Who does not love a good factoid? As it happens, we are more likely to retain a fact if introduced with little or no context. After all, when you are bored of your mind during a baseball game and your friend tells you randomly that the human head weighs 11 pounds, you'll remember that.
After these 15 completely random facts, you'll leave here a smart person. You can thank us later.
1. Humans can (probably) survive 0 seconds in the vacuum of space.
Flickr / Goddard Space Flight Center
No need to give it a go for yourself even. Just trust us
2. Scientists in Mexico have discovered a way to turn tequila into diamonds.
Flickr / TheCulinaryGeek
Nobody knows if these studies are in progress, or whether researchers called after their resignations million.
3. Wasps destroyed two planes and killed more than 0 people.
Flickr / John Ragai
accidents in 1980 and 1996 were directly related to wasp nests. And you thought your fear of wasps was irrational!
4. A single tree can be an entire forest.
USDA Forest Service
Trees aspen in Fishlake National Forest, Utah, share all the same root system, the the heaviest organism known to man making. But if one falls, they all fall? And if no one hears it?
5. Speaking of trees, you have 27,000 trees to supply the world with a large toilet paper.
Flickr / Dean Hochman
These trees serve a higher purpose
6. About 24 rabbits in the Australian Nature mated and produced offspring 10 billion over several decades.
Flickr / Yuri Levchenko
They were originally released in the wild in mid 1800 for the sport, but quickly become an invasive species. It was a mistake.
7. Penguins can drink salt water.
Flickr / Magnus Brath
Their supraorbital gland separates the salt water. If only we could do it ...
8. Non swing your arms while walking gives you a better workout.
Flickr / Midwestnerd
Keep your arms further increases the effort you have to walk. It has the same effect as walking 20% faster.
9. A teaspoon of matter from a neutron star weighs more than Mt. Everest.
Flickr / Goddard Space Flight Center
Where can you find a spoon that can contain part of a star neutron? Here is a question for another day.
10. Sao Paulo jail uses geese as alarm system.
Flickr / Steven Lilley
The geese are trained to alert the guards of violence and escapes of prisoners
11. If you stacked all Oreo ever produced, it would stretch to the moon and back five times.
Flickr / Mike Mozart
This seems like a complete waste of Oreos.
12. Your brain uses 20 percent of the calories and oxygen you take on a daily basis.
Flickr / Allan Ajifo
You just burned a nanocalorie reading this. Good work!
13. Each has its own unique smell ... except for the twins.
Flickr / Dennis Wong
There is still no agreement to go around people smell, however.
14. The first thing to ever have a bar code is a pack of gum from Wrigley.
Flickr / Guilherme Torelly
Mr. Wrigley was also one of the first gum lovers to add mint flavor. Good game.
15. If you have frequent dreams, it could mean you have a higher IQ.
Flickr / Moyan Brenn
I bet you did not know that, smarty-pants.
(via Amazing Facts)
now, you have 15 more random facts to add to your conversation arsenal kill. Dropping these facts can not make you the most popular, but now you can be assured that you are the king or queen of useless knowledge.
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