Do you know any weird or random facts? You know, facts that would make someone go "Wait, seriously?" Please feel free to share them!

#1

Octopuses have nine independent brains: one in their head and one in each of their legs. They are truly fascinating animals!

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Jayjay
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Upvote for Octopuses! Also Octopuses have 33,000 genes, roughly 10,000 more than a human. This alone sets it apart from any other invertebrate in the world. No wonder some think that Octopuses are aliens. However, they share a lot of DNA with humans :).

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#2

tampons are NOT dildos, and women dont choose when to have periods.

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Jayjay
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell that to the oversexed dumb guys! They are not gonna listen to you anyway. And the smart guys know this already.

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#3

periods hurt like crazy. imagine getting a jackhammer in you.

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Mattie
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know why this entry was downvoted. This is true for many women (and people with a uterus), and most men couldn't bear that much pain that consistently. But since it concerns only half of the world's population, it's too niche to justify funding research about it 🤦‍♀️

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#4

107% of people believe everything they read on the internet.

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#5

Switzerland does not have an official capital city. Their government is mostly situated in Bern, but no city is defined in the Swiss Constitution as THE capital.

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Zedrapazia
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Swiss here. This is just plain wrong, Bern is the capital. Zürich and Geneva are just very well known for tourists and political reasons, Bern is the capital

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#6

Your brain is more active when you're asleep than when you're awake. While you're dreaming, your brain processes information, consolidates memories, and even rehearses potential scenarios.

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Jade Hoare
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

apparently, a dream is just all your day's thoughts in a few hours. (depending on how much sleep you get. me, im 14 and i get 10 hours of sleep.)

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#7

There is enough iron inside your body to make a 3 inch nail

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently, you would then need 200 people to forge a small sword, and 600 to forge a claymore great sword.

Rachel Reynolds
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as you're exsanguinating those bodies, they can be cremated and the resulting carbon turned into a diamond for the hilt. Reduce, Recycle, Reuse.

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#8

France and Brazil share a land border. So do Denmark and Canada.

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Cécile V.
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

France here. Everyday I take a stroll and chat with my friendly Brasilians neighbours :))

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#9

The number of years it would take for all the atoms to "die" in this universe would amount to higher than the total amount of atoms in the universe. To give you an idea as to the size of the timescale, there are more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans combined.

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#10

The person who invented the Brazen Bull was also the first person executed by it.

On a lighter note

Crows mate for life, and like to bring each other little gifts.

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Karl der Große
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the story is that the person who invented the Brazen Bull was tortured in it, but he was taken out before he died. Then they threw him off a cliff.

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#11

Yesterday I found out that BoredPanda added dark mode on their site as a paid option, sadly this adds more reasons to move away from it and look for other info/entertainment options.

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#12

Sometimes, people in BP will read a post and think in their head:


"What the h**l did I just read?"


This has been one of those times.

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#13

Just a few I know:

Penguins don’t have knees!

Elephants can’t jump.

Australia is wider than the moon!

The Pope can’t be an organ donor.

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#14

Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can email tools to astronauts

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#15

Vermont is home to the Chazy Fossil Reef, the oldest known diverse fossil reef in the world.

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#16

BP has decided to make you pay MONEY for dark mode! Let me scroll my phone in the dark in peace!

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#17

Most of us know that coal miners did/are dying from black lung disease. But did you know that actors could get very ill/die from the powder used to set their make-up? Even today many professional clowns use baby powder (in a sock) to set their make-up.

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The Phantom Stranger
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I forget his name, but the original actor cast to play the Tin Woodsman in the Wizard of Oz had to be recast, because he was allergic to the aluminum powder makeup they were using and almost died.

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#18

crows hold grudges, and tell their friends and families about them too

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Susie Main
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to believe this, but I don't speak crow, so can't verify it. This saddens me.

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#19

Australia (4000km) is wider than the Moon (3400km)

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#20

Not a funny, but a random fact nonetheless: two Hairless Chinese Crested dogs should not be bred together because the hairless gene variant is lethal when a dog has two copies of the mutation. Therefore the mating should be between a Hairless and the Powderpuff variety of the breed.
(There's also the true hairless and the Hairy hairless, just to confuse you - and IMHO no kinder, more loyal, funnier breed of dog ever existed. Not that I'm biased ... )

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#21

Today is National Cat Appreciation Day somewhere in the world. I adore the kitteh posts here. Than you all for making my random day better.

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#22

Hyphenated isn't.
Non-hyphenated is.

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Matt Ronald Slater
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And don't even get us started on how "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the EXACT SAME THING!

