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#2

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The tea bag was an accidental invention. A New York tea merchant sent samples of tea to his customers in small silken bags. Some recipients mistakenly placed the silken bags directly into a teapot instead of emptying out the contents.

divinitea.com , pasja1000 Report

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Komikat 2 years ago

If it's stupid and it works then it's not stupid

36points

eternalreefs.com , Francesco Ungaro Report

#3

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know There's a company based in Florida that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. The permanent memorials placed on the ocean floor create new marine habitats for fish and other forms of sea life.

48points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

Where's my paperwork?

16points

#4

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know McDonald's introduced drive-through service due to the military, because some soldiers were not permitted to get out of their cars off-post.

wikipedia.org , andreas160578 Report

48points

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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

Please stop down voting comments just because you disagree. Down voting is for inappropriate comments or trolls.

19points

#5

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The King owns all unclaimed swans in England and Wales.

rspb.org.uk , Yevgen Buzuk Report

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Jessica Wood 2 years ago

That's why if a swan decides to just sit down in the middle of a UK road, the police have to direct traffic around it.

26points

Michael E. Dillon and Robert Dudley , kristina001 Report

#6

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Alpine bumble-bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.

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Mere Cat 2 years ago

I can jump higher than Mount Everest! (Mountains can't jump..)

32points

#7

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know In 2006 a man in Australia tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The auction jumped to $3,000 before eBay pulled the plug on the auction.

smh.com.au , veryinformed Report

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Well thats a bit insulting. I know it's a small country but it's definitely worth alot more; you can hardly get a used car for that amount

24points

#8

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from Satan’s temptations.

smithsonianmag.com , josepons28 Report

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Emiloy 2 years ago

Just read the Smithsonian magazine article at the link and I’d definitely recommend it! Here’s the bit about the rollercoaster as a wholesome distraction: “In 1884, disgusted with the uprise of hedonistic amusements like saloons and brothels, LaMarcus Adna Thompson invented the Switchback Gravity Railway, a patented coaster that visitors to Brooklyn’s Coney Island could ride for just five cents. ... His initial invention, however, isn’t like the thrill-inducers we know today. These were gravity-powered, slow-moving cars that faced outward, rather than forward, so one could enjoy a constructed scene as the car coasted at less than six miles per hour. These scenes would often be built to emulate beautiful landscapes around the world; Thompson constructed one of the Swiss Alps, for instance, and another of Venetian canals.”

24points

#9

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know British military tanks are equipped to make tea.

wikipedia.org , rehiw Report

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

We all know the English take tea very seriously

20points

wikipedia.org , Jenni Konrad CC BY-SA 2.0 Report

#10

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Stubbs was a cat that served as mayor of an Alaskan town for 20 years, until his death.

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Federico Guerrero-Isaza 2 years ago

RIP Stubbs

15points

the flame Demon 1 year ago

Heres a picture of him Mayor_Stub...e1808e.jpg

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Kat Bylska 5 months ago

too bad he's not alive to run for president

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Kim Powers 1 year ago

He has a street named after him in Anchorage.

1point

María Hermida 2 weeks ago

I guess he took more sensible decisions than the human mayor in my town. He is a total a*****e, but he got 60% of the votes, which proves I, like Scar, am surrounded by idiots.

0points

Richi Weiss 1 month ago

Upvote for Orange cats

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Sydnie Laney 2 years ago

im moving their and getting my cat to be mayor

0points

Pam Akers 2 years ago

😁

0points

#11

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A woman with two uteruses gave birth to twins less than a month after having a baby.

bbc.com , MART PRODUCTION Report

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Jon Constant 2 years ago

Think I saw that episode on house…

10points

#12

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A full-size human could swim through a blue whale's arteries.

whalefacts.org , Abigail Lynn Report

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

More like the aorta

9points

#13

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Blood donors in Sweden receive a text when their blood is used. The initiative was meant to emphasize donors’ importance and, presumably, encourage them to come back and give more.

everplans.com , Nguyễn Hiệp Report

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Tina Harnish 6 months ago

I was on the receiving end in British Columbia the start of January. I'm not able to be a donor. Thank-you to all the blood donors out there. This time, it was not just I who was appreciative, but my roommate.

