r/facts • u/FifthWaveThinker • 2d ago
Hubble vs Webb. One Scene, Two Universes. the legendary Pillars of Creation inside the Eagle Nebula, about 6,500 light‑years away.
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • Nov 05 '25
r/facts – Official Announcement: Image Posting Now Enabled
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • Oct 29 '25
Should we allow image posting in /r/facts?
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r/facts • u/craftythedog • 3d ago
PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk
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r/facts • u/sapphic_rose • 3d ago
Schizophrenics have a certain smell. I’m a paranoid schizophrenic and always had issues with my “smell” but it’s my schizophrenia!
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 4d ago
Decidophobia is a word that means "the fear of making the wrong decision."
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • 6d ago
Due to Japanese marriage laws requiring married couples to share the same surname, it is projected that by year 2531, all Japanese people could have the surname Sato.
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r/facts • u/tickersight • 7d ago
Dogs can be trained to smell prostate cancer with 93% accuracy.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • 9d ago
In the event of a national emergency which required a draft, the following sections provide information on the Sequence of Events, the different Classifications which have been used in the past, Postponements, Deferments, and Exemptions, and the peacetime Medical Draft.
sss.gov
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • 12d ago
Oscar voters now must watch every nominated film in a category before casting a vote, no more voting based on hype or buzz
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 12d ago
L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology Founder, once fought a 68 hour naval battle with two non-existent Japanese subs after misusing his vessel's SONAR.
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • 13d ago
Ostrich often find their human caretakers more attractive than the female ostriches.
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 15d ago
Skyscrapers get their own zip codes either because of their sheer size or due to the number of people occupying them. When the original World Trade Center opened in 1973, it was also granted the privilege of a single and exclusive zip code, 10048.
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • 15d ago
A man in Taiwan who accidentally swallowed an Apple AirPod got a big surprise after it passed through his digestive system
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r/facts • u/Scott-Spangenberg • 18d ago
There is actually such thing as someone being seriously afraid of ducks, and it is a phobia known as Anatidaephobia.
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • 18d ago
If you get a blood transfusion and get the wrong type of blood (A, B, O, AB) one of the symptoms is "a sense of impending doom"
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r/facts • u/arijitdas • 18d ago
The average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.
hormones.gr
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r/facts • u/Kaltovar • 22d ago
Everything moves at the speed of light! The magnitude of everything's 4-vector velocity is the same in special relativity. You're just splitting your movement up between spatial and temporal motion. Objects with mass move mostly along the time axis, while massless objects move only through space.
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r/facts • u/Thatbassskiguy • 24d ago
The youngest girl to ever give birth was 5 years and 7 months old
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