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53 years ago was the first time data was sent through the internet. it was only the 2 digits “LO” because the network could not deal with so much information (AKA to complete the word “LOGIN”) so it crashed after the first 2 digits.
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By the time we reach a certain age, we think we know everything. Some of us might even be overconfident in our wisdom.
But to those who are erudite and hold multiple degrees of higher learning, they have another think coming.
The truth is, we never stop learning in this thing called life.
Aside from examples of people who are book smart vs. having street smarts, there are common misunderstandings experienced by both camps, and they result in a head slap moment that makes them utter, for lack of a better expression, “D-oh!”
“What’s a little-known but obvious fact that will immediately make all of us feel stupid?”
“Words that are spelled the same but pronounced with emphasis on different syllables is actually indicative of the part of speech it is.”
“Stress on the first syllable is a noun. Stress on the last syllable is a verb. Examples: CON-tract and con-TRACT. The former is a noun ( sign this contract) whereas the latter is a verb (the muscles contract). Same with record, address, impact, object, and a few others.” – Verlonica
“The words Laser and Scuba are actually acronyms and they stand for:”
“Laser- Light Amplification (by) Stimulated Emission (of) Radiation. Scuba- Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.” – Gerd-Neek
“The word ‘helicopter’ has two components. They aren’t ‘heli’ and ‘copter.’ They are ‘helico’ and ‘pter.’”
“‘Helico’ (helix) and ‘pter’ (wing, like with ‘pterodactyl’)” – kabukistar
“Thee and Thou were actually the informal forms. The King James Bible used them so that the relationship with God would seem more personal.” – kkngs
“Cats, dogs, and other similar animals can’t see directly below their faces.”
“Because their snout gets in the way.”
“(That’s why you have to point out the treat a million times, they’re not stupid, the damn thing is just in their blind spot)” – tinyhatonapumpkin
“My favorite thing to tell people: Penguins swim faster than Michael Phelps.”
“Remember that discovery special that pitted a shark against him to see who was faster? Completely stupid, because even shark FOOD swims faster than he does! (Sharks eat penguins, to clarify)” – mushupenguin
“Everyone has seen shows or movies about traveling circuses, mainly in the 1930’s or 1940’s. During the Depression, running away to join the circus was a semi-reasonable option.”
“Many people scoff at the Florida law you must feed the meter where you park your elephant.”
“Those circuses had a travel season that heavily relied on summer and warmer months. They would spend the winter in Florida until the next travel season. AHS even had an entire season about this.” – UnihornWhale
“Elephants have some of the closest looking breasts to humans besides primates of course. Two of them.”
“You just kind of look at female elephants in the context you usually see them and whoop, there it is and you can’t unsee it ever again.” – breastronaut
“Antisocial means that you are hostile or harmful to organized society. As in being or marked by behavior deviating sharply from the social norm.”
“Asocial is rejecting or lacking the capacity for social interaction.” – OttoManSatire
“Covered bridges are designed with roofs to protect and preserve the wooden structure from the elements.”
“Without the cover they’d last about 20 years, with the cover they can last up to 100. They’re not built that way just to look charming.” – ghostofhenryvii
“911 operators have no f’king clue where you are instantly unless you’re on a landline.”
“You HAVE to say where you are. It’s not our fault movies made you think we have a spy level video of you in your car.”
“Know your location.” – BeardsuptheWazoo
“Around 70% of all car accidents happen within 10 miles of your home……because over 70% of your driving is within 10 miles of your home.”
“It’s a statistic driving teachers love to toss out there, that most accidents happen close to your home. But if you think about it, most of your driving is close to your home.”
“Even if you drive 20 miles to work, 50% of your driving will take place 10 miles from your home. The average commute is around 15 miles, and most people shop close to home.”
“So it’s really common sense that the majority of your driving will take place in that 10 mile radius, even if you travel further for work or other activities.” – sebrebc
“Potatoes didn’t arrive in Europe until the 16th century.”
“It’s so ubiquitous, you’d think it would’ve been a part of English culture since 10,000 BC. – chalkyWubnub”
“You don’t actually bite down. You bite up because of your lower jaw.” – Random_Weirdo_Girl
“When extracting organs for donating, doctors need to keep the body alive, obviously through machines, but they need to keep the blood pumping.” – [deleted]
“Tear ducts drain tears, they don’t produce them.” – Katiesullivan01
“It was never mentioned that Humpty-Dumpty was an egg.” – YummyMango124
“Almost all samples of Sea Salt that you can buy in supermarkets are contaminated by microplastics from all the crap in the ocean.” – Cockalorum
“When a nurse gives you an IV – they aren’t leaving the metal needle inside your arm – they actually remove that and only a soft plastic tube remains – so you don’t need to keep your arm that straight, relax.” – Snakes_for_Bones
When I was once told Alaska was considered the easternmost state of the United States, I looked at my informant like he was crazy.
