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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered

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Every person wants to know everything there is to our existence. Small things, big things – it doesn't matter as long as we constantly feed our minds with bits of information. Besides, knowing stuff is good even if you understand that you'd probably never need that knowledge. Just think about it, curiosity is an essential part of our everyday life, all that social media, magazines, books, TV shows – we're always learning, yet we're never fully satisfied.

We want to know exactly how the universe was formed; we want to know if we'll be stuck in traffic on the way back home tomorrow and whether that new movie truly is as great as people say it is. Our brain constantly processes things, and sometimes all you need is to read about some facts to have a good night's sleep.

A member of one of Reddit's online communities asked fellow Redditors to share a few random facts that folks absolutely needed to know. The post received over 7K upvotes and 5.1K comments, revealing things about everything and anything.

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#1

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.

We’ve been quick!

digodim793 , Project Apollo Archive Report

Final score:

435points

#2

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi. In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies

visarom584 , Lottie Report

Final score:

424points

#3

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Human's ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark's ability to smell blood in water.

pososod951 , Christine McIntosh Report

Final score:

390points

#4

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered the first 1080p video on youtube was the muppet's rendition of bohemian rhapsody

__americanreject , The Muppets Report

Final score:

379points

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#5

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence

gecedah135 , Orangeaurochs Report

Final score:

374points

#6

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Tigers are orange and black to humans, but to animals with hooves, their prey, they appear green and black and blend in with the jungle around them.

travis6370 , cuatrok77 Report

Final score:

364points

#7

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.

gipile1901 , Parker Miles Blohm Report

Final score:

338points

#8

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Bob Ross was a Drill Instructor. When he stopped working as that, he promised he would not raise his voice at someone again. That's why he was so soft spoken.

pososod951 , Mark van Seeters Report

Final score:

315points

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#9

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Some people don’t have a inner dialogue, some can’t picture in their mind, and some have / can do both.

gecedah135 , Chris Stott Report

Final score:

295points

#10

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Lamborghini started making supercars because Enzo Ferrari was being a jerk to Ferruccio Lamborghini.

visarom584 , Staffan Andersson Using Albums ! Report

Final score:

280points

#11

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered The sun is not yellow. When viewed outside earths atmosphere it is white. It only looks yellow due to our atmosphere "pulling" the blue light out, leaving it looking yellow. It's an illusion.

pososod951 , moonjazz Report

Final score:

257points

#12

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Sharks existed before trees existed.

gipile1901 , Elias Levy Report

Final score:

253points

#13

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered There are more people living in California than in the whole of Canada

Ilikecosysocks , Forsaken Fotos Report

Final score:

250points

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#14

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered There are so many different varieties of apple that if you ate a different one every day for 20 years you will still not have eaten them all.

Theearthhasnoedges , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

236points

#15

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.

pososod951 Report

Final score:

228points

#16

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. Their wings can rotate 180 degrees in every direction.

PersonalityPale5842 , Mike Lewinski Report

Final score:

227points

#17

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Australia is wider than the moon

MrScattergories , Truque da Banana Report

Final score:

226points

#18

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire

pososod951 , Kzoo Cowboy Report

Final score:

221points

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#19

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Elizabeth II has been Queen of England for 70 years. Only 9% of the world's population is older than 65. This means that only about 1 out of 12 people in the world today have lived in a world where she was not the queen.

WaldoJeffers65 , Julian Calder Report

Final score:

205points

#20

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered If you find a four leaf clover then there is a good chance you'll find more not too far away.

visarom584 , Tony Alter Report

Final score:

193points

#21

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Dogs that are slightly underweight live an average of two years longer than dogs that are slightly overweight.

gipile1901 , Eric Sonstroem Report

Final score:

190points

#22

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually

visarom584 , Poppet Maulding Report

Final score:

185points

#23

Whenever you learn a new skill, like learning to play guitar or learning to skate, new connections are formed in our brains in the neurons.

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Final score:

185points

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#24

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered It was forbidden to ride on moose in sweden until 1973. An old law forbade such for fear of rebels

Adventuredepot , Eric Kilby Report

Final score:

182points

#25

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered There was a short period of time when Picasso and Snoop Dogg were both alive together.

gipile1901 , bollywoodhungama Report

Final score:

176points

#26

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.

pososod951 , stu_spivack Report

Final score:

170points

#27

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered It's against the law to use an elephant to plow a cotton field in North Carolina.

Feels2old , xrayspx Report

Final score:

169points

#28

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Finland isn't scandinavic, its nordic (its not random but people still think its scandinavic)

Bauzku , Matti Mattila Report

Final score:

166points

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#29

A platypus makes venom. One of several interesting things about them.

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Final score:

166points

#30

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.

digodim793 , Mandy Jouan Report

Final score:

110points

Note: this post originally had 42 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

Darja Zinina

Darja is a Content Creator at Bored Panda. She studied at the University of Westminster, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Media Practice. She loves photography, foreign music and re-watching Forrest Gump.

Darja is a Content Creator at Bored Panda. She studied at the University of Westminster, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Media Practice. She loves photography, foreign music and re-watching Forrest Gump.

Saulė Tolstych

Saulė is a photo editor at Bored Panda with bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design. The thing that relaxes her the best is going into YouTube rabbit hole. In her free time she loves painting, embroidering and taking walks in nature.

Saulė is a photo editor at Bored Panda with bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design. The thing that relaxes her the best is going into YouTube rabbit hole. In her free time she loves painting, embroidering and taking walks in nature.

What do you think ?

Bacony Cakes 2 years ago

Volkswagen produces more sausages than cars.

19points

RandomX123 2 years ago

Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages

28points

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easter bunny 2 years ago

Mitsubishi has a 40% share in the bluefin tuna market. Not only that, but they hold massive reserves in freezers so that when the critically endangered fish is wiped out they will be able to sell for a massive profit.

4points

BasedWang 2 years ago

Pabst used to make soap during the prohibition.......theres that

2points

Becky Samuel 2 years ago

Mars own nearly 10% of all veterinary practices in the USA.

1point

Dagnirath 2 years ago

Ruby and sapphire are the same mineral, corundum. Ruby is corundum in a narrow color band between strongly orangy-red and strongly purplish-red. Sapphire is every other color of corundum, and corundum forms in just about every color imaginable.

13points

BorPand8 2 years ago

Orange sapphires used to be pretty cheap and they're gorgeous. They're still relatively cheap compared to rubies and blue sapphires.

4points

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Aahzmandus Pervect 2 years ago

Fun fact: we've seen many of these fun facts on BP before.

8points

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Bacony Cakes 2 years ago

Volkswagen produces more sausages than cars.

19points

RandomX123 2 years ago

Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages

28points

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easter bunny 2 years ago

Mitsubishi has a 40% share in the bluefin tuna market. Not only that, but they hold massive reserves in freezers so that when the critically endangered fish is wiped out they will be able to sell for a massive profit.

4points

BasedWang 2 years ago

Pabst used to make soap during the prohibition.......theres that

2points

Becky Samuel 2 years ago

Mars own nearly 10% of all veterinary practices in the USA.

1point

Dagnirath 2 years ago

Ruby and sapphire are the same mineral, corundum. Ruby is corundum in a narrow color band between strongly orangy-red and strongly purplish-red. Sapphire is every other color of corundum, and corundum forms in just about every color imaginable.

13points

BorPand8 2 years ago

Orange sapphires used to be pretty cheap and they're gorgeous. They're still relatively cheap compared to rubies and blue sapphires.

4points

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Aahzmandus Pervect 2 years ago

Fun fact: we've seen many of these fun facts on BP before.

8points

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