People Share The Most Ridiculous Fact They've Ever Learned

Proportions Askew

"A blue whales throat is the size of a coke can despite being the largest known animal." -- MalFibber

"And that's largest known ever." -- ILoveLongDogs

"Blue whales have liver parasites the size of bananas." -- Madhighlander1

Those Guys Have Been Busy 

"Of the 195 nations in the world, Britain has invaded 173 of them." -- No-regerts136

"I believe this includes nations that were once controlled by Britain but have not been invaded since officially becoming their own nation such as Canada but still an interesting fact." -- Tom_Bombadil_Ret

Collective Conscious

"It is estimated that one in 10 Europeans are conceived on an Ikea bed." -- Winologue

"In the store?" -- whisperingrabbit

"Yea those are all the people that gave up finding the exit" -- YeetMeatToFeet

Heck of a Show

" Disney is the world's second largest buyer of explosives, behind the US Department of Defense." -- Vinny_Lam

"Mickeys got to enforce his copyright laws somehow." -- Distant_Past

"The last WW2 Japanese soldier to surrender did so in 1974" -- haasbrein

"He surrendered but he didn't give himself away." -- oldmannew

Plenty of Reasons Not To...

"The average ejaculation travels at roughly 27 miles per hour, which technically would make ejaculating illegal in school zones." -- Herobrinedanny

Largest of the Smallest

"Lego is the world's largest tire distributor" -- AshtonH06

"And also the number one cause of excruciating foot pain in adults with two kids under 5." -- unnaturaldisorder

A Very Powerful, Life-Changing Strawberry 

"The entire internet weighs about as much as a large strawberry." -- BullishFinances

"What? The internet is a computer network made up of all of the computers and networking infrastructure on it. Your home router is apart of the internet. So I the cable to it...."

"Myth busted." -- Altruistic-Fun-8278

"They tend to mean the charge differences and photons currently encoding the information, exchanging the energy for mass." -- arcosapphire

Banished

"A Russian bell was convicted of treason and exiled."

"That's not a euphemism for a beautiful but seditious Russian woman but an actual bell that rang cacophonously when prince Dimitri, son of Ivan the Terrible, was assassinated in 1591."

"Local authorities banished it to Siberia where it was appropriated by congenial company in Tobolsk; its fellow exiles subjected it to confinement, rehabilitation, and restoration before it hung in the Tobolsk church."

"Finally, in 1892, its conviction was rescinded and it was restored to its original tower with full pardon by repentant Uglichians."

-- VelvetDreamers

New Plan: Commit All Crimes in the Jungle

"Human fingerprints and Koala fingerprints are nearly identical - so close that they can be confused at crime scenes!" -- Mahina_Mele

"I don't think koalas have enough brain capacity to commit any crime" -- stellargd

"So they don't have all the koalafications?" -- ShredderTony