It logically didn’t make sense because, in my mind, Maine was the furthest eastern point.
But then, he explained to me how Alaska’s Aleutian Islands cross longitude 180º, which would make Alaska’s westernmost part of the state fall under the Eastern Hemisphere.
Even though it wasn’t a “D-oh” moment for me, I was definitely enlightened. But I don’t think many people would know about this interesting trivia.
That’s one for discussion at your next cocktail party, I suppose.
They say it’s never too late to learn anything.
While that sentiment may be true, it doesn’t mean acquiring what others thought was common knowledge later in life isn’t an utter embarrassment.
Still, that shouldn’t prevent us from seeking wisdom no matter how old we are.
Some may argue that’s easier said than done.
Redditor keepcalmandbecalm provided an opportunity for strangers online to fess up about being late to the game of enlightenment.
“What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age?”
“I had to explain to my friend last year (28YO) that the turkey we saw in the farm park was the same animal as the turkey dinner she was eating.”
“She knew this about chicken, but… just never made that mental connection about turkey.” – pianobarbarian1
“I thought piss and sh*t were just dropped out of airplanes mid flight and disintegrated in thin air.” – I_AmTheGovernment
“Shampoo goes on first. Made the mistake of arguing with a friend in high about how conditioner makes your hair all weird feeling, so you use the shampoo at the end to bring it back to normal. He’s never let me live it down.” – CeeCeeBABCOCK
“I’ve got two.”
“Whenever I complained about any part of my body aching, my dad would say “oh that’s cause you’re growing”. And I believed him, right until I was 19.”
“In my culture we use water to wash our asses after pooping, and sure, we all learnt that. What I didn’t realise was that you’re still meant to wipe after, so I walked around with wet pants until I was 20 facepalm.” – yas9in
“Growing pains.Thats what my mom always told me when I was little and my legs hurt.I’m 6 feet tall now female.My son is constantly saying his legs hurt so I googled this assuming it’s growing pains.”
“When your a kid your muscles just get sore from over playing,sports,etc.This was maybe a month ago that I learned this,always assumed Growing Pains was a real thing.” – Wtfismypassword4444
“When I was 28 I learned that flying fish are a real animal. I thought they were pretend, like unicorns.” – fishnugget1
“That the phrase ‘in heat’ didn’t mean they lived in a warm climate. I learned that when I was today years old.” – owestball
“There was a big building called ‘The Space Center’ that we’d always pass by and for the longest time I thought it was like a space camp sorta place. I was well into the teens when it finally clicked.”
“It’s a storage facility. So yeah that was a major letdown on all fronts.” – WhenBuyIt
“That I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus is about the mom kissing the dad who’s dressed up as Santa. I just assumed it was a little innocent cheating.” – PoolSharkPete
“I was somewhere in my 20s when I found out that the words “sweater” and “sweatshirt” aren’t interchangeable.” – Caitlen315
“Mangopapaya is not a fruit, my mom just never remembered the difference between a mango and a papaya, so I grew up thinking a mangos real name is mangopapaya.” – Marosie
“Pufferfish puff up with water, not air. It’s so obvious and it never even occurred to me.”
“I only realised how stupid I was when I read a reddit comment about a year ago pointing the fact out.” – AgnosticMantis
“I learned at 13 I was circumcized.” – Pyromaniac64
“That eating fish and having milk won’t kill you. My parents seem to believe that the combination makes you sick but Google told me otherwise..” – healme_
“Pickles are cucumbers and raisins are grapes.” – foxtailavenger
“Not a fact, just a realization. It wasn’t until recently (and I’m in my late 40s) that I realized the phrase ‘if I told you that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me’ didn’t mean that you’d lose respect for me for the act.”
“It finally dawned on me that it meant what the rest of you all know it means. Thankfully this dawned on me privately and not in conversation or I’d have felt like the double the moron I do now.” – Prima13
“I thought concur meant disagree till i got in an argument with someone and later found out they were trying to agree with me.” – Lord_Ikaros
“How rendezvous and dachshund are pronounced. I knew what the words were when spoken, obviously, but every time I’d see them written I’d get stuck. I’d try to sound them out.”
