" The inventor of the Pringles can was lay to rest in a Pringles can . "
Recently, Reddit useru/Dapper_Exam_202asked the people ofr/AskReddit, “What is ONE USELESS FACT that everyone needs to know?” Here are some of the most-upvoted replies:
1.“A human’s ability to smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain)is 200,000 times greaterthan a shark’s ability to smell blood in water.”
2.“Lighters were invented before matches.”
3.“The King of Hearts is theonly king in a deck of cardswithout a moustache.”
4.“Helicopter' isn’t heli + copter;it’s helico (spiral) + pter (wing).”
5.“The inventor of the Pringles canwas buried in a Pringles can. (Yes, he was cremated first and only part of his ashes were buried in a can. I’m not telling you which part.)”
6.“A ‘jiffy’is an actual unit of time. It is the time light takes to travel femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. There are about three hundred thousand billion billion jiffys in a second.”
7.“A woodpecker’s tongue splits at the back of its head andwraps around its skull.”
8.“Nintendowas founded in 1889. They made playing cards. Coca-Cola was first servedin 1886.Dracula was published in1897and was set in the same time. Ergo, you could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula drinks a Coke and plays Nintendo and it would be historically accurate.”
9.“Russiahas a bigger surface area than Pluto. You could literally fit all of Pluto into Russia.”
10.“The Rolls-Royce Ghostwas initially so quietit made drivers feel nauseous and sick, so they had to intentionally allow more sound to come into the vehicle.”
11.“The board game Monopolywas originally invented as a way to teachthe player about the negative effects of unbridled capitalism.”
12.“Cats have the cognition tocomprehend the passing of time.”
13.“Dolly Parton wasincluded in the productionofBuffy the Vampire Slayer.”
14.“Baby hedgehogsare called hoglets. It’s super important that you look at pics of them.”
15.“Bananasare berries, but strawberries are not.”
16.“A group of pandasis called an ‘embarrassment.'”
17.“All mammals above a certain weightpee for an average of 21 seconds, no matter if it’s an elephant or a skunk.”
18.“Earth is the only planet in our solar systemthat doesn’t take its namefrom Greek or Roman mythology.”
19.“Honeynever spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombsthat are over 3,000 years oldand still perfectly edible.”
Shout out tou/Dapper_Exam_202andr/AskRedditfor having this discussion.
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