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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

There's an adorable story where one of his cats, Goliath, went missing. He became frantic and in despair, tossed a hibachi out the window of the guest bedroom. Thankfully, Goliath was found and was then petted and cuddled for over 5 minutes while also being scolded for leaving. Of course, being a cat, the little guy just calmly sat there and purred.

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

This was a good man. Anyone who loves cats and who is loved by cats has to be doing something right.

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

I actually had the pleasure of meeting him and the band a few times in the early days. He was the most gracious man. He seriously acted like he was there to see you more that you to see him. The whole band was like that really but Freddie was just such a kind soul. I used to have pix but my EX kinda ruined a lot of my stuff. The best male voice ever put to record.

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

I named my cat after him, Freddie seemed like the kindest soul

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

"You make me smile when I'm just about to cry/You bring me hope, you make me laugh..." (from Delilah)

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

My cat just stole a piece of ham from me. Oh well. It's her day to shine.

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

This is why he will always be one of my favourite people x

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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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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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ItsJess
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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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David Phillips
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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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