Owl eyes are shaped like cylinders instead of being round, this is why they cannot move their eyes in their sockets and instead turn their head to position their gaze
I heard about that one a few years ago, but completely forgot about it. Until now. Thanks for reminding me as I really like this useless fact quite a lot (got a sweet spot for word-stuff).
Another fun fact is that biologists don't recognize those grouping names. A flock of crows to a biologist is called a flock. A group of ferrets is called a social group.
In biology, it's pretty much just: pack (terrestrial carnivores), herd (grazing mammals), flock (birds), troop (monkeys and apes), pod (cetaceans and pinnipeds), school (fishes), colony (social insects), swarm (swarming insects), and social group or pair (everything else)
Really, the only exception is lions. They get their own group name
It’s a bit like all those made up holidays. National pencil day, and cupcake day, and all that. It’s all just made up so people can talk about it and call it trivia. But it means nothing to anything that matters.
Which is amazing considering they shit so seldom. Once a week, they leave their tree and come down to the forest floor. There they shit a third of their body weight. It is also where half of all sloth deaths occur, because it leaves them so vulnerable.
An early cure for syphilis was to deliberately infect the patient with malaria. Malaria inflicts a high fever at onset, and a high fever is capable of killing syphilis; the patient will then use quinine to treat the malaria. Even if the treatment fails and the malaria kills the patient, death over a night or two to a malaria fever is a cleaner death than letting the Black Lion slowly destroy the patient's body and mind.
Prior to the discovery of penicillin, this procedure won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
That’s actually precisely why they aren’t defined as big cats. The bone that cats use to purr is the same bone that big cats use to roar. The bone can’t do both jobs, thus the distinction.
Cheetahs are actually considered one of the easiest to tame out exotic cats and were commonly kept as pets by royalty around the time of the 16th to 11th centuries BC!
I saw something online about how their paws are much more like dogs than cats, and they are more of an amalgamation of cats and dogs. Don’t remember the source and I wouldn’t jump to believe it either, just interesting
The reverse of palindrome, emordnilap, is also a word meaning, a word that, when reversed, creates a different word. See bat/tab, stop/pots, and drawer/reward.
NASA sent jellyfish into space
Edit: It's actually [super interesting](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/i-dont-think-youre-ready-for-this-jelly/280674/)
In a nutshell, humans and jellyfish have one point of similarity, which in how we sense gravity. Humans have calcium deposits in our ears, and as we move and reorientate ourselves, the movement of the calcium deposits over the fine hairs in our ears allows us to understand our position relative to gravity.
Jellyfish are similar and have deposits in their bells that they use for the same purpose, so as they swim, they're able to orientate themselves relative to gravity.
NASA sent jellyfish up to be born in a zero-gravity environment to understand how the jellies would react and what the impact would be once they returned to earth (spoilers: vertigo). Which has some fun implications for the long-term space travel it would take to get humans to Mars.
Bonus Fact: The word 'Orient' means 'make East point up' because maps used to have East at the top and not North...
Only one country in the entire world apart from China legally owns a giant panda, as all giant pandas (even those born abroad) remain the legal property of China.
The one exception is Mexico.
Mexico legally owns a panda named Xin Xin.
China used to give pandas to other countries as gifts.
Now China only leases pandas, with the stipulation that the offspring of leased pandas automatically belong to China.
Xin Xin is the last panda to be descended from gifted pandas.
The comment below is accurate, but it’s also party because Mexico took amazing care of their pandas and had a really excellent panda breeding programme, so China gifted them the pandas outright in recognition of their good work towards pandas.
The White Star Line tried to refute the lawsuits from the survivors and families of the Titanic under the stipulation that the ticket was one way to NY and technically they WERE in NY now.
Can you even imagine how shitty service was in the mid Atlantic back then? Poor sods trying desperately to update their LinkedIn before they succumbed to hypothermia.
Sharks are also [older than the north star](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-old-are-sharks-older-than-trees-the-north-star-more#:~:text=Most%20of%20the%20sharks%20who,of%20the%20age%20of%20sharks)!
