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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic If the Sun was the size of a white blood cell swimming through your veins, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States. (Really puts into perspective just how small we are.).

manafahayp , Arnie Chou Report

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116points

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Ryan Mercer 8 months ago

And our galaxy is one of about a trillion galaxies in the observable universe. There's literally no knowing what lies beyond that, and everything we know about science says we will never know. But the observable universe could itself be a speck in a vast sea. To call it big kind of misses the point. It is well, well, well beyond imagining,

53points

MerryMelody-Symphony , Volker Kaes Report

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Otters hold paws while sleeping so they don't drift away, and can form some pretty impressive structures called "rafts" when they're in a large group.

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114points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

Sea otters ONLY. Fresh water otters almost always sleep on land, where drifting is less common.

97points

We loved reading through all the answers that the question of this thread brought out, and so we wanted to learn what the original inspiration that ignited this discussion was. To do that, Bored Panda reached out to LoneVentriloquistSFW, who loved our interest and was glad to answer our questions.

The OP shared that he decided to ask this question minutes after learning that E is the most used letter in the alphabet, which he also shared in the comments of his thread. “It just sparked my interest in knowing a ton of useless information from people,” said the author, adding that he didn’t find any other use for it yet.

The success of his post caught the OP by surprise. “To be honest, I didn’t expect my post to blow up like that,” said the poster, talking about how this was probably the highest interaction he has ever gotten from Reddit. “It felt awesome. It felt like I was a celebrity for a moment *lol*.”

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It's 1/100th of a second.

thrumplewart , Pixabay Report

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98points

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Mimi La Souris 8 months ago

here, we call it "week end"

129points

Small_Homework3971 , Egor Kamelev Report

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton.

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95points

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Surenu 8 months ago

On Earth. Bring 'em on a neutron star and see that smug smile leave their ant faces on the quantum level.

144points

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.

-MarilynMonroe- , Apple TV Report

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90points

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just me 8 months ago

Turkeys are scary. Not Canada Goose level, but still...

76points

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There is a certain type of knowledge that we define as useless. But when you stop and think about it, no kind of information is ever truly and completely without any use, is it?

While you may not be able to practically apply some of the knowledge you come in contact with, and if you’re forced to learn it anyway, it might feel like a waste of precious time, as Brian Tomasik wrote in his blog, there are many other ways in which it can be valuable.

And we don’t look as deep to find that value. Learning in itself is a fun thing that can bring a lot of enjoyment. For example, you can learn by reading books or watching films, and while the stuff you come across there will rarely find practical application in your life, few would argue that it’s not entertaining. Plus, any kind of learning can come with some unexpected discoveries, as it can often be difficult to predict just what kind of information you’re lacking or what thing you don’t know you might like.

Vomiting can ease the migraine but dehydration and muscle flex caused by vomiting can cause the migraine….

Final score:

85points

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MaybeAlive 8 months ago

an ouch-22

78points

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic You have to stick your finger inside an alligator to find out its gender.

pitpulkrew , Adriaan Greyling Report

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77points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

LOL!! Thank you for the new pictures inside my head.. Never went there before!

41points

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic The back of tigers ears have a white spot to resemble eyes so they scare off things that look at them from behind, sort of like a peacock.

YesImKian , Mika Brandt Report

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74points

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Apatheist Account2 8 months ago

Tigers don't need to be scared of anything.

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At the same time, learning new things plays a big role in shaping your worldview. Our brains change with every experience. While we might forget a lot of the stuff that we learn, we retain the wisdom we gain from it. Moreover, it also improves our intuition and pattern-recognition abilities, as well as our general understanding of how the world functions.

Acquiring new information and skills also works as an intellectual exercise that can be compared to a professional athlete going to the gym. Even if the stuff you’re learning doesn’t seem to matter at the moment, it can help you get into a habit of learning and prepare you for when you need to learn something actually important.

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Sometimes pandas are too lazy to have [intercourse]. And in order to reproduce them, there is a special person who infuses the female with ejaculate.

Sea0wl , Diana Silaraja Report

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69points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

Pandas, you will be amazed to learn, are not humans. Nor are they "bears". In the fairly short period of time humans have studied pandas there have been multiple points where - they did not behave like humans, nor bears- therefore the panda students declared "pandas are deficient in..." Only to learn later, that pandas are NOT deficient in anything (Oh, look- pandas living in the woods without us...) - they are just, um; not humans, and not bears. Too lazy for sex? Um. I'll bet they just don't wanna, whey YOU wanna. But they manage to have babies all by themselves. Somehow.

