'You notice things a second after your brain does': 30 strange fun facts to share at a party

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 2, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

You know that feeling when you're at a party and there's a long awkward silence and someone decides to break the tension with a random, bizarre fact that leaves everyone stunned and confused? Well, if you don't know that feeling, we've got you covered with a fresh collection of strange facts compiled from this r/AskReddit thread.  So if you're hoping to be that person who makes everyone's heads turn during the next awkward pause, this is your opportunity to lean into the strangest version of yourself. 

Some of these facts explain so much about the world. For instance, of course, bees don't have hearts. They sting people. It all makes sense. Then there's the fact that giraffes only sleep for twenty minutes a day. This explains why I have never personally identified with giraffes as I can only function on a minimum of nine hours a night. How do they do it?

Keep scrolling below for these strange facts. When you're finished, feel free to take a look at this collection of petty reasons why people got dumped.

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    Rectangle - degobrah 11 hr. ago The largest tire manufacturer in the world is Lego 458 ↓ r/AskReddit Posted by u/RealisticChildhood80 16 hours ago S What's the strangest fact you know that most people don't? Reply Share KARAZINUS26 15 hr. ago Giraffes sleep for 20 minutes a day. ↑ 581 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - r/AskReddit. Posted by u/RealisticChildhood 80 16 hours ago What's the strangest fact you know that most people don't?
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    Font - _blue_sunsh1ne_ . 14 hr. ago That there are billions of pounds of cheese owned by the American government stored in a cave in Missouri. 2.1k Reply Share
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    Font - Mrofcourse 12 hr. ago 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. 2.0k Reply Share
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    Font - Interaction Brave3260. 13 hr. ago 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. ↑ 1.9k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - SS sunshinenekogirlbabe. 12 hr. ago 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 ↑ 1.7k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - The-one-true-hobbit. 11 hr. ago 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. ↑ 1.7k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - BrianNumbers 13 hr. ago Leap Year occurs whenever the year is divisible by 4. But this is just a little too frequent, so a correction is need. So whenever the year is divisible by 100 there is no Leap Year. However, this is too much of a correction, so when the year is also divisible by 400, there is Leap Year. 1.2k Reply Share
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    Font - TheyLoveColt 14 hr. ago George Washington didn't know what dinosaurs were. 876 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - kwnet 8 hr. ago · edited 3 hr. ago 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. 815 Reply Share
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    Font - Ritaredditonce 14 hr. ago . Charles Osborne (USA, 1894-1991) was the victim of the longest attack of hiccups, which lasted 68 years. ↑ 777 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - y call DonkyHotay DeliMunchr 10 hr. ago 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 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. ↑ 708 ↓ like Reply Share
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    Font - -PinkLemon 9 hr. ago If you say "manager" when calling any apple store, you'll get to the store directly and not a random call center. 667 Reply Share
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    Font - SOWED 13 hr. ago Fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Cipro can cause a rare reaction that causes people to rupture their Achilles tendon just from walking around. 606 Reply Share
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    Font - KARAZINUS26 15 hr. ago Giraffes sleep for 20 minutes a day. 581 581 Reply Share
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    Font - SimianRex 12 hr. ago Bill Murray played Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters. Lorenzo Music voiced Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters. Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield on Garfield and Friends. Bill Murray voiced Garfield in the Garfield movies. 561 Reply Share
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    Font - degobrah 11 hr. ago The largest tire manufacturer in the world is Lego 458 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - fbi_surveillance 99 11 hr. ago Oxford University started 332 years before the Aztec empire began 388 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Lotus Blossom_ . 7 hr. ago The only English words that contain the word "meow" are: meow, meows, meowed, meowing, and homeowner. 311 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - study-in-scarlet 9 hr. ago 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. 303 Reply Share
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    Font - ve ichristosmith - 10 hr. ago The blast of air you feel when you enter a store is to keep the insects away from entering the store. It is called an "air curtain", which acts as a barrier and doesn't let the cold air inside the store flow outside. 278 Reply Share
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    Font - Commercial Ball5624 6 hr. ago The solar system is much larger than most believe. Rather than the sun's gravitational influence on celestial bodies reaching only as far as Pluto, it reaches hundreds of times farther creating what's called the Oort cloud. To put it into perspective, it takes sunlight a little over 8 minutes to reach earth while it takes over 1.5 years to reach the edge of the Oort cloud. The nearest Star to ours (Alpha Centauri) is a little over 4 light years away, meaning
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    Rectangle - A MadiMikayla 11 hr. ago That in the wildest butterfly effect, the French government dissing the inventor of tinned food led to the creation of napalm Reply Share 246
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    Font - TheCoolestFool7 - 12 hr. ago The word 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language in which all of its letters are in alphabetical order. 228 Reply Share
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    Font - HokumPokem. 11 hr. ago 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. 199 Reply Share
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    Font - HoneyBadger098 - 15 hr. ago Human skin has no receptors for water ↑ 182 Reply Share
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    Font - theatre_nerd2. 13 hr. ago idk how many people may know this on here, but we humans are the only mammal that can eat avocado. it is poisonous to all other mammals/animals. ↑ 169 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - BruceTramp85 - 12 hr. ago Bees don't have hearts. 122 Reply Share
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    Font - Feeling-One-2419 7 hr. ago Some species of fish, like the cuttlefish, have males that aren't exactly "Alpha males", so they pretend to be females to win over the real females as friends, and then surprise fertilize them. 101 Reply Share
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    Font - Aggressive_Cherry_81. 9 hr. ago Snakes can predict earthquakes. They can sense an upcoming earthquake from a staggering 75 miles away, up to five whole days before it happens.
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    Rectangle - ----XXXZzzzzzzzz. 12 hr. ago A 737 jet engines are held on by only 3 bolts
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    Font - Flaky_Avocado_8406 15 hr. ago You notice things a second after your brain does.
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