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The thread has over 34K upvotes and u/BeefBall1010, the Redditor behind the post, told us they were surprised at the response their question got. “I never expected it to blow up like this,” they said.

There’s a whole slew of random and weird facts shared on the thread. BeefBall1010 told us that the one about rats was a personal favorite of theirs. Most of them are quite memorable ones but trying to remember every single fact you’ve ever heard can be quite a challenge.

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You have erectile tissue in your nose. Orcas are the biggest natural predators of moose. There is a psychological disorder in which people believe they are a cow and it's called boanthropy. A wood frog can hold it's pee for up to eight months. If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will lose it's colour and become white. You can actually "dig to China" from Argentina. The Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows. There is a kind of psychologist called a "wealth psychologist" that specializes in helping wealthy people deal with immense guilt or not being emotionally able to cope with being rich. A single spaghetti noodle is called a spaghetto. A Polish doctor faked a typhus outbreak in order to prevent nazis. The youngest Pope was only 11 years old. A man once filmed 7 episodes of a soap opera in IKEA without getting caught. (the opera). Pigs will eat the entire human body except for the teeth. When cremating a body, if you don't remove the teeth, they will pop like popcorn.

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Diana Eriksson 3 years ago

I don't know why, but that last one really made me queasy haha

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One way of recounting information is the use of mnemonics. This refers to a system that can help you remember information by tying it to certain patterns. Examples of this can be acronyms (such as ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Football’ that musicians use to remember the lines on a music ledger) or musical methods (like putting the alphabet to the tune of ‘Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star’). Surely a lot of us still recount the alphabet by using this method, I know I do.

An experiment was performed on how mnemonics such as acronyms can make a difference in remembering information and enforcing our work without interruptions. It required the 65 participants to complete a task with multiple different steps. Half of the group were given an acronym to support and remind them of each step and the other half were not.

40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile, they cut off his reproductive organ and gave it to the local parish priest. The priest later sold it to raise money for his Parish and it's been sold and resold down through the centuries and to this day there are three people who claim to own Napoleon's reproductive organ.

No one knows why this happened, and it's not the important part of the story. The important part is, who the hell do those other two belong to?

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Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago

Oh, so they took Napoleons' "bone apart"...Ok, I'll see myself out...

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Dragonflies are the most effective hunter on the planet catching 95% of the prey they go after.

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Mazer 3 years ago

And they have been around since the dinosaurs roamed the planet, They were much bigger then

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Results from the experiment showed that those with the acronym fared far better than their counterparts at completing the task. It was linked to the participants being able to perform and recover faster after being interrupted as part of the experiment. The sequential steps made it easier to visualize the steps in their minds and reinforce what needed to be completed next.

40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Cows moo with accents depending on their regions.

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Daria B 3 years ago (edited)

I think seagulls have dialects/languages too. I noticed the same species of animal sound different in Korea and in Croatia. In Korea, they produce higher pitch and short sounds, whereas, in Croatia they sound deeper and slower, makes you really feel lazy. In Umag, at least.

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Rats are bisexual by nature and females will have group orgies with each other when in heat.

Male's balls can take up 10% of their entire mass!

There was a study where they put females in 'lingerie' and accustomed the males to it to the point they only saw the lingerie wearing rats as suitable mates.

Rats can give into peer pressure and eat things they don't like if everyone else is eating it.

Rats cannot burp or vomit.

With the amount of people killing pest rats by poison, they are creating bigger, smarter, poison resistant mutant rats.

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Mazer 3 years ago

By killing rats with rat poison we are also killing the things that eat rats like owls and bobcats etc

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Another more visual way of memorizing information is the 'method of loci' or the use of a ‘memory palace’. This was used to effect in Benedict Cumberbatch’s modern portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, where he closes his eyes and imagines a virtual space that stores all of the most useful information in his memory. All he had to do was walk through the space led by certain cues and pluck out memories from wherever he had filed them, helping him to solve cases in a jiffy.

40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway In Massachusetts, it’s illegal to consume more than 3 sandwiches at a funeral.

The most random law I’ve ever heard about

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Diana Eriksson 3 years ago

Another random law: If a Swede crosses over the frozen sea between Denmark and Sweden, Danes are allowed to beat them up. It's a relic of when Denmark and Sweden were constantly at war, so if a group of Swedes crossed over the ice they probably didn't have good intentions, thus this law allowing the Danes to defend themselves. As far as I know, it was never changed.