35points

BloodSteyn , Franco Antonio Giovanella Report

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Some people have voluntary control of their Tensor Tympani muscle in their inner ear. They can make a rumbling noise in their ears at will by tensing it.

Hand when there is loud noise around to kinda reduce it as you walk past.

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68points

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Cam 8 months ago

Is this rare? I just kind of assumed most people could do it, like winking.

91points

#12

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Fish don't fart.

They continuously secrete waste gasses through their skin.

tributarygoldman , Andreas L Report

Final score:

66points

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A James 8 months ago

Is that why the ocean smells?

29points

SixicusTheSixth , Lucas George Wendt Report

Johnny Briones of Medium further expands on this subject, writing about how memory techniques that can help to recall and retain information are best learned using so-called useless information.

Memory techniques sound and are quite wonderful. However, the problem is that people sometimes don’t realize that these, too, have to be learned first and you can’t just jump right in, learning everything that you want with ease.

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic The spikes at the end of a stegosaurus tail is named after a character from the Far Side cartoon.

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65points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

The Thagomizer, named after the late Thag Simmons.

98points

#14

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic As a child of the 80's (born 1983), I still remember my mother and my grandmother's landline phone number.
My mom moved at least twice since then and don't even use a landline anymore.
My grandmother died like 10 years ago.

GussDeBlod , Annie Spratt Report

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64points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

My parents' and grandma's last four digits are my numerical passwords. Totally random numbers to anyone else, but very easy to remember for me.

33points

AffectionateGap1071 , cottonbro studio Report

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Morphologies of onomatopeias are written differently according to the language and I appreciate how to say "meow" in different languages.

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64points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

We meow in American English, but then, we're American shorthairs, so there you go.

29points

Running into problems at first is expected, and when you do, you’ll likely spend more time looking for solutions than actually learning what you set out to learn. This can be frustrating and make it seem like the techniques you’re using are not working.

However, if you first practice these methods using useless information, you won’t feel the pressure if you can’t remember something that doesn’t really matter to you. Thus, you will be able to easily identify problems you run into and find ways to solve them.

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In 16th century Italy duels often took place where the chosen weapon was very hard maths questions.

Panorpa Report

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62points

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Kat 8 months ago

Sounds like an episode from The IT Crowd

37points

#17

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Ohio is the only state in the US that doesn't share a letter with the word mackerel.

roguerose , Matthew Bornhorst Report

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57points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

Think how long you could spend checking this out-

41points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic That most car horns play an F4 on the first space of the treble clef.

TheGodlyTank6493 , William Bayreuther Report

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54points

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Steve Hall 8 months ago

My horn goes beep.

27points

In conclusion, we can confidently say that while not all information is equally important, no information is ever truly useless, even if it may seem that way at first glance. So read up because you never know when some random fact you encounter in Reddit threads like these might prove to be a lot more valuable than you thought.

What did you think of these facts? Do you have anything you’d like to add? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Male swallowtail butterflies have eyes on their [male genital] so they can position themselves correctly when mating.

Shannon_Casey , Kush Dwivedi Report

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52points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

I think the (male genital) of swallowtails is known to Entomologists as the "winkie.". Technically; and the ejaculation is about 3 jiffys.

72points

#20

When a body was placed in a coffin after being guillotined, they didn't always put the head above the shoulders. Sometimes it would be between the legs, face first into the crotch.

fdtc_skolar Report

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52points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

and sometimes... there was soup...

16points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic Where do I start?

Nepal is the only country in the world whose flag isn't a rectangle

Raptors will sometimes take tortoises to the top of a cliff and drop them from midair, breaking their shell

Earth was uninhabitable for the first few hundred million years of its existence, but life emerged more or less immediately once Earth became inhabitable

You may have heard that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s (no matter how fast you're going), but that's actually precisely how much it is, we define a meter to be such that the speed of light is that number, no decimal point

Cleopatra lived between 69-30 BCE and the pyramids were built around 2780 BCE, meaning she lived closer to today than to the building of the pyramids.

The_Ora_Charmander , Arun Ghimire Report

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46points

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Mimi La Souris 8 months ago

a planet becomes inhabited when it becomes habitable, strange, isn't it ?

49points

airlewe , Ambitious Studio* - Rick Barrett Report

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic The a**s is the first part of the body to open up. We develop a**s-first.

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45points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

During embryonic development, that is.

