If you want to read
some mind blowing facts & you’re not sure where to look, then check out
these 100 awesome facts that will truly make your mind explode!
1.
The reason the taste
of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products
doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was
wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
2.
Australia has over
10,000 beaches. You could visit a newbeach everyday for
over 27 years!
3.
It was Nicholas Cage
who first advised Johnny Depp to pursue
a career in acting, during the mid 1980’s.
4.
The national animal of
Scotland is the Unicorn.
5.
The directors of the
film Despicable Me actually wrote their own language for the
Minions called Minionise.
6.
The mayor of the
Alaskan town, Talkeetna, is called Stubbs and has been mayor of the town since
July 1997. Stubbs is a cat.
7.
The Nazis were the
first ever people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco
movement.
8.
Due to the humid and
moist conditions that a sloth lives in, moss and other similar plants will
sometimes grow in its hair. Sloth’s also have very bad eyesight. These two
factors can sometimes culminate in a sloth grabbing its own arm, whilst
thinking it is a branch, and falling to its death!
9.
Every year in June a
bizarre festival takes place in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos
in Spain during which men dress up like the devil and then jump over babies
born in the previous twelve months of the year! Known as El Colacho, this
strange custom is part of the country-wide Corpus Christi celebrations yet only
happens in this small village.
10.
Viagra, when dissolved
in water, can make cut-flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they
usually would. Try it!
11.
There is an
uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated
entirely by swimming pigs.
12.
Catnip is ten-times
more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in
insect repellents.
13.
If eaten in one meal,
30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a
human being.
14.
American microbiologist
Maurice Ralph Hilleman is accredited with developing 8 of the 14 routine
vaccinations used today, these being; Measles, Mumps, Hepatitis A & B,
Chickenpox, Meningitis, Pneumonia, and Hemophilia influenza. He also discovered
that Chlamydia was not a virus as it was previously thought to be.
15.
In 2002 alone, more
people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.
16.
American college,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, deems certain students who take courses
in Pistol Marksmanship, Archery, Sailing and Fencing as certified ‘Pirates’.
17.
It is predicted that
the reason why night insects, such as moths, are attracted to lights is because
they mistake them for the light of the moon, which they used to navigate
the Earth before mankind made artificial
lights.
18.
Justin Bieber once held up a sign
from his hotel room window saying “Go to McDonalds and get me a Big Mac”. He
got his Big Mac.
19.
In the early 1900’s,
Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the
poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. It wasn’t
until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and a food
associated with the aristocratic classes.
20.
Hares are born with
fur and can see whilst rabbits are born ‘naked’ and blind
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