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Person Asks Others “What Is The Most ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Fact,” Receives 30 Random Answers
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!
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#1
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
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
#3
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
#4
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??
#5
Redheads require more anesthesia drugs to remain unconscious during surgery
#6
Many deaths in the Middle Ages resulted from pigs wandering into peasant homes and eating babies out of their cradles
Monika Soffronow 4 years ago
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.
#7
Hedgehogs [poop] when they run fast therefore if sonic the
hedgehog was real he would [pooped] himself to death
#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.
#9
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.
#10
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.
#11
If you feel the need to stab someone, stab oranges. They're the same consistency as human flesh
#12
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
#13
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.
#14
If you squeeze a male's testicles hard enough, the adrenaline overload can kill him.
Do with that information as you wish.
postboredom 4 years ago
This one is quite testable for bad situations, but dont go testing it out on everyone cuz that would be nuts
#15
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.
#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.
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
so the first portugese sailors made a good impression.."These white guys are so polite!"
#17
Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins
#18
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.
#19
If you shake/jangle your keys at a moth, it will do a backflip (it’s a defence mechanism)
postboredom 4 years ago
Were you just jangling your keys at different insects to see what would happen lol
#20
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
#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
#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.
#23
1 pound of sugar per 1000 pounds of concrete will ruin the concrete and it will never set firm
#26
The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet
GirlFriday 4 years ago
It isn't the fall that kills you, its the landing.
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Truth Monster 4 years ago
Assumes the parameters of this require normal earth gravity and for there to be no other mitigation devices to slow fall. Apparently the record holder's name is Vesna Vulovic, if any of you are curious
Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago
Interesting as I'd think you'd likely be able to reach terminal velocity in a shorter fall (granted terminal velocity increases the further up you go as the air/air resistance gets thinner/smaller). I'd hazard a guess that starting around 33000 feet temperature and oxygen concentration start becoming more and more of a danger.
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Heather Daugherty 4 years ago
a serbian flight attendant survived an airliner crash after a suitcase bomb ripped a hole in the plane. she was trapped alone behind a food cart in a section of the fuselage that was intact upon impact, keeping her from being sucked out upon depressurization. this section landed at a low angle, & was heavily cushioned by foliage & snow. doctors think a pre-existing low blood pressure condition caused her to pass out almost immediately which kept her heart from exploding on impact...anyways, she did actually return to work for awhile...
Courtney Christelle 4 years ago
I heard that she had survived because she got sucked out while the plane exploded then fell through some trees which slowed her down a bit before landing in a snow drift.
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
I guess if you landed on something that is the perfect density to break your fall but not harm you, the height doesn't matter. Like a medium-sized bag of marshmallows or something. Also, when you're reached maximum velocity, the height is irrelevant.
John M 4 years ago
This is actually true. Vulović's survival to her being trapped by a food cart in the DC-9's fuselage as it broke away from the rest of the aircraft and plummeted towards the ground. When the cabin depressurized, the passengers and other flight crew were blown out of the aircraft and fell to their deaths. Investigators believed that the fuselage, with Vulović pinned inside, landed at an angle in a heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside, which cushioned the impact. Vulović's physicians concluded that her history of low blood pressure caused her to pass out quickly after the cabin depressurized and kept her heart from bursting on impact.
TheHolyFatherOfToast 4 years ago
how did they figure this out? were they just chucking death row inmates out of a plane and yelling "CALL US IF YOU SURVIVE"?
Flare 4 years ago
no, the sole survivor of an airplane crash, who was also a flight attendant, fell that far and she survived thanks to the fact that some trees kinda broke her fall
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W Bruce Jaworski 3 years ago
WW2 airman was in a B29 back from a bomb run and was hit by flack. No parachutes left. Didnt want to burn in crash so he bailed. Said it was peaceful falling. He hit a snow covered steep hill side in the Swiss Alps and rolled down onto a road where a person in a horse drawn carrige soon passed by who turned out to be the town doctor. Lived to tell the tale.
Maggie Fariss 4 years ago
I read a long time ago that the LD50 (when 50% die from something) for humans falling from heights was only 10 ft. Years later that got reinforced in my mind when I spent a lot of time in the spinal rehab ward - you would be surprised at the number of people who just fall off a small ladder and then never walk again because of spinal injury.
Masen Silas 4 years ago (edited)
Shayna Richardson fell 10000 feet face first in a parking lot but the coolest part? She was unknowingly pregnant and didnt lose the baby
David McKendrick 4 years ago
Anything over the distance to reach terminal velocity won't make any difference. So the speed you reach after about 1,500 feet will not increase even if you fall 33,300 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
People, if you are ever skydiving and your parachute doesn’t deploy, look for swamp, snow, or trees. If you land in one of those, you will break half of the bones in your body but you might live.
Masen Silas 4 years ago
Shayna Richardson fell 10000 feet but the coolest part? She was unknowingly pregnant and didnt lose the baby
John Smith 4 years ago
She would go on to make a full recovery and win the local substitute teacher of the year award.
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
She didn't free fall though, she was trapped in the torn up fuselage of the plane after the plane blew apart and it cushioned the impact.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
This would be a great reality show. People jumping from higher and higher trying to beat the record.
ChinaPandas122 4 years ago
so next time i decide to jump from a plane thousands of feet in the air, i will knock myself unconscious to soften the fall. Wow what great advice
Mme de Poppadom 4 years ago
I don't think your incredulity really counts as refutation here. There's measurable events that occur in life, that get verified and are later recorded as facts. Luckily, there's an easy way to research these.
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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.
