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In this day and age, we are constantly being bombarded with information. We have a 24-hour news cycle and countless articles, books, podcasts, documentaries and more available at our fingertips. But despite the access to information that we have, it’s still impossible for us to know everything.

So if you’re interested in learning some fun facts that you’ve never heard before, we’ve got a fascinating list for you down below, pandas. From interesting info about geography to facts about your favorite furry animals, enjoy reading through this information that Reddit users have recently shared, and be sure to upvote the knowledge that you find particularly shocking!

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn It’s not heli-copter. It’s helico, meaning spiral. And pter, meaning wings. Like pterodactyl.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Scotland's national animal is a unicorn!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They only do that for show. It's really the wild hairy haggis.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn The year JRR Tolkien died is the One Ring verse but backwards.

1973!

*Three rings for the elven kings*

*Seven for the Dwarf Lords*

*Nine for mortal men*

*One Ring to rule them all*

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Yesterday I was on YouTube and I stumbled upon animal ASMR. And there I was watching a snail eating a yellow watermelon. I never realized they make sounds too when they eat. Man I feel bad. Snails are underrated.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn The mammoths died out after the pyramids in Egypt were built.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Bananas are berries and strawberries arent

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about blueberries? Did you know if you wait long enough they will turn into elderberries

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Not everyone has an inner monologue

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn That we have a means of transplanting a full heart into a human being but if your colon stops working the best thing we have is to make a hole in your navel and have you s**t in a bag.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You could have phrased the last bit better. The hole is generally made on the abdomen and not through the navel. It's called a stoma and is often a life saving procedure, I've had mine for 14 years now and would be dead without it. I'm probably over sensitive, but hate it being described as "s**t*ing in a bag".

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Mine is that there’s only 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. I don’t know why it’s so surprising to me but it is.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn The famous circus music we all know is actually an 1897 military march called 'Entry of the Gladiators'.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "da da duh da duh de, da duh da duh du deh, da da dah du deh, da da dah du de, ba ba buh ba ba buh da ba da bah boo beh"? 😊

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Mine is that baby carrots aren’t real, they are just cut and shaved full size carrots.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically called baby-cut carrots, as in the picture but marketed as baby carrots. Proper baby carrots do exist but are normal carrot shaped.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch with Jim Carrey is now the singer of a punk rock/metal band: The Pretty Reckless

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Buffalo sauce is just hot sauce and butter. Rocked me to the core.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Heteropaternal superfecundation. It's a thing.

"In rare cases, fraternal twins can be born from two different fathers in a phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation. Although uncommon, rare cases have been documented where a woman is pregnant by two different men at the same time."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find that so strange. They'd be twins but biologically only half siblings at the same time.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Dragon flies used to have a 21 inch wing span. They are also the greatest fliers of all flying creatures even better than humming birds. They are also the most successful predator in the world with a success rate of 75% to 80%. Most canine and feline species are at around 8%.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry to be pedantic, but no, dragon flies did not have such a wingspan. Their ancestors did, sure, but it'd be like saying that humans used to be three feet tall and walk on all fours.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn *Regarding cremations:*

The word "ashes" is typically used instead of *cremains*.

But contrary to common belief, cremains are not ashes at all. For the most part, they are dry calcium phosphates together with some other minerals, including potassium and sodium, which in simpler terms means bone matter.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I figured that when i saw my mom's ashes and they were an orangish color, I was expecting more an ashtrayish look.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn You can easily fly a spacecraft through the asteroid belt because asteroids are very far apart and there's an extremely small chance of colliding with one.

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#18

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

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Elected official get things like lifetime healthcare or lifetime pensions after leaving their elected job, NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY SERVED.

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#20

That Narwhals have a long tusk protruding from the left side of their jaw. That is correct, it isn't centered, and it isn't a horn or antler... Oh did that not blow your mind enough? Well some Narwhals have two long tusks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because of incredible PBS shows such as Wild Kratts my children will never know a time in their life without such knowledge. I, however, in my 30’s was learning right along with them! 🤣 Also, like dolphins, beluga whales, orcas and pilot whales, they’re porpoises, not whales. They have teeth, and hunt their prey as opposed to filter feed. Another fact about narwhals is that none have ever survived in captivity.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn The salinity in the human body almost equals that of the sea.

