They say "knowledge is power." Sometimes, though, that power is to make people think you're crazy!
Plenty of real facts will make people look at you funny if you share them. Thanks to Reddit, we've collected some of the weirdest facts of all.
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They say "knowledge is power." Sometimes, though, that power is to make people think you're crazy! Plenty of real facts will make people look at you funny if you share them because often times the truth is stranger than fiction. We scoured the web and we've collected some of the weirdest facts of all that may come in handy during a trivia night, if nothing else.
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I was sat down by a supervisor because I could tell them that the burnt plastic smell in the bathroom meant someone did heroin in there and we need to watch out for needles in the trash. I'd recently transferred there from a store where it was at least a weekly problem for a while. -u/Hydrosimian
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Platypus doesn’t have nipples, they just kinda sweat milk. -u/Danjurnoodl
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If you don’t want a huge mess, freeze the body first then cut it up. -u/Temporary_Cow_8486
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Marie Curie's body will continue to emit radiation for another millennium and a half. You have to sign a liability waiver if you want to see anything she owned because she was so radioactive. -u/theletterhrn
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A body falling from 14 stories high, onto the pavement, will have cracks in the skin kind of like stomping on an orange. -u/FRIENDLY_CANADIAN
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If you need to dispose of a body in water, you need to cut open their abdomen first. In the bloating portion of decomposition, gasses will build up in the chest cavity/abdomen and cause the corpse to float back up to the surface or at least try to. -u/PrimadonnaGorl
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In high school, in a science class, the teacher asked the class if anyone knew how many grams were in a pound. A stoner kid in the back immediately said "454". The teacher asked him how he knew that. "Uh, I just do." -u/MrGreg
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The United States Government has a plan for collecting taxes after a nuclear explosion! Tbh, If a taxman came to my house after a nuke went off, I'd probably just eat him. -u/OccultOddBall
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Blue crabs will eat anything within a few days and will mutilate bones beyond recognition -u/AmberSoul99
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The smell of cutting into a human skull is eerily similar to that of opening a fresh bag of Fritos. You either learn to hate Fritos or get hungry around the smell of skull dust. -u/okifur
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Babies bounce. Their bones are soft enough that instead of thudding, they bounce a little. -u/elly996
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Bears will perform oral sex on their partner. -u/Rooster0112
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The Pepsi-Cola company once responded to a man who claimed to have found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew, stating that due to the high concentration of citric acid, any biological remains left in a can from the canning to consumption time frame would be dissolved before opening. -u/IWasToldYouHadPie
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Kids under 5 years will often try to hide from a fire, instead of running. Firefighters find the bodies. -u/Corgi_with_stilts
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McDonalds stated that it costs more to make worm burgers than it does to make them out of beef. (Actually said by McDonalds to refute the claim they were padding out beef burgers with worm meat.) -u/ichankal
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If your pee stinks like movie theater popcorn for longer than a week you should get checked for diabetes. -u/Riker3946
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Tapirs have prehensile penises. Spotted hyenas have a birth canal that passes through their pseudo-penis clitoris, so pups very well may need to literally claw their way into the world, or suffocate trying. -u/Mandalorian_23
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An ear infection left untreated can grow and sit for years on end, slowly eating away at your ear canal. If untreated long enough the erosion causes dead skin cells in your ear unable to escape so they build up into a benign cyst called a cholesteatoma. Left untreated this can grow and affect balance, facial movement and eventually lead to deathly infection. -u/cohen63
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The organ that sells for the most on the dark Web is the small intestine at about 800,000 USD. -u/toastedboi765
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One quarter of all mammal species are bats. -u/-mushroom-cat-
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Penguins regularly do acts of necrophilia and prostitute themselves for pretty rocks. Sometimes they lie, too, and just steal the rocks. -u/PandaDragonTrain
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A spider's legs curl up when they die because they lose all blood pressure and their legs can only extend through hydraulic force Not an entomologist, just an arachnophobe. -u/RipAffectionate9958
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If you slap yourself in the nipple it will become erect in 8 seconds or less. Commence. -u/ummcheese
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Your face is a crumple zone. If you fall forward, even really hard, you can avoid a concussion and brain damage though you may have 20 bone breaks in your face and skull. -u/expat-brit
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If your body gets severely low on vitamin C, your old scars will open back up, even surgical scars. It's because even though they seem dormant and healed they are actually constantly regenerating, which requires vitamin C. -u/Foreignfig
