Hey Pandas, What Is A Random Fact You Know? (Closed)

Octopuses have nine independent brains: one in their head and one in each of their legs. They are truly fascinating animals!

tampons are NOT dildos, and women dont choose when to have periods.

periods hurt like crazy. imagine getting a jackhammer in you.

107% of people believe everything they read on the internet.

Switzerland does not have an official capital city. Their government is mostly situated in Bern, but no city is defined in the Swiss Constitution as THE capital.

Your brain is more active when you're asleep than when you're awake. While you're dreaming, your brain processes information, consolidates memories, and even rehearses potential scenarios.

There is enough iron inside your body to make a 3 inch nail

France and Brazil share a land border. So do Denmark and Canada.

The number of years it would take for all the atoms to "die" in this universe would amount to higher than the total amount of atoms in the universe. To give you an idea as to the size of the timescale, there are more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans combined.

The person who invented the Brazen Bull was also the first person executed by it.

On a lighter note

Crows mate for life, and like to bring each other little gifts.

Yesterday I found out that BoredPanda added dark mode on their site as a paid option, sadly this adds more reasons to move away from it and look for other info/entertainment options.

Sometimes, people in BP will read a post and think in their head:


"What the h**l did I just read?"


This has been one of those times.

Just a few I know:

Penguins don’t have knees!

Elephants can’t jump.

Australia is wider than the moon!

The Pope can’t be an organ donor.

Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can email tools to astronauts

Vermont is home to the Chazy Fossil Reef, the oldest known diverse fossil reef in the world.

BP has decided to make you pay MONEY for dark mode! Let me scroll my phone in the dark in peace!

Most of us know that coal miners did/are dying from black lung disease. But did you know that actors could get very ill/die from the powder used to set their make-up? Even today many professional clowns use baby powder (in a sock) to set their make-up.

crows hold grudges, and tell their friends and families about them too

Australia (4000km) is wider than the Moon (3400km)

Not a funny, but a random fact nonetheless: two Hairless Chinese Crested dogs should not be bred together because the hairless gene variant is lethal when a dog has two copies of the mutation. Therefore the mating should be between a Hairless and the Powderpuff variety of the breed.
(There's also the true hairless and the Hairy hairless, just to confuse you - and IMHO no kinder, more loyal, funnier breed of dog ever existed. Not that I'm biased ... )