Want to know some funny and weird facts? Being a student, we know a thing or two about our earth, so we thought we’d share some of the more interesting and fun facts about our earth that you may not know.
- In Dorset, Minnesota, a 3 year-old boy was elected as mayor.
- Plants grow faster when music is playing.
- The movie “gravity” was more expensive than mars mission.
- A man named Moondyne Joe escaped prison so many times, that police built a special cell for him, from which he escaped as well.
- A group of owl is called Parliament.
- 7% of religious Americans pray to God about finding a good parking spot.
- The second largest lake in Bolivia is called Poopo! It’s not a freshwater lake.
- In Jamaica, sex between men is punishable with up to 10 years imprisonment. But lesbian action is allowed.
- As a child Hitler wanted to be a priest.
- In 1967, the Nigerian civil war ground to a half for two days because both sides wanted to watch soccer player “Pele” in an exhibition match.
- The world’s oldest known creature, a mollusk, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
- An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards.
- Part of white house was built by slaves!
- In 2011, a woman bought a “non-visible” piece of art for $10,000.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel!
- Saddam Hussein wrote a romantic novel!
- Alexander the great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from “ailurophobia”, the fear of cats.
- Nelson Mandela was not removed from the US terror watch list until 2008!!!!
- Rudolf Diesel, who invented the Diesel engine, committed suicide in 1913 because he didn’t think his invention would be successful.
- The weird bright dots you see floating when you look at the sky are your white blood cells.
- Instead of kissing, mothers of Manchu tribe used to show affection by sucking their child’s penis in public!! Because kissing was considered sexual!!!
- Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can’t drive cars!
- The American secret service tried to spike Hitler’s food with female hormone to feminize him!!! Whoa that’s weird!!
- A “butt” was a medieval unit of measure for whine!!
- The founder of match.com (dating site) lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com!!! That’s tragedy!!
- “svangerskabsforebyggende middel” is a Danish word for “condom!!!!”
- Every human being starts out as an asshole!! It’s the first part of the body to form in the womb.
- So once you were an asshole!!!!That’s kinda weird
- “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia” is the fear of long words.
- There are completely black chickens that plumage, black nails and legs, black tongue, black meat and bones, and even black organs!!!
- Bird poop is white because they don’t pee.
- Galileo’s middle finger is on display at a museum in Florence, Italy.
- Hitler had a portrait of Henry Ford behind his desk regarding him as an “inspiration”!!!
- Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree!!
- Mahindra Unveils the BE 6e – A New Era of Electric Mobility
- Australia Announces Ban on Social Media Usage for Kids Under 16
- Leaders From 36 Countries Pose Together for a Picture During BRICS Summit
- Breaking News – Petition Filed in Supreme Court to Declare Election “Freebies” as Bribes
- Ratan Tata – A Visionary Leader Passes Away at 86
- Mahindra Thar Roxx Bags 1.76 Lakh Bookings in Just 60 Minutes
- 12 Known Mumbai Rail Projects Underway
- Canada’s Shift in Labour Policy – Investing in Local Workforce
- The Arrest of Pavel Durov – A Shockwave in the World of Secure Messaging
- World Health Organization (WHO) Declares Global Emergency Over the Monkeypox Virus