‘What’s a little-known fact that will immediately make all of us feel stupid?’ – 21 fascinating truths to blow your tiny mind

12.

‘All wireless tech is the same. Infrared, Bluetooth, WiFi, radio, fibre optic. It’s all light, just at different frequencies. Bluetooth is literally just like sending a signal using morse code by turning a torch on and off. Just very fast.’
–samejhr

13.

‘Avon county ceased to exist in 1996, but they forgot to tell Avon & Somerset Police.’
–Active-Midnight4884

14.

‘We view ourselves as at the top of the Earth because we drew the maps. There’s no top or bottom in space so really we’re just clinging to a bit of the planet, whizzing around the sun.’
–jesuseatsbees

15.

‘Evolved humans have been around 20k years , but first life on earth was 3.5 billion years ago or so. We are a blip in the grand scheme of things.’
–garnoid

16.

‘On most cars the fuel gauge has a little tiny arrow that points to whichever side of the car the filler flap is on.’
–chrisoverson

17.

‘A double decker bus can lean further than you can before falling over.’
–daytrippermc

18.

‘Leaves are green because they only reflect green light, and absorb the rest.’
–Ecstatic_Effective42

19.

‘Misled is not pronounced mizzled.’
–Acrobatic-Ad584

20.

‘Barcode scanners scan the whitespace not the black lines.’
–Relevant_Cancel_144

21.

‘There are more atoms of hydrogen in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system.’
–teedyay

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