The Internet's Weirdest Knowledge Shared on This 9GAG Thread

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John Summers • Contributor
Dec 18, 2024 11:00 PM EST

The universe is a strange, strange place, and personally, I am obsessed with learning all its weirdest secrets. The stranger the fact, the better. I don't care if it's about animals, food, history, or things I'll never actually use in real life—if it's bizarre and unexpected, I'm all in.

Thanks to a 9GAG thread started by user truehatzen, we now have a goldmine of the most head-scratching facts out there. Did you know that all bananas are clones? Or that eating too much rabbit meat can actually starve you? Oh, and penguins are technically extinct, which I still haven't fully wrapped my head around. This thread dives deep into the kind of random, fascinating knowledge you can't help but share with your friends… or mutter to yourself while staring at the ceiling at 3 AM.

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    Once again i beg for your weird knowledge support, give me all of your weird knowledge in the comments, ty fellows WEIRD KNOWLEDGE INCREASED
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    (OP) truehatzen DE 1d Ants never take long naps: They sleep about 250 times a day, but each nap only lasts about 1 minute. Reply ↑ 821 1
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    frainbart 1d Crows can remember the faces of humans and have been known to hold generational grudges. The current generation will teach the next to hate the individual that originated the hate. Reply 698 ⇓1
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    redbarron6261 US 1d The largest living organism on Earth is the "Honey fungus". A network of this fungus in the Pacific Northwest (US) spans 5.5 Km across, covering about 2,384 acres or 965 Hectares. Reply 339
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    devopack 1d To apologize is, in strict ancient Greek, to explain your logic: apo (show), logos (logic/reasoning). You don't have to be regretful to apologize; technically you just have to demonstrate what your logic process was for doing what you did. The difference between ethics and morals are that ethics are principles that you adopt from rational thought, while morals are you instinctive social reactions. You learn and you choose ethics; you feel morals.
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    wonderful_world 1d A gamma-ray burst could hit earth at any moment and there is no way for us to see it coming. If powerful enough, it could make earth unlivable in seconds while killing almost instantly everything living on the hemisphere facing it.
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    kannafta 1d J Flatworms can learn to navigate mazes, and if one trained worm is eaten by another, the knowledge is somehow transferred.
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    set549 1d When the meteorite that killed the Dino's hit, it left a massive vacuum hole in the atmosphere, sucking tons of pulverized soil, rock and organic matter into space. Some of that got caught up in the gravitional pull of the moon and settled there. There's dinosaur bone dust on the moon.
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    thehappyshogun 1d Every year, more virgin steel goes into making bottlecaps than automobiles.
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    sahr EU PRO 1d True penguins have been extinct since 1852. What we now called penguins were named after an unrelated bird species that looked similar, but lived north.
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    imthepipe 1d EVERY SINGLE THING THAT EXISTS IN THIS INFINITE UNIVERSE IS EITHER A DUCK, OR NOT A DUCK
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    2_unemployed_4u EU 1d there's a global ant world war going on, basically there's Argentinian ants that form super colonies of the same species that are allied with ants across the continents, currently they're fighting in California, Europe, Australia New Zealand and Japan, fighting against different Argentinian ants that are forming their own super colonies, somehow ants from Japan won't attack their allies from Europe and vice versa, no-one understands how it's happening but there's at the ver
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    Kandhi ma hat digitalmaverick 1d All Cavendish bananas are cloned. They are genetically identical. Reply 128 ↓1
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    bigmemeguy 1d You can starve to death if you eat only rabbit meat, even if you gorge yourself. Rabbits are so lean that they have almost no fat, which your body needs to properly digest protein.
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    kebakent DK 1d The Oilbird is named for the young birds, which are so fat that indigenous people and early settlers once collected and rendered them down to oil for lighting and cooking.
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    (OP) truehatzen DE 1d Sharks existed before trees. Sharks have been around for over 400 million years, while the first trees appeared roughly 350 million years ago. So sharks are 50 million years older than forests.
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    talking_chicken 1d Technically speaking, we live inside the Sun. It doesn't have a defined surface, just gets less dense until the area known as a heliopause (termination shock) where the pressure of interstellar medium equates the pressure of the Sun. It's quite far, 75-90 astronomical units (so 75-90 times the average distance between the Sun and Earth). Voyager crossed it in 2004 and Voyager 2 in 2007, they are now truly outside of Solar System.
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    pissaimotvind 1d Humans can hear the difference between cold and hot water running. Reply 71 1
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    nachochillies 1d The world was once covered in purple lichen before the largest mass extinction in history, which was caused by the mass accumulation of oxygen, resulting in the foundation of the biosphere we know today
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    phillipmm 1d That wonderful smell of cut grass is actually a plant distress signal. You're smelling screams. Reply 35 ↓1
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    CHYUA somefatfatty 22h You've never actually touched anything. On an atomic level the electrons in your body repel the electrons of whatever it is you touch. Therefore the sensation you feel isn't the other object but the electromagnetic force pushing against each other in the shape/texture of the opposite object.
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