Whether you're studying for trivia night, looking for conversation starters, or just plain bored, we have some random facts that will knock your socks off. Thanks to Reddit, BuzzFeed writers, and members of the BuzzFeed Community, we rounded up the most random facts so that you'll never need to google another icebreaker again.
1. Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
2. More people have walked on the moon than have won the notoriously difficult Japanese competition show Sasuke, aka Ninja Warrior.
3. The blinking light at the top of the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles sends out secret messages in Morse code.
4. Reindeer and caribou are the same animal.
5. It's illegal to be drunk in a bar in Alaska.
6. An orgasm can potentially stop incessant hiccups.
7. "Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, invented an artificial heart."
8. Cows have accents.
9. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were friends in college.
10. "Penguins have glands under their eyes to extract and secrete excess salt. These are powerful enough that they allow them to drink seawater as their primary water source."
11. "A second is called a second because it is the second division of the hour by 60, the first division being a minute."
12. "From a botanical standpoint, strawberries and raspberries aren't berries, but bananas and avocados are."
13. "The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean."
14. "You can fit all the planets of the solar system between Earth and the moon."
15. "The Price Is Right and Grand Theft Auto use the same font."
16. "Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s."
17. "Ohio is the only US state that doesn't share a letter with the word 'mackerel.'"
18. "Pirates wore eye patches so one eye would always be acclimated to the darkness, allowing them to see in the darkness below deck in an instant."
19. Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt in 1962 but gave away the patent for free to save lives.
20. "Pope John Paul II is an honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
21. "On Venus, a year is shorter than a day — meaning it takes Venus less time to orbit the Sun (year) than to complete one rotation (day)."
22. The average British postage stamp glue contains 5.9 calories per stamp, while the average US stamp glue contains about one-tenth of a calorie per stamp.
23. Paul Revere didn't finish his midnight ride, but Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old girl, did. Legend says she rode for 40 miles alerting people of a British attack in 1777.
24. Doves and pigeons are pretty much the exact same animal.
25. The filling in between the wafers in a KitKat is...other KitKats.
26. We see, use, and drink the same water the dinosaurs did.
27. Shakespeare invented a ton of words, like "gossip" and "lonely."
28. Six Flags is named that because six different flags have flown over Texas.
29. We have no idea why the ABCs are in that order, but they've been that way for thousands of years.
30. Platypuses look funny and cute, but they can poison you with a spur on their feet.
31. Most people only breathe through one nostril at a time.
33. You'll never know what your own voice sounds like without a recording of it.
35. The world's largest wild camel population is in Australia, not in the Middle East or the Sahara Desert.
37. You can always see your nose; you just don't always notice it.
38. The national anthem stole its melody from an old British drinking song.
39. Some cephalopods have messed-up-looking brains.
40. In 1518, a “dancing plague” took over a French town.
41. We know next to nothing about our oceans.
43. Millions of years ago, Earth was covered with giant mushrooms instead of tall trees.
44. We never see ourselves with our own eyes, so we'll never get an accurate look at our own faces.
45. Polar bear hair isn't actually white.
46. It's pretty easy to find someone who shares a birthday with you.
47. It's possible to use sign language with an accent.
48. T-shirts were originally marketed to unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons back on collared shirts by themselves.
50. There's a sexual phenomenon named after President Calvin Coolidge, of all people.
51. Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton were born in consecutive months of the same year.
52. Prior to the 20th century, squirrels were one of America's most popular pets.
53. One of the first Memorial Day commemorations was organized by enslaved people who had recently been freed.
54. April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 p.m., the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."
55. Before the 1800s, people had "first" and "second" sleep. They would sleep three to four hours, wake up for two to three hours to do some type of activity, then go back to sleep until morning.
56. Cows have "best friends" and get stressed when separated.
57. The people behind the voices of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse got married IRL.
58. A can of Mountain Dew can dissolve a mouse 😳.
59. For a short time, the planet Uranus was named...George.
60. Iceland has an elf whisperer who inspects construction sites before anything gets built to make sure no elves are hanging around.
62. Women in several US cities organized Anti-Flirt Clubs in the 1920s to combat catcalling.
63. Toilet seat covers are basically pointless.
64. Most American movie villains have British accents because we associate them with having high intellect and being unfriendly.
66. Mother's Day was quite literally invented to be anti-commercialism.
68. "Honey is the only food that never expires. The same honey that was buried with the pharaohs in Egypt is still edible."
69. The colors of the twist ties on bread aren't random — they tell you what day the loaf was baked on.
70. Pan, a moon of Saturn, is walnut-shaped because it absorbs some of Saturn's rings.
72. Ancient Romans paid a tax on pee.
73. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup was a 19th-century medicine for crying and teething babies...that had alcohol, cannabis, morphine, and chloroform in it.
75. When a rabbit gets happy and jumps around for joy, it's called a binky.
77. The largest tire manufacturer in the world is...Lego.
78. A "buttload" is a real measurement of weight.
80. Four percent of the sand on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down.
81. Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham because someone bet him it was impossible to write a children's book with fewer than 50 different words in it.
82. If someone gives opinions on topics they know nothing about, they're an ultracrepidarian.
84. There's a high school in Minnesota that gives service dogs yearbook photos.
85. Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
88. Asphalt is actually a liquid that's 2 million times more viscous than honey.
89. And humans are born to be pretty much fearless.
90. People wore fake moles made of velvet, silk, or mouse skin in the 18th century as a fashion statement.
92. Michael Caine's birth name is "Maurice Micklewhite." He didn't legally change it to "Michael Caine" until he was 83 years old.
94. Richard Nixon once smuggled a suitcase full of weed through the airport for Louis Armstrong.
95. The first person to perform a successful C-section in South Africa was Dr. James Barry...who was actually a woman.
96. The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
