June 2012
In 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow...
In 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow Peep. Peeps are marshmallow candies produced by Just Born known mostly as chick or bunny shapes sold around Easter. More than 1 billion of them are made every year.
In 1953, Just Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company which had hand produced Peeps (though they had a different name at the time). Before being purchased by Just Born, the Rodda Candy...
The Yucatan Peninsula translates to "I donât...
The Yucatan Peninsula translates to “I donât understand you” peninsula in Mayan! Before the Spaniards arrived to the peninsula, the area was called el Mayab by the Mayans meaning “a few.” It was a very important region to the Mayans with many of their key cities.
After the Spanish conquest, the Yucatan Peninsula became a single administrative and political entity. The...
In June 2008, a tornado hit Kansas State...
In June 2008, a tornado hit Kansas State University’s campus destroying only one building: their wind erosion lab. In 2008, the weather was not kind to Kansas. The state was hit with 187 tornadoes that year, more than any other state. Over Memorial Day weekend of the same year, 412 separate tornado and thunderstorm warnings were issued to the state.
The damage caused, as you may remember...
May 2012
You cannot drown in quicksand!
You cannot drown in quicksand! The reason for this is very simple. You can only sink halfway, because the quicksand is twice as dense as the human body. It’s actually also twice as dense as water, so it means that you float more easily in quicksand than you do in water.
Daniel Bonn took quicksand samples from Iran to figure out what it is actually made up of. He found that quicksand is...
The "Human Barbie" has had over 100 surgeries!
The “Human Barbie” has had over 100 surgeries! Sarah Burge is a British woman who’s undergone over 100 plastic surgeries over the past 20 years. Her first surgery was when she was SEVEN years old to pin her ears back, because she felt they stuck out.
Then, at the age of 26, she had surgery on her “double chin.” After that, she was beaten by her boyfriend within an inch...
The grave marker seen in the film "Tombstone" at...
The grave marker seen in the film “Tombstone” at the beginning when the Earps enter the town is real!
When the Earp family arrives in Tombstone, Arizona (in the film “Tombstone”) the camera spans a cemetery with a unique grave marker. The grave marker says “Here lies Lester Moore, Four slugs from a .44, No Les No more.”
There is an actual grave stone in...
The fact that full eclipses occur on Earth is a...
The fact that full eclipses occur on Earth is a giant coincidence. Unless you’re an early 16th century Jamaican, you probably know what an eclipse is. As we just saw recently, the moon eclipsed the sun during a solar eclipse, or when the moon is in perfect alignment between the Earth and sun.
Though a planet’s moon crossing the line of sight it has with its sun is a relatively common...
Homosexuals Often Had a High Status in Native...
Homosexuals Often Had a High Status in Native American Tribes Native American males were expected to become warriors and hunters, but it was also recognized that the stress of being under such burdens often demanded spiritual advice and healing.
This duty would usually fall upon a homosexual Shaman. In the Native culture, to be gay meant to be “from the outside world,” to be...
The Dutch government sends Canada thousands of...
The Dutch government sends Canada thousands of tulips every year! The Netherlands has been sending thousands of tulips to Canada every year since 1945 as a gift from the Dutch Royal Family in thanks for sheltering Princess Juliana during World War II.
The Canadian Tulip Festival, held every May in Ottawa, is the world’s largest tulip festival. It began because in 1945, the Dutch royal family...
One of the Bond Girls Was Born a Man!
One of the Bond Girls Was Born a Man! One of the Bond Girls, Caroline Cossey, was actually born as Barry Kenneth Cossey. She is now an English model and perhaps most popular for being the first transsexual person to pose for Playboy.
Courtney fought for her right to be legally considered a woman, and triumphed. She began her hormone therapy at 17, and a few years later, had a full sex...
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it...
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the moon. This is possibly one of the most unbelievable facts we’ve ever posted. What you first might think is that this can’t possibly be true because the 200 paper stacks sold at stores are only a few centimeters.
But if you consider how folding paper works, it all makes sense. The moon’s average distance from earth is 384,000...
The zero gravity fight scene in Inception was not...
The zero gravity fight scene in Inception was not CGI, but rather an entire rotating set! One of the most memorable scenes in the movie Inception was the fight sequence between actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the thugs he is trying to defeat. In that scene, gravity seizes to exist while the combatants continue to attempt to defeat the other.
At first glance one would assume the scene was simply...
Women do this 3.5 times more than men. What is it?
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An Australian prisoner escaped so many times the...
An Australian prisoner escaped so many times the government had to build a special cell to hold him. The cell they built was so strong they promised to forgive his crimes if he could escape again. His name was Joseph Bolitho Johns, but he was better known as Moondyne Joe.
