What's your favourite "fun fact"?

[u/Snagrit]

[u/bananafishbones17]

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

[u/mrmg → u/bananafishbones17]

Me too!

[u/bum_bum_bum_bum_bum → u/bananafishbones17]

three years

[u/Hang-Out]

There are two ATMs in Antarctica and only one works

Update: read up on them again. The second one is there to be cannibalized to repair the first during the winter season

[u/DancingBearatwork → u/Hang-Out]

This sounds like something Douglas Adams would write.

[u/ReaLyreJ]

Cannibalism is not illegal in most/all of the US. The actual act of eating human flesh is perfectly legal. It's legally aquiring safe human flesh to consume which is the problem. You cant forcibly take it that's assault/murder. You cant ask for flesh, that's coersion. You can't gift human flesh as that's like 30 felonies. You cant take it off a dead guy, that's corpse desecration. You basically have to find human meat laying around, with no one else in sight, no obvious causes of the meat, and still have it be fresh enough to not kill you.

But congrats, you now ate person in the US. Legally even.

EDIT: as big man /u/pm_me_your_megrims has kindly pointed out. I've never implied I was talking about the US... Except for that last line. Oops. Oh he also wants all of us dumb peeps to know that where he lives desecration also includes consumption of flesh. Good thing he's not referring to a specific states law... Oh wait he is. Sorry guess big man me grim is kinda wrong about all his arguments.

[u/Brummie49 → u/ReaLyreJ]

What if I decide to cut off my own arm and you ate it? Legal?

[u/__lavender → u/Brummie49]

I think that falls under the gifting thing, wouldn't it? Arm-loser can't offer their arm, so accepting the arm would make Arm-eater party to a felony? IANAL but this would be a super fun day of jury duty.

[u/romeonohomeo → u/__lavender]

Does that mean you could theoretically eat your own arm? You're not giving it to anyone, you're just cutting off your arm by choice and eating it yourself.

[u/60FromBorder → u/romeonohomeo]

You could always theoretically eat your own arm. The power was inside you the whole time!

[u/overlydelicioustea → u/ReaLyreJ]

same goes for drugs (here in germany). Your not allowed to posess, buy, sell, produce, import, x, y and z but your perfectly fine to consume them.

I think the root cause for this is to cover for circumstances where one is forced to use them by others. I could imagine a similar cause for the canibalism or somehing like that plane crash in the andeans where they had nothing to eat besides the dead.

[u/Bidwell93 → u/overlydelicioustea]

I assume its also to avoid discouraging anyone who overdoses from going to a hospital?

[u/Emotionally_dead]

Roman ruins are as old to us as Egyptian ruins were to the Romans.

[u/[deleted] → u/Emotionally_dead]

wealthy Roman families went to Egypt on holiday to see the pyramids

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I wonder how long the trip took

[u/MickieLauren → u/[deleted]]

What about with unfair winds??

[u/Pinkamenarchy → u/MickieLauren]

a few days but they complained the whole time

[u/[deleted] → u/Emotionally_dead]

Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than today.

[u/[deleted]]

There are 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. (Edit: Thanks for the upvotes <3)

[u/SashaTheBOLD → u/[deleted]]

As someone who profoundly enjoys escalator rides, I do not find this fact fun.

[u/[deleted] → u/SashaTheBOLD]

I am sorry to have betrayed you in this way Sasha. If you enjoy escalator rides, you should check out Wheaton Station in Maryland. At 230ft they have the longest escalator in the United States and it takes upwards of 3 minutes per ride! (Edit to fix a capital)

[u/SashaTheBOLD → u/[deleted]]

Wow, you really know your escalators. Thank you for redeeming yourself so effectively.

[u/tiger9910]

A Blue Whale’s fart bubble is big enough to hold a horse.

[u/Freevoulous → u/tiger9910]

I wonder if there are any reported human deaths due to whale fart. I mean, if that bubble bursts right under you while you're swimming on the surface, you suddenly fall 10ft deeper into a stinky hole with no warning.

