Is it normal to be a "know it all"?

I didn't know about the dolphins....

Dappled, your humor is wonderful. :-)

I don't think this is what a know it all is. A know it all is someone who believes they know it all and so assumes they are always right.

Simply being informed and intelligent is not a bad thing. However jealous people will often take your knowledge as an insult to their own intelligence.

If people are so offended you know things tell them to pick up a book and educate themselves. You should not have to be stupid simply because they cant handle it.

We need more people like you in this world. People who think make discoveries and inventions. People who do not are doomed to mediocrity their entire lives. Dont be an idiots because society says you have to be. To anyone that tells you otherwise tell them they can go suck it.

dont worry i do it to but i learned to stop pointing because every time i do i have to be hit in the head by ...something

wow! seriously like half the comments are from defintleynotnormal89 and the author. but u seem cool. i would so hang out with you if u were my friend!

Defenitlynotnormall8 are you the person who submitted this story?

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Try to work it into conversation at appropriate times and don't be too predictable with it.

Really, I think the only time you can impress people in general with your knowledge is if you use your knowledge to help them personally (help them win a trivia game, help them out of trouble, help them with work or school, etc). Otherwise they just don't care.

Here's a fun animal one: male anglerfish see their much larger female counterparts as food. As the male begins to nibble on her, his mouth gets fused to her body. The two become atrophied and he is gradually consumed until only his testes remain dangling from her body. She can have several sets of testicles attached to her at any time, and inseminate herself at will. =D

I love people who share random facts and teach me something that I didn't know.

Did you know I'm the same way?

Haha! No really. I do that also. I do have to stop myself. Family and friends got irritated. Like you, I get excited about something and just want to share it.

I have a big problem with this myself. I try not to do it but it's difficult not to. If I hear myself doing it, I stop myself. I think people think it's showing off or trying to intimidate but really it's just pure excitement at how amazing the world is. Sounds like it's the same for you.

The wave-particle duality thing fascinates me and horrifies me in equal measure. My jaw dropped when I was taught it but then I realised that what I was being taught was, essentially, wrong. Yes, light sometimes behaves as a particle and sometimes as a wave but that's because we're trying to model it on something familiar. The fact that it does both means that it's neither. The science is a fudge made for the sake of being able to predict things. I prefer "is" to "like". I want to know what light "is" not what it behaves "like". Someone one day will explain it. But, for now, we don't know.

It's like how gravity acts on bodies that have mass. Photons have no mass so why can't they escape a black hole? A black hole should have no effect on light at all, but the very name of a black hole implies that it does. The truth (or the current truth) is that gravity (and by implication, mass) bends reality. By the very act of existing, you are bending reality. Amazing stuff.

I love how you dolts use google to spew randow ( and all, essentially, untrue) "facts" as though you bullshitters actually walk around just KNOWING cool, random facts. Lol if only you pulled your heads from out your bums, you'd know you don't appear smart...but instead rather quite idiotic.

Ahhh I'm a sucker for random facts, my favourite ones are the ones that make people say "no...really?!". I think everytime my family hear me say "Did you know..." they want to disown me.