30 People Are Flexing Their Knowledge By Sharing The Most Interesting Random Facts They Know

All the C's in "Pacific Ocean" are pronounced differently.

Octopi have blue blood. This is due to their blood containing copper, as opposed to human blood, which contains iron.

Additionally, as I know someone will bring it up, there are actually multiple correct ways to pluralize octopus. Octopi originates from the Latin pluralization, octopodes originates from the Greek pluralization, and octopuses uses the standard English pluralization.

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT!! Male ladybugs can mate with a female for up to four hours before realizing she was dead before he even started.

Dictionaries add words not because of worthiness but because of vernacular

If people use the word, then people need to have a way to look it up. It doesn’t matter if you like the word “crunk” or not

The longest (English) word you can type using only the left side of the keyboard is "stewardesses". On the right it's "lollipop".

80% of the profit for the United States Postal Service is from delivery of junk mail.

1 horse has around 15 horse power

Flamingos aren't born pink. They get the color from their diet of shrimp.

Charlie Chaplin once took part in a charlie-chaplin-look-alike-contest and won the second prize.

The White Starline built three similar ships. The Titanic (We know that one), but also the Britannic and the Olympic. All three ships sank. But the amazing fact is, that there was a women [Violet Jessop], who was on all three ships when they sank and she survived it all.

A one-pound mixture of U.S. dimes, quarters, and half-dollars will always have a face value of $20, no matter the ratio of dimes to quarters to half-dollars.

When you're shopping online, "free shipping" doesn't actually mean free shipping. It just means that the shipping costs are included in the listing price.

Rattlesnake tails don't actually have anything in them. They're segmented loosely, so the entire thing just kinda flops around. What you're hearing is the individual segments banging into each other.

Roman Centurions were called such because they were in charge of 100 Roman Soldiers.

Sean Bean (pronounced shan ban) is Irish for old lady.

So headlines about "Sean Bean dies in every movie" are extra hilarious in Ireland.

I’ve got a great one!

CAT FACT:

Did you know that cats can survive great falls! Like 10 plus story falls. That’s because they can position themselves in a way that reduces their terminal velocity to below the threshold for death.

In fact, the most dangerous height for a cat to fall is 3-5 stories, that is because the height is big enough to cause a fatality, but low enough that they wouldn’t be able to get into position and develop enough drag to reduce their terminal velocity.

The first man made object we ever put in space was likely a manhole cover launched after a nuclear bomb accident.

Coral reefs fight for territory by vomiting their stomachs onto one another.

The 1939 novel, Gadsby, contains 50000 words and not a single letter E.

It’s illegal to walk an alligator on a leash in FL

Airport runways are numbered based on the magnetic direction they face, rounded to the nearest tenth. Over time as earth’s magnetic field shifts they occasionally have to renumber a runway.