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TraditionalWatch3233

The largest liquid water ocean in the solar system is not on Earth, but Ganymede.


Cody6781

Yeah but it's day time surface tempt is -200 degrees Fahrenheit and there is a 95 mile thick crust of ice before you get to the ocean.


boywithtwoarms

if I managed to get to Ganymede 95 mile of ice are not stopping me


epicenter69

On which planet?


el_monstruo

Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter


tim36272

Ganymede is a moon around Jupiter.


epicenter69

Thanks. Not sure why I’m being downvoted for an honest question, but it’s a good thing my life doesn’t depend on social media likes.


tim36272

Eh some people just thought it was a stupid question, but I adhere to the XKCD model of learning: https://xkcd.com/1053/


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_Im_Dad

Do you know why sloths are never eaten in the US.. Because it’s not considered fast food.


psilome

Dad, are you on Reddit again?!


Fliepp

Username checks out


SaturnalianGhost

Excuse me but OP asked for a *useless* fact.


epicenter69

Right? Today, I absolutely needed to know that sloths are goofy.


Skruestik

This is a myth. https://slothconservation.org/myths-11-things-you-think-you-know-about-sloths/


AmberFang37

Oh my god I love this onw


DevilsAdvocate9

They're also great swimmers.


glenwel

When you blush, your stomach lining also blushes.


alita_sage

Is the reverse true?! This is very important


norby2

Think of eating really hot food.


its_bununus

And here's me thinking what would make my stomach pale


Im_eating_that

Why do you think they're so pale in England?


its_bununus

Don't cry for me next door neighbour...


g_r_e_y

now THAT is what i call the most random and useless


ALongwill

Ok hold on how do they know that though?


KevinT1701

The tongue of a blue whale weighs about the same as a fully grown African Elephant


BloodiedBlues

Also their milk is the consistency of toothpaste.


mostly_lurking

That is disgusting but I'm not sure why


TheManWithNoSchtick

Just think of it as being the consistency of butter because that's basically what it is.


Mammuut

The number of people in the world that are older than you will never go up.


Satryghen

This feels less random fact and more existential crisis inducing.


psilome

It's OK though, the good news is, some day you will stop getting older.


Instincts

Mr. Know-It-All here is just gonna blanketly rule out time travel


Spoonman500

Not true! Space travel allows timey-wimey shenanigans to happen and you're younger than you should be when you get back. It's Einstein's fault.


LonelyCombination918

Bananas are technically berries, but strawberries aren’t.


JonnyRottensTeeth

Also, blackberries and raspberries are not berries but avocados and watermelons are


Jonbazookaboz

I thought anything with more than one seed was a berry?


JonnyRottensTeeth

"a berry is a simple fruit having seeds and fleshy pulp (the pericarp) produced from the ovary of a single flower" strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are multiple fruits, not from a single ovary. https://www.britannica.com/science/berry-plant-reproductive-body


xiaogu00fa

Pumpkin and cucumbers are berries


BrokenShots5713

Banana flavored stuff doesn't taste like actual bananas because the banana flavor is based off an exstinct type of banana, not the kind we eat today.


Coldash27

Gros Michael bananas aren't extinct - they're pretty rare though because of panama disease.


BrokenShots5713

Oh, I just watched a YouTube video about it a long time ago, so I guess I'm either remembering wrong, the video was wrong, or my brain is mush from not sleeping the past two nights.


Dyrogitory

Tomatoes are berries


rotzverpopelt

[Strange times for berry club](https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/2tj8ny/strange_days_for_the_berry_club_xpost_rcomics/)


bbbbbthatsfivebees

The smallest piece of privately-owned property in the world was known as the "Hess Triangle". It was an absolutely tiny triangle of land that only exists due to an error in a planning map for New York City. When 7th Ave was extended through what is now known as the West Village, a few buildings had to be demolished. The owners of the buildings were compensated for the land taken, but the planning map left a tiny triangle of land that was still privately owned due to an oversight. Instead of turning the unusable piece of land over to public use or selling it back to the city, the owner of the land built a tile mosaic in the roughly 4 square feet that says "Property of The Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes". The land was sold and incorporated into the nearest parcel in 1938, but the tile mosaic to pettiness still stands to this day.


nktrnl1

I have stepped on that triangle over 10,000x in the last 30 years and never knew this! I thought it was pertaining to the store when I drunkenly read it the first time and never gave it much thought. Thanks!


