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Hey Pandas! We all love a random fact and here, I’m hoping to catch some of the finest. They can be about anything or anyone!
Share yours down below and like some of your favorites. Hopefully, we will learn some random facts from each other.
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#1
Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character, including villains, and was the first Disney Princess to be shown killing people on screen.
Final score:
44points
#2
All of the water on earth is the same age (scientific estimates vary from 3.8 billion to 5 billion years old), and there's *almost* the same amount now as there was then (only a negligible amount has ever escaped the atmosphere). It perpetually recycles in one form or another. The water that came from your faucet this morning may contain molecules drank by Neanderthals...or dinosaurs.
Final score:
27points
#3
The captain of a ship can perform a marriage. The first mate can perform a marriage if the captain is the one getting married. And the second mate can perform a marriage if the captain and first mate are marrying each other.
Final score:
27points
#4
The Antonov AN-225 is the single largest plane in the world it is the only plane to have 6 engines and it can fit 180 tons of cargo or 8 tanks and a helicopter on top, this beast was built in the 60s ,during the space race, to carry Russian shuttles, there were originally going to be 2 but the second never got finished. it is still in use today.
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Final score:
25points
Benjamin Martin 4 years ago
There is however a plane with 8 jet engines, the B52, but it can carry way less weight
#5
A man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy’s in 2005.
Final score:
23points
#6
A small child could swim through a blue whale's veins. When you remember that a blue whale's heart is about the size of a small car, this actually makes a lot of sense.
Final score:
23points
Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 4 years ago
Yeah! There's one place that has a life size model of a whales heart that they allow childeren to climb around in.
#7
The loose skin on your elbow is called a weenus and if you pinch/squeeze it in a certain spot really hard you won’t feel it. The bit of webbinb between your thumb and index finger is called a flagina. Now how many of you put your weenus to your flagina haha.
Final score:
19points
KombatBunni 4 years ago
Who the heckfire came up with these names? Wtf were they thinking..hey guys let's give these body parts vaguely naughty names just for shits and giggles eh?
#8
Contrary to popular belief, bananas and coconuts don’t grow on trees. The banana plant is classified as a perennial herb. The coconut plant is classified as an arecaceae. Neither the banana plant nor the coconut plant is a tree.
Final score:
18points
#9
For every person in the world there are 1.5 million bugs.
Final score:
17points
#10
Why do so many Hanna Barbara characters such as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Snagglepuss walk around wearing ties? It's a limited animation trick when using traditional animation. It's cheaper to animate just the head with a sequence of drawings while using only one drawing for the body while the character is simply standing still and talking rather than moving with their entire body. The tie is there to keep the head and body in place. Otherwise, Yogi's head would be floating around in midair!
Final score:
17points
#11
Lobsters pee to communicate.
Final score:
17points
#12
The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet. Potato fruit is poisonous. (The fruit, not the tuber!) Ohio is the only U.S state that doesn't share a letter with the word "mackerel". Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character. "Spoonfeed" is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. "Schoolmaster" is an anagram of "the classroom." Around 16 million people alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan. According to the Bible, the chicken came before the egg.
Source of (most) of these: https://bestlifeonline.com/useless-facts/
Final score:
14points
Doggo Georgia 4 years ago
These are all awesome! The chicken came before the egg, because eggs contain a protein that cannot be made on its own without the chicken, so the chicken came first.
#13
I look up fun facts as a hobby, so I got a couple.
1) Get ready for your whole life to become a lie...Mount Everest is not actually the tallest mountain. It's just the tallest mountain above sea level. The tallest Mountain from base to peak is Mauna Kea!
2) The Twitter bird has a name... Larry. So does the cookie monster! His name is Sid.
3) The one dollar bill has a unique weblike border. If you look closely at the top right corner, you will see a smallish dot. Upon taking a picture and zooming in, you'll notice that this dot is actually the spider that wove the web! However, some people are convinced that it is an owl or an octopus. Some even think that when turned upside down, it appears to be a skull and crossbones.