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#23

When you die, your cat will likely eat you, but not right away. this is because he/she still expects you to fill up his bowl. after a bit, when you do not fill up their bowl, they will likely nom on soft, exposed areas of your body (think neck, lips, nose). If you want more somewhat morbid facts like this, read "will my cat eat my eyeballs?" by caitlin something-or-other. it's a great read.

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#24

The creator of the guillotine was charged for treason and got killed by the guillotine

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Onyx Delson
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'This coincidence may have contributed to erroneous statements that J-I Guillotin was put to death on the machine that bears his name; however, in reality, Guillotin died at home in Paris in 1814 of natural causes, aged 75, specifically from a carbuncle, and is now buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.' From Wikipedia

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#25

Men can get this thing called testicular torsion in which the testicle can get twisted inside of the sack, this pain has been rated and compared to childbirth. It can also result in the loss of the testicle, as well as requiring surgery to fix.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the pain is similar, it is clear to me biological men have less resistance to it. I have heard women saying "Oh, God, I would gladly have another child", but I have never heard a dude going "Oh, boy, I cannot wait to have a knot in my balls again!"

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#26

One in 7,225 pregnancies are unknown at the time the mother gives birth.
This is called cryptic birth.

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Cath Rowe
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was driving to work on Christmas Day and spotted a corner shop was open so I went and bought some sweets and had a chat with the shop owner and we commiserated with each other about working on Christmas Day She said very sadly that she always worked on Christmas Day because she had no children .. later that day she was rushed into A&E with severe stomach pains and I was sent to help with her delivery !

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#27

Do you cough if you put anything in your ears? It’s called the Arnold reflex, both my son and husband have it

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Leoninus Fate
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will never know this feeling cause I was born without ear canals, hearing is a lil hard but need a BAHA hearing aid attached to my skull to hear

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#28

There is a kernel of corn for each corn silk ( stigma maydis) on the cob.

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#29

The increasing difficulty in the original "Space Invader" game wasn't an intentional feature at first. Destroying enemies just did free up processing power, which allowed the arcade machine to use more ressources on the movement for the remaining ones on the screen.

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#30

Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was "Roosevelt".

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Shelby P
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's because she and FDR were cousins (5th cousins once removed)

#31

Ninety percent of the world’s population lives above the equator.

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deletemyaccount
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think you mean north of the equator and that is because 68% of the land mass is north of the equator and about half of the land south of the equator is uninhabitable.

#32

We are being flung at 107 000km/h through the universe, while spinning on a globe that spins around itself at 1607km/h not knowing where we are flung to. Let that sink in

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#33

spiders have paws like cats. spider's feet are kitty paws.

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reuben kift
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this fact cute? Yes. Will it help any spider in my vicinity? No.

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#34

You know how everyone has their own unique smell? Well, identical twins share the same smell.

You burn more calories while sleeping if you are naked.

You typically only breathe out of one nostril at a time. The moment you are conscious of this, you will breathe out of both.

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#35

A small electric shock can be fatal. Sometimes people who experience a shock later die in their sleep

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#36

With the cold death version of the universe, energy slowly ebbs away until the last particle stops moving. This is such a long stretch of time that the bright period we are now in with stars and galaxies is so brief as to be pretty much imperceptible.

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#37

I was looking up if a person can be too oversized for cremation. I found out that individuals who are overweight can cause grease fires when being cremated. Apparently to a highly trained ?? Crematorist ?? (I'm unsure of the job title) This is not a problem as they know how to manage it however if not managed properly the fire can get out of hand.

Sorry I don't know how they manage the fire.

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#38

Abraham Lincon is in the wrestling hall of Fame.

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#39

I forgot all the cooler facts I know when seeing this post (of course).

The paperclip is a Norwegian invention.

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#40

Richard Kiel, the 7'2" actor who played Jaws in the 007 "Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" films, came out of retirement in 2010 to voice Vlad the bouncer at the Snuggly Duckling tavern in Disneys Tangled. He was the one who collected ceramic unicorns.

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#41

You will not find the word "gullible" on any online dictionaries.

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#42

GUYS THE SUN IS AN EXPLODING GAS BOMB. I REPEAT THE SUN IS AN EXPLODING BALL OF GAS

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Apatheist Account2
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, it isn't. It's a fusion reaction that's being held together by gravity. That's not an explosion, which is, I quote: "An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy". The sun is not increasing in volume - we've got about 5 billion years before that happens.

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#43

Someone made the sound that dinosaurs make up, and we just agreed with them.

Things are not "on fire" Fire is on things

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Justin Tyme
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wrong. "On fire" is a colloquial way of saying "burning". But you already knew that, didn't you?

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#45

The majority of teenagers is behind rocks and squirrels in intelligence.

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#46

17% of internet random facts are randomly made

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