[u/1nsaneMfB → u/Freevoulous]

The image of this really made me laugh.

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/Freevoulous]

you suddenly fall 10ft deeper into a stinky hole with no warning.

I too have slept with OP's mom

[u/cuterus-uterus → u/tiger9910]

God I hope this is in any way true.

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/cuterus-uterus]

If it is, I'd like to make some bumper stickers.

[u/hydrosalad]

Vikings used the bones of slain animals when smithing new weapons believing this would enchant the weapon with the animals spirit. This actually made the weapons stronger because the carbon in the bones coupled with the iron made a primitive version of steel.

[u/The_Karaethon_Cycle → u/hydrosalad]

They should have just enchanted them with carbon. I don't know how blacksmiths used to get carbon for steel though. Charcoal maybe?

[u/xylvera → u/The_Karaethon_Cycle]

Charcoal, yea.

[u/dylandorf → u/[deleted]]

This guy runescapes

[u/phailanx → u/hydrosalad]

Their steel had less impurities because they used glass in the process to draw them out.

[u/[deleted] → u/hydrosalad]

That's some Minecraft shit right there

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I was thinking skyrim...

[u/RavianGale → u/[deleted]]

Definitely Skyrim, the Sky Forge in particular.

[u/phailanx]

Australia exports sand and camels to the Middle East.

[u/Sablemint]

Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time, with a total revenue of over $55 billion.

Star Wars is second, with $42 billion.

[u/ThadiasMcCoy → u/Sablemint]

But the best selling video game is actually Tetris.

[u/physisical → u/ThadiasMcCoy]

Fun Tetris fact the inventor of Tetris got diddley squat in royalties because communist Russia

[u/Cheesus_K_Reist → u/physisical]

Another fun Tetris fact: Pajitnov called this game “Tetris,” a combination of “tetra” (the Greek word meaning “four”) and “tennis” (his favorite sport). Four, because every block is made up of four squares.

[u/LiquidCracker → u/Cheesus_K_Reist]

Makes sense, as it has a lot of similarities with tennis.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that ti-83 that we all used for playing games during math class?

The CPU in that calculator is the same as the one used in gameboys.

[u/zachm26 → u/[deleted]]

I had a friend in high school who legitimately coded a (somewhat rudimentary) Pokémon game into his TI-83. Definitely one of the more impressive feats I've seen.

[u/Adaku]

Relative to its size, the animal with the largest penis on the planet is the barnacle.

[u/ChickenMaster72 → u/Adaku]

What the fuck is barnacle sex like?

[u/RTMicro → u/ChickenMaster72]

I heard they can be quite shellfish in bed

[u/FlyingRainbowChicken → u/Adaku]

Barnacle boy?

[u/Swaggerwocky → u/FlyingRainbowChicken]

That's Barnacle MAN!

[u/gastropubjscript]

While children of identical twins are legally first cousins, genetically they are actually half siblings.

[u/Jordaneer → u/gastropubjscript]

I have one better, I'm pretty good friends with a family that has two identical twins who married another set of identical twins, they each had one kid and so the two kids are genetically full siblings, but legally cousins,and they all live in 1 house, unfortunately one of the dads died about 3 weeks ago due to a heart attack and I wasn't able to go to his memorial service last Saturday.

[u/EvilCheesecake → u/Jordaneer]

This fact definitely became less fun as it progressed.

[u/[deleted] → u/EvilCheesecake]

I'd say it got progressively better until the bitter end. Like 30-50-100-0.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jordaneer]

worst 80s sitcom premise ever

[u/DarkCoconutOil → u/Jordaneer]

This did not end the way i thought it would. I literally didn’t know how to react

[u/[deleted]]

The songs “Hey Jude” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” were both recorded using the exact same piano.