Final score:
13points
#14
Squirrels can’t burp.
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10points
#15
A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”.
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10points
#16
1) kids ask about 300 questions per day, 2) Bee's sometimes sting other bees.
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9points
#17
15 babies are born every 30 sec.
👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶
Final score:
8points
#18
The part of our leg that is behind the kneecap is called popliteal fossa, or the kneepit
The hashtag symbol's actual name is the octothorpe
You know the chocolate candy M & M's? It's short for Mars and Murrie
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from 2 miles away
It takes 700 grapes to make one bottle of wine
Riding a roller coaster can help you pass a kidney stone
Final score:
8points
Doggo Georgia 4 years ago
Yeah, for number three, get prepared to sit for a while. So, let's start with Hershey first. So, in the beginning of his company, Milton needed a salesman. So he hired this guy who was well known for being a wonderful salesman, and his name was William Murrie. He was indeed a great salesman, and expected to one day inherit the company so he could pass it to his kids. When Milton finally decided to retire, though, he chose some Percy guy. Feel bad for Murrie yet? Don't worry, he still passes on a company. Meanwhile, there's this guy Forrest Mars who's out at night doing some criminal activity with his friends: putting up cigarette adverts where it says it's against the law. Then the police come over, and while his friends run away successfully, Forrest gets caught. He's supposed to go to jail, but he calls his father to bail him out. Remember, Frank hasn't seen him since he was a baby, this isn't a great way to meet him. Nevertheless, Frank bails him out, and they go to a
#19
When viewed from above rainbows are doughnut-shaped.
Snakes don't have eyelids.
All the blood vessels in our body would circle the Earth approx. four times.
The name Wendy didn't exist until Peter Pan was written.
With the amount of heat produced by a human, if we were the size of the sun we would burn brighter and hotter.
All the hairs on our head would be strong enough to support over 10 tonnes.
Weight for weight, spider's web is about five times stronger than steel.
Final score:
8points
#20
The person that invented the microwave only got paid $1 for his invention.
Final score:
8points
Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 4 years ago
And THIS just made my friends suffer through another one of my "Smart people are underrated" ranting sessions.
#21
Most laughter isn't because something is funny. We all know that. I mean, who *hasn't* tried to cover a snicker after someone falls down?
And, this one's cool, water can make different pouring sounds depending on its temperature! That's really cool!
Final score:
7points
#22
Dolphins have been trained to be used in wars.
Chinese police use geese squads.
For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.
Final score:
7points
Bacony 4 years ago
Also, the US developed a bomb full of incendiary bats, but the bats escaped and burned down the hangar it was in. Another story of burning flying things is when Olga of Kiev demanded Sparrows and Pigeons from each house in a city she was sieging, tied burning packages to their feet, and released them back into the city.
#23
There is a photosynthesizing sea slug that looks like a leaf. Also another one that looks like a green sheep.
Protons and neutrons are made of quarks. There are lots of types of quarks, including up and down, top and bottom, and strange and charm. For every quark there is also an antiquark.
Tardigrades are tiny animals that can survive nuclear radiation, drought, and the vacuum of space.
Final score:
7points
#24
Ketchup is a non-newtonian fluid. Its viscosity changes based on pressure and other factors, not just temperature. It has to do with the way the tomato cells act in the fluid. There's a good Ted-Ed video that explains it all - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB43fM_ozKQ.
Final score:
6points
#25
Hungary imports thrice as many hippopotamuses as every other european country
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6points
#26
the dot on top of the letter i is called the "tittle"!
Final score:
6points
#27
bubble gum is pink because the bubble gum factory only had pink dye when they made it
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6points
#28
Flamingos aren't born pink. They start out white or grey and slowly become pink over time :) And competitive painting used to be an olympic sport.
