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

Flour is flammable and too much vanilla essence consumed by a child will be fatal to them.

Kushim (Sumerian: 𒆪𒋆 KU.ŠIM) is the oldest documented name in human history. It is found on several circa 5,000 years old Proto-cuneiform claytablets from Mesopotamia.

Not the coolest, but just baffling...There has never been a record of a blind schizophrenic...

Your bones aren’t white like a spooky skeleton. They’re a pinkish Grey.

Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't, and strawberries, cherries, peaches, and roses all come from the same family, no wonder why they are all romanticized

Hummingbirds can fly backwards

The coolest thing I can think of is that Orca is a predator of Moose.

Your brain consumes about 20% of your energy, even when you’re doing nothing… Thinking is one of the most expensive things you do. So make sure whatever you’re thinking about is literally worth the effort.

Quokkas may be the happiest animal on the planet, but throw their babies at predators to escape

A Portuguese Man of War isn't technically a jellyfish, but is actually a siphonophore, where several organism comprise themselves to create a larger collective of one.

Edit: As u/refaelzat pointed out, the Portuguese Man of War is still a jellyfish while also being a siphonophore. I'm not exactly sure what the correct classification is for this, though.

The speed of sound varies with temperature of air. Sound travels slower in Antarctica than it does in Florida.

Jupiters largest moon is bigger than Mercury

Koalas have smooth brains. This is bc they are so low effort and only eat eucalyptus (which is actually toxic to them). When they are babies they can’t start eating the leaves as soon as they can eat solids they actually attach themselves to their moms [rear] and eat their moms p**p to start gaining the immunity to the eucalyptus poison.

When you smell something, particles of that something enters your body

It takes more energy to breastfeed than to power your brain

Children between age 1 and 6 have both sets of their teeth in their skulls at the same time. Also, children only have 20 teeth, adults have 32. Where did the other 12 come from??

Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.

You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from 2 miles away

The person's that invented Pringels remains were put in a pringels can

If you really want to get your hands on some industrial or commercial grade explosives, robbing a construction company is the way to go.