He was Western Australia’s best known bushranger, a term which referred to runaway Australian convicts or criminals...
A roundup of today's interesting and odd stories
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The LA Coliseum once served as a set for a porno. There’s gotta be some sort of Trojan joke here, but I can’t find it.
New Apple CEO says Apple will be...
India Will Exceed Chinaâs Population By 2030
India Will Exceed Chinaâs Population By 2030 India is currently at second for the world’s largest population with 1.21 billion people or 17% of the Earth’s population. When India was granted independence from the United Kingdom around 60 years ago, its population was around 350 million.
Since that time however, it has nearly tripled. In a matter of decades, it will out-populate China. This...
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In 2009 a man hired the Russian mob to extradite...
In 2009 a man hired the Russian mob to extradite the doctor responsible for the death of his daughter. The story actually isn’t as strange as it sounds. It’s somewhat of an “ends justify means” tale. The doctor’s name is Dieter Krombach.
He was kidnapped and smuggled out of Germany and into France so he could be put on trial for killing Kalinka Bamberski in Bavaria in...
A new app scans people's faces at bars to tell you...
A new app scans people’s faces at bars to tell you which bars are best to go to! The app is called SceneTap and it has cause quite a stir, and not necessarily in a good way. The problem they’re trying to solve is this. Say you and your friends want to go to a bar. You choose a place, and you get there, and the crowd is NOT what you’re looking for at all.
Bars that partner with...
The Copperhead Snakeâs Venom could Reduce and...
The Copperhead Snakeâs Venom could Reduce and Fight the Development of Cancerous Cells The position of some tumors in the brain makes surgery unsafe and chemotherapy and radiation almost useless. However recent investigation by the University of Southern California has indicated that the Copperhead Snake’s venom binds to certain cancerous cells.
The binding prevents them from interacting with...
The South Pole is a Desert!
The South Pole is a Desert! That seems counter-intuitive, but it’s true. The South Pole’s average January temperatures are about -15 degrees Fahrenheit, and it dips down to about -49 degrees Fahrenheit by March.
There are no camels wandering around, instead there are 4 species of penguins. How then, can the South Pole be considered a desert? Well, for one thing, the desert classification...
If the weather is just right you can see across...
If the weather is just right you can see across Lake Erie to Canada as if itâs only a few miles away! Lake Erie is 50 miles wide. That means the U.S. shore is 50 miles away from Canada. Locals have long attested to being able to see trees and buildings on the Canadians side of Lake Erie when the weather is clear.
Eyewitnesses say that Canada only appears to be about three miles away when the...
Walking In A Labyrinth Has Amazing Health...
Walking In A Labyrinth Has Amazing Health Benefits.
Labyrinths have always been ancient symbols for healing and a path to renewal; and for good reason. Research conducted by Harvard Medical School’s Mind/Body Institute has found that focused walking meditation in a labyrinth effectively reduces anxiety.
If it’s done on a regular basis, can reduce insomnia, chronic pain, blood pressure,...
I teach little kids how to swim every Saturday at...
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The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round.
The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round. It all started as a philosophical concept developed by the Greeks around the 6th century BC. It wasn’t until the 3rd century BC when Hellenistic astronomy came to the conclusion that the earth was in fact physically spherical.
At first, there was no real explanation of how the Greeks came up with this conclusion, other than their observation on the...
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Bruce Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open...
Bruce Lee could snatch a dime off a person’s open palm and leave a penny behind, all this before they could close it. Other interesting facts about Bruce Lee’s amazing physical accomplishments include:
Bruce Lee could land a punch in around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second) from 3 feet away, and from 5 feet away it was around eight hundredths of a second (0.08 second).
Lee could...
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User Accounts are now open to EVERYONE!
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User Accounts are now open to EVERYONE!
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Elvis' Tomb is about to be auctioned!
Elvis’ Tomb is about to be auctioned!It sounds strange, but a tomb where the late pop superstar was buried temporarily is about to be auctioned off. Elvis was entombed at this private crypt in a Memphis mausoleum for a couple of months while Elvis’ dad got permission to bury Elvis at Graceland, Elvis’ famous house.
The winner of the auction would be one of the only people who...
A soccer player is credited for ending a 5 year...
A soccer player is credited for ending a 5 year war in his home country of the Ivory Coast! For five years in the Ivory Coast the north was held by the rebels and the south held by the government loyals. Didier Drogba plays for Chelsea in England and is the team captain and star striker for the Ivory Coast Elephants.
