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Some days fall pretty flat in the entertainment department. You wake up, go to work, eat your dinner afterward and maybe watch an episode or two of a series that’s just mildly interesting. In short - meh. But you know what could save such a day? A couple of things, really - a cat, a dog, a hearty meal, or a funny fact! And while we cannot provide you with the first three, we can definitely offer you our list brimming with ridiculously funny facts that might just make your day a tad bit brighter. 

So, what categories do these fun facts encompass, you ask? Truthfully, so many of them we’ve lost count! There are unbelievable facts stemming from science, random facts about animals, and interesting facts about humans. However, we’ve made sure that they are all wildly entertaining, and hopefully, some will coax a snicker out of you. That’s why they’re here, after all! 

Now, let’s figure out if the day that you are having is a particularly dull one. If so, you can definitely choose to read all of these hilarious facts at once. You know, the more, the merrier! And if your day is just slightly meh, you could ration these fun facts for a longer period of time. Either way, the facts are just a bit further down, and you should definitely check them out. Once that’s all well and done, give the most entertaining facts your vote and share this article with your friends.

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British secret intelligence service managed to hack into an Al-Qaeda website and replace certain bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.

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Brown Little Squirrel Running On The Road The Hague city spent pent €150,000 on a bridge to allow squirrels to cross a busy main road.

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English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, but he originally named it George.

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Match.com founder lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well... At least it works?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex was on Match before he met me at work, he only got one match - that should have been the first red flag.

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*Plot Twist - She then went on to marry the man who founded Ashley Madison.

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Person in White Socks Sitting Under the Table President Calvin Coolidge used to push the emergency buzzer and hide under the table from the Secret Service.

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The CIA attempted to train cats to gather intel in the 1960s.

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Woman Talking Into A Microphone Miss Piggy and Yoda were both voiced by the same person.

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Person Putting Toothpaste On Toothbrush The blob of toothpaste that you put on your toothbrush is called 'nurdle'.

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On Friday, April 18, 1930 people from Britain tuned into BBC only to hear: “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.”

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You can find a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. The name of the basketball court is - The Highest Court in the Land.

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John Steinbeck's dog, Toby, ate the first draft of "Of Mice and Men"

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Woman Slapping A Man At Night Computer programmer Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him every time he tries to check Facebook.

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Unicorn is Scotland’s national animal.

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Dolly Parton entered a celebrity look-alike contest and lost.

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Woman Wearing High Heels Above A Pool High-heeled shoes were originally designed in the 10th Century, specifically for men.

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Alexander Fleming at first called penicillin “mould juice”.

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A person tried to sue God, but was unable to proceed due to an unlisted home address.

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Woman Looking AT The Screen And Reading It could take you 76 work days to read all the privacy policies you encounter on the internet over a period of 1 year.

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Many Of Orange Lobsters Lobsters can communicate by urinating at one another.

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Slow music that was played at a large dairy farm increased the cows’ milk production by 3 percent.

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Winnie The Pooh Holding A Red Balloon And Hammer In A Forest Cartoon character Winnie the Pooh images are being blocked on social media sites in China.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the official term for the "fear of long words."

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#23

There's a small village named 'Hell' right next to Trondheim Airport Værnes in Norway.

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Game of Thrones costume designer revealed that Nights Watch cloaks were made from IKEA rugs.

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German chocolate cake does not originate in Germany. It was named after Sam German, who in 1852 invented a type of baking chocolate for Baker's.

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Person Dropping Vote In The Box The small town of Dorset, Minnesota elects a major by picking a name out of a hat, once it elected a 3-year-old.

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#27

CDC has a real website dedicated to emergency preparedness for a zombie apocalypse.

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Invisible artwork called "Fresh Air" sold for 10,000$.

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Boot Stepping On A Banana Peel In 2001 there were 300 banana-related accidents in Great Britain.

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You can acquire a unicorn hunting license from Lake Superior State University in Michigan.

