Somebody asked for ‘random fun facts’ – 22 fascinating nuggets of information to refresh your doom-scrolling brain

13.

‘There are approximately 8 x 1067 ways to arrange a deck of cards. That’s an 8 with 67 zeroes after it. (The exact number is calculated by multiplying 52 by 51 by 50 etc all the way down to 1.)

‘This is such a large number that it means the next time you shuffle a deck of cards, it is overwhelmingly likely that the exact order of that deck has never occurred before in all of human history and never will again.’
–footballmaths49

14.

‘The M62 has both the highest and lowest points on the UK motorway network.’
–McGubbins

15.

‘No one knows where the word “dog” came from. Usually with most words there’s some clear historic path to its origin (Shakespeare, Latin, old English, Normans, Germanic etc etc).

‘Dog is different because we used to say “hund” then later “hound”, then some point during the 10th-11th century it slowly changed to “dog” and no one knows why. It’s one of the biggest mysteries in etymology.’
–Jayflux1

16.

‘When Stalin died, in 1953, the first person to hear the news, and communicate it to the rest of the world, was none other than Johnny Cash. He was an Air Force Morse Code operator, stationed in Germany.’
–Mej53

17.

‘Those flying saucer sweets, the sugar paper filled with sherbet, were originally communion wafers.’
–Juanfanamongmany

18.

‘The colour purple isn’t commonly used on national flags because up until the 1800s when the synthetic version was stumbled across by an English scientist the only known source for the pigment was from sea snails in the Mediterranean.’
-fizzysmoke

19.

’31st October 2000 was the last day all humans were on Earth. Since then some humans have been in orbit on the ISS.’
–blu3teeth

20.

‘The US military is the world’s largest buyer of explosives. That’s unsurprising, but the world’s second largest buyer of explosives? Disney. The nightly fireworks display at every one of their theme parks adds up!’
–Unusual_Entity

21.

‘Clownfish will have a bunch of males and one female. When the female dies one of the males become female.’
–miggleb

22.

‘Most mammals take around 21 seconds to urinate due to structure of their urethra and gravity. This is regardless of the size of the animal.’
–KawaiiBunBun097

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