Final score:
6points
ISpiltLipstickInYourValentinoBag 4 years ago
i read it like flamingos aren't born pink they start out grey and slowly become pink and they do painting as an olympic sport to become pink XD
#29
There were several constellations that have became obsolete, including a cat, a telescope, the river Jordan, the famous Cerebus, and Sceptrum Brandenburgicum, the Brandenburg Sceptre.
Final score:
5points
#30
Ketchup or tomato sauce comes from the Cantonese word kôogup
Final score:
5points
#31
Thomas Jefferson was obsessed with macaroni. I mean, OBSESSED. He brought it to America from France and for some reason, was obsessed with making it all the time.
Your welcome.
Final score:
5points
#32
Whale fart bubbles can fit horses. there now you know that
Final score:
4points
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Apparently cetaceans do not fart. "“As far as I can determine,” said James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution via e-mail, “cetaceans do not fart.” Cetaceans, the taxonomic group that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises, he argues, do not really have the ability to build up gas, thanks to their comparatively relaxed a**l sphincter — the a**l muscle that keeps things air- and watertight most of the time:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/01/could-blue-whale-gas-contain-horse/ Yes my search history contains whale fart.
#33
Surrealist artist Salvador Dali was phobic about grasshoppers.
Final score:
4points
#34
Per the U.K. newspaper The Independent, bananas are radioactive, because they contain potassium, which decays. The amount of radioactivity in a banana is so minuscule that you'd have to eat ten million bananas in one sitting to die from radiation poisoning. However, you might also suffer radiation poisoning if you ate more than 247 bananas every day for longer than seven years.
Final score:
4points
#35
When Charlie Chaplin released the film "The Great Dictator" Hitler was still alive.
Final score:
4points
#36
in Switzerland, it's illegal to own just 1 guinea pig or parrot because they're very social animals, and it is considered to be animal abuse.
A flock of owls is called a murder
Male goats pee on each other's heads for attraction.
Final score:
4points
ISpiltLipstickInYourValentinoBag 4 years ago
a flock of owls is called a parliament and a flock of crows is called a murder
#37
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is, ironically, the fear of long words
Final score:
4points
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Squidward: "I'm claustrophobic." Patrick: "What does that mean?" Spongebob: "It means he's afraid of long words!" Squidward: "What? No-" Patrick: "Supercallafragalisticexpyalladotious." Spongebob: "Stop it, Patrick, you're scaring him!"
#39
More people die from vending machines than from sharks.
Final score:
4points
#40
You can't inhale through your nose while talking ...... try it :)
Final score:
4points
#41
The first orange wasn't orange.
Final score:
4points
Nishanth Suthan 4 years ago
Really? although this fact can be confusing for those who don't know the color was named after the fruit...
#42
superman originally wasn't able to fly, he could just jump super high, but would always immediately return to the ground (or the top of a building)
Final score:
4points
Vanta Black 4 years ago
And then his flying became a combination of his super jumps and super speed. Although I assume this has all been retconned in the comics, and Superman is now simply able to fly.
#44
There are more stars in just the Milky Way than all of the grains of sand on Earth.
Final score:
3points
#45
Space smells like seared steak.
When you see footage of astronauts floating peacefully in space, do you ever wonder, What do space smells like? Well, according to some former astronauts, space does have a distinct odor that hangs around post-spacewalk. They've described it as "hot metal" or "searing steak."
Final score:
3points
Podunkus 4 years ago (edited)
I don’t get this one. Isn’t space basically a vacuum? How would they bring some “space” with them to inhale upon their return to a pressurized cabin? Maybe the smell comes from the ionized off-gassing of the protective coatings on their space suits? I have no trouble believing that a radiation sunburned spacesuit would smell like that.
#46
Did you know that bees sometimes sting other bees
Final score:
3points
#47
Most of us always have a turd somewhere in our body forming. You are a turd-mobile.
