Sometimes we don't realize how big the storage of our brains is. We might forget some facts or happenings now and then, but it's only natural when considering we have to digest new information every day! However, some snippets of knowledge appear to be unforgettable so that even the most random and useless thing might be stuck in your brain forever.
So, I got curious about what worthless bit of trivia or knowledge is forever stuck in our pandas' heads! Here's what people had to share.
#1
Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Numan.
Image credits: Gage Skidmore
#2
Polar bears have black skin. Their fur is actually clear, not white, and each strand of fur is a hollow tube made of keratin (the same stuff as our fingernails) to trap heat and keep them warm.
#3
That wombats poop cubes. It has something to do with their intestines being really good at removing water and compacting waste and it comes out in cubes.
#4
Iceland is much less icy and much more green than Greenland.
#5
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
#6
A proper one this time. Pineapple 'eats' you as you eat it. Pineapple contains a chemical called Bromelain that deconstructs (and will eventually dissolve) proteins, including human tissue. So if you're wondering why it tingles on your tongue now you know (thankfully our stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve concrete so takes care of Mr Pineapple)
#7
A city in California has the Goodyear Blimp as its official bird.
#8
The word for thinking about your thinking is metacognition. It only comes in handy when you're trying to impress teachers.
#9
Teeth pop like popcorn when heated.
#10
The tip of your elbow is called your wenis.
#11
A day on venus is longer than a year on venus
#12
Without mucus your stomach would digest itself.
#13
That giraffes mostly sleep standing up and only for like 30 minutes a day.
#14
That the angels do not naturally have a human form. When you actually read in depth about them, they are said to be both beautiful and yet among the most terrifying beings in the universe. When they say "Be not afraid" there is a reason for it, and it's not because they popped out of nowhere in front of your face.
#15
Rockets/spaceships are launched from positions near the equator to the east because the Earth's rotation makes a start more fuel efficient that way.
#16
Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.
#17
Pigs can actually run faster than people. As prey animals, they evolved to run away a lot.
#18
The average person has four to six dreams a night.
#19
It’s possible to put a lightbulb inside your mouth, but you can’t get it out without breaking either the glass or your jaw. And no, I don’t know why.
#20
Cats have 38 muscles in each ear
#21
Giraffes use their necks to generate momentum with their heads when they fight.
#22
Finland is home to the most metal bands per capita, with around 53.5 metal bands per 100,000 people.
#23
That DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. I've known it since the 4th grade. I'm 57
#24
Americans spend around 2.5 days each year in total looking for their lost things.
#25
Squirrels don’t remember where they buried their acorns. They just bury so many that it’s easy to find one wherever they dig.
#26
Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
#27
The okay hand symbol means "pay me" in Japan. Thanks, Nat geographic!
#28
LEGO is the number producer of wheels in the entire world.
#29
The bits at the end of shoe laces (metal or plastic or whatever) that make it easier to lace up your shoes are called aglets.
#30
Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to us in time than they were to stegosaurus.
#31
Australia is the only country which eats its National animals. And they’re delicious!
#32
Not trivia, just a Spanish word my nutty, Mexican friend from college made me learn, for some weird reason. It's the word for "ear, nose and throat" - otorrinolaringologo. I've found myself repeating it over and over in my head whenever I'm in a lot of pain, especially with migraines. I don't do it intentionally, it just happens. Thanks for the subconscious coping mechanism, Hermès!
#33
Some words are contranyms, meaning a word that has two different meanings that are the opposite of each other.
The three examples I know are:
Cleave (can mean either to cling to or to separate from)
Left (can be used to refer to the part of a group that departed or the part that stayed. "Three sheep left the flock, how many were left?")
Off (can mean either to activate or to deactivate. "The alarm went off, so I turned it off.")
#34
That the smell of rain is called petrichor. We get it. Read it a few thousand times from people thinking their smart.
#35
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "A B C D E F G" sound the same
#36
A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in the year 2000 would be amazons like Wonder Woman.
