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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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know All the C's in "Pacific Ocean" are pronounced differently.

Xuntosub , Tiana Report

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

Welcome to English, the mongrel in the pet store of languages.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

ultrasquid9 , Pia B Report

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sofacushionfort 1 year ago

Spock’s blood is copper-based

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

Im_just_existin , Pixabay Report

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Libstak 1 year ago

That's some self absorption they got going on.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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

typesett , Pixabay Report

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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago

That's perfectly cromulent

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know The longest (English) word you can type using only the left side of the keyboard is "stewardesses". On the right it's "lollipop".

grandramble , Kelly Report

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Vic 1 year ago

Me, a person with no concept of which keys are for which hand: Huh?🤔🤔

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 80% of the profit for the United States Postal Service is from delivery of junk mail.

Top_Of_Gov_Watchlist , Arti Kh Report

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I’mSoEmotional 1 year ago

And it all ends up at my house.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 1 horse has around 15 horse power

Businessmoney123 , Helena Lopes Report

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Fantastic Mr Fox 1 year ago

15 horse power is the peak, while 1 horse power is for sustained work

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know Flamingos aren't born pink. They get the color from their diet of shrimp.

Mtfbay , zoosnow Report

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Vic 1 year ago

This checks out! I'm a brown guy on a diet on chocolate cakes 😁😁

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

level 1 Murmelberg , Insomnia Cured Here Report

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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.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

ScottRiqui , Karolina Grabowska Report

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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.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

BasalTripod9684 , Negative Space Report

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Libstak 1 year ago

Ah but if you buy from a store that has a physical as well as online presence the price has to match.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

FireInHisBlood , Pixabay Report

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Yenu 1 year ago

I love snakes 🤗🥰

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know Roman Centurions were called such because they were in charge of 100 Roman Soldiers.

A_Random_Lady , Oană Andrei Report

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Yenu 1 year ago

Makes sense 🤠

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know Sean Bean (pronounced shan ban) is Irish for old lady.

So headlines about "Sean Bean dies in every movie" are extra hilarious in Ireland.

allegate , RODNAE Productions Report

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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.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

Straightup32 , Tranmautritam Report

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Adorable Davelands 1 year ago

The poor cats used to test that theory!

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know The first man made object we ever put in space was likely a manhole cover launched after a nuclear bomb accident.

Scoob1978 , alexander ermakov Report

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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. "

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know Coral reefs fight for territory by vomiting their stomachs onto one another.

TopShelfCrazy , Francesco Ungaro Report

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mulk 1 year ago

Vomit War begin!

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know The 1939 novel, Gadsby, contains 50000 words and not a single letter E.

awesome_smokey , shortpedia Report

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Nathaniel Heider 1 year ago

The letter "E" is on the title though...

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know It’s illegal to walk an alligator on a leash in FL

sursgoatcheeseballs , Rene Ferrer Report

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Adam Belaire 1 year ago

What I hear is you can walk your alligator as long as it's not on a leash.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

WakeMeForSourPatch , Jerry Wang Report

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Clay S. 1 year ago

Sometimes it will be off by one, if there are more than 3 runways in parallel at an airport

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know German chocolate cake is not from Germany.

VR6SLC , Dima Valkov Report

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Nathaniel Heider 1 year ago

It's from a guy named German

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

Murmelberg , David McEachan Report

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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)

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

wyoflyboy68 , Mike B Report

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James016 1 year ago

My microwave does not have a number 2 button, so what now smartypants?

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know Knightsbridge is the only station on the London Underground to contain six consecutive consonants in its name

beeteedee , Sunil060902 Report

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Yenu 1 year ago

Yup 👍, I counted 😂

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

GunTotinVeganCyclist , Yuting Gao Report

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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.

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know the 786th decimal of π is 1

US_Dept_Of_Snark said:
Winner for best capturing the spirit of OP's question.

NorthImpossible8906 , Kaboompics .com Report

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Troy Parr 1 year ago

But it's a pointless thing... Even NASA only uses Pi to 10 places. And why is there this obsession with Pi ? There are other common Surds. How about the square root of two?

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Unnamed Hooman 1 year ago

… so is the second digit. 3.14(15926535897932382646433832795028841…)

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Fantastic Mr Fox 1 year ago

What was OP’s question?

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Philly Bobcat 1 year ago

Pi R Square.... Pi are not square... Pi are round...

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James A Tipton 1 year ago

Why bless your little pea-pickin' heart.

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Gabby M 1 year ago

People, People can't we all just get along!! lol

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Mr.G86 1 year ago

Is it 1?

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over it already 1 year ago

One or another, in the very least

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Ram Lastname 1 year ago

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Klopec 1 year ago

I wouldn't know, and really don't want to!

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DrGirlfriend 1 year ago

Before we get to the value of Pi to 786 decimal places, note that Pi (π) starts with "3." followed by an endless number of digits or decimals. In other words, Pi is an infinite decimal and an irrational number. Furthermore, we define 786 decimal places as 786 digits after the decimal point. Therefore, we take "Pi to 786 decimal places" to mean that you want to see "3." followed by 786 digits of Pi.

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DrGirlfriend 1 year ago

What is the 786th digit of Pi? The last digit of the number above is the 786th decimal of Pi. As you can see, the 786th decimal of Pi is 1. However, Pi starts with 3 which is also a digit. Thus, if you start at 3, then the seven hundred eighty-sixth digit of Pi is 3.

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Crystal Spencer 1 year ago

I'm not even going to pretend to have worked anything out except a Google search and it says 1....but I don't math very well so I'll just take googles word on it. My sister has a PhD in some sort of maths...I'll ask

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That_Scuba_Diver 1 year ago

I looked it up and it is 1 😊

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

GenesisWorlds , Pixabay Report

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Jo 1 year ago

Isn't Australia the biggest island on Earth?

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.

aecarol1 , 周康 Report

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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

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30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know 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.