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Oh, so you like trivia? Presumably so because why else would you click on this article day to learn some not-so-fun facts that are actually quite the opposite depending on how you see the world.
Trivia has a way of infecting our brains in unexpected ways. It then rears its head at the strangest of times like when someone brings up something innocent and we are suddenly reminded of the random fact we know about that very specific and odd thing. All of that was on full display this morning on Threads.
One Threads user by the name of Kalyl posted on Threads yesterday before going to sleep, writing “I’m sick of fun facts. Give me your worst not-so-fun fact. Make me regret asking.” By the time he’d woken up the next morning there were thousands of responses. I’ve pulled some of the most outrageous responses below but click on the link to the full thread for more.
20 Not-So-Fun Facts
- “Every water molecule on earth has passed through the kidney of a dinosaur at least once.” — marcoose35
- “In 1961, a B-52 bomber carrying 2 nuclear weapons suffered an engine failure over North Carolina. The crew had to ditch the planeThe 2 nukes were parachuted out. One landed in a field. Documents in 2011 reveal that 5 of its 6 safeties had failed, meaning it was 1 fail away from the worst nuclear disaster the US had ever seen.The other nuke landed in a swamp and sank. It was unrecoverable. It’s still there today.The US has lost or misplaced no less than 6 nukes in total.” — nerdy_hawaiian_
- Catterpillars do not become butterflies. They do not simply gain wings. They die and melt completely into a genetic goo inside the cocoon, from which the butterfly will form.” — gabrielsampaioshow
- “Rats wash their hands more frequently than human men do. Not all humans, just men in particular.” — lookwhatkatemade
- “Storks are predators and sometimes eat hares, especially baby leverets. Sometimes storks take leverets alive to their nests to feed their hatchlings. Leverets can then scream and their scream resembles the one of human baby. This could be the origin of the myth that storks deliver babies. Humans just saw a stork carrying screaming leveret to eat and thought it’s carrying human baby.” — seredin
- “A lot of moths don’t have mouths, anuses, or intestinal tracts. Sometimes mating kills them, but sometimes they essentially starve to death.” — abriarwall
- ‘Humans with two legs have an above average number of legs compared to the population.’ — sun.setlover77
- “Your brain never experiences the present. By the time sensory information is processed, what you perceive as “now” already happened. You have never once been conscious in real time.” — ldleehou
- “The British organized a bone trade that exported “anatomical skeletal remains” from India for educational purposes. Many of those real hanging skeletons in science classes came from India. The practice ended in the mid 1980s.” — sacafotos
- “Chainsaws were invented for child birth.” — staceyoristano
- “figs have a unique symbiotic relationship with tiny fig wasps, where the female wasp enters the fig (an inverted flower) to lay eggs, dies inside, and the fig’s enzymes (ficin) digest her body, using the nutrients for growth; by the time you eat a ripe fig, the wasp is fully broken down, so you’re eating seeds, not wasp fragments, though some vegans avoid them due to this natural process, while most store-bought figs (common varieties) don’t need wasps at all.” — stevenpirie
- “You’re born with all the teeth you’ll ever have.”
- “Every single day, your immune system identifies and kills cells that have mutated into potential cancer. These are cells that were one step away from forming a tumor that could end your life. You have “almost” had cancer thousands of times; you just happened to win the lottery today.” — wcyvonniepscl
- “There’s a portal to hell in Turkmenistan that lures 100s of camel spiders every night to their deaths.” — bubbleybrain
- “My second least favourite fact: there are 17million flies per person. My least favourite fact: Kinks are hereditary.” — pukkalish
- “There are carnivorous birds that impale their prey and wait for it to bleed out. Fortunately for us, they can fit in our palms. An old torture method consists of tying the end of the small (long) intestine to a pole/tree and walking around it until death.Only 5% or so of the ocean has been discovered; underwater dinosaurs could still be alive.” — sleepingbonez
- “The FDA considers chocolate safe if it contains less than 60 insect fragments per 100 grams.” — quaintnquixotic
- “There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth…
but there are more viruses on Earth than stars in the universe. And the vast majority of them?We have no idea what they do.” — musicguy51 - “People who study cockroaches often develop allergies to them… and coincidentally also often become allergic to pre-ground coffee you can get at the store.” — keelimakae
- “Lake Superior is so cold that bodies dont build up gases and rise to the surface—they saponify instead. One in particular, nicknamed Old Whitey, can be seen on a shipwreck off Isle Royale.” — seesa
There are a LOT more not-so-fun facts in the thread over on Meta’s Threads. You can follow BroBible on there at @BroBible as well. I try and post memes there regularly as well as some content from here on the website.
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