8points

#14

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The children of two pairs of identical twins are legally cousins, but genetically more similar to siblings.

today.com , Peggychoucair Report

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A Geography Nerd 2 years ago

This is the case with me and my cousins

7points

cntraveler.com , Luis Andrés Villalón Vega Report

#15

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know There is a town called Calama that once went without a single drop of rain for 400 years.

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Jon Constant 2 years ago

From Conte Nast: “It's hard to overstate just how arid the Atacama, a plateau on the coast of northern Chile, really is. The Andes Mountains work like a 13,000-foot-high wall, completely blocking systems of moist air that might otherwise wander down from the Amazon Basin. As a result, the entire Atacama, a strip of land 1,000 miles wide, is virtually rainless. Arica, one of the desert's largest cities, receives an average annual rainfall of 0.76 millimeters, about the height of a flea egg. There are weather stations in the Atacama that have never recorded any rain. The town of Calama went without a single drop of rain from 1570 to 1971—more than 400 years! There are river beds that have been dry for 120,000 years, and scientists think that the Atacama has been a desert for over three million years, which would make it the oldest dry spot on Earth.“

19points

#16

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know There is a garden in England filled exclusively with around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants.

alnwickgarden.com , suesun Report

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James Twong 2 years ago

The Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. Really interesting place.

23points

#17

Usain Bolt has scoliosis. It curved his spine to the right and made his right leg half an inch shorter than his left.

scolicare.com Report

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Well damn. Just goes to show athletes really aren't fine tuned perfect machines; they're human with human defects. This is actually pretty awesome that a person with a medical issue can still kick áss and beat people on steroids; set a few world records, get a few medals, no illegal drugs needed.

22points

#18

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel.

slate.com , markus53 Report

37points

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

There's a very good movie from 1965 about it. Staring Charlton Heston as Michaelangelo. The Spirit And The Ecstacy

8points

#19

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The five colors on the Olympic flag were carefully selected. They were selected blue, yellow, black, green, and red, because at least one of those five colors occurred in each of the participating nations’ flags.

nmsu.edu , EarthTrip Report

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

☺

3points

#20

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A "moonbow" is a rainbow that happens at night. It is produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight.

wikipedia.org , Andrew Sterling Report

36points

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Opal Troyer 2 years ago

Why isn't a rainbow called a sunbow then?

13points

gardeningknowhow.com , Erik_Karits Report

#21

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A pineapple plant can only produce one pineapple a year. Then it dies. But before it dies it also produces offspring.

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the leopard gecko overlord 1 year ago

does just it just like poof? and theres the pineapple babies? and theyre like "i will continue the bloodline mother"?

20points

theguardian.com , O'NEIL GONZALES Report

#22

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Ashes of man who designed Pringles packaging is now buried in one of the cans.

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

What flavour is displayed on the can?

18points

#23

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Shakesphere's grave does not bear his name, merely this warning rhyme: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.”

reuters.com , Ellie Burgin Report

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Susan BetzJitomir JD DM 7 months ago

I thought there was some controversy about whether or not he existed? If he has a grave, then why is there a controversy?

7points

#24

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Humans did not come from monkeys. But we do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago.

humanorigins.si.edu , KMBurke Report

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LH25 2 years ago

More people need to know this. Isn't there someone running for office in Georgia who makes that claim even now?

17points

#25

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A Canadian woman who lost her wedding ring found it 13 years later on a carrot in her garden. Also, the same thing happened to a Swedish woman, but she found her ring 16 years after losing it.

bbc.com , bbc.com Report

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Jojo Dancer 2 years ago

A picture of the carrot ring made the rounds on social media when she found it

6points

glasseshistory.com , lalesh aldarwish Report

#26

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Sunglasses were originally designed for Chinese judges to hide their facial expressions in court.

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Maiun 2 years ago

Native peoples of the arctic circle have been wearing eye shields to protect their vision from the reflection of the sun off snow for centuries.

38points

#27

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The Russian shooting team was 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics because they were still using an old calendar.

si.com , Eugene Report

32points

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Jihana 2 years ago

Oh well, that sucks

7points

entergynewsroom.com Report

#28

Squirrels are behind most power outages in the U.S.

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

One took out half my college campus for about 8 hours.

10points

nationalgeographic.com , eyeonicimages Report

#29

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Lightning strikes the earth 100 times each second. Each bolt contains up to one billion volts of electricity.

