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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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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!

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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

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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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Microorganisms called actinobacteria are mostly responsible for this lovely smell; the smell is because of the alcohol they produce after decomposing organic matter.

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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

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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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool! I knew that rats have been trained to do that, but not bees.

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The scream is coming from the lunatic asylum near the bridge. And the person in the painting is horrified by the sound.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, his hair was not naturally curly. He had it permed regularly.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can do both, but I really can’t imagine having no inner dialogue...what’s their brain doing all day?

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#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.

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#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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NASA purposely edit pictures to look yellow so they look familiar to people.

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

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#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

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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

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#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.

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#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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I... Somehow picturing that low-key terrifies me. It's just so weird... Then again nature is full of surprises, just look at owls and their 360° turning heads. Why didn't humans get any cool sh*t like that? I am still mad at mother nature for taking our tails away, I want a tail god damn you!

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

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#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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun Fact: There’s a single fire hydrant in San Francisco that’s painted gold because it was the one that put out the last of the fire from the 1906 earthquake.

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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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For a while, King Bhumiphon of Thailand was in the forefront...but then he died

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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

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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

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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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, if you’re bitten by one the chances of you dying from infection is exceptionally high because they have so much dead matter on their teeth

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#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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#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

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#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.

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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

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about if you trained the elephant to drive a tractor and attached a plough?

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#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)

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

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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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. They do not shove them to the side. That's ludicrous. The two original kidneys remain in place and will ultimately shrink and become completely non-functionable.. The new transplanted kidney is placed, typically, in the lower right abdomen which is then connected to the bladder. There will always be a small pooched out area visible where the new kidney resides. My son is a transplant recipient. We are forever grateful for his anonymous donor who left this world.

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#31

Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Kangaroos can’t hop backwards

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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the exact order they’re in has almost certainly never been duplicated in the history of shuffled decks.

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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Peanut butter glows in the dark. (It’s faint but it does)

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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered There was no “s” sound for the letter c in ancient Roman Latin. Thus Gaius Julius Caesar was pronounced “Gaius Julius Kaiser”. His name is where the Germans and Russians got their name for king (Kaiser and Tzar respectively).

gecedah135 , Phil Guest Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except that it's not the word for 'king' but for 'emperor'. A king in German is a "König"

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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered The smell when rain hits dry earth is called petrichor

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Hyenas are actually more related to cats than dogs. Hyenas are part of the Suborder Feliformia along with cats.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The female hyena has a long narrow "penis" like the males, and they give birth through this long narrow tube. Painful.

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If the sun exploded right now we wouldn't know about it for about 8 minutes.

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90% of the population on Earth lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

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#39

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's called a cashew apple and is an accessory fruit, the cashew nut is the true fruit. The apple can be used to make things like preserves or chutneys, can be used in curries and in some countries is also used to flavour non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks.

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Bobby pins stay better bumpy side down

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They probably do, but then you have the pointy bit sticking into your scalp all day. That can't be comfortable.

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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered Twister was the first movie released on DVD

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Ants don't have lungs they kinda have slots on their sides that allow air in.

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