Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,
Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost
A kangaroo’s testicles are ON TOP of its penis rather than below.
This is basically what I say whenever someone asks me for a fun fact too roflmao
Today I Learned!
So any sex position where the balls are higher than the penis could be called “kangy style”?
And that’s now my fun fact too lol
The little piece of plastic at the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet.
I learned that from Phineas and Ferb.
IT DOESN’T MATTER!!
In what way?
That was just a quote from that episode. Candace repeatedly yells that at the boys as they celebrate aglets.
Sorry that it came off like I was screaming at you. I should have put it in quotes.
I haven’t seen the episode in a decade, but reading it again in her voice made me laugh.
Thank you Terraria for this useless piece of info
Pretty sure it was the movie Repossessed with Leslie Nielsen that taught me this one.
Their true purpose is sinister
I was gonna correct you and say aiglet, but turns out it’s both correct
Seth McFarlane slept in one morning and missed his plane home. Little did he know that this exact plane hit the World Trade Center.
Orcas are a natural predator of the moose
Orcas are a natural predator of everything that his the ocean. Fun fact, orcas have been known to toy with seals by catapulting them with their tails. I believe I remember seeing at least one baby seal got seventy feet in the air before returning to the sea (and its inevitable death).
I hate to break it to ya, but moose aren’t in the ocean.
All cases known to have happened are in Alaska, where moose were swimming across straits and between islands. Orcas are opportunistic hunters and nearly anything swimming in water deep enough for them to swim in has a chance of being eaten. Most of them keep their distance from humans but if you were swimming in their territory away from civilization and boat traffic you might be stalked and hunted.
oh that’s interesting! Thanks I didn’t know that!
Ohio is the only state that doesn’t share any letters with mackerel
obvious proof for ohio not being real
Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees have.
2 facts about the CMOS battery on a motherboard: CMOS stands for “complimentary metal oxide semiconductor”. Its a 2032 watch battery.
Also, the 2032 numbering indicates its physical size: it’s 20mm x 3.2mm. There are for example 2025’s (like in my car remote) that are 20mm x 2.5mm.
And CMOS refers to what the battery was powering on the motherboard (a small amount of CMOS static RAM) rather than anything about the battery itself. I don’t know if motherboards still use any static RAM, the batteries might only be there to power the clock these days, making the name just a historical convention.
It goes beyond button batteries too. Lots of batteries use the same system. For instance, many flashlights run off of 18650 cells.
-All of the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon -Stoplights detect your presence with an electromagnetic field using wires and not pressure -There is a receiver above stoplights that EMS vehicles can trigger to change the light red for everyone -We left astronaut poop on the moon -The numbers on a toaster are not always in minutes -Most common mold is not dangerous when ingested or inhaled unless you are allergic -Celeste Tea was founded and made by a cult, maybe still is -Christian Science had laws passed in the majority of states in the 80s that prevented prosecution of child abuse due to religious practices -The statistical value of a human life in the US is 10 million at dollars -Jellyfish reproduce and are birthed as polyps on the ocean floor -The chiral version of the sugar molecule would taste identical to sugar but is indigestible, we have no practical ways to produce it though afaik -Only one president has failed to release his tax documents -There are multiple US presidents who were likely gay
I’ll stop there, and yes these facts do rotate through my head for no real reason, they’re just fun!
Male bedbugs have a knife-like penis. To have sex, they stab the females in the thorax with it because the females don’t have genitalia. The semen is then injected directly into the female’s main body cavity for insemination
This goes by the pleasant sounding scientific name of “traumatic insemination”.
I don’t like you
Okay?
How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:
- Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
- Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
- Repeat the above. You’ll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.
In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.
…it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it’s less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?
I still remember the cheat for the first game. Down Y Down Down Y when cranky appears in the title to play bonus stages.
I remember this one too! There was also B A↓B↑↓↓Y (bad buddy) to switch when you wanted in 2P, instead of waiting until the arsehole playing with you to switch it.
Plus LRR LRR LR LR for DKC3. Then you’d insert a cheat and… I don’t remember them. Damn.
There are approximately π x 10^7 seconds in a year. It differs by less than 0.4%).
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If I was able to remember them on cue I would probably be a lot more interesting of a person.
The topic has to seed first and then all of the information I know about it rushes in.
Karl Marx got drunk one night and, after being kicked out of a bar in London where he got drunk, went around London and almost got arrested sabotaging the lamp posts with rocks with his colleagues who were also drunk.
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They’re them at the glowing bit until it’s dark.
Throwing rocks at the glass part that emits light, taking out the bulb.
About 30-some years ago I borrowed a book of facts from the library, and the two I remember are:
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3x as nutritious as steak.
I have no idea if they’re true, but they’re burned into my brain.
Stanislav Petrov’s name, for some weird reason. Lots of people can tell the story but just refer to him as ‘a radar operator’.
The only guy to shoot down an F-117? Lazerpig just mentioned him in a video a week ago
You are thinking of Zoltán Dani? That is another good story. Petrov was famous for not being aggressive.
Yes, thanks for the clarification!
