We Were Today Years Old When We Learned These Random Yet Fascinating Facts.

Everybody’s got one or two strange factoids that they’ve somehow committed to memory.

Activist and MSNBC contributor Brittany Packnett Cunningham asked people on Twitter to share the most random facts they know. “I mean RANDOM random,” her tweet insisted. Her followers did not let her down, and neither did the legions of users who flocked to the post with their (often incredibly odd!) nuggets of truth.

The thread went viral, and we are still not okay after reading some of the responses.

1. We will never look at roly poly bugs again the same way.

tweet: Roly poly bugs/pillbugs aren’t insects, they’re crustaceans, more specifically isopods, the only ones likely to be anywhere near your average North American backyard. They have giant sea-floor cousins that can grow up to a foot and a half long but look basically the same. — Twitter

2. Conclusion: A billion is a lot. Like, a lot-a lot.

tweet says A million seconds is 12 days
A billion seconds is 31 years — Twitter

3. We’ll let you Google this factoid on your own…. Our browser history is already weird enough.

tweet says wombats have square poop — Twitter

4. That’s just plain adorable!

tweet says the dot above an i is called a tittle — Twitter

5. That can’t be right. Can it?

tweet says Babies don't have kneecaps — Twitter

Thankfully, another Twitter user stepped in with a relatively easy-to-understand explanation.

Babies are born without bony knee caps because they begin as cartilage, making birth easier. They don’t begin to develop until a child starts walking and aren’t fully hardened until the age of 10-12. The patella protects the knee & is a lever for the quads for torque production — Twitter

6. This one will come in handy at our next trivia night!

Donal Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy — Twitter

7. Today I learned that my spirit animal is actually a snail.

tweet says snails can sleep for 3 years if the weather doesn't suit them — Twitter

8. This will come as a relief to many of us.

tweet says the stickers on fruit are made to be edible, just in case — Twitter

9. We never once stopped to consider where this tradition came from! It makes sense, in a strange way.

tweet says: The act of touching glasses to cheers comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each other, so youd slam mugs together to spill each others drinks into your own to show trust you werent trying to kill them. Europeans man... — Twitter

10. We’ve also heard it referred to as a “cupid’s bow,” so yeah. Makes sense.

tweet says The vertical indentation in the middle area of the upper lip is called the philtrum, which in Greek means — Twitter

11. We’d say Flintstone was a bit of an upgrade. No offense to any Slaghooples out there.

tweet says Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name is Slaghoople. — Twitter

12. Apologies to our vegan friends….

tweet says In DNA, mushrooms are more similar to animals than they are to plants. — Twitter

13. First of all, it’s Montpelier. Secondly, that’s a feature, not a bug.

tweet says Mountpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald’s. — Twitter

14. Hopefully this will come in handy never.

tweet says If you are attacked by a gator and your arm is in its jaws, push, don't pull. If you can push the flap open at the back of its throat, water rushes in and it starts to drown and will open jaws, hopefully releasing you. — Twitter

15. Just imagine how different clothes would look if we still had tails.

tweet says Humans have a coccyx (aka a tailbone) which is the remnant of, you guessed it, a vestigial tail. One of our several vestigial features. — Twitter

Okay, we may not necessarily be any smarter after learning these random facts, but we’re definitely more well-rounded! Now all of these random facts live in our heads, too, making them just a little less random.

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