Useless Facts That Will Just Take Up Space In Your Head, Unless You’re A Random Trivia Fanatic

We learn many different things throughout our lives. But while some of this knowledge might serve a very real purpose in our lives, there are those pieces of information that we know just because we do, and we have no idea what to do with it.

But despite being useless in the practical sense, some of these facts can actually be quite thought-provoking, interesting to ponder, and fun to share with others. That’s why, when one Redditor asked people online about the most useless pieces of information that they know, then answers came pouring in. Scroll down to read what they said!

#1

The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a corner and a cranny is like an narrow opening.

#2

If the Sun was the size of a white blood cell swimming through your veins, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States. (Really puts into perspective just how small we are.).

#3

Otters hold paws while sleeping so they don’t drift away, and can form some pretty impressive structures called “rafts” when they’re in a large group.

#4

A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It’s 1/100th of a second.

#5

Ants can’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity isn’t fast enough to break their exoskeleton.

#6

Velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.

#7

You have to stick your finger inside an alligator to find out its gender.

#8

The back of tigers ears have a white spot to resemble eyes so they scare off things that look at them from behind, sort of like a peacock.

#9

Sometimes pandas are too lazy to have [intercourse]. And in order to reproduce them, there is a special person who infuses the female with ejaculate.

#10

Some people have voluntary control of their Tensor Tympani muscle in their inner ear. They can make a rumbling noise in their ears at will by tensing it.

Hand when there is loud noise around to kinda reduce it as you walk past.

#11

Fish don’t fart. 

They continuously secrete waste gasses through their skin.

#12

The spikes at the end of a stegosaurus tail is named after a character from the Far Side cartoon.