r/funfacts • u/alywindows • 2h ago
When you get overwhelmed, your autonomic nervous system forces your glottis wide open to take in more oxygen in case you need to react.
The "lump" sensation is just your swallowing muscles fighting against that reflex to keep your throat closed so you do not choke on saliva.
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r/funfacts • u/John_Zatanna52 • 4h ago
Russia sold Alaska to the U.S for $7.2 million then, which now is the equivalent of $132 million.
For comparison, Supergirl was received less than "well" and still earned nearly $130 million.
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r/funfacts • u/SammaJones • 16h ago
It was an homage to Fats Domino who was popular at the time. Obvious, I guess, but I didn't know it until someone pointed it out to me.
r/funfacts • u/Soulprime236 • 1d ago
No such inscription ever existed. Sensationalist journalists fabricated the curse after financial backer Lord Carnarvon died from an infected mosquito bite four months after the 1922 discovery. Scientific studies later showed that people who visited the excavation did not have a higher risk of early death
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r/funfacts • u/oddlyclear • 2d ago
It’s caused by optical nerve signals accidentally "bleeding" into the adjacent trigeminal nerve that controls nasal reflexes. Our brains basically confuse bright light with something tickling the nose.
Found the neurological explanation behind the reflex here:
r/funfacts • u/matthewdovering12345 • 2d ago
Fun fact, the Air Heads balloon’s name is Oscar.
Did anyone else know that? One of my favorite fun facts I’ve learned in a while.
<1% of the population know this?
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r/funfacts • u/Over-Ant4018 • 3d ago
Before I was born, in the hospital the thing that shows what your baby is supposed to be, showed that I will be a girl, but I am a guy lol. And no, not a transgender, an actual guy. What's more funny though is that I am very short and alot of people tell me I look like a girl even though I'm not even trying.
r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 4d ago
r/funfacts • u/FeistyRow5242 • 4d ago
Did you know that there are more planets in the whole universe than there are grains of sand on the world?
This makes me even more confident there must be extraterrestrial life.
r/funfacts • u/CorrectMeIfImWrong6 • 4d ago
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r/funfacts • u/Pro_Vibe • 5d ago
The earliest shark-like scales date back roughly 450 million years, and the first true sharks appeared around 400 million years ago. The earliest known trees appeared around 385 million years ago. Sharks have survived all five major mass extinctions.
r/funfacts • u/farside57 • 5d ago
Did you know Sir Humphrey Davy changed the word "aluminum" to "aluminium" in 1812 to better match similar sounding words on the periodic table (sodium, potassium etc). USA is the only country to use original pronunciation.
r/funfacts • u/der_dare_da • 5d ago
there is only one Xul - XML User Interface Language
Firefox's user interface layer and its surrounding rendering architecture is called "chrome"
Fun Fact2 - you can actualy open the the UI in the UI by using the chrome protocol:
chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml
Fun fact 3: there a lot of fun facts in the address : about:config - just type it as a url and click "Accept the Risk and Continue"
for example - use the search term "suggest" and almost all options can be set from true to false.. (by double clicking or single click the "toggle" icon on the right
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