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Earth is no stranger to crazy things. I mean, it’s inhabited by humans, the most bizarre creatures ever, despite how normal we may look! Humans remain mysterious, even though we’ve been studying ourselves and the world for thousands of years.
And it’s not like we haven’t made any progress or found out tons of interesting facts about our planet, of course. It’s just that there are too many things to dive into and explore! Like, did you know that vending machines kill more people than sharks? Or that men have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan? Or again, that the longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days?
Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on around the globe, and here at Bored Panda we have a weird obsession for learning about insane coincidences and random events happening in this cool, cool world. If you’re like us, you’ll be mesmerized by the amazing facts we’ve collected on this list! Go on, read them and let your brain get tickled for good.
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#1
A large percentage of the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail was donated by members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago
Also true: Beatle George Harrison saved "Monty Python's Life of Brian" with an influx of 2 million pounds after the chairman of EMI shut down the project.
#2
Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, have been sister cities since 2012.
#3
In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not.
#4
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
#5
Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.
#6
Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.
#9
The "most typical human" is right-handed, makes less than $12,000 per year, has a mobile phone, and doesn't have a bank account.
#10
A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
#11
Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year.
#12
In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally.
#13
Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.
Przemek Soroka 2 years ago
Her name was Skłodowska-Curie, not just Curie. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and lived there until the age of 24, when she moved to Paris to study there.
#14
Machine-spun Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist.
#15
More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.
#16
You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
#17
All the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans.
#18
The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day.
#19
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
#20
Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights.
#21
The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for 55 people.
#23
Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
#24
Multiple "Marlboro Men" have died from lung cancer.
Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago (edited)
Odd fact: 100 years ago, Marlboros were marketed to women. The slogan was "ivory tips protect the lips." Men refused to buy the cigarettes, so the company wooed them back with images of a rugged cowboy alone on the range.
#25
Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.
Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago (edited)
I didn't know this. Apparently this was revealed in the 2004 song "The First Time Me Eat Cookie," 35 years after the birth of Sesame Street.
#28
Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.
Pirates of Zen Pants 2 years ago
And, as Mark Twain said, we're the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
#29
If "The Simpsons" aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season.
#30
Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago (edited)
Uranus was discovered in 1781, but it’s orbit didn’t make sense, so they started looking for another planet. Neptune was found in 1846, it’s approximate location predicted ahead of time. Fun fact! At the time Neptune was discovered, asteroids Ceres (1801) and Pallas (1802) were considered planets, and were only demoted as the real nature of the asteroid belt because apparent. Pluto is not the first to get the boot.
#31
The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.
#32
While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed.
Skara Brae 2 years ago
Sounds like he had an all-nighter at the office. Does anybody know what choices he rejected? And by the way: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GameOn/pac-man-10-secrets/story?id=13084900
#33
There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
I'd really like to thank the person that did the math for this. Lol
#36
Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
Elliot Fowler 2 years ago (edited)
I think that is because the Indian subcontinent is still moving and pushing against the rest of Asia. So the mountain is being squeezed upwards as it is located along the intersection between the 2 land masses
#37
New creatures have been found in deep-sea volcanoes.
#38
The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.
#39
You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.
#40
The longest music piece in the world is being performed in the city of Halberstadt in Germany: John Cage's composition for organ ORGAN2/ASLSP.
What do you think ?
JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
Thanks for the info! I'm going to use this figure in my statistics paper! Wish me luck :)
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Nathaniel 2 years ago (edited)
Some BP posters are getting lazier and lazier. This is mostly a rip off of a post last week, and that post was a lazy one as well, literally no context to any "Fact".
Got Banned But Now I'm Back 2 years ago
Over. And over. And over. Same photos. Same "facts." It's getting really... BORING.
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Got Banned But Now I'm Back 2 years ago
Well, yes! That made-up "fact" belongs right here on this list of totally made-up "facts."
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JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
Thanks for the info! I'm going to use this figure in my statistics paper! Wish me luck :)
Load More Replies... Nathaniel 2 years ago (edited)
Some BP posters are getting lazier and lazier. This is mostly a rip off of a post last week, and that post was a lazy one as well, literally no context to any "Fact".
Got Banned But Now I'm Back 2 years ago
Over. And over. And over. Same photos. Same "facts." It's getting really... BORING.
Load More Replies... Got Banned But Now I'm Back 2 years ago
Well, yes! That made-up "fact" belongs right here on this list of totally made-up "facts."
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