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Our brains, supposedly, should be good for keeping us alive by allowing us to remember vital information used for our survival. However, I often catch myself, especially in a minute of dire need, remembering weird facts that are totally useless, unrelatable, and just a tiny bit interesting rather than something truly helpful. Why on Earth do I remember stuff like who invented the dinner knife, that there are more lawn flamingos in the world than real ones, and how to cut bale twine with bale twine? It's probably only the brain that could answer this question. But, be as it may, some of these useless facts do sometimes come in handy as they make excellent conversation starters or fill in the gaps of awkward silences, only to make them even more awkward afterward. And so here we are with our collection of random useless facts - they might be worthless, but they are hella entertaining.

So, you might want to know under which categories these funny useless facts fall. A short answer would be, 'oh, you know, this and that.' More accurate would be this - sports, science, politics, history, biology, animals, music, pop culture, and plenty more. Basically, a random fact on any topic you'd like to learn something useless about! And you know what the best part about this list is? All of these bits of trivia are undeniably fun facts - none of them will weird you out or make you feel discombobulated, giving you pure enjoyment instead. 

Now, are you ready for some totally useless but nevertheless very interesting facts? Of course, you are! So, scroll on down below, check them out, and give the coolest facts your vote. Also, we think your friends would like to read these useless bits of information, too, agree? 

#1

Disney's cartoon character Mulan with the sword in fighting scene Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.

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#2

Maria Skłodowska-Curie portrait, black and white photograph Marie Curie's 100-year-old belongings are still radioactive.

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#3

Fred Baur portrait The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.

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#4

Comparison of the Eigengrau color vs the Black color If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called "eigengrau."

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#5

Queen Elizabeth II in a yellow dress Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic.

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#6

Bon Appetit Pound Cake Slice in plastic bag Pound cake originally included a pound of all of its ingredients.

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#7

Commercial blocks on Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. capital without a McDonald's.

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

They are also the only state in the contiguous 48 without a Chick-fil-A

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

With a population of 7500, I'm not surprised. I am surprised it's a capital city though.

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#8

First use of Nerd. Dr. Seuss in If I Ran The Zoo Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd."

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#9

 Ruth Handler, executive of Mattel Toy company, posing with collection of Barbie dolls, 1961 Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004.

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#10

White word "dreamt" on a red background "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with "mt."

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#11

English pattern playing card King of Hearts The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.

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#12

Blue dragonfly Azure holding on to grass Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk.

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#13

Separation of Sheep and Goats, Byzantine Mosaic In old Christian art, good angels were red and Satan was blue.

livescience.com , Metropolitan Museum of Art Report

#14

Planets and dwarf planets of the solar system Jupiter is twice as massive as all the other planets combined.

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#15

Clapper board on a green background Movie trailers got their name because they were originally shown after the movie.

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#16

White word "estivation" on a pink background Sleeping through summer is called "estivation."

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#17

Vantablack on aluminum foil, showing its property of removing visual texture from objects There's a trademark on the world's darkest shade of black.

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#18

Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen "SUE" on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex.

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#19

Octopus under water Octopuses and squid have three hearts.

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#20

Genghis Khan portrait cropped out of a page from an album, 14th century Around 16 million people alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

nationalgeographic.com , National Palace Museum Report

#22

A barber shaves a bearded man in a vintage atmosphere Mustache shields were a thing in the Victorian Era.

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#23

A person draws with sparkling light the symbol of infinity at night The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

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#24

The Scenic Railway at Luna Park, Melbourne, viewed from Shakespeare Grove Riding roller coasters can help you pass kidney stones.

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#26

Mr. Potato Head Funny Face Kit, 1952 Mr. Potato head used to be made of actual potato.

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#27

Person on the stage playing electric guitar and people dancing Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes.

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#28

Pair of white dice on top of the mirror The opposite sides of a dice will always add up to seven.

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#29

Hands with red nail polish Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.

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#30

Keys and wallet on the desk The average American spends about 2.5 days a year looking for lost items.

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#31

A close-up shot of many Oreo cookies Oreo has made enough cookies to go to the Moon and back 5 times.

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#32

The sun is shining brightly above the mountains The sun makes up more than 99 percent of our solar system's mass.

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#33

A person holding a slice of Hawaiian pizza on a wooden board A Greek-Canadian man invented the "Hawaiian" pizza.

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#34

Pizza with a lot of cheese The cheesiest pizza ever was topped with 154 varieties of cheese.

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#35

A marble tombstone surrounded with yellow flowers You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.

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#36

Glen Bell enjoys tacos with a woman Taco Bell was named after its owner, Glen Bell.

