Weird but True facts.

Not sure if this is a repost, but I got bored at work and Googled “Strange but True” and found this list, some of them are pretty weird/gross/funny:

1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the
world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
2
40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the
wrongparents daily.
5
Chocolate kills
dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
7
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same
time.
8
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9
There are
no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also,
it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
11
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a
film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
12
The original
name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
13
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you
can’t sink in quicksand.
14
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
15
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a
toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16
The
first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
17
Michael Jordan
makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
19
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of
it by her doctor.
20
The three most valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22
The average person
falls asleep in seven minutes.
23
The “pound” (#) key on your
keyboard is called an octothorp.
24
The only domestic
animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
27
Dreamt" is the only
word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
28
It’s impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open.
29
In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
30
A cockroach
can live for 10 days without a head.
31
We shed 40 pounds of
skin a lifetime.
32
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
34
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35
Blue is the favorite
color of 80 percent of Americans.
36
When a person shakes their
head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
37
There are more chickens than people in the
world.
38
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40
The average four year-old
child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three
Times each morning.
42
The three wealthiest families in the
world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette
Company died of lung cancer.
44
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45
The
world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46
Our
eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47
You
burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few
weeks.
49
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
50
The Mona Lisa has
no eyebrows.
51
When the
moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His
wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
54
“I am.” is the shortest
complete sentence in the English language
55
Colgate faced a big obstacle
marketingtoothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang Yourself.”
56
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
57
“Bookkeeper” is the only
word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
58
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
59
The sentence “the
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.
60
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the
rate of reproduction
61
China has more English speakers than the United States.
62
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63
Each
square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
66
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard,
it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
67
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the
chicken came before the egg.
68
The longest place
name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69
If you leave Tokyo by
plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70
Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of
alienlife, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
71
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
73
Men
can read smaller print than women, but womencan hear better.
74
Coca-Cola was originally
green.
75
The most common
name in the world is Mohammed.
76
The
name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78
TYPEWRITER is the longest
word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79
Women blink nearly twice as much as
men!!
80
You
can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
81
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
82
People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the
sky.
84
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English
language.
85
If you sneeze too hard, you
can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88
If a
statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91
Question - This is the only
food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93
A snail
can sleep for three years.
94
All
polar bears are left handed.
95
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96
Butterflies taste with their feet.
97
Elephants are the only animals that
can’t jump.
98
In the last 4000 years,
no new animals have been domesticated.
99
On average, people fear spiders more than they do
death.
100
Shakespeare invented the
word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
101
Stewardesses is the longest
word typed with only the left hand.
102
The ant always
falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
103
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
104
The human heart creates enough pressure when
it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
105
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
106
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
107
Most lipstick contains
fish scales.
108
And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

And no, I don’t know why it is all underlined or why my font defaulted to blue, and I just don’t care. :tongue

holy shit this is better then college

not very accurate info… but not that bad.

sweet!

I tried to lick my elbow.

Yup.

North America and South America do NOT begin and end with the same letter. Unless they were referring to “America” as a whole.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

not true. jay monger can lick his elbow, he got him to do it like 8 years ago.

Ok, you can in fact sneeze with your eyese open, I personally know someone who can lick their elbow and alot of those are not scientific fact.

Some of them were new/cool though.

I have one to add:

It is actually illegal to dance on Sundays in Duanesburg.

It’s some old law that’s still on the books there. lol

:wow :ahh

88-90 are the most interesting to me and from what i know they’re actually true

I am riding to Duanesburg this Sunday and break dancing to September’s “Cry For You” until I get arrested…

Who’s with me!?

GREAT song. srsly.

4
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrongparents daily.

So this is why when i was born, i was told i was a trust fund baby. years later discovered ive been jibbed. :cry:

Most of those like the zipper i looked :lol

22
The average person
falls asleep in seven minutes.

yeah no… i dont think so…

#18 is BS

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