30points

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Jojo Dancer 2 years ago

1.21 jiggawatts!

14points

#30

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The longest recorded tennis match lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes. It was contested over three days between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at 2010 Wimbledon.

olympics.com , Pexels Report

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Jon Constant 2 years ago

I remember this. Was completely nuts. They literally had to update the digital scoreboard multiple times as it only went up to 27 games. The fifth set was won by American John Isner 70-68. He had four opportunities at match point before this and Mahut came back each time. Just the last set was longer than the previous record by a couple of hours. Tennis literally changed the rules after this to prevent such a long match from happening again, so this record will stand forever.

11points

#31

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know 39.4% of world's plants are threatened with extinction.

kew.org , yoksel Report

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Maiun 2 years ago

We are a c**p species.

22points

#32

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know All international astronauts (the ones going to the International Space Station) must be able to speak Russian.

space.com , lucasbeckphotography Report

28points

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Ele V 2 years ago

Interesting. Anyone has any idea as to why?

10points

oceanservice.noaa.gov Report

#33

The world’s largest waterfall is underwater. It lies beneath the Denmark Strait, which separates Iceland and Greenland.

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

Aww - nature.

5points

#34

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day, and sends over 2,000 gallons of blood throughout your body daily.

prnewswire.com , Kenny Eliason Report

27points

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Headless Roach 2 years ago

Is that why I feel tired all the time? That is a lot of work.

18points

#35

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Recycling glass jars saves energy. It takes 40% more energy to make glass from scratch compared to recycling it.

truthpaste.co.uk , Nordseher Report

27points

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alias D. 2 years ago

Yet hear we are, mega corporations not giving a s**t to do their part in which they are responsible for 97% of all works pollution

11points

#36

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Clouds hold a lot of weight. A 1 cubic kilometer cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds (about 551 tons).

usgs.gov , Pixabay Report

27points

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Andrew Pugg 2 years ago

How did they find this out

13points

#37

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Shadows are darker on the Moon because there is no air, no Rayleigh scattering. So shadows are very dark and, where sunlight hits, very bright.

universetoday.com , Ann H Report

27points

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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago

Because there's no atmosphere to spread the light all the shadows on the moon come from a single source, the sun. Subsequently all the shadows on the moon are parallel. This is one of the things that made faking the moon landing impossible because the technology to create that effect was more expensive (if even possible) than just sending people to the moon.

5points

beautyanswered.com , pineapplesplash Report

#38

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Most lipsticks contain fish scales. To be exact, the byproduct of fish scales, called pearl essence. It's the stuff that makes one's lips shiny.

26points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

This seems fishy to me

18points

#39

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Driving to space would only take an hour. But you would have to drive in a straight line upwards into the atmosphere at a speed of 60 mph.

sciencefocus.com , juskteez Report

26points

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EvilNob 2 years ago

60 monkeys per hourglass should be not so much, right?

8points

#40

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A lottery winning combination was once foretold in a fortune cookie. A record 110 players were claiming second prizes of either $100,000 or $500,000, and they selected the winning combination because it had been the set of “lucky numbers” given to them in their fortune cookies.

nytimes.com , PabloJimeno Report

26points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

Where is this Chinese restaurant?

10points

#41

In the Philippines, McDonald’s serves spaghetti. Its called, obviously, McSpaghetti.

mcdonalds.com.ph Report

26points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

I'd have gone with Mcghetti.

22points

#42

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Lobsters taste with their feet and chew with their stomachs.

isequalto.com , Roger Brown Report

26points

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Blitzø 2 years ago

And apparently have their bladders on their heads (mentioned on similar BP post recently)

11points

#43

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know You can sell almost anything on the internet nowadays, including specifically shaped cornflakes. A cornflake in the shape of Illinois was once sold on eBay for a total of $1,350.

nbcnews.com , Calum Lewis Report

25points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

People are stupid

23points

#44

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The Apollo 11 crew pre-made autographs for insurance. They signed hundreds of postal covers before they left, on the presumption that they would become highly valuable in the event of their death.

wikipedia.org , signaturepro Report

25points

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Robert Trebor 2 years ago

They clearly understood the bureaucratic went of the military pension system.

8points

#45

Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient Greece and Rome. They supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection.

loredohands.com Report

25points

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Opal Troyer 2 years ago

That's why the warriors books used spiderwebs!

