Clefairy was going to be the mascot for Pokemon before they decided on Pikachu.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
These facts fromAsk Redditare useless but fun.
1.There is actually such thing as white crows.
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Theyre born with no melanin in there bodies, making them white.
2.The Phantom of the Opera has his iconic half-mask so the audience could see more of the actors performance.
It was changed so late in the production that theyd already made the posters.
Thats why it shows a full mask on the posters.
4.Michael Jacksons hair caught fire at the exact middle of his life, to the day.
So the definition of a factoid is, in itself, a factoid.
6.The sea bird, Boobie, is named such after the Spanish word bobo, referring to an idiot.
Want to know what the traps were called?
7.The color orange was named after the fruit (not the other way around).
8.Short list of words that contain the word meow in them:
Meows Meowed Meowing Homeowner.
9.Theres a town in Alaska named Chicken.
10.The grumbling sound your stomach makes particularly when youre hungry is calledborbyrygmus.
Its actually gas moving through the bowels.
13.A word which changes meaning based on its capitalization is called acapitonym.
14.There are the same amount of bones in your neck as there are in a giraffe neck.
15.Clefairy was going to be the mascot for Pokemon before they decided on Pikachu.
16.A German submarine was sunk because of an overcomplicated toilet.
19.We lose between 50-100 strands of hair a day
20.UVA rays age your skin.
UVB rays burn your skin.
23.Ted Bundy and Jack Nicholson had very similar childhoods.
Yet, one became a serial killer and the other became a famous actor.
A good nature VS nurture argument, I suppose!
24.The guy that started the anti-vaccine trend is no longer a medic, his diploma was revoked.
An enzyme replaces this end but not efficiently enough for it to not start affecting it.
26.Nearly 3% of ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
27.you’re free to rearrange the letters in Clint Eastwood to be Old West Action with no spares.
28.Lego used to make their bricks out of plastic pellets that had already been dyed.
Now they use clear plastic pellets and inject dye into the mold for the part.
They claim the bricks looks the same, but I disagree.
The older bricks have a slightly darker color and their skin is very shallow.
The new bricks appear more translucent and look cheaper.
29.Ducks have a corkscrew-shaped penis.
30.On average, two newborns are given to the wrong parent every day.
31.Cows have 11 different blood types.
32.Barcode scanners scan the white not the black.
33.Ohio is the only U.S. state that doesnt share any letters with the word mackerel.
34.The shelf life of human blood is 42 days.
They can swim fast.
36.Every flight you have been on and will go on, there is always something not working.
Whether it be an arm rest or a minor electrical system.
The crew will know about it but its usually something minor so theres no danger what so ever.
Its called the Minimum Equipment List.
It varies depending on aircraft bang out.
37.The fax machine was invented before the telephone.
40.Whales ejaculate 70 gallons into the ocean.
41.There is a town called Peepee creek in Ohio.
42.Otters sleep holding hands so they dont drift apart.
They also rape baby seals to death.
43.Bird poop is green because it contains the birds urine which is also green.
46.A group of turkeys is called a gang.
48.Apparently, it is explicitly illegal in the UK to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.
Which means someone did it.
49.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
51.Water tastes different at different temperatures.
52.Graham crackers were invented to be bland.
The maker believe that food with flavor was responsible for lust.
53.Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are Latin day names.
Day of Saturn, Day of the Sun, Day of the Moon.
But for some reason, the weekdays are from Norse mythology.
55.This guy in China once held off an entire army just by playing music.
57.Pigeons can fly up to 62 miles per hour for up to ten hours.
58.If you add up all the numbers on the spinning wheel of a roulette table, youll get 666.
59.Spiders leave their penises on the female they wanna mate with.
60.Spaghetti is actually plural.
Its two spaghetti and one spaghetto.
Same goes for espresso, cappuccino etc.
61.The sun has existed 4.6 billion years.
It takes 230 million years to orbit the Milky Way.
That makes our sun in its own time about 20 years old.
The sun is currently projected to die in 5 billion years.
Meaning its life span is 41.7 years old (in its own time).
62.Those plastic bags of ramen.
A serving size is half of the bag.
63.Hippo milk is actually pink.
64.Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Numan.
So theyre BOTH LIARS.
66.Most printer paper is ~25% limestone by weight.
67.Penguins have sex with other dead penguins, even if its just a severed head.
68.The water that they drink on the ISS is reclaimed from all other water sources on the ship.
Theyre drinking their own filtered piss (among other things).
