Fun fact: You have stripes and you glow in the dark!
And, of course, fact-checking that it’s true because some of y’all are LIARS .
Luckily for us, redditor u/iluvlightyagami03posed a question just like that in r/AskReddit.
Theyasked, “What is a little-known but obvious fact that will make all of us feel stupid?”
“Rabbits don’t have paw pads like cats or dogs.
They’ve got nothing but fluffy feet.
If you see a cartoon rabbit with paw pads, it’s all lies.”
Stress on the first syllable is a noun.
Stress on the last syllable is a verb.
Examples: CON-tract and con-TRACT.
Same with record, address, impact, object, and a few others."
Glittering-Cat4009
3.
“Percentages are reversible.
Black-Shoe
4.
“The word ‘set’ holds the record for having the most definitions of any single word.”
In fact, the entry is 60k words.
“The component parts of the word helicopter are not ‘heli’ and ‘copter.’
“There’s a thing called theRoyal Order of Adjectives.
For example: A lovely small old square brown French leather handbag.
It sounds wrong if you deviate from this order, but many people arent consciously aware of it!
jared_number_two
8.
“Rollercoastersare built to shake!
Ive seen so many people decide not to get on because of the swaying, but its important!
Twelve_Shadows_
9.
“Also, roller coasters at least the traditional kind dont have any engines.
After that, its all gravity and momentum.
“The term ‘bug’ in computing has been around for a long time.
The term bug grew in popularity afterward and landed us where we are today.
Also, when we find a bug in software, we apply a ‘patch.’
This comes from old cardex/punch card systems.
“The story of Humpty Dumpty doesnt explicitly state that he is an egg.”
Volatile-Fox
13.
“The Undertakers manager was named Paul Bearer, which is a play on pallbearer.”
film_composer
14.
“Trees getthe vast majority of their massfrom the air.
That was once carbon dioxide and sunlight.”
“1 billion is much larger than you think.
1 million seconds is ~11 days.
1 billion seconds is over 31 years.”
thatpersonalfinance
16.Humans have stripes.
We just can’t usually see them.
Suggested by:Probablynotspiders
17.
“German chocolate cake was made by an American namedSamuel German.
Not an actual German.”
“The thing between hard and soft is firm.
The thing between hardware and software is called…firmware.”
See_Bee10
19.
The Romans made water pipes out of lead.”
Stormygeddon
20.
“Your skindoesn’t have receptorsto let you know if it’s wet or not.
This is why those sensory deprivation tanks have you floating in it.
“Your pee is filteredout of your BLOODby your kidneys.
FeyGreen
22.
“Poison dart frogsobtain their toxinby eating poisonous bugs, like fire ants.
When you feed them crickets and such, they are perfectly safe to handle.”
“The fax machine was invented in the 1800s, well before the telephone.”
In contrast, the telephone wasinventeddecades later in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
Big century for Alexanders, it seems!
“Flamingos get their pink color from the seafood they eat.
Change the food, and they’d be a different color.”
“The tune of the Alphabet Song is actually the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star tune.”
Anonymous
26.
“The human bodyglows in the dark.
It emits visible light at all times, but our eyes are too weak to see it.
So yeah, youre glowing right now, but no one can appreciate it.”
But what’s even longer: they roamed the Earth for165 million years.
The Stegosaurus went extinct66 million yearsbefore the T-Rex even existed.”
Submissions have been edited for clarity, length, and fact checking.
