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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway

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We love to learn facts: fun ones, cool ones, strange ones. The internet is a treasure-trove of new facts to discover and share with your friends. On the other hand, it also brings us some things that we wish we didn’t know.

Have you ever heard a fact so weird and specific that it made you ask, “Why the hell do you know that?” Apparently, quite a few people have. A recent thread on r/AskReddit set out to find the strangest facts that people know and the internet has delivered once again.

Tell one of these facts to someone and it will surely bring a look of horror and confusion to their face. So, they’re probably not the best icebreakers to use at a party, but hey, maybe they’ll be useful at some point in the future. Check out part one here for more weird facts.

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway A co-worker told me one day “you’ll know when it’s truly the first day of spring because lake water will warm up and make any dead bodies in the lake float to the top surface due to bacteria” he continued with “except for in Lake Superior where the water temperature never gets warm enough to build bacteria in a dead body” and that’s one coworker I’ll never make mad right there

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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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I've been waiting for my time to shine.

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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

I've kept pet rats since I was a teenager, and can attest that the bisexual thing is true. It's so funny watching them jump on each other. Sometimes the rat who's on the bottom grumpily shoves the other one away and you can all but hear them saying "Quit it!"

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Brandy Grote 3 years ago

What did you do at the lab today, dear? Ummm....

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Bored Cats 3 years ago

I watched rats have sex

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JB Darré 3 years ago

I'm guessing the "lingerie" came from Victorat's Secret.

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Auntriarch 3 years ago

Rodent Provocateur

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

They are fascinating. They will chose to help a mate (or even a stranger sometimes) over a great reward ("candy"). And they can be a bit "racist". If a rat of one colour (lets say brown) has only grown with rats of that colour (brown) it will be less friendly towards another coloured rat (lets say black and white). But its about the family colours not theirs. So a b&w rat living with brown rats will be the same.

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Chris Kane 3 years ago

Rats are super smart and very loyal, i've had dogs all my life and I recently got 2 rats, I swear they are way smarter than many dog breeds and just as loyal (i can leave them out of the cage without worrying about them running away and I've taught them loads of tricks)

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MCathenaE 3 years ago

Stop poisoning rats! That stuff is horrible & it is monstrous to kill an animal that way. On another note, rats are actually pretty cool creatures. I'm not going to invite the city rats into my yard, but pet rats are charming pets.

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Seán Baron 3 years ago

Let's just hope rats don't learn to read and they get their paws on a copy of James Herbert's Rats trilogy otherwise we'll be buggered!

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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago

So when things heat up, they actually heat up...

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Gavin Winchester 3 years ago

“Killing” pest rats doesn’t lead to any adaptations. Attempting to will, so long as it isn’t successful.

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Thomas Ewing 3 years ago

An amazing rodenticide is "Just One Bite". Super lethal. Use great care when handling!

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D. Pitbull 3 years ago

So. ROUS's. Soon.

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Aesthetically Pleasing Rat 3 years ago

WOO HOO, RATS!!!

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Monty Is Fiennes 3 years ago

I used to have male rats as pets and yes balls are huge... I had one rat that used his balls as a cushion to sit on...

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Ben Moss 3 years ago

Rats are smarter (and nicer!) than cats. It’s a shame we treat them like crap

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Claire 3 years ago

I love rats (and have five of my own) but there's no need to compare and judge them against other species. Rats are rats and they are great. Cats are cats and they are great. This whole cat vs dogs and, I guess, now cat vs rats is unnecessary. Cats, dogs, and rats are all different animals and it helps no one to say one is superior. You can say YOU prefer being with rats to cats but rats are not objectively better than cats. And I say this as a person who does prefer rats to cats.

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Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago

Rats in lingerie...pictures or it didn't happen...

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BetweenTheCracks 3 years ago

BP is not your personal fetish site. ;)

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CincyReds 3 years ago

Rats are the sweetest little creatures. I miss my two boys a lot

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Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago

Wafarin which is commonly used as a rat poision is also used as medication. In high doses it prevents blood from clotting and the rats die from internal bleeding. Nothing you can get resistance against.

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Peggy Teach 3 years ago

More than I needed to know about rats.

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backatya 3 years ago

But do they FART??

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mamafrog 3 years ago

If you live where there are too many rats to poison, assuming you are trying to get rid of them as pests, you can set out lids or low pans of coke. Since they can't burp it kills them, without poisoning other animals. I mean like a farm or ranch.

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Eric Forster 3 years ago

Mutant rats? Whatever happened to the murder hornets?

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Rose 3 years ago (edited)

This was way too bizarre to not Google, as well as too interesting to not share. (Also, some of these researchers need to get out of the lab more often!) https://www.livescience.com/48980-rats-sexual-attraction-lingerie.html

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May Calhoun 3 years ago

A rat definitely wrote this

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Jackie Porter 3 years ago

I can confirm the lesbian orgies. My girl rats used to hump each other when they were in season.

