Swedes have a national weekly eating plan. Thursdays are traditionally pancakes and split pea soup.
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Swedes have a national weekly eating plan…
In 1990, high school senior Lisa Leslie…
In 1990, high school senior Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in the first half of a basketball game, an average of more than 6 points a minute. She wanted to break the record of 105 points in a game, but couldn’t because the other team refused to come back after half time.
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Argentina’s Antarctic research base…
Argentina’s Antarctic research base, Brown Station, was burned to the ground in 1984 by the base’s doctor because he was told he had to stay the winter.
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The world’s richest woman…
The world’s richest woman, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, owns a 33% stake in L’Oreal which was founded by her grandfather, Eugène Schueller, a known fascist and Nazi sympathizer. Françoise married and has raised her children Jewish.
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People Break Out Their Most Obscure Animal Facts
Everybody loves a good fun fact.
They’re worth their weight in gold when you find yourself at an intimidating team-builder or other ice breaker situation.
On top of that, if you can master the art of injecting them into conversation without sounding like a middle school science teacher, you can rely on them to turn a boring chat around at a party.
And of all the fun facts, the animal ones seem to pique our interest more than most others.
Those creatures all around continue to fascinate us with their mysterious behaviors—often genius—behaviors.
Apparently Redditor KnightsWhoSayKni was fresh out of those facts, so they asked a simple, yet compelling question:
“What’s your #1 obscure animal fact?”
People came locked and loaded with all sorts of weird truths.
One common area of intrigue was, of course, anatomy.
“The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly.”
“(For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That’s why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.” — angmarsilar
“Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their ‘fist’ and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.” — liripipe
“Ancient penguins could have been up to 7 feet tall.” — StarsandstampS
“Some squid have toroid shaped (donut) brains, and their esophagus (throat) passing through it. If they eat something too big they can get brain damage.” — horch13
“Bird poop is white because they don’t secrete ammonia in urea like we do when we pee so it comes out in one movement and as nearly pure ammonia. Why that stuff eats your car paint!” — dave-pumpkins
Plenty of people were fascinated by the mental tendencies of certain animals.
“Fish have been seen using tools – deliberately hitting a clam with a rock to get it to open so they can eat it.”
“Some fish (eels and groupers) form hunting partnerships where they communicate across the species barrier with specific signals to put their individual strengths to work (the eels chase prey out of crevices to where the groupers are waiting in open water).”
“They also get fooled by illusions in the same way we do, meaning that their brains are processing and interpreting their environment in a similar way to us.”
“That’s technically three facts but I like fish.” — BoldlyGone1
“There’s an insect called the scorpiofly that impresses mates by bringing them prey to eat. The bigger the meal, the better.”
“Only, some scorpionflies aren’t that great at catching food. So some of these males will imitate females, and wait for other males to bring them their gifts. Then they take the gift, fly away, and give it to an actual female.” — smiffypiffy
“On ostrich farms, some farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.”
“That’s right, somewhere out there an ostrich wants to fu** you.” — cleancutPunk
“Dogs may make social judgements about people based on how those people treat their owners. A study out of Japan had dog owners asking two people for help opening a container. There were three possible outcomes.”
A person reacting negatively by refusing and turning away, a person remaining neutral and a person helping. The dogs were then offered food from the people the owner had approached for help.”
“Dogs were much much less likely to accept food from the people who had refused to help their owners, and much more likely to accept food from those who had been neutral or who had helped.” — LogicalMess
Then came mention of those out-there behaviors.
“Snapping/pistol shrimps and their colonies are so loud that they can interfere with sonar used by other animals and submarines.”
They also create tiny but incredibly powerful explosions implosions through the sheer force of their pincers closing ludicrously fast, which is cool.” — SolipsistAngel
“A green sea turtle can swim faster than Usain bolt can sprint. An animal out there with a house for a body can swim at speeds we don’t allow in playground zones 35MPH.” — rkhbusa
“Avocados were evolved to be eaten by the giant ground sloth. Imagine a sloth, but so massive it could only live on the ground. The flesh attracted the sloth and the very large seed was ‘designed’ to travel through their intestinal tract for re-seeding or whatever plants do.”
“Humans killed the sloth but loved the avo. We domesticated the avo to increase the yummy flesh. The pit has gotten smaller but is still very large. Whenever you eat an avo, think of the long extinct giant sloth.” — quokkafarts
“I’ve said this in my own thread but I’ll say it again.”
