Public Policy Polling has built a reputation for being a pretty reliable pollster. However, they also have some fun when they do some polls by adding in funny, quirky and strange poll questions just to see what people respond.

A new survey by them found that only 16% of Americans have a favorable opinion of hipsters, while 42% of people view them unfavorably. However the study doesn’t define what a hipster is, so people were responding on their own ideas of what a hipster is.

Republicans, the found, have a 9% favorable opinion of hipsters, half of the Democrats favorability percentage. If the study itself wasn’t funny enough, here’s another question that PPP threw in: 25% of people said they would support a special tax on hipsters for being annoying.

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A recent survey found that over half of US adults in committed relationships commit what they’re humorously calling ‘Netflix adultery’ on their significant others. Netflix Adultery is when you secretly watch a video on Netflix that you’re supposed to be watching together with your partner.

Netflix itself ran the survey, and they found some interesting stuff. Only 12% of people surveyed admitted to doing so, while 10% reported being cheated on. 22% of those who cheated admitted to watching the ‘forbidden’ videos in bed while their partner was asleep next to them.

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Yes, the Navy has trained dolphins that aid the military branch in underwater exploration. In this case, the dolphins found a piece of history off the coast of San Diego.

Built about 130 years ago, the type of torpedo they found is called a Howell and it’s one of the first torpedoes built that can propel itself. Only 50 of the 11-foot-long devices were made, and only two remain in existence.

The torpedo is now being cleaned and being made ready for it to be displayed at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington.

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Every year, in Sholapur, India, moms from around the region come to fulfill a tradition that is supposed to secure good luck to their children: Dropping them from a 50-foot-tall building.

The babies are caught by people holding a bed sheet down below. Check out the video below to see it in action!

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The Big Mac was invented by Jim Delligatti, one of the earliest McDonald’s franchisees, who operated in the Pittsburgh area. Delligatti’s McDonald’s kitchen in the Ross Township of suburban Pittsburg was the birthplace of the Big Mac in 1967.

The sandwich had 2 names before McDonald’s settled on Big Mac. First, it was called ‘Aristocrat,’ which apparently was too difficult for costumers to pronounce. The second name was ‘Blue Ribbon Burger,’ but that failed to spark any meaningful sales.

Finally, Esther Glickstein Rose, a 21-year-old Advertising Secretary at MacDonald’s Corporate HQ in the suburbs of Chicago coined the term Big Mac. That name stuck and it became the world’s most famous fast food sandwich.

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If you’re in the market for a bank loan in Italy, you can use cheese as your collateral. There’s a special cheese bank that has state of the art security features to protect the 300,000 wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese stored in there.

Here’s how this business works: Parmigiano-Reggiano takes a long time to properly age. Farmers have a hard time getting through tough times due to the long time between production and sale. This is where the bank comes in.

In exchange for a cheap loan, the bank will keep the farmers’ wheels of cheese during the period where the wheel are just supposed to sit and age. This let’s farmers run the rest of their business, make future sales, pay wages, while the cheese ages.

Read more about this interesting business model at the source.

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The Aleutian Islands of Alaska cross the 180 degree-meridian longitude. This means that these islands are part of the Eastern hemisphere. This means that Alaska is the state that is farthest north, east & west in the United States!

If you don’t believe in that technicality, the easternmost state is Maine, then Alaska retains it’s northernmost and westernmost titles, and Hawaii rounds out the group by being the southernmost.

Of the lower 48 states, Maine is easternmost, Minnesota the northernmost, Washington the westernmost and Florida the southernmost.

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This one might be a no brainer if you’ve thought about it before. How many numbers can you count to in five seconds? For fast counters, out loud is about twenty seven seconds. In your head, it might be closer to thirty five.

Of course because higher numbers take longer to say, a fast counter can typically hit around 200 in sixty seconds. If you bring that up to an hour, it’s somewhere around 1,200.

Doing the math without factoring in the amount of time it takes to say the higher numbers, it would take over 9,000 years to get to one trillion. If you’re counting in your head, the results won’t be much better.

If you count in your head for 24 hours straight, you will reach somewhere around 600,000. One whole year nonstop would give you 220 million, and if you counted for your entire life, you would only reach the billions.

Well, if you ever find yourself immortal and floating through space after the Earth is destroyed, now you know what you can do for fun.

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Being a tattle-tale pays if we’re talking about turning in tax cheaters to the IRS. It’s no secret that the US tax system is complicated and messed up in more ways than one. The large amount of rules, regulations, exemptions and loopholes makes it easy for people to cheat by paying less than what they owe.

That’s why, since 2006, the IRS instituted a new whistle-blower program to strengthen then one that has existed for years. If you are an informant in a tax cheating case, they will give you a minimum of 15%, and a maximum of 30% of the amount they collect!

There are some stipulations: The total amount disputed has to be at least $2 million, and if it’s an individual, their income must exceed $200,000. Either way, it’s a great incentive to keep people honest.

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This is a great example of good corporate sense of humor (or dickery, depending on your point of view). Here’s what happened: Google sent one of it’s trademark Street View cars to take pictures in Sweden. When Fiat realized this, they decided to have some fun with it.

They sent a brand new Fiat 500 to trail the Google Street View car. It drove about 30 miles from Stockholm to park the car right in front of the Volkswagen headquarters in Sodertalje, Sweden.

If you search ” Volkswagen Group Sverige AB, Sodertalje, Sweden,” in Google Maps, you’ll see the little Fiat car parked right under the Volkswagen sign.

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