‘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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