“Porcupines climb trees and come down backwards and use their tail to feel for the ground. Sometimes their tail will hit a branch and they will think it is the ground and so they will jump off and impale themselves.”
“Over time they evolved to have antibiotics in their quills so when they fall out of trees they don’t die.” — otterdragon
“Squirrels are responsible for thousands of new trees every year. They collect and bury their nuts all over the place so they’ll have food to last thru winter, but they forget about most of them.” — southwycke75344
And a few talked about what was myth and what was real.
“Scientists thought the platypus was a joke until they send a dead one back to be studied.” — [deleted]
“People thought the okapi was a hoax until it was photographed. In parts of Sumatra it is believed that the orangutan can speak and refuses to do so because they don’t want to work.” — Victoresball
So there you have it.
Plenty of bizarre, fascinating, grotesque tidbits to keep you stocked for any lull in conversation.
People Break Out Their Most Obscure Animal Facts
Everybody loves a good fun fact.
They’re worth their weight in gold when you find yourself at an intimidating team-builder or other ice breaker situation.
On top of that, if you can master the art of injecting them into conversation without sounding like a middle school science teacher, you can rely on them to turn a boring chat around at a party.
And of all the fun facts, the animal ones seem to pique our interest more than most others.
Those creatures all around continue to fascinate us with their mysterious behaviors—often genius—behaviors.
Apparently Redditor KnightsWhoSayKni was fresh out of those facts, so they asked a simple, yet compelling question:
“What’s your #1 obscure animal fact?”
People came locked and loaded with all sorts of weird truths.
One common area of intrigue was, of course, anatomy.
“The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly.”
“(For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That’s why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.” — angmarsilar
“Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their ‘fist’ and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.” — liripipe
“Ancient penguins could have been up to 7 feet tall.” — StarsandstampS
“Some squid have toroid shaped (donut) brains, and their esophagus (throat) passing through it. If they eat something too big they can get brain damage.” — horch13
“Bird poop is white because they don’t secrete ammonia in urea like we do when we pee so it comes out in one movement and as nearly pure ammonia. Why that stuff eats your car paint!” — dave-pumpkins
Plenty of people were fascinated by the mental tendencies of certain animals.
“Fish have been seen using tools – deliberately hitting a clam with a rock to get it to open so they can eat it.”
“Some fish (eels and groupers) form hunting partnerships where they communicate across the species barrier with specific signals to put their individual strengths to work (the eels chase prey out of crevices to where the groupers are waiting in open water).”
“They also get fooled by illusions in the same way we do, meaning that their brains are processing and interpreting their environment in a similar way to us.”
“That’s technically three facts but I like fish.” — BoldlyGone1
“There’s an insect called the scorpiofly that impresses mates by bringing them prey to eat. The bigger the meal, the better.”
“Only, some scorpionflies aren’t that great at catching food. So some of these males will imitate females, and wait for other males to bring them their gifts. Then they take the gift, fly away, and give it to an actual female.” — smiffypiffy
“On ostrich farms, some farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.”
“That’s right, somewhere out there an ostrich wants to fu** you.” — cleancutPunk
“Dogs may make social judgements about people based on how those people treat their owners. A study out of Japan had dog owners asking two people for help opening a container. There were three possible outcomes.”
A person reacting negatively by refusing and turning away, a person remaining neutral and a person helping. The dogs were then offered food from the people the owner had approached for help.”
“Dogs were much much less likely to accept food from the people who had refused to help their owners, and much more likely to accept food from those who had been neutral or who had helped.” — LogicalMess
Then came mention of those out-there behaviors.
“Snapping/pistol shrimps and their colonies are so loud that they can interfere with sonar used by other animals and submarines.”
They also create tiny but incredibly powerful explosions implosions through the sheer force of their pincers closing ludicrously fast, which is cool.” — SolipsistAngel
“A green sea turtle can swim faster than Usain bolt can sprint. An animal out there with a house for a body can swim at speeds we don’t allow in playground zones 35MPH.” — rkhbusa
“Avocados were evolved to be eaten by the giant ground sloth. Imagine a sloth, but so massive it could only live on the ground. The flesh attracted the sloth and the very large seed was ‘designed’ to travel through their intestinal tract for re-seeding or whatever plants do.”
