Wild.

Learn something almost useless.

Ohh, shiny facts.

Reality is freaky.

Every moment can be a learning experience.

Enter history!

If anyone needed a reason to lie silently in bed with their eyes open, consider “the heat death of the universe” or “Victorian Brits ate all the mummies” as decent insomnia fodder. The universe we live in is plagued with injustice, cruelty and gross realities, but hey, some of them are kind of cool to know. So here's some stuff to alienate your family at dinner. Here are some more freaky facts to feel weird about.

Everyone has a prized fact.

They say what you don't know can't hurt you, but we've all been hit in the face with enough frisbees to know that's demonstrably false. That said, what you do know can leave you with a creeping sense of existential dread and a lasting mark on your psyche. Because man, we live in a vastly unexplored and wildly unpredictable world full of flesh-eating wiener parasites and damning statistics about reading comprehension. Here are some strange science facts to ponder .

If there's one thing knowing facts about our world helps us with, it's having a better understanding of the context we find ourselves living in. Knowing that lemons haven't always been, or that there are sharks older than the United States can help us better comprehend our own place in this weird and wacky world. For more of this junk, here are strange science facts to ponder.

People have a lot to learn.

Behold, irrelevant knowledge!

Thanks, brain.

Be the bummer.

We all know something smart for a stupid reason.

Though ancient, sharks did not precede the formation of yo momma.