#37
When I was in 5th grade I ran around telling everyone that 161÷7 is 23 and I still remember that till this day.
#38
They found 7 tons of human hair when they liberated Auschwitz.
#39
Many years ago, when wood was in short supply it was a common practice to dig up and reuse coffins.
Quite often the grave diggers would see scratch marks on the underside of the coffin lid, left there by someone who was buried but still alive!
This happened so often, in fact, that all newly buried people had a length of string tied to their finger, leading all the way aboveground where it was tied to a bell.
When someone buried alive would move their hand trying to desperately claw their way out, the bell would ring aboveground.
Those people were called "Dead Ringers".
The men hired to listen for the bells during the night were known to be working the "graveyard shift".
#40
aardwolves, a type of hyena, are one of the few insect-eating canine-appearing mammals. (hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs). I have all the facts I can find about aardwolves living inside my head
#41
If you burn dust it smells like burning flesh and you can get rid of your roommate really fast this way. A professor told my mom's friend that a long time ago and I tell almost everyone I meet.
#42
that squids brains are doughnut shaped, and their esophagus goes through the middle of their brain before going to their stomach. so food passes through a squids brain before it gets to their stomach.
#43
Making out burns 2calories for every minute you kiss-snapple lid
#44
Mercury is the planet that is closest to all the others in the solar system.
#45
Numbers can always get larger therefore they are infinite.
Number can always get smaller therefore they are infinite as well. Both infinitely large and small.
#46
That a narwhal horn is actually a tooth ._.
#47
For a photon traveling the speed of light, time does not pass. Looking up at a star that is millions of light years away, when the photon strikes our eyeball, from the photon's perspective it JUST left the star.
#48
Hippopotamus milk is pink.
#49
Woodpeckers have a special membrane between their beak and skull that act as a shock absorbent.
#50
Heteropaternalsuperfecumdation is the term for when a woman has twins with different fathers. It's very rare.
#51
The Beatles’ first band name was the Quarrymen and their original drummer was Pete Best, soon to be replaced by Ringo Starr (sorry I’m a Beatles nerd)
#52
The sun is 93 million miles away
#53
There are 142 staircases in hogwarts according to book 1 chpter 8 line 13 words 3-5. The more specific things could be off slightly, but the count is 142.
and before anyone asks, ive read all the HP book 20 times each (i counted :) )
#54
Turtles can ACTUALLY breathe through their butts - learned that watching frozen lol.
#55
You can sing the lyrics of Amazing Grace to the tune of:
The House of the Rising Sun
Yankee Doodle
Gilligan's Island theme music
You can't unhear it.
#56
Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd."
#57
Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.
#58
"The temperature inside your mouth is a steamy 98.6 degrees. The same as a sweltering jungle. But inside a Winterfresh mouth, it tastes much, much cooooooler!" Thanks Channel One!
#59
"The Earth is an oblate rotational ellipsoid - but you don't have to remember that." - my geography teacher 20 years ago
#60
The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was mad because of his actual hat. They used to use mercury in the process of making a hat. Mercury poisoning made people crazy.
#61
A platypus doesn't have nipples. They basically sweat out the milk when nursing their young.
#62
Mine is that did you know that dogs don't give kisses when they like you they are actually tasting you
#63
Carpenters do have 9½ fingers on average...
#64
The stethoscope was made because a French doctor, René Laennec, felt uncomfortable putting his ear up to a women’s chest to listen to her heartbeat.
#65
Outer space smells like static electricity.
#66
A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
#67
Koalas feed their babies their own poop for the first 2 months of their lives to build up their immune system since their diet consists of nothing but eucalyptus leaves which are highly toxic.
#68
penguins propose to eachother with their favourite rocks :))
#69
There were 75000 lbs of ham on The Tiranic when it sunk
#70
One horse power equals to 2849.61 duck power.
#71
Butterflies taste with their feet. Always thought that was an odd little fact.