“Humans killed the sloth but loved the avo. We domesticated the avo to increase the yummy flesh. The pit has gotten smaller but is still very large. Whenever you eat an avo, think of the long extinct giant sloth.” — quokkafarts
“I’ve said this in my own thread but I’ll say it again.”
“Porcupines climb trees and come down backwards and use their tail to feel for the ground. Sometimes their tail will hit a branch and they will think it is the ground and so they will jump off and impale themselves.”
“Over time they evolved to have antibiotics in their quills so when they fall out of trees they don’t die.” — otterdragon
“Squirrels are responsible for thousands of new trees every year. They collect and bury their nuts all over the place so they’ll have food to last thru winter, but they forget about most of them.” — southwycke75344
And a few talked about what was myth and what was real.
“Scientists thought the platypus was a joke until they send a dead one back to be studied.” — [deleted]
“People thought the okapi was a hoax until it was photographed. In parts of Sumatra it is believed that the orangutan can speak and refuses to do so because they don’t want to work.” — Victoresball
So there you have it.
Plenty of bizarre, fascinating, grotesque tidbits to keep you stocked for any lull in conversation.
People Break Out Their Most Obscure Animal Facts
Everybody loves a good fun fact.
They’re worth their weight in gold when you find yourself at an intimidating team-builder or other ice breaker situation.
On top of that, if you can master the art of injecting them into conversation without sounding like a middle school science teacher, you can rely on them to turn a boring chat around at a party.
And of all the fun facts, the animal ones seem to pique our interest more than most others.
Those creatures all around continue to fascinate us with their mysterious behaviors—often genius—behaviors.
Apparently Redditor KnightsWhoSayKni was fresh out of those facts, so they asked a simple, yet compelling question:
“What’s your #1 obscure animal fact?”
People came locked and loaded with all sorts of weird truths.
One common area of intrigue was, of course, anatomy.
“The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly.”
“(For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That’s why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.” — angmarsilar
“Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their ‘fist’ and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.” — liripipe
“Ancient penguins could have been up to 7 feet tall.” — StarsandstampS
“Some squid have toroid shaped (donut) brains, and their esophagus (throat) passing through it. If they eat something too big they can get brain damage.” — horch13
“Bird poop is white because they don’t secrete ammonia in urea like we do when we pee so it comes out in one movement and as nearly pure ammonia. Why that stuff eats your car paint!” — dave-pumpkins
Plenty of people were fascinated by the mental tendencies of certain animals.
“Fish have been seen using tools – deliberately hitting a clam with a rock to get it to open so they can eat it.”
“Some fish (eels and groupers) form hunting partnerships where they communicate across the species barrier with specific signals to put their individual strengths to work (the eels chase prey out of crevices to where the groupers are waiting in open water).”
“They also get fooled by illusions in the same way we do, meaning that their brains are processing and interpreting their environment in a similar way to us.”
“That’s technically three facts but I like fish.” — BoldlyGone1
“There’s an insect called the scorpiofly that impresses mates by bringing them prey to eat. The bigger the meal, the better.”
“Only, some scorpionflies aren’t that great at catching food. So some of these males will imitate females, and wait for other males to bring them their gifts. Then they take the gift, fly away, and give it to an actual female.” — smiffypiffy
“On ostrich farms, some farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.”
“That’s right, somewhere out there an ostrich wants to fu** you.” — cleancutPunk
“Dogs may make social judgements about people based on how those people treat their owners. A study out of Japan had dog owners asking two people for help opening a container. There were three possible outcomes.”
A person reacting negatively by refusing and turning away, a person remaining neutral and a person helping. The dogs were then offered food from the people the owner had approached for help.”
“Dogs were much much less likely to accept food from the people who had refused to help their owners, and much more likely to accept food from those who had been neutral or who had helped.” — LogicalMess
Then came mention of those out-there behaviors.
“Snapping/pistol shrimps and their colonies are so loud that they can interfere with sonar used by other animals and submarines.”
They also create tiny but incredibly powerful explosions implosions through the sheer force of their pincers closing ludicrously fast, which is cool.” — SolipsistAngel
“A green sea turtle can swim faster than Usain bolt can sprint. An animal out there with a house for a body can swim at speeds we don’t allow in playground zones 35MPH.” — rkhbusa
“Avocados were evolved to be eaten by the giant ground sloth. Imagine a sloth, but so massive it could only live on the ground. The flesh attracted the sloth and the very large seed was ‘designed’ to travel through their intestinal tract for re-seeding or whatever plants do.”