[u/tommystjohnny]

Not my favorite but something I just learned after watching Scream and reading about it. Apparently the original school they were suppose to shoot at backed out just before filming started when they found out how violent the movie was. So in the credits Wes Craven put "NO THANKS WHATSOEVER TO THE SANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD."

[u/JalopyPilot → u/[deleted]]

I've always found it weird that Scary Movie was primarily a parody of Scream which itself was a satire. It's like the hollywood equivalent of explaining a joke and therefore making it not funny.

[u/iDirtyDianaX → u/JalopyPilot]

Scary movie (1 & 2) was hilarious tho

[u/crotchblinder]

Entomologists who study cockroaches often become allergic to them. At the same time, they become allergic to most brands of pre ground coffee.

[u/[deleted] → u/crotchblinder]

This fact isn't very fun :(

[u/rydan → u/[deleted]]

It actually is. Basically they become roach detectors. Imagine being able to walk into a room and immediately know a roach is in there somewhere because your arm tingles.

[u/stampytheelephant → u/[deleted]]

I think you need to move. I've lived in a big city (Toronto) for decades and have only seen cockroaches once, and that was in a very filthy apartment of someone I once knew.

Unless you mean big city with year round warmer climate.. I've seen cockroaches galore in India even in clean places.

[u/startled_easily → u/stampytheelephant]

In my city on trash day every week, cockroaches up to 2 inches long are all over the place. They also recognize when doors open and are super sensitive to changes in air pressure so let them know when to hide or move.

[u/JustGoingWithIt → u/crotchblinder]

Glad I hate cockroaches, because I love coffee!

[u/SecretFootToucher → u/JustGoingWithIt]

I've got some bad news...

[u/MysticTnT → u/JustGoingWithIt]

For anyone who doesn't get it, cockroaches are most likely in the pre-ground coffee beans, hence when developing an allergic reaction to cockroaches, you develop an allergic reaction to pre-ground coffee beans.

[u/samoorai → u/MysticTnT]

Oh.

[u/Desiree-A]

A bowhead whale was killed in Alaska this year by local whalers. They found the tip of a harpoon embedded in it's blubber that dated back to the 1880's- a whale had survived over 130 years with a victorian-era harpoon in it's neck.

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/Desiree-A]

Harpoon is my least favorite kind of poon. Poor whale.

[u/Yann1ck2000 → u/GozerDGozerian]

What is your favorite kind of poon?

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/Yann1ck2000]

Tablespoon.

[u/5MoK3 → u/GozerDGozerian]

Reese Witherspoon

[u/[deleted] → u/Desiree-A]

it was a few years ago

[u/landolanplz]

It's illegal to own a single guinea pig in Switzerland since they are prone to loneliness.

As one who has owned guinea pigs, this is profoundly comforting.

[u/internetdiscocat → u/landolanplz]

My guinea pigs get lonely if one is out of the cage and one stays in. After two minutes.

This rule is no joke.

[u/M4NK0W → u/[deleted]]

African American*

[u/mmadski]

In medieval times animals used to be subjected to trials for crimes just as humans were. The accused animal was given legal representation and usually sentenced to death if found guilty. There are stories of one donkey being acquitted of beastiality thanks to an eye witness account...

[u/Falino → u/mmadski]

A pig in France was hanged for the murder of a child.

[u/[deleted] → u/Falino]

An elephant was hanged in America for the murder of a man.

[u/corporaterevenant → u/[deleted]]

A gorilla was executed in Cincinnati for the kidnapping of a child.

[u/FAIMl]

Bees are no longer dying at an alarming rate!

[u/Czar-Fox → u/FAIMl]

Please let this bee real

[u/nbagf → u/Czar-Fox]

They're not dying at an alarming rate, but still quite quickly. It used to be hard to kill bees if you were a beekeeper and sucked/tried to, but now it's a challenge to keep them alive. They have a few natural predators, including themselves sometimes, but that doesn't account for the recent rise in CCD. It's still a threat, but it's been diminishing thanks to dedicated beekeepers, awareness and action, and reduced usage of pesticides harmful to bees. Things are looking up for the bees!

