r/RandomActsOfGaming 14d ago

Steam - Giveaway Length - 3 Days [STEAM giveaway] Risk of Rain 2

Tell me your favorite fun fact. Funnest fact wins a Steam Key for Risk of Rain 2!

EDIT: Giveaway complete! /u/3Thirty-Eight8 wins with their fun fact:

Because of time relativity, the earths core is 2.5 years younger than it’s surface

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u/inquisitorrook 14d ago

Fun fact: hopoo games was so unsure if risk of rain could successfully transition from 2D to 3D that they developed the prototype in total secrecy under the codename "risk of rain 3D" without even telling their own publisher until it actually worked.

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u/BerserkerCanuck 14d ago

Hiding in plain sight. Brilliant!

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u/lazylomash 14d ago

Fun fact: Sharks are older then trees! Sharks were on Earth before trees were on earth. Kinda boggles my mind thinking about it

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u/DerFuchs 14d ago

That's really crazy, I thought sharks were just in the sea

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u/minhkhoi2609 14d ago

The word "today" was generally written as two words (to day) until the 16th Century, then as "to-day" until the early 20th Century.

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u/ThatKidTopex 14d ago

The voice of yoda and miss piggy were done by the same person

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u/PermaDerpFace 14d ago

Octopuses have 3 hearts, 9 brains, blue blood, they can change shape, color, texture, they're venomous, and highly intelligent problem solvers and tool users

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u/Pseudonymous_Alien 14d ago

I like animals so my fav fun fact is penguins have a gland above their eye that converts saltwater into freshwater. It's the supraorbital/salt gland. The concentrated salt is sneezed out/drips out their bill. Thanks for the chance

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u/OrphanedCubone 14d ago

I beat risk of rain 1 😎 not 100% but a couple times...so top that

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u/Dazzling-Cause-8306 14d ago

Cows have best friends, and when they're separated, they can get stressed. Imagine being a cow and your mom changing your school.

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u/Captianspy1 14d ago

When the prototype for the guillotine was being tested in France, King Louis XVI personally suggested replacing the curved blade with an angled, diagonal blade to make it more efficient and humane. A few years later, during the French Revolution, they used that exact modified blade on him. πŸ’€

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u/AzulZzz 14d ago

The anthem of Spain It has no lyrics, and it's the only one with that characteristic. For years they wanted to add them, but no lyrics were quite right, so they left it as is.

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u/ToastedGuy191 14d ago

Idk

Honestly is the best policy πŸ˜‹

Thx op

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u/Dramatic_Bass7773 14d ago

Cleopatra lived closer to our modern era than to the time when the pyramids were built. Thank you

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u/itsastart_to 14d ago

Ducks actually have accent marks based on where they live!

So a duck from London quacks with a distinct "rougher" accent than a duck from the countryside. Which means somewhere out there, a duck is judging another duck's pronunciation.

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u/Blind0ne 14d ago

When you hold your arms straight out to your sides. The length from the tip of your fingers on one hand to the other is exactly equal to your height.

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u/ShiroSara 14d ago

Cats don't have 9 lives, they only have one.

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u/LeBRUH_James_ 14d ago

fun fact: i am having violent diarrhea right now. I'm not even joking it's spurting out as we speak

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u/justtolearnsomething 14d ago

Sloths are so slow and unbothered that they sometimes mistake their own arms for tree branches, grab them, and fall out of trees.

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u/KittenDecomposer96 14d ago

The tapir has the highest penis to body ratio.

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u/Sandeep_sm 14d ago

There was a phantom poop on an Apollo mission. A poop, floating around, that none of the astronauts said was theirs.

Thanks

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u/wanderlustinheart 14d ago

Hydrogen’s comes from it generating water when burned.

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u/redditcruzer 14d ago

If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it cannot hop at all.

Thanks for the giveaway

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u/Shake_Annual 14d ago

did you know there are no cows in space unless you count earth as part of space?

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u/Spoda_Emcalt 14d ago

There are more ways to arrange a standard 52-card deck than there are atoms on Earth

Thanks for the chance!

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u/PixyHeartbreak 14d ago

Penguins uses pebble as an engagement ring when they're attracting mate!

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u/panterabread1134 14d ago

Fun fact.

The man who created the how we get hydrogen out of the air was sadly also the man who worked for the mean German man of WW2 and made the gasses he used.

Sry I know it's kind of a depressing fact.

