Some additional links include:
https://www.rd.com/culture/weird-facts/
https://www.livin3.com/50-cool-and-weird-fun-facts-that-you-should-know
https://www.factslides.com/s-Strange
https://factsd.com/weird-facts-that-are-strange/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/interesting-facts-about-the-world
-Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister for Britain during WWII, is half-American. His mother was a woman from Brooklyn named Jennie Jerome
-Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson wrote the song "Accident of Birth", the title track from the 1997 solo album of the same name, about himself. In his book, What Does This Button Do? An Autobiography, Bruce mentions that parents, Sonia Hartley-Dickinson and Bruce Dickinson Sr were only 17 and 18 when their son was born. He describes himself as an accidental birth while five years later, his sister Helena was a planned birth, who he felt he couldn't connect to. Which is why he feels deeply estranged from his sister, even to this day. Since his parents were teen parents, a highly unusual situation in late 1950s England, he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents. His maternal grandmother looked him and treated him like the Spawn of Satan, the reason her daughter disappeared, while his maternal grandfather doted on him like the son he never had.
-Donkey Kong got his name from the English word "donkey" which means stupid. So the overall impression was that Donkey Kong was a stupid ape
-The stage before frostbite is called frostnip
-The character Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars IV: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, but actually a giant puppet
-The dark region of Pluto's moon, Charon, is called Mordor, for those Lord of the Rings fans out there. Also, for those who are fans of Greek mythology, you probably already know that Charon is sometimes known as the Boatman or the Ferryman of the Dead, who ferries lost souls to the land of the dead. It's a tradition to place two coins, either on the eyes or in the mouth of the dead to pay the ferryman. Those who die without paying for the ferryman will forever straddle the worlds between the living and the dead
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| Charon, Boatman/Ferryman of the Dead |
-Among the items most confiscated in the UK, Marmite is the #1 most confiscated item
-Ketchup originated in China as a result of boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices and was called ke-chiap
-Certain areas of Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights. The calming effect of the color blue was said to decrease crime and suicide rates
-How cruel is this??? In October 2015, a man with Cerebral Palsy was forced to crawl off one of the flights of United Airlines while the stewardesses didn't help, only watched
-The state of Ohio gives a specially colored license plate to those with 5+ DUI's on their record. They are also placed on the Habitual DUI/OVI list.
-Guy Fawkes is the reason that men are often called "guys"
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| The person the mask was modeled after. Most people don't know this mask was modeled after a real person. They just know it as being the "V for Vendetta" mask |
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| This mask is called a Guy Fawkes mask. It is usually paired with a black hat and all black clothing, resulting in the costume worn by the hero in the film V for Vendetta |
-In 1945, the first atomic bomb was nicknamed "The Gadget"
-Despite the fact that Australia is the home for the largest amount of venomous snakes in the world, the country only averages one fatal bite a year
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| What a beautiful sight |
-Big Ben is not the proper name of the famous clock tower in London. The actual proper name is the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster. "Big Ben" is the name for the bell in the tower
-The Olympic flag's colors are red, blue, black, green and yellow. This is because each of those colors appear at least once on every flag in the world
-Most lipstick contain fish scales
-There is enough fuel in a jumbo jet tank to drive an average car four times around the world
-If injected intravenously, nutmeg is extremely poisonous
-Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria by 700x
-Crocodiles/alligators are surprisingly fast on land. If you ever find yourself being chased by one, run in a zig zag line and you'll lose them
-Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
-On the island of Tasmania, there are only three types of snake and they are all incredibly poisonous
-The film Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks
-The only member of ZZ Top without a long beard is drummer Frank Beard
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist
-90% of New York's cabbies are recently arrived immigrants
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| This is amazing. Cincinnati, OH is getting to be like that. A lot of the cabbies are immigrants from other countries, mostly Africa, the Middle East and India from what I've seen. But still pretty cool!! |
-Flamingos bend their legs at their ankles, not their knees
-Roller coasters were invented to keep people away from trouble
-Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Too bad him trying to rid Germany of inferior races got rid of that. The Swedish politician who sent the letter sent it ironically and withdrew it.