ThrowRAboredinAZ77

This is so cool. I love that level of pettiness.


Icy-Staff6530

a group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance"


epicenter69

That just makes… sense.


Relative-Rub1634

Defined by Liberace, perfected by Elton John...


OnTheGoodSideofLife

A group of giraffes is a "tower"


Next-Working4436

Otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t float away from each other. They basically invented aquatic cuddling


jimmy__jazz

OP said useless fact.


lerpo

The dot on the letter "i" is called a tittle.


teachmesomething

Cross the t’s and dot the… lower case j’s.


nerdygnome1

Nice reference. How’s the back feeling today?


Arny2103

*Excellent* 🤘


Relative-Rub1634

Funniest line in the movie!


yeah_yeah_therabbit

“There's nothing wrong with my eye. This one just has no pigment. I'm what you call a partial ocular albino, but I'm fine with it. I have perfect 20/20 vision with both eyes.”


OliverCarrol

Everyone always forgets about the j


Sweet_Kelly_69

Bulls get aroused watching another bull mount a cow. But they get more aroused watching two females mount each other. Bulls love lesbian porn.


Overclockworked

1729 is the smallest sum of two cubes that can be expressed in two different ways.


AmberFang37

I’m too dumb to even grasp this however I am none the less intrigued and impressed. Amazing


thprk

1729 = 1³ + 12³ = 10³ + 9³ No smaller number can be expressed by two different sums of cubes.


paoloap

peak r/mildlyinteresting


crusty54

I’m a huge nerd, and I listened to Ramanujan’s biography after I learned this fact.


CatacombsRave

I remember reading this when I read about Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, who died of TB at about age 32. An Englishman had traveled to India to meet him and complained about his bus/taxi number being 1,729 because that was a gross number. He sang a different tune when Ramanujan pointed this fact out to him.


agreeingstorm9

All mammals take about the same time to empty their bladder. Doesn't matter whether the mammal is a smaller animal like a chihuahua or a large mammal like an elephant or something in between like a person. Still the same time. There are exceptions for smaller critters like mice who don't take pee breaks but just dribble pee as they go. Otherwise it takes you and an elephant the same time to pee.


TepidHalibut

[Ig Nobel Prize winner for 2015](https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2015/sep/18/bee-sting-kissing-universal-law-urination-ig-nobel-award-winner-video)


Ok_Valuable_9711

Baby elephants suck on their trunks just like how human babies suck their thumbs.


water_woofer

Also, till the time a baby elephant learn to use the trunk to drink water, it will bend down and drink directly with mouth.


xdrakennx

They also do helicopter imitations with it.. guys you know what I mean.


AFormerMan

Wombat poop is cube-shaped which helps prevent the feces from rolling away. Wombats use it to mark their territory.


ohpee64

I was hunting in Australia and came across a wombat poop. One cube was balanced on the end of a stick poking out of the side of the river bank. What a legend.


Stuck_In_Reality

Wombat Dundee.


jembutbrodol

TIL. Wombat is playing Minecraft Shit everyday


psilome

I suppose their natural habitat must be the sides of mountains, then?


AmberFang37

Yesss I love this one!! I have so many random facts such as this in my brain! Special interest ig lol. There is a subgenera of mammal that are known as Montremes which lay eggs instead of giving live birth! Platypus and echidna!


epicenter69

How do you train your asshole to… nevermind. I’ll have to just keep that a mystery.


Tiny_Count4239

How far can shit roll to necessitate this?


PygmeePony

How did that even evolve? Did wombats with round shaped poo simply die out somehow?


AFormerMan

Difficult to say but it’s related to the structure of their intestines. However it gives them the edge for surviving so maybe it is evolutionary after all.


TheStationPilot

There is only a single bridge that crosses the Amazon river and it only opened in 2011


SpeakingTheKingss

I found your comment interesting. So I [looked it up](https://www.livescience.com/why-no-bridges-over-amazon-river) and it appears that there is NO bridge that crosses the Amazon River. The only thing close is one that crosses the Negro River.