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Mark Kelly 3 years ago

Well, that the explanation he gave to the other scientist when they found him in the lab one night alone.

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Mark Kelly 3 years ago

I guess that is Victoria's real secret.

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littlesaresare 3 years ago

Don't forget the study that taught them how to drive! Rats love to be the driver but stress out when they're the passenger!

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Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Too much time on someone's hands

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Riley Quinn 3 years ago

Rats are one of several animals that cannot vomit. Poisons, like antibiotics, just make the "pest" stronger. I figure we'll figure that out at some point. I want to know who funded the rat lingerie study.

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Cory Watts 3 years ago

This is either a joke or the most Karl Pilkington thing I've ever read! . Why would they put rats in lingerie? Rats would have ZERO reference point. You could wrap them in rubber bands and it would mean the same thing.

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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

I don’t want to sound like a sickko, but I really want to see rat lingerie.

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Josh Tall 3 years ago

They are also, most likely, next in line to be the dominant mammal, if we don't f**k up

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BasedWang 3 years ago

soooooo Master Splinter might happen in the future?

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R Carson 3 years ago

Your tax dollars at work.

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Olufemi Akinwumi 3 years ago

Saw a big one the other day, setup a poison for it, dude ate it then drank water... Dude is still alive and kicking

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Lorrie Rothstein 3 years ago

What the hell kind of fetish is that? Rats in lingerie! Yuck

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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.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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#32

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

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#33

Cheetah meow like a house cat.

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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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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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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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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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The cheetah is the only cat without retractable claws.

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

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway If humans wanted to have the same eyesight as an owl we would have to have eyes the size of a grapefruit

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The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

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In India, according to the law, if you commit suicide, and do not die, you are liable to go to prison for up to a year. Basically, if you wanna die, make sure you are dead.

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway There's a type of slug that has penises on its head.

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Two-thirds of U.S. civil war deaths were caused by disease.

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50% of sloth deaths happen while they are pooping. Most sloths climb down from trees to poop and tend to die to predators at this time.

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Leap year is every four years but we skip it every century unless that century happens to be a multiple of 400 which is why we did not skip it in 2000 but we will skip it in 2100.

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In order to snap someone's neck like in movies or video games, you need to be strong enough to apply roughly 100-115% of the victim's bodyweight in rotational force. Much more difficult than Hollywood would make you believe.

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Your chances of being struck by lightning are the same as seeing an albino raccoon. 1 in 750,000. Considering an albino raccoon chance is 1 in 10,000.

I'm waiting for the lightning strike any day now since I've seen an albino raccoon in the wild.

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Figs are not a fruit but actually an 'inverted flower'. They get pollinated by Fig Wasps, that crawl inside, losing their wings and antennae in the process and dying there. The fig then produces some enzymes that end up 'digesting' the wasp. After it's pollinated, some small fruits grow inside, some little seed-like crunchy things.

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40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway There is an entire “rainforest”-esque ecosystem in your belly button.

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Stalin was shorter than Napoleon at 5'5" and his left arm was shorter with a deformed hand due to blood poisoning

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Kuru is a neurodegenerative disease that causes loss of muscular control and and other symptoms that may appear as insanity, and is caused by eating human brains.

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#54

In the U.S. small marshmallows are considered “food,” so they’re exempt from sales tax. Large marshmallows are taxed as candy.

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#55

The US is one of the few countries that allows "strike anywhere" matches to be sold. Do NOT bring them on a plane. For example, you're going on a camping trip and put them in your checked luggage. You'll be fined several thousand dollars. There's no exemption from the fine. But the FAA will work out a payment plan with you.

Manch-Vegas Report

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38points

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#56

Bananas are ever so slightly radioactive but the only way you'll suffer from side effects is if you eat 600 of them in under a second.

I also learnt the perfect plot for a murder you can get away with if you studied agriculture and sustainability while I still had the energy to write my book.

trashcan_24 Report

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38points

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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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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

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#57

Male giraffes drink female giraffes piss when they're horny, if they like the taste they'll mate.

CamBamBoomSlam Report

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37points

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#58

Captain Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch and he captains a ship called the Guppy

LadyKatie85 Report

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#59

Ketchup was basically invented to help cover the flavor of slightly rancid meat in the days before the FDA.

jholla_albologne Report

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34points

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#60

Your eyes can't track horizontally smoothly. Unless you are tracking a moving object. Then it looks smooth.

They move to different points and your brain adds a "motion blur" to reduce the effect. You can see this by trying to smoothly look from side to side on a wall.

You should see little skips. You can see this in other people easier.

Also your eyes roll in your head and stay upright/ stay level to a certain point when you tilt your head.

