As a "high achieving" student, the biggest mind-blowing fact I have ever learned has been the sheer amount of straight-up lying that happens in formal education.
It's a lot. Like a lot a lot. History class lied so hard.
Oxford
<p>Oxford University was founded in 1096 and is several hundred years older than Machu Picchu.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx8tm8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">GParkerG93</a></p><p>Oxford was founded 300 years before the Aztec empire</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxxhmy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">AnduBandu</a></p><p>Wai..wah wai wai wiai, WHAT?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxif90?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CosmicSnowball14</a></p>On Trial
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUxMTc2Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMzU1ODI5M30.4pq1QJyuoP_wmlhACwoWdU54nobqlAzCrs2CaxXZ_BQ/img.gif?width=980" id="ed537" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a40beaebe19748acb8a2266ddd95141d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="375" />pet sleeping GIFGiphy<p>In the Middle Ages, European countries would put on real trials for animals. They were legitimate, with real defense attorneys. </p><p>A sow and her piglets were put on trial for killing a five-year-old kid. The sow was found guilty and put to death, but her piglets were acquitted because there was no evidence they took part.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx1wyz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">natsugreyzera</a></p><p>They did this in Tennessee in the 1900's where an elephant was tried and hanged for murder.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(elephant)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjy3tyr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TheoryPlane</a></p>Sharks
<p>Sharks have existed 100 million years before the first trees. </p><p>Sharks first showed up on the scene 350 million years ago and 250 million years ago. Also, sharks have survived 4 of the 5 mass extinctions. They didn't exist for the first one. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx1fss?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Stayathomedadof6</a></p>Room To Spare
<p>All the planets in our solar system can fit between the Earth and the Moon, with a little room to spare.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx85ye?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Imajica0921</a></p><p>Whaaaa? Oddly this one hurts my brain the most.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx9wk2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">dmbf</a></p><p>There's a lot of space in space.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjzntot?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">madgietoyousir</a></p>Clean Bones
<p>That when you brush your teeth you're actually cleaning your skeleton</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjwzxbe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">maidenHELL6669</a></p><p>Gotta keep your bone mech clean. That flesh armor only guards so much.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxoun4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Shumatsuu</a></p><p>Gross, thanks! </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxm8of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ppity_pangolin</a></p>Light Horizon
<p>There is a light horizon in the universe, and we will never know what's beyond it</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx2y18?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Money_Display_5389</a></p><p>The funny thing, (or maybe just terrifying thing), is that at some point in the far future, the light horizon will actually get smaller over time. </p><p>This is because the universe is expanding faster then light can travel, and so that light will never make it to us no matter how much time passes, and this phenomenon will only become more relevant.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjynpnr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ZanyThings</a></p>The Beatles
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUxMTc3MS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxODQ5ODcxOX0.1DyC3fQGrmURKaz809wvgafTj26Hak_-WKDyc4B9UoI/img.gif?width=980" id="8d6fe" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3419f853fad72027fcdecbaf7bb2eaa2" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="400" data-height="337" />the beatles GIF by US National ArchivesGiphy<p>The Beatles were only together for 7 years. Well, technically for 8 but they released all of their albums in a seven year stretch, releasing two albums a year for many of those years.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxbtav?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">VikingWithGuns</a><span></span></p><p>Even crazier- when they broke up, Paul McCartney was 28.</p><p>Think about it- all that genius, the music, the success, the greatest band ever to exist- and he wasn't even 30.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjy8t5z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">YourlocalTitanicGuy</a></p>They Have To Die For My Survival
<p>Diseases are caused by micro organisms. </p><p>Organisms. Germs are organisms. </p><p>It totally blew my mind that the thing screwing my internal organs was a group of sentient living beings that have to die for my survival.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxbgc7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CrimsonMarksman</a></p>Ice Age
<p>Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iphone than the completion of the Great Pyramid</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxly7q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">jfaissalesmfe5</a></p><p>Woolly Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjy9st1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Volkspanzerisme</a></p><p>So by correlation, Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the movie Ice Age, than the actual ice age.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjzdvjl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BurritoBandito5</a></p>Flaunt It
<p>Jumping spiders have basically the same vision we do, they can see us and know when we're looking at them and like to show off!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxibgj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">kikaf32645</a></p><p>Ugh I hate those spiders. We had one in the house once and it kept waving its arms around.'</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjz6duj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Cyannotsus</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjz6duj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Jumping spiders are the only kind of spider, that I as an arachnophobe like.</p><p>They're fluffy, cute and this fact cements that.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxnj47?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">HelluhTrill420</a></p>Science is science. Fact is fact. Truth is truth and simple is simple. These are things we must now attest to in 2021. Can we please all get onboard with what has been proven? Everything is not a hoax. One of the greatest lies that for some reason continues to circulate is also one of the most believed farces. The Earth is in fact... round. Gravity holds us down as it revolves, if it was flat.... someone would've walked off the edge by now. Its in pictures by everyone from space and on Earth. What more does it take?
