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I don't know about you Pandas, but I really love fun facts. However, if I had to choose my favorite category, it would probably be especially weird facts.
Sometimes I can’t believe that these things exist: for example, there's a fact that says that a dog’s poop aligns with the Earth’s magnetic field. I know this is random, but I'm giving this one as an example.
So, Pandas, please tell me the craziest fact you know!
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#1
Pineapples contain the enzyme bromelain which breaks down and dissolves meat protiens, which is why your lips and tongue tingle when you eat them. WHEN YOU EAT PINEAPPLES, THEY EAT YOU BACK
Final score:
20points
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#2
the craziest fact is that ALL YOU PANDAS ARE AMAZING also have a great day
Final score:
17points
#3
The mayor of the Alaskan town, Talkeetna, is called Stubbs and has been mayor of the town since July 1997. Stubbs is a cat. There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs. Catnip is ten-times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in insect repellents. If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being.
Final score:
16points
Ila in Maine 5 years ago
Fair is fair ;-): French bulldog named Wilbur elected mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky.
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, has a peculiar tradition of electing canine candidates, and Wilbur is the latest mayoral mutt. "Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, has never had an actual person or human as a mayor," Amy Noland, Wilbur's human, told NBC News. Noland said the tradition emerged in the late 1990s. Read more here if interested:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/french-bulldog-named-wilbur-elected-mayor-rabbit-hash-kentucky-n1246569 Wilbur-vis...5e35f6.jpg 
#4
The reason the taste of artificial banana flavoring and artificial banana flavored products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s
Final score:
15points
Soap 5 years ago
Man, I would've loved to taste that. I, for one, actually like the artificial banana
jazz 5 years ago
It's a bit too sweet for me, but it still tastes better than actual bananas. :\
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Bunny Wood 5 years ago
Yes true. And Cavendish bananas look to follow shortly as the Panama disease is coming back. Also in the 1950's scientists were just learning how to synthesise flavours and a lot of fruit flavors "taste" quite similar but have powerful and suggestive aromas.
Truth Monster 5 years ago
So, unless you are talking about a different strain than the Gros Michel, then you are wrong about the strain going extinct. Though rarer now, the strain was saved and both the original and hybrids exist of the Gros Michel. The plague was called the Panama disease. The strain that we see in the markets today is largely the Cavendish banana. The reason that the Panama disease is such a threat to banana trees is that bananas are unable to reproduce naturally and so are clones of one another. Entire groves become infected and since no biodiversity exists, none of the trees survive. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gros-michel-bananas https://www.britannica.com/science/Panama-disease
#5
Walt Disney was afraid of mice
Final score:
14points
Obi Wang Kenobi 5 years ago
Walt Disney Idolized Mickey Mouse so the mice won't hate him and scare him. Big brain time.
#6
I read on IMDB that for the movie Despicable Me, they actually created a language, made of other languages, for the minions.
Final score:
12points
Obi Wang Kenobi 5 years ago
The language spoken by Minions includes words from French, English, Spanish, Hindi, and Korean but mainly English and Spanish so yes they are really speaking gibberish even if you translate them to hooman.
Not Riween 5 years ago
I knew this I’m pretty sure it’s like a mixed language that has a language and a bit of English maybe?
#7
Uhmmm probably that dogs can smell cancer and bees can detect bombs
Final score:
12points
#8
In April 18, 1930, At 8:45 pm on BBC news. The news bulletin was simply "There is no news tonight", followed by 15 minutes of piano music.
Final score:
11points
#9
Spiked and studded dog-collars derive from the days of the Ancient Greeks, who would give their sheep-dogs sharply spiked collars to protect their necks from wolves whilst they watched over a Sheppard’s flock at night.- Makes sense! Artist Salvador Dalí would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the checks, making them priceless works of art and therefore un-cashable.- Lucky artist right?