You can actually go look in a mirror and sorta see the effect.

happyhungarian12 Report

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33points

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"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

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#61

There is a place in the female body named after a Scottish doctor. The pouch of Douglas. Have fun looking up where it is, you'll never not know about it from now on.

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#62

The title of the movie and the novel “Trainspotting” is a reference to an old pastime in which people would keep logs of the unique, named locomotives that passed through their towns. It was very popular in Britain because the trains used to all be fairly unique designs. It’s supposed to be a metaphor for the banality of existence and the things people do to “pass the time.”

wildgunman Report

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31points

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#63

The world's first commercially produced oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Col. Drake stuck oil at 69.5 feet and this ushered in the oil boom of the late 1860s.

He died penniless because he never patented his method of drilling.

Extrasherman Report

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30points

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“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

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#64

Woody's name is Woody Pride

Mr. Clean is Veritably Clean

Cookie Monster is Sid

yes, those are their real names

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30points

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#65

There’s a parasite that merges to fish tongues. In order to merge itself to the fish’s tongue, it must split the tongue in half before merging.

Unidentified_Simp Report

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#66

The cause of death for most people who die in plane crashes is listed as “massive blunt force trauma.”

Also, most plane crashes are survivable.

angmakesit Report

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30points

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#67

40 ‘Why The Hell Do You Know That’ Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The longest poop ever recorded was over 8 feet

seleven888 , Giorgio Trovato Report

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#68

Chimpanzees can run at 25 miles per hour

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#69

The fact that if someone doesn’t know if their sunglasses at polarized or not, you can take one pair of polarized glasses, hold them in front of the other and turn the one pair 90° then absolutely no light will come through if they are polarized, and it will shine through if they aren’t.

ea888gen3 Report

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24points

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#70

Hippos eat each other.

Vending machines are more lethal than sharks.

The drawer for food wars used to draw doujins

EEEKHELPME Report

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17points

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#71

Rats cannot burp, which means if you lay out a mix of sugar water and baking soda (which they are attracted to) it will eventually kill them as they cannot burp

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16points

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#72

The Romans used to paint the insides of their rooms black because the lamps they used for lighting would stain the walls.

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As a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, I indulge in the joy of curating delightful content, from adorable pet photos to hilarious memes, all while nurturing my wanderlust and continuously seeking new adventures and interests—sometimes thrilling, sometimes daunting, but always exciting!

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What do you think ?

ƒιѕн 3 years ago

I mean seriously, alot of this is bs, it comes from that swamp called reddit...

10points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Only parts of reddit are swamps. Other parts are lush rainforests of information. You must choose your subs wisely.

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Random Person 3 years ago

Coming from a person that can't even spell a lot correctly...

0points

Mazer 3 years ago

Coming from a true skeptic. Education will get you.

0points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Please read further before passing information on to friends. Thank you.

8points

Beautifulnoodle 3 years ago

Thanks I hate it. A lot of this was disturbing.

5points

Carmen Sandiego 3 years ago

I mean, true to the title, I guess.

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Lovin' Life 3 years ago

Very interesting

4points

~hUmMuS vIbEs~ 3 years ago

Another disturbing fact no one asked for: There's an Aussie marsupial called the Antechinus, which mate for two weeks straight until they internally bleed, go blind and die.

2points

Mark Kelly 3 years ago

Polar bear fur is not white but transparent.

1point

Life is ? 3 years ago (edited)

Nice facts. Some were scary.

1point

Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago

Not necessarily facts :-(

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Viv Hart 3 years ago (edited)

I kept on thinking: ''Yeah? Prove it.' For instance: that Koalas have 3 vaginas, why? The only ones that are true are those of the cheetah.

0points

ƒιѕн 3 years ago

I mean seriously, alot of this is bs, it comes from that swamp called reddit...

10points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Only parts of reddit are swamps. Other parts are lush rainforests of information. You must choose your subs wisely.

10points

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Random Person 3 years ago

Coming from a person that can't even spell a lot correctly...

0points

Mazer 3 years ago

Coming from a true skeptic. Education will get you.

0points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Please read further before passing information on to friends. Thank you.

8points

Beautifulnoodle 3 years ago

Thanks I hate it. A lot of this was disturbing.

5points

Carmen Sandiego 3 years ago

I mean, true to the title, I guess.

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Lovin' Life 3 years ago

Very interesting

4points

~hUmMuS vIbEs~ 3 years ago

Another disturbing fact no one asked for: There's an Aussie marsupial called the Antechinus, which mate for two weeks straight until they internally bleed, go blind and die.

2points

Mark Kelly 3 years ago

Polar bear fur is not white but transparent.

1point

Life is ? 3 years ago (edited)

Nice facts. Some were scary.

1point

Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago

Not necessarily facts :-(

-1point

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Viv Hart 3 years ago (edited)

I kept on thinking: ''Yeah? Prove it.' For instance: that Koalas have 3 vaginas, why? The only ones that are true are those of the cheetah.

0points

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