People are sharing random facts and these 19 are amazing
We’ve never really thought “D’you know what the internet needs more of? Random facts.” However, when Twitter started sharing them recently, we realised just how much we love them.
This is the tweet that started it all.
What’s the most random fact you know?
I mean RANDOM random.
— brittany packnett cunningham (@MsPackyetti) January 28, 2020
And these were our favourites of the huge number of replies.
1.
The first XRay machine in sub Saharan Africa was located in a small mining town in Namibia not for the purpose of fixing healthcare, but to screen workers for diamonds they might have smuggled (through their bodies) at the end of every work shift. https://t.co/JdyenDFrkF
— Catherine Amayi (@catherine_amayi) January 28, 2020
2.
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear just so they can very clearly hear you but still ignore you. https://t.co/tNXSf0vnC2
— Ranae 🐾 (@TheNerdyCatLady) January 28, 2020
3.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mrs. Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for the birth of Julia Roberts, whose parents were family friends who ran a small acting school the King children attended. #RandomFact
— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) January 28, 2020
4.
There is a species of parasitic barnacle that infects male crabs and gives them a sex change. https://t.co/crEFfpApPl
— Otters Gonna Ott (@LutrisOtter) January 28, 2020
5.
Alligator is a deformation of the Spanish expression for "the lizard", "el lagarto" https://t.co/g2dAT1nN2D
— the SassyScience project trying to get her PhD (@sassyscience_) January 28, 2020
6.
Koalas are really really not smart.
If you change the form of their food (put eucalyptus on a plate, for example) they will starve to death rather than eat it bc they can't recognize it. https://t.co/732YnZKErZ— Jessi (@OlMumsyJess) January 28, 2020
7.
M*A*S*H lasted three times longer than the Korean war. https://t.co/wEvjYOi6Uw
— Sam Whyte (@SamWhyte) January 28, 2020
8.
they can't ever close Elvis' estate unless it stops making money, because he died without a will. there's a captive law firm that does nothing but Elvis law as a result. https://t.co/Dc3AXWQ9YQ
— Space Witches, Esq. (@popelizbet) January 28, 2020
9.
We live closer to when T. Rex lived than T. Rex did to when Stegosaurus lived. https://t.co/f4UVS5dh10
— Josh (@joshnorthsouth) January 28, 2020
10.
Anna Leonowens, whose memoirs were the basis for the musical "The King and I," was Boris Karloff's great aunt. https://t.co/8vfBJfDzWe
— Sam Stephens (@samstephens91) January 29, 2020
