Already a site designed to surface interesting stuff, Reddit took it to the next level with a recent thread specifically asking for the most interesting/weird facts that people know.

We've pulled out the best responses, with links to the Redditor who found each fact:

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. — abbazabbbbbbba

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. — StickleyMan 


It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood. — Bat245  

Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted. — cowboy-up 

A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation. — FanInTheCorner  

Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans. — NumberMuncher  


Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey. — Bluecheezeplatter  



The Spanish national anthem has no words. — ricick 

The state sport of Maryland is jousting. — KdogCrusader 

Dead people can get goose bumps. — ObturateYourForamen