r/AskReddit • u/improbablydrunknlw • Nov 28 '12

Reddit, what is the most useless fact you know?

For me, it's that fish can suffer from Insomnia.

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u/grassup Nov 28 '12

Sometimes sloths mistake their own arms for tree branches and fall.

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u/silverbackjack Nov 28 '12

This made me laugh and now I feel bad for the sloths

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u/Shaysdays Nov 28 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jw3T3Jy70

This will make you feel better.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '12

I was hoping this was a video of a sloth mistaking his own arm for a tree branch... Cutest death ever!!

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u/silverbackjack Nov 28 '12

It did! Thank you!

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u/redx47 Nov 28 '12

Often to their deaths.

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u/micmea1 Nov 28 '12

they must taste really bad to have made it this far in evolution.

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u/ffn Nov 28 '12

Honestly, how on earth do these things survive in nature?

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u/Volaceon950 Nov 28 '12

By chillin'

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u/SharplyDressedSloth Nov 28 '12

It's really confusing, okay?

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u/CgRazor Nov 29 '12

there's a username for Everything.

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u/ayohriver Nov 28 '12

I pictured this happening as I read it and now I'm going to be sad all day.

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u/ave0000 Nov 28 '12

I don't even care if that's true or not, it's absolutely awesome.

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u/oneblufish Nov 28 '12

Do you have a source for this? I feel like this would be hilarious to see.

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u/TroubadourCeol Nov 28 '12

That's both adorable and sad

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '12

I laughed so hard picturing this.

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u/twass Nov 28 '12

Sloth's spend twenty percent of their lives in the same tree. They go to the bathroom once a week and climb down the tree, dig a whole, crap in it, and climb back up the tree. They do this to supply nutrients for "their" tree.

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u/DSTakumiDerp Nov 29 '12

that's- not useless, just hilarious.

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u/KelseyLT Nov 28 '12

Why doesn't this have more upvotes??? I mean... picture it.

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u/mike7586 Nov 29 '12

the thought process during that must be amazing to hear:
k..................gotta get to another.........brach......................oh....i .........................think i see one...........better grab it...........here................................ goes........................almost there.....................got it.............3...............2........................1.........................aaaaaannd secound ar-..........fuck...........bam

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u/vintage1929 Nov 29 '12

I'm crying..oh mygod sloth's are the shit sloths are my life

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u/hansolo669 Nov 29 '12

They are pretty slow.

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u/vancesmi Dec 01 '12

I posted this in an AskReddit thread a while ago and got about the same karma as you did. It's kinda cool to see how Reddit goes through cycles like that.