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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).

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

Because my dogs, unlike humans, will never take advantage of me, make fun of me or treat me like garbage

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

My dad was a HUGE a*****e. Yet once, I watched him wade into an icy river to save a kitten, and he took in every stray dog possible. I guess some people love animals better.

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

Well, Duh! I would say the same for cats too, though. Or any person who loves their pet. That pet will never break your heart, judge you based on appearance, call you names…. So yeah, pretty easy to see why

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

To be truthful, I would add that certain people can have comparable relationships with either cats or dogs, and the animal in question will react to them just like a beloved family member. I suspect many animals that bond with people share a similar experience.

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

Makes sense! Once you look into the eyes of a puppy, there is no going back

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

Dude y the hell are you downvoted, you’re just complimenting a doggo! Who’s stooping this low or am I missing something

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

Because dogs don’t know what narcissism, psychopathy, or nihilism is. Unlike humans. Dogs love unconditionally… humans can be deceptive towards others. Even to the ones we love.

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

Pets do not lie to us, do not betray us, do not deliberately cause us emotional or physical harm.

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

I know, if you hot a child with a belt, it's discipline. If you hit a dog with a belt, it's animal abuse. Just stop hitting living things with belts people.

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

Uh yeah, have you ever seen a movie or read a book where the dog dies? 1000x sadder than any human dying. Probably because dogs are perfect and we don't deserve them.

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

I cannot watch the SPCA commercials. My best friend teases me that if I had to choose between saving a human or an animal, I would choose the animal. I don't necessarily disagree.

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

I'd rather be with dogs than humans, so yeah, sounds about right...

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

And? Dogs (and cats) are kind, loving, fun, and everything good in this world.

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

I just had to put my dog of 13 years down for health reasons. I've cried more for her than for any human being I've ever lost. Many other people I've spoken with feel the same way.

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

thats cause people suck....not all...but, a whole bunch! looking at you Putin!

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

Not only do I enjoy the companionship of animals over humans, I will go out of my way to ensure their quality of life. Something I don't offer to many of the humans I know.

Kitty1019
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most dogs are nice and loving and won't stab you in the back, or take the last handicapped spot and literally run into the store.

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

i mean.... it makes sense. there's never been a dog that acts like simon cowell

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

WHO says?? How many more starving stray dogs do you see than starving humans. How many surrendered children to you see at human shelters? How many people do you know who have had their child put down because they no longer wanted it? How many children do you see in choke chains or prong collars or electric ''stim" collars??

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

I'm sure this is true for some, but not everyone likes dogs/animals unfortunately.

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

I certainly do. One thing you learn while pursuing social science degrees is all the many horrible ways people can be, and the many horrible things they do.

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

Yeah, dogs aren't as evil as humans but the majority of society still lacks empathy for children to. I mean how evil can a 5 year old be?

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

I thought this was already well known...almost a law of nature.

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

... not only dogs, but along with them goats, cows, birds, pigs, cats (whom I consider the best fit to live with me, but that's not to degrade any other animal, it's just a match...), mice, rats, rodents generally, fish, ... humans have a lot more insight in everything and anything and yet, mostly we're just improving the efficiency of our selfishness. What a great species we are!

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

Wow! I am soooooooooo surprised!! 😂🐶❤ Doggies are love 💖

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

This is very true. At least dogs don’t constantly judge you and they can’t talk either, so you don’t have to make small talk.

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

To be honest it's same the other way around. Most dogs are aggressive towards other dogs but are still good bois to humans

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

so if any disaster instead of showing the inked and dead humans, just show recordings of the dogs killed by all the s**t going on, would have more of an impact on human empathy in regards to war, environment, shootings etc.

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And I never understood that. Dogs are terrible f****n' things. I have all the empathy for people and zero for dogs.

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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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Michael Sanders
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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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ItsJess
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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

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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Ash
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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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alias D.
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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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Zia Barrett
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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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