Weird Facts

  • The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
  • You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  • The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
  • A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
  • Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
  • It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
  • There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.
  • The drummer for the rock group Def Leppard only has one arm.
  • For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
  • A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
  • False teeth are often minutely radioactive.
  • Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.
  • Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.
  • If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  • If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.
  • Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
  • In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
  • There are around 200 corpses on Mount Everest.
  • One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
  • It would take 17,000 McDonalds strawfuls of water to fill a standard bathtub.
  • Larry Walters tied 45 balloons to his lawn chair and rose to 15,000 feet.
  • In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
  • In 1977 a 13 year old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
  • Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  • The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.
  • The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War.
  • All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
  • A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
  • Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
  • You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
  • Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
  • Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
  • There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
  • The U.S. military's dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!
  • The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
  • The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.
  • The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

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