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Learning random facts is always fun. At the same time, some of you might wonder why on Earth you would need to stuff your brain with things like that. Well, if you're into trivia, these random facts may come in handy for you. Maybe one of these facts will help you score that point you need to win. And if you're not a trivia person, these random facts might still be useful when you least expect it. Or it might be time for you to get into trivia. 

Either way, let's take a trip through a list of random facts that were prompted to be shared when someone on Reddit asked: "What's a completely random fact no one asked for?" 

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#1

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know There are elements from exploding stars in your bones and oceans in your blood and your lungs use the same structures as coral does and your veins branch like trees or rivers and the same spirals you see in a shell on the beach are in your ears and there are miniature galaxies in your eyes. You are a miracle reflecting the beauty of the universe back at itself. That's incredible and I think about it a lot.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know In 2005 new palaeontological discoveries meant that a scientific term had to be assigned to baby/juvenile pterosaurs.
The author chose to name them "Flaplings".

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know octopuses, octopi, and octopus are all accepted plural spellings for octopus

also stop eating them

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's interesting. Now someone tell me where I can aquire that stupendous lantern, please.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Elephants can purr, like Cats..

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus is called a thagomizer. Far Side comic strip artist Gary Larson coined the word.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets.

One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.

PrincessMurderMitten , Victor Miyata Report

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Living proof that wearing armor 24/7 does not protect you from pick-up truck driving, drunken hillbillies leaving The Booby Bungalow at 3am.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Among Fortune 500 companies, 2018 was the first year that the number of CEOs who were women exceeded the number who were named John.

*edit - grammar*

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The purpose of golf is to play as little golf as possible.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Sylvester Stallone wrote *Rocky* in three days after watching a boxing match because the only acting jobs he could get were bit parts and [adult movies], and he was homeless for a while. The producers wanted Burt Reynolds to play the lead but Stallone refused, and accepted huge budget cuts to star in his own film.

msnmck , Movieclips Report

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pornos?!? You learn something new everyday. Now pardon me, I have some Googling to do...

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know From my giraffe loving 7yr old- A giraffe’s horns are called ossicones which are mostly cartilage

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know “Chat GPT,” pronounced with a French accent, phonetically translates to “Cat, I have farted,” in French.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This problem is similar to why the Toyota MR2 was just called the MR in France.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The difference between a hotel and a motel is in a hotel your room is accessed from inside and a motel you access your room from the outside.

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#13

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Male echidnas have a four-headed penis, although they only use two during mating (and they alternate which heads they use each time).

The two they’re using grow larger, to fit inside the female’s dual-branched reproductive tract.

Also, bonus fact: female echidnas lactate through their skin… so they sweat their milk out, and the puggles lick it off them.

Bonus bonus fact: when a female echidna is ready to mate, a group of males will follow her through the bush for a few days in a horny little conga line called a mating train. When she decides it’s time, the males circle her digging a ditch as they go, then push each other out of the way until there’s only one left.

Edit to add: Nat Geo video of echidna mating rituals

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#14

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know A peregrine falcon can dive at over 200mph.

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#15

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The Xerographic process is how you get your office laser printer to work. Toner is plastic that sticks to the paper that got hit with a laser (laser printer) and is a different charge. The toner is being held on by static electricity. At the end it goes through two hot rollers called a fuser and is baked into the paper and that's why paper feels warm coming out because plastic is melted into paper.

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#16

The plastic piece on the end of a shoelace is called the aglet.

ETA: Jesus, for the record, I did not learn this from Phineas and Ferb, but good to know half a generation did.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I learned this from Sniglet books way back in the 80s.

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#17

A "factoid" is actually an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.

Not a "small fact".

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#18

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Australia is wider than the moon.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And almost as fatal to wander across without protection on, to boot!

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A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

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#20

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know a lethal dose is also a life supply

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

light a fire for a man, keep him warm for a while. BUT - light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life...

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#21

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Whale milk is the same consistency as toothpaste.

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#22

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know All tennis rackets are strung manually. There are no machines that use automation to string rackets.

moneyshaker , cottonbro studio Report

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah! i used to play tennis and. i would usually come across my dad changing the string on his racket! there are different strings too! though there is a contraption to aid the stringing process

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#23

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear.

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#24

The most expensive liquid is scorpion venom priced at $39mil per gallon.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder how many scorpions you have to milk to get a gallon of venom?

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#25

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know A B2 stealth bomber has retractable cup holders and a mini microwave in the cockpit

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well it needs to stay up in the air for longmissions. The b52 even has bunks and crew rest.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Up 33% of hip fractures in the older population result in death within a year.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this past year I learned how a simple UTI can cause death in the elderly. A nurse told me it's more common than you would think.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The human a**s can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage.

A raccoon can squeeze into a hole as tight as 4 inches.

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#28

Seattle is further north than all of Maine and most of the population of Canada.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

95% of the population of the UK and Ireland live further north than 95% of the population of Canada.

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#29

35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The Michelin Man's real name is Bibendum.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Peanuts aren't nuts, and Tomatoes are fruits. Whomever was responsible for naming foods really fu*ked up.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know Scientists have calculated that there have been 117 billion people that have ever lived

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The Giant Tortoise did not receive a scientific name for over 300 years due to the failure of delivery of specimens to Europe because they were so delicious that sailors invariably ate them during the voyage.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While this is interesting, this is the third time in two weeks that this fact has been on BP.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The human animal is the only animal with permanent breasts.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine aren't.. Come on puberty, I'm 40 and still waiting for them to grow.

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#34

If you force a fly to keep flying for 10 minutes, it'll die of hunger

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I have to chase a fly around for 10 hours to make sure it keeps flying, I'll die of exhaustion.

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#35

There are only 25 blimps in use, worldwide.

Editors note: Only half of these 25 blimps are in use.

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#36

There are millions of camels in Australia.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The youngest picture of yourself is also the oldest picture of yourself.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only because you're mixing up antonyms, then applying them to the wrong nouns.

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#38

Dr. MLK & Anne Frank were born the same year. I’m still shocked about it.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know I always go with Al Gore's son-in-law is the lead singer of OK Go

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why they didn't name themselves "The Al Gore Rhythms", I suppose I'll never know.

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Lightning McQueen’s first name is Montgomery.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Monty Mac sounds like a pretty good nickname. Not as good as Lightning but still...

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#41

Barry Manilow did not in fact write his hit “I Write the Songs”

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Barry Manilow fact is he was surprised when people were not surprised when he came out as gay.

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#42

Octopuses have 1 central brain, then a smaller brain in each tentacle.

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#43

You have about 10lbs of bacteria in your gut. 10lbs of cells that bear no relation to you whatsoever except that they colonize your body.

Editor's note: according to sources online the bacteria in a person's gut weigh around 4.4lbs (2kg).

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#44

There are more pigs than people in Iowa.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The important thing is to know the difference.

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Standard pitch is A=440, but it’s not uncommon for string orchestras to tune to A=441 for the change in timbre.

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35 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Interesting To Know The D in 'D-Day' also stands for Day. So really it was just 'Day-Day'.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically, D-Day means day of the day of the operation, like H hour is the hour of it, but it is why they use a + or - with a number before and after to know how many days or hours before or after the operation are we talking about. Further all operations day of launch are D-Day, the one most people think of is operation overlord

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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen the opposite "fact" proclaimed as well on BP. Which is it?

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