People On Reddit Share The “Pointless Facts” They Know

Ever wondered what weird trivia other people knew? These facts are usually shared over a dinner with friends, but also online. And with the Ask Reddit page filled with questions, this one made people all over the world respond.

Reddit user YouAintSeenBadBoys2 wrote: “What’s a pointless fact you know?” The answers were quite impressive, and we did learn a lot of weird things today!

20. The Disney Point

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“Disney park employees point with two fingers instead of one. The reason for this (that they tell you), that pointing with one finger in other cultures is disrespectful.

While that is true, they usually avoid the part that Walt Disney himself use to point with two fingers… Because he was always smoking.” – u/MrChinchilla.

19. The Pope Election

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“During the Papal election of 1292-1294, the cardinals were taking a long time to select a Pope. A hermit wrote to the cardinals saying if they didn’t choose a pope soon, God would be [mad]. The cardinals elected this hermit as Pope Celestine V.

He initially refused and had to be dragged to Rome. He spent his entire papacy writing the rule that popes were allowed to resign.

When he was finished writing it, he resigned.” – u/aubgrad11

This man was a genius! He must have regretted that first letter after learning that he would be the next Pope. Nonetheless, he surely was resourceful!

18. Pigeons, Flamingos and Penguins?

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“Pigeons, along with flamingos and penguins, produce milk. As in they produce a fatty, creamy fluid and exclusively feed their young on it for the first few weeks of their lives before weaning them, controlled by the hormone prolactin–same as in mammals.” – u/lunchesandbentos

That’s a fact we can all agree that it truly is pointless, at least for humans. People on Reddit immediatley began wondering where did the milk come from…

17. The Asteroid Belt

“If you took all of the asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and mashed them together into a single big object, it would only amount to 4% the mass of Earth’s Moon.

The largest asteroid, Ceres, accounts for about 1/3 of the total mass of the asteroid belt.” – u/itsamamaluigi

Thanks to Reddit user itsamamaluigi, all the movie scenes with interstellar fights between asteroids are so ruined!