44 Facts You Likely Didn't Know

The type of fun knowledge you can use to impress your friends.

Published 9 years ago in Funny

The type of fun knowledge you can use to impress your friends.

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There is an app for Icelandic natives that allows them to make sure they aren't about to bang a relative.

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Flexibility is not about muscle elasticity, but about training your nervous system that further muscle stretching is safe, so it won't fire pain signals to the brain. Any healthy human being is able to do a split under anesthesia.
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The Portuguese Man-of-War is not a single creature, but a colony of four smaller organisms that attach to each other and cannot survive independently.

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A hawk's eyesight is so good that it will fly to an altitude of 15,000 feet and scan the ground for small rodents.
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The name Caesar was pronounced "kaisar" in Latin, just like the German word emperor, "Kaiser."
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It's possible for amateur radio operators to call the ISS and even get a response from an off duty astronaut.

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One of the reasons your lungs feel refreshed when walking through a pine forest is because of an anti-inflammatory compound called a-Pinene, found in conifers. It is used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of asthma and abundantly present in marijuana.
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Tamzin Merchant played Daenerys Targaryen in the pilot episode of Game of Thrones but the role was re-cast after filming with Emilia Clarke.
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The concept of the "rap battle" has existed since the 5th century, where poets would engage in "flyting," a spoken word event where poets would insult one another in verse.

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The title role in 'Babe' was played by 48 different pigs.
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8 to 16 percent of humans are missing the Palmaris longus muscle which was once used for climbing.
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In 2004, police discovered a secret underground cinema with professionally installed electricity, phone lines, full bar, classic movies and recent thrillers, and more in the catacombs under Paris. Upon returning 3 days later, a note was found that read "Do not try to find us."

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LSD was first synthesized in 1938 but it wasn't until 5 years later that it's inventor accidentally consumed it, discovering its hallucinogenic properties.
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Whale poop used to be an ingredient in ice cream.
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William of Auvergne conceived the idea that demons felt a particular and morbid attraction by long and beautiful female hair, and thus leading to the women of his time to start covering their hair to avoid exciting desire in them.

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Prairie dogs have such a complex means of communication that they can embed descriptions of predators within their calls, and even have a specific call to describe a man with a gun.
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The French term for brass knuckles is "Poing American" which literally translates to "American Fist."
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The red-headed bride from Mad Max Fury Road married the guitar-flamethrower man in real life.

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Spongebob Squarepants was originally going to be called Spongeboy and the show was originally going to be called Spongeboy Ahoy, but they had to change his name after it turned out that Spongeboy was the copyrighted name of a mop.
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Game Of Thrones actresses Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey have both played the character Sarah Connor from the Terminator franchise.
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Australian Wallabies have been found to make crop circles in Tasmania after ingesting opium poppies.

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A study shows that watching porn is the most popular online activity.
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Dolph Lungdren has a degree in chemistry from Washington State University, a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, then a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in Australia.
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Between the 1910s and the 1950s, lesbian and bisexual women would give violets to the girl they were crushing on, to symbolize their "sapphic love".

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The number of people living in the USA that are illiterate is almost equal to the entire population of Canada (32,000,000 vs 35,000,000).
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The number of people living in the USA that are illiterate is almost equal to the entire population of Canada (32,000,000 vs 35,000,000).
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"American" was the official language of Illinois from 1923 to 1969.

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Crispin Glover, who played Michael J Fox's father in Back to the Future, is actually younger than him.
30
LSD was first synthesized in 1938 but it wasn't until 5 years later that it's inventor accidentally consumed it, discovering its hallucinogenic properties.
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Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.

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A student in the UK was arrested for calling a horse 'gay.'
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In 1996 Brian Zembic agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for one year in return for US$100,000. He won the bet but became accustomed to the breasts and did not have them removed.
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The Soviet Union refused to host the 1980 Paralympics, stating that none of their citizens had disabilities.

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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
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There is a plant that survives by eating poop. It gives small animals a laxative and uses the nitrogen in the poop for food.
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Japan has over 70 flavors of Fanta including: 'The Mystery Fruit', 'Genius Energy' and 'Hip Hop' flavor.

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During WWII, a Japanese Consul named Chiune Sugihara saved 6,000 Jews from the Holocaust by writing them Visas to Japan even after the government told him not to.
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The actor who plays the "Cigarette Smoking Man" on the X-files, William B. Davis, is an anti-smoking advocate, an anti-paranormal skeptic.
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Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian named their daughter, Roseanne, after Johnny's nickname for Vivian's boobs: Rose and Anne.

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There is a place on Earth that has been burning for 40 years.
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In 2002, Bruce Willis' daughter suggested giving Girl Scout cookies to troops. He bought 12,000 boxes and delivered them to troops stationed throughout the Middle East.
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Rabbits have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to see what's happening behind them without turning their head, but they have a small blind-spot in front of their nose.