“I remember being stuck behind Buick Rendezvous in traffic and sound it out phonetically and think to myself ‘well that’s a weird thing to name a car.’ In my mid 20s.” – JaggedUmbrella
“That the month is pronounced and spelled February and not Febuary despite being born in that month.” – jetpacksheep
“The twelve days of Christmas are from Christmas to the Feast of the Epiphany sometimes called Three Kings Day on January 6th. I was raised Catholic. It’s a holy day of obligation. I just never counted the days. I even wondered why it’s 12 days in the song.”
“The fact that it’s called epiphany stings a bit. I’m 45.” – prolific-lurker
“Not me, but I was talking to my best friend about how I have a lisp since the accident last year that left me without several teeth.”
“He replied with ‘wait, it’s been a year why haven’t they grown back?’”
“Me- wtf do you mean, teeth don’t grow back?”
“Him-no no they don’t grow back but wouldn’t the new set have grown in yet or are they still coming in?”
“Me-new set? You only have one set of adult teeth.”
“Him-wait what”
“This man made it to 22 firmly believing you lose one set of teeth as a kid and then have TWO SETS of adult teeth.”
“God, I wish, then I wouldn’t be paying $4000 for replacement teeth.” – MidnightCiggarette
I really shouldn’t be laughing at any of these.
For the longest time, I was fully convinced I had to avoid swallowing watermelon seeds because I thought one would grow inside of me.
I was rightfully roasted for ages when I learned the truth when I was 12.
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.
“What’s a piece of information you know that feels illegal to know?”
Here were some of those little factoids that freaked people out.
“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
“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
“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
“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.
Twitter can be a real cesspool of terrible news sometimes, but once in a while it really gives us a great thread full of great information.
And this thread is a great example!
This tweet got the ball rolling.
What’s the most random fact you know?
I mean RANDOM random.
— Fleetwood Coupe DeVille (@MsPackyetti) January 28, 2020
And then the responses poured in. Here are 13 of the best.
Koalas are really really not smart.
If you change the form of their food (put eucalyptus on a plate, for example) they will starve to death rather than eat it bc they can’t recognize it. https://t.co/732YnZKErZ— Jessi (@OlMumsyJess) January 28, 2020
We live closer to when T. Rex lived than T. Rex did to when Stegosaurus lived. https://t.co/f4UVS5dh10
— Josh (@joshnorthsouth) January 28, 2020
When you look at a flower, some of the photons that entered your eye just ended a 100,000-year journey from the center of the sun.
Nobody else sees them.
Just you.
10% of THOSE will give up their energy to cause a chemical reaction that—literally—makes them a part of you. https://t.co/LK339c4jym
—
Dustin Miller
The act of touching glasses to cheers comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each other, so youd slam mugs together to spill each others drinks into your own to show trust you werent trying to kill them. Europeans man…
— james beard (@beardjam) January 28, 2020
they can’t ever close Elvis’ estate unless it stops making money, because he died without a will. there’s a captive law firm that does nothing but Elvis law as a result. https://t.co/Dc3AXWQ9YQ
— Space Witches, Esq. (@popelizbet) January 28, 2020
Just like humans, male sheep have more wool
And the wool quality is higher if the sheep are castrated (not sure if that’s true for humans) https://t.co/1h5mnWBPKm
— Flint Dibble
(@FlintDibble) January 29, 2020
The stickers on fruit are made to be edible, just in case.
— Tammy Howe (@thowe555) January 28, 2020
The original Black Panther costume had a hole cut out of the mask for the mouth and nose, but higher-ups got worried last second and had the artist fill it in so potential buyers wouldn’t be scared off by a black superhero on the cover. pic.twitter.com/bRp1VFt1qY
— tyler huckabee (@TylerHuckabee) January 28, 2020
Great White Shark babies fight and kill each other in the womb. The winner gets to be born.
But upon birth, it has to swim away fast, or else the mama shark will eat it. https://t.co/1dRrHyjDNY
— Syd
(@PixScienceCo) January 28, 2020
Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name is Slaghoople.
— Kim Brill (@Kim_Brill) January 28, 2020
The mystery flavor Dum Dum lollipop originally existed because they didn’t clean the machines between flavors. It was the result of the previous batch mixing with the next one. https://t.co/HNmvMJjpDV
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) January 28, 2020
The vertical indentation in the middle area of the upper lip is called the philtrum, which in Greek means “love charm” pic.twitter.com/xapVYKB15c
— Monk E. (@tdm_now) January 28, 2020
The “tag” in when you play tag stands for “touch and go”
— Leora Wolf-Prusan (@Leorawp) January 28, 2020
Those are great! I feel like I learned something today!
Okay, now it’s your turn, our dear readers. What is the most random, most interesting fact that you know?
Let us know in the comments. Please and thank you!
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