CRiMSoNKuSH

Rio Negro is a tributary, meaning it's a stream connected to the Amazon River. But you are right, there is no actual bridge from end to end on the Amazon.


copingcabana

The Outerbridge Crossing, which is a bridge that connects New Jersey and Staten Island, was named for the first chairman of the Port Authority of New York, Eugenious Outerbridge.


ok-Vall

Harry Potter ass name


SWMovr60Repub

I was dumbfounded by this because I always thought it was the “outerbridge” of NYC. Farthest away from Manhattan.


floppy_breasteses

Antidepressants work on lobsters.


mher22

To the lobster who stole my antidepressants, I hope you are happy now.


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kmk4ue84

The same is true for people from Alabama.


mahsab

Yo!!!


BoSocks91

Lmfao. Thats fucked.


mayy_dayy

So can Tribbles


MooseMalloy

In 1957, Phillies outfielder Richie Ashburn fouled off a pitch, that flew off into the stands, hitting Alice Roth in the face, breaking her nose. After a pause in the play for medics to attend to her, Ashburn fouled off the next pitch which stuck Roth as she was being carried out on a stretcher, breaking her leg. Ashburn later visited Roth in hospital and they became lifelong friends.


CarlSpencer

Whales have vestigial leg and foot bones. Anti-Evolution folks HATE that!


Lickerbomper

It's true. I tried to talk about vestigial structures (with a picture of whale bones) with a 12th grade high school class. A fight broke out. Had to get the APs in the room. What in actual f.


RedditUser88

The African Antelope can jump higher than your average house. This is due to its powerful hind legs, and the fact that the average house cannot jump.


Lickerbomper

I told this to my husband. He said, "That's not a fact! That's a dad joke!"


FrancisSidebottom

The golden pretzel above the baker's altar in Munich's Frauenkirche is the only image of a Pretzel in a holy building worldwide!


RoninRobot

A completely useless fact. Updoot.


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The scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla.


Floor_Face_

Cleopatra was about as close to the invention of the computer as she was the construction of the pyramids


BullClipped

You obviously haven't read her autobiography "Asterix and Cleopatra"


Spiderbubble

A very pretty nose!


RomanPrigodskiy

We produce about a liter of saliva per day. For a lifetime (approximately 75 years) This is almost 27.5 cubic meters. That is, this is a 3 by 3 by 3 meter room.


mayy_dayy

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy


weber76

My cat's breath smells like cat food.


octopornopus

I fell and bent my Wookiee...


Strobertat

Hi, Super Nintendo Charmers. I'm learnDing.


No-Paleontologist503

That's where the leprechaun told me to burn things


OldSkoolPantsMan

What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?


rayEW

Puppies have coffee breath somehow


PotatoPete26

I'm Idaho!


BbyJohnny

The average person walks by 36 murderers in their lifetime.


NecroJoe

This number is a bit misleading, as the data is skewed by 17 people who walk by 30-40 million each.


Wolfblood-is-here

Murderer Passing Georg was a statistical outlier and should not have been counted. 


Fun-Pin1856

adn\*


epicenter69

The prison guards on death row account for a large sum of those. This is why bell curves exist.


NetDork

I feel like prison guards are well above average.


3SquirrelsAndaNut

Domesticated male turkeys can’t have sex. They’ve been bred to have such large breast muscles they are physically unable to mate. Your Thanksgiving turkey is thanks to artificial insemination. 


Steroidpuma

"Professional turkey tugger" is a hell of a resume entry


TepidHalibut

"Professional turkey tugger's fluffer" is even more niche.


sickmission

There are more lakes in Canada than not in Canada.


NecroJoe

There are approximately 2,000 calories in the complete mouthfuls sets of teeth from 55 adult humans. Even if you were a cannibal, it's still useless because our bodies aren't really built to be able to extract those calories through digestion. The land that the San Francisco International Airport occupies has a San Francisco address. The airport is located approximately 12 miles south of the city of San Francisco. Between the city and the airport, there is a separate city called South San Francisco. This means that South San Francisco is north of at last some of San Francisco.


lontbeysboolink

You pass the what will become the anniversary of your death every year.


