Article created by: Greta Jaruševičiūtė
The internet is chock full of amusing and interesting information. But some of it is so ‘out there’ that your initial instinct might be skepticism. While having that instinct is really important in this day and age (yuck, misinformation), the reality is that some claims are simply weird. Fact really is weirder than fiction in some cases.
One r/AskReddit fan, u/Fairy_Electra, sparked a really fun discussion on the online group by asking everyone to share the most ridiculous facts they know. Not only are they beyond bizarre, but they might reignite your curiosity about the world, too. We’ve picked out some of the best posts, so check them out below!
Mars is the only known planet inhabited entirely by robots.
Someone booked a press conference at 4 seasons lawn care instead of 4 seasons the hotel. They then proceeded with the press conference anyway.
Cats don’t communicate to one another through meowing. Meowing isn’t cat speak. Cats developed their meows in order to communicate with humans (and get their attention/beg for food).
Cows are really social animals and always have, at least, one friend. And we humans actually can become one of their friends. Resulting in us being able to train them and even being able to ride them and doing horse jumping with them.
Every "c" in the "Pacific Ocean" is pronounced differently.
If you take a leech and put it in a maze, it will eventually find it's way around. If you take that leech, blend it and feed it to another leech, that leech will already know it's way around the maze. This is called chemical memory.
TASER is an acronym. It stands for Thomas A. Swifts Electric Rifle. It's from a book published in 1911 called Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle.
Pineapples used to be so expensive and rare that rich people would RENT them for fancy parties as decorations.
Frogs can't keep their eyes open when eating food . When a frog swallows food, it pulls its eyes down into the roof of its mouth. The eyes helps push the food down its throat.
The Lewis and Clark expedition can be tracked because they left excess deposits of mercury in the soil.
They were all constipated from their meat based diet, so they were taking these mercury based laxatives called Thunder Clappers.
If sound could travel through space, the roar of the sun would be deafening even though it's 93M miles away.
In the 1970’s there were about half as many people as there are today.
There exists a jellyfish by the name of Turritopsis dohrnii that can control its own aging process making it immortal.
Charlie Chaplin lost his own lookalike contest.
The Supreme Court in America has a basket ball court in the top floor and it’s called. You guessed it: the highest court in the land.
Most of the sand on tropical beaches is parrotfish poop.
Parrotfish feed on algae and microorganisms found on coral, they crush it in their beaks, and pass it through their digestive system.
Some species produce 2000 pounds of sand per year.
Counting non-stop, it would take you about 12 days to count to a million.
It would take you 31 years to count to a billion.
Not really ridiculous, but more sad.
We don’t know Albert Einstein’s last words, as he spoke them in German to a nurse who only knew English.
Vikings would use animals bones when creating their weapons are armor which would make it stronger due to the carbon being added to the metal, not due to their belief of the animal's spirit embodying the weapon or armor.
Queue is just Q with 4 silent letters.
The chainsaw was invented to aid with childbirth.
Space is only 62 miles away.
The term for single pieces of confetti is confetto.
A word you can type on the top letter row of a standard keyboard is TYPEWRITER
And the only word in the English language with 3 consecutive double letters is BOOKKEEPER. I'm a bookkeeper.
Snails can sleep for 3 years.
Clouds can weigh millions of pounds, and snails have thousands of teeth.
Roses have prickles not thorns. One of the few things I remember from botany class.
I don’t know if it’s ridiculous but is definitely fascinating. ‘Dreamt’ is the only word in the English language that ends with ‘mt’.
If you properly shuffle a deck of playing cards odds are that the arrangement of those cards has never been seen, nor will be seen again. Another way of saying it..there are 52 factorial (52!) ways if arranging a deck of cards....an impossibly large number.
The Telletubbies are around 10 feet tall.
