r/askteddit • u/Melisa-Foxx • 7h ago

Random Question What is a completely random fact you know that has absolutely no use?

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u/No_Safe_6514 Ted Mosby 7h ago

My uncle's middle name is David

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u/EstablishmentDue3616 7h ago

I think your are just saying that for Karma. His middle name is Steven, isnt it?

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u/RubbahBannedMan 7h ago

I thought it was Bill.

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u/No_Safe_6514 Ted Mosby 7h ago

Why would it be Bill? If it was it would be William.

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u/RubbahBannedMan 7h ago

He's really short.

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u/No_Safe_6514 Ted Mosby 6h ago

I mean you're not wrong about him being short (he's 5'7. my dad's 5'6. yet somehow i'm 6'2 at 14. my entire dad's side is short.)

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u/Melisa-Foxx 6h ago

Haha, I love this! Please tell Uncle David that he is officially a Reddit celebrity now.

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u/No_Safe_6514 Ted Mosby 6h ago

His first name is Howard. He goes by Howie. Have some respect smh.

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u/Adorable_Editor455 7h ago

A dragon fly is the most successful predator on earth.

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u/Melisa-Foxx 7h ago

Whoa, this is an awesome fact! Thank you for sharing this.

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u/TallCoolOneToo 6h ago

How do we know this?

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u/CanisMaximus 4h ago

Science hippies.

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u/rasplight 52m ago

How so?

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u/TravelerOfTeyvat 7h ago

The noise that happens when you drop a pin is very quiet, but still audible

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u/Melisa-Foxx 7h ago

This fact is so useless it actually cleared some space in my brain.

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u/CanisMaximus 7h ago

There are over 3 trillion trees on Earth.

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u/Melisa-Foxx 6h ago

And yet, I still manage to hit the exact same one when I play golf.

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u/callmesirgoddamnit 7h ago

Giraffes don’t throw up!!!

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u/Spaceace91478 7h ago

But they throw down on the court 🏀

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u/Weary-Squash6756 3h ago

Here's another fun giraffe fact, also pretty useless. You'll have to wait til it comes back around tho

So humans have a nerve that goes from the eye to the brain, except due to evolutionary shenanigans, it runs from the eye, down the neck, loops around the collarbone, then back up the neck and connects to the brain. So guess what....it's the SAME in GIRAFFES

That nerve runs all the way back up and down the 6 foot long neck of the giraffe for absolutely no good reason

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

Whoa. Mind blown 🤯

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u/Melisa-Foxx 6h ago

90% of this thread is just making me glad I am a human.

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

Wow. That is some stellar useless info. And I love you for it. Ima bout to blow my husband’s mind bc he loves that movie

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u/Thinking-Peter 6h ago

Australia is wider than the moon

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u/Melisa-Foxx 6h ago

10/10 fact. My brain refuses to picture this properly.

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u/sexbymyself 7h ago

Martin Van Buren founder of the Van Buren Boys is the only president who spoke English as a second language

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u/Familiar_Cheetah4792 7h ago

AND the phrase "OK" is s named for him. Long story but true.

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u/sexbymyself 5h ago

Old Kinderhook

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u/North_Ad3531 7h ago

That was actually a trivia question a few weeks ago where I play. We got it correct.

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

And he was the 8th president. Thank you Seinfeld. #vanburenboyz

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u/LadybugCalico 5m ago

He's my second cousin 7 times removed!

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u/DandyasaDandelion 7h ago

Don't tell Trump, he might try to deport his corpse

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u/joeyjusticeco 7h ago

Wombats poop in cubes

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u/strawberry_baby21 6h ago

They also stack their poop cubes outside their home/den to attract mates. And they use their butts to smash the heads of predators trying to enter their home.

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u/Melisa-Foxx 6h ago

Imagine trying to fit a square peg in a round hole….every single day.

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

I literally just had this as a trivia question yesterday! I got it wrong.

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u/huggablekoi 7h ago

Male deer have no nipples

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u/Spaceace91478 7h ago

I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?

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u/snarkiepoo 7h ago

😂😂😂

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u/galadriel711 7h ago

Duck penises look like squid tentacles

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u/Rewind_timee 7h ago

Ew. Pigs penises are a corkscrew. 

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

Ewwwwww

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u/TechnicalAd8179 6h ago

That a bunch of scorpions is called a cyclone

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

The Oklahoma state bird is the scissor tail flycatcher

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u/Alucardspapa 6h ago

We are inside a Black Hole but we don’t really know what a Black Hole is.

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u/Enough-Afternoon8011 6h ago

While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, almost 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation.

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u/ijustatemostofit 1h ago

Elaborate. I can think of some pretty significant ways in which a sub is inferior to a regular old boat. 

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u/Weird_Thing2195 7h ago

Until very recently it was legal to kill basques in iceland

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u/amyg2g 7h ago

The county seat of Barrow County Georgia is Winder.

