The world is full of strange and interesting facts that you may not have known.
We’ve combed through Reddit’s collections of facts and fun facts to find our favorites.
From a creature that can survive in space to an odd state sport in Maryland, you’ll learn something new.
01. Earth has more trees than stars in the galaxy. The Milky Way has 100 billion stars, but Earth has 3 trillion trees.
Source: Reddit/resissavfc
02. In Oregon’s Blue Mountains, the honey fungus is the largest living organism, spanning 2.4 miles (underground).
Source: Reddit/Rampant_Durandal
03. Actor and puppeteer Frank Oz portrayed Miss Piggy in The Muppets and Yoda in Star Wars.
Lucasfilm/”Attack of the Clones”
Source: Reddit/cold_in_the_south
04. During WWII, the Polish Army had a bear. Wojtek, the Syrian brown bear, was a Corporal who drank beer and smoked cigarettes.
Source: Reddit/snoodletuber
05. Manga comic books use more paper than toilet paper in Japan.
Stacks of Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, with cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s final “Peanuts” comic strip, were seen in Hollywood on February 13. Schulz died on February 12 in Santa Rosa, California, from colon cancer.
Rose Prouser/Reuters
Source: Reddit/david1324p
06. Pluto was discovered in 1930 and declassified as a planet in 2006. In fact, the former planet’s orbit takes 248 Earth years.
Pluto image from four LORRI images combined with color data from the Ralph instrument Thomson Reuters
Source: Reddit/Zooclaw
07. It’s called brassica oleracea, and it’s the same plant as kale and collard greens—different breeds or cultivars.
Source: Reddit/cokecakeisawesome
08. The Giza Pyramids were closer to Cleopatra’s home than the Moon landing.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema/Public Domain
Source: Reddit/StickleyMan
09. A mantis shrimp’s claw can swing so fast it boils the water around it.
Source: Reddit/jicty
10. There are no-words in the Spanish national anthem.
Source: Reddit/ricick
11. Honey is inert. 3000-year-old honey is possible.
REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
Source: Reddit/Bluecheezeplatter
12. People who are dead can get goose bumps.
Source: Reddit/ObturateYourForamen
13. The static you see on “dead” television stations is leftover primarily radiation from the Big Bang. You’re witnessing the Universe’s creation’s aftereffects.
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Source: Reddit/FanInTheCorner
14. Maryland’s state sport is jousting.
Source: Reddit/KdogCrusader
15. We inhale more air from one nostril than the other when we breathe through our nose, which changes every 15 minutes.
Source: Reddit/Tischlampe
16. If we removed all of the space between the atoms, we could fit the entire world’s population into an apple.
Source: Reddit/TheSicilianDude
17. When the pyramids were being built, the woolly mammoth was still alive.
Source: Reddit/midnightschild
18. A chess game has more possible iterations than there are atoms in the known Universe.
Source: Reddit/abbazabbbbbbba
19. You could cover the entire planet in a layer of gold up to your knees if you found a way to extract all of the gold from our lovely little planet’s bubbling core.
On October 4, 2013, during an event organized by the Committee for the initiative, “CHF 2,500 monthly for everyone” (Grundeinkommen), a truck dumps five-cent coins in the centre of the Federal Square in Bern. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Source: Reddit/TryToFlyHigh
20. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes sucking once each to completely drain a human.
Flickr / John Tann
Source: Reddit/Bat245
21. Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans all developed written language independently.
Source: Reddit/NumberMuncher
22. A male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates to determine when to mate. The male then tastes the pee to decide whether or not the female is ovulating.
Source: Reddit/Sir_Ostrich
23. A photon can take 40,000 years to travel from the sun’s core to the surface, but only 8 minutes to cross the remaining distance to Earth.
Source: Reddit/Bkaps
24. Water bears, also known as Tardigrades, are 0.5 mm long and can withstand almost any situation. Even space itself is a vacuum.
Wikimedia Commons/Bob Goldstein and Vicky Madden
Source: Reddit/Rage-
25. Most things that melt can be made into glass. It’s just a matter of cooling a molten material to get its molecules back to normal.
Source: Reddit/cowboy-up
26. The odour of the critically endangered Kakapo bird is strong, pleasant, and musty, making it easy for predators to find it. As a result, it is considered critically endangered.
Source: Reddit/trevormatic
27. The Wright Brothers flew for the first time in 1903. In 1969, 66 years later, man landed on the Moon.
Source: Reddit/mry8z
