"Now That's Gonna Be Stuck In My Head": 45 Worthless Bits Of Trivia Or Knowledge Shared By Our Community

Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Numan.

Polar bears have black skin. Their fur is actually clear, not white, and each strand of fur is a hollow tube made of keratin (the same stuff as our fingernails) to trap heat and keep them warm.

That wombats poop cubes. It has something to do with their intestines being really good at removing water and compacting waste and it comes out in cubes.

Iceland is much less icy and much more green than Greenland.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

A proper one this time. Pineapple 'eats' you as you eat it. Pineapple contains a chemical called Bromelain that deconstructs (and will eventually dissolve) proteins, including human tissue. So if you're wondering why it tingles on your tongue now you know (thankfully our stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve concrete so takes care of Mr Pineapple)

Some words are contranyms, meaning a word that has two different meanings that are the opposite of each other.

The three examples I know are:
Cleave (can mean either to cling to or to separate from)
Left (can be used to refer to the part of a group that departed or the part that stayed. "Three sheep left the flock, how many were left?")
Off (can mean either to activate or to deactivate. "The alarm went off, so I turned it off.")

Finland is home to the most metal bands per capita, with around 53.5 metal bands per 100,000 people.

A day on venus is longer than a year on venus

A city in California has the Goodyear Blimp as its official bird.

Teeth pop like popcorn when heated.

That the angels do not naturally have a human form. When you actually read in depth about them, they are said to be both beautiful and yet among the most terrifying beings in the universe. When they say "Be not afraid" there is a reason for it, and it's not because they popped out of nowhere in front of your face.

The word for thinking about your thinking is metacognition. It only comes in handy when you're trying to impress teachers.

Cats have 38 muscles in each ear

Many years ago, when wood was in short supply it was a common practice to dig up and reuse coffins.

Quite often the grave diggers would see scratch marks on the underside of the coffin lid, left there by someone who was buried but still alive!

This happened so often, in fact, that all newly buried people had a length of string tied to their finger, leading all the way aboveground where it was tied to a bell.

When someone buried alive would move their hand trying to desperately claw their way out, the bell would ring aboveground.

Those people were called "Dead Ringers".

The men hired to listen for the bells during the night were known to be working the "graveyard shift".

The tip of your elbow is called your wenis.

It’s possible to put a lightbulb inside your mouth, but you can’t get it out without breaking either the glass or your jaw. And no, I don’t know why.

Rockets/spaceships are launched from positions near the equator to the east because the Earth's rotation makes a start more fuel efficient that way.

Squirrels don’t remember where they buried their acorns. They just bury so many that it’s easy to find one wherever they dig.

Pigs can actually run faster than people. As prey animals, they evolved to run away a lot.