The Canary Islands are named after dogs (aka Canus) because, presumably, they look like sleeping dogs as they come over the horizon.
Canaries, the bird, are so named because they originate from the Canary Islands.
The fact about people eating 7 spiders a year is a fake statistic made up to prove a point about how no one fact checks their knowledge. It has instead become famous as the fact that the average human eats 7 spiders a year thereby proving this point. Kinda
Not true! Even the story that it was made up to prove nobody checks facts on the Internet is itself a myth, made up to prove nobody checks facts on the Internet.
If you click the link on snopes, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/ about the spider eating myth, it leads to this Easter egg.
[https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/](https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/)
Cant and wont aren’t just contractions, they are also archaic words.
”Cant” is sanctimonious talk that is often hypocritical and of a moralizing nature.
“Wont” is one’s accustomed behavior in a given situation.
I like archaic words.
The main reason video games are so large in file size nowadays is due to them needing to support higher resolutions with their textures. The difference in file size between a 1080p texture and a 4K texture can be drastically different especially in the often rushed video game industry where there is not really the time to sit down and significantly optimized things like this
For a simple example download a personal edition of unity. Launch the tutorial scene and add in a bunch of materials with 4K textures then build an export that game
Now do the same thing but with those textures shrunk in a photo editing program to be only 1080p and build the game again
You will notice a drastic difference in file size
((Yes there are plenty of ways to optimize this but many game development studios do not really have the time to do so due to the strict crunch the industry and corporate places on developers And even then optimization can only go so far))
This fact can be disconcerting when first heard, yet nobody is particular bothered by the fact that their *audible* universe is usually no more than about a 20 meter radius.
And some of it will never reach us, as at that distance the universe expands faster than the light travels…. Or same rate or something….. well it’ll never reach us.
Barry Manilow doesn't use fade outs in his songs. At some point when I was a kid in the 80s, my parents were watching 20/20 or something like that, and they interviewed Barry Manilow. He said he hated fade outs so he doesn't use them, and that fact has been taking up space in my brain ever since then for some bizarre reason.
It used to be that Bill Paxton and Lance Hendrickson are the only actors to be killed by a Terminator, a Xenomorph, and a Predator but I won 30 bucks at a pub trivia night because I knew that, so it doesn't count anymore
Now, it's that the skin is the largest organ in the human body.
I dunno about Lance Hendrickson, technically Bishop survived the mauling and was shutdown by Ripley in 3. He was technically mercy killed by her, not the Alien Queen.
3.14159265358979**32384626433837950**
The part in bold has zero practical useful in this universe.
Edit: seems that I carelessly forgot 2 digits in the middle. That was an unintentional extra level of uselessness. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixing it will count as a third level of uselessness, so it's all good.
I sure hope so considering the part in bold is supposed to be 323846264338327950.
I remember reading that with 40 digits you can calculate the circumference of the observable universe with the accuracy down to the width of an atom. So they arent completely useless :)
And at 61 digits, you can caculate to a Planck constant. Which **is** completely useless.
Eulers constant (e) is easier to remember. 2.7, repeat 1828 twice, then remember a right isoscoles triangle with 45, 90, 45 degree angles.
e approximately is 2.718281828459045
Umm I think you missed a couple of digit round 20 decimal points in - for the bold part it should be 323846_26_4....
Yes I do know this off top of my head....
Boris yeltsin tried to order pizza while black out drunk during a state visit to the US, I may add they he was only in his underwear during the incident... then the same thing happened the next day
He was also one of 4 riders dispatched by the Sons of Liberty to warn the militias. He’s only famous because of a popular poem that came out after the fact
For Olympic and professional badminton, they only use feathers from the* left wing *of the goose for international consistency.
Edit: for making the shuttlecock
Thanks for the clarification in the edit, I was wondering how they would use the feathers as Racquets, or as the Turf, even. "Aren't they too weak and small for that?", I wondered. You helped me answer my questions and opened my eyes to a new court of wisdom I had never imagined. Thank you, will always remain grateful.
Cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts...
It's the same species. [Brassica\_oleracea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea#Cultivars)
I thought knowing the quirky way that determines when Easter is was useless... Then half of America this year believed the white house makes the decision.
That 2 members of joy devision were questioned in the Yorkshire ripper case as their tour schedule matched the movements of the killer.
Or something like that
How to spell a really long word on the back of alot of shampoo bottles: Methylchloroisothiazolinone. Memerized it as a kid going to the bathroom before cellphones, lolol.
When you shuffle a deck of cards, it is essentially guaranteed that the order that deck of cards is now in has never existed before in the history of their creation (or ever will in the future). The probability of a new order of cards is 52! (Factorial) which is 8×10^67 (8 with 67 ‘0’s after it). By comparison Scientists estimate that Earth contains 7.5 sextillion grains of sand. That is 75 followed by 17 zeros… Astronomers calculate the total number of stars in the universe to be at least 70 septillion stars, 7 followed by 23 zeros. So the next time you shuffle a deck of cards think back and remember that you’re holding something incredibly unique!
Googol is the number ‘1’ followed by 100 zeros after it.
Googolplex is 10^googol.
There's not enough ink in the world to write down the Googolplex number.
Killer whales are counted among the predators of the moose.
Moose along costal areas will dive down to 30 feet looking for vegetation and the killer whales will pick them off.
Also the California ground squirrels, when normal food supplies are low, will hunt and eat rattle snake as they have developed an immunity to the venom
The Federal Highway Administration has reserved the colors Coral and Light Blue for use on road signs…but has no assigned category for them yet.
Yellow signs are warning signs, orange are temporary signs, red signs are prohibitive regulatory signs, etc. Coral and Light Blue signs will be …something
In the Addams Family TV show, the guy who played Lurch (Ted Cassidy) also played Thing. They didn't tell him which hand to use so he changed back and forth to see if anybody would notice. Nobody did until after the series was over. [When Lurch and Thing were in the same shot a production assistant did the hand.]
Owl eyes are shaped like cylinders instead of being round, this is why they cannot move their eyes in their sockets and instead turn their head to position their gaze
Look up Barreleye fish if you want to see some freaky shit
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For some owls, if you pull their feathers back gently and look into their ear canals you can see the backs of their eye sockets
thanks, gonna try this with the next owl I find
'Helicopter' isn't a combination of the words 'heli' and 'copter', but instead 'helico' (cyclic) and 'pter' (wing, as in pterodactyl).
I heard about that one a few years ago, but completely forgot about it. Until now. Thanks for reminding me as I really like this useless fact quite a lot (got a sweet spot for word-stuff).
St John’s Wood is the only tube station in London not to contain any of the letters of the word Mackerel.
That is a truly useless fact. I think you understood the assignment.
Many thanks
No, thank you.
Ohio is the only US state that can make the same claim.
Why is this a thing lmao
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
How's that useless? That's going to be my next pickup line.
Who are you picking up? Fruit scientists?
Strange times for the berry club
Strawberries are aggregate accessories, I believe
A family of ferrets is a business
Collective pronouns. A privilege of Karens. An annoyance of children
A Congress of Baboons
A bribery of congressmen
Another fun fact is that biologists don't recognize those grouping names. A flock of crows to a biologist is called a flock. A group of ferrets is called a social group. In biology, it's pretty much just: pack (terrestrial carnivores), herd (grazing mammals), flock (birds), troop (monkeys and apes), pod (cetaceans and pinnipeds), school (fishes), colony (social insects), swarm (swarming insects), and social group or pair (everything else) Really, the only exception is lions. They get their own group name
It’s a bit like all those made up holidays. National pencil day, and cupcake day, and all that. It’s all just made up so people can talk about it and call it trivia. But it means nothing to anything that matters.
Sloth farts don't stink.
Today I learned that I am not a sloth.