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Koala's are the most alien of all mammals on the planet. They have two thumbs on each hand, three vaginas, spend most of their lives asleep, and evolved to only eat one plant that has no nutritional value. They also eat their mother's poop.

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Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago

Koala’s also have fingerprints that are almost indistinguishable from human fingerprints so the next time you’re thinking of robbing a bank, take a furry friend.

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The distance a squirrel would need to fall in order to die is 4,800 miles. This is because squirrels cannot die from a terminal velocity fall; they would have to fall far enough to die from starvation.

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Mike Ward 3 years ago

I'm confident it would die from lack of oxygen before starvation in this scenario.

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This is far from fictitious and it’s used most often by people competing in the World Memory Championships. That’s right, there’s a competition for the brainiest person out there that can memorize and recount enormous amounts of information within a certain timeframe. It’s been going on since 1991 with people from all over the world competing for the title.

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Most ‘sea monster’ sightings are actually a whale sticking its reproductive organ out of the water.

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Mazer 3 years ago

So sightings are not wrong then

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The kiwi is a bird closely related to the emu and the ostrich, despite having the size of a chicken. Nature made it small but forgot about the egg, which is about the size of an emu egg.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Ouch.

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When bears hibernate they generate a mucous wax to cover their buttholes so that nothing can get in

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Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago

What a relief to finally know.... I have been worrying about this for years!

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Perhaps the most outstanding champion of the competition is Dominic O’Brien. Having won it a staggering eight times, he’s gone on to write about memorization techniques and even developed his own system.

O’Brien spoke with The Daily Mail about his use of 'loci' and how it helped him to win the titles so many times. He said, “This is undoubtedly the key to my success at the World Memory Championships. Placing each piece of data that I had to absorb in a particular place that I had already set aside in my mind made it easier for me to recall them.”

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The first Pong machine was dropped off at a local tavern owned by friends of one of the developers for a test run. After a few days, the game started to malfunction. The tavern owner called one of the Devs, Allan Alcorn, to come fix it, and when Alcorn got there it was discovered that it was malfunctioning because it was too full of quarters.

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Mazer 3 years ago

Nice

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#14

40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway According to Mattel, Barbie's real name is Barbara Milicent Roberts. And Ken's last name is Carson.

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Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago

Ken Carson sounds like he should be on Fox News espousing terrible vaccine advice and generally being a Trump supporting Chad.

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway In the 1700s they used to rent out pineapples for hundreds of dollars, people would parade their pineapple around the streets flexing on the peasants that couldn't afford to rent a pineapple

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Jonathan 3 years ago

Yet these days they can be found on pizza. How the mighty have fallen.

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O’Brien explained how we already use loci: “An excellent everyday example of the art of location is the solution to the common problem of finding a set of misplaced keys. What we do is retrace our steps (logically or figuratively).”

“We check the hall where we hung up our coat when we first came home, the study where we went to check phone messages, and so we continue through the house until we eventually arrive at the place we put down our keys.”

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway If you sneeze when coming from a dark room into sunlight, it is because of a specific gene which is named ACHOO. I know because I have it.

"Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) Syndrome is characterized by uncontrollable sneezing in response to the sudden exposure to bright light, typically intense sunlight"

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

A well thought out acronym.

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Shrimp live in the canopies of the Redwood Forests. They get there via literal seagull poop, and the lush coastal ecosystem forms little puddles on the branches in which they grow and live.

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

I need to know more.

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#18

You're more likely to be sexually assaulted by a dolphin than eaten by a shark

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J. F. 3 years ago

Dolphins are quite the real sea monsters - raping, killing and keeping hostages sounds worse than eating others to survive like sharks do

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

Im pretty sure I heard this somewhere but dolphins rub on other fishes to masturbate and will stick their reproductive organs into other dolphins blowholes... 😶

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Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago

Hearing this, it's surprising how many people have "swimming with the dolphins" on their bucket list... maybe they haven't heard this yet?!

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chrissy goodman 3 years ago

as someone who survived a shark attack i can tell u getting ur leg chomped on hurts like hell and leaves a nasty scar and is horrifying wen its happening but the thought of being assaulted by a dolphin is scary bc they look so cute and innocent

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tuzdayschild 3 years ago

I don't know about that. It's all pretty bad.

