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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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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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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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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago (edited)

Seems like a totally reasonable law to me, I wouldn't trust Swede's coming at me across a frozen sea either

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Nicola Roberts 3 years ago

Another random law; In the UK taxis should carry a bale of hay in the back. A legacy of when hackney cabs were horse and carts. My old boss told me that when I worked for a taxi firm, honest guv.

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J Gund 3 years ago

In Arizona it is illegal to let your donkey sleep in a bathtub. In Kingman in the 1920s a merchant had a donkey that would sleep in a old bathtub in the yard. A dam broke and there was a flood that washed away the bathtub with the donkey. A lot of people, time, and money went into trying to save the donkey. The donkey ended up being fine, but the law was created shortly after.

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Melene Majlovic 3 years ago (edited)

No, but climate has changed, so now they have to swim

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AndersM 3 years ago

Does this law still exist? Cuz then I'm looking forward to winter! :-)

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Mother of Goblins 9 months ago

It wasn't..... You can cross the bridge, you can take a boat, you can swim, whatever floats your goat.... But if you come here by crossing the frozen sea, we will beat you up... ;)

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Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago

This sounds a bit off to me. If swedes would be invading denmark, of course the danes have the right to fight them off.

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Steve Barnett 3 years ago

What about open sandwiches, does that then extend to six? I'm concerned.

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Monday 3 years ago (edited)

Is it still considered a sandwich if it's open or does it just become a slice of bread with toppings? Cause if so you may have found a loophole for infinite funeral food.

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troufaki13 3 years ago

I really want to know the backstory to this

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Virgil Blue 3 years ago

I can only imaging fights breaking out over some gluttonous relatives monopolising the food table.

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Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

Probably one really hungry person ruined it for everybody!!!! It's always like this! Damn!!

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cugel 3 years ago

Or even a citation of the relevant statute, which when you google it, seems to be in short supply.

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RJ 3 years ago

I guess that would be to stop Funeral Crashers

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Mazer 3 years ago

Ohhhh there are many more obscure laws. They will stay on the books because it costs too much to take them off. Here are some *No intoxicated skiing in Wyoming In Skamania County, Washington Big foot is considered an endangered species and therefore protected by law. No killing one. *In Virginia, it's illegal to "hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal, including any nuisance species" on Sundays. However, it is permissible to kill raccoons. *It's illegal in Vermont to prohibit clotheslines. One for the records is In Utah, it's illegal to "cause a catastrophe." which I happen to think may apply to a certain religious organization prominent in the State. *in Tennessee You can't hold public office if you've been in a duel. Very fitting

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Louloubelle 3 years ago

I absolutely love these. Some, you might be able to backtrack and figure out, and some, just plain weird.

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lenka 3 years ago

In Australia a woman may not go to her letterbox in her pajamas lest it offend the sensibilities of her male neighbours. Of course, if it was ever tested in court in modern times it would be thrown out but because it has never been challenged, technically still stands under common law.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

I would be arrested every day xD

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AnnaBanana 3 years ago

A law I break every day!

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

But the opposite it's okay? A man can go in his pijamas? Seems like a very sexist outdated law

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

It's not challenged because they hardly can spot the differences between pyjamas and casual wear ;-)

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Uber Mensch 3 years ago

I've heard of a custom called "sin eating"; this may have something to do with that.

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Patrick James 3 years ago

Everyone thank Dave who ate all the sandwiches and ruined lunch for everyone.

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Charlotte Leaver 3 years ago

Im guessing someone pissed someone off by gorging on sandwiches during a funeral and that someone was important enough to throw a hissy fit and get this law approved. Petty.

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Sam rice 3 years ago

I want to know what event in which more than 3 sandwiches were consumed that was clearly the final straw

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John P. 3 years ago

Hunting and killing unicorns in the state of Michigan is illegal.

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BetweenTheCracks 3 years ago

Doesn't matter, you'll never find a virgin up there anyway

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Amanita Virosa 3 years ago

So I apologize in advance ;) It’s against the law to possess six or more sex toys (dildos) in Texas. Five, though – that’s OK because it’s presumed that when you have six or more, your intent is to promote or sell them.