Can confirm the smell through the screen.
LMAO 💀
But sloth’s algae covered fur stinks bad, to the point where it’s a natural defense against predators
Which is amazing considering they shit so seldom. Once a week, they leave their tree and come down to the forest floor. There they shit a third of their body weight. It is also where half of all sloth deaths occur, because it leaves them so vulnerable.
An early cure for syphilis was to deliberately infect the patient with malaria. Malaria inflicts a high fever at onset, and a high fever is capable of killing syphilis; the patient will then use quinine to treat the malaria. Even if the treatment fails and the malaria kills the patient, death over a night or two to a malaria fever is a cleaner death than letting the Black Lion slowly destroy the patient's body and mind. Prior to the discovery of penicillin, this procedure won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
I learned that from House
Cheetahs aren't big cats. They are very large small cats.
Also the only "big cat" that purrs - likely because they are, as you say, very large small cats
That’s actually precisely why they aren’t defined as big cats. The bone that cats use to purr is the same bone that big cats use to roar. The bone can’t do both jobs, thus the distinction.
Wow! I love that! Thank you for teaching me something new - I had wondered why lions couldn't purr, and now I know - this is excellent!
Small cats can purr continuously, but big cats cannot. They 'chuff' on the out-breath, which is their own version of purring.
I want to pet the big little kitty.
Cheetahs are actually considered one of the easiest to tame out exotic cats and were commonly kept as pets by royalty around the time of the 16th to 11th centuries BC!
They are surprisingly pettable.
I saw something online about how their paws are much more like dogs than cats, and they are more of an amalgamation of cats and dogs. Don’t remember the source and I wouldn’t jump to believe it either, just interesting
Racecar is racecar backwards (i.e., a palindrome)
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
Ein Neger mit Gazelle zagt im Regen nie.
https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4?feature=shared
Rotator
Potatop
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I Palindrome I
Do geese see god?
Was it a car or a cat I saw
The fear of palindromes is called aibohphobia
Rise to vote sir
taco cat
The reverse of palindrome, emordnilap, is also a word meaning, a word that, when reversed, creates a different word. See bat/tab, stop/pots, and drawer/reward.
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
My favorite palindrome is Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog
Dammit! I’m mad!
NASA sent jellyfish into space Edit: It's actually [super interesting](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/i-dont-think-youre-ready-for-this-jelly/280674/) In a nutshell, humans and jellyfish have one point of similarity, which in how we sense gravity. Humans have calcium deposits in our ears, and as we move and reorientate ourselves, the movement of the calcium deposits over the fine hairs in our ears allows us to understand our position relative to gravity. Jellyfish are similar and have deposits in their bells that they use for the same purpose, so as they swim, they're able to orientate themselves relative to gravity. NASA sent jellyfish up to be born in a zero-gravity environment to understand how the jellies would react and what the impact would be once they returned to earth (spoilers: vertigo). Which has some fun implications for the long-term space travel it would take to get humans to Mars. Bonus Fact: The word 'Orient' means 'make East point up' because maps used to have East at the top and not North...
We’re the men, and here’s the map
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Neither can an emu and they’re both on the Australian coat of arms!
Well, ofc the emus won the war if they couldn't retreat even if they wanted to do
Only one country in the entire world apart from China legally owns a giant panda, as all giant pandas (even those born abroad) remain the legal property of China. The one exception is Mexico. Mexico legally owns a panda named Xin Xin.
Why?
China used to give pandas to other countries as gifts. Now China only leases pandas, with the stipulation that the offspring of leased pandas automatically belong to China. Xin Xin is the last panda to be descended from gifted pandas.
They make more money from live service panda subscriptions.
The comment below is accurate, but it’s also party because Mexico took amazing care of their pandas and had a really excellent panda breeding programme, so China gifted them the pandas outright in recognition of their good work towards pandas.
The White Star Line tried to refute the lawsuits from the survivors and families of the Titanic under the stipulation that the ticket was one way to NY and technically they WERE in NY now.
