30 Completely Random Facts You Probably Didn't Know.

Some useless pieces of information.

Published 2 years ago

Some useless pieces of information.

1
A one-pound mixture of U.S. dimes, quarters, and half-dollars will always have a face value of $20, no matter the ratio of dimes to quarters to half-dollars.

2
Octopi have blue blood. This is due to their blood containing copper, as opposed to human blood, which contains iron.

3
The longest (English) word you can type using only the left side of the keyboard is "stewardesses". On the right it's "lollipop".

5
Dictionaries add words not because of worthiness but because of vernacular If people use the word, then people need to have a way to look it up. It doesn’t matter if you like the word “crunk” or not

6
When you're shopping online, "free shipping" doesn't actually mean free shipping. It just means that the shipping costs are included in the listing price.

8
80% of the profit for the United States Postal Service is from delivery of junk mail.

9
Male ladybugs can mate with a female for up to four hours before realizing she was dead before he even started.

12
Rattlesnake tails don't actually have anything in them. They're segmented loosely, so the entire thing just kinda flops around. What you're hearing is the individual segments banging into each other.

13
Did you know that cats can survive great falls! Like 10 plus story falls. That’s because they can position themselves in a way that reduces their terminal velocity to below the threshold for death. In fact, the most dangerous height for a cat to fall is 3-5 stories, that is because the height is big enough to cause a fatality, but low enough that they wouldn’t be able to get into position and develop enough drag to reduce their terminal velocity.

14
By the time the big pyramids were built in Egypt, there were still mammoths alive in northern Siberia. The witch hunts didn't mainly take place in Medieval Times, but in the early Modern Period. There have been some witch trials in Medieval Times but, they were not common and not big-scale organized.

15
Roman Centurions were called such because they were in charge of 100 Roman Soldiers.

16
Airport runways are numbered based on the magnetic direction they face, rounded to the nearest tenth. Over time as earth’s magnetic field shifts they occasionally have to renumber a runway.

18
Sean Bean (pronounced shan ban) is Irish for old lady. So headlines about "Sean Bean dies in every movie" are extra hilarious in Ireland.

19
Charlie Chaplin once took part in a charlie-chaplin-look-alike-contest and won the second prize.

20
The first man made object we ever put in space was likely a manhole cover launched after a nuclear bomb accident.

22
Press and hold the # 2 button for about three or four seconds on your microwave to silence the beeping noise. Press and hold it again to turn the noise back on. Works on most microwave ovens. Works like a mute button.

23
French Guiana is the only territory in Mainland America. While many American nations have territories, French Guiana itself, is not a nation, and therefore, is the only territory in Mainland America.

24
Hawking radiation: black holes evaporate over time due to the extreme gravitational energy density at the event horizon causing a matter and anti matter particle to pop into existence at the quantum level, the anti matter particle falls into the black hole while the matter particle is ejected into space. The sum of these particles exactly equals the sum of the particles that the black hole had consumed over its lifetime. F**k yeah science.

25
In May 1944, the 'destroyer escort USS England' sunk six Japanese submarines in twelve days using the "Hedgehog" Anti-Submarine Projector. It's a record that's never been matched before or since in the history of anti-submarine warfare. For its remarkable success as a sub killer, the ship was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, and the commanding officer LCDR Walton Pendleton received the Navy Cross.

26
Knightsbridge is the only station on the London Underground to contain six consecutive consonants in its name

29
Your odds of dying in a commercial airliner accident are not much higher than of dying in an asteroid impact on the Earth. An airliner crashes every few years and ends a couple of hundred people. An asteroid large enough to end literally everyone hits the Earth every couple hundred million years.