Who doesn’t love a good factoid? As it turns out, we’re most likely to retain a fact if it is introduced with little or no context. After all, when you’re bored out of your mind at a baseball game and your friend randomly tells you that the human head weighs 11 pounds, you’re going to remember that.
After you take in these 15 completely random facts, you’ll leave here a smarter person. You can thank us later.
1. Human beings can (likely) survive 90 seconds in the vacuum of space.
No need to give this one a go for yourself. Just trust us.
2. Scientists in Mexico discovered a way to turn tequila into diamonds.
No one knows if these studies are ongoing, or if the researchers called it quits after making their millions.
3. Wasps have destroyed two planes and killed over 200 people.
4. A single tree can make up an entire forest.
5. Speaking of trees, it takes 27,000 trees to supply the world with ample toilet paper.
6. Roughly 24 rabbits in the Australian wild mated and produced 10 billion offspring over several decades.
7. Penguins can drink salt water.
8. Not swinging your arms during a walk gives you a better workout.
9. A teaspoon of matter from a neutron star weighs more than Mt. Everest.
10. A Sao Paulo prison uses geese as an alarm system.
11. If you stacked every Oreo ever produced, it would stretch to the moon and back five times over.
12. Your brain uses 20 percent of the calories and oxygen you take in on a daily basis.
13. Everyone has their own unique smell…except for twins.
14. The first thing to ever have a barcode was a pack of Wrigley’s gum.
Mr. Wrigley was also one of the first gum aficionados to add mint flavoring. Well played.
15. If you have frequent dreams, this might mean you have a higher IQ.
I bet you didn’t know that, smarty-pants.
(via Unbelievable Facts)
Now you have 15 more random facts to add to your conversation-killing arsenal. Dropping these facts may not make you the most popular, but you can now rest assured that you are the king or queen of useless knowledge.
