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"Horizontal refreshment" used to be the 19th century slang for sex.
I mean, if you think about it, it makes total sense.
Fruit salad trees can grow more than one kind of fruit.
The aptly-named fruit salad tree can grow up to 6 different fruits at the same time.
You’d get rolled into a burrito if you’re a violent drunk in Japan.
Japanese police may get a futon and roll you into a burrito if you disrupt the public.
New Zealand's Ninety Mile Beach is 55 miles long.
Name a scam, am I right?
All mammals take about 12 seconds to poop.
This average is regardless of poop size or composition.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
One of the more literal funny facts: A four-year-old laughs about 300 times a day, while a 40-year-old would only laugh an average of 4 times.
Skydiving on a Sunday is illegal for single women in Florida.
Unmarried women that are caught committing this “crime” can face imprisonment or subjected to fines.
It took Rubik a month to solve his cube.
With 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations, who could blame him? Aside from the irony, what puts this in funny facts is how the current record-holder for the fastest time to solve a Rubik’s cube finished it in 4.22 seconds.
Grapes explode in the microwave.
Funny facts disclaimer: don’t try this at home.
The British Royal Family can’t play Monopoly.
It’s not really because of a royal decree (Like how the Queen can’t sit on the Iron Throne since she can only sit on hers!). One of the ridiculously unbelievable funny facts: Prince Andrew said playing the game “gets too vicious” for the Royal Family.
There are fewer real flamingos than plastic flamingos in the world.
Plastic flamingos you see on lawns outnumber their living, breathing counterparts.
Adult cats are lactose intolerant.
Ironic as it sounds, feeding your grown cat milk can irritate their bowels.
In Kentucky, there are more barrels of bourbon than there are people.
It only makes sense, since 95% of the world’s bourbon comes from Kentucky.
Before Alexander Fleming named penicillin, he called it “mold juice.”
It may sound like a term someone coined on Tumblr, but Alexander Flaming did refer to penicillin as “mold juice” when he discovered it in 1928.
If you look strictly at statistics, you’re more likely to win an Olympic Medal than the lottery.
According to statistics, your chances of winning an Olympic gold medal is about 1 in 3.5 million. However, the chances of you winning the lottery is 1 in 14 million.
A Canadian university handed out condoms with safe notes stapled on them.
In one of the more unfortunate funny facts: A Canadian university’s attempt to promote safe sex went horribly wrong when they handed out condoms with stapled notes. The staples had punctured the condoms, basically defeating its purpose.
The founder of Match.com lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com.
It may seem like another one of the darkly funny facts – but when his girlfriend left him for a man she met on his site, Gary Kremen didn’t even break a sweat. According to Match.com founder, Kremen knew his project was successful when his own girlfriend left him for another man through Match.com.
Bangkok is the world’s most visited city.
With 22.78 million international visitors, Bangkok has been named the most visited city in the world for the fourth year in a row – beating Paris, London, Dubai, and Singapore.
Typing keyboards used to be arranged alphabetically.
Have you ever wondered why keyboards aren’t arranged by the ABC’s compared to the QWERTY keys we know now? You’d be surprised to know the uniform QWERTY keys we use were chosen at random. Before PC’s and laptops, the typewriter was man’s first typing experience. The earliest typewriters had alphabetic keys, but people typed so fast that the mechanical arms got jammed and tangled up. To solve this, the keys were randomly positioned to slow down typing and prevent key jamming.
We are born with only 2 natural fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds.
One of the most surprising fun facts about life: All other fears and phobias are learned or acquired later in life.
Baked beans are not actually baked.
In the U.K., the dish is usually stewed in sauce. On the other hand, canned baked beans are cooked through a steaming process. Bottom line? “Baked” beans are rarely ever baked.
Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.
Not only does the elusive continent of Antarctica lack McDonald’s joints – but it also doesn’t have any of our lizard friends. Why? Well – we all know that reptiles are cold-blooded – so they can’t produce their own heat. Meaning, they’d get turned into popsicles in the frosty Arctic.
Ctrl + C: Copy the selected item
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Ctrl + V: Paste the selected item
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I don't want monthly plans. Couldn't you issue the invoice for half the price of a yearly plan and then give it to me for 6 months?
Fact: The longest English word is 189,819 letters long
We won’t spell it out here, but the full name for the protein nicknamed titin would take three and a half hours to say out loud. While this is, by far, the longest word in English, the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary has 45 letters, and the longest made-up word has just 28. Just a few more interesting facts for your next cocktail party!
Fact: “Running amok” is a medically recognized mental condition
Considered a culturally bound syndrome, a person “running amok” in Malaysia starts with a period of brooding and then commits a sudden, frenzied mass attack.