47points

PM_ME_YOUR_SIDEB**BZ , Joel Muniz Report

#23

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic The wax/metal tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Final score:

44points

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Zedrapazia 8 months ago

Everyone who's seen Fineas and Ferb knows this!

69points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic I'm an expert with binary. Also- Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.

Appropriate-Meet1379 , Pixabay Report

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43points

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Jesha 8 months ago

Salt.

31points

#25

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic You can calculate the circumference of the universe with a margin of error less than the diameter of an atom if you have 60 digits of pi. Thus, any further digits are completely useless. You're welcome to all of you that memorized 100+ digits back in school.
Editor's note: 38 digits of pi is sufficient.

jinoble , Pixabay Report

Final score:

39points

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Apatheist Account2 8 months ago

*visible universe. We don't actually know how big it is, only the bits that we can see.

28points

Stunning_Move7375 , Ganapathy Kumar Report

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.

Final score:

39points

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sofacushionfort 8 months ago

…take one down, pass it around…

130points

Janet Ryan 8 months ago

95 bags of waste

19points

MongoMarcia 8 months ago

🤣

3points

Powerful Katrinka 8 months ago

I love your mind.

3points

Magnion 7 months ago

This one really made me laugh. Thank you for that.

1point

The Amazing Fluffernaut 8 months ago

I'd prefer not to touch it actually

1point

BlameTheGame 8 months ago

that's crazy

1point

Mimi La Souris 8 months ago

96 ? facepalm

7points

Justin Tyme 8 months ago

They could be used to grow potatoes.

5points

third molar 8 months ago

So not entirely cheese then eh!!

4points

Astro 8 months ago

Cheese and poop

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

shows to go you, wherever we go, waste and destruction follows...

3points

Bell-icose Premium 8 months ago

Pick up after your humans!

2points

Pferdchen 8 months ago

So, going to the moon to pick up our c**p may be the most legitimate reason to go back?

2points

Brian Droste 8 months ago

And they are going to be there forever.

1point

Ms. Mack 8 months ago

I think a pack in, pack out policy ought to be adopted by NASA. We have already wreaked enough havoc in this universe.

1point

David 8 months ago

I mean we made several trips between 1969 and 1972, I dont think the astronauts wanted to take that back with them

1point

Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago

Quite right - mostly to reduce the take-off mass. Anything they could leave behind, they did. They left behind some very fine Hasselblad cameras, too. The human waste was sterilized long, long ago by the temperate extremes and exposure to vacuum. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/the-cameras-of-the-apollo-moon-missions

8points

alaina66 6 months ago

And are we proud of this??

0points

tullotoe underfoot 8 months ago

Pack it in, pack it out. C'mon people. At least tie the bags to the outside of the lander to burn up on re-entry.

0points

Kaycee Friend 8 months ago

Of course there is. 😒

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Fuke 8 months ago

Still better than the bags of c**p of humans on Earth.

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michael Chock 8 months ago

I hate those people. They make the waste bins for a reason! Pick it up!

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Loggers Ink 8 months ago

Typical. Humans leave their sh*t everywhere

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Thatkamloopsguy 8 months ago

We just dump our sh it anywhere.

0points

Red Foreman 8 months ago

And one bag of human waste who was the 47th President of the United Idiots.

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nottheactualphoto 8 months ago

Do you mean 45th? Because we're only on number 46 as of this writing.

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Doofnuts 8 months ago

Caddyshack. DOODY!

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Timbob 8 months ago

So that means there’s still lost of room left ? (text me at Waste Management.)

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Dee Rutherford 8 months ago

Next flight…”please take your garbage when you leave”

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Foxglove🇮🇪 8 months ago

Well I hope the next manned mission brings it all back down!

0points

#27

30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic By volume, the sun generates heat at the same rate as a compost heap.

TheRichTurner , Jonathan Borba Report

Final score:

37points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

Oh, I think we need a bit more context and detail for this to be comprehensible.

15points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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I memorized this as a song and I’ve never forgotten it since

Exa Peta Tera Giga Mega Kilo Hecto Deka Deci Centi Milli Micro Nano Pico Femto Atto

I don’t really use it in daily life or anywhere else but you never know.

darcydidwhat Report

Final score:

35points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

FAIL! This is TOTALLY NOT useless.

22points

Atlantic_Nikita , James Wainscoat Report

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30 Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic You can hipnotize chickens by drawing a line on the dirt and made the chicken look at the line.

Final score:

33points

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Apatheist Account2 8 months ago

I applied to study this, but failed the hen trance exam....I'll get my coat.

133points