#72
The female voice you hear singing on the song ‘Keep It In The Closet’ by Michael Jackson on his Dangerous album, is Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
#73
Sharks don't pee normally. To use osmosis efficiently, sharks store their pee in their bloodstream to maintain a higher salinity than the water they live in. This way, sharks are able to stay hydrated as water moves to the area with higher salinity. Excess is excreted through their skin.
#74
Everyone is talking about the square poop... But did you know koalas poop roughly 360 times a day? Little green pellets. Even while they're sleeping!
#75
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13
#76
That it is illegal to walk out of a Oklahoma county fair with a popsicle in your pocket.
#77
California has a higher population than all of Canada.
#78
Sloths only urinate and defecate once a week.
#79
That humans share a lot of DNA with bananas.
#80
The minimum dynamic hydroplaning speed, in knots, of a tire to be 8.6 times the square root of the tire pressure in pounds. If it's pouring out, assume your tire pressure if you don't know it, to be 25 (square root 5), so 5x9 (8.6 rounded up) is 45, which is about 51 mph. Better to err on the side of caution, and slow down. I think of this every darn time it rains
#81
A decapitated head takes twelve seconds to lose consciousness
#82
Koalas can survive most snake bites because they literally eat poison
#83
I guess it would be that the creature or animal with the most teeth is a snail.
#84
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey screeching in pain.
#85
The little hard part on the roof of your mouth behind your top front teeth is called informally the pizza ridge, cuz that's the part you burn first when you bite into a pizza that's too hot.
#86
Dogs don't feel remorse, they only feel sadness.
#87
Starlings, squirrels and snails are invasive species brought over by Europeans.
#88
The first colors babies see when they are born are red and black.
#89
McDonald's once created bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
#90
Barcodes scan the white spaces, not the black lines.
#91
Peppers have sexes. I believe they are able self pollinate but am unsure (this made even more confusing for me). There are male and female peppers determined by the number of chambers in the pepper. Either 3 or 4.
#92
If Hitler's father hadn't changed his name, it would have been Heil Schicklgruber.
#93
The marsupial, quoll's new born is one of the smallest, weighing only 18mg which is equal to 30 sugar grains.
#94
Thomas Jefferson had a bird named D**k that ate out of his mouth.
I know a lot about Thomas Jefferson and all the facts are this weird.
#95
That light travels at 186,300 miles per second
#96
BANANAS ARE THE ONLY FRUIT THAT CANNOT REPRODUCE! They are a breed of two different plants
#97
There are 17 steps to 221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes residence).
#98
Triangle can only have one 90 degree angle; unless you draw it on a sphere, then you can have two 90 degree angles in one triangle....
#99
The reason why Elvis never performed outside of the US, is because his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was an illegal immigrant. He was born in the Netherlands and entered the US when he was 20.
#100
The first player in the NBA to break a backboard by dunking a basketball was Chuck Connors (aka The Rifleman). During pre-game warm-ups with Boston.
#101
Blob fish are ugly because a blob fish doesn't really have a skeleton, and it doesn't really have any muscle. So, up here, it's saggy and droopy.
#102
You breathe out of one nostril at a time. It goes in a cycle and is why you only really have one clogged nostril when you are sick and/or have terrible allergies.
#103
There is no word for "sad" in Japanese and lobsters urinate from their faces.
#104
4 million people in the Netherlands live below see level
#105
If you string all the DNA in your body together in a single chain, it's as long as 30 round trips to Jupiter
#106
There are 23 stars in the paramount logo. Bonus points if you know why (I do!)
#107
Freddy Mercury’s last words were “Pee pee”
#108
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
#109
The largest french fry is the potentater. Sadly the smallest isn’t the impotentater, it’s the minutater.
Thank you Rich Hall
#110
Fake lashes were actually invented by prostitutes to keep c*m out of their eyes. At that time they referred to them as c*m umbrellas.
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