“Humans killed the sloth but loved the avo. We domesticated the avo to increase the yummy flesh. The pit has gotten smaller but is still very large. Whenever you eat an avo, think of the long extinct giant sloth.” — quokkafarts
“I’ve said this in my own thread but I’ll say it again.”
“Porcupines climb trees and come down backwards and use their tail to feel for the ground. Sometimes their tail will hit a branch and they will think it is the ground and so they will jump off and impale themselves.”
“Over time they evolved to have antibiotics in their quills so when they fall out of trees they don’t die.” — otterdragon
“Squirrels are responsible for thousands of new trees every year. They collect and bury their nuts all over the place so they’ll have food to last thru winter, but they forget about most of them.” — southwycke75344
And a few talked about what was myth and what was real.
“Scientists thought the platypus was a joke until they send a dead one back to be studied.” — [deleted]
“People thought the okapi was a hoax until it was photographed. In parts of Sumatra it is believed that the orangutan can speak and refuses to do so because they don’t want to work.” — Victoresball
So there you have it.
Plenty of bizarre, fascinating, grotesque tidbits to keep you stocked for any lull in conversation.
People Break Out Their Most Obscure Animal Facts
Everybody loves a good fun fact.
They’re worth their weight in gold when you find yourself at an intimidating team-builder or other ice breaker situation.
On top of that, if you can master the art of injecting them into conversation without sounding like a middle school science teacher, you can rely on them to turn a boring chat around at a party.
And of all the fun facts, the animal ones seem to pique our interest more than most others.
Those creatures all around continue to fascinate us with their mysterious behaviors—often genius—behaviors.
Apparently Redditor KnightsWhoSayKni was fresh out of those facts, so they asked a simple, yet compelling question:
“What’s your #1 obscure animal fact?”
People came locked and loaded with all sorts of weird truths.
One common area of intrigue was, of course, anatomy.
“The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly.”
“(For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That’s why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.” — angmarsilar
“Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their ‘fist’ and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.” — liripipe
“Ancient penguins could have been up to 7 feet tall.” — StarsandstampS
“Some squid have toroid shaped (donut) brains, and their esophagus (throat) passing through it. If they eat something too big they can get brain damage.” — horch13
“Bird poop is white because they don’t secrete ammonia in urea like we do when we pee so it comes out in one movement and as nearly pure ammonia. Why that stuff eats your car paint!” — dave-pumpkins
Plenty of people were fascinated by the mental tendencies of certain animals.
“Fish have been seen using tools – deliberately hitting a clam with a rock to get it to open so they can eat it.”
“Some fish (eels and groupers) form hunting partnerships where they communicate across the species barrier with specific signals to put their individual strengths to work (the eels chase prey out of crevices to where the groupers are waiting in open water).”
“They also get fooled by illusions in the same way we do, meaning that their brains are processing and interpreting their environment in a similar way to us.”
“That’s technically three facts but I like fish.” — BoldlyGone1
“There’s an insect called the scorpiofly that impresses mates by bringing them prey to eat. The bigger the meal, the better.”
“Only, some scorpionflies aren’t that great at catching food. So some of these males will imitate females, and wait for other males to bring them their gifts. Then they take the gift, fly away, and give it to an actual female.” — smiffypiffy
“On ostrich farms, some farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.”
“That’s right, somewhere out there an ostrich wants to fu** you.” — cleancutPunk
“Dogs may make social judgements about people based on how those people treat their owners. A study out of Japan had dog owners asking two people for help opening a container. There were three possible outcomes.”
A person reacting negatively by refusing and turning away, a person remaining neutral and a person helping. The dogs were then offered food from the people the owner had approached for help.”
“Dogs were much much less likely to accept food from the people who had refused to help their owners, and much more likely to accept food from those who had been neutral or who had helped.” — LogicalMess
Then came mention of those out-there behaviors.
“Snapping/pistol shrimps and their colonies are so loud that they can interfere with sonar used by other animals and submarines.”