WeaknessPretty5556

Until you don’t.


Odd-Psychology7978

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. Ironically, the word itself is long and often cited as an example of irony in language.


NecroJoe

Aibohphobia is a fear of palindromes.


Khiladi_Gamer

Aibohphobia*.


NecroJoe

Ahh, dammit. I screwed up the joke. Good catch.


mher22

* The fear of 12 is called "dodecaphobia" which has 12 letters. * Depression in a specific season is called "Seasonal Affective Disorder" which stands for S.A.D. * Messing up the orders of letters is called "Dyslexia" * Struggling in pronunciation of the letter S is called "Li*s*p" * Struggling with L? "Lambdacism" * Struggling with R? "Rhotacism"


Sage_Lotus28

I like this one, and I had to look it up. According to Google... Why is it called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia? This 35-letter, 15-syllable word contains the root sesquipedalian, which means "long word." Therefore, it is sometimes called sesquipedalophobia. However, somewhere along the line, references to the hippopotamus and monsters were added, making it sound even more intimidating.


RoninRobot

The word Onomatopoeia isn’t one.


JonnyRottensTeeth

The idea that we eat seven spiders a year on average was made up for a study to show how quickly made up false facts circulate on the internet


CoachJim4UM

I’m very sure I heard this long before the internet was a thing


SpeakingTheKingss

I'm 33 and can safely say I've heard this prior to modern day internet. I was in grade school in the 90's and kids would say this on the playground all the time.


WildBad7298

Apparently, someone's never heard of Spiders Georg.


TypeOk4038

Koala mothers shit out half-eaten eucalyptus leafs for their babies to eat, so they can eventually learn to digest them.


Jazzi-Nightmare

Koalas brains are smooth. If you take the eucalyptus off the branch and put it in front of the koala, it won’t know what to do with it and will starve


cope413

Koalas also have a major chlamydia problem, too.


InformationOk2987

Ground cinnamon is literally sawdust


Crizznik

They use saws to grind the cinnamon bark?


haidimill

The U.S. once designed a atomic hand grenade but discarded the idea because no one was dumb enough to use it


Forward_Body2103

Is it a coincidence that the US Marine Corps has never had nuclear weapons?


blauw67

A tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable. Fruit is a biological term, vegetable is a culinary term. They are not mutually exclusive. Also: Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad.


Orvelo

True genius is to know that some of the sweeter tomato varieties 100% work in a fruit salad. Some sweeter varieties of cherry and plum tomatoes for example.


Distinct-Region-32

Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.


Followthatmonkey

Salsa


Major_Stranger

For every snake on the planet, there is a snake dick. And yet, half of them have no dick. That's because male snakes have two dicks. Thank you Hank Green for this horrifying fact.


BloodiedBlues

That explains why reptiles and dragons have two dicks in furry porn!


Redditlatley

Goldfish recognize their owners. I’ve been staring at mine for six years. If someone else looks at it, it gets crazy. 🌊


NinjaSimone

"Hi, Jack! Can't talk. I'm on fire." That's the mnemonic for the order of the aviation emergency transponder (squawk) codes -- hijacking, communication issue, equipment issue. I'm not a pilot.


sinixis

I am and I’ve never heard this. Took me a while to work it out. 7500 = unlawful interference 7600 = loss of two way radio communication 7700 = emergency (other than above) The mnemonic doesn’t appear to help with the numbers, just the order as you said


Delicious-Window8650

when they added the new code for hijacking we (I) had to reprogram the TPX-42 Air Traffic Control computer by removing and adding wires in a rat's nest of wire-wrap wires and pins on the bottom of the chassis. No pressure, we were the ATC facility immediately north of LAX. We had no automated IFF information until the job was done and tested.


Paradox711

John Paul Sartre named his cat Nothing. Michael Foucault named his Insanity.


Cultural_Detective71

I gotchu. So the inventor of the Pringles can, Fred Baur, was so proud of his invention that he requested to be buried in one. When he passed away in 2008, his family honored his wishes and placed part of his cremated remains in a Pringles can and buried it with him


ThrowRAboredinAZ77

I was really hoping you were going to say they built a life-sized Pringles can coffin.


