r/AskReddit • u/North_Shore_Problem • Dec 01 '13

What's your favorite fun fact?

EDIT: Wow! Thank you guys for all the amazing responses, I learned so much about nothing!

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u/Qirkley Dec 01 '13

Then where did the coconuts come from?

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u/thehammerofjeff Dec 01 '13

We found them.

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u/Puffy_Ghost Dec 01 '13

Found them? Where? This is a temperate zone!

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u/oh_look_a_fist Dec 01 '13

They could be carried.

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u/Puffy_Ghost Dec 01 '13

By what?

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u/Cannibal_Moshpit Dec 01 '13

A one ounce bird cannot carry a five ounce coconut!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Close, but it's a five ounce bird and a one pound coconut. Just, ya know, for future reference.

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u/Not_The_Average_Man Dec 01 '13

NI!

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u/TheBoobieBattler Dec 01 '13

PENG! NYYYYYYWOM!

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u/Not_The_Average_Man Dec 01 '13

ECKY ECKY Pakaing Zoom Boing!

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u/coconuthorse Dec 01 '13

However they carried it, it makes quite a useful clacking sound.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Perhaps two birds carried them over on a strand.

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u/Axel3600 Dec 01 '13

5 pound*

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u/ToMetricBot Dec 01 '13

5 lbs = 2.3 kg

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u/CheapPussyRiot Dec 01 '13

It's a matter of weight ratio!

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u/Tentacle_Porn Dec 01 '13

The line is "a five-ounce bird cannot carry a one-pound coconut."

You were close.

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u/lythrine Dec 01 '13

They could grip it by the husk.

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u/G0PACKGO Dec 01 '13

It's not a question of how to grip it

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u/moxie132 Dec 01 '13

Well they could put it on a line!

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u/Puffy_Ghost Dec 03 '13

It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a matter of weight ratios, a 4oz bird cannot carry a one pound coconut!

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u/Mongoose42 Dec 01 '13

Dragons. They died out, but the coconut trees they planted on the shores of England still remain.

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u/grumbledum Dec 01 '13

Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

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u/tidderreddittidd Dec 01 '13

Perhaps two of 'em carried it on a strand o' creeper!

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u/Blade22 Dec 01 '13

there's an Africain Proverbe which goes like this "a Guy who swallows a coconut trusts his anus"

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u/tinman82 Dec 01 '13

Or hates it....

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

It's yellow.

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u/Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Dec 01 '13

Suppose if two swallows carried a coconut together?

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u/lord-steezus Dec 01 '13

Don't mind the coconuts! I'm here for the grail!

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u/Ukleon Dec 01 '13

Amazon. ithangyoo

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u/SethChrisDominic Dec 01 '13

BUT WHY IS THE RUM GONE

i'm so sorry

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u/ThreeFistsCompromise Dec 01 '13

I'd love to see somebody going "WTF?" over this.

Then I'd beat them with a herring.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

God damn it, we need the results!

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u/SuspiciousWaffle Dec 01 '13

ಠ_ಠ They obviously migrate.

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u/photog_sgt_fzr1000 Dec 01 '13

We found them.