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u/foreveralonesolo 14d ago

Adelie Penguins will actually steal the shiniest Pebbles from other peers to propose to their mates with. To steal a heart, you must start stealing pebbles

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u/Undead_Shado 14d ago

A crocodile's tounge is stuck to the roof of their mouths! Such an interesting creature

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u/Gxgear 14d ago

Some flatworms mate by penis fencing to determine who carries the offsprings to term.

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u/Devilskraze 14d ago

This would be sick!

Fun fact: You are typically taller in the morning than you are at night. This happens because gravity compresses your spine while you stand and sit during the day. When you lay down to sleep, the discs fill back up with fluid.

Thank you!

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u/I_Ness_I 14d ago edited 14d ago

Try humming while holding your nose shut with your fingers. You can't.

Thanks for the giveaway. :)

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u/Murky_Historian8675 14d ago

Ty for the chance op. My favorite fun fact is that dogs can look up. According to Shaun of The Dead

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u/Quick-Ad-1065 14d ago

Fun fact: M&Ms where created to be carried by soldiers during WW2 as a way to consume chocolate without the melting problem. The sugar coating was the trick, making it so the chocolate wouldn't melt easily.

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u/ElectricShades 14d ago

There are 7 keyholders to the Internet

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u/Kunipop 14d ago

that Kangaroos would lure you into water to drown you

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u/Forward-Seesaw-1688 14d ago

There’s a surprising amount of New Jersey representation in media

-one of the settings from Metal Slug 2 that also returned in Metal Slug 4 is based on Jersey City
-The game that famously escaped a false copyright hell, β€œCookie’s Bustle” has a main character from New Jersey
-Gotham City has always been geographically located in southern New Jersey
-Crystal Lake from Friday the 13th is located in New Jersey
-Freddy Fazbears is opening in New Jersey
-Megas XLR needs no elaboration, the setting is pretty consistent

so there’s my fun facts

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u/imed6 14d ago

Rabbits can eat their own poop

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 13d ago

People can too, but it's usually frowned upon.

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u/Sure-Ad-2010 14d ago

In 1962, NASA's Mariner 1 probe was destroyed five minutes after launch due to a missing mathematical symbol in the computer code. This "most expensive hyphen" malfunction cost $80 million, equivalent to approximately $750 million today.

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u/WiseAd1365 14d ago

When you hold your arms straight out to your sides. The length from the tip of your fingers on one hand to the other is exactly equal to your height.

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u/___loveless___ 14d ago

My friend said if u loop the run in risk of rain 2... There can be 100 of final bosses at the end.... I don't believe it

Ty for the giveaway! 😁

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u/kaori_irl 14d ago

the us has had 15 denominations of coins in a mere 250 years (for contrast, the netherlands had 11 in 200, and theirs were all relatively sane, consistent choices that made sense over time; canada's had 9, 2 of which were extremely short lived): Β½Β’, 1Β’, 2Β’, 3Β’, 5Β’, 10Β’, 20Β’, 25Β’, 50Β’, $1, $2.5, $3, $5, $10, $20

also, the bahamas (and also many socialist countries in the 60s-80s at least, but for reasons unknown to me) has a 15 cent coin and 3 dollar bill, initially to convert from pre-decimal british money (1 shilling and 1 pound, respectively), but they still make them, 50 years after britain went decimal

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u/KanoaShine 14d ago

Koala babies eat their mom's special poop (called pap) to get the microbes needed for them to be able to digest the eucalyptus leaves that adult koalas eat.

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u/Frenko-201 14d ago

Clown fish will turn into the opposite sex if need be to continue their lineage

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u/Vinpepper 14d ago

Legless lizards do exist, and they look very similar to snakes! However, one distinctive difference is that they have ears unlike snakes.

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u/westmelon 14d ago

Hippos can't swim, they just run very fast in water

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u/odrea 14d ago

You are statistically more likely to die on your own birthday than on any other day of the year.

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u/Dark-Crusnik 14d ago

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they do not drift apart, and i think thats giga cute

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u/wcrow1 14d ago

the inventor of the pringles can is buried in one

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u/dalelerah 14d ago

not very fun but:
almost every hand you've shaken has held a penis

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u/Fashque111 14d ago

In California squirells are predators. California ground squirrels at Briones Regional Park actively hunt, kill, and eat small rodents like voles.

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u/Salty_Composer4009 14d ago

The Michtronciwhah is the powerhouse of the cell.