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

Uhm... so you're not allowed to sell or promote them in Texas? Is that what it boils down to?

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Jo87 3 years ago

Giving Granny the finger there with your 4th sarnie

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Daniel Atkins 3 years ago

Who polices this is there an officer to escort them out say Sir you have had enough?

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Marcellus II 3 years ago

Show me the law number and paragraph and I'll believe it. 95% of these "crazy laws" are sadly 100% made up, as much as my numbers here.

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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago

What if you leave on slice of whatever out of the sandwiches? Will you be able to eat more if parts of them are missing?

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Dee Stern 3 years ago

It's illegal to slurp soup in NJ.

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backatya 3 years ago

hell people want to get a little something at the after party. And if you have a mooch who eats most of it...

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Eric Forster 3 years ago

Would an extra long subway count as three?

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Isabel Care 3 years ago

Do they make foot long subs for funerals?

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Vytas Navickas 3 years ago

Look up the "blue Laws" between Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, It's a "revelation"!

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Susan Mercurio 3 years ago

Massachusetts has all kinds of weird Puritan laws.

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MIA J RODRIGUEZ 3 years ago

Nevada, No lying down on the sidewalk. New Hampshire, Pregnant woman can technically commit murder. New Mexico, Idiots can't vote. Minnesota, Bingo is only allowed two days a week. Maryland, No cursing allowed. (Bbh would love to live there) Louisiana, Bear wrestling is prohibited. Kansas, No ice cream on cherry pie. Illinois, It's illegal to dye baby chicks, other fowls or rabbits. Hawaii, Billboards are illegal. Georgia, No eating fried chicken with a fork. California, No eating frogs that die in frog-jumping contests. Arkansas, You must say it correctly. (Are-can-saw Not Are-Kansas) Arizona No spitting on the sidewalk.

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MIA J RODRIGUEZ 3 years ago

In alaska its illegal to have your moose on the sidewalk.

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Mark Kelly 3 years ago

Now what is considered a full sandwich?. Do subs count, a burger?

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Tango 3 years ago

Maybe they should just cut down on the funeral time.

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Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Wonder what the rational was for that law

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Sith Ramen 3 years ago

inn Kentucky its illegal to have ice cream in your back pocket (the law was passed because people used to do it to lure horses and get away with it)

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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago

If you like weird laws, may I suggest Kevin Underhill’s book “The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws That Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up”? He’s a lawyer who, in addition to his practice, has a humorously written website where he collects and catalogues the weird and funny laws and cases that turn up in judicial cases (some international). I don’t know him, but he is great reading for this kind of stuff.

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Riley Quinn 3 years ago

It's also illegal to snore with the windows open, and it's illegal to go to bed without taking a bath first.

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Silre 3 years ago

Macavity has broken this law

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Glirpy 3 years ago

What about a second breakfast?

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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Maybe it was made because a family may have lost their bread winner and feeding all their friends and neighbours at the funeral would be a financial burden.

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OffKeySinger 3 years ago

Was this law created due to funeral crashers that would funeral hop for the sandwiches?

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third molar 3 years ago

4 slice sandwiches are the way to go

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Mz Phit 3 years ago

Maybe they were talking about "knuckle sandwiches"? (Aka punches) You know there's many drunken brawls associated with funerals... estranged family members coming together etc...( I speak from experience- my family is from the south shore of Massachusetts)

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Erin E 3 years ago

At the wake/visitation… not the actual funeral service.

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Erin E 3 years ago

At a wake, not the funeral.

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 3 years ago

First thing I'm going to do when I go there.

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Jjiinnee 3 years ago

It's at a wake, but yes, that's true.

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Lauren 3 years ago

But have they HAD funeral sandwiches? Because those are delicious. https://grilledcheesesocial.com/2020/01/19/funeral-sandwiches/

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Chris Kane 3 years ago

You can't ride a cow through town on a Wednesday in England.

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago

Apparently, Bob was bogarting the funeral snacks.

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Synsepalum 3 years ago

I'll eat as many sandwiches as I damn well please.

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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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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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#38

The cheetah is the only cat without retractable claws.

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#39

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

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#40

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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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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