Final score:
11points
#10
#1 If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being! #2 In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years. #3 Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors. #4 On 23rd May 2012, the American nuclear submarine USS Miami was damaged beyond repair by a fire whilst it was docked up in a Naval Shipyard. Although the start of this fire was unclear at first, civilian employee Casey J. Fury later admitted to starting the fire in order to “get out of work early”. For this he was sentenced to 17 years in a federal prison ordered to pay $400 million in recompense. #5 During the First World War, so many starving wolves had amassed together in a great pack that opposing German and Russian forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!
Final score:
10points
David Gripon 5 years ago
I wonder if it will damage his credit if he doesn't pay that $400,000,000.
Ila in Maine 5 years ago
Re #4 I bet he would love to be able to go to work now that he has all that free time sitting on his behind in a federal prison. I'd love to know what he wanted to get out of work early for. I don't believe they give 'good time' credit in federal prison anymore either so he's going to do the entire 17 years.
#11
You know when you cry and your nose gets runny? Yeah those are tears, not snot. So, technically, you have hole that go from your eyes, to your nose, through your esophagus, and into your butt!
Final score:
8points
Ila in Maine 5 years ago
Fun Fact: Humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb, the a**s form before any other opening. Which basically means at one point all of us were nothing but an a**hole. Of course some would argue there are people who never develop beyond this stage.
Obi Wang Kenobi 5 years ago
Anyone else has rice mixed with snot coming out of your nose when you laugh too much? It's nasty 0_0
#12
Newspaper from 2015: Swedish man gets disability benefits after his heavy metal obsession is declared an ‘addiction’. Roger Tullgren, 42, is unable to hold down a full-time job because of his love of rock.
Final score:
8points
Ila in Maine 5 years ago
I wonder who his favorite band is? Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot or a band we aren't aware of in the US?
#13
Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut-flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would
Final score:
7points
#14
1: Squirrels are behind most power outages in the U.S. 2: The inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one. He said his burial wishes to his family, and when he died at age 89, his children stopped at Walgreens on the way to the funeral home to buy his funeral Pringles can. 3: Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
Final score:
7points
#15
The Australian Army once went to war against emus, and lost! This happened back in 1932 as people were said to beconcerned over the number of emus said to be running out of control in the Campion District of WA, Australia.
Final score:
7points
pansexualandproud 5 years ago
i have a dumb friend that asked me what an emu was and I told her to think of lemu emu from the liberty mutual commercial and she thought that lemu emu was just the name of the bird and that lemu emu was an ostrich.
#16
Butterflies taste with their hind feet. A group of crows is called murder. Tomato sauce was sold in the 1800s as medicine. A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won’t. A lion in the wild, usually makes no more than 20 kills a year. India has a Bill Of Rights for cows. Dartboards are made out of horsehair. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. In France, there’s a place called Y. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Final score:
7points
David Gripon 5 years ago
I believe that tomato ketchup was marketed as a medicine. On a side note, the reason it is called, "tomato ketchup" is because there used to be carrot ketchup, beet ketchup and various other vegetable ketchup.
DEKU x TODOROKI (Submission author) 5 years ago
oh. Cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Janet Bird 5 years ago
Apparently mules are calm and collected so don't sink. I'd be sinking...
Mandra 5 years ago (edited)
And the 92 inhabitants of the city 'Y' (pronunced like the letter 'E') are called 'Ypsiloniens' !
DEKU x TODOROKI (Submission author) 5 years ago
oh. I didn't know that. Cool, thanks!
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#17
Hippopotamus milk is pink
Final score:
7points
#18
There's a tree in India that's bigger than your average Wal-Mart Cheetahs don't roar! They mew like cats Nintendo was founded in 1889! They started out by selling cards. Harvard was created before calculus Betty White is literally older than sliced bread. (She was born in 1922, and sliced bread hit the market in 1928) I just adore random tidbits, don't you?