14points

#46

Despite its name, the strawberry isn't a true berry. Neither is the raspberry or the blackberry. But the banana is a berry, scientifically speaking, as are eggplants, grapes and oranges.

livescience.com Report

25points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Is Nick Berry, star of Heartbeat, a true berry?

7points

#47

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The world’s smallest wasp is smaller than an amoeba. At a mere 200 micrometers in length is one of the world's smallest animals

science.org , Petr Ganaj Report

25points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago (edited)

Its the Fairy Wasp (Megaphragma mymaripenne) and that's about a fifth of a mm. It's also worth noting that amoeba vary greatly from 2 micrometes to 800micrometers. As crazy as that sounds, 200 micrometers is actually considered large for an amoeba. Per Wikipedia, the Chaos carolinensis amoeba is a giant amoeba and "can reach lengths of 5 mm, although most specimens fall between 1 and 3 mm" also there is "Pelomyxa is a genus of giant flagellar amoebae, usually 500-800 μm but occasionally up to 5 mm in length". So yeah that Wasp is super tiny but you can still see it with the naked eye; amoebas can just reach some crazy sizes. Also note, Syringammina reaches 20 cm and is the largest single-celled organism (looks like coral); just want to give some perspective on these single called organisms

18points

#48

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The moon is moving away from the Earth at the rate of 3.78cm (1.48in) per year, at about the same speed at which our fingernails grow.

bbc.com , PollyDot Report

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SerumSeven 2 years ago

That's pretty much the same amount I move every year.

20points

Evelyn L. Jensen, Stephen J. Gaughran, Nicole A. Fusco, Nikos Poulakakis, Washington Tapia, Christian Sevilla, Jeffreys Málaga, Carol Mariani, James P. Gibbs & Adalgisa Caccone Report

#49

A giant tortoise that was believed to be extinct was found in the Galapagos.

24points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

The Galapagos!! ☺

3points

#50

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know A couple of British inventors made a flying bicycle. It can travel at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour on the road and 25 miles per hour in the air, reaching altitudes of up to 4,000 feet.

xploreair.com , eta.co.uk Report

24points

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Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago

Did they store the blueprints in a puzzle? (Only Czech people will get the reference.)

4points

#51

In 1916, four years before the 1920 Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed the right of women to vote, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the United States Congress. “I may be the first woman member of Congress,” Rankin observed in 1917. “But I won’t be the last.”

history.house.gov Report

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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago

This just tells me that people who want to "make America great again" are looking at before 1916.

11points

#52

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Froot Loops loops are all the same flavor. It's an orange-lemon-cherry-raspberry-apple-blueberry-lime flavor throughout. Same flavor, different colors.

kltv.com , Sascha Bosshard Report

24points

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Rens 2 years ago

All artificial

8points

#53

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Supermarket apples in the US can be over a year old.

foodrenegade.com , Asad Nazir Report

24points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

And then they go bad within a week of bringing them home.

19points

#54

Most wasabi served in sushi restaurants is fake. When you grate real wasabi, the volatile compounds that give it its distinguished taste begin to break down within minutes. Wasabi is also considered difficult to grow and that makes it an expensive plant. The fake wasabi paste on the other hand is cheap and has a long expiration date.

makesushi.com Report

24points

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PowellSkier 1 year ago

I once mistook Wasabi for guacamole. Cleared my sinus' up REAL good.

18points

#55

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know The shortest war in history lasted between 38 and 45 minutes. It was the Anglo-Zanzibar War fought between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate on 27 August 1896.

wikipedia.org , ha11ok Report

24points

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the leopard gecko overlord 1 year ago

i think the longest was like 738 years? i forget which war though

2points

#56

NASA uses countdowns because of a sci-fi film. They got the idea from the 1929 German science fiction movie Frau im Mond (English: Woman in the Moon), directed by Fritz Lang.

atlasobscura.com Report

24points

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Pamelot 5 months ago

Who would've thought?

2points

businessinsider.in , Klaus Nielsen Report

#57

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Alfred Hitchcock was frightened of eggs. Especially the egg yolk.

23points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Ovaphobia. No yolk, that's what it's called

14points

popularmechanics.com Report

#58

Grooves in the road on Route 66 play "America the Beautiful" as you drive on the side.

