r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 10 '20

TMAF about weird traditions in your country

627 Upvotes

As the title says, tell me about that weird tradition that happens in your country. I'll start with mine.

In Argentina, if you have seven sons, the seventh son has the right to choose the current president as his godfather.

EDIT: Fun fact about this, I went to school with a guy that had 6 brothers, but when the last son was born it was a fucked up time in Argentina (the crisis of 2001, we ended up defaulting our debt and we even had 5 different presidents in 11 days) so his parents ended up choosing the mayor.


r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 28 '20

TMAF about common sayings

424 Upvotes

I'm an Italian guy who's really into common saying in every language. I like to know the story behind them and why they are so common. I give you one Italian common saying. "Il gioco non vale la candela" translated is "the game isn't worth the candle". This find its root in the 1000s, where for playing cards you had to use candles. But those were expensive, so if you couldn't win enough money to repay the candle, the game wasn't worth the candle.


r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 15 '20

TMAF about anything, but also tell me a lie about it and don't say which is which

392 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jul 11 '15

TMAF about Uranus that is simultaneously a fact about your anus NSFW

310 Upvotes

or anyone's anus in general.


r/TellMeAFact • • Sep 01 '26

TMAF about -After Woodrow Wilson's stroke in 1919, his wife controlled all access to him for 17 months. She decided which papers and people reached the president, guided his hand for signatures, and told the Cabinet he had "nervous exhaustion." There was no 25th Amendment for another 48 years.

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309 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 04 '20

TMAF about yourself

308 Upvotes

Not some personal information ofc


r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 07 '20

TMAF about blood types

298 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Apr 24 '15

TMAF about the Netherlands

267 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 08 '20

TMAF about the history of Iran

262 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • May 20 '25

TMAF about space that sounds fake but is true.

261 Upvotes

I’ll start, There’s a rogue planet wandering through space with no star to orbit basically a “planet without a home." These free floating planets drift through the galaxy alone, completely dark and cold, untethered to any solar system.


r/TellMeAFact • • Oct 21 '19

TMAF about gay or queer figures that got written into history as straight "but never married and lived with a same-sex companion they were very close to"

257 Upvotes

I frequently see memes referencing this, like this one. It makes sense that this is the moment the presence of lgbt+ folks in history can begin to resurface. I'd like to know some examples.


r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 20 '20

TMAF about Martin Luther King Jr.

254 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 19 '20

TMAF about arranged marriages

245 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 07 '20

TMAF about being left-handed

245 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Feb 26 '20

TMAF about serial killers

233 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 30 '20

TMAF about your country without naming it.

226 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Feb 10 '20

TMAF about famous criminal/murder cases (e.g. OJ Simpson, Casey Anthony, etc.)

225 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 04 '20

TMAF about ADHD

222 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Feb 24 '20

TMAF about space

219 Upvotes

Fact#5Did you know that it is impossible to exit this universe according to math and science today.From my understanding,the universe will bend itself or your spaceship away from the outside space and it will look like you are still traveling in the same direction


r/TellMeAFact • • Oct 19 '15

TMAF about music theory!

219 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 12 '20

TMAF about WW1

217 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jun 21 '19

TMAF about a disease/disorder you have

215 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 05 '20

TMAF about Minesweeper

212 Upvotes

r/TellMeAFact • • Jan 24 '20

TMAF about ancient history

211 Upvotes

Let's define ancient history as any time before the ~1300s AD.


r/TellMeAFact • • Jul 31 '20

TMAF about something so disturbing, it will keep me up for a week straight

207 Upvotes