I have proof for at least one of my nutty observations.

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Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago

It's a very very soft sizzle sound.

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Susan Teter 2 years ago

Welcome to Iowa

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Veryish 2 years ago

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group A graveyard is connected to a church while a cemetery is not.

FirstBankofAngmar , Jörg Weingrill Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Oxford University existed 250 years before the Aztecs existed. Oxford University first opened in 1096, the Aztec period was from 1345-1521. Oxford University is second only to the University of Bologna for continuous operation.

WhozTheDaddy , Chris Rycroft Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Greenland sharks can become up to 400 years old and don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150

AggravatingDriver559 , Hemming1952 Report

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#6

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn.

Edit: It's an easy Google. The rings of Saturn formed no more that 100 million years ago, we know what they are made of, how fast they move, and the rate of decay. Sharks have been around for about 450 million years. We have fossilized records of this.

itsmyfrigginusername , leah Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group that sahara desert used to be under the ocean, and you can still find seashells in the sand there

breadcrumb1996 , cattan2011 Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Neptune was originally discovered as apparently inexplicable changes in the orbital path of Uranus. Because a man named Le Verrier observing these alterations decided that there must be an orderly reason for it, he calculated where another planet would have to be to cause Uranus to act like that, and still keep the laws of gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac newton. He then sent his calculations to Royal Observatory in Berlin, and the prediction was within 1° of its actual position.

JaywrightCat , Kabsik Park Report

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#9

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds like this: "di-di-di-dah".

That is the Morse code representation of the letter V: (...-)

V is the Roman numeral for five.

Purely coincidence, as the Fifth was written 40 years before Morse code was invented.

dittybopper_05H , Thomas Quine Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The Goonies go underground on the exact same day (Saturday, Oct. 26, 1985) as Marty travels back in time to 1955.

misterfriend , Warner Bros. Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group All the Botox in the world, literally every gram, is produced in a factory in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

RedditIsAShitehole , Rodolphe Breard Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group you know when you get up too fast and feel dizzy? squeezing/stiffening your buttocks together stops the dizziness.

eggypotato- , Masa Israel Journey Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group There are more trees on planet earth (~3 trillion) than there are stars in our galaxy (~800 billion).

Note it says our galaxy (the milky way), not the entire universe. Still I find the sheer number of trees on our planet impressive

Dependent-Status-880 , Rich Kenington Report

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166points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Whales are closer to artiodactyls (even toed hoofed animals) than they are to seals or manatees.

Whales are *essentially* just wet deer with extra steps.

magcargoman , Jose Antonio Navas Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Ancient Egypt and mammoths existed at the same time.

Sir_Scizor20 , Chris Hunkeler Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Tamales are one of the oldest dishes on earth still commonly eaten today.

BitPoet , kinwart Report

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157points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group As an Italian in the us it’s that Pepperoni actually would mean peppers in Italy and has absolutely nothing to do with thinly sliced meat.

Only-Possibility-114 , MattCC716 Report

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155points

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#18

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group George Washington died in 1799.

Dinosaurs were discovered in 1824.

George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed.

DrySoap__ , David Kryzaniak Report

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154points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans.

KingKimoi , virtualsphere Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In Volkswagen’s official Parts catalog, one of the official Volkswagen parts, with its own part number (199 398 500 A), is a currywurst sausage they serve to their staff in Wolfsburg, Germany.

199 398 500 B is ketchup.

Brotherbeam , RoadOver Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group When airline pilots are trained to fly a new type of jet, the first time they fly it is with paying passengers on board. All the training and testing is done in a simulator.

Of course they have a lot of flight time in other airplanes and there is a specially qualified training captain in command. However my first jet takeoff was LAX-DEN with 68 unsuspecting passengers.

usmcmech , alex lang Report

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#22

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've travelled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space.

AngryBuddha01 , TheMuuj Report

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#23

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group You can see your nose all the time.

It is always within your field of view, unless you force your eyeballs to roll up as far as they go.

Your brain filters it out of your perception to save resources, but if you pay explicit attentio to it (as you may be doing now), it becomes obviously visible.

Do not despair, tho.. after a brief time, you forget about it and it "disappears" again.

RandomStuffGenerator , AbbyD11 Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The earth's crust (which is too deep for humans to drill through, much deeper than the deepest ocean) compared to the rest of the planet is similar to the skin of an apple compared to the rest of the apple.

Relevant-Charity9689 , jon collier Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Black apples exist.

We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside.

Ok_Zucchini_4303 , Forest Starr and Kim Starr Report

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#26

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The gene for six fingers is dominant, five fingers recessive.

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Almost 100% of the matter that composes plants comes from the air, not the ground.

teabagalomaniac , Herry Lawford Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Moose are naturally attacked by orcas.

BernieceTAnderson , Bryce Bradford Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group German Chocolate Cake was invented in New York by it’s baker Samuel German who wanted to do his version of a Black Forest Cake

signaturefox2013 , Mikel Ortega Report

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108points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group "OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.

GoGreenOnEm , Ben Chun Report

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106points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage.

deqb , GPT Environmental Report

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#32

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In the US, the dash lines on highways are generally 10 feet long, not 2-3 like most people assume.

Color09 , Doug Kerr Report

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#33

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.

stocksNcrpt , Erwan Martin Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In a group of 23 random people, the probability of two of them sharing a birthday is over 50%.

pizzaninjatx , Dark Dwarf Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In the 1920s, Hawa‘ian music was the biggest selling category of sheet music.

lapsteelguitar , Franklin Park Library Report

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Darja Zinina

Darja is a Content Creator at Bored Panda. She studied at the University of Westminster, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Media Practice. She loves photography, foreign music and re-watching Forrest Gump.

Darja is a Content Creator at Bored Panda. She studied at the University of Westminster, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Media Practice. She loves photography, foreign music and re-watching Forrest Gump.

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Saulė is a photo editor at Bored Panda with bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design. The thing that relaxes her the best is going into YouTube rabbit hole. In her free time she loves painting, embroidering and taking walks in nature.

Saulė is a photo editor at Bored Panda with bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design. The thing that relaxes her the best is going into YouTube rabbit hole. In her free time she loves painting, embroidering and taking walks in nature.

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ojjunior 2 years ago

The longest land border France shares is with Brazil. Just check it.

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Veryish 2 years ago

Si

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Sylvia Schmitz 2 years ago

It seems that this time the list of facts was, in fact, all facts.

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Veryish 2 years ago

Prende vous..?

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ojjunior 2 years ago

The longest land border France shares is with Brazil. Just check it.

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Veryish 2 years ago

Si

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Sylvia Schmitz 2 years ago

It seems that this time the list of facts was, in fact, all facts.

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Veryish 2 years ago

Prende vous..?

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