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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know
Some facts we tend to call random for several reasons. It might be because we do not know how to explain them or how exactly they fit into our overall understanding of the world. Or because at the moment, we think that fact to be pretty much a useless piece of information. Finally, a fact might be called random because it is surprising and unexpected. However, all three of these aspects of the fact’s “randomness” can inspire us while checking answers by people replying to one Redditor's question: "What is a completely random fact?" These examples might shake our understanding and spark our imagination by demonstrating there is more to the world than we knew until this very moment. And who would refuse to "wake up" to a "blue-blooded" octopus or some pink flamingos? So, wake up!
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#1
All the C's in "Pacific Ocean" are pronounced differently.
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#2
Octopi have blue blood. This is due to their blood containing copper, as opposed to human blood, which contains iron.
Additionally, as I know someone will bring it up, there are actually multiple correct ways to pluralize octopus. Octopi originates from the Latin pluralization, octopodes originates from the Greek pluralization, and octopuses uses the standard English pluralization.
#3
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT!! Male ladybugs can mate with a female for up to four hours before realizing she was dead before he even started.
#4
Dictionaries add words not because of worthiness but because of vernacular
If people use the word, then people need to have a way to look it up. It doesn’t matter if you like the word “crunk” or not
#5
The longest (English) word you can type using only the left side of the keyboard is "stewardesses". On the right it's "lollipop".
#6
80% of the profit for the United States Postal Service is from delivery of junk mail.
#7
1 horse has around 15 horse power
Fantastic Mr Fox 1 year ago
15 horse power is the peak, while 1 horse power is for sustained work
#8
Flamingos aren't born pink. They get the color from their diet of shrimp.
#9
Charlie Chaplin once took part in a charlie-chaplin-look-alike-contest and won the second prize.
The White Starline built three similar ships. The Titanic (We know that one), but also the Britannic and the Olympic. All three ships sank. But the amazing fact is, that there was a women [Violet Jessop], who was on all three ships when they sank and she survived it all.
Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
She was aboard all three ships but the Olympic did not sink but was involved in a serious collision when she was aboard. I believe she was a stewardess on the ships.
#10
A one-pound mixture of U.S. dimes, quarters, and half-dollars will always have a face value of $20, no matter the ratio of dimes to quarters to half-dollars.
B.Nelson 1 year ago
*WARNING: MATH* let d=# of dimes, q=#of quarters, h=#of half dollars. Dimes weigh 2.268g, quarters weigh 5.67g, half dollars weigh 11.34g, and there are 453.592g per lb. So say we have a 1 lb bag full of just dimes, quarters, and half dollars. Then d(2.268)+q(5.67)+h(11.34)=453.592. Divide ALL numbers by 2.268 to get d by itself. Now we have d+q(2.5)+h(5)=200. Now divide ALL numbers by 10. Now we have d(.10)+q(.25)+h(.50)=20.00. What this is saying is that an equation for the weight of 1 lb of coins is the same equation for $20 worth of coins. Basically, it doesn't matter what d, q, and h are, as long as they work for one of the equations, they work for the other equation.
#11
When you're shopping online, "free shipping" doesn't actually mean free shipping. It just means that the shipping costs are included in the listing price.
#12
Rattlesnake tails don't actually have anything in them. They're segmented loosely, so the entire thing just kinda flops around. What you're hearing is the individual segments banging into each other.
#13
Roman Centurions were called such because they were in charge of 100 Roman Soldiers.
#14
Sean Bean (pronounced shan ban) is Irish for old lady.
So headlines about "Sean Bean dies in every movie" are extra hilarious in Ireland.
Fulsome Kitten 1 year ago
Another false fact on this list. Sean in Irish means " God is gracious." Also, his last name isn't Ban, it's Bean.
#15
I’ve got a great one!
CAT FACT:
Did you know that cats can survive great falls! Like 10 plus story falls. That’s because they can position themselves in a way that reduces their terminal velocity to below the threshold for death.
In fact, the most dangerous height for a cat to fall is 3-5 stories, that is because the height is big enough to cause a fatality, but low enough that they wouldn’t be able to get into position and develop enough drag to reduce their terminal velocity.
#16
The first man made object we ever put in space was likely a manhole cover launched after a nuclear bomb accident.
eykntspel 1 year ago
"According to the math conducted by Dr. Brownlee, the manhole cover is estimated to have left the ground at over 37 miles per second, coming out to a whopping speed of 130,000 mph. Dr. Brownlee described the groundbreaking speed as 'more than five times the escape velocity of the planet.' " " Dr. Brownlee himself has publicly confessed that he has no idea what actually happened to the manhole cover, but he assumes the metal must have disintegrated before reaching space. Although, with his calculations, he also said it would not be impossible that the manhole cover launched into space. "
#17
Coral reefs fight for territory by vomiting their stomachs onto one another.
#18
The 1939 novel, Gadsby, contains 50000 words and not a single letter E.
#19
It’s illegal to walk an alligator on a leash in FL
Adam Belaire 1 year ago
What I hear is you can walk your alligator as long as it's not on a leash.
#20
Airport runways are numbered based on the magnetic direction they face, rounded to the nearest tenth. Over time as earth’s magnetic field shifts they occasionally have to renumber a runway.
#22
By the time the big pyramids were built in Egypt, there were still mammoths alive in northern Siberia.
The witch hunts didn't mainly take place in Medieval Times, but in the early Modern Period. There have been some witch trials in Medieval Times but, they were not common and not big-scale organized.
