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22 Useless Facts You Definitely Need To Know

From Twitter's finest fun-fact connoisseurs

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22 Useless Facts You Definitely Need To Know
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Everyone remembers learning that the tip of a shoelace is called an aglet from Phineas and Ferb's catchy song. The Twitter hashtag #UselessKnowledgeToPossess produced quite collection of fun facts, just like that one, that nobody really needs to know. Here are some facts that won't affect your life whatsoever.


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Don't you just wish humans could do that?


2.

That's not creepy at all.


3.

Could we not come up with less unsettling words for groups of flying creatures?


4.

How many giant tortoises needed to be bribed to come to that average???


5.

The English language makes minimal sense sometimes.


6.

I bet you can feel it POOLING in your mouth right now!


7.

Thank god we now know this!


8.

Be sure to impress your local Barista with this one!


9.

Oh! How times have changed!


10.

The neat thing about me is that I'm often both!


11.

Sometimes I feel like I relate to that.


12.

I did warn you that these are pretty irrelevant to your life, right?


13.

They're way too cute to be rodents, anyway!


14.

What an ironic twist.


15.

I guess it makes sense when you think about it....but why would you think about it?


16.

Who needs pinkies anyway?


17.

Go ahead, sit and count them.


18.

*Insert ACORNY tree pun here*


19.

YUM


20.

Seems like a difficult phobia to come to terms with.

21.

What a helpful evolutionary mutation!


22.

The more you know....


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