Final score:
7points
Janet Bird 5 years ago
Yes. We used to have a magazine called Tidbits with all this sort of thing in. Now we have the internets. :)
#19
that you can eat cicadas and if your allergic to seafood you are also allergic to cicadas. i found this out when we found out my brother was allergic to seafood(sad thing is he loves seafood)
Final score:
6points
pansexualandproud (Submission author) 5 years ago
its because your not really allergic to seafood, your allergic to something that makes the seafood, and that thing your allergic to in seafood is also in cicadas(i forgot what it was called)
pansexualandproud (Submission author) 5 years ago
if cicadas tasted like shrimp people wold eat them more
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Matthew White 5 years ago
why can't you eat cicadas if you have a seafood allergy, Can someone tell me why
Caridina 5 years ago
Chitin is produced by a lot of animals, like insects (cicadas) or crabs/lobsters (seafood)
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Teenage boys are actually annoying when they aren’t even trying
Final score:
6points
Kadi 5 years ago
Jonathan that's because they are stuck between a woman and a child. They are accused of failing in life even though they might be going through depression, puberty, and more. Don't discriminate. They are the future.
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#21
that history's most successful pirate wasn't a bearded, eyepatch-wearing man but a woman, Ching Shih, who lived and pillaged during the Qing Dynasty, has been called the most successful pirate in history.
Final score:
6points
#22
two favorite sciencey facts. 1) in an infinite universe everywhere is the center. which means that when someone says "you think your the center of the universe" they are right you are....and so are they. 2) that magenta does not have a wavelength in the light spectrum/rainbow. it actually combines the highest and lowest of the observable wavelengths. yet it seen as one color (combo of violet and red) so, a real color that "doesn't exist" and finding the center of the universe is everyone those are my favorites
Final score:
6points
Bunny Wood 5 years ago
I'm in the print industry and the Magenta one always makes me smile when I hand out Magenta toners, then tell people it doesn't really exist-its all in their mind...
#23
Eleanor Roosevelt was a target of the FBI Christopher Columbus thought the Earth was pear-shaped (Source: “Facts Left Out of History”, September 2020 Reader’s Digest)
Final score:
5points
Tacocat 5 years ago
🤣 Like how the first one was kinda serious, then you get the Columbus one.
Graham Bonner 5 years ago
The correct shape is an oblate spheroid which is a bit like a squashed pear
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#24
I know lots of crazy facts about ocean stuff, but I'll just give y'all a few. 1) The Mariana Trench actually can support a small amount of life, and one of these creatures is the Hadal Snailfish. 2) The blob fish is just a normal fish in the Abyssal Zone, the famous picture shows what it looks like dead, mangled, and out of its habitat. It's actually called the Blob Sculpin. 3) Queen Conch snails have a giant toenail-like thing on their "foot" that they use to scrape the ground and look for food. 4) The Hammerhead Shark looks like that so it can pivot its head super fast. 5) The Dumbo Octopus exists, it's the only octopus that doesn't have an ink sac, beak, or radula. It's also my profile picture. 6) SIPHONOPHORES. Those things are WEIRD, man..! I hope you enjoyed!
Final score:
5points
Kadi 5 years ago
Love your profile. I love the ocean too! (My profile is the blue-ringed octopus.)
A Dumbo Octopus (Submission author) 5 years ago
I noticed that! I've seen your Ask Panda posts and got really excited there was a fellow cephalopod lover here! :D
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In the early 1900’s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and a food associated with the aristocratic classes.
Final score:
5points
TheReader19 5 years ago
Oysters used to be feed to prisoners for the same reason, it was considered the food of the poor
#26
According to the Mayans, the world is going to end in 2012, but the Mayans are eight years behind, according to them it is 2012.
Final score:
4points
Mei-Yee Dun 5 years ago
Wow, ok that is kinda freaky since a lot of people call 2020 "the apocalypse".
Bored Little Panda 5 years ago
Wait wait hold up no their not. In Ethiopian it is currently 2012. But bum baaaaa
Idk Katniss Potter 5 years ago
Lol my (namesake?) predicted the end of the world... which is kinda happening. (Would it be a namesake if my name is Maya?) idk.
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Orillion 5 years ago
The Mayans NEVER predicted the end of the world. December 21, 2012 was simply the first day of the next b'ak'tun, a period of time in their Long Count calendar lasting about 394 years. This calendar has units lasting over 63 million years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Long_Count
Person (Submission author) 5 years ago
I know but because of it they thought the world would end because they didn't know what would happen next and it's just a joke so please don't hate
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Recently found out that apparently some funeral homes in my State serve smoked meats at funerals. Now I can't stop making cannibal jokes. My sister, not biological, was floored that it wasn't a normal thing. Very specific but I'm exhausted today and my brain doesn't want to play.