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Vytas Navickas 3 years ago

very closely related to human brains

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Adrian 3 years ago

I don't know - we get a lot of shark attacks in Australia, and I've never heard of anyone getting raped or otherwise sexually assaulted by a dolphin. Mind you if I was a victim I don't think I'd be reporting it and end up on the 6 o'clock news.

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chrissy goodman 3 years ago

well im pretty sure me saying how lucky i m to have survived a shark attack is impressive and not embarassing. the scar ya it was a bunch of teeth marks all over my right leg. im pretty sure if someone was sexually assaulted by a dolphin they wouldnt want the world to kno

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Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago

Neither event sounds like a fun Saturday outing ~

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Jon S. 3 years ago

I've never heard of this happening in the wild. But I am aware there are reports of captive dolphins taking a sexual interest in humans. I deeply don't want to google to find out more.

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Monday 3 years ago

Dolphins tend to gang rape their females in the wild...for such a beloved animal they sure are bloodthirsty bastards.

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LadyHardanger 3 years ago

#NotAllDolphins

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Raven DeathShade 3 years ago

My phone...my tea...why?!?!?!

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glowworm2 3 years ago

That would explain the basis of the legend of the boto encantado in which Amazon pink river dolphins transform into handsome men in order to seduce and impregnate women.

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Mazer 3 years ago

There has been recent reports of sea snakes being sexually interested in divers.

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Raccoon Queen 3 years ago

Wtaf

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CincyReds 3 years ago

I remember listening to the radio one time, and this guy on and said he was raped by a dolphin, and now the two of them are in love.... And I am really not making this up!

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VogueGal 3 years ago

I didn't know this until I watch Desperado on Netflix, thought it was just silly. Now I'm wondering how many victims out there that just been too embarrassed to report themselves have been sexually attacked by a dolphin!!!

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

But other than that swimming is fun?

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

They might kill you first though, I've seen papers about wild dolphins killing and decapitating seals to use the body as a masturbatory aid.

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BetweenTheCracks 3 years ago

I've read about them passing a puffer fish between them and getting high on the toxins. Maybe these two things together is a wild Saturday night in the dolphin world (...eeugh)

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Your fellow Gay 3 years ago

Dolphins are monsterz

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WEEB WEEB WEEB WEEB WEEB WEEB 3 years ago

tf :D

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Augie Chapin 2 years ago

*king of the hill flashbacks*

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Jen Szabo 3 years ago

How about neither.

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Annie Myers 3 years ago

I'm totally fine with that.

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Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago

No I am not!

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MIA J RODRIGUEZ 3 years ago

Again. 👁️👄👁️

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Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Pardon me people but have you not read or heard of the nasty sexual perversions of humans? I'd be afraid of them before a dolphin!

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Scagsy 3 years ago

I'm uncertain: should I be more scared or less scared?

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Steve Fischer 3 years ago

That's an old wife's tale

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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago

Dolphins are no joke, man.

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Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Don't forget that an Orca is actually a dolphin.

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Whitey Black 3 years ago

Those damn NFL players! And I doubt very much there's any cannibals on the San Jose Sharks...

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Candace Alagappan 3 years ago

What

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Rebecca Trinkner 3 years ago

How about I just never go in water that isn't a lake, pool or bathtub.

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Fabrice 3 years ago

always beware of an animal that constantly smiles

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Glirpy 3 years ago

Simpsons did it

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BetweenTheCracks 3 years ago

This list is convincing me that my teenage dream of becoming a marine biologist (cetacean specialty) would not have been how I envisioned. Didn't know they were the pervs of the sea!

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Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago

Proven and tested, how.? Just how.?

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I am a robot 3 years ago

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XSpooky_Mint 3 years ago

DUDE, NO!

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The first known vending machine was created in the 1st century AD and it was located in Egypt. The machine dispensed holy water and it also took coins like ours do today.

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troufaki13 3 years ago

It was invented by Hero of Alexandria

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway You can legally marry your first cousin in Georgia.

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

That explains it then ;)

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#21

You can’t cross Minnesota state lines with a duck on your head, it’s illegal. I learned that the hard way.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Gotta know the story!!

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Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Dolphins can fall deeply in love and develop relationships just like humans can.

