Learning random facts is always fun. At the same time, some of you might wonder why on Earth you would need to stuff your brain with things like that. Well, if you're into trivia, these random facts may come in handy for you. Maybe one of these facts will help you score that point you need to win. And if you're not a trivia person, these random facts might still be useful when you least expect it. Or it might be time for you to get into trivia.
Either way, let's take a trip through a list of random facts that were prompted to be shared when someone on Reddit asked: "What's a completely random fact no one asked for?"
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#1
There are elements from exploding stars in your bones and oceans in your blood and your lungs use the same structures as coral does and your veins branch like trees or rivers and the same spirals you see in a shell on the beach are in your ears and there are miniature galaxies in your eyes. You are a miracle reflecting the beauty of the universe back at itself. That's incredible and I think about it a lot.
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273points
#2
In 2005 new palaeontological discoveries meant that a scientific term had to be assigned to baby/juvenile pterosaurs.
The author chose to name them "Flaplings".
The author chose to name them "Flaplings".
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213points
#3
octopuses, octopi, and octopus are all accepted plural spellings for octopus
also stop eating them
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212points
#5
The four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus is called a thagomizer. Far Side comic strip artist Gary Larson coined the word.
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159points
#6
Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets.
One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.
149points
#7
Among Fortune 500 companies, 2018 was the first year that the number of CEOs who were women exceeded the number who were named John.
*edit - grammar*
136points
#9
Sylvester Stallone wrote *Rocky* in three days after watching a boxing match because the only acting jobs he could get were bit parts and [adult movies], and he was homeless for a while. The producers wanted Burt Reynolds to play the lead but Stallone refused, and accepted huge budget cuts to star in his own film.
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126points
#10
From my giraffe loving 7yr old- A giraffe’s horns are called ossicones which are mostly cartilage
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124points
#11
“Chat GPT,” pronounced with a French accent, phonetically translates to “Cat, I have farted,” in French.
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122points
#12
The difference between a hotel and a motel is in a hotel your room is accessed from inside and a motel you access your room from the outside.
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119points
#13
Male echidnas have a four-headed penis, although they only use two during mating (and they alternate which heads they use each time).
The two they’re using grow larger, to fit inside the female’s dual-branched reproductive tract.
Also, bonus fact: female echidnas lactate through their skin… so they sweat their milk out, and the puggles lick it off them.
Bonus bonus fact: when a female echidna is ready to mate, a group of males will follow her through the bush for a few days in a horny little conga line called a mating train. When she decides it’s time, the males circle her digging a ditch as they go, then push each other out of the way until there’s only one left.
Edit to add: Nat Geo video of echidna mating rituals
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110points
#14
A peregrine falcon can dive at over 200mph.
99points
#15
The Xerographic process is how you get your office laser printer to work. Toner is plastic that sticks to the paper that got hit with a laser (laser printer) and is a different charge. The toner is being held on by static electricity. At the end it goes through two hot rollers called a fuser and is baked into the paper and that's why paper feels warm coming out because plastic is melted into paper.
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99points
#16
The plastic piece on the end of a shoelace is called the aglet.
ETA: Jesus, for the record, I did not learn this from Phineas and Ferb, but good to know half a generation did.
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97points
#17
A "factoid" is actually an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.
Not a "small fact".
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97points