Final score:
3points
#48
The whip was the first thing to break the sound barrier
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3points
Hans Felsh (TheRealMoleman) 4 years ago
*man-made thing (asteroids and other debris falling to earth have broken the sound barrier for much longer than humans have been around.)
#49
You can't kill ants in a microwave.
Ants being relatively small, can easily position themselves between the waves, and in the process remain entirely unharmed.
Final score:
3points
Beli Keshini 4 years ago
...if they run along with the frequency of the microwaves (underneath them)
#50
if you live in the tropics than it's quite common for you to die of a falling coconut
Final score:
3points
#51
the icelandic shark has a top lifespan of approximately 500 years. so, in theory, an icelandic shark alive today couldve been alive at the same time as isaac newton.
Final score:
3points
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Hm... And who sat around to watch a shark be born, live, and die? Lol
#52
Gold is so malleable that it can be drawn out into a wire that's only a single atom thick, without breaking. An ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet of 300 square feet.
Final score:
3points
#53
the first man made object to reach space was a canon shell directed to Paris during the first world war.
Final score:
2points
#54
A litter of kittens can have more than one father. The female cat(a queen, another cool fact) can breed multiple times with different males when she is in heat. As a result, some kittens in the litter will have a different father than others. This can also happen with dogs.
Final score:
2points
#55
1. Ants and wasps are related.
2. Strawberries are not actually berries.
3. Costa Rica has hand sized grasshoppers.
Final score:
2points
#56
You can hold an alligator's jaw together with your pinky finger and your thumb, but if it bit down on your hand it would break every bone in your hand.
Final score:
2points
#57
the small triangle in a horses hoof is called the frog.
Final score:
2points
Kitsune Fox Girl 4 years ago
why have a frog in your throat when you can have a frog on your hoof?
#58
Beetles (insect order Coleoptera) are by far the largest order of insects: the roughly 400,000 species make up about 40% of all insect species so far described, and about 25% of all animals! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle#Distribution_and_diversity 🐞
Final score:
1point
#60
Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name was Roosevelt. She was related to Franklin. Gilligan’s first name was Willie, though it was never used in the show, and the Skipper’s name was Jonas Grumby.
Final score:
1point
#61
Did you know?
**You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites.
**A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
**Bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest.
**Scientists discovered an organism with a disappearing butt. It's called the comb jelly—also known as the warty comb jelly, sea walnut, or Mnemiopsis leidyi
Final score:
1point
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 4 years ago
Actually Ice Hockey comes from the Irish game of Hurling. Hurling is older than the recorded history of Ireland at least 3,000 years old and is the world's oldest field sport. It is thought to predate Christianity, having come to Ireland with the Celts. Over 250 years ago, ships carried tens of thousands of Irish emigrants to the four corners of the earth. The Irish spread their various art forms where they went, from song and dance to sport. They don’t come any more Irish than the small ball code. Ice hockey developed when people started playing Hurling on the ice as it was easier to play on the thick ice that the snow covered grass.
#62
5% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Final score:
1point
#63
horses can't vomit
Final score:
1point
Jayme Lowit (Submission author) 4 years ago
It's actually not a good thing as if they eat something bad they can't throw it back up
#64
You can't burb in space.
Final score:
1point
#65
You are unable to sneeze with your eyes open. This is because sneezing is quite violent and this protects your eyes from popping out of the socket
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1point
#66
On average, a 4 year old will ask around 700 questions a day!
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1point
#67
cheese is mold ;)
Final score:
1point
Nishanth Suthan 4 years ago
like what do you mean? mold as in you need mold to make it or it is mold? It is not mold, it is coagulated casein. But some cheeses do need mold to make them, and some also have moldy rinds.
#68
They have taken the word 'gullible' out of the dictionary.
Final score:
1point
#69
Rats are unable to vomit.
