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The world is full of randomness, no doubt about it. But there’s nothing more amusing than catching your friend, or even yourself, in the middle of a sentence… that makes you go "why the heck do you know that?!"

This phenomenon is also documented on r/AskReddit, where one user, u/IamDK003, decided to find out some of the most oddly random facts people for some inexplicable reason just know.

The 71.1k upvotes indicate that there has been a whole lot to share, so let’s dive into some of the most interesting facts that will raise your brow, and hair. Feeling like you know an interesting fact or two to share? Don't be greedy, share in the comments!

#1

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Probably the most innocent fact here but- chickens (hens) have an egg song when they lay an egg. It’s like them yelling “I JUST LAID AN EGG! WOOOO!” And then the other hens chime in yelling “YAAAS SHE JUST LAID AN EGG! WOOO!”

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#2

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers A sock over a baseball bat is a really effective home defense weapon. If they grab the bat, the sock will make the bat slip out of their grasp and you can continue beating them until they get out

TheFatMexican09 , Patrick Report

#3

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Fidel Castro loved dairy so much that he invested in trying to breed a cow that could survive in the climate of Cuba and still produce a lot of milk. He failed over and over for years until one day a cow that was exactly to his specifications. She produced obscene, record breaking amounts of milk even for a regular cow and could live in Cuba’s sweltering climate. There were regular updates on her health in the Cuban national newspaper and he loved her so much that when she died he erected a huge marble statue of her in her honor

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#4

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers I broke my collar bone and had to have physical training to strengthen it. They had me squeeze some equipment to measure my grip strength. I hit 140 lbs. He said "Holy crap, thats great! You know, It only takes 50 lbs to strangle someone." My first question was why the f*** do you know that??

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#5

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Redheads require more anesthesia drugs to remain unconscious during surgery

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#6

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Many deaths in the Middle Ages resulted from pigs wandering into peasant homes and eating babies out of their cradles

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Monika Soffronow
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Piglets like the one in the photo are not baby-eating monsters, but a fully grown pig weighs between 50 and 350 kg (110 and 770 lb) and they are, like us, omnivores. In fact, we have a lot in common. We even eat piglets, you know.

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#7

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Hedgehogs [poop] when they run fast therefore if sonic the 

hedgehog was real he would [pooped] himself to death

Minerx_Thomas_YT , Florian Straub Report

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#8

Butterflies sometimes drink blood.

Dogs like squeaky toys because the noise reminds them of small animals dying.

It's not actually known how anaesthetics work.

Also on the note of anaesthesia, until the 80s they weren't used on babies because it was believed they couldn't feel pain.

On average, you walk past 15 murderers in a lifetime.

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#9

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Imagine this:

You’re walking down the road, and you see a car crash. Someone gets out of a car, and you realize it’s someone you know, so you call their name. They turn, and crumple to the ground.

What happened? They dislocated a bone in their neck, and when they turned their neck, they fully snapped it. There’s a bunch of stories of this happening to people, which is very scary.

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#10

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers You can fit ×8 250lb* (intact) human bodies (supine) in the back of a 2001 Subaru Outback wagon. Fold down the back seat and toss em in. Source: moved training dummies for an Army first aid class. Got pulled over because a hand was out and "reaching." Sherriff walked up, saw the dummies, laughed and told me to have a nice day after explaining the call.

PanicEnthusiast , RL GNZLZ Report

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#11

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you feel the need to stab someone, stab oranges. They're the same consistency as human flesh

OurLadyofMorningStar , Gunther Hagleitner Report

#12

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Licking marshmallows and sticking them on a car on a night below freezing will cause the marshmallows to adhere so strongly that if they are removed while still frozen they will take the car paint with them

ImNotThaaatDrunk , Harsha K R Report

#13

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers It's illegal to be intoxicated in a bar in Alaska.