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If he wasn't so evil, he'd be a genius. He came up with the concept of the highway so he could advance German troops faster through out Europe.
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-The British Royal family is named after the town of Windsor, where they had ties. The castle in which they reside was originally known as Saxe-Coburg-Gotha castle in 1917, but they wanted it to sound less German. So they changed it to Windsor, the town in which the castle is located
-Ella Slack is said to be an exact doppleganger to Queen Elizabeth II. Ella Slack has a similar height and stature to the Queen
-Since 1945, all British tanks come equipped with equipment to make tea, coffee and other hot drinks
-PEZ candy was created to help people stop smoking
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| Awww, these are too cute!! |
-The average person spends an average of 6 months of their life waiting for a red traffic light to turn green
-You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
-The 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, frequently used his own money to buy slaves in order to free them
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| That's amazing!! |
-Before he died, Bob Marley's last words were "Money can't buy life"
-The Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from public libraries
-Def Leppard bassist Rick Savage was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy in January of 1994. Since then, he's been regaining the feeling in most of his face, little by little
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| Still cute!! |
-When Lawrence Anthony, who wrote a book called The Elephant Whisperer, died, a herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn his death
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| Awww, I love elephants!! |
-Like finger prints, tongue prints are incredibly unique to each person
-Philaphobia is the fear of falling in love
-Sprite is said to be the best cure for hangovers
-Despite the fact that rapper Eminem will often lace his songs with swearing, he does not allow it in his home
-Breastfeeding is good for a baby because it allows germs to pass from the baby to the mother so the mother's immune system can respond and produce antibodies for the baby
-The venom of the boomslang snake causes its victim to bleed from all the holes in your body
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| This thing looks evil or even mean! |
-Skipping breakfast is bad for you. This causes you to gain weight. Skipping breakfast will trick your brain in to thinking you want higher-calorie foods later
-French was the official language of England for 600 years
-Flamingos can only eat with their head upside down
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| My sister is in complete love with these birds! |
-There are more fake flamingos on the planet than real ones
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| If my sister had her way, our front yard would look like this!! |
-In 1966, when the game Twister was invented, it was denounced by critics as "sex in a box"
-The Mimic Octopus can not only change colors, but can also change shapes, to mimic that of other animals, like the lionfish, flounder, sea snakes and more
-There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and are used as waypoints for climbers
-Dr. Seuss wrote the book Green Eggs and Ham to win a bet with his publisher that he could not write a book with only 50 words
-When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team play home games, the stadium becomes the third largest city
-If a male lion takes over a pride, he kills all the cubs
-There are more vacant houses in the US than homeless people
-The average American drinks around 600 sodas a year
-If you try and hold a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
-A shark can detect as little as 1 part of blood in 100 million parts of water
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| The bull shark, featured here, is the more aggressive member of the shark family |
-The name "Jeep" originated from the abbreviation for the Army's name for General Purpose vehicle, or G.P
-Reed Hastings, the founder of Netflix, was inspired to start up the internet-based streaming service after racking up $40 in late fees for a VHS
-A group of pugs is called a grumble
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| Awww! Cuteness overload!! |
-Despite their association with Chinese culture, fortune cookies are an American invention. Charles Jung created them in 1918
-You are most likely to die from a falling coconut than a shark attack
-When Elvis Presley was in the 8th grade, he got a "C" in his music class
-Earth is the only planet not named after a god
-Cows can have best friends and experience stress when they are removed from them
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| AWWWWWWWW!! I LOVE COWS!! AWWW! A baby cow! |
-Going to work is statistically 3x more dangerous than going to war
-Almost 1/4 of the land in Los Angeles is consumed by automobiles
-Long ago, when clans of people wanted to rid themselves of people without killing them, they would burn down the houses of these people, the origin of the phrase "to get fired"
-The pharmaceutical company Bayer trademarked the word "heroin" and sold this narcotic as a cough and headache medicine
-Polar bears who want to blend in with the snow and ice will cover up their black nose with their paws
-In the average NFL game, there are only 12 minutes of actual playing on the field
-If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle
-If the house has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds sustained in battle
-If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes
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