75 Facts That Are Blunt, Useless, And Kind Of Mean

Probably 99.5% of the truffle oil on the market is completely synthetic. No truffles are involved in the process at all.
When I tell people this, they look like I just ruined their whole meal. Sorry!

(From Wikipedia: Most truffle oils are not made from actual truffles, but are a synthetic product that combines a thioether (2,4-dithiapentane), one of numerous aromas or odorants found in truffles, with an olive oil or grapeseed oil base.").

Easter bunnies don't actually lay eggs.

This will probably get buried but Simba and Nala are brother and sister.

Cash cab is half a farce like any other reality tv show. You apply to be on a tv show about New York restaurants and have to pass a 10 question quiz. If you get picked for the show they send you to location 1 and tell you a cab will pick you up and bring you to location 2. When you get into the cab, DING DING DING, it's the cash cab.

TL;DR You're not going to hail the cash cab.

Electricity travels very fast. In the new spider-man movie, if the physics was up to par, there was no way that spider-man should've beaten electro.

This was in that thread from the "worst things a health inspector has seen"

A lot of soda fountains have maggots living in them...

If you lose a considerable amount of weight, there's a really good chance you're going to gain it all back plus more.

Eating a banana gives you a higher dose of radiation than living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant for 1 year.

EDIT: This fact basically exploits the connotations and stigmas surrounding nuclear power plants, as many have mentioned. But it was supposed to be an "a*****e fact," so given that it's misleading makes it all the more a*****e-y.

Its very unlikely that you don't have parasites ( worms, bugs) inside of you right now, and if you do you would never notice them.

Harry Potter's parents were idiots and sort of deserved their fate.

* Why didn't they just make *themselves* the secret-keeper for their house? Bill did it in book 7 with his ocean-side cottage.

* Regardless of how "safe" you feel in your presumably secret house, if the most powerful evil wizard wants to k**l you, why would you ever leave your wand more than a hand's grab away? Especially if you heard the door open when you weren't expecting visitors?

* If the said evil wizard is *inside your house* and your husband stays to try to fend him off to give you time, don't insult his life by *going upstairs and making a lot of noise*. Run out the back door. Try to go through a window. Go back into the living room and grab the f*****g wand.

>And along a new and darker street he moved, and now his destination was in sight at last, the Fidelius Charm broken, though they did not know it yet ... And he made less noise than the d**d leaves slithering along the pavement as he drew level with the dark hedge, and steered over it ...

>They had not drawn the curtains; he saw them quite clearly in their little sitting room, the tall black-haired man in his glasses, making puffs of colored smoke erupt from his wand for the amusement of the small black-haired boy in his blue pajamas. The child was laughing and trying to catch the smoke, to grab it in his small fist ... A door opened and the mother entered, saying words he cold not hear, her long dark-red hair falling over her face. Now the father scooped up the son and handed him to the mother. He threw his wand down upon the sofa and stretched, yawning...

>The gate creaked a little as he pushed it open, but James Potter did not hear. His white hand pulled out the wand beneath his cloak and pointed it at the door, which burst open...

>He was over the threshold as James came sprinting into the hall. It was easy, too easy, he
had not even picked up his wand ... "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!" Hold him off, without a wand in his hand! ... He laughed before casting the curse ... "Avada Kedavra!"

>The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glow like lighting rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut ...

>He could hear her screaming from the upper floor, trapped, but as long as she was sensible, she, at least, had nothing to fear ... He climbed the steps, listening with faint amusement to her attempts to barricade herself in ... She had no wand upon her either ... How stupid they were, and how trusting, thinking that their safety lay in friends, that weapons could be discarded even for moments...

On the show Iron Chef, the secret ingredient isn't really a secret. Both the competitor and the Iron Chef are given a list of three to five ingredients before the battle, of which one will be the secret ingredient.

Lots of people mistakenly believe the internet represents a fair and accurate cross section of a countries demographic. This is absolutely false, and one of the biggest reasons why society is becoming increasingly fractured and atomised, where everybody seems to be living inside their own bubble. Old people are underrepresented on the internet, as are poor people, as are politically conservative people, as are non-English speakers, as are people from warmer climates. It's frighteningly easy to curate your own existence and beliefs online. Social media has a big role to play. You get to pick and chose who you follow, you decide what news you see on Twitter, you decides what subreddits you join, you decide your friendship circle on Facebook. I feel this is going to help cause some problems down the road.

Reddit for example is predominantely male, middleclass, liberal and young, yet plenty of people read what they see on here, see the upvotes, and assume 'society' thinks this a valid, respected, correct and approved view.

You should be exercising right now.

If you were to instantly vanish, there would be a shell of microscopic creatures left behind.

The teenage mutant ninja turtles ......... are actually tortoise.

Your opinion generally doesn't matter. No matter how right you are, or how eloquent you are - stating your opinion to friends, acquaintances, Reddit, etc, will not make a lick of difference to anything or anybody other than yourself.

Beck is a Scientologist.

There are over 7 billion people on this earth that you dont know. And they dont know you. They dont care about your problems. They dont care if you're too poor to afford food. And why should they care? They dont know you. You mean nothing to this world. You are one insignificant little speck in an ocean of people.

The smell of fresh cut grass is actually a chemical response to being cut. The wonderful smell is actually the distress call of grass a******s.

Dunkin Donuts sell frozen donuts. We heat it up in an oven

I'm sorry :(

edit: from comments it seems like it varies from location, where I worked they were frozen and manager told me it was like that everywhere.