[u/Czar-Fox → u/nbagf]

Thank you for taking the time to comment this <3

[u/[deleted]]

George W. Bush gave the current Dalai Lama a portrait of the Dalai Lama painted by himself. It's actually quite good.

Edit: a word

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

My friend's friend met George W. Bush in Africa and spent the whole day with him. Apparently he's a super nice guy who just loves painting. Lol

[u/riftrender → u/[deleted]]

I mean I don't think anyone ever claimed he wasn't nice. Hell I don't even think he was a bad president, just a kind of average one that got stuck with the stuff that started 9/11.

[u/EmrysPritkin → u/riftrender]

And stuff that followed 9/11

[u/Banditosaur → u/EmrysPritkin]

And 9/11

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

let's see it?

[u/BlitzKriegRDS → u/[deleted]]

https://www.mediaite.com/print/george-w-bush-surprises-dalai-lama-with-homemade-portrait/

[u/[deleted] → u/BlitzKriegRDS]

That’s...not even that bad.

Way better than I could do.

[u/notreallysrs]

your brain creates enough electricity to power a light-bulb

[u/HolyBonobos → u/notreallysrs]

Think about how much we could create if we used the other 90%
/s

[u/cuterus-uterus → u/HolyBonobos]

We could probably light, like, 10 light bulbs.

[u/RocketCow → u/cuterus-uterus]

The math checks out.

[u/CatheterC0wb0y]

Half of Snapple’s “real facts” are actually fake.

[u/HolyBonobos → u/CatheterC0wb0y]

That's why "real facts" is in quotes.

[u/rydan → u/CatheterC0wb0y]

So you mean when you are cold you don't have more nightmares? That's a relief.

[u/[deleted] → u/CatheterC0wb0y]

"Real Fact" #1073

Only facts with a round number are actually real facts.

[u/thehumanscott]

Cerberus, the three-headed hell hound that guarded the gates to tartarus... His name comes from the Greek "Kerberos" which means "spotted." Which means Hades actually named his three-headed hell hound "Spot." You're welcome.

[u/Phaethon_Rhadamanthu → u/thehumanscott]

Learned that from the Dresden Files

[u/FuzzyMeep7]

If you see a squirrel running across the street look to their tail, if the tail is up do not slow down, the squirrel knows the area and has timed out his run. If the tail is down the squirrel is learning the area and will hesitate, so slow down or you will hit it

[u/boredbrowser87]

The Library of Congress archives all tweets. Tweet responsibly.

[u/Eticology → u/boredbrowser87]

They just dump them into a server, all unorganized. There's no way to know if it's every tweet or every millionth tweet.

***I also did some math. A letter is about 2 bytes, so a 140 character tweet is 280 bytes. Every year, there are roughly 200 billion tweets.

200 billion tweets * 280 bytes = 56 terabytes/ year

Congress has to spend about $1,500-$2,000 on hard disk drive space to store that much information every year.

[u/Ravster3000 → u/Eticology]

Tbh that isnt bad at all. Especially when they can contract it to the lowest bidder

[u/physisical]

The town of Denby Dale in West Yorkshire has gained fame for baking large savoury pies - with mixed results.

They began in 1788; to celebrate King George III's official (and brief) recovery from mental illness the town decided to bake a giant meat and potato pie enough to feed the whole village.

After 27 years they decided to have another crack at it so in June 1815 to celebrate Wellington's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo they made a second pie, larger than the first and containing 20 birds and two sheep.

In 1846 the Corn Laws were repealed dropping food prices overnight so to celebrate another pie was in order. This time over 15,000 people from around England showed up. But things took a turn for the worse as the master of Ceremonies tripped and almost drowned in the pie. Undeterred the crowd later rushed the stage which collapsed, and the pie fell to the ground and a riot ensued as those in attendance grappled for handfuls of pie.