Redditor u/jbarms wanted to hear from those of us who have come around to giving into facts and science and those of us who brought people to the "circle" by asking..... Former Flat Earthers. What made you come round?Wisdom in Age
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzQ5Ny9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NDExODE2NH0.PaczFPq111HM9muXXpDcs8gQxo49yNfLwVWDsC9YaB8/img.gif?width=980" id="25aa0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f02850aabcd38c5af5362a458548e4ca" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="400" />Smart Think About It GIF by FriendsGiphy<p>Quote I got from somewhere...</p><p>"for 5 years I believed the Earth was flat, then I turned 6". </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9se47?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">-QED-</a><span></span></p>Love the Sphere
<p>I convinced a flat earther, temporarily, by asking him if it was possible for a sphere to be so large that you could not tell it was a sphere my simply being on the surface of it. It took him a while, I used an analogy of a extremely long line that was so slightly curved you could not tell so by looking at a small section of it. Eventually he said yes to the sphere and I told him that was how big the earth is.</p><p>A few days later he reverted, most of these people aren't mentally stable, they believe in a lot of conspiracies.</p>Get a Clue
<p>Look, it's really easy:</p><p>If the Earth is flat, there would be an edge(s). And there would be a freaking Disney park at the edge, and we could bungie jump off the side and paraglide into the void etc etc.</p>Gazing...
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzUwNC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODk0NTI3NH0.CMaG4vsYTI0c4UrX79w1USMFUQl4RmKQdv7v7jWCp14/img.gif?width=980" id="e52c6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="84c569de18182631e7590cdd9f09ce5c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />shock what GIF by The Voice UKGiphy<p>I was debating a flat earther in Mexico, and I asked him about how GPS worked if there were no satellites. </p>"Truth behind the curve"
<p>I watched a documentary about flat earthers called "Truth behind the curve" and my analysis from watching that these flat earthers are a group of people who found a community to be a part of. It's a shame their community is based on a lie, but I saw a bunch of people who were to be part of a community.</p><p>Most of the people were social awkward and what not, and so an opportunity to be an influential figure within the community so they double down on their flawed logic.</p>"What do you think now," said the Captain.
<p>The inclined seat conformed perfectly to his body, strategically placed in the cockpit so he could reach no buttons with outstretched arms. The straps anchored him firmly in place, they were uncomfortable but necessary. The engine burst to life with a roar that burned out all the other audio, the vibrations tore through his body and he felt his body sink back into the seat as the G-Force began to take hold.</p>Throw a Rock
<p>I talked to a flat-earther about my job working for a company that tracks ship locations, routes, and speeds by satellite. We also had ways of monitoring carbon emissions based on fuel consumption and known weather conditions. None of this would work at all if the earth was flat. Not a jot of it. I could only explain the most basic concepts, but it was enough for him to understand and realise that I was right and that he'd been convinced by someone who had no practical experience of the spherical nature of the Earth. </p>Travel Plans
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzUzMS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NzMwMTc5Nn0.XGQMkHwliqQq2DKXFp-U_pVJokAPTL_Cea3ZvMlyA6c/img.gif?width=980" id="b5c83" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="576657b9120d76d131fddf3fbd615e11" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="500" />happy travel GIF by RafahuGiphy<p>Had to travel to Japan, gave up on my beliefs in order to make a shorter trip. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9et5v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">uvzla792</a></p>The Deniers....