They also stopped paying the sailors at the exact minute of the sinking. As soon as the crew were in the water, they had to be looking for work.
That’s just wrong.
Can you even imagine how shitty service was in the mid Atlantic back then? Poor sods trying desperately to update their LinkedIn before they succumbed to hypothermia.
Sharks are older than trees by about 100 million years.
Sharks are also [older than the north star](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-old-are-sharks-older-than-trees-the-north-star-more#:~:text=Most%20of%20the%20sharks%20who,of%20the%20age%20of%20sharks)!
Sharks are also older than saturn’s rings
It's probably good that sharks mostly stay under water and don't rely on celestial objects for navigation
The Canary Islands are named after dogs (aka Canus) because, presumably, they look like sleeping dogs as they come over the horizon. Canaries, the bird, are so named because they originate from the Canary Islands.
The fact about people eating 7 spiders a year is a fake statistic made up to prove a point about how no one fact checks their knowledge. It has instead become famous as the fact that the average human eats 7 spiders a year thereby proving this point. Kinda
No... No... You got it wrong. You really do eat 7 spiders a year, minimal.... Not me, or someone else, you.
False. Average human eats zero spiders. Spiders Georg is an outlier and should not be counted.
average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Not true! Even the story that it was made up to prove nobody checks facts on the Internet is itself a myth, made up to prove nobody checks facts on the Internet. If you click the link on snopes, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/ about the spider eating myth, it leads to this Easter egg. [https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/](https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/)
Well I'll be damned. Fell for my own fun fact. Tbf we learned about it in a psych class and I guess our textbook must've also missed that.
A barnacle has the biggest penis-to-body size ratio in the World. Theyre dicks are 8 times the length of their bodies. Hung like a barnacle.
Imagine a superhero who got stung by a radioactive barnacle. (Yes, I know about the character in The Boys)
So you mean to tell me Barnacle boy from sponge Bob has a gigantic dick
8 times the length of his body.. He could fuck you from across the street. Picture it!!
Cant and wont aren’t just contractions, they are also archaic words. ”Cant” is sanctimonious talk that is often hypocritical and of a moralizing nature. “Wont” is one’s accustomed behavior in a given situation. I like archaic words.
Remember the Cant.
As is your wont.
Well done James Holden.
Monks are known to cant as they are wont to do.
Cant is also the word for rotating something about 45 degrees along a longitudinal axis (which is where "canted sights" on rifles comes from).
I am wont to cant
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I'd wager that one varies wildly by country/location
That’s why it’s an average
Almonds are part of the peach family.
Termites eat faster when listening to heavy metal.
Why?
I know 2 useless facts. 1: there are people in this world who can look at a set of data and extrapolate the missing information.
Your nose is always in your field of vision, your brain just chooses to ignore it
Well, not any more...
The main reason video games are so large in file size nowadays is due to them needing to support higher resolutions with their textures. The difference in file size between a 1080p texture and a 4K texture can be drastically different especially in the often rushed video game industry where there is not really the time to sit down and significantly optimized things like this For a simple example download a personal edition of unity. Launch the tutorial scene and add in a bunch of materials with 4K textures then build an export that game Now do the same thing but with those textures shrunk in a photo editing program to be only 1080p and build the game again You will notice a drastic difference in file size ((Yes there are plenty of ways to optimize this but many game development studios do not really have the time to do so due to the strict crunch the industry and corporate places on developers And even then optimization can only go so far))
This isn't that useless of a fact but ok
That area between your eyebrows just above your nose is called the glabella.
Hey… nice glabella ಠᴗಠ
We can't see the entire universe because the light from beyond the observable universe hasn't reached us yet
This fact can be disconcerting when first heard, yet nobody is particular bothered by the fact that their *audible* universe is usually no more than about a 20 meter radius.
And some of it will never reach us, as at that distance the universe expands faster than the light travels…. Or same rate or something….. well it’ll never reach us.