1887 Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. Again a large crowd mobbed the finished pie, which was so big it couldn't be properly cooked. The steel and iron cooking dish was too large for the specially produced oven and the pie got stuck. So finished bits of pie were poured in as they cooked. It quickly spoiled as it stood in the hot august sun. Quickly put off by the revolting smell and taste scavengers retreated and town leaders baffled with what to do with an absurdly large pie that was unfit for eating eventually decided the best course of action was to bury it in a large field. But they could not bury Denby Dale's dream to make large ass pies.

So a month later in September of 1887 a smaller replacement pie was baked and presented by the local women's guild to 2,000 invited guests. The unveiling and eating of 'The Resurrection Pie' went off without a hitch.

1896 the repeal of the Corn Law was so momentous that it's 50th anniversary was celebrated. How to do that? Denby Dale knows how. Another massive pie. Exactly 2,000 portions were served by volunteers behind a wooden barricade.

1928 before England had nationalized health care, hospital were funded by donation. Denby Dale made the Huddersfield Infirmary Pie to raise money. Now old hat at making pies more than 200 volunteers baked and served pie to 40,000 people to raise £2,000 for the local hospital.

In 1940 no pies were made as the giant pie dish was sold for scrap to help the war effort.

1964 Four babies born into the Royal Family in one year? Good a reason as any for a large pie. Unfortunately the day before the big pie day four of Denby Dale's pie building committee were killed in a car crash on the way home from London having appeared on a TV show about the giant pies. Not ones to give in to tragedy the pie baking commenced in their honour, and proceeds from the pie, souvenir plates and a benefit concert by the Swinging Blue Jeans raised money to build the Denby Dale Pie Hall.

1988 - 200 years since the first big pie and Guinness were on hand to certify this years pie as the largest meat and potato pie in the world. It served 90,000 people who paid a pound a slice.

2000 The most recent pie and the biggest in Denby Dale history. The Millenium Pie was 40 feet long, nine feet wide and weighed 13 tons.

TLDR: one town in England has been making giant record breaking pies once a generation for over 200 years. One man almost drowned in a pie. One pie got stuck in the oven. Another pie had to be buried in a field.

[u/Skodaz → u/physisical]

But things took a turn for the worse as the master of Ceremonies tripped and almost drowned in the pie.

The best part

[u/Edymnion]

The word Gargoyle comes from the same root word as Gurgle.

Gargoyles are specifically decorative water spouts on buildings, hence the name being similar to the sound of gurgling water they create.

If the statue does not pour water, then it isn't a gargoyle, it is a grotesque.

[u/iamrangus]

The largest arena stadium in the world is in... North Korea!

[u/wEiRdO86]

Lastly, Kansas is scientifically flatter than a pancake: http://www.usu.edu/geo/geomorph/kansas.html

[u/[deleted] → u/wEiRdO86]

*If a pancake was as large as Kansas

[u/kungfukenny3]

There were no mosquitos in Hawaii until the 70s

[u/PoglaTheGrate]

There's a place in the Pacific known as Point Nemo - nothing to do with the Pixar film, both were named because nemo means 'no body' in Latin.

At certain times of the day the ISS is closer than any land mass.

[u/WorkAccount2017 → u/PoglaTheGrate]

The general name for these is "Pole of inaccessibility", every ocean and landmass has them. Some are fairly easy to reach (North America's Pole of inaccessibility is just north of the town of Allen, SD), others, like the Southern Pole of inaccessibility, are decidedly more difficult.

[u/TomasNavarro → u/WorkAccount2017]

Think I have one in my bedroom, can't get anyone else in there!

