In the Middle Ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death. True or false? Weirdly enough, it actually checks out as true. In fact, during the Great Plague of London in the 1600s, some doctors would recommend that people keep “fart jars” to ward off the bubonic plague.
While it more than likely did not save many people, the strange piece of information has been forever immortalized in history books. And it's just one of many very strange but fascinating tidbits that can be found on the Weird Facts IG page. Over 1.2 million people follow the account for their daily dose of oddly interesting information.
Bored Panda has picked out a few of our personal favorites from the page for your scrolling pleasure. Upvote the ones that leave you intrigued, and enjoy sharing your newfound knowledge with your family and friends this holiday season.
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That's why I keep watching Naughty Nurses V. That and the fantastic script.
Pants! How dare they! Next they will be wanting equal rights!
That only works if you believe what the Lizard Overlords are telling us.
All the devices these ghost hunters use incorrectly whilst searching for ghosts, they just need a carbon monoxide detector.
The strangulation scene still haunts me. It seems to take so long, when compared to strangulation scenes in most movies. Yet it is supposedly realistic. Strangulation is not a quick death.
As I read this there is a pop up advertising Bored Panda on my screen, whilst I am on Bored Panda. BP stop it.
That sounds like the dads had up until this point has been dropping the wives off at school.
So some dude really wanted that and went through the trouble? Dude. Just pick a different place and move on.
Pearl Harbour might have turned out to be a good film if it concentrated on this character, rather than all that silly romantic gubbins and Ben Affleck.
I can't help but think of Alan Davies (QI) every time I read/see something about Blue whales.
Still. If I were to be in the water and see one of them, I am outta there!
The next live fight on Netflix will be Orca versus Great White.
There is an interesting book, fairly recent, about an octopus, "Shiny Things", maybe?
Glad he wasn't around my place last night. I fell asleep on the couch and woke at 4am and went to bed. After lying there for about 10 minutes I suddenly wondered if I had locked the front door. Glad I got up to check, because I hadn't.
And the still have the same old regular propping up the bar.
This is, kind of, difficult to believe. 20 years is a very long time.
Not surprising. I bet the best film about the US wasn't made in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Scholastic_Ability_Test On test day, the KRX stock market opens late, and bus and metro service is increased to avoid traffic jams and allow students to get to the testing sites more easily. Planes are grounded during the listening portion of the English section so their noise does not disturb the students. In some cases, students running late for the test may be escorted to their testing site by police officers via motorcycle.
My daughter recently went tandem skydiving. You fall at terminal velocity which is close to 150mph. She said she was told not to look down. And the reason was it was so hard to take a breath into her lungs from the pressure on her ribs. Apparently when you look up you can catch a breath.
I watched this film once. It was such relentless violence I got bored of it. It did make me think what kind of Christians would watch this, seeing Jesus getting the sh!t kicked out of him for a whole movie?