Love learning about the weird history, fascinating science, and crazy coincidences that make up our collective human experience? Then you came to the right place with this gallery of seventy-seven bizarre, fascinating, and simply amazing facts:
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McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli Some fungi create zombies, then control their minds It Takes 68 Days to Swim the Full Length of the Mississippi River Fleas Are Among the World’s Best Jumpers The Creator of the Pringles Can is Buried in One A Brewery in Canada Makes Beer Using Water from 20,000-Year-Old Icebergs The first organized baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., in 1849. Tokelau, a group of remote islands in the Pacific Ocean, receives 100 percent of its electricity from solar energy. All cats were considered sacred in ancient Egypt. If you killed a cat, you could be sentenced to death. The first oranges weren’t orange At Any Given Moment, There Are Approximately 2,000 Thunderstorms Happening on Earth Michelangelo Hated Painting the Sistine Chapel and Wrote a Poem About It The most common gift on Father's Day is a necktie. Some kangaroos that lived 12,000 years ago were the size of rhinoceroses. Nightshades are often thought of as very poisonous plants, but tomatoes, eggplants, and potatoes are all part of the nightshade family. Human babies cannot taste salt until they are 4 months old. A Million Earths Would Fit Inside the Sun The Letter Z Was Removed from the Alphabet for 200 Years The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council Ruled that Hot Dogs Aren’t Sandwiches The Chills You Get When Listening to Music Are Caused by Your Brain Releasing Dopamine More People Tuned Into Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s Wedding Than for the Friends, Cheers, Seinfeld, and M*A*S*Hfinales combined The Word for Black Belt in Japanese Translates to “First Step” You can buy jam infused with sand from the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt. Male pandas do a handstand while peeing to mark trees. Giant crystals as long as a school bus can be found 1,000 feet (305 m) underground in Mexico's Cave of Crystals. If Earth were the size of a grain of sand, the sun would be the size of an orange. Golf balls were once made out of solid wood. The World’s Largest Pumpkin Weighs More Than a Sports Car “Natiform” Is a Term for Something That Looks Like a Bum The Dead Sea is not entirely dead. Halophile microbes thrive in the salty waters.also read: Amazing Facts: Surprising lizard facts