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 1 year ago (edited)
People are still being killed as witches today. It's a large-scale problem that needs to be addressed. (https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/witch-trials-21st-century/)(https://www.dw.com/en/witch-hunts-a-global-problem-in-the-21st-century/a-54495289)
#23
Press and hold the # 2 button for about three or four seconds on your microwave to silence the beeping noise. Press and hold it again to turn the noise back on. Works on most microwave ovens. Works like a mute button.
#24
Knightsbridge is the only station on the London Underground to contain six consecutive consonants in its name
#25
Hawking radiation: black holes evaporate over time due to the extreme gravitational energy density at the event horizon causing a matter and anti matter particle to pop into existence at the quantum level, the anti matter particle falls into the black hole while the matter particle is ejected into space. The sum of these particles exactly equals the sum of the particles that the black hole had consumed over its lifetime. F**k yeah science.
Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago
before hawking: black holes: f*ck entropy!!!. after hawking: black holes: aw darn it, there comes a tiny itsy bitsy particle, now i be smaller now.
#26
the 786th decimal of π is 1
US_Dept_Of_Snark said:
Winner for best capturing the spirit of OP's question.
#27
I have some.
French Guiana is the only territory in Mainland America. While many American nations have territories, French Guiana itself, is not a nation, and therefore, is the only territory in Mainland America.
The Kingdom of Denmark, is actually one of the largest European Kingdoms/countries by land size. It seems odd, but Greenland is a Danish territory, and Greenland is the largest island on Earth. So large, that even if you combined the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, they still wouldn't fill the island of Greenland.
The Republic of Suriname is the smallest country in the South Region of America, both by land size, and human population, yet, by land size, it's almost 4 times larger than its former parent Kingdom, the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Equatorial Guinea, is the only country in all of Africa, that speaks Spanish.
#28
Your odds of dying in a commercial airliner accident are not much higher than of dying in an asteroid impact on the Earth.
An airliner crashes every few years and ends a couple of hundred people. An asteroid large enough to end literally everyone hits the Earth every couple hundred million years.
100 people a year dying vs 8,000,000,000 people dying every hundred million years aren't that far apart per-capita.
Dillon Sizemore 1 year ago (edited)
It would be very hard to dye from an asteroid on earth, as asteroids are only in space. It's a meteor once it enters the atmosphere. Edit: Yes, I know dye is spelled wrong
#29
In May 1944, the 'destroyer escort USS England' sunk six Japanese submarines in twelve days using the "Hedgehog" Anti-Submarine Projector. It's a record that's never been matched before or since in the history of anti-submarine warfare.
For its remarkable success as a sub killer, the ship was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, and the commanding officer LCDR Walton Pendleton received the Navy Cross.
SpaceAngel2001 said:
The USS England was named after a sailor who died on the BB Oklahoma at Pearl, not the country. A second ship named for the same person was the DLG/CG 22.
#30
Queen Elizabeth II was born at 2:40 am
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Gabby M 1 year ago
I found this totally entertaining, just because of the participating Pandas. Funny people.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
Here's one that's interesting but completely useless to almost anyone: the prostatic utricle (which prevents urination when erect) is the homologue (ie. equivalent anatomy on the opposite sex) to the vaginal opening. Meaning that intersex people who have both a penis and a vaginal opening can urinate easily while erect.
TMoxraaar 1 year ago
This is one that's interesting and I think everyone needs to learn this because a LOT of confusion will be cleared up. The reason men have nipples is because every mammal zygote starts out female. Female is the standard. At a certain point the missing part ("Y" vs "X") kicks in. The breasts stop developing after the areolas are done, the urethra elongates as the labial and vaginal tissue become a penis. The clitoris becomes the frenulum, the hood becomes the foreskin. The ovaries drop down outside of the body to become testicles nestled in the s*****m - more repurposing of labial and vaginal tissue). This means that if we (women) don't have the hole, you don't have the hole. We have one more than you do. This means that pee and menstrual flow/babies come out of two different holes, the muscles of which work differently (hence - why you can't "hold" your period).
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Deanna Crichley 1 year ago
Nobody uses or has half dollars just laying around. I have a Kennedy half dollar, which is by no means rare. It is rare to see one in circulation.
David Warren 1 year ago
You can’t qualify ‘nobody’, then include yourself!!
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Gabby M 1 year ago
I found this totally entertaining, just because of the participating Pandas. Funny people.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 1 year ago
Here's one that's interesting but completely useless to almost anyone: the prostatic utricle (which prevents urination when erect) is the homologue (ie. equivalent anatomy on the opposite sex) to the vaginal opening. Meaning that intersex people who have both a penis and a vaginal opening can urinate easily while erect.
TMoxraaar 1 year ago
This is one that's interesting and I think everyone needs to learn this because a LOT of confusion will be cleared up. The reason men have nipples is because every mammal zygote starts out female. Female is the standard. At a certain point the missing part ("Y" vs "X") kicks in. The breasts stop developing after the areolas are done, the urethra elongates as the labial and vaginal tissue become a penis. The clitoris becomes the frenulum, the hood becomes the foreskin. The ovaries drop down outside of the body to become testicles nestled in the s*****m - more repurposing of labial and vaginal tissue). This means that if we (women) don't have the hole, you don't have the hole. We have one more than you do. This means that pee and menstrual flow/babies come out of two different holes, the muscles of which work differently (hence - why you can't "hold" your period).
Load More Replies... Deanna Crichley 1 year ago
Nobody uses or has half dollars just laying around. I have a Kennedy half dollar, which is by no means rare. It is rare to see one in circulation.
David Warren 1 year ago
You can’t qualify ‘nobody’, then include yourself!!
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