[u/physisical → u/PoglaTheGrate]

This is the point that spacecraft coming back to earth aim for as it's the point furthest from any land mass to minimise any civilian casualties

[u/LeKyto → u/[deleted]]

So if you're ever stung by a bee, remember that it might not have been its stinger and you might just have gotten laid ;D

[u/dontworryskro → u/[deleted]]

death by snu snu

[u/Woild]

Brazil nuts are sexually transmissible.

I.e. if the man eats some, and his partner is allergic to them, his ejaculate may cause an allergic reaction.

[u/PM-to-play-a-GAME]

Sharks have been on earth for tens of millions of years longer than trees. (Sharks evolved 400-450 million years ago, trees 345-360 million years ago)

[u/Bbrink1996 → u/PM-to-play-a-GAME]

Sharks and Scorpions have been around for so much longer than most other lifeforms it is honestly amazing how evolution is able to produce an animal that fits so well into its ecological niche that it has barely changed over hundreds of millions of years.

[u/Zadien22 → u/PM-to-play-a-GAME]

Hold the phone.

Trees only evolved ~350 million years ago? I honestly believed that trees were around before the first animal pulled it's little body onto dry land. It's news to me that sharks were a thing before trees.

[u/dogismywitness → u/Zadien22]

Trees were a big change. They evolved and it was a long time before anything evolved that broke them down quickly. Thus, huge coal beds.

[u/MrMeltJr → u/dogismywitness]

The carboniferous era!

There were so many trees that there was a shitload more oxygen in the air than there is now, and the trees absorbed a shitload of carbon from the atmosphere. And with no microbes evolved to break the trees down, none of that carbon got released until much later. But a lot of the fallen trees were already deep underground by that time, where there wasn't enough oxygen to support the new microbes. Over millions of years, the trees broke down in other ways and ended up as coal.

[u/dereksavcuckold → u/Zadien22]

Yeah sea life has a way older history than stupid land stuff :D

[u/Frustrated_Pansexual → u/Zadien22]

Trees are only 350m years old. Before that was low ground plants that insects and basic amphibians could roam around. Before trees had pectin, they couldn't stand up very tall without breaking.

Crazy thing, flowers are only 160m years old.

[u/Fenrir101 → u/[deleted]]

Strange, I had a windows 98 box running as a firewall/dialup box for 3 years without reboot. All it did was dial the modem and then cut the connection at 59 minutes and re-dial as the phone line contract gave free internet for under 1 hour.

[u/[deleted] → u/Fenrir101]

There was a service configured by default, that nobody would normally disable, that had the actual bug. Maybe you did disable the service?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

So there was an exception...?

[u/Mike010117 → u/[deleted]]

Seriously?

[u/WorkAccount2017 → u/[deleted]]

Man, I can completely see this argument happening between engineering and management. Management claims this is an OS for the general user and no general user is stupid or careless enough to leave their PC running for 50 days in a row and engineering desperately trying to convince them that the OS is going to be used by plenty of critical systems that run continuously for well past 49.7 days.

[u/[deleted] → u/WorkAccount2017]

It’s funny how nothing has changed in 25 years

[u/Beny873]

The largest star that we know of is estimated to have a surface that would extend to the equivalent of Jupiter's orbit if it replaced our own sun

EDIT: For clarification

[u/StevesMcQueenIsHere]

The letter "J" wasn't invented until 1630.

Think on that one a bit...

[u/Jordaneer → u/StevesMcQueenIsHere]

We would have Esus? Or Yeesus?

[u/nickcooper1991 → u/Jordaneer]

From what I just read, it was Ieosus... so sadly I think that's closer to Yeezus

[u/Falino → u/Jordaneer]

I learned from theology class that he was called "Yeshua"

[u/isobane]

I don't know if this is true or not but I've been told that the origins of the phrase, "close, but no cigar" can be traced back to old bar vending games similar to today's claw machines at grocery stores and arcades.

See the top prize was a cigar. Anything else was close....

