I sat at my desk feeling very curious today, and so I went searching for facts. Talk about being bored. Well, being bored has it's benefits... I found facts that made me laugh, wonder and just shake my head. Have you ever wondered what is the strangest thing out there. Why not check out these 30 strange but true facts that will shock you! Here we go: 1. Donkey Kong got his name because his creator believed ‘donkey’ meant ‘stupid’ in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape”. 2. The medical name for a butt crack is “intergluteal cleft”. 3. Mr Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV. 4. In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself. 5. In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data! 6. Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001 and Gran Turismo 2, has scratch & sniff discs. The FIFA 2001 smelled like a soccer field, while Gran Turismo 2 smelled like car tires. 7. Snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill you! 8. In 2015, a silver coin with Superman on the heads side was made which is legal tender in Canada. There was only 350,000 produced. 9. The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip. 10. Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet. 11. There are no bridges over the Amazon River. 12. In Morse Code -.- means k. 13. A duel between three people is actually called a truel. 14. In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies. 15. Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog. 16. Even though Froot Loops are different colors, they all have exactly the same flavor. 17. Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern. 18. Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink. 19. Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. 20. The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents. 21. Before the term “bloopers” was coined, ‘out-takes’ were called ‘boners’. 22. Daddy longlegs have penises, which technically makes them not a spider. 23. Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’. 24. In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved. 25. Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Trivago, Travelocity, and Orbitz are all owned by the same company, Expedia Inc. . 26. The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently. 27. Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King. 28. If you sneeze while travelling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet. 29. Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other. 30. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising. The bonus one: Baked beans are actually not baked, but stewed. Did you enjoy these random facts? If you said yes, then I know you were as bored as I was! Good job! :) |
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