23points

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Justin Smith 2 years ago

They need to redo it. This time with life is a highway.

15points

#59

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Elvis Presley's manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges.

vintagenewsdaily.com , hbieser Report

23points

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Luke T 2 years ago

Any publicity is good publicity. Double the profits.

10points

thepackagingcompany.us Report

#60

Bubble wrap was originally intended to be 3D wallpaper.

23points

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Doozle bug 11 months ago

Also good for sound and thermal insulation, except when I walk past! Pop pop pop

5points

theweek.com , Alejandro Contreras Report

#61

116 Weird Facts That You Just Have To Know Flamingos bend their legs at the ankle, not the knee.

23points

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Kate 2 years ago

They bend both.

7points

#62

The Empire State Building has its own ZIP code. It's 10118.

esbnyc.com Report

23points

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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

So does the USAA building in San Antonio, TX. But the Pentagon has SIX ZIP codes!

8points

#63

The inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, regrets the URL setup. The “//” after “https:” in a web address didn’t serve any real purpose.

theprodigious.com Report

23points

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Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

Specifically the inventor of the World Wide Web.

5points

#64

The average American spends $1,097 on coffee each year.

renolon.com Report

22points

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Made You Look 2 years ago

Worth it

13points

#65

Ketchup was once used as medicine. It was even made into an extract of tomato pills.

ripleys.com Report

22points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

Reagan called it a vegetable in school lunchrooms.

4points

#66

Umbrellas were once only used by women. Roman women are believed to be the ones who came up with the notion of oiling their parasols so they would be waterproof.

forsythnews.com Report

22points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

Originally called Bumbershoots.

7points

#67

A meteor exploded over Earth in 2018 with the force of 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb and everyone missed it.

bbc.com Report

22points

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Timothy Peterson 2 years ago

and it missed everyone!

14points

businessinsider.com Report

#68

James Cameron sold the rights to "The Terminator" back in the '80s for $1 — and it's one of his biggest regrets.

22points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

Get out!! Who bought it?

4points

#69

There is an annual baby crying festival held in Japan. Student sumo wrestlers hold the babies in their arms. When the babies begin to cry, the student sumos raise the babies higher in the air, which is believed to strengthen the blessing endowed on each crying child.

22points

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Federico Guerrero-Isaza 2 years ago

...What?

8points

#70

A 155-year-old Victorian mousetrap successfully caught a mouse in 2016.

bbc.com Report

22points

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Robert Trebor 2 years ago

A long wait for a squeaker

7points

#71

There are bubblegum pink color lakes in Australia. Red and purple microbes give the lake its hue.

newscientist.com Report

22points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago

Sounds lovely.

3points

#72

Guinness drinkers with moustaches are unknowingly wasting almost 163,000 pints every year by trapping it in their facial hair.

theguardian.com Report

22points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Is that 163,000 pints per person?

11points

#73

Fancy riding on bikes is illegal in Illinois. “No rider of a bicycle shall remove both hands from the handlebars, or feet from the pedals, or practice any acrobatic or fancy riding on any street.”

bikeradar.com Report

22points

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BluKatTheBlueCat (BluKat) 1 year ago

no fancy riding? no bike dressage you mean

5points

theculturetrip.com Report

#74

The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona. But the city rejected Gustave Eiffel's plans, and he was forced to repitch the project elsewhere. As we all know, Eiffel found a home for his idea in Paris.

22points

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

It was planned to stay only for 2 years, but due to the cost it got a special permit for 10 years to recover the cost. The citizens of Paris were furious, as they hated it. But after the 10 years, noticing how much money visitors brought to the city, they had to convince the council to let it standing. There were actually riots to stop the demolition

13points

#75

Opossums don’t actually play dead. Instead, they involuntarily enter a catatonic state.

ripleys.com Report

21points

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Blitzø 2 years ago

Like what goats do when they're scared?

9points

#76

The egg came before the chicken.

science.org.au Report

21points

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Luke T 2 years ago (edited)

From an animal that was later evolved into the chicken.

13points

#77

The Goodyear Blimp (one of a fleet of airships) is the official bird of Redondo Beach.

21points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

What's the difference between a blimp and 365 condoms?

9points

#78

Peas are one of the oldest vegetables.

encyclopedia.com Report

21points

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K W 2 years ago

....in my fridge

22points

#79

Coast redwoods are the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 115.9 m (380.1 ft) in height (without the roots) and up to 8.9 m (29 ft) in diameter.

