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.
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