They also create tiny but incredibly powerful explosions implosions through the sheer force of their pincers closing ludicrously fast, which is cool.” — SolipsistAngel
“A green sea turtle can swim faster than Usain bolt can sprint. An animal out there with a house for a body can swim at speeds we don’t allow in playground zones 35MPH.” — rkhbusa
“Avocados were evolved to be eaten by the giant ground sloth. Imagine a sloth, but so massive it could only live on the ground. The flesh attracted the sloth and the very large seed was ‘designed’ to travel through their intestinal tract for re-seeding or whatever plants do.”
“Humans killed the sloth but loved the avo. We domesticated the avo to increase the yummy flesh. The pit has gotten smaller but is still very large. Whenever you eat an avo, think of the long extinct giant sloth.” — quokkafarts
“I’ve said this in my own thread but I’ll say it again.”
“Porcupines climb trees and come down backwards and use their tail to feel for the ground. Sometimes their tail will hit a branch and they will think it is the ground and so they will jump off and impale themselves.”
“Over time they evolved to have antibiotics in their quills so when they fall out of trees they don’t die.” — otterdragon
“Squirrels are responsible for thousands of new trees every year. They collect and bury their nuts all over the place so they’ll have food to last thru winter, but they forget about most of them.” — southwycke75344
And a few talked about what was myth and what was real.
“Scientists thought the platypus was a joke until they send a dead one back to be studied.” — [deleted]
“People thought the okapi was a hoax until it was photographed. In parts of Sumatra it is believed that the orangutan can speak and refuses to do so because they don’t want to work.” — Victoresball
So there you have it.
Plenty of bizarre, fascinating, grotesque tidbits to keep you stocked for any lull in conversation.
People Share The Absolute Weirdest Facts They Know
In our primary school years, many of us took great pride in the weirdest, most fun facts we could spout out to our friends and family members on command.
Some of us, though, never lost that passion and continued collecting factoids about the world around us.
Redditor lovedump44 asked:
“Reddit, what is the weirdest FACT you know?”
Some talked about the state of Maine.
“Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.” – Donald_Keyman
“[Maine] is also the only state with one syllable in its name.” – BatskyStarman
The state of Ohio had something going for it, too.
“Ohio is the only state to not share a letter with the word ‘mackerel.’” – hunter07100
There was quite the unexpected fact about sea cucumbers.
“I know that sea cucumbers, to protect themselves from enemies, will hurl their own internal organs at anything threatening them.”
“Pretty wild, I think, but it doesn’t hurt the critter none. The sea cucumber can regrow whatever organs he lost with ease.” – aintyourma
Penguins have an unexpected skill, too.
“Penguins have a gland above their noses that removes salt from seawater.” – Servb0t
Some Redditors loved sharing facts about otters.
“Otters have a secret pocket where they carry their favorite rock.” – theoldraven
“[Otters] also hold hands when they sleep.” – jellyshoes11
“[Otters hold hands]…so they don’t drift apart. We can’t forget the adorable reason!” – biospark02
LEGO was represented on a technicality.
“LEGO is the world’s largest producer of tires.” – UncensoredChef
This inspired a piece of trivia from the first LEGO Movie.
“In the LEGO Movie, they put fingerprints and scratches on pieces to make the legos looked like they were well played with.” – hannakah_ham
Speaking of yellow characters, Pac-Man was also mentioned.
“If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.” – Donald_Keyman
And while we’re on the subject of scratching…
“Bonus Fact: If your throat is itching, you can make it stop by scratching your ear.” – Rywell
Some startling timeline facts had to be shared, too.
“Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.” – Donald_Keyman
“More time has passed between 9/11 and today, than 9/11 and the fall of the Berlin Wall.” – chicochic
“The Tyrannosaurus Rex was more likely to have gone to a Miley Cyrus concert than to have ever fought against a Stegosaurus (chronologically).” – Baldybeardy
Two Redditors enjoyed thinking of how we’re all connected.
“Astronomer here! If you look at the large-scale structure of the universe, it looks an awful lot like a brain cell.”
“I always thought that was really weird, but also a neat coincidence.” – Andromeda321
“We are more empty space than we are solid matter.” – its_the_peanutiest
Three Redditors considered how fantastically small some things are.
“There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world…” – hotbuk**ke
“Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.” – Swaily_P
“You can fit 3 Jupiters in the space between the Earth and our Moon.” – Question_4_you_guys
Two Redditors mentioned some surprising finds.
“A tomato plant was found on a 40-year-old volcanic island by the name of Surtsey. Scientists were baffled about how it got there.”