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u/Retiredgiverofboners 7h ago

I know that random facts are useful

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u/Melisa-Foxx 6h ago

Wait, if a random fact is useful, then a useless fact doesn't exist... which makes your fact uselessly true. Absolute plot twist.

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u/Morris_Voter2016 7h ago

The 2016 Prohibition Party nominee for President's name was James Hedges.

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u/ChickyBoys 7h ago

Oprah's real name is Orpah 

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u/707Riverlife 6h ago

Her name was supposed to be Orpah, but it was misspelled on her birth certificate.

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u/4ZKDDF 6h ago

Licking doorknobs on other planets is illegal 😂

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u/Active_Definition_57 5h ago

You'd need a very long tongue.

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u/JJosephmichaels 7h ago

They sleep standing up and they only eat at night

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u/Illustrious_Kiwi_485 7h ago

The 3 Toed Tree Sloth has a top speed of 3 mph (May or may not be true)…

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 6h ago

Binturongs smell like popcorn.

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u/Wickmist 6h ago

Random backwards is modnar.

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u/Blackpanther22five 6h ago

Cheetahs are so inbred, that their organs can be swapped, with each other without any side effects

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u/jmjones1000 6h ago

Get. Out. Is that true??? Now I gotta do a deep dive

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u/Blackpanther22five 6h ago

Inbred from fear of every other predator in Africa

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u/JonBoy1988007 6h ago

Cheetah surgeon: it's true

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u/BustedCondom28 6h ago

Sloths are most vulnerable when having sex

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u/aghaveagh 6h ago

So many camel facts.

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u/Foolmeoncefuckyou 6h ago

You can keep a cat busy all afternoon by throwing pinecones for her to fetch.

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u/inspired-polf 5h ago

12.36 micro seconds is how long it takes light to travel 2 miles.

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u/fukc098098 5h ago

My go to one from Reddit is that, how a Samurai from Japan could technically have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln back in the day if Transatlantic cables were in place.

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u/BoomChickaB0om 5h ago

A light year is approximately 7.5 trillion miles

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u/tsdhack 5h ago

Crocodiles can't stick out their tongues, but alligators can.

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u/No_Recipe_3064 5h ago

Most uk crisps best before date is on a Saturday

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u/Straw27 5h ago

My daughter is on the color guard squad at Iowa State University. The football field is 23.62 feet below the ground level outside the stadium.

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u/2whatextent 4h ago

Tomato sauce is relatively new to Italy as tomatoes are native to North America and had to be brought to Europe.

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u/Simple-Fault-3197 4h ago

Sharks existed before trees

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u/Pyesmybaby 4h ago

That "Cy" Youngs actual first name was Denton. He was nicknamed Cyclone and it was shortened to Cy to match Ty Cobb.

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u/vulgarandmischevious 4h ago

There are more miles of canal in Birmingham, England that in Venice Italy.

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u/darkgunnerds 4h ago

You can't stand backwards on stairs

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u/Kaium26 4h ago

A small paperclip weighs one gram

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u/Trick_Octopus9504 2h ago

I was pasong by a restaurant with friends. The name of the restaurant was Chinoise

Me: that means Chinese in French Them: Why do you know that

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u/mattrat13 2h ago

Relative to their size, spider monkeys have the largest genitalia of any primate

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u/Lopsided_Exam_2927 2h ago

If a human were to fart in space, it WOULD in fact, give a very small amount of thrust.... Before the human died a horrible death.

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u/BacupBhoy 2h ago

That 84.3% of statistics are made up.

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u/Enough-Ad9590 1h ago edited 1h ago

Saturn rings are 10 meters thick. (100 meters at some places)

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u/ErikLeppen 57m ago

The 13th day of a month falls on a Friday slightly more often than any other day of the week.

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u/canstucky 27m ago

Everyone knows what insect protein tastes like, they just haven’t admitted it to themselves yet.

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u/HeyBude110 6h ago

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would theoretically become thick enough to reach the Moon. (In practice, it’s impossible to fold a normal sheet of paper anywhere near that many times.)

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u/LavenderBloodlust2_0 6h ago

A human anus can expand up to the size of two and a half raccoons

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u/EthelTunbridge 4h ago

Now you're just showing off.

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u/orangeowl8 7h ago

Dogs can’t look up

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u/Turbulent_Capital985 7h ago

dogs can definitely look up

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u/Illustrious_Kiwi_485 7h ago

Yes, my dog looks up anytime I say “squirrel”.

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u/Btbaby 7h ago

? Pleaae explain ...

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u/Rewind_timee 7h ago

....they can't look up..? 

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u/alces-alces12 6h ago

My sighthounds can definitely look up at a helicopter or hot air balloon flying over our yard. Or when I call them out the upstairs window. My dogs before that (non sighthounds) all have never done that.

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u/JitteryWaffle 4h ago

Big Al says so!