Fun Fact

Learning is supposed to make you feel smart, but sometimes you hear something that makes so much sense that it just makes you feel like an idiot for not having known it. It's not wuite as bad as these obvious things people realized way too late. For something darker, here are random facts that we had no business knowing.

People are pretty great at finding alternate uses for things. Sometimes it's some military invention that gets re-marketed as a household convenience, sometimes it's a reflection of changing times, and sometimes its people realizing it's fun to shoot at each other using a paint-launching logging device. Here are some cool and interesting inventions.

Real planets have curves. Here we are again, Flat Earthers. How will they go about contesting this, and pulling up some sort of counterargument, out of thin air? Your guess is as good as ours, but rest assured, it'll happen. You can find the rest of the video, where these images were sourced from over here.

You may come out of this feeling smarter, but there's almost no chance that you'll fell better about the world. While we really enjoy messed up facts, we haven't been able to recover so quickly from having our worldview decimated so early in the day. If you're in a good mood, these depressing facts will probably make you feel as though a cloud has just passed over the sun, so proceed with caution... 

Our brains are strange machines. This batch of obscure and seemingly obvious facts about the ways our brain work might open your eyes to why you interact with the world around you, in the ways you do. 

You've always been living in a wild and strange world. These historical facts are a blatant reminder to that....

A viral AskReddit thread's filled with mind-blowing, but simple facts to satisfy someone's 4-year-old daughter's daily request for 1 fact before bedtime.

 The ensuing facts are all kinds of fascinating. No way do you need to be a kid to get a kick out of these. I mean, come on; there's an island inhabited only by armies of bunnies? Dude, hell yes. Or how about Queen Bees being fed a special kind of honey that evolves them like a Pokémon when they're chosen by their hive. The world is full of madness, and it is a beautiful thing. We're always going to be ready for more mind-blowing, fun facts. 

Our hearts go out to those affected by the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral. Yesterday our news feeds were a blur of updates regarding the deteriorating status of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Reports indicate that two policemen and one firefighter were injured. We wish them a speedy recovery! Meanwhile, somewhere, there's a potential contractor wondering what a new identity will cost them. 

Take this bunch of interesting and useless facts to keep your bored brain vaguely entertained on a Monday! You might just learn something, but there's no guarantees that it's actually true...

It's dangerous to go alone...take these life cheat codes with you. 

Times change quickly these days. Hell, 2009 was a whole different world from 2019. But imagine going back 110 years ago, to 1909. Things were way different back then. I would almost say incomparable, but fact number 1? sounds just like people today, so I guess we can't have changed that much. Anyway, if you rekcon you know some things about what went down in the 1900s, have a squiz at these weird facts. They are random as f*ck and make me glad that I'm not living back then. Plus, you'll be king/queen of the next trivia night you attend. 

This is a goldmine for any Game of Thrones fan out there! You'll (probably) find 'em interesting even if you don't watch the show! 

It's dangerous to go alone, bring some IRL cheat codes for yourself out there. 

Eye didn't know most of these. 

The mind goes to amazingly unexpected places when it bakes in the shower too long. These shower thoughts will get your mental motors turning on high gear. 

The universe is enormous and terrifying. There are too many things to know and this is only a small amount of those things. 

We're still upset about Pluto.