The reason that you are unable to smell rodents which have ingested poison is due to the fact that the bait is filled with anti-coagulents and blood thinners. This causes them to exsanguinate internally and the combination of the drugs causes the blood to dry, therefore, no smell.
The plastic or metal tip of a shoelace is called an aglet.
Mockingbirds do not sing during September as that is the month in which they molt.
A hummingbird is the only bird which is able to fly backwards.
Final score:
1point
Bill Yardley (Submission author) 4 years ago
Two forgotten from above post: Camels are not native to Saudi Arabia. They are imported from Australia. The hippopotamus is considered to be the world's deadliest large land mammal. Easily weighing up to three tons, they kill an estimated 500 people a year.
#70
Sorry Canada, Ice Hockey was invented in Britain. There exists an edition of 'Juvenile Sports & Pastimes' dating from 1797 that shows an engraving of a chap in a top hat, skating and carrying with him a curved (hockey) stick. Canada’s first official hockey game was 1875. Charles Darwin even references the sport in a letter to his son dated 1853.
Final score:
0points
#71
A Volkswagen Karmannghia has no radiator.
That’s because it’s air cooled.
Courtesy of my favorite kids movie Cars2
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0points
#72
This one's for you, Scagsy! Legendary Leeds United manager Don Revie changed their kit to an all-white one in order to try to replicate the success of Spanish footballing giants Real Madrid. And it worked. Revie got the team to what was then known as the First Division within two seasons of taking charge, and in the 13 years he spent as manager, they won a total of eight titles.
Final score:
0points
#73
something like 33 percent of public cold water handles have fecal matter on them.
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0points
#74
(This is possibly outdated) in the whole world, 1 million plastic bags are used every minute. :(
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0points
#75
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
There are more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way.
Betty White was born before sliced bread.
Martin Luther King and Anne frank were born the same year.
The 19 in COVID-19 comes from the year it in which the virus began.
Barbie and Ken are actually the name of the creators children so technically they are siblings.
I can’t remember this one exactly but I know that there’s and lions are closer in relation to I believe bears than they are domestic cats.
Red hair is a genetic mutation.
Baldness comes only from the mothers side of the family and you cannot inherit it from your father.
It’s the mothers genetics that make it possible for the child to become a boy within the womb.
President Taft was so fat that he once got stuck in the tub while taking a bath.
I don’t know if it would be a fact but if you think about it, any object in flying in the sky can be considered a UFO until it’s identified because of what the letters stand for.
Final score:
0points
#76
The Tanuki of Asia is an animal called a raccoon dog. They look like a raccoon, but their closest relatives are not raccoons
or dogs, but true foxes.
Final score:
0points
A Random Panda 4 years ago
Really?Japanese person here, tanuki means raccoon in Japanese, but I shall take your word for it!
#77
Grapes light on fire if you put them in the microwave. I don't know if you knew that or not....
Final score:
-1point
Nico Di Angelo (Submission author) 4 years ago
Uh don't know why this is getting downvoted but okkkkk
#78
If everything in the universe increases size by 25%, no one would notice anything different.
Final score:
-1point
Vanta Black 4 years ago
Define "everything". Because I'm pretty sure I'd notice my house increase in size by 25%. And I think a few ladies and gents at places like NASA would notice the Sun increasing in size. In fact, that would probably scare the c**p out of them, and they'd send out some sort of alert that the Sun was expanding, and might be at risk of exploding. Also, would this change happen immediately, or over time? I can't imagine a lot of things withstanding an immediate 25% growth out of nowhere.
What do you think ?
A Random Panda 4 years ago
There is such thing as a fear of knees, elbows, gravity, and cheese.
Adam Rindegård 4 years ago
Heres my own fact: sharks, contrary to popular belief, are indeed smooth
A Random Panda 4 years ago
There is such thing as a fear of knees, elbows, gravity, and cheese.
Adam Rindegård 4 years ago
Heres my own fact: sharks, contrary to popular belief, are indeed smooth
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