Knowledge is something that can always be improved. At the same time, it’s also a thing that no matter how much effort you put in, you’ll have some blind spots because it’s impossible to know absolutely everything, isn’t it? There are things that we are doomed to never learn about. But today’s list isn’t about them. Instead, it’s about the things many people don’t know but can learn about. And when is a better time to start than now ?
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If you want to stop and have a chat, you won’t die if you move out of the walkway.
Grandson_of_0din , Cristina Gottardi Report
Ctrl Backspace deletes the entire word.
Brueguard , Christin Hume Report
A burial plot is called a graveyard if it’s part of a church lot. It’s called a cemetery if separate.
Missusmidas , Mike Bird Report
The only difference between chemistry and biology is life. If it’s alive, it’s biology, if it’s not its chemistry.
Jlbennett2001 , Nhia Moua Report
Scuba is an acronym, standing for self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
JackCooper_7274 , Oleksandr P Report
A company called Warner Chappell Music collected licensing fees for use of the song “Happy Birthday to You” all the way until 2015. That’s why characters in movies often sing other songs like “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” and restaurant chains often have their own birthday songs they sing to customers.
ItsMeCourtney , cottonbro studio Report
Irukandji jellyfish grow only to about 1 cubic cm in size, but have an incredibly painful sting. One symptom of the sting is a strong impending sense of doom. Victims have begged their doctor to be killed as they were certain they would die anyways.
NikkiRex , Magda Ehlers Report
Bananas are berries, and Antarctica is a desert.
TNS_420 , Dom J Report
Mammals pee an average of 22 seconds, no matter if mouse or elephant.
strangerinthebox , Pixabay Report
Squirrels run faster up trees than on flat surfaces.
sstebbinss , Maddie Franz Report
Font describes the variation in style in which something is written: size, italic, bold, all caps etc. Typeface is the variation in the style of letters (Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans) that most people refer to as fonts.
gigglesmcsdinosaur , Brett Jordan Report
Most the people involved in the Hindenburg disaster lived.
CaligulaMoney , Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu Report
Fuzzy-Fox-215 , Nando Freitas Report
SONAR stands for SOund NAvigation and Ranging.
TinCanSailor987 , Matheus Guimarães Report
The amount of [crimes] that happens on cruise ships. Most of them unresolved too.
PeacefulKillah , Sơn Bờm Report
An 18 inch pizza is more than two 12 inch pizzas. And to do the math, the surface area of a circle is pi x r squared. Pi is the constant. 18 in pizza has a 9 in radius, or r. 12 inch has 6. 9 squared is 81, 6 squared is 36. 36 x 2 is 72. 81 is greater than 72.
Who_Else_but_Macho , Pixabay Report
Kysman95 said: When you get killed by army ants it’s not the poison or biting that kills you. >!But the invasion of lungs!<. IHateThisDamnWebsite explained: Ants crawl down your mouth and you suffocate as they get to your lungs.
Kysman95 , Salmen Bejaoui Report
If your nerve is broken in the wrong way, the nerve will send a pain signal to the brain and it won’t stop.
RhiannonCrystalLady , Andrea Piacquadio Report
Centralia PA , Its a ghost town in Pennsylvania. Somehow they managed to set a coal mine on fire and its been burning since 1962. There are still a few people living there apparently but there are noxious fumes venting out of the ground so the government doesn’t allow new people to go there.
Adorable-Chemistry64 , fireballsedai Report
The difference between a million and a billion, is approximately a billion.
jonnyboyrebel , Markus Krisetya Report
The bow-wow theory of language (aka the onomatopoeic theory), which states that our imitation of natural sounds is the basis of language development.
no-recognition-1616 , Papa Yaw Report
Everything is made of chemicals and every single one of them will kill you with a sufficient dose.
Insertsociallife , Polina Tankilevitch Report
Your eyes have a separate immune system from the rest of your body. If they get damaged in such a way that it affects anything other than your eyes, your regular immune system can attack the damage and will not recognize them, meaning your own body can permanently blind you. What’s worse, your body cannot tell the difference between either eye. If one of them gets infected or damaged, your immune system can attack your healthy eye and take away your sight entirely.
RhiannonCrystalLady , João Jesus Report
Sharks predate trees.
External_Crazy_6568 , Chase Baker Report
The chances of a good recovery after CPR is abysmal.
Aswedfrog , RDNE Stock project Report
The only Spanish-speaking country in Africa is Equitorial Guinea. Its capital, Malabo, is on an island slightly northwest of the country’s mainland.
Dre_Lake , aboodi vesakaran Report
The tip of a shoelace is called an aglet.
poker_face-_- , Mstudio Report
Water doesn’t conduct electricity. Edit cuz I should probably explain; pure water doesn’t conduct electricity. Getting water to that level of purity is relatively costly however.
Dexember69 , David Becker Report
QuickenZ , Caroline LM Report
Migatte-no-Blakae said: A broken clock is right twice a day, but a clock ticking in reverse is correct FOUR times a day. peckx063 explained: Start one at midnight going forward and one backward. After six hours they’ll both be at 6, after another six hours they’ll both be at 12, after another six hours they’ll both be at 6,after another six hours they’ll both be at 12.
Migatte-no-Blakae , Krivec Ales Report
You can collapse your lungs from laughing.
ContentTask2032 , nappy Report
The human body has no means of sensing “wetness”, and thus doesn’t know what “wetness” is. It can only sense temperature and pressure. Put on a latex glove and submerge your hand in water, and it will feel wet. The movie The Fifth Element is the only movie to reach general audiences, in which the protagonist and antagonist are never made aware of one another, let alone meet on screen. Domestic cats have what’s known as a “Non-Fatal Terminal Velocity”. Which means that, provided they are of healthy age and weight, you could punt one out of a 747 at cruising altitude and it would hit the earth with no measurable damage. To temporarily reduce, or remove entirely, the symptoms of tinnitus, cover your ears with your palms as hard as you can, and ensure you middle fingers are touching behind your head, then rapidly tap the entire length of your fingers against the base of your skull. You may own your phone, as in the piece of hardware in your hand, but you own exactly none of the things it can do. Remember that when texting, taking pics, posting online, or anything else you do.
DakInBlak , Fatmanur Keles Report
Your immune system has at least 1 cell to combat every single infection that could ever exist. Your T-cells are cells that, when created, go through a sort of training phase in the thymus where they are allowed to change their genetic code at random, in order to be able to battle 1 random very specific disease. During this, the body also kills any T-cells that are accidentally adapted to kill human cells. Then the T-cells are sent to lymph nodes, to be found later by presenting an antigen (a part of a pathogen) to it. Basically you have something for everything in your body, the problem is just finding it, as it takes a good few days for your body to locate the specific one.
chipperland4471 Report
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