47 Completely Useless Yet Interesting Facts That Live Rent-Free In People’s Heads

Watermelons are berries, strawberries aren't, technically you can categorize bananas as grass

You can fit every planet in the solar system between the Earth and the Moon side by side and still have some space left

Saturn is slowly absorbing its own rings

There's an "Earth-like" exoplanet that rains glass. SIDEWAYS.

There's a nebula that's full of the chemical that tastes like raspberry and smells like rum. The only catch is that it's also full of cyanide...

Jupiter is as much protecting the Earth from asteroids as it is slinging them directly at it

Our solar system has one of if not the single rarest planet layouts which might've contributed to the fact that there's life on Earth

We're either alone or not alone and both options are equally terrifying

... I'm gonna stop now because no one's gonna read this anyway.

The Scottish Highlands and the Appalachians are the same mountain range.

When Vikings would forge their iron they would forge in bones of an animal like bears or wolves they had hunted thinking the power of its soul would be in the blade making it stronger like the animal, it would actually make it stronger because the bones would create carbon during the process creating a crude version of steel.

A 'factoid' is a small piece of incorrect information, but so ubiquitously believed that it is treated as truth.

Most people think that a factoid is a little fun fact.

So, the widely believed definition of factoid is, in itself, a factoid.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. That one still doesnt feel real to me.

Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman.

Otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart. it's called a raft.

Helicopter isn't heli + copter, it's helico + pter

Pter is wing, like pterodactyl. Helico is like helix, spiral.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Been stuck in my head since 4th grade.

The air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow is approximately 24mph.

Bees can recognize human faces.

A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify chew the Starburst not the pigeon.

Hydrangeas colour is determined by soil acidity.

Tigers are king of the jungle, not Lions.

Tigers are also much larger and more capable than lions.

Biologically, vegetables aren't a thing

"Vegetables" are a culinary category, not a biological one.

Chicken is a dinosaur.

The word bed looks like a bed.

Killer whales are dolphins. Cougar, mountain lion, & puma are all the same animal.

A horse could fit inside the bubble made by a blue whale fart.

Vultures have such good eyesight they could read a standard newspaper at a distance of 1 to 2 miles.