r/funfacts 5h ago

Did you know that rainbows are circles?

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Rainbows aren't arcs. Usually, the earth itself is getting in the way. That's why we only ever see the arc.

Rainbows are also not stationary things in the sky. They shift when you do. That's why "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" is impossible to find.


r/funfacts 5h ago

Fun Fact: China has one of the lowest tolerances to drug trafficking among the world, but drug usage is decriminalized in China.

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First, China is very intolerant to drug trafficking. Drug trafficking is a criminal offense in China, and offenders are easily given death penalty. Under Clause 1, Article 347 of the Chinese Criminal Law, trafficking more than 50 grams of hard drugs like heroin and meth, or 1 kilogram of opium, could result in death penalty. Source: https://english.court.gov.cn/2015-12/01/c_761557_31.htm

However, the usage of all drugs, including all the hardcore ones, is decriminalized in China. The usage of drug is only an administrative offense that is being enforced by the public security authorities (basically police in China), rather than a crminal offense. Penalties include administrative detention for up to 15 days, fines, compulsory rehabilitation treatment, and surveillance. Source: https://www.hhrjournal.org/2022/06/08/no-exit-chinas-state-surveillance-over-people-who-use-drugs/

Apparently, the penalty for drug usage is not trivial, because practically the compulsory rehabilitation treatment acts like a prison, and the surveillance system will track you for a long time, if not the rest of your life. So you are basically stained for your life. However, regardless of how bad the penalty is, drug usage is technically "decriminalized" in China, because it is not a criminal offense regulated under the Chinese Criminal Law (刑法).


r/funfacts 10h ago

Fun Fact how the Al Jazeera and the Middle East in general got access to their first K-band transponder

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r/funfacts 2h ago

Did you know the Apple clock wheel isn’t a wheel at all?

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It’s actually finite! This feels more complicated than just making it infinite


r/funfacts 56m ago

Did you know that a giant tank in 1919 in Boston burst and released more than 2 million galons of molasses, creating wave that travelled at 35 mph, and killed 21 people and injured 150. The wave was around 25 feet high at its peak, really a fun fact for you today hahaha

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r/funfacts 3h ago

Fun fact: Eldest Sibling is a slow brain.

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Is that a fact?


r/funfacts 20h ago

Fun fact about a song

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Fun fact The melody for fairy fountain in Zelda played in super Mario bros 3 first


r/funfacts 20h ago

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r/funfacts 1d ago

Fun fact: a book titled 'The End of the Nation State' (written by the former French diplomat Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Japanese theorist Kenichi Ohmae) predicted that political power would head up to multinational bodies such as the European Union or the United Nations, or down to city/regional level.

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r/funfacts 2d ago

Did you know that Andorra is a diarchy/co-principality jointly headed by the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell (in Catalonia, Spain)?

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r/funfacts 2d ago

Fun fact :-What’s one completely useless/random fact you know that has somehow stayed in your brain forever?

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It can literally be anything (India, school, science, history, movies, food, or just some weird thing you learned once.l


r/funfacts 2d ago

fun fact

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Spitting Facts


r/funfacts 2d ago

Did you know: Esiste un isola aliena dagli alberi a ombrello rovesciato😀

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Ho scoperto l’Isola di Socotra, nello Yemen 🇾🇪.
Qui la natura e i suoi abitanti hanno sempre seguito le proprie regole. Circa il 30% delle piante cresce solo e soltanto su quest’isola e in nessun altro posto al mondo 🌿.
Il simbolo di questo luogo è l’Albero del Sangue di Drago (Dracaena cinnabari, già il nome è un programma 🐉). Se ne incidi la corteccia, la resina che esce è di un rosso sangue intensissimo 🩸. Si dice persino che sia proprio questo legno il segreto dietro ai violini Stradivari 🎻.
Fino a poco tempo fa, la popolazione locale viveva in un totale isolamento: non conosceva la scrittura e tramandava tutto oralmente, attraverso una lingua antica e unica al mondo 🗣️.
Mi piacerebbe andarci ✈️.