It has been recorded multiple times that when a human and dolphin - who have formed a strong relationship between them over a long period of time are separated:

the dolphin becomes so depressed that they willfully commit suicide by sinking to the bottom of their pool/lagoon and refuse to come up for air until they drown to death.

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

That's why they should be in the ocean and not in a giant tank for shows.

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The annual migration of birds was only discovered in 1822 when a stork turned up in Germany with a 30-inch African spear through its neck. Before that, we seriously thought migratory birds slept at the bottom of ponds or flew to the moon for the winter.

Google: Pfeilstorch

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Mazer 3 years ago

Storks….making sacrifices for science!!!

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The longest word you can make using the top row of a keyboard is typewriter

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

I just checked, it's true!

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Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway It was an annual tradition for the pharaoh of Egypt to masturbate into the Nile with an audience.

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Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago

Did he have a masturbation slave to do the handiwork

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway If people were otherwise immortal and nobody had anymore children, and you shot someone every second, it would take around 230 years to kill off the human race.

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SentimentAndBadJokes 3 years ago

That's incredibly specific

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#27

There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones

Mr. Rogers personally replied to each piece of fan mail he ever received.

It takes a sloth a whole month to travel 1 mile across ground.

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Mazer 3 years ago

The female Galapagos tortoise takes about a month to get from the top of the islands where they mate to the bottom sandy areas where they lay their eggs

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#28

The main legal consideration between grave robbery and archeology is age and if the deceased has any living relatives.

Where I live (ymmv), if the deceased has been dead over a century and has no living descendants, it's not considered grave robbery and you can claim any valuables found (jewellery, coins, artifacts, etc).

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Aubrie Allen 3 years ago

Good to know what the line is finally.

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50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Clown fish will change genders if their mate dies and then mate with their children

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LesAnimaux 3 years ago

That would have been a dark, dark Pixar movie

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#30

Pineapples contain enzymes that break down proteins, which is why your mouth goes tingley when you eat lots of it.

Given this, theoretically you could dissolve a body in pineapple juice

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

FRESH pineapple juice. Once "cooked" by canning, the enzymes are destroyed. Same reason you can't use fresh pineapple in Jello - the enzymes will prevent the Jello from setting.

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#31

Before the Titanic sank a book titled "Futility" came out about a fictional British ocean liner called the Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg.

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Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago (edited)

It’s by Morgan Robertson and is actually a decent read. Give it a read, you won’t be disappointed.

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#32

Cannibalism is only illegal in one state of the United States (Idaho)

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Pryjmaty 3 years ago

However, eating a corpse is considered desecrating it. THAT is illegal in almost every state.

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#33

Cheetah meow like a house cat.

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Mazer 3 years ago (edited)

Also baby cheetahs have evolved to look like honey badgers - Honey badgers are bad ass nobody wants to tangle with them

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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A botfly egg can land on your skin and implant within a fraction of a second. If one hits you in the eye, it is possible that it can implant the egg under your eyelid so your eye incubates and subsequently feeds the growing larva. I know this because I have removed one from the underside of an eyelid before from a patient with a recalcitrant “eyelid infection”

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Oh maaaan, I didn't want to know this. Eeeeew

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#35

40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The quickest way to the heart actually IS through the stomach. According to archeological evidence, the Aztecs basically discovered through their years of sacrificing people that it’s way quicker to cut open the stomach and then go up and under the rib cage to cut the heart out, rather than trying to break open the ribs to get through them. They could apparently get someone’s heart out this way in only a few seconds, and there are accounts of sacrifices where multiple thousands of people had their hearts cut out in a single day, which would take forever if they didn’t know the quickest method.

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LesAnimaux 3 years ago

Practice makes perfect, I guess?

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Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Your teeth are the only part of your skeleton that you actively clean

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Springy The Non Binary Boi(They/Them) 3 years ago

Smile bones

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#37

I know the full name of Dom Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil, since I was a child: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon.

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Try saying that after a couple of drinks!

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#38

The cheetah is the only cat without retractable claws.

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

And I can forgive that because they are so beautiful. I would love to see them in the wild.

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#39

A pregnant woman can legally poop on a footpath in Melbourne Australia.

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Robert T 3 years ago

And in the UK a policeman is obliged to give her his helmet if she needs to urinate and there isn't a toilet available.

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