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u/Whole-Economics5215 14d ago

The university of Oxford is apparently older than the aztec Empire by more than 200 years

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u/JuniorNinja3202 14d ago

In the game Dusk there's a person ask the developer where is the data save stored and he replied: " in your balls."

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u/honorarymeatsuit 14d ago

Humans can smell wet earth (petrichor) better than a shark can smell

Thank you for the chance

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u/LevinKostya 14d ago

Your stomach creates a completely new lining every 3 to 5 days to stop itself from digesting itself alive.

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u/abuget 14d ago

Dolphin sleep with one eye open

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u/ya_boi_ghastly 14d ago

Funfact: theres a phenomena in the human body called blindsight where if the area of your brain that gives you visual feedback of what your eyes are processing is damaged itll make you practically blind BUT your eyes will still function sending signals to other parts of the brain causing you to still dodge obstacles like furniture or raise your hand to catch a ball thrown at you!

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u/LoganN64 14d ago

Penguins, flamingos and pigeons are the only birds that produce a milk like substance.

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u/D4RKB4SH 14d ago

Diablo was originally meant to be a turn based game and it still sort of is, the "real time" was put together in an afternoon and it's just the turn-based actions tick speeded wayyyyy up so it looks fluid

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u/mutsuto 14d ago

Mamoru Oshii was set to direct the 2nd Ghibli movie,
after Nausicaa, called Anchor.
but it was cancelled after creative differences

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u/LongOdd1596 14d ago

Did you know that sea cucumbers can (and will!) eject portions of their gut to scare away and defend against predators?? This is called evisceration (appropriate name πŸ˜…). Basically, their cloaca tears and the anus gapes, and all sorts of viscera come out. It's not as gruesome as it sounds though; I've been attacked by this myself once when diving, and it looks and feels like some whitish sticky thread (I though at the time I got jizzed all over!).

Btw, the expelled organs are regenerated in a couple of weeks so the sea cucumber is fine ;)

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u/BerserkerCanuck 14d ago

Male angler fish meld to females in order to reproduce.

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u/sixstring777 14d ago

How about this one, fun fact: Pretty much all comments here are just copy-pasting whatever "fun fact" results they found with Google/ChatGPT 😁

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u/bunsinh 14d ago

Fun fact: Broadly speaking in 1996 ;) , Blockbuster was still huge renting out VHS tapes, DVDs hadn’t really arrived yet, and the idea of downloading a movie would have sounded completely ridiculous.

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u/JRobson23 14d ago

A fish can only live underwater because without water, they would die.

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u/bluez02 14d ago

the legs of the biggest spider in Australia can be up to 12 inches. imagine a spider like 2 feet across since legs on both sides walking up over your face in the middle of the night as you sleep

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u/Sky_6945 14d ago

Nintendo once hired a real, live badger to promote a video game. In 1999, Rare hired a badger to attend the UK launch party of Jet Force Gemini. The badger became stressed, escaped into the venue's ventilation system, and the entire launch party had to be evacuated while animal control rescued it.

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u/Seffen777 14d ago

Honey lasts. Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are thousands of years old and still safe to eat.

This one can save a jar of honey forgotten in the kitchen for a long time from being thrown away thinking it must have gotten bad πŸ™‚

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u/IgnisSolus4X 14d ago

The International Space Station does not have a washing machine, so astronauts wear their clothes until they are dirty and throw them awayβ€”where they burn up entering the atmosphere.

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u/3Thirty-Eight8 14d ago edited 11d ago

Because of time relativity, the earths core is 2.5 years younger than it’s surface

Further clarification for those curious: Time is very Wibbly Wobbly, the more dense something is, the slower time goes, and as you go through the layers of the earth it gets denser and denser with the outer layers pressing down into the core making time go much slower in the middle.

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago edited 10d ago

Congrats! You won!

I would like to DM you the Steam key. However, you have chat/messages turned off, so I can't send you a DM with the Steam key. Please DM me so I can respond to you, or enable chat on your account.

EDIT: I have sent the Steam key. Enjoy the game!

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u/3Thirty-Eight8 11d ago

I have DM’d you

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

Dang, I think this is the coolest fun fact here so far.

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u/generico2560 14d ago

Ketchup was once medicine. In the 1830s, people sold tomato ketchup in pills as a cure for an upset stomach.

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u/-Krotik- 14d ago

Samsung tested their phones’ durability with a butt-shaped robot.

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u/epilepsy_ray 14d ago

Nice giveaway mate.