Drogba pleased the warring factions to have a cease-fire. Surprisingly, they...
Some monks can increase their body temperature so...
Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room! A Buddhist monk had himself placed in a freezing cold room under the surveillance of scientists in Normandy, France to prove the power of meditation. What occurred astonished people around the world.
The monk was covered in a wet blanket, and during his meditation session produced so much...
Kel Mitchel, of "Kenan and Kel," tried out for...
Kel Mitchel, of “Kenan and Kel,” tried out for SNL, but was beat out by Kenan! In 2003, after “Kenan and Kel” had been cancelled, Kel tried out for Saturday Night Live. He lost out to Kenan Thompson, his former cast mate. Thompson was the first cast member of Saturday Night Live to be younger than the show itself at the age of 26.
Kel and Kenan starred on...
There is a conspiracy theory that claims Paul...
There is a conspiracy theory that claims Paul McCartney died and was replaced by a lookalike in 1966. ‘Paul is Dead’ was a phrase you could hear if you played the ending of a few Beatles songs. It sparked a conspiracy theory that’s still alive today. The real Paul McCartney, the theorists say, died in 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike.
Detailed on the source website,...
The fifth oldest tree in the world was burned down...
The fifth oldest tree in the world was burned down by a meth addict! It was called “The Senator Tree” and it was the oldest pond cypress tree in the world, and the fifth oldest tree known to scientists in the entire world. Located in Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida, the Senator was estimated to be roughly 3,500 years old at the time of its demise.
It was revered by the Seminole...
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The sense of smell will most likely become...
The sense of smell will most likely become vestigial for humans, or no longer function! There are many things in our bodies that have become vestigial, such as our appendix and wisdom teeth, yet many people don’t know that our sense of smell will most likely one day disappear!
Why would this happen? Because of evolution our bodies naturally process out things they no longer need to survive....
There's a disorder that causes people to mix up...
There’s a disorder that causes people to mix up their senses and taste colors! It’s called synesthesia, and it is the neurological condition in which sensory information is misconstrued in the brain and interpreted differently. This results in involuntary experiences of a second sensory pathway that is not supposed to be triggered.
A common example of synesthesia is known as...
A handkerchief saved George Bush from a grenade!
A handkerchief saved George Bush from a grenade! By now, George Bush is probably an expert on having stuff thrown at him. On May 10th 2005, Vladimir Arutyunian stood for hours in Freedom Square in the centre of Tbilisi waiting for USA President George Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to speak.
When Bush began speaking, he threw a Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade, wrapped in a...
The Hubble telescope takes pictures in black and...
The Hubble telescope takes pictures in black and white. The color is added later! NASA says that taking color pictures with the Hubble telescope is much more complex than taking pictures with a regular camera. The reason for this is that the telescope uses special electronic detectors instead of using film.
The finished pictures that we see are actually combinations of various black-and-white...
Stephen King Pulled One of His Own Novels from the...
Stephen King Pulled One of His Own Novels from the Shelves Because of their Connection with School Shootings! Rage was the first novel published by best-selling author Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1977. It is about a disturbed Maine High School senior, Charlie Decker, who eventually holds his class hostage at gunpoint.
The novel’s plot is vaguely similar to and...
Formicophilia is the fetish for having insects...
Formicophilia is the fetish for having insects crawl on your genitals! This rather peculiar form of zoophilia is when a person enjoys being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects! Usually it is various species of ants, but other insects such as non-poisonous spiders are also used.
The insects are usually placed on the genitals, or any area of the body that the person wishes, and the resulting...
In 1997 dividing by 0 incapacitated a United...
In 1997 dividing by 0 incapacitated a United States warship. Dividing by 0 is usually not a good thing. It’s a mathematical impossibility that always results in errors, especially with computers and calculators. Windows hasn’t exactly had a good reputation for reliability either.
In 1997, both are to blame for incapacitating the USS Yorktown. During that time, Microsoft was still...
No Italians live in Little Italy, New York.
No Italians live in Little Italy, New York. According to the 2010 census, there were no people living in Little Italy, NY that were actually born in Italy. This might come as a surprise because back in 1950, nearly half of the more than 10,000 New Yorkers in Little Italy were Italians.
The decline of Italians there has been an ongoing trend, though. In 2000, the census found that the...
A company can make you into a FIREWORK after you...
A company can make you into a FIREWORK after you die! Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Do you want to make a dramatic exit? Well, for $4000, a company called Angel’s Flight will custom create 210 rockets from your ashes. They’re even willing to do the funeral firework display in your backyard if it’s big enough.
For an extra $1000, your family and friends can sadly watch the display...
