56 Random Facts People Know That Are Useless But Fun To Share With Friends

Opossums are not related to rodents they are North American marsupials and are related to kangaroos. Also! Their natural body temperature is so low that the rabies virus can barely survive in their system. They can’t get lyme disease. And! They eat approximately two thousand ticks a week. They are immune to most snake venom. They’re the best. 🖤

There are 4 suits in a deck of cards, 1 for each season

There are 52 cards, for the 52 weeks in a year

If you number each card with ace as 1 up to 13 then add all the cards together you get 364.

Add one joker and it’s 365, for the days of the year.

Add the other joker and it’s 366, for a leap year.

An internet modem is named that because in the early days of the "internet" you'd use a modulator and a demodulator to send and receive signals. When engineers figured out how to put it in one unit, they shortened the name to MoDem, short for modulator/demodulator.

The bread in a Subway sandwich has so much sugar in it, that in Ireland it's legally not allowed to be called bread.

Legally, it's confectionery.

Wood is considered far rarer in the cosmos than diamonds. NO where else in the entire galaxy but Earth do you find wood.

Bears like to take in views and will site in front of a vista for a bit

Humans smell wet grass better than sharks smell blood in the water.

Polar bear livers should never be eaten, they're so full of vitamin A that it'll poison you.

Edit: This fact broughy to you by The SAS Survival Handbook, which takes the concept of "survival" way beyond your average hike in the woods.

When bees fall asleep they cuddle each others little toes.

Back in high school my human geography teacher had a map of European ethnicities on the board and questioned out loud why the Hungarian people were called "Magyars", to which I promptly raised my hand and told him it was because in Hungarian the country is called Magyarorszag (don't remember how it's spelled). Needless to say the room was very impressed.

But I didn't have the heart to tell him it was because I was a Hetalia fan.

EDIT: I guess some people didn't take "Human Geography" in school, but it's the name of the subject. Nonetheless my instructor was indeed of the [intimate] sapien species... or so I was made to believe.

Mantis shrimp have a punch so fast that it boils the water around the punch. With a speed roughly that of a .22 caliber bullet, it can stun some fish instantly and even break a man's finger.

I have many but the first of which is probably: Life wouldn't give you lemons because lemons are *not* a naturally occurring fruit.

If you mix 95% water and 5% potassium hydroxide, in a metal tube with a body inside and heat it up for four to six hours, all that will be left are squishy bones. You can run that through a cremulator and pour sulphuric acid on it to get rid of the bones. It's alkaline hydrolysis. The sulphuric acid thing I added for spice- but yeah. It's actually alot more eco-friendly friendly option than cremation so xD.

Every Kentucky Derby winner since 1982 has been descended from Man o’War, with the exception of 1994 winner Go For Gin.

Horses are obligate nose breathers. Plug their nose and they'll suffocate. Horses can't burp or vomit - the system is one way only. Horses can "passively breathe" while running at high speeds. Their guts slosh around back to front rhythmic pushing air out and pulling it in.

Koala bears have humanlike fingerprints. Some are so similar they are confused under a microscope. I thought this was so interesting.

The word “run” is one of the most complex words in the English language, having ~645 different meanings. ETA: it takes up ~75 columns of text in the Oxford English Dictionary.

1 million seconds is approximately 11 days, while 1 billion seconds is roughly 31 years.

The act of throwing somebody out of a window is called defenestration.

The act of of throwing somebody into a fire is called decrepitation.

Floccinaucinihilipilification is the act of judging something as worthless.

So technically you could do all three in just a few seconds. You could floccinaucinihilipilificate a person and choose to both defenestrate and decrepitate them in response if there is a fire lit underneath the window you plan to throw them from. Don't do that tho, I just like silly words.

Corpses at the bottom of Lake Superior (they don't float to the surface like in other bodies of water) stay preserved for much longer than normal because the conditions of the water are ideal for preserving corpses. Some are still in recognizable condition even decades after getting in there.