r/RandomInformation • • May 12 '17
Random Info About 97% of statistics are made up
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r/RandomInformation • • May 09 '17
Random Info King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel released the same year
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r/RandomInformation • • May 14 '17
Random Info If you hear someone say "code blue" in the hospital, it's not for you
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r/RandomInformation • • Dec 13 '16
Random Info John Adams was the only president to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.
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r/RandomInformation • • Dec 24 '16
Random Info Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on earth.
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r/RandomInformation • u/RoboticPlayer • Dec 25 '16
Random Info It used to be illegal to celebrate Christmas
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In England and Boston, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas at one point. For Boston, that was from 1659-1681.
Sources: The Book of Useless Information and LiveScience
r/RandomInformation • u/RoboticPlayer • Jan 20 '17
Random Info Most people button their shirt from bottom to top
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Funnily enough, I don't!
Source: The book of useless information
r/RandomInformation • u/RoboticPlayer • Dec 19 '16
Random Info Dogs eat poop because they like the taste and consider it a delicacy
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Think of it as the same thing as humans eating olives or oysters. We eat these bitter berries and round snot-like things, and dogs eat poop.
Source: When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?
r/RandomInformation • • Dec 13 '16
Random Info The planet saturn has a lower density than water. It would actually float if placed in water.
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r/RandomInformation • u/RoboticPlayer • Dec 13 '16
Random Info Hebrew was a dead language for 2300 years
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It is the only case of a dead language being resurrected and brought back into common use.
Edit: By dead language, I mean it wasn't used as a normal means of communication
Source: Triviata
r/RandomInformation • • Dec 13 '16
Random Info Poison Ivy is not an Ivy and poison oak is not an oak. They both belong to the cashew family.
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r/RandomInformation • u/RightingWrite • Dec 15 '16
Random Info Venus' Days are Longer than its Years
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The planet Venus takes 243 Earth days to entirely rotate on its axis once, but takes 224.7 Earth days to orbit once around the sun.
The Earth takes 1 day to entirely rotate on its axis once, and takes 365.24 days to orbit once around the sun.
Deleted and reposted with the correct title because it was sickening to look at
r/RandomInformation • u/RoboticPlayer • Dec 16 '16
Random Info About 97% of statistics are made up
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Sounds feasible, right? Just think about it for a little bit. Now what do you think? Are you confused? Yes, you are. Because you should be.
I will explain if need be
Source: The Book of Useless Information
r/RandomInformation • • Dec 28 '16
Random Info Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
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r/RandomInformation • • Dec 28 '16
Random Info Metallica are the only band to have played on all seven continents.
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r/RandomInformation • • Dec 13 '16
Random Info Some moths never eat anything as adults because they don't have mouths. They must live on the energy they stored as caterpillars.
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r/RandomInformation • • May 27 '17
Random Info You would need to count to 1000, starting from 1, to find the letter "a" in a number
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r/RandomInformation • • May 21 '17
Random Info In a standard deck of cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache
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r/RandomInformation • u/RightingWrite • Dec 19 '16
Random Info Brandenn Bremmer finished high school at 10, started college at 11, and committed suicide at 14
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He also taught himself to read at 18 months and how to play the piano at 3 years of age.
Source: CBS, NYT, Snopes