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There’s something irresistibly fun about useless facts; they’re like the party tricks of the intellect, sparking joy and curiosity with their delightful blend of the trivial and the fascinating. They prove that sometimes, it’s the most pointless information that sticks with us the longest and brings the biggest smiles.
This treasure trove of utterly useless facts will surprisingly make you the most interesting person in the room. From the bizarre to the bewildering, these tidbits are your secret weapon to captivate any audience, anywhere. Who knew being armed with pointless information could be this fun? Get ready to unleash the power of useless facts and watch as your conversation game goes from zero to hero.
1.
The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a corner and a cranny is like an narrow opening.
— The_Living_Theater
2.
If the Sun was the size of a white blood cell swimming through your veins, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States. (Really puts into perspective just how small we are.).
— manafahayp
3.
Otters hold paws while sleeping so they don’t drift away, and can form some pretty impressive structures called “rafts” when they’re in a large group.
— MerryMelody-Symphony
4.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It’s 1/100th of a second.
— thrumplewart
5.
Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton.
— Small_Homework3971
6.
Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.
— -MarilynMonroe-
7.
Vomiting can ease the migraine but dehydration and muscle flex caused by vomiting can cause the migraine….
— Capable-Island8499
8.
You have to stick your finger inside an alligator to find out its gender.
— pitpulkrew
9.
The back of tigers ears have a white spot to resemble eyes so they scare off things that look at them from behind, sort of like a peacock.
— YesImKian
10.
Sometimes pandas are too lazy to have [intercourse]. And in order to reproduce them, there is a special person who infuses the female with ejaculate.
— Sea0wl
11.
Some people have voluntary control of their Tensor Tympani muscle in their inner ear. They can make a rumbling noise in their ears at will by tensing it.
Hand when there is loud noise around to kinda reduce it as you walk past.
— BloodSteyn
12.
Fish don’t fart.
They continuously secrete waste gasses through their skin.
— tributarygoldman
13.
The spikes at the end of a stegosaurus tail is named after a character from the Far Side cartoon.
— SixicusTheSixth
14.
Morphologies of onomatopeias are written differently according to the language and I appreciate how to say “meow” in different languages.
— AffectionateGap1071
15.
As a child of the 80’s (born 1983), I still remember my mother and my grandmother’s landline phone number.
My mom moved at least twice since then and don’t even use a landline anymore.
My grandmother died like 10 years ago.— GussDeBlod
16.
In 16th century Italy duels often took place where the chosen weapon was very hard maths questions.
— Panorpa
17.
Ohio is the only state in the US that doesn’t share a letter with the word mackerel.
— roguerose
18.
That most car horns play an F4 on the first space of the treble clef.
— nTheGodlyTank6493
19.
When a body was placed in a coffin after being guillotined, they didn’t always put the head above the shoulders. Sometimes it would be between the legs, face first into the crotch.
— fdtc_skolar
20.
Male swallowtail butterflies have eyes on their [male genital] so they can position themselves correctly when mating.
— Shannon_Casey
21.
Where do I start?
Nepal is the only country in the world whose flag isn’t a rectangle
Raptors will sometimes take tortoises to the top of a cliff and drop them from midair, breaking their shell
Earth was uninhabitable for the first few hundred million years of its existence, but life emerged more or less immediately once Earth became inhabitable
You may have heard that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s (no matter how fast you’re going), but that’s actually precisely how much it is, we define a meter to be such that the speed of light is that number, no decimal point
Cleopatra lived between 69-30 BCE and the pyramids were built around 2780 BCE, meaning she lived closer to today than to the building of the pyramids.
— The_Ora_Charmander
22.
The a**s is the first part of the body to open up. We develop a**s-first.
— airlewe
23.
The wax/metal tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
— PM_ME_YOUR_SIDEB**BZ
24.
I’m an expert with binary. Also- Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
— Appropriate-Meet1379
25.
There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.
— Stunning_Move7375
26.
By volume, the sun generates heat at the same rate as a compost heap.
— TheRichTurner
27.
You can calculate the circumference of the universe with a margin of error less than the diameter of an atom if you have 60 digits of pi. Thus, any further digits are completely useless. You’re welcome to all of you that memorized 100+ digits back in school.
Editor’s note: 38 digits of pi is sufficient.— jinoble
28.
I memorized this as a song and I’ve never forgotten it since
Exa Peta Tera Giga Mega Kilo Hecto Deka Deci Centi Milli Micro Nano Pico Femto Atto
I don’t really use it in daily life or anywhere else but you never know.
— darcydidwhat
29.
You can hipnotize chickens by drawing a line on the dirt and made the chicken look at the line.
— Atlantic_Nikita
30.
I just learned today that E is the most used letter in the alphabet.
— LoneVentriloquistSFW
31.
You can fit a lightbulb into your mouth, but will likely have a f**k of a time getting it out.
— angelita-j
32.
When Wizards of the Coast tried to expand Magic the Gathering to appeal to the Chinese market they released a set of cards based on Chinese mythology and introduced a new mechanic called horsemanship. It is functionally similar to flying, in that flying creatures are blockable only by other creatures with flying (or if they have reach), except that creatures with horsemanship can *only* be blocked by other creatures with horsemanship.
The cards never really took off and the horsemanship mechanic was buried, so the horsemanship skill was limited to this one set of cards which are quite uncommon these days.
What this means is that if you build a deck specifically around abusing the horsemanship mechanic, 99% of opponents won’t really be able to do anything about your barrage of attacks. Of course there are plenty of ways around this like removing the creatures directly or boardwipes that remove all creatures, and there are a handful of new cards that reintroduced it, but there’s a good chance you’ll get quite a lot of damage in before they can get their strategies to fire off.
— kermi42
33.
A Chow Chow’s tongue must be dark blue/dark purple (as close as possible to black) for the dog to be up to breed standard. A Chow Chow with any red or pink on its tongue cannot win a best in breed, group, or show competition. .
— Great1948
34.
The sticks on modern game controllers are called “analog sticks,” not “joysticks.”.
— TimAppleC*ckProMax69
35.
I learned abour elephants although it’s not useless in a sense could save somebody. It about how to determine if elephant charge is real or fake. If it’s ears are fanned wide and are upward it’s a fake charge. If its ear are tucked behind its a real charge. Whatever the case just get out of there.
— Latter_Exam4121
h/t: Reddit