“Turns out a scientist took a dump which contained tomato seeds, and the plant grew.” – speeds_03
“Antarctica has two ATM machines. However, only 1 of them is working…” – Nebih
Three Redditors couldn’t choose just one factoid to share.
“Here are some interesting and odd facts:”
“Mammoths went extinct over 1000 years after the building of the great pyramid in Egypt.”
“A strawberry isn’t a berry, but an avocado is.”
“The can opener was invented 50 years after the can. They used bayonets or smashed them open with rocks in the intervening time. The rotating can opener that we’re familiar with took over 100 years to finalize.”
“The spikes on a stegosaurus’ tail are known by paleontologists as the thagomizer, which is a term coined by none other than Gary Larson in the Far Side cartoons.” – techniforus
“The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It’s 10 meters underwater.”
“Light doesn’t necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we’ve ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph (miles per hour).”
“In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard while running away from a fire.”
“There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.”
“[Until 2016] the last time the Chicago Cubs won the baseball World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed, and women did not have the right to vote in the United States.”
“John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s still alive today.” – Donald_Keyman
“Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the day he was fatally shot. At the time, it wasn’t charged with protecting the President, but still…”
“John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved Lincoln’s son’s life.”
“Furbies are banned from the NSA’s offices — as they may be spies. (They’re not really spies, but the NSA is being extra-careful.)”
“If your name is Richard Parker, stay the hell away from boats.”
“In March of 1951, both the US and UK were introduced to Dennis the Menace comics. But the two Dennis [characters] were totally different and their creators didn’t know about the other one across the Atlantic.”
“The US Civil War started on Wilmer McLean’s farm. He left the area shortly thereafter but couldn’t avoid the war, as it ended at the home he fled to.”
“The code names of the beaches used for the D-Day landings appeared in crossword puzzles before the campaign.”
“The people who make government pens will never see the words those pens write because all those people are blind.”
“Mountain Dew once admitted that mice would dissolve into a jelly-like substance in order to win a lawsuit.”
“There’s a massive, burning pit of natural gas aflame in Turkmenistan which has been burning since the early 1970s.”
“The US once considered nuking the moon, and Carl Sagan worked on the project.” – MrDNL
From facts about space to the strangest finds on Earth, combined with animal oddities and surprising timeline overlaps, these facts left many a fellow Redditor stunned, as well as wondering what other odd trivia they could uncover.
People Break Down Factoids That Almost Feel Illegal To Know
The world is a place absolutely saturated with information. Facts and knowledge surround each and every surface of your day-to-day life.
You need to know what temperature to cook your chicken. You need to know how to get from your house to the post office.
You know so many things, and you don’t even know how many you know.
But then there are some things you are acutely aware of knowing—because you feel like you shouldn’t know them. These are facts you found out by complete accident or by complete necessity and there’s almost no in‐between.
The only reason you know these kinds of facts is because they somehow snuck their way into your life.
So, when Redditor poisionivey3 asked:
“What’s a piece of information you know that feels illegal to know?”
Here were some of those little factoids that freaked people out.
Security Is A Joke
“Most conventional locks, like door locks from the hardware store or padlocks, are a joke. Hell you can take your house key and go door to door and eventually find aanother door that it’ll open.”
“What they’re counting on is that most people aren’t going to make the effort to acquire or make lock picking tools, then learn how to use them.”-frightenedhugger
“Really (before 1997/98 or so) old microsoft product keys relied on a REALLY simple validity check.”
“They were numbers in the form XXXX-YYYYYYY. The first 4 digits were specific to the software (I think Office 97 was 0402?) and fixed.”
“The last 7 .. the check was just that the sum of all digits has to be able to be divided by 7 without rest.”
“So 1111111 worked all the time. 1234567 worked all the time, 7777777 did.”-cerker
“If your local Walmart is closed overnight but there are employees working there, the doors probably aren’t locked and the self check registers are on.”
“There’s actually nothing keeping you from going in there, picking up a few items, using self checkout and walking out.”
“I work at Walmart overnight and this guy did that a couple nights ago. He didn’t speak English and when a manager noticed him they actually just escorted him to grab his items, check out and go.”-lenniemane
“A lot of military contract fleet vehicles use the same key for the entire fleet. Lowest bidders and all. And even then a lot of them are just keys to the door.”
“The actual ignition switch is just a knob on the dash.”