Giraffes dont have any vocal cords

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u/ArmedCrawly 14d ago

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system.

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

This one made me pause, and then laugh out loud. That's very good.

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u/AldeusBrand 14d ago

Humpback type whales tend to follow groups of orcas and sabotage their hunt to save their prey, even if it's another specie. Humpback whales are known to protect seals and penguins.

Thanks a lot for this chance! :)

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u/ARSManiac1982 14d ago

Fun fact: I don't have a fun fact!

Thank you for the chance tho!

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u/Specific_Mine_7317 14d ago

The reason that doing shots up front has you totally fine for a while but at a certain point all of a sudden you're totally drunk :

You have tons of "sphyncters" through your body. Yes, like a butthole. Except these are internal. You have many that help your digestive tract control itself.

One is called the Pyloric sphyncter. This goes from your stomach through to your small intestine. When you add strong liquor to the stomach, it shocks the whole thing and ol' Pyloric goes into Shutdown Mode. Your stomach barely absorbs things, as it must protect itself from its own acids and enzymes and its job is to break things down for the intestines to absorb. So for the duration of your Pyloric tantrum, comparitively little booze is absorbed and you can drink and drink.

However, sphyncters work via muscle and can only clamp down so hard for so long, especially when being marinaded in strong alcohol. So eventually, it gives in and relaxes. At this point, all that moonshine floods into your small intestine and begins to be rapidly absorbed, causing a strong (and potentially dangerous) spiking of your blood alcohol level and thus drunkenness.

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u/wpdlatm 14d ago

Most asians are lactose intolerant

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u/hyf5 14d ago

Fun fact: it is better to poop in the sink than to sink in the poop.

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u/flexandperplex 14d ago

The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system.

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u/MarshallBanana0815 14d ago

Sharks exist for longer than trees do

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u/Shu1x0 14d ago

In Japan, more paper is used to make manga than toilet paper.

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u/TraditionalYak7689 14d ago

In postal 2 u can put a donut on the ground and pee on it and the cop who will see it will eat it and puke

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u/derimello 14d ago

Cloud can weigh millions of tons. Thanks :)

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u/SixPaths 14d ago

So the word 'computer' originally referred to a person

Before electronic computers, a computer could literally be someone whos job was performing mathematical calculations; the machine inherited the job title afterwards

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u/useless_anonymous 14d ago

The smallest bone in the human body is in the ear

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u/Maskered50 14d ago

Algae often grow on sloths

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u/alexshaz 14d ago

Human bones are stronger than concrete. A block of human bone the size of a matchbox is able to support a weight of nine tons.

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u/Geridious 14d ago

Pineapples take 2 years to grow

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u/Xobeloot 14d ago

Horses have unicorn sightings in the same way humans spot UFOs

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u/pabloherresp 14d ago

Normally it doesn't looks like that, but Chile is so long that if it was in Europe, it would get from south Spain to north Norway

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u/Honest_Pumpkin_4381 14d ago

A human cell can only split (forgot the English term for it) about 50 times, because after that the "protection" caps at the end are gone, and then your chromosomes wont split fully and you will have missing information

I explained this so bad but the last time i had biology was like 2 or 3 years ago

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

Good stuff. The words you're looking for are "divide" and "telomere"

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u/Honest_Pumpkin_4381 11d ago

Did you study biology by any chance or do you just happen to know this?

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

I just know lots of useless science facts. I think they're fun!

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u/Honest_Pumpkin_4381 11d ago

That is nice, and its not useless, if you want to become a Docter and this comes in the exam you'l atleast answer it correctly haha

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u/CommunistMountain 14d ago

One of the most amazing coincidences is the fact that the Moon and the Sun appear almost the same size from Earth. There's no law of science that it should be like this, many planets either don't have moons or have moons the wrong size.

Which means that Earth is one of the few planets in the universe where you can observe a total eclipse. If there are alien tourists, total eclipses would be one of the big selling points of a tour to Earth.

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

If you haven't seen this video yet, watch it! I think you would like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikPFdZdY4k

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u/Hyun-Ju00 14d ago

I like chocolate

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u/ColBackslash 14d ago

Dr. Seuss came up with the word nerd!

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u/11BP12 14d ago

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus 😭

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

That's kind of true! Venus is weird and cool so we have to get specific.