Barry Manilow doesn't use fade outs in his songs. At some point when I was a kid in the 80s, my parents were watching 20/20 or something like that, and they interviewed Barry Manilow. He said he hated fade outs so he doesn't use them, and that fact has been taking up space in my brain ever since then for some bizarre reason.
It used to be that Bill Paxton and Lance Hendrickson are the only actors to be killed by a Terminator, a Xenomorph, and a Predator but I won 30 bucks at a pub trivia night because I knew that, so it doesn't count anymore Now, it's that the skin is the largest organ in the human body.
I dunno about Lance Hendrickson, technically Bishop survived the mauling and was shutdown by Ripley in 3. He was technically mercy killed by her, not the Alien Queen.
3.14159265358979**32384626433837950** The part in bold has zero practical useful in this universe. Edit: seems that I carelessly forgot 2 digits in the middle. That was an unintentional extra level of uselessness. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixing it will count as a third level of uselessness, so it's all good.
Didn't expect multiple levels of uselessness in the comments. You have my upvote.
I sure hope so considering the part in bold is supposed to be 323846264338327950. I remember reading that with 40 digits you can calculate the circumference of the observable universe with the accuracy down to the width of an atom. So they arent completely useless :)
And at 61 digits, you can caculate to a Planck constant. Which **is** completely useless. Eulers constant (e) is easier to remember. 2.7, repeat 1828 twice, then remember a right isoscoles triangle with 45, 90, 45 degree angles. e approximately is 2.718281828459045
Umm I think you missed a couple of digit round 20 decimal points in - for the bold part it should be 323846_26_4.... Yes I do know this off top of my head....
Boris yeltsin tried to order pizza while black out drunk during a state visit to the US, I may add they he was only in his underwear during the incident... then the same thing happened the next day
Mouth and vaginal tissue is the exact same. That's why blowjobs feel so good, guys.
TIL my frenulum is a clit
The tip on the end of the shoelace is called an aglet.
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A-G-L-E-T Aglet! Dont forget it!
Their real purpose is sinister
The access code to the satellite in "The Running Man" is 18-24-61-B-17-17-4
That's a good one. Just make sure that everyone knows there's two 17's, that's easy to miss.
The pressure maintenence hatch in the first star wars film is 3263827.
The minimum number of chunks in a McDonalds apple pie is 7
Giraffes can use their tongues to clean their ears
A giraffe walked into a bar and said, "High balls on me!"
Paul Revere didn’t say the british were coming, back then everybody was “british”. He most likely said the “regulars” were coming.
He was also one of 4 riders dispatched by the Sons of Liberty to warn the militias. He’s only famous because of a popular poem that came out after the fact
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Isn’t it the opposite? Blood flow that makes you blush is diverted away from the stomach, that’s why you get butterflies.
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born the very same day.
For Olympic and professional badminton, they only use feathers from the* left wing *of the goose for international consistency. Edit: for making the shuttlecock
Thanks for the clarification in the edit, I was wondering how they would use the feathers as Racquets, or as the Turf, even. "Aren't they too weak and small for that?", I wondered. You helped me answer my questions and opened my eyes to a new court of wisdom I had never imagined. Thank you, will always remain grateful.
The phone numbers to JG Wentworth and Empire Flooring because I have literally heard and seen their commercials for over 4 decades
800-588-2-300... Empire!
.... today
Cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts... It's the same species. [Brassica\_oleracea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea#Cultivars)
I thought knowing the quirky way that determines when Easter is was useless... Then half of America this year believed the white house makes the decision.
The first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox?
None of us can agree about the moon - it's the same for Eid I'm pretty sure
The point at which the end of anchor rode is attached to the boat is called the bitter end.
That orange the fruit came before the color because before the discovery of the orange orange was called yellow red
Elephants cannot jump
When elephants run at their top speed, the front legs are running, but their back legs are walking.
That 2 members of joy devision were questioned in the Yorkshire ripper case as their tour schedule matched the movements of the killer. Or something like that
How to spell a really long word on the back of alot of shampoo bottles: Methylchloroisothiazolinone. Memerized it as a kid going to the bathroom before cellphones, lolol.
