Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
We learn many different things throughout our lives. But while some of this knowledge might serve a very real purpose in our lives, there are those pieces of information that we know just because we do, and we have no idea what to do with it.
But despite being useless in the practical sense, some of these facts can actually be quite thought-provoking, interesting to ponder, and fun to share with others. That’s why, when one Redditor asked people online about the most useless pieces of information that they know, then answers came pouring in. Scroll down to read what they said!
The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a corner and a cranny is like an narrow opening.
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.).
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.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It's 1/100th of a second.
Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton.
Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.
You have to stick your finger inside an alligator to find out its gender.
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.
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.
is named after a character from the Far Side cartoon.
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.
Morphologies of onomatopeias are written differently according to the language and I appreciate how to say "meow" in different languages.
Ohio is the only state in the US that doesn't share a letter with the word mackerel.
That most car horns play an F4 on the first space of the treble clef.
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 wax/metal tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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.
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: is sufficient.
There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.
By volume, the sun generates heat at the same rate as a compost heap.
You can hipnotize chickens by drawing a line on the dirt and made the chicken look at the line.
