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We don't know about you, but we love it when random fascinating facts catch us off guard at times. For the most part, a lot of us tend to enjoy and are entertained by surprising or strange tidbits of information from the fields of science, history, and even some like pop culture.

Here is a collection of some random and entertaining trivia that can pique your interest if you've happened to turn into the family's glorified quiz master and are getting ready for the holiday weekend full of family gatherings. It's also perfect to use at your upcoming dinner party (holidays aside).

A page on Instagram called ‘Did You Know?’ collects and shares interesting and unusual facts that are guaranteed to surprise you in one way or another. And if this post isn't enough, we urge you to check out our previous post sharing some of the best facts from the page!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a pretty cool factoid (micro was one of my favorite subjects in college) but it's not exclusive to influenza; viruses in general have a coating called a capsid that protects the material inside while allowing it to attach to the host cell and replicate/infect.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I may have tricked you but I tricked you into thinking that you tricked me(repeat seven times with progressively louder tones)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm fortunate enough to be in this category. Love her like crazy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then you really start wondering if you are the same person if every molecule in you have changed. Are you still the same person as 10 years ago, or did you change and the old you faded away? I guess it's the same at the philosofic question about if you change every plank in a boat, is it still the same boat. Sort of the same.. :P To much philosofical drivel before lunch!

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Anyone-for-tea?
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then why doesn’t it use the original plans and not include those wrinkles or chronic disease? That would be really handy!

Libstak
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Think of it like photo copying, something always gets missed in the next copy until a copy of a copy of a copy becomes really degraded

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Katy McMouse
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this is true, my body's been shopping at Ollie's Bargain Outlet for the past couple of decades. And, I'm pretty sure it didn't think to save a single receipt.

Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For the last decade and a half, my body’s been shopping at Walmart. No wonder why my brains doesn’t work.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Key phrase here is most of your body. Cells in the brain, neurones, and those in the centre of the eye lens are as old as you. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-cells-in-the-human-body-live-the-longest/

Paul Neff
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The appearance of age is more or less a combination of growth, till maturity, then basically replicant fade. This fails to describe it as a detailed process, but I feel it catches the essence.

Victor Trejo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obviously this is playing with data and not factually correct. Internal organs get OLD and so does skin. And don't get me started with eyes.

Mary Rogers
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason for aging isn't because the cells are not replaced. It's the actual replacement process that introduces errors into the cells. Every time a copy is made, you accumulate more errors. That is what causes aging.

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TooTall
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It would be nice if my cells weren't so sloppy in copying...

T. Unnamable
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But, unfortunately, our body's cells are not replaced with "young" cells. So we continue to age.

imontape
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the cringe Facebook posts i made 10 years ago is really not me? Good to know

Mary Rogers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even in your brain there is at least some new cell growth. That is the reason for neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to rewire itself.

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Mary Rogers
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because cell replacement isn't perfect and errors accumulate. That is in essence the process of aging.

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Heather Menard
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish my joints would renew themselves. Instead they break down and hurt

Alecto76
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So what is our age - the length of times cells have been around in our shape?

Georgie Montague
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So how come I've still got c**p knees and a c**p back from accidents 40 years ago? Why would the body keep renewing faulty parts as faulty? I do agree that some cells regenerate, like skin cells, but am not so sure about the whole body renewing itself...

Riley Quinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too bad it's the breakdown of internal organs that'll kill you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then why are my tattoos still here? (I’m actually asking)

Libstak
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ink is not organic it just stays right where it has been put. Although old tattoos do look slightly faded, the colour pigment wears down very slowly by exposure to wind and sun and abrasion.

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J Adams
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you look at a person under a microscope only 10% of ‘them’ is human, the rest is bacteria and tiny microbes of that nature

VonBlade
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wondered where that tattoo of a mermaid went. Not sure why my old scars are still there though.

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've heard this new age BS before. The key word is "MOST". This is an AVERAGE. Cells in your liver replace themselves like every three days, but your nervous system is yours for life. Also the 10 years for your bones is a misnomer. Your smaller bones turn over faster than the larger ones. Again, AVERAGES. The bones in your spine, yeah take care of those. Take care of your teeth too. Not like those are growing back either.

Saggi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn, i wish you could recycle the outside too. Some of us, (definetly not me), ain’t getting any younger 😉.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ravens are considered to be among the most intelligent of birds (along with other members of the corvid family, e.g., crows, jays, magpies, etc.). They make and use tools and can solve simple problems.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes sense. Character relations often leak into relations amongst actors. Same reason actors playing love interests often fall in love for real.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

10 verses of there’s a hole at the bottom of the sea plays in the background

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All of this was very normal in this period. He was just following the fashions. (Men COULD wear wigs, but they also often styled their own hair.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've spent my kid's entire childhood telling other parents this, they all just think I'm an idiot. Oh well.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What I can't figure out is how people climbed on and got them going. It's not like a "normal" bike where you can stand with it propped between your legs and push off ..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It explains why so many of us have low self esteem from what happened to us during childhood.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or they could just make them in the USA again. You know, have regulated labor and environmental practices and such.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah all the companies that made lightbulbs basically have a giant meeting and said our lightbulbs are gonna last way too damn long we’re not gonna make any money so they decided to make the s****y ones that die in two years and it stayed like that till this day that lightbulb is probably one of those long lasting ones before they decided to screw us over

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If children cheat on tests it's because the school values grades above learning.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a tendon, not a muscle. Everybody has it, might be visible, might not be. This story of extra useless muscle is pure b******t.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also because your hand has a lot of nerves so getting cut anywhere else would’nt hurt much

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wish this worked with chronic fatigue! (I’ve read this fact before and tried it on myself - it might give you some sort of temporary relief or distract you, but doesn’t work overall.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So if that is true, then Hanks and Clooney are related. Nepotism, I should have known. LOL!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like, “ 30 days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 except February… “ which has 28 and no one cares how the rhyme ends because you’ve worked out the month you wanted.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 24 years, my partner and I have never fought. We know we can disagree about a few things.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is poorly worded. Of course they have muscles but not muscles related to motion. They do have tendons, which are strictly speaking part of a muscle, but now we're getting pedantic.

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