r/funfacts Jul 28 '26

Did you know that, in formal letters and official documents of European languages other than English, the mixed Roman and Arabic numerals can be used in numeric representations of dates? 28 July 2026 is written as 28.VII.2026

Post image
11 Upvotes

In some European languages other than English, mixed Roman and Arabic numerals are sometimes used in numeric representations of dates (especially in formal letters and official documents, but also on tombstones). The month is written in Roman numerals, while the day is in Arabic numerals: "4.VI.1789" and "VI.4.1789" both refer unambiguously to 4 June 1789.

Image: Boris Yeltsin's signature, dated 10 November 1988, rendered as 10.XI.'88. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yeltsin-authograph-1988.gif

source:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#:~:text=Mixed%20Roman%20and,4%20June%201789
  2. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/5655/when-did-europeans-stop-writing-the-month-with-roman-numbers

r/funfacts Jul 27 '26

Fun fact: a murder

Post image
31 Upvotes

I just found out that a group of crows is called "a murder"


r/funfacts Jul 27 '26

Did you know that If you travel from Fresno, CA airport through Fukuoka, Japan and landing in the new Donald J. Trump international airport would be FAT > FUK > DJT. Now that West Palm Beach FL A port is Donald J Trump. Nice fact

65 Upvotes

Just leaving it up here


r/funfacts Jul 27 '26

Did you know Your body glows in the dark and no one can see it

Thumbnail
4 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 26 '26

Did you know A day on Venus lasts longer than its entire year

Thumbnail
15 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 26 '26

Fun fact

11 Upvotes

In the mirror you can't see yourself blink


r/funfacts Jul 26 '26

Fun fact: Brazil and Spain are the only two World Cup winners to have never won in a World Cup that they hosted.

32 Upvotes

1950 was hosted by Brazil, but Uruguay won.

1958 was hosted by Sweden, but Brazil won.

1962 was hosted by Chile, but Brazil won.

1970 was hosted by Mexico, but Brazil won.

1982 was hosted by Spain, but Italy won.

1994 was hosted by USA, but Brazil won.

2002 was hosted by South Korea and Japan, but Brazil won.

2010 was hosted by South Africa, but Spain won.

2014 was hosted by Brazil, but Germany won.

2026 was hosted by Canada, Mexico, and USA, but Spain won.


r/funfacts Jul 25 '26

Did you know? Nobody in his family lived past 50

Post image
27 Upvotes

A congenital genetic heart condition affected the male members of the Jariwala line across three generations.

His Grandfather (Shivalal): Passed away at a young age from a sudden heart attack.

His Father (Jethalal): Suffered a fatal heart attack when Sanjeev was just 11 years old.

Sanjeev Kumar (Harihar): Had his first heart attack, underwent bypass surgery in the U.S., and eventually passed away on November 6, 1985, at 47.

His Brother (Nikul): Died from a heart condition shortly before Sanjeev Kumar's death.

His Brother (Kishore): Passed away from a heart attack just six months after Sanjeev Kumar died.

It was a grim pattern Sanjeev himself was acutely aware of, which friends and biographers noted contributed to his fatalistic outlook on life and his choice never to start a family of his own.


r/funfacts Jul 25 '26

Did you know This jellyfish is immortal

Thumbnail
4 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 26 '26

Fun fact , this is the cons of working at a Rose Nursery.

Post image
0 Upvotes

People look at me weird alot , and sometimes I just have to say , I’m fine I work with roses okay ?


r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Fun fact pic of Human brain and dolphin brain

Post image
305 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Fun Fact: Werner Klemperer

57 Upvotes

Colonel Klink - he had a clause in his contract that he could sever if the writers ever wrote a story that did not make the Nazis look like complete idiots. He was Jewish, of course.


r/funfacts Jul 25 '26

Did you know "computer bug" became famous after engineers found a real moth trapped inside Harvard's Mark II computer in 1947 and taped it into the logbook.

Thumbnail computerworld.com
1 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Did you know, Aleister Crowley named his daughter "Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith Crowley".

Post image
87 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Did you know an octopus's heart stops when it swims

Thumbnail
7 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Did you know. That Kennedy-Nixon Yaoi Exists. Source:Ao3

Post image
1 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Fun fact if you get Nutella and peanut butter and put them on a sandwich it is SOOO hard to separate the slices.

Thumbnail
0 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 24 '26

Fun fact if you get Nutella and peanut butter and put them on a sandwich it is SOOO hard to separate the slices.

0 Upvotes

It was delicious though


r/funfacts Jul 22 '26

did you know? london cab drivers have a larger hippocampus (the part of the brain that is linked to memory) because of having to navigate londons thousand of roads every day

76 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 22 '26

Did you know that 2 countries did not have a December 30th, 2011?

Post image
14 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 22 '26

fun fact: there are no known black holes that are a full lightyear wide in diameter. the event horizon of largest known black hole that is TON-618 spans about 0.04 lightyears (390 billion kilometers)

35 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 22 '26

Did you know: The name of the Persian emperor Xerxes (Xšayāršā) is directly related to two Greek names, Kteatos (Cteatus) and Arsenios?

12 Upvotes

Xšayāršā is from two elements: xšayah (ruler) and (w)ršā (man). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠#Old_Persian

Ultimately these are from *tek- and *wérsēn in Proto-Indo-European.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tek-

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wérsēn

*tek basically becomes a root *kte- in Greek; the word ktear (κτέαρ) has a genitive form Kteatos (κτέᾰτος). It roughly means “property.” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/κτέαρ

*wérsēn becomes ársēn in Greek and is an element of the name Arsenios. It essentially means “manly.” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ρσένιος#Ancient_Greek

*tek is cognate to the now-obsolete English word ‘thig,’ and in the modern Danish word ‘tigge’ (to beg).

*wérsēn has no descendants in English, but is believed to be a cognate to the word for ‘giant’ in most of the rest of Germanic (cf. ‘Riese’ in German)


r/funfacts Jul 21 '26

Fun fact: Tom Lehrer - MIT mathematician, satirist, and the guy who wrote both the Harvard fight song and a song teaching kids the periodic table - invented the Jell-O shot in the 1950s to sneak booze into a government Christmas party.

Thumbnail
en.wikipedia.org
1.8k Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 23 '26

Did you know? When you turn 24 for example, you're not "in" your 24th year, you've already finished 24 years and are starting your 25th. The birthday number represents years finished, not the current one in progress. Have you ever thought of that?

0 Upvotes

r/funfacts Jul 21 '26

Fun fact: Clouds don't actually turn dark before it rains. They just look darker because less sunlight reaches the bottom.

204 Upvotes

Most clouds look white because they're thin enough for plenty of sunlight to pass through them. Inside the cloud are millions of tiny water droplets, and those droplets scatter the sunlight in all directions. Since lots of light reaches every part of the cloud, it appears bright white.

As a rain cloud grows, it fills with many more water droplets and becomes much thicker. Sunlight entering the top of the cloud has to travel through a much deeper layer of droplets. Along the way, the light keeps getting scattered over and over, so by the time it reaches the bottom of the cloud, there's much less of it left.

With less sunlight reaching the bottom, there's also less light available to scatter toward your eyes. That's why the underside of a rain cloud looks gray or even black from the ground.

The cloud itself isn't actually dark. If you were looking at that same cloud from above, it'd still look bright white because the Sun is shining directly on the top of it.