It was less the fact itself but the realization that we have such a strong connection to where we all came from.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We took the sea with us when we crept up to land. Our cells need saltwater to survive, our eyes need saltwater to be able to see... and à human fœtus needs to swim in saltwater while it evolves from à single cell to fish to human.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Tetris helped a group of scientists learn some pretty intresting s**t about Alzheimer's.
We learnt that our brains will still store memories, but they can't retrieve them anymore.
This was discovered from a experiment involving people who had akzeiheimers, playing Tetris.
It was found that people could subconsciously dream about tetris with out remembering having ever seen it or played it.
The phenomenon was called "the Tetris effect".

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn There are 30% less birds in North America now than there was in 1970.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's very sad and, most likely, duplicated around the world

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If you go by Greco-Roman Mythology within the Disney universe, Ariel and Heracles are relatives. Heracles's dad is Zeus, who has a brother, Poseidon. Now, Poseidon has children of his own, including a merman named Triton. Keep in mind, with this logic, this would make Zeus Ariel's Uncle, thus making her and Heracles cousins on a technicality. 

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Blucifer (the Blue Mustang sculpture located at the Denver International Airport) killed its creator, Luis Jiménez, when a section of the sculpture fell on him, severing and artery in his leg

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just to be clear, "Blucifer" is a nickname derisively given it by people who think it looks strangely evil.

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That the bananas we eat today have been domesticated/modified to remove their seeds. Blew my mind 

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71% percent of the green house gasses emitted in the world come from only 100 corporations. Not sure if it's true, but if it is, WTF.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Your skeleton is wet while you're using it.

It makes perfect sense but it DEEPLY upset my brain to have 2 and 2 put together.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At what time of the day are you not using your skeleton?

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Wombat poo is naturally cubical

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, you can’t put a square in a round hole, but you can GET a square from a round hole? Interesting. (Not so interesting if in fact wombats have square buttholes, but there’s no way I’m googling wombat buttholes. I’ll end up on some weird alert list.)

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Betty White is older than sliced bread.

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#31

Bar code scanners, scan the white part of the bar code and not the black part. It doesn't scan just the white part, it looks for whatever isn't black.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Either way you look at it, the light reflects differently between the two contrasting colors and it is that pattern the scanner is reading. it makes sense the white reflects back more.

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I just found out that Abigail Folger (Daughter of Folger's coffee chairman Peter Folger and heir to the multi-billion dollar company) was m******d by the Manson family and her death was overshadowed by Sharon Tate.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Murdered isn't a dirty word... seriously BP, stop censoring language.

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Over half of Canada's population lives south of Seattle.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And all of the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherland, and Denmark are above that latitude. As is the majority of Germany, Poland, and Czechia. The north of mainland Scotland is over 10 degree further north than Seattle.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn That there were different species of human. Neanderthals in particular absolutely blew my mind. I only really understood this was absolute fact in my early 20's. (Catholic school, not taught about evolution)

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Squirrels can't die from falling from any height

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Define "any". If a squirrel falls out of an airplane, it's not going to be wearing a parachute.

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn Cats are safe from injury in any fall as long as they fall from a certain height or higher. Basically, small animals are so light that air resistance slows their fall to a safe speed. For cats, they have to have enough time to adjust their body and spread out to increase resistance and slow their fall.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm picturing men in white lab coats with clip boards tossing various animals out the back of a C 130 cargo plain. "Yep! Yep! Nope! Okay, so cats and squirrels are fine but cows are right out!"

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Humans can regrow the tips of their fingers if they get cut off below the nail bed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can confirm! When I was 13-14 I got distracted while wrapping Christmas presents and accidentally cut off my finger about halfway down the nail with a carpet knife. It hurt and remained a huge dent for a while but you can barely see a scar today.

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The Anno Domini dating system wasn’t created until 525 AD.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not even universal amongst Christians: The Ethiopian church uses a different biblical event, and even if they used the same one they think other Christians are a few years out. We probably are.

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That Bald Eagles don't make noise and that it's Redhawks that they use for the sounds of Bald Eagles in movies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No such animal - there are Red-tailed Hawks, and Red-shouldered Hawks, but there is no bird with the common name of Redhawk. It's the Red-tailed that usually provides the sound effects.

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I was mostly surprised because I thought “man, wouldn’t it be cool if that existed?” So I googled it and found out it existed!! A language made of whistles. That way you can communicate from far off.

It was developed in some mountainous place where people had to communicate from mountain peak to mountain peak before the use of binoculars.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yodeling has had the same purpose, communicating over long distances in the Alps.

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That you can re-use a lint roller by tearing off the used sticky one.

I always thought, "Why would people pay for this?"

I was 50 years old when I realized I was an idiot.

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Here's a random and highly specific fact: a piece of embroidery about the size of a sheet of paper (8.5 x 11 inches) uses almost half a kilometer of thread to make.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the fact that OP managed to use 2 different measurement systems in just one fact

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Toucans are actually very omnivorous, and sometimes predatory.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. They only feast on fruit-flavoured, colourful rings made of wheat and sugar.