“Same vain fords crown victoria police interceptor variants all use the same key. It’s not even restricted you can buy them online.”-SkyAdministrative970
Stupid Life Hacks
“Back in the day, we used to go to this very popular night club, where people started lining up at 6pm. Met a guy inside partying one night wearing an orange construction vest.”
“He said he bypassed the entire line and they let him right in the door, because he was wearing that vest and carrying a clipboard. He told the bouncers he was the Fire Marshal.”-Rubyshooz
“A school trip in a downtown metro area for geography had us carrying clipboards around to mark off points on a map.”
“When we decided to eat, we found an Asian food restaurant. Walking in to this particular restaurant with a clipboard set them into panic mode.”
“So, we played along and went to inspect the kitchen, ran out fingers under the counter and made a few fake notes.”
“After a few minutes, my friend and I agreed they passed the inspection and we left the restaurant and found somewhere else to eat.”-Silken-red
“Car website company I used to work for (around 15 years ago) sold themselves as being the safest place to buy new and used cars”.
“Claiming they would check every car added to their website to make sure it wasn’t stolen or previously totalled.”
“Only problem is that they only carry out these tests every few months and the sales team actively inform their car dealership clients when this will happen, so they have the opportunity to take any stolen cars off the site first.”-CptBloodyObvious
Do Not Ingest
“There are plenty of toxic plants around, whether cultivated or wild. Poison hemlock, which is an invasive that grows in huge patches, is deadly if you consume just a few leaves.”
“Nightshades are pretty common as well, though the toxicity of different species varies greatly. Spurges, which are pretty common and inconspicious garden weeds, have sap that is severely irritating to the eyes, and can even potentially be blinding. Isn’t nature wonderful?”-AggravatingCrow
“That restaurants often do really disgusting things and have disgusting issues.”
“I used to waitress and then later manage a pizza place — mosquitos in the drain, nests of mice, stink bug infestations…”
“…Flies feasting on food that falls behind the appliances that isn’t cleaned up frequently like it’s supposed to be, mold in the soda machine, expired ingredients still being used, etc.”
“It’s just.. a lot. I was very, very surprised. I knew that most restaurants naturally deal with these things from time to time, but I didn’t expect it to be this often.”
“I also didn’t expect for management to be so nonchalant about going against inspections and regulations.”
“Other restaurants that friends of mine have managed/otherwise worked at have also had similar issues and it’s pretty wild.”
“I’ve never eaten at the restaurant that I worked at since quitting. I wouldn’t trust it.”-lemonlady7
The Sad Truth Of Our Daily Lives
“For any single instance of crime, the chance of getting caught and punished is exceedingly low.”
“It’s dependent on the crime, and easily influenced via various precautions like planning and proper target acquisition.”
“Only 40% of murders are solved and the majority of those which are are fairly obvious. 15% for assault and 10% for rape and sexual abuse.”
“Most of the folks caught for violent or sex crimes are committing crimes of passion (when emotions overwhelm all else) often involving family members (especially common for child abuse) so put little thought into concealing it, hence, they get caught.”
“The number one serial killer alive today has a high score of 300+ and is still at large. He targets prostitutes and the homeless and other folks that nobody important gives a fuck about.”
“For property crimes you have to be either stupid or frequent. closure rates for these are like 4% for mugging and 2% for burglary, and like 0.1% for white collar crimes like wage theft. The best crook in this game is your boss.”
“Drug crimes are like 0.01% if you count each individual instance. Half of you folks reading this comment have committed one.”
“Basically, corporate crime is easy and everyone does it, property crime is more difficult and less worth the effort, violent crime is especially bad risk-reward, and drug crime is just an excuse to violence brown people.”
“Basically, criminal justice is an oxymoron. It’s all a game of luck.”-Reagalan
“Area 51 soldiers have special orders compared to other military bases.”
“If were to drive your car or truck a hair to close to the limits of property, soldiers will detain you and they actually can shoot you right then and there if they decide you’re a threat.”
“Normally other soldiers would just let other authorities like the higher ups handle trespassers but Area 51 soldiers have the right to kill someone if they feel like it.”-KrookedCell
It’s a privilege to live and to know.
We as humans are afforded that privilege so readily we even sometimes wish we didn’t have it.
Learning can be a blessing or a curse.
Choose wisely which things you truly want to know the truth about because what is known can’t be unknown.