Hey Pandas, What Is The Craziest Fact You’ve Ever Heard? (Closed)

that history's most successful pirate wasn't a bearded, eyepatch-wearing man but a woman, Ching Shih, who lived and pillaged during the Qing Dynasty, has been called the most successful pirate in history.

two favorite sciencey facts.

1) in an infinite universe everywhere is the center. which means that when someone says "you think your the center of the universe" they are right you are....and so are they.

2) that magenta does not have a wavelength in the light spectrum/rainbow. it actually combines the highest and lowest of the observable wavelengths. yet it seen as one color (combo of violet and red)

so, a real color that "doesn't exist" and finding the center of the universe is everyone those are my favorites

Eleanor Roosevelt was a target of the FBI
Christopher Columbus thought the Earth was pear-shaped

(Source: “Facts Left Out of History”, September 2020 Reader’s Digest)

I know lots of crazy facts about ocean stuff, but I'll just give y'all a few. 1) The Mariana Trench actually can support a small amount of life, and one of these creatures is the Hadal Snailfish. 2) The blob fish is just a normal fish in the Abyssal Zone, the famous picture shows what it looks like dead, mangled, and out of its habitat. It's actually called the Blob Sculpin. 3) Queen Conch snails have a giant toenail-like thing on their "foot" that they use to scrape the ground and look for food. 4) The Hammerhead Shark looks like that so it can pivot its head super fast. 5) The Dumbo Octopus exists, it's the only octopus that doesn't have an ink sac, beak, or radula. It's also my profile picture. 6) SIPHONOPHORES. Those things are WEIRD, man..!
I hope you enjoyed!

In the early 1900’s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and a food associated with the aristocratic classes.

According to the Mayans, the world is going to end in 2012, but the Mayans are eight years behind, according to them it is 2012.

Recently found out that apparently some funeral homes in my State serve smoked meats at funerals. Now I can't stop making cannibal jokes. My sister, not biological, was floored that it wasn't a normal thing. Very specific but I'm exhausted today and my brain doesn't want to play.

Uh, well, this is really random but echidnas have four-headed penises.

Everytime you hit your head you can loose cells.

Also not a for sure fact but when you pick up an angry cat they tend to feel heavier.

1. The reason why people say "bless you" after you sneeze goes back to the early 1800's and the purpose has been forgotten. Back then, people believed that when you sneeze, you're exorcising a small demon or imp from your body, therefore they'd say bless you.
2. A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto
3. Fruit stickers are actually edible, though obviously you should still wash your fruit before eating it. The glue that's used is FDA approved

There was an edition of the bible printed in 1631 that omitted the word 'not' from the phrase 'Thou shalt not commit adultery', known as the Wicked Bible. Most copies of it were burned, but some still exist and are highly prized by collectors.

You can die by pooping

When you are going to the bathroom, make sure you KEEP BREATHING while using the bathroom, or else you will pass out. This will cause something to go wrong in your body, and you will die.

The horror filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock is afraid of eggs. No joke. 🥚🍳 He called eggs “revolting”.

A dead humpback whale was found in the Amazon forest. They are trying to figure out how it got so far inland and why.
https://chromoscience.com/2020/05/31/highlights-dead-whale-found-in-the-amazon-jungle/

There is a town called Chicken in Alaska and it got it's name because people couldn't spell ptarmigan.

A single strand of spider silk weighing 1 pound is enough to encircle the earth.

1. You can't humm if you hold your nose closed.

Well most koreans don't have body odor. Oh, also banging your head against a wall for an hour burns about 150 calories.

One of my all time favorites:

"Watt." "What?" "Watt!" A player has been sent off after a referee mistook his name for dissent.

Referee Dean Hulme asked Sanchez Watt, who was playing for Hemel Hempstead Town, for his name as he was about to be booked in a National League South game against East Thurrock United.

The 27-year-old repeatedly replied: "Watt" but Hulme believed he was saying "what?" and sent him off for dissent.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43314870

trump "won" the election of 2016