Our mind is a peculiar thing. We might forget where we parked our car or what we walked into a room to get, but a random story from the Medieval ages? Or a detail about the cremation process? Those can live in our heads forever.
So when Reddit user OkAdministration1387 asked everyone on the platform to share the useless yet interesting facts permanently stuck in their brains, people jumped in with all sorts of oddly specific answers. Trivia nerds, unite!
#41
The original pilot for Powerpuff Girls was called Whoopass Stew, and instead of Chemical X the professor accidentally spilled a can of Whoopass when creating the girls.
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14points
#42
A calorie is the amount of heat energy required to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius
For some reason I read it one time and have remembered it verbatim for over a decade.
For some reason I read it one time and have remembered it verbatim for over a decade.
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14points
#44
If you brake suddenly with a helium balloon floating about in your car, the balloon will go backwards.
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11points
#46
Despite the Tyrannosaurus Rex being one of the most, if not the most, studied dinosaur, we know basically nothing about it. We thought they lived to about 20 maybe 30,new info suggests they basically never stopped growing.
Also most of what we thought were juvenile T-Rex fossils turned out to be a completely different species.
Also most of what we thought were juvenile T-Rex fossils turned out to be a completely different species.
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9points
#47
The reduction gear ratio of the training ship belonging to the maritime academy I went to is 3.67:1.
7points