20 Weird Fun Facts for Inquiring Minds

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Nov 1, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Have you ever been in a group setting where someone asks everyone to "go around and share a fun fact about themselves?" I have, and every time I hear those words it sends a shiver of panic down my spine. A fun fact? About myself? The pressure to be funny, humble, surprising, but not too memorable that it starts an unwanted conversation, is immense. I begin mining my life for crumbs of interest. That time I petted a snake? No, more or less everyone has done that. How about that Idaho-shaped mole on my lower back? No, they'll want to see it. I invariably land on something neutrally uninteresting. "I'm a Gemini/ Cancer cusp." Fine, no questions. Move on to the next sucker. 

Facts are so much more fun when they're not about yourself. The internet is full of those, mined from the brains of folks with different jobs/lives/past lives as you. Here are some of the best. 

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  • 01
    Font - r/AskReddit u/Realistic Childhood80 14h ● What's the strangest fact you know that most people don't?
    via u/RealisticChildhood80
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    Smile - Mrofcourse • 10h If you are exposed to roaches for a long enough time you will become allergic to them. This also means you become allergic to pre-ground coffee.
    via u/Mrofcourse
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    Font - The-one-true-hobbit • 9h Some medications can cause hair to turn strange colors when bleached. My wife recently got her hair dyed and the first step was bleaching. Because of her medication it went from medium brown to a light pink, like an anime character sort of pink. You could even see a line corresponding to a time when her meds were lowered then raised again.
    via u/The-one-true-hobbit
  • 04
    Font - sunshinenekogirlbabe • 10h A test pilot for Americas first jet wore a gorilla mask when flying so if other pilots saw it they would be written off as seeing things
    via u/sunshinenekogirlbabe
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    Human body - _blue_sunsh1ne_ • 13h That there are billions of pounds of cheese owned by the American government stored in a cave in Missouri.
    via u/_blue_sunsh1ne_
  • 06
    Font - InteractionBrave3260 • 11h Bears don't actually hibernate. They torpor. While they do lower their heart rate and respiration, they are not in the same sort of chemical sleep, true hubernators undergo. Animals who torpor are able to wake if threatened, while an animal in hibernation is truly helpless until it wakes up.
    via u/InteractionBrave3260
  • 07
    Font - Ritaredditonce. 13h Charles Osborne (USA, 1894-1991) was the victim of the longest attack of hiccups, which lasted 68 years.
    via u/Ritaredditonce
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    Human body - -PinkLemon. 8h If you say "manager" when calling any apple store, you'll get to the store directly and not a random call center.
    via u/-PinkLemon
  • 09
    Font - SOWED 11h ● Fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Cipro can cause a rare reaction that causes people to rupture their Achilles tendon just from walking around.
    via u/SOWED
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    Font - study-in-scarlet . 7h For the original Sleeping Beauty, they used recordings of a flamethrower to get the sounds for Maleficent's dragon-form fire breath. The skeletons in Poltergeist were real, but they were not just taken from a graveyard. They were medical cadavers borrowed from a university; renting them for the film was cheaper than using fake skeletons.
    via u/study-in-scarlet
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    Font - DonkyHotay DeliMunchr. 9h Virginia opossums do not eat ticks and they do not hang by their tails. If you ever see one hanging by their tail, help them down. Humans set them up like that and they'll hang until they're exhausted and fall on their heads. They can't pull themselves back up to the branch from that position and it's cruel. Goal
    via u/DonkyHotayDeliMunchr
  • 12
    Human body - They LoveColt. 12h George Washington didn't know what dinosaurs were.
    via u/TheyLoveColt
  • 13
    Font - Lexinoz 13h ● That having a spouse die shortly after their partner goes, is very, very common. (Eldercare).
    via u/Lexinoz
  • 14
    Font - kwnet • 7h Next time you're watching a car-ad video, look at the license plate. If it consists only of symmetrical characters and numbers like 'HMI A8' or 'TX W8Y', this is likely a deliberate choice so that the video can be flipped/ mirrored and aired in both right-side and left-side driving markets.
    via u/kwnet
  • 15
    Font - GoodGoneGeek 9h ● Armadillos can carry leprosy.
    via u/GoodGoneGeek
  • 16
    Font - degobrah 9h • The largest tire manufacturer in the world is Lego
    via u/degobrah
  • 17
    Rectangle - 406upser 8h A funeral home is not required to dispose of a loved one. Anybody can do it, so long as they fill out and file the paperwork, obtain the permits, and follow the same laws as a funeral home.
    via u/406upser
  • 18
    Human body - fbi_surveillance99.9h Oxford University started 332 years before the Aztec empire began
    via u/fbi_surveillance99
  • 19
    Human body - KARAZINUS26 • 14h Giraffes sleep for 20 minutes a day.
    via u/KARAZINUS26
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    Font - JFeisty • 8h Ohio is the only state in the USA that doesn't share a letter with the word mackerel.
    via u/JFeisty
  • 21
    Font - HokumPokem • 9h * The first person and the last person to die during the construction of the Hoover Dam were father and son, and they died 5 years to the day apart.
    via u/HokumPokem

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