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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered
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
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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#2
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
#3
Human's ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark's ability to smell blood in water.
DUN DUN (she/her) 2 years ago
Microorganisms called actinobacteria are mostly responsible for this lovely smell; the smell is because of the alcohol they produce after decomposing organic matter.
#4
the first 1080p video on youtube was the muppet's rendition of bohemian rhapsody
#5
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
#6
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.
#7
The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.
#8
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.
#9
Some people don’t have a inner dialogue, some can’t picture in their mind, and some have / can do both.
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
I can do both, but I really can’t imagine having no inner dialogue...what’s their brain doing all day?
#10
Lamborghini started making supercars because Enzo Ferrari was being a jerk to Ferruccio Lamborghini.
#11
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.
Colin O Keeffe 2 years ago
NASA purposely edit pictures to look yellow so they look familiar to people.
#13
There are more people living in California than in the whole of Canada
#14
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.
#15
If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.
#16
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. Their wings can rotate 180 degrees in every direction.
UncleRussian 2 years ago
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!
#18
That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
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.
#19
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.
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
For a while, King Bhumiphon of Thailand was in the forefront...but then he died
#20
If you find a four leaf clover then there is a good chance you'll find more not too far away.
#21
Dogs that are slightly underweight live an average of two years longer than dogs that are slightly overweight.
#22
Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
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
#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.
#24
It was forbidden to ride on moose in sweden until 1973. An old law forbade such for fear of rebels
#25
There was a short period of time when Picasso and Snoop Dogg were both alive together.
#26
The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.
#27
It's against the law to use an elephant to plow a cotton field in North Carolina.
Monkey Spunk 2 years ago
What about if you trained the elephant to drive a tractor and attached a plough?
#28
Finland isn't scandinavic, its nordic (its not random but people still think its scandinavic)
#29
A platypus makes venom. One of several interesting things about them.
#30
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.
What do you think ?
RandomX123 2 years ago
Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages
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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.
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.
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tuzdayschild 2 years ago
I googled it and Google says it is not possible, but I promise, I grew 1.5 inches after 40.
Sleazy Weaver 2 years ago
perhaps your posture improved & you started standing at your full height instead of slouching?
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RandomHumanBean 2 years ago
did you know that there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky? ;-)
Linda Tisue 2 years ago
Commercial turkeys have been artifically inseminated for so long they look to humans for sex. If one stands in one place in the barn for too long hens will smother each other trying to get bred.
Ghougle 2 years ago
Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930s. Before that, people used tp that gave them butt splinters.
karl briggs 2 years ago
In Wales they used newspaper, and were so called the black bottoms. In the middle east, I heard they used sand paper so got called the red bottoms.
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Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
The first mention in fiction of what we would recognise as a cell phone is in the 1948 novel "Space Cadet" by Robert Heinlein.
Izzy Curer 2 years ago
Apples are related to roses, bromeliads are related to pineapples, hedge apples are related to mulberries, and jack fruit are related to breadfruit
Bacony Cakes 2 years ago
Tomatoes and potatoes are related to deadly nightshade.
Load More Replies... Betsy Novack 2 years ago
I was in the grocery store tonight and had my ear buds in. Queen had just finished as I pictured the head rocking scene from Wayne's World. Immediately following was the Muppet version. I was getting the weirdest looks laughing so hard I was almost in tears. When Miss Piggy finished it off, I wouldn't have been surprised if 911had been called on a 51/50.
RandomX123 2 years ago
Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 2 years ago
I googled it and Google says it is not possible, but I promise, I grew 1.5 inches after 40.
Sleazy Weaver 2 years ago
perhaps your posture improved & you started standing at your full height instead of slouching?
Load More Replies... RandomHumanBean 2 years ago
did you know that there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky? ;-)
Linda Tisue 2 years ago
Commercial turkeys have been artifically inseminated for so long they look to humans for sex. If one stands in one place in the barn for too long hens will smother each other trying to get bred.
Ghougle 2 years ago
Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930s. Before that, people used tp that gave them butt splinters.
karl briggs 2 years ago
In Wales they used newspaper, and were so called the black bottoms. In the middle east, I heard they used sand paper so got called the red bottoms.
Load More Replies... Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
The first mention in fiction of what we would recognise as a cell phone is in the 1948 novel "Space Cadet" by Robert Heinlein.
Izzy Curer 2 years ago
Apples are related to roses, bromeliads are related to pineapples, hedge apples are related to mulberries, and jack fruit are related to breadfruit
Bacony Cakes 2 years ago
Tomatoes and potatoes are related to deadly nightshade.
Load More Replies... Betsy Novack 2 years ago
I was in the grocery store tonight and had my ear buds in. Queen had just finished as I pictured the head rocking scene from Wayne's World. Immediately following was the Muppet version. I was getting the weirdest looks laughing so hard I was almost in tears. When Miss Piggy finished it off, I wouldn't have been surprised if 911had been called on a 51/50.
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