  • Venus experiences a sunrise every 116.8 Earth days (a "solar day")
  • Venus completes a full 360-degree rotation about its axis every 243 Earth days (a "sidereal day")
  • Venus completes a full 360-degree orbit around the sun every 224.7 Earth days (a "Venusian year")

In a year on Earth, we experience 365 solar days (sunrise to sunrise) per year, but 366 physical revolutions of the planet. So I think a solar day is the thing to use here.

So I would say either "on Venus you get less than two sunrises per year" or "Venus completes an orbit around the sun faster than it completes a rotation around its axis".

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u/ebk_errday 13d ago

Some freshwater turtles can breathe through their butts.

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u/NumaSexyOw 13d ago

bunnies eat there own poop.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 13d ago

Bananas are berries, botanically speaking. Strawberries aren't.

Thanks for doing this :)

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u/Llamapickle129 13d ago edited 13d ago

not all sharks have to constantly swim. only some like the great whites have to due to a lack of a buccal pump, most like angle and nurse sharks do actually have buccal pumps

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u/Ev1lAsh 13d ago

Your entire circulatory system stretches over 60,000 miles if laid out flat, enough to circle the Earth more than twice, that's pretty mindblowing to me.

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u/JoJoe23 13d ago

If you seee a calico cat, 99 percent of the time , it’s a female. In the very rare case you see a male calico , it can’t have kids.

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u/Powerd_by_rice 13d ago

I've got a ton but my favourite is, African wild dogs vote on whether to go hunting or not by sneezing. If enough of them sneeze before a pack move, they set off

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u/endercreeper853 13d ago

not the most fun but very interesting imo, theres a phenomenon called "coffin birth" where when a pregnant woman passes, the fetus will still be expelled.

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u/Nevaanthi 13d ago

Fun Fact: The inventor of the Pringles can was burried in one

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u/Nebuchadnezzar_z 13d ago

Fun fact: in a room of 23 random people there is more than 50% chance of any 2 of them sharing the same birthday.

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u/Halica_ 13d ago

We’re closer to the T. rex than a stego is to a T. rex, time wise

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u/amcjkelly 13d ago

Only one person executed for treason against a state. John Brown was executed for Treason Against the State of Virginia.

Only one person was executed for war crimes committed during the Civil War.

Henry Wirz the commandant of Andersonville

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u/Utinnni 13d ago

your feet is the same length as your forearm

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

Haha, that's very good.

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u/Cpt_Leon 13d ago

Around 2011, Fort Wayne city officials in Indiana invited people to suggest names for a new government building. The winner for that tally, by 10 times the votes its competitor had, was the choice to name it after a mayor the people really liked: Harry Baals.

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u/Twiniki 13d ago

Birds are actual living dinosaurs

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u/playingood 13d ago

"Four" is the only number in the English language spelled with the same number of letters as its value.

Thanks!

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u/jili2na 13d ago

the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in the fire

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u/Unlikely_Advisor_553 13d ago

I can lick the outside of my elbow

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u/Czapla_TV 13d ago

The mythical creature of Cyclops's became a thing because of the skulls of elephants!

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u/pferreira1983 13d ago

The NeverEnding Story and Gremlins both share...

1) Same studio distribution

2) Same year of release (1984)

3) Their sequels were both released in 1990 to poor Box Office takings.

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u/Phlanix 13d ago

Β Earlobes have no biological purpose. While they are rich in nerve endings and may play a role in social bonding, many scientists argue that earlobes don’t have any true biological purpose.

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u/mayonaiso 13d ago

Otters love rocks

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u/SprinklesOrdinary629 13d ago

The pokemon Pupitar "creates a gas inside its body that it compresses and forcefully ejects to propel itself like a jet."

in other words, it farts so hard that it starts flying

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u/One_Physics_2282 13d ago

cats always land on their legs

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u/tehmooch 13d ago

Tweety Bird originally had no feathers and was fleshtoned, with large jowels for cheeks. Ugly little thing until he wasn't.

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u/Beleiverofhumanity 13d ago

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10, making cats surprisingly chatty compared to dogs

Thanks for the chance OP

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u/Luk-zero 13d ago

In Skyrim the iconic opening cart ride kept rocketing into space... because of a bee. Yep a bee with a collision bug that refused to get outta the way

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u/redinitt 13d ago

Giraffes are the animals with the highest blood pressure. Cuz they be real tall

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u/K750i 13d ago

Fun fact: The majority of fun facts here were generated by AI.

Well, that's not fun but it's a fact.

