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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

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

So you’re in deep grieving after losing your baby, and coupons with cute baby clothes and furniture and toys keep arriving. That was the impetus for HIPAA privacy laws 30 years ago.

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

This kind of costumer profiling is so happily forbiden in the EU.

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

Yeah, this creepy tracking isn't necessarily accurate. You may have just also changed where you bought something

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

Don't down vote for an opinion. And frankly, yeah, it is creepy, particularly since my 80- year old mum buys women's multivitamins and hates scented anything. Would she get maternity coupons, too?

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

using these products doesn't mean you are pregnant. target should not be do presumptuous.

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

Vitamin supplements and unscented lotions? Welp, I guess according to target I'm pregnant. Could Target tell me my due date so I can prepare?

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

I bought baby stuff and sent it to my niece and ever since, they send me emails like I am a new parent.

SaneMinotaur (she/her)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a way to find out. I was 23 when I fell pregnant, and the first thing my dad asked was, "Do you know who the father is?" And I wish I'd said, "It's actually none of your business, and that wasn't an appropriate thing to ask." (He has autism though; my dad is lovely but doesn't always think first!) I fell pregnant after being with my ex a very short time; I thought I was infertile; had my miracle baby! (I was also on meds at the time that make you temporarily infertile whilst you're taking them, and 6mo after!)

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

I'm sorry, but how do you 'fall' pregnant? Like did a sperm accidentally trip and fall onto one of your eggs?

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

WHAT BS! Pay cash if possible Certainly do NOT buy lotions or vitamin supplemenrs for Target. Not to mention that unpregnant women also buy lotions and vitamin supplements

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

Now that is invasive, but I don't doubt it's the standard with every store.

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

Anything you purchase with a credit card has a history attached to it that is used for market research purposes. Want more privacy? Pay with cash.

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

This is only the most known case, Big Data is tracking you, and it's not limited to Target. Why do you think so many stores have "membership cards?"

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

Nonsense. Target can make an educated guesses, and shouldn't be sending out s**t unless they know it's public information. The one time I bought prenatal vitamins it was suggested by my dermatologist. I also can only use unscented lotions, but have bought scented as gifts. Target doesn't know.

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

I believe they have since stopped doing that. Those shopper cards are annoying.

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

And just like that, humanity stopped caring about being watched and tracked. No-one had an issue. Wow.

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

Target has its own criminal forensics lab that is so good that it's worked with law enforcement to help solve crimes not related to one's committed at it's stores.

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

I remember when I first started working at a primary doctors office in medical records many years ago (paper charts) my office manager told me I can only ever fax anything on a patient to another health entity, she gave an example of a patient asking if his blood work/tests results be faxed over to his private home fax, she did but he must’ve forgotten it will be coming over, as his wife found them and saw a positive STD on it, he was cheating on her, he actually sued or something, don’t remember what the outcome was

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

Tha FUQ dud I Jist ReeD? (insert Sponge Bob meme) That is beyond weird. I know about the datavalence. It's Safeway cards, and Fred Meyer cars, etc. But how do Vitamins and unscented lotion equal pregnant? That's that part I'm confused about. Now I've never been a pregnant woman, but is this common?

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

Never been pregnant either, but there are special vitamin treatments for expecting mothers (with folic acid, for example), and many pregnant women get nauseated by scents.

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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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