December 2011
47 posts
Montana had FEWER traffic accidents when they had... →
Montana had FEWER traffic accidents when they had NO speed limits! It’s called the Montana Speed Limit Paradox. Data collected by the state of Montana showed that when driving on highways with…
78% of Mad Men’s writers are women. →
78% of Mad Men’s writers are women. While the popular show revolves around Don Draper and seems like a boys’ club, the majority of the writing staff for the AMC program is female!
The women in…
When the US space station Skylab crashed in... →
When the US space station Skylab crashed in Australia, the municipality fined the US for littering! In 1979, pieces of the US space station Skylab fell from the sky and littered the Australian…
A family in Colorado lost their cat in 2007 and it... →
A family in Colorado lost their cat in 2007 and it was found 5 years later in New York! That’s over 1800 miles away. The cat had a microchip implanted when it was a kitten, so when an animal…
An escaping prisoner saved a guard from freezing.... →
An escaping prisoner saved a guard from freezing. Because of this, he was burnt to death! In the Netherlands during the final years of Spanish rule, Dirk Willems was tried and convicted for…
A Catalán Christmas tradition involves a... →
A Catalán Christmas tradition involves a Gift-Pooping log of wood! Called Tío de Nadal, this is one of the most unique Christmas traditions around.
On December 8th, a log of wood is given a…
In the early days of Disney Studios, in a staff... →
In the early days of Disney Studios, in a staff party, a cartoon short was shown of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in an x-rated scene. Afterwards, Walt chuckled along with everyone else, invited them…
The Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for 21% of... →
The Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for 21% of prison murders! Even more amazingly, the Aryan Brotherhood accounts for only 1% of prison populations at approximately 20,000 members! The AB…
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Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin 32 years... →
Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin 32 years before Alexander Fleming, but he was ignored because he was only 23! Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain moulds killed bacteria….
John Stump is credited for creating ridiculous,... →
John Stump is credited for creating ridiculous, unplayable music! John Stump is credited with the invention of the ridiculous music genre after composing a piece entitled “Faerie’s Aire and…
How did Harriet Tubman trick a former slave owner? →
How did Harriet Tubman trick a former slave owner? Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who fled to the North in 1849. After this, she started helping her family escape the South, and eventually…
Ghengis Khan killed 11% of the world's population!... →
Ghengis Khan killed 11% of the world’s population!
Ghengis Khan reached power by uniting the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. He founded the Mongol Empire and began invading other tribes….
Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings using only 2... →
Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings using only 2 fingers! The novel took him over 14 years to write. After he wrote the Hobbit in 1937, it wasn’t until the mid 1950s when the first volume “The…
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The opposite of ‘sparkle’ is ‘darkle’! →
The opposite of ‘sparkle’ is ‘darkle’! While most of us have seen things shimmer with light and described it as sparkling, there is an equal opposite to sparkle. The word, darkle, means to…
Chefs in China make Urine Boiled Eggs! →
Chefs in China make Urine Boiled Eggs! Yes, the eggs are made in urine, and they have been making it for thousands of years! The urine is gathered from local schools and the very best comes…
Pakistan is the country that looks up the word sex... →
Pakistan is the country that looks up the word sex the most on Google! You would think that more ‘liberal’ countries like the United States or the United Kingdom would be at the top of these…
Microsofts "I'm a PC" Ads were created on a Mac! →
Microsofts “I’m a PC” Ads were created on a Mac! This campaign was a response to the highly successful Apple campaign that featured Justin Long and John Hodgman that (favorably) compared Macs to…
In 1979, people called in sick to work with a case... →
In 1979, people called in sick to work with a case of “being homosexual”!
This happened in Sweden. The event was a protest, because in the country, homosexuality was classified as a sickness at…
Are you over 16? You're older than the average... →
Are you over 16? You’re older than the average caveman! The average lifespan of a caveman was 16 years. Throughout time, as living conditions improved, life expectancy increased. In 500BC the…
A pigeon saved 194 soldiers in World War I! →
A pigeon saved 194 soldiers in World War I! The bird, Cher Ami, delivered 12 important messages during the war. He was shot through his breast and managed to land. American soldiers found one…
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The echidna and platypus are the only mammals that... →
The echidna and platypus are the only mammals that lay eggs! The echidna is found in Australia and along with the platypus lays eggs and produces milk for its young. They are considered…
Four U.S. presidents have been cheerleaders! →
Four U.S. presidents have been cheerleaders! George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were all cheerleaders! George W. Bush asked students to give him a…
You only have two fears when you are Born →
You only have two fears when you are Born When you are first born your only fears were of falling and of loud noises. They are built into your DNA and have been passed down from generation to…
A woman made a replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's... →
A woman made a replica of Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper” using nothing but lint from her dryer Laura Bell, from Michigan, spent 800 hours of laundry to create enough lint and 200…
During World War I, France built a fake Paris to... →
During World War I, France built a fake Paris to fool Germany France decided to make a fake city of Paris to keep German planes from bombarding the real city. The fake city was built just north…
Have scientists discovered a cure to aging? →
Have scientists discovered a cure to aging? These cells, known as senescent cells, have been shown to help the body age so scientists are trying to get rid of them to fight aging! After testing…
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