<p>I spent about a year infiltrating the flat Earth community on Instagram. I garnered a decent following with an account dedicated to flat earth travel photos (an intentionally absurd premise). In that time I learned a quite a bit about the community including how to discern the trolls from the real deal. The majority of legit flat earthers are extremely distrustful of anything the government says or does. These same people are 9/11 truthers, Holocaust deniers, and anti-vaxxers and they connect these conspiracies together. </p>Why Lie?
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzUxMS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMDk4MTYxNX0.GZRpOiObajP8j3vrae6GVXJ5yotHg8GY6gLtn7Ihwkg/img.gif?width=980" id="c2131" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d951fc9674113099d3e1b57c3ee4ae52" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />Think Outer Space GIF by NASAGiphy<p>A serious answer here.</p><p>The thing that made me stop was just the question "why would NASA lie to you."</p><p>I will try replying to all of y'all but will go to a study hall so I'll reply later. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9mo3b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">The_Holy_Fork</a></p>When you're in the market for a slew of very specific facts that all fall under the same general theme, the internet really delivers.
Forget streamlined public health capabilities and revolutionized human communication, the true beauty of the internet is all the random, barely useful information you can find when a bunch odd people decide to assemble and swap info.
Homemade Tarantula
<p>"Dental student here. Black hairy tongue is a common condition and it's exactly what it sounds like." </p><p>"It's just caused by buildup of dead skin that becomes hair like because of tobacco use or antibiotic use. Usually combined with lack of frictional forces from brushing"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu9tdq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Alarm-Potential</a></p>Load Em Up
<p>"When a patient gets a kidney transplant, they usually leave the old 2 behind unless there's a significant problem with them."</p><p>"The extra kidney is just tucked in the peritoneum leaving the patient with 3 kidneys."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu6qjd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">MedicalJargon-itis</a></p>Come On Mutations!
<p>"Every single melanocyte on your skin (you know, the ones that give your hairs color, and your skin its skin color) is connected to your sympathetic nervous system via modified synapses."</p><p>"No-one knows why they're connected that way - but we do know that under stress, those nerves nuke the pool of stem cells that create hair pigment, which is why it makes you go grey."</p><p>"A few mutations and you could theoretically be able to control them and change color like a chameleon."</p><p>"So in many ways, we're basically walking cuttlefish."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giuyo29?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PavlovaPalava</a></p>Play the Long Game, People
<p>"Humans can outpace any animal on the planet."</p><p>"No, we're not the fastest, but if we were chasing the fastest animal (cheetah) we would catch it and be able to keep going."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gisujdr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Bout3Fidy</a></p>Little Helpful Critters
<p>"There are little microscopic organisms living in your eyebrows, eating away at the dead skin."</p><p>"Don't freak out, they are very helpful and completely harmless, just a little gross"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giud33u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Vid-Me-BossCheesburg</a></p>Thankfully That Filter is a Pretty Good One
<p>"Saliva is filtered blood. Your tears are too. And if you're too stressed out you can cry blood."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gitshe5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">mylifeisathrowaway10</a></p>Imagine It All in a Bottle
<p>"I know that the average human churns out between 1 and 2 liters of saliva every day.... oh and we have parasites who are embedded in our hair follicles, and they eat away at our skin, thus causing Dandruff :,)"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gisrxcc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Throwawayyy123451</a></p>So Hot
<p>"Humans give off so much body heat that in 30 min we can boil a gallon of water" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu1ngt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Financial-Ad-6050</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu1ngt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3"></a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Rookie numbers" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giuvqqt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nopenothappening</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Pshh I can get a gallon of water boiling in like 10 minutes tops" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giuhji3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ridiculouslygay</a></p>Oh Dear
<p>"Old ladies often have prolapse of their pelvic organs. This means their vaginal walls got so weak that it can no longer support their bladder or uterus."</p><p> -Nurse practitioner"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gitopxb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">vespertinas</a></p>Was there anyone among us who didn't love Pop Up Video?