Final score:
4points
#28
Uh, well, this is really random but echidnas have four-headed penises.
Final score:
4points
The Pansexual MELONLORD (Submission author) 5 years ago
I, er, took an online class about monotremes at some zoo's website. I just read some stuff and looked at, uh, pictures.
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Everytime you hit your head you can loose cells. Also not a for sure fact but when you pick up an angry cat they tend to feel heavier.
Final score:
4points
#30
1. The reason why people say "bless you" after you sneeze goes back to the early 1800's and the purpose has been forgotten. Back then, people believed that when you sneeze, you're exorcising a small demon or imp from your body, therefore they'd say bless you. 2. A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto 3. Fruit stickers are actually edible, though obviously you should still wash your fruit before eating it. The glue that's used is FDA approved
Final score:
4points
#31
There was an edition of the bible printed in 1631 that omitted the word 'not' from the phrase 'Thou shalt not commit adultery', known as the Wicked Bible. Most copies of it were burned, but some still exist and are highly prized by collectors.
Final score:
4points
#32
You can die by pooping When you are going to the bathroom, make sure you KEEP BREATHING while using the bathroom, or else you will pass out. This will cause something to go wrong in your body, and you will die.
Final score:
3points
Zophra 5 years ago
I thought this was due to something called the Valsalva maneuver in which internal pressure is increased while straining and puts more stress on the heart which can lead to a heart attack.
Kristin Ingersoll 5 years ago
"Facts" written by random peope who say "eh, something like that" aren't facts. You're correct Zophra. THAT is the fact.
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#33
The horror filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock is afraid of eggs. No joke. 🥚🍳 He called eggs “revolting”.
Final score:
3points
Collin Edward 5 years ago
I disagree with you, but respect your opinion and am proud that you are confident enough to come out with an unpopular opinion.
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A dead humpback whale was found in the Amazon forest. They are trying to figure out how it got so far inland and why. https://chromoscience.com/2020/05/31/highlights-dead-whale-found-in-the-amazon-jungle/
Final score:
3points
Janet Bird 5 years ago
Aliens probably dropped it by mistake. They're down one specimen now then... :)
#35
There is a town called Chicken in Alaska and it got it's name because people couldn't spell ptarmigan.
Final score:
3points
#36
A single strand of spider silk weighing 1 pound is enough to encircle the earth.
Final score:
3points
#37
1. You can't humm if you hold your nose closed.
Final score:
3points
#38
Well most koreans don't have body odor. Oh, also banging your head against a wall for an hour burns about 150 calories.
Final score:
2points
#39
One of my all time favorites: "Watt." "What?" "Watt!" A player has been sent off after a referee mistook his name for dissent. Referee Dean Hulme asked Sanchez Watt, who was playing for Hemel Hempstead Town, for his name as he was about to be booked in a National League South game against East Thurrock United. The 27-year-old repeatedly replied: "Watt" but Hulme believed he was saying "what?" and sent him off for dissent. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43314870
Final score:
2points
#41
For sure the fact that Zac Efron's middle name is David Alexander. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Flogoonline.mtvnimages.com%2Furi%2Fmgid%3Aao%3Aimage%3Alogotv.com%3A672889%3Fquality%3D0.8%26format%3Djpg%26width%3D1440%26height%3D810%26.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newnownext.com%2Fzac-efron-baywatch-body-too-big-unrealistic-ellen-wax-figure%2F05%2F2019%2F&tbnid=rjvpFtEIaeD-xM&vet=12ahUKEwix9qPImPLsAhVT96wKHdvMDAcQMygDegUIARDRAQ..i&docid=ocCYaxWq2aT0pM&w=1440&h=810&q=zac%20efron&hl=en&safe=active&ved=2ahUKEwix9qPImPLsAhVT96wKHdvMDAcQMygDegUIARDRAQ
Final score:
0points
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