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#37

Chicken nuggets Chicken meat is not a main ingredient of chicken nuggets.

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#38

A man in a white t-shirt holds two white tissue rolls You produce about six pounds of stool per week.

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#39

Sleep-deprivation record-holder Randy Gardner on "To Tell the Truth" The longest time without sleep is 11 days.

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#40

Scrambled eggs with a leaf of parsley The largest scrambled eggs ever made weighed nearly 3.5 tons.

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#41

You can’t bring a Furby to the Pentagon.

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#42

The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.

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#43

An earthquake might have shrunk Mount Everest.

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#44

Sloths can hold their breath for longer than dolphins.

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#45

Frank Sinatra was offered the starring role in Die Hard when he was in his 70s.

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#46

Golf balls tend to have 336 "dimples."

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#47

4 out of 5 children recognize the Mcdonald's logo at 3 years old.

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#48

The oldest piece of chewing gum is more than 9,000 years old.

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#49

Cap'n Crunch's full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.

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#50

People used to answer the phone by saying "ahoy" instead of "hello."

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#51

The U.S. Air Force introduced Bob Ross to painting.

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#52

There is a metallic asteroid shaped like a dog bone named "Kleopatra."

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#53

Queen Elizabeth II's cows sleep on waterbeds.

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#54

The real name of Monopoly mascot Uncle Pennybags is Milburn Pennybags.

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#55

More than two-thirds of millennials sleep nude.

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#56

The average person has four to six dreams a night.

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#57

Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.

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#58

Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.

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#59

Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard.

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#60

A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.

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#61

If you plug your nose, you can't tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.

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#62

Pope John Paul II was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

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#63

Hershey's makes one million miles of Twizzlers every year.

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#64

Apple seeds contain cyanide.

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#65

Rainbows were called "bows of promise" in Victorian English.

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#66

Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn't bark.

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#67

The first Nerf ball package claimed the toy "can't hurt babies or old people."

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#68

A British teen changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."

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#69

There are giant technicolor squirrels in India.

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#70

Ravens know when someone is spying on them.

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#71

No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.

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#72

A group of hippos is called a "bloat."

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#73

Space travel makes mice run in loops.

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#74

The average American produces 4.5 pounds of trash per day.

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#75

Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.

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#76

Most pandas in the world are on loan from China.

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#77

The Bubonic plague encouraged Shakespeare to write poetry.

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#78

A "jiffy" is about one trillionth of a second.

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#79

"Spoonfeed" is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

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#80

The largest bill to go into circulation in the U.S. was a $10,000 note.

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#81

Maryland tried to ban Randy Newman's song "Short People."

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#82

A Harry Potter book filled with typos sold for $90,000.

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#83

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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#84

Play-Doh was invented as wallpaper cleaner.

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#85

A frigate bird can sleep while it flies.

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#86

Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.

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#87

Facial reconstruction was used to see what dogs looked like 4,000 years ago.

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#88

The thumb nail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

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#90

Many oranges are actually green.

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#91

The little dot above a lowercase "i" and "j" has a name.

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#92

Punctuation wasn't always a part of our written language.

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#93

The tool used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called a "Brannock Device."

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#94

There is only one walled city in North America.

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#95

The most common password is "123456."

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#96

According to the Bible, the chicken came before the egg.

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#97

It's possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds.

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#98

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

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#99

There's a city called "Rome" on every continent except Antarctica

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#100

Massachusetts is home to Busta Rhymes Island.

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#101

One man set a world record by putting on 260 T-shirts at once.

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#102

The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising.

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#103

The lint in the bottom of your pocket has a name.

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#104

Ketchup was used medicinally in the early 1800s.

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#105

There's a tiny home in Virginia called the "Spite House" because that's why it was built.

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#106

The tallest supported bamboo sculpture is more than 164-feet high.

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#108

A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in the year 2000 would be amazons like Wonder Woman.

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#109

Americans eat enough burgers to circle the earth over 32 times.

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#110

3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

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#112

Legos have a uniform system.

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#113

Ice cream warms the body.

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#114

And "tesseradecades," "aftercataracts," and "sweaterdresses" are the longest words you can type using only your left hand.

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#115

"Schoolmaster" is an anagram of "the classroom."

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#116

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles has a hidden meaning.

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#117

The average person spends 2 years using their phone.

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#118

You would likely "mutate" in space without a spacesuit.

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#119

Bangkok has the world record for the longest name.

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#120

There's an optical illusion at bottom of the sea.

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#121

Scientists discovered the fossil of a 430-million-year-old monster.

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#122

Those metal studs on your jeans have a name and a purpose.

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