Of course not. Random tidbits and factoids are like a brain's favorite snack, and putting them to music only made it better.
Just Another Manic Monday
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzNDA4Ny9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MzE1MTI2NX0.uLIdcpGxmMjO7x1_tRq5onvj_Gt_mbYPHuC9MBe2fbU/img.gif?width=980" id="68e10" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="57b02cc25b32f6542c4649f2bb7a1538" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="363" data-height="220" />monday GIFGiphy<p>It is more likely for anyone to have a stroke on Monday rather any other day, because of the stress that comes with the beginning of a new week.</p><p>in this link it also says that the most common weeks are around holidays too.</p><p><a href="https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen</a></p><p><a href="https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/git1tlp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nobodyrealyO_o</a></p><p>My father had a heart attack on an early Monday morning. The wonderful people at the hospital told us that they get the most heart attack and stroke victims at - I think - 9 o'clock in the morning. Thankfully it was minor and he is now happy and healthy!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giulcdy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Thatkid11235</a></p>Lobster Face
<p>Lobsters pee out of their faces. From right under their eyes. </p><p>also you'd be wrong to assume they do it to.. actually pee. In fact they pee into each other's face to communicate, or before a fight, or before some hot sexy time.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/girsaah?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">andreyzudwa</a></p>Before You Dig
<p>I located utility lines for awhile. You honestly have no idea how much infrastructure is underneath you. Get your lines marked before you dig. There is a decent chance that there is a major electrical or fiber optic line running through your back yard, not just the lines to YOUR house.</p><p>when they are marked:</p><p>Red-electric</p><p>Green-sewer</p><p>Blue-water</p><p>Yellow-Gas</p><p>Orange-communication</p><p>orange with a dot on either side- fiber optic</p><p>any color in a diamond with parallel lines- duct run, lots of lines in one trench.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gispbew?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ekolanderia</a></p><p>It's funny because my dad and I went to put a fence up and had the lines marked. Put a auger right through a communication line because they marked it like 4' off lol</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gitb8oi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SPYK3O</a></p>Can't Vomit
<p>Horses can't throw up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giryqp1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">keelyshobbrook</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giryqp1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Neither can rabbits or rats.</p><p>That's why most modern rat poisons are emetic. Other creatures (cats, dogs, human children, etc.) that find and eat the poison very quickly become violently sick and vomit up most or all of the poisonous material, significantly reducing the risk that they will be harmed by it. </p><p>Rats, however, cannot be sick, and so the poison stays in them and kills them off.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gisrrl7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">McChes</a></p>Um ... Australia? Things OK Down There?