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That Kyle Gass from tenacious d is a julliard graduate with a masters degree in classical guitar. He's also the youngest master from there, earned at 12 years old. I knew he was good but that blew my mind.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on November 15, 2006,[6] Gass claimed to have been the youngest graduate of the Juilliard School of Music with a degree in classical guitar studies at the age of 13. Juilliard did not have a guitar program in 1973, but began its graduate level guitar program in 1989 under Sharon Isbin, and its undergraduate program in 2007. Earlier, in an article in the Sunday Times on October 29, 2006, Black stated that Gass was the youngest graduate of Juilliard.[7] On May 13, 2008, Gass was a phone-in guest on the Adam Carolla Show. When Adam Carolla asked him "... And did you go to Juilliard?" Kyle replied "I didn't. I—you know, I made that up as a joke," he continued, "and I thought it would be hilarious, and then I've been hearing about it ever since. Apologies to Juilliard."[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Gass & @Dogfaceboy 1980 for making me curious.

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Peanuts are grown underground

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn More people have been to space than have explored the depths of the ocean.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true, many more people have explored the depths of the oceans accidentaly, just not many planned to do it and most because they boats sank.

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Cherry seed has cyanide.. (Crushed)

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most stoned fruits from the same family have it in small quantities; almonds have probably the highest concentration of any that are eaten as nuts, such that you could ingest enough to kill you if you ate 1000 per day. But your digestive system would probably not allow you to do so. No, I'm not about tho try and test this,

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No one knows how eels make more eels. Seriously, look it up

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You cant hum while holding your nose closed

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and everyone reading this held they nose and tried to hum

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn The fact that there are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn That Einstein was an actual person!! I always thought he was a *theoretical* physicist.

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I recently found out that the uterus can like... sag or cave into itself and a doctor has to get up in there to push it back in place. It's rare but extremely painful.

I wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it after finding this out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Prolapses affect a much higher proportion of women that you might think, they are just *very* rarely spoken about. People with EDS suffer very badly from prolapses.

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The first manmade object to ever leave the Earth’s atmosphere was a manhole cover launched into space from a nuclear bomb test. I think it is also still the fastest moving object humans have ever created.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We don't know if it actually left the atmosphere, it might have been vaporized. The Parker Solar Probe is currently the fastest manmade object, roughly 3 times faster than the manhole cover..

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50 People Share Random Facts That They Were Shocked To Learn That pirates are responsible for the US not being on the metrics system.

Everything about pirates is so commercialized or just b******t, but that's one they get to have forever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

False. Canada switched to the metric system in 1975. The USA could have as well but has not switched because of stubbornness.

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Stainless steel isn't magnetic...I didn't have stainless steel appliances growing up, but we bought all stainless for our kitchen and I got some cute magnets. My fiancé told me they won't stay on and why, and I was genuinely surprised and disappointed.

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An atomic bomb exploding doesn't make that terrifying roar you hear in movies. It just makes a regular *BANG!* like any ordinary explosive. Most of the footage of nuclear bombs has no sound, so directors add in the sound effect later.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the blast wave after the explosion that makes most of the noise.

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When the toilet bowl water splashes and "touches" your butt when you poop... It's called "Poseidon's kiss"
Some jellyfishes are technically immortal.

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I love the train of thought that these two facts were posted together. Was someone "kissed" by a Jellyfish while on the toilet?

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40% of the world's almonds are bought by chocolate manufacturers

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact- It takes 1-3 gallons of water to grow a single almond, and there are about 92 almonds in a cup.

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That the pirates were the first one with a kind of social insurance

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also practiced democracy, where all adults (including women) voted for their leaders. There was a strict code to live by and offenders were exiled or worse. Women were allowed and expected to vote long before women were allowed to vote in European countries or the USA.

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Starting at Earth's orbit, it takes as much energy to fly into the Sun as it does to fly past Neptune.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Curiously though, much of that energy to reach the sun is needed to slow down.

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The way pineapples grow. Was totally drunk on a Kenny Cooler in a Texas Roadhouse when I googled it. Never been able to forget it.

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The sound when you slap your fingers is not made by your fingers but by the middle finger and the palm

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I will say, when I try to keep my middle finger up and not hitting my palm, the sound made is far less distinct that it is normally.

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When I was 6 and found out that my grandma was my mom's mom. Mind blown.

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Many herbs have gone extinct in an attempt to help with birth control.

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Santa isn't real

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