21points

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Brian Hawley 5 months ago

They evolved to be so high to prevent long necked dinosaurs from eating them.

3points

#80

The creator of Comic Sans font has only used it once himself. He "used it to complain about bad service by a company".

cbc.ca Report

21points

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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

I'm gonna say it. I kind of like Comic Sans and will use it when I please.

23points

diamondwellness.com Report

#81

It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose. It is because when you hum, you are actually exhaling, so if both your mouth and your nose is closed, the air can’t escape.

21points

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LH25 2 years ago

How many of us tried to do this?

33points

#82

Octopuses have three hearts. One heart circulates blood around the body, while the other two pump it past the gills, to pick up oxygen.

sciencefocus.com Report

21points

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Pam Akers 2 years ago (edited)

Hmm. Again, nature trumps every dern thang. 👏

3points

americanhistory.si.edu Report

#83

The U.S. treasury once made $100,000 bills. Printed in 1934, it was not intended for general use, but instead was used as an accounting device between branches of the Federal Reserve. It was illegal for a private individual to own this banknote.

21points

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

“Banks” for the information. I’ll make a NOTE of it.

8points

#84

According to Forbes, Michael Jordan already made an estimated $1.3 billion from his Nike deal. It is the richest athlete endorsement deal ever.

forbes.com Report

20points

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Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

"Most lucrative", not "richest". The deal itself doesn't own the money.

12points

#85

The skin of the potato can have up to 12 times more antioxidants than its core. Also, the more color in the potato, the more antioxidants it contains.

webmd.com Report

20points

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PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago

Except for GREEN. Never eat green parts of potatoes.

10points

nationalgeographic.org Report

#86

Paper bags may be worse for the environment than plastic ones. Manufacturing a paper bag takes about four times as much energy as it takes to produce a plastic bag, plus the chemicals and fertilizers used in producing paper bags create additional harm to the environment.

20points

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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

Yes, but a paper bag will decompose in a month. The plastic bag will still be decomposing a millennium from now, seeding the ground, water, and air with micro plastics.

18points

#87

Ice pops were invented by an 11-year-old by accident. He had mixed some sugary soda powder with water and left it out overnight. It was a cold night, and the mixture froze.

npr.org Report

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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago

Ice pops are a good thing to keep in your car for emergencies. They're basically sugar water and can sustain you if you break down. They're freezable so winter won't make them inedible.

7points

nobelpeacecenter.org Report

#88

Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.

20points

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Ruben M 2 years ago

It was Swedish Parliamentarian Erik Brandt who nominated him. It was supposed to be a joke, but people were obviously upset by it.

11points

#89

A flock of ravens is called an “unkindness”, because back in the 19th century, many people believed that these birds weren't all that caring when it came to their young.

birdfact.com Report

19points

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Audrey Rasmussen 1 year ago

lovely, we have an 'unkindness' and then the 'murders' of birds, whats next, why do we judge these birds so

8points

#90

Being left-handed is a particular advantage in interactive sports where time pressures are particularly severe, such as table tennis and cricket.

Florian Loffing Report

18points

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Anonymouse 1 year ago

...but WHY is it a particular advantage? Do you get a time extension or...

6points

#91

You can buy a toupee for your dog in Tokyo.

independent.co.uk Report

18points

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Emiloy 2 years ago

And now from Dolly Parton! She’s just launched a line of dog hats, accessories, and wigs

5points

sportsmedalabama.com Report

#92

Approximately 25% of the bones in the body are found in our feet.

18points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

Gravity

9points

#93

San Francisco's cable cars are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are designated as a National Historic Landmark.

17points

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

They are the original San Francisco Treat!

5points

#94

China is the world’s largest silk producer. The country alone produces more than 60 % of world's silk.

atlasbig.com Report

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Crybabyartist 1 year ago

And more than 60% of all the rest of the crappy junk that's made in the world.

5points

swine.extension.org Report

#95

Pigs do not sweat. But they are able to rid themselves of heat in other ways.

17points

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Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

That's why they roll in mud. The wet mud evaporates like sweat, with the same cooling effect.

8points

#96

Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by a dentist.

17points

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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago

Hence why the British call it candy floss.

