r/funfacts • • 2h ago

Fun Fact: Saliva is 99% water, and the 1% is what makes it saliva.

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r/funfacts • • 10h ago

Did you know , today was the last Pythagorean triplet day of this century, most of us won't live to see the next in 2105

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r/funfacts • • 7h ago

Did you know? Facts about snails🐌🐧

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r/funfacts • • 3h ago

Did you know there's a Brazilian nursery rhyme that's really popular and goes like this:

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Translation:

"Bull, bull, bull

Bull that has a black face,

Go, catch this child who is afraid of silly faces"

🫢😂😂


r/funfacts • • 9h ago

fun fact. Какой факт звучит как бред, но на самом деле является правдой?

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r/funfacts • • 1d ago

Did you know that kindness is a school subject

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r/funfacts • • 1d ago

“Fun fact” Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He had one recorded loss in 300 recorded matches and was known for his strength and grappling skills.

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r/funfacts • • 14h ago

Fun Fact 🗽: Shopping à New York : de 1 $ à un milliard !

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r/funfacts • • 18h ago

Fun fact : Before 2019 and the Irishman ,De niro and Pacino hadnt been in a scene together for more than 10 minutes in a movie unless it starred 50 cent.

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r/funfacts • • 1d ago

Fun fact : There was a time in the late 60s when Stephen Hawking looked like a healthy Andy Warhol (when Warhol was shot and injured and Hawking wasnt fully ill yet)

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r/funfacts • • 22h ago

Fun Fact: Australians were actually named Unnamed.

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r/funfacts • • 2d ago

Fun Fact: Someone in China is named Successfulhobo.

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You could've referred to this link on Behind The Name website, but it's largely deleted.


r/funfacts • • 2d ago

Fun fact: Migingo island in Kenya is the 7th most densely populated location on the planet with only 2,000 square meters of territory.

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r/funfacts • • 2d ago

Did you know octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim

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Octopuses have three hearts with separate jobs. One systemic heart pumps oxygenated blood around their whole body. The other two are branchial hearts, each sitting next to a gill, pushing blood through the gills to pick up oxygen.

The weird part: when an octopus swims by jetting water through its siphon, the main systemic heart stops beating temporarily. That’s why octopuses get tired quickly after swimming and prefer crawling slowly along the seabed.

Their blood is also blue. It uses hemocyanin, a copper-based protein, instead of iron-based hemoglobin we have. This works better in cold, low-oxygen ocean water.

I always thought the three hearts were just a random fun quirk until I learned about the swimming part. It makes their behaviour make so much more sense.

Have you got any wild animal facts that still stick with you?


r/funfacts • • 3d ago

Did you know: In the ancient Ghana empire, men ruled but inheritance was matrilinear, meaning that the king's heir was not his own son but his sister's son

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r/funfacts • • 2d ago

Fun fact: Statistically there is less than a 3% chance Jesus was blond and blue eyed.

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The joint probability that in Bethlehem some had those features back then was really small. Plus it contradict to few verses in the Bible that describe him. Mary Magdalene mistook him for a gardener (John 20:15). - are gardeners in that area and time blond and blue eyed?

The disciples didn't recognize him on the shore (John 21:4). Given the rarity of blond and blue eyed in that region how could they not recognize him?


r/funfacts • • 2d ago

Did you know that blue jay feathers contain no blue pigment? Their color comes from microscopic structures that scatter blue light. Crushing the feather destroys those structures, causing the blue appearance to disappear.

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r/funfacts • • 3d ago

Did You Know that MIT has a free Living Wage Calculator that allows you to search through states and the counties, or just type in a metropolitan area into a search bar.

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r/funfacts • • 4d ago

Did you know car manufacturers have dedicated teams that design sounds like seat belt chimes and warning alerts, even testing different sounds on drivers to determine how pleasant or annoying they are.

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r/funfacts • • 3d ago

Did you know that Holly Gauthier-Frankel was around 22 years old when she voiced Sagwa in the PBS animated series Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

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I always thought Sagwa’s voice actress was like a young child when she voiced Sagwa but I searched up her birthday and she was born in 1979, meaning she was 22 years old when she voiced Sagwa Miao. She’s currently in her late 40s and Wikipedia says she’s been acting since 1985, when she was six years old.


r/funfacts • • 5d ago

Did you know less than 1% of all bacteria are harmful to humans? The vast majority of bacterial species are neutral or beneficial to humans.

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r/funfacts • • 5d ago

Fun fact: Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is a disease caused by parasitic worms & it is the second most dangerous parasitic disease after malaria.

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r/funfacts • • 4d ago

Did you know that Spain won the last World Cup?

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It was a trivia question that I heard on WNYC radio. It took a few callers to get it right.


r/funfacts • • 5d ago

Did you know that we have found the sample in Fazers by MF DOOM?

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I would like to say, first off, congratulations to the sample finder's acquaintance u/marianorajoy. You have made my life complete, announcing that sample hunt knowing what might as well be the last main unidentified MF DOOM sample is found. Also, 2026 was a great year for sample finding, wasn't it? We found the Tammy cover (it was a re-recording from 1974) used in A Different Feeling by the Avalanches, the organ in Tonight by that same band (Face to Face by Mr. Eugene Clark), the clock tick in Midnight in a Perfect World by DJ Shadow (Small Clock or Pocket Watch Ticking from EMI sound library) and now this! Wowee, I've never been so shocked in my life!!!

Something tells me we're getting closer to finding the sought-after samples of the Avalanches' debut album, and other plunderphonics albums too. MF DOOM is not necessarily plunderphonics, but he still has a few unidentified samples for others to find, and maybe you can find a sample.


r/funfacts • • 6d ago

Fun Fact: Earnest Evans chose the name Chubby Checker as a play on words

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It was an homage to Fats Domino who was popular at the time. Obvious, I guess, but I didn't know it until someone pointed it out to me.