I won a trivia game at work because I happened to know this obscure fact. The lady organizing it accused me of cheating because no one had ever known the answer to "in which state is it illegal to be drunk in a bar?"

I've known it for so long I don't even remember where I learned it.

sharknado523 , PunkToad Report

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

Being accused of cheating because you have some culture always infuriated me

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#14

If you squeeze a male's testicles hard enough, the adrenaline overload can kill him.

Do with that information as you wish.

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

This one is quite testable for bad situations, but dont go testing it out on everyone cuz that would be nuts

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#15

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a really popular novel, and was made into a stage play. The actor playing the eponymous role(s) was so good at switching from the good doctor to the evil Hyde that people wrote to the police claiming that he absolutely had to be the real Jack the Ripper (who was thought likely to be a qualified doctor based on the way he dissected his victims). They thought no normal person would be able to make such a transformation.

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#16

Arigato" is Japanese for "Thank you."

"Obrigado" is Portuguese for "Thank you."

Portugal was the first European country to really make meaningful contact with Japan, which was the easternmost heavily-populated country/region in Asia. Portugal happens to be the westernmost country in Europe.

The two words, Arigato and Obrigado, are linguistically completely unrelated.

Those two very similar words developed in completely isolated contexts on opposite ends of the world's largest landmass, and they mean the same thing.

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

so the first portugese sailors made a good impression.."These white guys are so polite!"

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#17

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins

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#18

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers An important predator to the Canadian Moose is the Killer whale. The Moose will swim over seastraits and get picked off by the killer whales.

artparade , Colin McMillen Report

#19

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you shake/jangle your keys at a moth, it will do a backflip (it’s a defence mechanism)

HushUK , Donald Hobern Report

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

Were you just jangling your keys at different insects to see what would happen lol

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#20

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Male hedgehogs masturbate for pleasure and you have to be careful picking them up because sometimes they have semen on their feet. It’s something you have to look out for when you’re a hedgehog owner like myself

WhyY_196 , Franco Dal Molin Report

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

*realises why hedgehogs always look so happy in photos * 😳

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#21

Necropants are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man, which are believed in Icelandic witchcraft to be capable of producing an endless supply of money

goblinsexologist , Jennifer Boyer Report

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#22

You can neutralize the smell of a rotting corpse by covering it with the ashes of a common camp fire! any wood ash should work, friends.

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#23

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers 1 pound of sugar per 1000 pounds of concrete will ruin the concrete and it will never set firm

cayden_13 , Zeyus Media Report

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

I feel for the poor builder who discovered that. "When's my house finished?"/"Um... never. Spilt the sugar sorry"

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#24

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you have a shrimp allergy you also can't eat cicadas

mctoasterson , Erik Starck Report

#25

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Pigeons sing in 5/4 and 17/8 time signature.

neohylanmay , aimee rivers Report

#26

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet

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#27

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers If you put a needle into the gum line between the 7th and 8th tooth you’ll hit a nerve that runs past your nose and up to behind your eye. Hitting this nerve causes excruciating pain that no painkiller will help you with. You’ll basically need to be given local anaesthetic or put in an induced coma to stop feeling it.

A_Cuddly_Burrito , marissa anderson Report

#28

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers The Defense mechanism of the sea cucumber is to eject its toxic internal organs out of its anus, causing the predator to eat them and die.

Also they reproduce by having the female shoot out the egg cell and the male shooting the sperm at it

omXgabeasts , Colin and Sarah Northway Report

#29

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers The last wild cow died in Krakow, Poland in 1627

adstaylor77 , Lis S. Report

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

Although they were protected by the king of Poland himself! Sadly, as the protection program began, there were already too few cows left

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#30

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers It takes approximately 140 bananas (in one sitting) to kill someone

herbharlot , Fiona Henderson Report

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#31

Bees can vibrate their bodies super fast which produces a lot heat. In order for a hive to defend themselves from intruders like wasps they will dog pile the wasp while vibrating and it will eventually cook the wasp alive

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Saint Thomas
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, not "cook" the wasp, but heat her up enough to kill her.

