Believe it or not, a lot of people turn to Twitter for answers. Recently, we’ve discovered all of the times people have had wonderful encounters with Tom Hanks, as well as all of the times people have done something amazing way after turning 40.
Now, a person with the username @MsPackyetti turned to Twitter, asking their followers to give them the most random facts they know of, and this is the wonderful result. Stay tuned, because you might actually learn some really cool stuff!
1. Longest grammatically correct sentence using only one word
Buffalo buffalo buffalo….
2. North and South interstates are odd-numbered.
EAnd ast and West are even.
3. It’s easier to hunt a bear with a switch…
…Than to stand up for the constitution!
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4. When the weather ain’t nice
Snails can sleep for up to three years.
5. Female koalas
They have two lady parts.
6. Male and female opossums
Their private parts are way different than you’d think.
7. 75 lbs of lye heated to 300 degrees
Will dissole the body of a 220 lb man in just a few hours.
8. Ohio, the only state in the USA
that doesn’t share a letter with the word “mackerel.”
9. You’ve never seen your own face.
Reflections and pictures don’t count!
10. Transplants
An interesting find.
11. Men are not stronger than women.
They are actually bigger.
12. Human tailbone
It’s actually the remnant of a vestigial tail.
13. Baby pandas’ bellies
Are rubbed by zookeepers like their mamas in the wild would so that they can poop.
14. When you snap
The sound comes from your finger hitting your palm.
15. Fact check
The people can confirm the snap.
16. Play “Tag”
It actually stands for “touch and go.”
17. Touching glasses to cheers
It actually comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each other.
18. Our brains process information fast
But never fast enough to experience the actual present moment.
19. If you are attacked by a gator
Push, don’t pull.
20. Even further on this subject…
You should almost always push.
21. “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too”
That is actually the correct phrase.
22. 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.
23. Male pigs
Well… here’s an extra interesting fact.
24. Llamas have special teeth
That allow them to bite each other’s testicles off.
25. …To get the ladies
No, but actually.
26. Horses and donkeys
Reproduce together to create mules.
27. Chickens
Can recognize up to 30 distinct human faces.
28. Group of flamingos
Is known as a flamboyance.
29. The plural form of cul-de-sac
Is actually culs-de-sac.
30. The orignal DC Comics Batwoman
Was introduced back in 1956 as a love interest for Batman.
31. Kangaroos
Have not 1, not 2, but 3…
32. They also have babies
In 3 different stages simultaneously.
33. Most mammals
Have twices as many nipples as their species’ average litter size.
34. Only 2 escalators
In the whole state of Wyoming.
35. Buttercups.
Are actually poisonous to humans. Who would’ve thought?
36. Female naked mole rat queens
Dislocate their spine to make their body longer to be able to carry more pups.
37. Elephants
Are the only animals other than humans who have funerals.
38. They also are the only animals who can’t jump.
That’s probably for the best, though.
39. Crows
Also have funeral-like events for the dead.
40. Male dolphins
Are particularly impressive!
41. There are more children in California
Than people in Iowa.
42. Pringles
Are not actually potato chips, contrary to popular belief.
43. Also…
Lays sued Pringles way back in the day for that reason, sort of.
44. Babies at a certain age
Don’t have a sense of object performance.
45. A million seconds is 12 days
And a billion seconds is 31 years.
46. If there is a hole the size of a nickel
A full-grown rat can still squeeze and make it through.
47. Muhammad is the most common first name on the planet
Wang is the most common last.
48. Presbyterians
The word rearranged is Britney Spears.
49. Zebras
Are black animals with white stripes, not the other way around.
50. Less than 750k humans have ever been to Antarctica.
500k of those were in the last 15 years.
51. Crows
Actually hold grudes. Like humans!
52. The tiny pocket in jeans
Was meant for pocket watches initially.
53. The Colombian tarantula
Keeps tiny frogs as pets to protect their spider eggies from pests.
54. The same butt plate screw
Was used on all US Military rifles from 1855 to 1945.
55. The plastic tips on shoelaces
Are called aglets.
56. Platypus
Don’t have nipples.
57. The Colombian tarantula
Keeps tiny frogs as pets to protect their spider eggies from pests.
58. There are more dogs in Denver
Than children.
59. If you get a drop of blood on clothing
You can actually remove it by spitting on it, but only if it is your blood and your spit because the enzymes have to match.
60. “Ye Olde English”
It was never actually pronounced “Ye.”
61. Roly poly bugs/pill bugs
Aren’t actually insects — they are crustaceans.
62. Enheduanna, High Priestess of Inanna and Nanna
She was the first-ever human being to sign her name to her writings.
63. In Kentucky…
Bourbon county is dry but Christian county is wet.
64. Every single Presidential Cabinet since Reagan
Has included a former employee of Goldman Sachs.
65. The dot above an i
Is actually called something — a tittle.
66. Female dragonflies
They will fake their own death just to avoid males trying to “flirt” with them!
67. The stickers on fruit
They are actually made to be edible because you never know.
68. Movie theater popcorn versus filet mignon
The popcorn is actually more expensive if you go pound by pound.
69. The most common birthday in the US
September 9.
70. Platypus
Don’t have nipples.
71. Tardigrades
They are microscopic organisms that are everywhere and they look like this.
72. London Tube platforms
When the Tube was originally built, a lot of people who used it were illiterate and needed different tilings to understand which station they were at.
73. The chainsaw
It was actually invented to help woman during childbirth. “Help”?!
74. The word “Facetiously”
It is the only word in the English language with all vowels and Y in alphabetical order.
75. The word “testimony”
It’s derived from the Greek word “testicle.”
So, how many facts were you surprised by?
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