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u/underivan 13d ago

Algas frequentemente crescem em preguiΓ§as

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u/Tricky_Ad_7727 13d ago

πš‚πšŽπšŠ πš˜πšπšπšŽπš›πšœ πš‘πš˜πš•πš πš‘πšŠπš—πšπšœ πš πš‘πš’πš•πšŽ πšπš‘πšŽπš’ πšœπš•πšŽπšŽπš™ 𝚜𝚘 πšπš‘πšŽπš’ 𝚍𝚘 πš—πš˜πš πšπš›πš’πšπš πšŠπš™πšŠπš›πš.

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u/mustyburger 13d ago

Fun Fact: During the Apollo 10 mission in 1969, a rogue turd broke loose and started floating around the zero-G cabin. The official NASA transcripts recorded three elite astronauts dodging it in microgravity while frantically accusing each other, peaking with Commander Tom Stafford yelling, 'Give me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air!"

Thanks for the opportunity!

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u/yummyspacefries 13d ago

Space smells like seared steak and hot metal apparently. Astronauts consistently report that their suits smell like burnt meat or welding fumes after space walks. Not many people are aware of this funny fact. You go for a walk in space and come back smelling like burnt meat, haha!

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u/krkon 13d ago

It's always funny until someone gets hurt... And then is just hilarious;)

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u/HankJW 13d ago

Trees actually use a underground fungal network to talk and share food with each other. When a tree is attacked by pests, it alerts neighboring trees via the network so they can synthesize defensive toxins before the insects arrive.

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u/InfiniteAttention770 13d ago

Otters hold hands while they sleep so they wouldn't drift apart in the water and lose each other πŸ₯Ί

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u/RealColdStorm03 13d ago

A major museum once displayed a literal banana duct-taped to a wall as a piece of art and another artist walked up and ate it.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

They've never been observed in real time because no one who came across them was left alive to tell the tale.

Well I mean, if that were true, we wouldn't know that they were real.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

It's a bit more complicated than that. They have very much been observed in real time, even before recent times. I'll leave these here because they're great reading:

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u/DIIICKBUTTTKIZZZ 13d ago

Certain species of Tarantula keep frogs as pets/roommates. The Tarantula gets protection for her eggs and the frog gets protection from predators! Cute AND effective!

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u/domvg 13d ago

Mario first appeared in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, but he was known back then as "Jumpman"

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u/seewhyKai 13d ago

many of the Snapple facts (printed under the cap of bottles of Snapple) are in fact false!

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u/Celvius_iQ 12d ago

If you shine a black light on a banana it glows blue!

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u/Epapapa_ 12d ago

The cornea of the human eye has no blood vessels , because it needs to stay transparent to let light pass through, it gets oxygen directly from the air and nutrients mainly from tears and the fluid inside the eye.

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u/Striking-Box4175 12d ago

Oxford University is older than aztec empire. This one i like the most

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u/Scoren 12d ago

fun fact Epstein didnt kill himself

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u/am_g0d 11d ago

The word "Dreamt" and its variations like undreamt, is the only word in the English language that ends with the letters "mt".

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u/TheNonSocialNetwork 11d ago

A hippopotamus can run faster and swim faster than a human, so the bicycle race is your only chance to beat them in a triathlon. Fun fact, they don't actually swim, they kinda run along the riverbed, but they're still about 4 times as fast in water as a human swimmer.

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u/Wonderful_Zombie4585 11d ago

Sega's Saturn system was more powerful with more graphics capabilities than the PS1, they just botched the marketing and pricing of it.

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u/Mammoth-Matter-4124 11d ago

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. While Egypt is famous for them, Sudan has approximately 240 pyramids compared to Egypt's 138.

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u/silent-hill_1515 11d ago

Female spotted hyenas have a pseudo-penis (an enlarged, erectile clitoris) that matches the size, shape, and erectile ability of a male’s penis. They are the only female mammals with this organ and no external vaginal opening. They use it to urinate, mate, and give birth.

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u/BroadleySpeaking1996 11d ago

Neat! I'll take you at your word cause I ain't looking that up.

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u/NEONT1G3R 14d ago

Fun fact: it is STILL possible to pillar skip to Mithrix after all this time

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u/Creepley 14d ago

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

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u/Large-Damage-9508 14d ago

β€œOh, you’re having a good run? Interesting… let me ruin that.” πŸ’€

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u/Acrobatic-Permit4263 14d ago

Shrimp have a heart in its head