13points

#97

Researchers once turned a live cat into a telephone. In 1929 Professor Ernest Glen Wever and his research assistant Charles William Bray took an unconscious, but alive, cat and transformed it into a working telephone to test how sound is perceived by the auditory nerve.

princeton.edu Report

17points

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Vivisectionists never miss a chance to torture an animal for any damn reason.......

22points

#98

A baseball has a lifespan. The average lifespan of a baseball in a major league game is seven pitches.

forbes.com Report

16points

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Robert Trebor 2 years ago

With Babe Ruth it was one

7points

#99

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

egypttoday.com Report

16points

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$cagsy 2 years ago

They were the first to fall asleep on their tablet.

17points

#100

Louisiana's lake is home to a rare pink bottlenose dolphin.

theguardian.com Report

16points

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Better worded “Louisiana’s one and only lake in the entire state is home to…”

8points

columbuscriminalattorney.com Report

#101

Ohio DUI offenders must drive with yellow license plates. If you fail to use the plates, you will face a $100 penalty and your restricted driving privileges will be revoked.

16points

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Bradley Curthoys 2 years ago

We called them party plates 🍻

6points

#102

Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used to use corn cobs, while Romans used a more inventive way of cleaning up.

cottonelle.com Report

16points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Romans used sponges and cloths tied to the end of a stick.

13points

#103

It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. Unless you are a physiological anomaly.

Simon Lane Report

15points

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Timothy Peterson 2 years ago

So.... It's impossible unless you can.

21points

#104

There is an annual Coffee Break Festival happening in Wisconsin.

stoughtonwi.com Report

15points

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

And many beer festivals.

3points

#105

Some sea cucumbers fight with their guts (literally). But don't worry, they grow them back in a couple of weeks.

lanecc.edu Report

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I wasn’t worried.

8points

#106

A jiffy is an actual unit of time. The term is often used to describe a very short but unspecified period of time, for example: "I'll have it sorted out in a jiffy!"

14points

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Ines Olabarria-Smith 2 years ago

“Santiamén” ,“Pis-pas” or “Ti-ta “ in Spain.

4points

#107

Babe Ruth out-homered every American league team. He homered off 35 different pitchers.

baseballhall.org Report

14points

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SerumSeven 2 years ago

Kind of creepy that he hit on all those people. (I'll see myself out, now.)

8points

#108

Wine is made from grapes, but that does not necessarily make it vegetarian or vegan. Some winemaking methods make surprising use of animal-derived products.

winemag.com Report

14points

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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago

You could argue that vegetables grown with manure aren't vegan because it uses animal-derived products

12points

#109

Dolphins sleep with one eye open. One side of their brain stays awake and the opposite eye stays open to watch for danger and rise to the surface to breathe. Meanwhile, the other half of brain sleeps and the opposite eye is closed.

livescience.com Report

14points

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Robert Trebor 2 years ago

When I try to get sleep the sides of my brain fight.

8points

guinnessworldrecords.com Report

#110

The largest padlock in the world was created by Russian students and teachers, and it weighs 415.5 kg (916 lb).

13points

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Alexander Miles 8 months ago

How heavy was the key to open it?

4points

#111

About 2 to 3 out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears.

nidcd.nih.gov Report

12points

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Ashley Conover 2 years ago

I knew a kid like that many years ago.

3points

#112

Ketchup leaves the bottle at a measured speed. It exits the glass bottle at 0.028 miles per hour.

heinz.com.hk Report

11points

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

You haven't tried whipping an open bottle around the room then, have you?

10points

#113

A person is unable to detect smells when they suffer from anosmia.

nidcd.nih.gov Report

11points

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Timothy Peterson 2 years ago

To put it more clearly - Anosmia means loss of ability to smell.

10points

#114

The name "bonobo" is thought to derive from a misspelling on a shipping crate from the town of Bolobo on the Congo River.

11points

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

The common greeting “O hello bonobo lleho” is actually a palindrome.

3points

#115

A Costa Rican worker that makes baseballs earns $2,750 annually.

nytimes.com Report

9points

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$cagsy 2 years ago

This means nothing without a cost of living comparison. It appears to be quite a low income but if they only pay 15% in living costs and leasing a Ferrari costs $1 per month, then they could be a lot better off than most of us. Or they may live in a sewer and eat rats. Funny old world.

7points