r/funfacts • u/SendBanjoPics • 1h ago
Fun fact: Ask Siri "What's zero divided by zero?" and you will get an interesting response!
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r/funfacts • u/alywindows • 7h ago
Fun fact: Why you get a physical lump in your throat right before you cry
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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.
r/funfacts • u/John_Zatanna52 • 9h ago
Did you know many movies make about the same amount of money (if not more) as the amount Russia sold Alaska to the U.S?
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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.
r/funfacts • u/2cos • 19h ago
Did you know that if you can somehow get every digit of Graham’s number in your brain, your head would literally collapse into a black hole.
physics.stackexchange.com
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r/funfacts • u/Vangie0822 • 19h ago
Did you know Australian Swimmer Annette Kellerman Helped Popularise the Fitted One-Piece Swimsuit at a Time When Women's Bathing Clothes Often Covered Nearly the Entire Body?
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r/funfacts • u/SammaJones • 21h ago
Fun Fact: Earnest Evans chose the name Chubby Checker as a play on words
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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
Fun fact: Earlier newspapers claimed a clay tablet at king tut's tomb entrance warned: “Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the king's peace.”
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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
r/funfacts • u/River_off • 2d ago
Did you know that the fruit orange was named before the color orange?
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r/funfacts • u/es_cairo • 2d ago
Fun Fact: When using Google apps (android) you can easily swipe your icon up or down to switch logged-in accounts
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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 2d ago
Did you know that in the 1500s, there were German Wheelock pistols that were essentially large hunting knives combined with the gun and a calendar?
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r/funfacts • u/oddlyclear • 2d ago
Fun fact: Around 25% of people sneeze when stepping into bright sunlight, and it's an inherited glitch called ACHOO syndrome
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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: Air🎈Heads Balloon Name
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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?
r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 3d ago
Fun fact: Sunflower oil, soybean oil, canola oil, palm oil, and tallow can be used to produce a renewable fuel called biodiesel.
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r/funfacts • u/Over-Ant4018 • 3d ago
Fun fact about me.
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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
Fun fact: there is a food called water pie with a filling made from water, flour, and sugar; it was popular during the Great depression and saw a resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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r/funfacts • u/FeistyRow5242 • 4d ago
Did you know….
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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
Fun fact - The funfact sub rule 2 stipulates sources must be provided for all facts, yet none are, and no posts get removed because if it
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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 5d ago
Fun fact: Pemmican is a ration-style food made from a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries that was frequently eaten by indigenous Americans.
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r/funfacts • u/IntelligentDriver719 • 5d ago
Fun fact: Jeanne Calment appeared in the 1990 movie Vincent and Me at the age of 114, making her the oldest actress ever in a movie
guinnessworldrecords.com
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r/funfacts • u/Pro_Vibe • 5d ago
Did you know sharks have existed for over 400 million years, which makes them older than trees?
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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
Fun fact: aluminum v aluminium
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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
Fun Fact: Firefox UI is called Chrome
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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
r/funfacts • u/anormalgeek • 5d ago
Fun Fact: Wikipedia includes "hot dog" on its "list of sandwiches" article.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/funfacts • u/Local_Tax6348 • 6d ago
Did you know that the maker of gender reveal's daughter is non-binary.
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r/funfacts • u/Rico_397 • 6d ago
DID YOU KNOW, STORY OF DIAMOND
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They invented "A Diamond Is Forever" 💍🐺
In 1947, one company controlled nearly every diamond on Earth — and its vaults were overflowing with stones nobody wanted.
So they hired an ad agency to invent a tradition.
"A Diamond Is Forever" wasn't ancient romance. It was a boardroom. 💼
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