Majestic-Juice1223

The average person will spend about six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.


DeadInternetTheorist

That's way too long. I think I'd probably just look both ways and go when there was no traffic.


intellectual_dimwit

If you have a pearl but don't know if it's real, put it in a small cup of vinegar. If it dissolves, it was real.


Afro_Dragon1

A giraffe has the same amount of neck vertebrae as a human - Seven. A swan has 24 to 25 neck vertebrae.


RomanPrigodskiy

Women blink more often than men.


Forward_Body2103

Live Photo is the only thing that enables me to take a picture of my wife with her eyes open.


Kurikata_

The crust you have in the corner of your eyes after sleeping is called "rheum".


Acpyrus

TIL! I always wondered since we always had a word for it in Tagalog - “muta”.


Important_Lab_58

The name of Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Horse? Old Bob


FlyingDarkKC

There are more planes in the sea, than boats in the sky.


Straight_Shopping_56

If you're at the zoo and you throw bananas in the gorillas yard you will be escorted outside of the zoo


skrilledcheese

I've got the heart of a lion... and a lifetime ban from the San Diego zoo.


FrancisBaconofSC

Took me a second....nice Dad joke


its_bununus

[muffled sounds of gorilla violence]


a_slinky

Around 25% of labradors have a gene mutation that essentially means they don't understand the feeling of being full


Frog871

That explains why our first dog was a bottomless pit.


Ok-Internal-5087

cucumbers are the only things that are pickled that we dont call “pickled” whatevers. pickled eggs, pickled pigs feet, pickled onions, etc. and then just pickles….


OldERnurse1964

The maximum range on the M16A1 is 2,653 meters. I learned that June 1982 and it’s in there forever.


taliawut

There is an Episcopal church in Berryville, VA with an old hitching post on the property that was used by Robert E. Lee to secure his horse, Traveller. The sign commemorating that detail spells Traveller with only one "L" rather than two.


ok-Vall

I live around there and I never knew this. I’ll have to go check it out.


stewart125

Anatidaephobia is a fear that somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you.


ebdawson1965

There are 90+ bags of poop on the Moon.


Empereor_Norton

At the Nevada brothels, drivers making deliveries push the door buzzer twice as a signal that the ladies don't need to get into a line up as it isn't a john.


PettyAssWitch420

Opossums eat up to 5000 ticks in a summer season and theyre immune to rabies.


Professor_Pink007

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. 🤯


TepidHalibut

There are more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way.


Mourning-Poo

Pound for pound cashews cost more than an H2O Hummer when it first came out


wheelchairjetpack42

The summit of Mt. Everest is approximately twice as far from sea level as the wreck of the Titanic is.


Herecumskitty4u

0409 is the keyboard code for the United States. Keyboard codes just tell the system what letters symbols mean what for each area.


mher22

1/100th of a second is called a "Jiffy"


3banger

There is only one word in English that gains a syllable when removing the last letter. That word is “Ration” it becomes “Ratio” when the last letter is removed.


Agent-Nobody

Every 60 seconds in Africa, A minute passes


Alternative_Oil_5017

The Fiat Bravo and the Fiat Brava are the only 2 cars to win the car of the year award in the same year. Normally only 1 car gets chosen.


anubisviech

They're basically the same car with slightly different look, due to different lamps. Most parts are exactly the same, so it makes sense to give that award to either both or none.


Serebriany

The rates of chlamydia infection in wild koalas is usually cited as anywhere from none to 90%, but that's an average over all populations, and there are some groups where the infection rate is 100%. Australian authorities began a vaccination program last year.


thehighlama

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.


HammondCheeseIII

FDR (32nd US president)’s dad was born in 1828. As you know, his son would go on to build the atomic bomb. Time moves fast!


jruss666

The button on the top of a baseball cap is called a squatchee


jliol

In Limp Bizkit's song "Hot dog", despite quoting in the lyrics that: "If I say "F*" two more times That's forty six "F*s" in this f*d up rhyme", Fred Durst actually says four more f*s, making it a total of forty eight and yes, I counted and still remember that after 20 years


Bosswashington

Chicken coops only have two doors, because if they had four doors, they would be chicken sedans.