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzNDA3OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNTU3NTY1M30.Ab8Yf_cnjZ2hO_lNNCtwPON-DnH4F0h-OIzyCwV5qKw/img.gif?width=980" id="c9248" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="da2b9a500fc90c168674c39b69df2cef" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="175" data-height="170" />platypus GIFGiphy<p>Platypuses glow when they're exposed to UV lights.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giseiw1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">False-improvement-56 </a></p><p>Bioflorescent... they are steadily found more and more examples that do the same thing. I think Tasmanian Devils and Wombats were both captured recently.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givkn2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">InanimateCarboRodAU</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givkn2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Tassie Devils do... kind of.</p><p>It seems to only happen to those animals in captivity?</p><p>The belief is that these (primarily) nocturnal creatures are expected to be seen by daylight in zoos and as a result they absorb too much UV radiation from the sun and when in the dark they re-emit and it shows up better under UV light.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giukvxp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FiligreesDaddy</a></p><p>Wombats glow on their noses! </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giut67i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">so_it_goes17</a></p>Netflix
<p>Netflix was founded before Google</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gis14po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ItzBlossom05</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gis14po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Even better: In 2000, Netflix offered itself for sale to Blockbuster for something like $50 million. Blockbuster, convinced that Netflix was a flash in the pan and that people would always want to rent disks, declined.</p><p>This was before streaming was even an idea in the mind of Reed Hastings; streaming was still a very, very new technology at the time and most people were still on dial-up modems, so it just wasn't feasible. Still, things would be certainly different today.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giumvt8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SpaceForceAwakens</a></p>Default Mode
<p>Your brain prefers to default your mood back to one that you've made comfortable for yourself. So you can literally train yourself to default back to being sad, or being happy, or being anxious etc.</p><p>Unfortunately I don't have expertise in exactly how to do that. </p><p>Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) would be helpful and maybe a type of therapy called Gestalt therapy? But I'm no expert on any of this stuff. </p><p>I have 2 friends who are counsellors and a sister as well. So maybe I could ask them.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gispttf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Stevieeer</a></p>A Man-child Changes History
<p>This one potentially changed the course of history.</p><p>Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire was the ruler of Germany during WWI. Though technically a constitutional monarchy at the time Germany, and its military especially, operated more like an autocratic monarchic state. The top ranks of the German military relied on the personal patronage the kaiser for career advancement. </p><p>Thing is, he was a bit of a man-child. So instead of a jump, "how high," situation, it was more like "here's a dress, it'd be funny if you marched around."</p><p>In 1908, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_H%C3%BClsen-Haeseler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Field Marshal Dietrich von Hulsen-Haeseler</a> was the top ranking German officer and was only 56 years old. He died that year of a heart attack while marching around for kaiser dressed in a tutu and a feathered hat. Presumably because of the stress and embarrassment of the situation. </p><p>Had he lived, <em>he</em> would've commanded the German military in WWI. Instead, they entered the war led by Generals who had risen to the rank without ever actually commanding an army in the field. They were untested jesters in war. It didn't go well. </p><p>And that is my useless fact of the day!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/girwjt2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PurveyorOfUselessFacts</a></p>Spirit Carbon
<p>Ancient Europeans believed that if they ground up the bones of their greatest warriors or sacred animals and mixed them in with the iron when forging a sword, the sword would contain their spirits, making it stronger. </p><p>Little did they know that by adding in the ground up bones they were introducing carbon to the mix and creating carbon steel, which <em>is</em> much stronger than simple iron. </p><p>So they <em>were</em> making their swords stronger by adding the sacred bones, just not in the way they thought they were.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu00bx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Equivalent-Floor-607</a></p>Brain Bag
<p>I just learned this yesterday. After an autopsy the brain is put in to the body instead of back in the skull. </p><p>It's very hard to fit the cap back on the skull with brain put back in place. The better fit without the brain makes the head look better after the autopsy for sake of the family.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gisx5j0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">itsyourgirlbobby</a></p><p>All innards removed are put into a bag, in the abdominal cavity, and then the corpse is stitched up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu1xxw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">elegantpun</a></p>People Who've Worked On Dating Apps Share The Most Insane Stats They Learned
What every happened to the good ole days when we met one another, searching for love, at a bar? Now everything is on an app. And these apps are proving more and more dangerous and faulty. Wouldn't you just love to know who runs these sites though and how their love lives are working out? Also, knowing the statistics of how we're all connecting (i.e... swiping) could help out with saving so much time. Let's see whose willing to spill the tea on the behind the scenes on the search for romance.
Redditor u/brunetteht3 wanted everyone to know exactly what they're getting when signing up for love with these "apps" by asking staff to divulge.... Redditors that worked with a dating company (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, etc.), what's the most insane user stat or behind-the-scenes fact you found out about?