Easy access to information has somewhat caused people to forget that the world we live in is a lot weirder than we tend to think. From hippo sweat being pink to the vast amount of hydrogen being burnt by a star every single second, the universe still has surprises around every single corner.
Someone asked, “What is the coolest [freaking] fact you know?” and people from across the internet shared their best bit of lesser-known information about the world. So get comfortable, scroll through, upvote your favorites, and comment your own examples below.
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Despite the fact that many of us associate it with the idea of fun facts with the internet, perhaps a list like this or an X (formerly Twitter) page dedicated to them, this idea predates the internet by over one hundred years. In the 1850s, there was a newspaper column and, later, an entire book dedicated to what the people of the time would call “Fun, Fact, and Fancy,” but we would just see them as fun facts.
Of course, “fun” is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak, but from trivia games to just loving to learn, we humans do have a fascination for better understanding the world around us. After all, these facts serve as a great reminder that the universe is so much more mysterious and surprising than we might expect it to be.
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