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

they do this specifically with asian giant hornets, aka murder hornets

Phil Boswell
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought this was common knowledge, given all the hype about Japanese Hornets in recent times?

J.L. Martin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bees. Mother Nature's Heavy Metal life preserving angels

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#32

The last person who died building the hoover dam was the son of the first person who died building it

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#33

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Not only is an elephant's penis prehensile it's strong enough to throw a grown man around.

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#34

Most dying people don’t just slow down breathing and stop silently like the movies. The agonal breathing they do the last few hours or minutes is often startlingly loud. But it makes their CO2 so high that they are unconscious and not suffering, it’s just hard on the hearer.

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#35

All mammals over the weight of 3kg take approximately 21 seconds to pee, whether that be a housecat, a horse or an elephant.

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#36

The Hawaiian state fish is called a "humuhumunukunukuapuaa".

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#37

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers "Rats constantly leave a trail of urine while dragging their tails. You can follow the trail with a UV light."

pink_kangaroo23 , Pete Birkinshaw Report

#38

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case their pants split during a game

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#39

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers You can substitute blood for eggs in any recipe! 65g of blood can be used in place of one regular egg

You_Are_Secretariat , James Bowe Report

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#40

About 1 cup of ground apple seeds contains enough cyanide to kill a human. Smoothie anyone?

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#41

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Urine is historically one of the biggest exports that Newcastle UK ever had. It was used for a variety of purposes especially for making ammonia to make paint

Dr-Figgleton , Kevin Lau Report

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

They got burgled once and the local newspaper reported it as "Taking The P**s"

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#42

Julius Caesar's soldiers used sing a marching song about how much caesar liked it up the ass

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

Sung by the legions during the Gallic Triumph: "Urbani, servate uxores: moechum calvom adducimus. Aurum in Gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum." Translation: "Home we bring our bald whoremonger; Romans, lock your wives away! All the bags of gold you lent him Went his Gallic tarts to pay."

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#43

Our local landfill will take your loved ones body and dispose of it for $35.

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Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers It takes roughly 400 people to forge a sword out of "the blood of your enemies"

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#45

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Horses can masturbate by hitting their 70cm long dong against their bellies

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#46

The kangaroo is the only animal whose testicles are located above his penis.

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

Makes sense, wouldn't wanna be bouncing and squish those puppies on the ground

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#47

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Three barleycorns laid end to end is the basis for the inch

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#48

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers In order to get bones really white it's best to leave them in bucket of hydrogen peroxide (ideally between 3-6%) for a minimum of 48hrs, or up to a week.

It's easy to buy online, but not so easy to buy in large quantities, as it can also be used to make bombs.

Youre_so_damn_fat , Jonas Bengtsson Report

#49

The longest German word where every letter only is used once is 'Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung' and outside of stating this fact I have so far never needed it in my life

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#50

It would only take about a month and a half to collect enough shed skin cells to completely replace the flour in a traditional pound cake recipe, about 438g. We shed about 9 lbs of dead skin each year, and 438g is only .966 lbs, so at a rate of .75 lbs of skin per month you would only need a way to collect shed skin for a little over 5 weeks. Being high in protein, your skin flour should have a consistency close to a bean flour and can be used in a similar way to make a pound cake.
It would take between five and six weeks to make a skin cake.

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#51

Person Asks Others "What Is The Most 'Why The Hell Do You Know That' Fact," Receives 30 Random Answers Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel

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#52

1st of January, 100000 is Thursday

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#53

Rams are about the same size as football players.

The iconic curled horns of a male bighorn sheep can weigh up to 30 pounds, which is more than all the bones in his body combined.

From head to tail, rams usually fall somewhere between five to six feet long, and they tend to tip the scales at 260 to 280 pounds, occasionally exceeding 300 pounds.

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