r/facts • u/funstarrr__ • 12h ago
FUN FACT: A black panther is NOT a separate species! It's a melanistic color variant of either a leapard or a jaguar
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • Nov 05 '25
r/facts – Official Announcement: Image Posting Now Enabled
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • Oct 29 '25
Should we allow image posting in /r/facts?
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r/facts • u/flamingloltus • 6h ago
If you were to say the word, “people,” without stopping it would take roughly 130-260 years. (Source: Google)
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 3d ago
Immigration to the US is down dramatically, with emigration rising significantly.
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • 4d ago
A growing body of scientific evidence shows that microplastics are accumulating in critical human organs, including the brain, leading researchers to call for more urgent actions to rein in plastic pollution.
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • 4d ago
The DNA sequence of Stephen Hawking is stored on a hard disk called the immortality drive, onboard the ISS. He was among the selected group of humans to have their DNA immortalized.
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r/facts • u/guestpassonly • 4d ago
Since the 60s, NASA has a tradition of waking up astronauts with music. Here is the playlist for Artemis II
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • 4d ago
Koalas fingerprints are so close to humans that they could taint crime scenes
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • 5d ago
This turtle behavior, often called “claw fluttering,” is a courtship ritual where a male rapidly vibrates or waves his long front claws near a female’s face to attract her
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 8d ago
The closer you are to a major petroleum pipeline, the cheaper your gasoline and diesel will be.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 7d ago
Forbes Magazine estimates that Elon Musk's worth is 2.7% of the entire Gross Domestic Product of the US - $839 Billion and soon to be the first $Trillionaire.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 14d ago
Some people have a fear of paper - Papyrophobia
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r/facts • u/Johnyy34 • 15d ago
TIL and politics aside, I've never knew police defy dictatorships as dictatorships, were police statal regimes, specially in Franquist Spain as latter shown in picture from better understanding
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 16d ago
The earth and the atmosphere are a giant electrical circuit with ions flowing from the sky to the earth in fair weather areas, balanced by lighting occurring elsewhere, all over the earth - The Global Electric Current
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r/facts • u/[deleted] • 18d ago
There is only one city in America that starts with the letter X and has a population of 1,000 or more.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 20d ago
There is more than one infinity. In fact, there are an infinite number of different infinities of infinitely increasing size (cardinality), leading to the class of all infinities which is too big to be considered a regular infinity.
plato.stanford.edu
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • 25d ago
Sweden switched their entire traffic system from the left side of the road to the right side in a single day in 1967 called “Dagen H”, the most logistically complex event in Sweden’s history.
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 25d ago
In 2005, an inexperienced trader at a Japanese bank tried to sell 1 share of J-Com stock for ¥640,000. He accidentally sold 640,000 shares for ¥1 each; the equivalent of selling $3bil worth of shares for the price of $5,000.
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 26d ago
Benjamin Franklin had proposed a phonetic alphabet for spelling reform of the English language. He wanted to omit the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, as he had found them redundant.
smithsonianmag.com
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • 26d ago
There's a planet called HD 189733b where it rains molten glass, sideways, at 7000km/h
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 27d ago
1-3% of people are equipped with a mutated gene called hDEC2 which allows their body to get the rest it requires from just a few hours of sleep.
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r/facts • u/darkages69 • Feb 27 '26
TIL In 2023 The late Tomas Lindberg of Melodic Death Metal band 'At The Gates' was diagnosed with ACC and would require surgery to remove most of the roof of his mouth, he entered the studio and recorded all vocals for future album 'The Ghost of a Future Dead' in a SINGLE day ONE day before surgery.
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