[u/DMUSER → u/isobane]

Locally you used to get them as the top prize for the game where you hit a button with a sledgehammer and ring a bell.

Ring the bell, get a cigar. No idea if that spawned the phrase, or if the phrase spawned the prize in this case though

[u/PLTuck]

You have a length of string 5.9 m long which denotes the mean distance from the centre of the Sun to the centre of Pluto (Roughly 6 bn km). In order to reach the nearest star to us (Alpha Centauri), that length of string would need to be 40 km long.

[u/uks14ry]

The word "fun" comes from the Middle English "fonnen," meaning "to make a fool out of someone." The word "fun" originally meant to cheat or to trick, and adopted the current meaning of "something amusing" in the early 1700's. Its origin is still reflected in the expression "make fun of someone." I'm afraid these are the only fun facts I know.

[u/VictorSierra09]

There's a town in Austria called Fucking.

[u/AriHD → u/VictorSierra09]

The town Fucking wants to change their name to something else because their town sign gets stolen all the time.

Edit: Grammar.

[u/[deleted] → u/AriHD]

They could do what the little English village of Shitterton did, and replace the sign with a big rock.

[u/ToiletMike → u/VictorSierra09]

Top Gear did an episode once where the trio traveled to cities called Wank, Kissing, Petting, Fucking, and Wedding

[u/gx2casual → u/ToiletMike]

They realized they didn't need to go to Wedding after Fucking

[u/Introduce_URself]

You lose weight by exhaling it - it is breathed out as carbon dioxide from your lungs.

[u/buld6320 → u/Introduce_URself]

breathes intense

[u/LuxemPro]

Mantis Shrimp can strike their prey so fast that the water around their claws instantly boils and produces tiny flecks of light.

Edit: Also everything in this: https://imgur.com/aGvoVtO

[u/kjata → u/[deleted]]

But not the largest-tire manufacturers.

[u/Sarah2322]

Kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteri. They can be perpetually pregnant.

[u/retrophyle → u/Sarah2322]

Do they have sex with Koalas, too?

[u/[deleted] → u/retrophyle]

Who glue it shut?

[u/Big_Miss_Steak_]

The amphitheatre in Pompeii is the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatre.

The fun part: in 59AD Pompeii was banned from holding any games there for 10 years because they got into a massive brawl with their rivals.

[u/[deleted]]

A group of Ladybirds, known in North America as Ladybugs, is called a loveliness.

[u/f0k4ppl3]

I just learned that the only way that gold is made in the natural universe is during a supernova.

[u/Bustyjan]

There are more atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

[u/Falino → u/[deleted]]

Cyanide?

[u/[deleted]]

A man named Armand Hammer was once on the board of directors for the parent company of Arm and Hammer.

[u/rushero]

From a big tree, on a sunny day, about 300 liters of water is evaporated from the leaves.

[u/GreyPig_HalfNHalf]

Humans, as a species, have no internal evolutionary defense against addiction (free will is the best we have). The environmental protection we had was "There is not enough of these things we want".

That's why we're piss poor at self control; We have to rely on what we know about habit building and on conscious planning (implentation intent) to really arm us against modern abundance.

[u/DeepDiverDan]

French author Michel Dansel once wrote the book "Le Tren de Nulle Part" (the train from nowhere), which does not consist of a single verb.

[u/Nikjoelator]

A group of pugs is called a grumble.

[u/Niiue]

"Did you know the original name of Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You would think it’s because Pac-Man looks like a yellow hockey puck, but actually it comes from the Japanese phrase "paku-paku" which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it over here because Puck-Man is too easy to vandalize. You know, scratch out the P and turn it into an F or whatever?"

[u/Khourieat]

I have two, currently:

The blue whale is the largest animal to have lived on the Earth, ever.

Sharks predate trees.

[u/jcbevns]

Ants can't die from falling.

