“What Is A Weird Fact You Know For Some Reason?” (40 Answers)

Manatees control their buoyancy by farting. Toot toot floaty sea cow.

Opossums are immune to rabies. Immune in the sense that their core body temperature is too low for the virus to live and multiply in their nervous system. They can be bitten and "infected" with the virus, but it won't survive in the animal long enough for it to take hold and make them rabid. They also love to eat ticks, mosquitoes(especially mosquito larvae), and even garden slugs and snails. All the general bugs that we consider pests, they happily eat. They may be ugly as sin, but having one regularly visit your yard at night keeps away the real pests. If you live in a more metropolitan area, then their mere presence at night will generally also keep raccoons away, since it would be easier for a racoon to simply walk across the street or a few houses down instead of worrying about dealing with another nocturnal scavenger. Opossums are a mutant rat looking blessing in disguise. They're also not hostile to humans at all, unlike raccoons.

The national animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.

No person born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.

Some tribes of ancient people used to tie up a goat, whisper their sins to it, then allow it to "accidentally" escape so it would carry their sins away and thus resolve them of guilt.

It was, literally, their "escape goat" and that's where the term scapegoat comes from.

A Buttload is an actual unit of measurement for about 126 gallons of wine.

More Iraq veterans have died by their own hand than that of the enemy. This is America.

Dragonflies are the most efficient killers on the planet with a 98% kill rate.

That dead ants produce a pheromone that alerts the other ants that they need to move them to the ant graveyard. If a drop of this pheromone is placed on a live ant, it will take itself to the graveyard and stay there until the pheromone dissipates.

If you have a d*ck and you take a pregnancy test and it comes out positive, you might have testicular cancer.

You can duplicate your liver.

A liver consists of two distinct lobes. When doctors perform a transplant from living patient, they remove half the donor’s liver and give it to the recipient. Eventually, both patients regrow their missing half of a liver.

When you get a tattoo laser removal, you pee out the ink particles.

The island of Java has more people than the entirety of Russia. Despite being 170 times smaller in size.

Australia is wider than the moon.

Elephant penises are prehensile and can move on their own like trunks (I.e. to scratch their belly or as an extra support leg on uneven terrain).

That drain hole at the inside top of a sink is called a porcelator.
Won $1000 on a radio show back in the day for knowing that.

By the time the Aztec empire was founded, Oxford University was as old as the United States is today.

Horny toads can squirt blood from their eyes up to 30 feet.

Spiders purr.

Cockroaches will be able to smell when another cockroach dies. If you ever see one in your home, 1) obviously there’s more, but 2) they will come out in droves to look for the dead roach. They don’t “starve out” like mice or weevils, they cannibalize.

We had a roach problem for a bit, we couldn’t afford pest control so I had to handle this s**t myself LMAO certified roach annihilator here.