Hey Pandas, What’s The Most Useless Fun Fact You Know? (Closed)

Well, there are so many…. I may have forgotten something really important to make space for them too! Useless facts: 1. The thing on the end of your shoelace is called an aglet. (Thanks Phineas and Ferb.) 2. Childbirth and complications stemming from, kills 1 in 10,000 in the U.S. Think what you would do if your lottery odds were that high…… it’s mind blowing how little people actually care. 3. Most medical studies are done on men only historically and presently. That means half the population is completely, consistently, ignored because “the female anatomy is so mysterious.” No it’s not. The money goes towards helping men be intimately active until they’re 100, and forcing women to wait to have hysterectomies far later than is medically necessary because they may want babies later, and even worse, your husband may want more kids…. Why is adoption not an option for him. Why do women have to suffer for what someone else wants? Why can’t we make our own decisions and just be accountable for them? Ooof. Sorry, I am a little worked up.

I learned this one the other day: You will produce enough saliva in your lifetime to fill two swimming pools

It is impossible to buy an unused mirror. Any mirror you buy will have already reflected something.

A squid's brain is doughnut-shaped and encircles it's esophagus. It can give itself brain damage from trying to swallow something to large.

Just participated in a sloth interaction today and learned a lot of weird things about them. They sleep 22 hours a day. When they're awake, all they do is eat very non nutritional food. Their metabolism is so slow it takes forever for their food to digest they only relieve themselves about once a week. The only time they descend the treetops is to relieve themselves. It is not known why they come down to do that, and it's only on the ground that they're vulnerable to predators. Predators don't much like them, though, because they have very little muscle mass, are very hairy, and are typically full of waste. All of their senses are weak and they are not very smart. They serve no ecological purpose. But gosh darn it, they are very, very cute!

Sardines are not a single species of fish

Apparently, flying is a huge carbon foot print. One flight from NYC to LA can produce over 1300 pounds per passenger!
I just read about this. But of course, now I don't remember if I read this in Physics. Org or Scientific Daily

FACT: Marriage is the leading cause of divorce.

Thanks to Gerald I know that a group of baboons is known as a f****e.

If you're allergic to latex you're also most likely to be allergic to kiwis (protein similarity)

Bananas are berries but strawberries are classified as nuts, tomatoes and cucumbers are fruit and not vegetables

87% of people believe everything they read on the internet. The other 23% verify the claimed facts in things that they read.

Counting one number a second it takes almost 12 days to reach 1 Million, almost 32 years to reach 1 Billion and 31,963 years to reach a Trillion.

Bananas don’t grow on trees. The banana plant is not a tree. It is a perennial herb. Also, coconuts don’t grow on trees. The coconut plant is not a tree. It is a woody perennial monocotyledon.

Our face in utero develops from the same cells that forms our brain and nervous system, and our eyes and internal nose are part of our brains.

You can usually go six miles an hour over the speed limit because the margin of error is something like that. Also, ask when the last time their equipment was calibrated. If it is a DUI, ask when it was last reset and tested. These simple questions can help, but you might have to ask a judge to get the records. Or do it yourself.

Oxygen slowly kills us. It can take up to 100 years or even more for oxygen to k**l a human, but oxygen is responsible for the ageing process.

According to my husband, "The old road is over there."