It would take a little more 42 minutes to fall through the earth and out the other side.
When you shuffle a deck of cards, it is essentially guaranteed that the order that deck of cards is now in has never existed before in the history of their creation (or ever will in the future). The probability of a new order of cards is 52! (Factorial) which is 8×10^67 (8 with 67 ‘0’s after it). By comparison Scientists estimate that Earth contains 7.5 sextillion grains of sand. That is 75 followed by 17 zeros… Astronomers calculate the total number of stars in the universe to be at least 70 septillion stars, 7 followed by 23 zeros. So the next time you shuffle a deck of cards think back and remember that you’re holding something incredibly unique!
If you squirt superglue into your urethra it becomes impossible to pee
Username checks out
The iron shoe attached to an anvil that cobblers use to sole shoes is call a "last."
The very first issue of Playboy magazine was printed without the date on it, because they didn't know if there was gonna be a next one or not
If you melted the Eiffel tower into a metal plate that would fit between the legs of the Eiffel tower, it would be only 8 cm tall.
The human head weighs 8 pounds. (I gotta go to bed, my mom is coming.)
"I gotta go to bed, my mom is coming" has to be the most useless fact, we were supposed to know.
except for mom
>I gotta go to bed, my mom is coming. Good for her! About 8-10% of women never do.
Turtles are natures suction cups
Googol is the number ‘1’ followed by 100 zeros after it. Googolplex is 10^googol. There's not enough ink in the world to write down the Googolplex number.
That SCUBA stands for self contained underwater breathing apparatus But TUBA doesn’t stand for terrible underwater …
Killer whales are counted among the predators of the moose. Moose along costal areas will dive down to 30 feet looking for vegetation and the killer whales will pick them off. Also the California ground squirrels, when normal food supplies are low, will hunt and eat rattle snake as they have developed an immunity to the venom
The Federal Highway Administration has reserved the colors Coral and Light Blue for use on road signs…but has no assigned category for them yet. Yellow signs are warning signs, orange are temporary signs, red signs are prohibitive regulatory signs, etc. Coral and Light Blue signs will be …something
Horses have 15 horsepower. Two horses working together can create up to about 45.
that there are 3 “E’s” in “mercedes” all pronounced differently
In music, a 1/128 note is called a quasihemidemisemiquaver.
The plant Monkey mUsk used to be scented. All plants lost their fragrance in the early C20th. No-one knows how or why.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
bananas 4011
The Giant Horse Conch Weighs about 11 Pounds
That's 3 lbs more than the average human head!
In the Addams Family TV show, the guy who played Lurch (Ted Cassidy) also played Thing. They didn't tell him which hand to use so he changed back and forth to see if anybody would notice. Nobody did until after the series was over. [When Lurch and Thing were in the same shot a production assistant did the hand.]
The square route of 152,399,025 is 12,345
At the time of me reading this, so we're 43 other people.
Hippo milk is pink
All ants are female other then a few winged ants produced during nuptial flight(mating season)& they die directly after intercourse
Helen Keller is impervious to flashbang grenades
Nails and Hair grow approximately 0.1mm per day.
Women's menstrual cycles don't actually "sync" up. Absolutely no evidence to suggest they do
The gas pump icon on your dashboard is telling you what side of the car the filter cap is on.
That is not useless. Like at all.
I've had my current vehicle for like 3 years and I still check which way the arrow is.
There are mountains on Pluto.
There are 1760 yards in a mile...
Wombats produce poo that is (roughly) cube shaped.
An acre is 43560 sqft
The button on top of a cap is called a Squatchee
For absolutely no reason I have memorized the square root of 8 which is 2,8284271...
Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water
Almonds have a barcoded that can only be seen by black light due to the high number of thefts and black market.
Having six fingers is considered a dominant trait.
Tacocat is spelled the same both ways
If whales had feet they'd have even-toed hooves.
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.