#28
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
#30
It takes approximately 140 bananas (in one sitting) to kill someone
What do you think ?
BusLady 4 years ago
Now I have some things to talk about at the next party. If there ever is one.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Woah, Some of these facts are quite frightening like Replacing eggs for blood, making swords from blood, making pants from a dead person, putting ash over a body to hide the smell etc etc. Gotta wonder what the hobbies of these people are lol.
Kesam 4 years ago (edited)
The oderr of ltretes in a wrod is not esniesalt to uedtndsnnairg waht is wtietrn, as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lteters are in the crcoret psiiootn.
Sharon Hahn 4 years ago
The order of letters in a word is not essential to understanding what is written, as long as the first and last letters are in the correct position. You're welcome!
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I feel like this entire list was written by serial killers. *_*
Astrid Nineor 4 years ago
Another random fact: Truth serum is sort of real, (though exaggerated in movies) but if the person using it on you don't know what they are doing, it can kill you
CbusResident 4 years ago
During WWII, a fairly large number of Nazi-POWs were brought to the USA, tens of thousands of them, possibly hundreds of thousands. Many were required to work on American farms, and it's thought that some probably had relations with the farmers' daughters - so we likely had some number of little half-Nazi babies scattered across the US from that!
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
There are all kinds of "Nazi" all over the world.
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AnnieLaurie Burke 4 years ago
Seems there were a lot of "facts" that would be of greatest use to murderers....
TheHolyFatherOfToast 4 years ago
I think the "quenching your sword in the blood of your enemies" is awesome. Gives me the number i need to reach. That was a joke..........maybe.........i think.........
Jack Lowry 4 years ago
As both a medical professional and an historian who grew up on a farm I state most of these are B.S. Notice how none have any supporting information...
Jack Lowry 4 years ago
As both a Medical Professional and an Historian that grew up on a Farm I find most of these to be BS. Notice how none of them link to other sources?
Jaybird3939 4 years ago
Probably well known, but...You can poison (and kill) someone with toothpaste (ingested). And Candy Corn is named that because if you stack them right, they look like an ear of corn.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal.
Courtney Christelle 4 years ago
A male elephant can use his penis as a fifth leg to steady his weight while on uneven ground. Built in kick stand.
CbusResident 4 years ago (edited)
During the drafting of the United States' Constitution he term 'President of the United States' was intended to sound like an office of minor significance - to imply that the person in this role would merely preside over the country, which would be understood to be doing minimal things to oversee the country.
Pauline Bennett 4 years ago
This, I think proves how gullible some people an be and its so sad. Most or them if you really think about the comment are a mostly agood laugh.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
That is why some "wise" people down-voted your comment, Pauline. Human stupidity is limitless.
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Little Wonder 4 years ago
Bored Panda is an aggregator site, they just pull stuff from all over the internet - these are all from reddit, so ebaums world did the same thing.
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BusLady 4 years ago
Now I have some things to talk about at the next party. If there ever is one.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Woah, Some of these facts are quite frightening like Replacing eggs for blood, making swords from blood, making pants from a dead person, putting ash over a body to hide the smell etc etc. Gotta wonder what the hobbies of these people are lol.
Kesam 4 years ago (edited)
The oderr of ltretes in a wrod is not esniesalt to uedtndsnnairg waht is wtietrn, as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lteters are in the crcoret psiiootn.
Sharon Hahn 4 years ago
The order of letters in a word is not essential to understanding what is written, as long as the first and last letters are in the correct position. You're welcome!
Load More Replies... Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I feel like this entire list was written by serial killers. *_*
Astrid Nineor 4 years ago
Another random fact: Truth serum is sort of real, (though exaggerated in movies) but if the person using it on you don't know what they are doing, it can kill you
CbusResident 4 years ago
During WWII, a fairly large number of Nazi-POWs were brought to the USA, tens of thousands of them, possibly hundreds of thousands. Many were required to work on American farms, and it's thought that some probably had relations with the farmers' daughters - so we likely had some number of little half-Nazi babies scattered across the US from that!
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
There are all kinds of "Nazi" all over the world.
Load More Replies... AnnieLaurie Burke 4 years ago
Seems there were a lot of "facts" that would be of greatest use to murderers....
TheHolyFatherOfToast 4 years ago
I think the "quenching your sword in the blood of your enemies" is awesome. Gives me the number i need to reach. That was a joke..........maybe.........i think.........
Jack Lowry 4 years ago
As both a medical professional and an historian who grew up on a farm I state most of these are B.S. Notice how none have any supporting information...
Jack Lowry 4 years ago
As both a Medical Professional and an Historian that grew up on a Farm I find most of these to be BS. Notice how none of them link to other sources?
Jaybird3939 4 years ago
Probably well known, but...You can poison (and kill) someone with toothpaste (ingested). And Candy Corn is named that because if you stack them right, they look like an ear of corn.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal.
Courtney Christelle 4 years ago
A male elephant can use his penis as a fifth leg to steady his weight while on uneven ground. Built in kick stand.
CbusResident 4 years ago (edited)
During the drafting of the United States' Constitution he term 'President of the United States' was intended to sound like an office of minor significance - to imply that the person in this role would merely preside over the country, which would be understood to be doing minimal things to oversee the country.
Pauline Bennett 4 years ago
This, I think proves how gullible some people an be and its so sad. Most or them if you really think about the comment are a mostly agood laugh.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
That is why some "wise" people down-voted your comment, Pauline. Human stupidity is limitless.
Load More Replies... Little Wonder 4 years ago
Bored Panda is an aggregator site, they just pull stuff from all over the internet - these are all from reddit, so ebaums world did the same thing.
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