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‘What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget?’ – 21 facts seared into people’s brains forever

13.

‘The top of a shoelace is called aglet.’
overlord-07

14.

‘In 2016, the first time the lotto was over $1 Billion, so many tickets were sold that is was statistically more likely that five people would win than no one would win. No one won that particular drawing.’
ashton8177

15.

‘The lighter was invented before the match. do with that information what you will, but it feels like humanity played the game of technology in the wrong order.’
Utopia7_Survivor

16.

‘You want something really crazy? There’s no such thing as a fish. Or to put it more clearly, the classification of animals that we commonly refer to as “fish” don’t really have all that much in common in terms of ancestry. It’s not like mammals or reptiles where they all have a common lineage.’
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17.

‘Bananas are radioactive. I still eat them like nothing’s wrong.’
BedScrunchieInventor

18.

‘UK and US shoe sizes are based on barleycorns, where one barleycorn = 1/3rd of an inch or 8.46mm. Each shoe size increases by one barleycorn.’
FangoFan

19.

‘Where the car was parked at an amusement park when I was six. I was told not to forget.’
Strangechilde

20.

‘The Statue of Liberty’s lips are three feet wide.’
ExpensiveCondition63

21.

‘I can still recite Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 because I had to memorise it in 10th grade. Sometimes I recite it as a way to calm myself down when I’m anxious, so not totally useless I guess.’
isitjustme888

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