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80 Funny Facts About Anything And Everything The Twilight movie series has 26 minutes of silent staring.

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Japanese police confront violence by wrapping people in futons.

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A Jiffy is a unit of real-time. A jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre.

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Chile minted 1.5 million 50-peso coins with a spelling error, they were issued in 2008 with Chile spelled “Chiie”. The error was only noticed a year later.

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Soda Can In Water Diet soda cans float in the water, but regular soda cans sink due to the difference in density.

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Eggs frightened Alfred Hitchcock.

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To avoid baggage fees on a flight man wore 70 pieces of clothing.

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Art used to be rewarded with medals at the Olympics.

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It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

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Blooming Flower In A Sunny Weather Israeli and Australian researchers conducted a study that determined - Viagra makes flowers stand up straight.

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Stacks Of Barrels There are more barrels of bourbon than there are people in Kentucky.

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There's a musical road in Lancaster, California that plays the song "William Tell Overture" if the cars drive over 55 mph.

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Woman And Man Parachuting In the state of Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday.

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Jennifer Lawrence has "H2O" tattooed on her hand to remind her to drink water.

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Many Pistachios Pistachios are technically considered a fruit.

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Group Of Horses Near A Fence Horses only breathe through the nose.

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Three Cows In Field Under Clear Blue Sky Researchers who study bovine behaviour have discovered that cows have different accents.

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Cookie Monster has a real first name - Sid.

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Barry Manilow hit song "I Write the Songs" wasn't written by the singer.

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You're more likely to get killed by a vending machine than a shark.

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In 2014 L.A. Times published a study that shows that 1 in every 9 Americans think that HTML is actually a sexually transmitted disease.

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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain!

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Harvard has a higher acceptance rate than Walmart.

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Tattooed Man Eating A Carrot Eating too many carrots can cause a yellowish discoloration of the skin and turn you orange!

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In the 1830s Ketchup was sold and used as medicine.

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Matt Groening intended for Homer Simpson to be Krusty the Clown, but the idea was dropped.

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Four People Riding On Camels Across The Pyramids Australia exported camels to Saudi Arabia.

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There's a Starbucks cup in almost every scene of Fight Club.

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Engineer Richard James accidentally invented the Slinky when a spring designed to stabilize the device of a ship fell off a shelf.

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Nearly every movie & tv show has to end with a disclaimer saying it's fiction. The disclaimer issue is rooted in a lawsuit against MGM for the 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress.

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Vladimir Nabokov came up with the concept of emoticons in 1969.

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Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand is 55 miles long.

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Psychotria Elata is a flower in the rainforests of Central and South America that resembles lips covered in lipstick.

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A man from New Zealand lost a bet and had to change his name to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova." It took 5 years for the government to approve the change.

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Woman Using Loofah To Scrub Her Legs Loofahs are made from vegetables.

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A football fan once dedicated his obituary to disrespect an NFL team.

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Monowi, Nebraska, used to be the only town in the United States with an official population of one person.

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A farmer in Tennessee grew a 910-pound pumpkin and used it as a boat.

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Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal hit over 11000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.

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'The Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong shared a cell while in prison.

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Abraham Lincoln Statue Abraham Lincoln was an accomplished wrestler.

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A worker sued his former company for A$1.8m because the worker claimed his ex-boss repeatedly broke wind at him.

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Camels have straight spines, despite their humps.

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The house from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a family restaurant called Grand Central Café.

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Giant Rubber Ducky In Water At The Park Anatidaephobia is the fear that a duck may be watching you.

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According to 2014 research done by LifeWay, 7 percent of Christian Americans pray for a good parking spot.

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Ironically Walt Disney had a fear of mice.

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Jennifer Lopez's dress at the 2000 Grammys inspired the creation of Google Images.

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While in graduate school Neil DeGrasse Tyson thought about becoming a stripper to earn extra money.

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In 1893 there was a proposal for a U.S. constitutional amendment, suggesting changing the name of the United States to 'The United States of Earth.'

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