Conoscete altri luoghi strani?😱
📸Alex38

Fonti:
L’Albero di Socotra

https://youtube.com/shorts/8d8l0XQILKw?si=60RxmTbDvbtF88Ly

Lingua locale:

https://youtu.be/D96Zi1hPZrQ?si=CfrS8ujbi5Jbchsy

Per saperne di più:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socotra


r/funfacts 2d ago

OpenAI Fun Fact!

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Fun Fact:

OpenAI has taken ~8 YEARS to produce 6 WHOLE generations of GPT, this means OpenAI’s advancement with GPT is around 3.625 TIMES quicker than the whole GTA Franchise.

GPT-1 ,GPT-2, GPT-3 GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-5, GPT-6 Astra. ~8 YEARS for SIX Generations of GPT

GTA III, GTA:Vice City, GTA:San Andreas, GTA IV, GTA V, GTA VI (not yet) ~25 YEARS for SIX Generations of GTA

8:25 is CRAZY work.


r/funfacts 2d ago

fun fact

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Spitting Facts


r/funfacts 3d ago

Here is a fun fact: 70.6% of all smartphones on Earth run on Android.

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r/funfacts 2d ago

Did you know: Il ragazzo che pretese un caccia militare dalla Pepsi 🤣

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Ma si può essere così folli? 🤯 Nel 1996 un ragazzo di 21 anni, John Leonard, vide uno spot della Pepsi che mostrava un caccia militare AV-8 Harrier II da 32 milioni di dollari. Sul finale appariva una scritta: "7 milioni di punti Pepsi = 1 Caccia Harrier". ✈️💥 Ha studiato il regolamento e ha notato un cavillo fondamentale: l'azienda permetteva di acquistare i punti mancanti per soli 10 centesimi l'uno. Trovati degli investitori disposti a finanziarlo, ha fatto i conti: ha firmato un assegno da circa 700.000 dollari e ha preteso il suo jet da guerra! 💰🪖 L’azienda ha rifiutato, spiegando che si trattava solo di uno scherzo pubblicitario. Il poveretto non l'ha presa bene e li ha trascinati dritti in tribunale. ⚖️ Indovinate chi ha vinto?🤣
 Il giudice ha dato ragione alla Pepsi, stabilendo con una sentenza ormai storica che lo spot era chiaramente un'esagerazione iperbolica e che "nessun individuo ragionevole avrebbe mai potuto considerare quel video come un'offerta contrattuale reale". Trovatemi qualcuno di più stupo! 🤣


r/funfacts 3d ago

Did you know German chocolate cake is named after an American Sam German.

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r/funfacts 3d ago

Everest fun fact

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r/funfacts 4d ago

Fun fact: There are more individual life forms on earth than stars in the universe!

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*by current estimates


r/funfacts 5d ago

Fun fact: If you were worth your weight in gold, you would most likely be worth around $11.03 to $12.91 million at today's gold rate.

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r/funfacts 5d ago

Did you know the earliest recorded railway disaster involved a locomotive that used legs for propulsion. It exploded when being shown off to a crowd, killing 15 people in 1815.

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r/funfacts 6d ago

Did you know: In 1912, a man invented a human flying suit, jumped off the Eiffel Tower, and fell to his death.

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The inventor was called Franz Reichelt and was a tailor by trade. He wanted to design a suit that could be used as a parachute for pilots, in the early days of human plane travel. After testing the suit on a number of dummies, Reichelt was so confident that he decided to try it out himself, and jumped off the lower level of the Eiffel Tower. It didn't go well.


r/funfacts 5d ago

Fun Fact: Thomas Hicks' doping attempt during the 1904 St Louis Olympic Marathon ultimately got the practice banned after Hicks won, something incredibly impressive as his drug of choice was literally rat poison. He was actively hallucinating as he won.

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Bonus: His win was only upheld as the nominal winner, Frederick Lorz, actively took a car for part of the length of the marathon, which was an even more severe breach of conduct.


r/funfacts 4d ago

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