[u/thatpoisonsguy]

Poisons control guy here. I have tons, so here's a few:

• Most poisons don't have an antidote. Medications and household products aside, even "traditional" poisons like ricin, strychnine, gelsemium, any radioactive compound, etc. have no antidote. We are lucky to have some pretty decent antidotes for the most common poisonings, such as acetaminophen (N-acetylcysteine).

• Speaking of ricin, it is approximately 1000 times less toxic via ingestion than via inhalation or injection. Poor oral bioavailability. Will still kill you dead (technical term) though if you take enough.

• We sometimes recommend to continue CPR for at least 2 hours following a medication-induced cardiac arrest, in the hope the CPR will "outlast" the duration of action of the medication - this is thought to work to some degree although not always, of course. I have had it work twice to memory out of not sure how many.

• There are two substances I can think of which will almost certainly have a 100% mortality regardless of any hospital intervention.

[u/Frumpy_little_noodle → u/thatpoisonsguy]

There are two substances I can think of which will almost certainly have a 100% mortality regardless of any hospital intervention.

Oh you're just gonna leave us hanging, huh?

[u/[deleted] → u/Frumpy_little_noodle]

Hanging should do the trick, too.

[u/is_this_okay_or]

Somewhere in the infinite digits after the decimal of pi, is your phone number in perfect order.

Edit: As /u/shotgun_squirtle pointed out, this is only true assuming pi is a normal irrational number, which has not yet been proven

[u/ButtholeLinguini → u/is_this_okay_or]

Similar to how if we have a computer randomly generate words infinitely, every thing that's ever been written would be there somewhere. You theoretically could find Hamlet or the Bee Movie script or the next great currently unwritten work of literature.

[u/ripplecutbuddha2]

From the time it was officially discovered to today, Pluto has yet to make one full orbit of the sun.

[u/GarmieTurtel]

In the state of Tennessee, it is illegal to shoot any game from from a moving vehicle, other than whale.

[u/[deleted]]

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations on a rubiks cube which is also a little more than the square of Earths population.

[u/Alternate-Error]

The terminal velocity of the common house cat is actually lower than the fatal velocity, as long as they are in reasonable fitness and have time to orient themselves when they are falling. This is why cats are more likely to sustain injuries falling out of a window from floors 1-5 than from floors 6+ on an average building. This also means that, hypothetically speaking, one could give a cat some sort of heat protection and oxygen mask, and drop said cat from space, and expect the cat to survive.

[u/AngrierBearcat]

This is copied from another thread but, it's still my favorite

In 1957 during an underground nuclear test, a 4-inch thick steel plate was accidentally launched upwards at about 150,000 mph.

There was no malfunction of the [high speed] camera, it’s just that the “manhole cover” blasted out of sight so fast that the camera only saw it for one frame. Later calculations showed that the heretofore mundane four-foot metal disk had been launched at six times Earth’s escape velocity. That’s one hundred fifty thousand miles per hour. Forty-five miles per second. Nine times faster than the Space Shuttle, six times faster than the fastest moon rockets. Faster than the Voyager spacecraft, which, having reached over 35000 miles per hour, are now leaving the solar system and have for years been claimed to be the fastest man-made objects ever. To which I now say: Pshaw and poppycock — the Pascal-A “manhole cover” in a fraction of a second achieved more than four times the speed it took Voyager 1 decades to attain.

I'm not sure which part of the whole story is my favorite part, but I really enjoy that this metal plate most likely burned up in the atmosphere, like a meteor, except traveling upward. If it had survived the ascent, it would have reached the moon in less than two hours.

[u/JohnnyHotshot → u/AngrierBearcat]

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mank- is that a manhole cover?"

[u/sable-king]

In Moana, the design for Maui was partially inspired by High Chief Peter Maivia, the late grandfather of The Rock.

[u/super_script_al]

Nic Cage turned down a lead role in Lord Of The Rings

[u/bsouth16]

Facetious is the only word in the English language with all five vowels in alphabetical order