Did You Know? - Amazing Facts and Interesting Stuff

The 'Bio-Bus' is a bus service in the UK that is powered by poop.

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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.

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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the building of the Great Pyramid.

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It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.

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A new study suggests that eating chocolate could improve the brain's ability to do Mathematics.

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Male kangaroos flex their biceps to impress females.

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In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.

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Blood donors in Sweden receive a thank you text when their blood is used.

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The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

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In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. It still has not been found despite a worldwide search.

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A 'quidnunc' is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

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Blue whales are so enormous that a small child could swim through its veins.

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An alleged Virginia bank robber denies robbing a bank because he asked the teller 'politely'.

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A cyclist was removed from the World Naked Bike Ride in Kent after being spotted with an erection from getting 'overexcited and aroused'.

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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was originally designed for pocket watches.

  Oct 15, 2018   110

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

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A British Airways flight to Dubai was forced to return to Heathrow Airport because someone took a dump that smelled so bad it was unbearable for passengers.

  Oct 15, 2018   106

You could cover the Great Wall of China 8 times with the number of jars of Nutella sold in a year.

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According to a study, Twitter and Facebook are harder to resist than tobacco and alcohol.

  Oct 15, 2018   102

All of 'The Simpsons' characters have just 4 fingers on each hand, except for one character with 5 fingers, God.

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Krusty the Clown was originally created to be Homer Simpson's secret identity.

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A 'butt' was a unit of measure for wine in Medieval England.

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Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the only 2 accounts of birthday parties in the Bible ended in murder.

  Oct 1, 2018   141

The Catholic Church once exhumed the rotting corpse of a deceased Pope and put him on trial.

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75% of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.

  Oct 1, 2018   126

Illegal drug possession and trafficking are punished in Singapore with the death penalty.

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According to NOAA, 2014 was the warmest summer on Earth since records began in 1880.

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Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.

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According to a study conducted by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, men who cheat on their partners have lower IQs.

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At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.

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In 2005, a Chinese cosmetics firm used skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.

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Nepal was the first country in Asia to introduce gay marriage.

  Sep 28, 2018   98

All the blue meth in Breaking Bad was actually blue hued rock candy.

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Peter Dinklage is a very strict vegetarian, and every time you see him eating meat on 'Game of Thrones', he is actually eating tofu.

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Marge Simpson was originally supposed to have bunny ears underneath her blue hair.

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Part of the White House was built by slaves.

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In 2009, Nigerian Police detained a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.

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Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.

  Sep 28, 2018   110

In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes with artwork.

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The first boxes of Crayola crayons were sold door to door for a nickel.

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Flowers are known to grow faster when music plays near them.

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East St. Louis, Illinois has a higher murder rate than Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world.

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More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.

  Sep 28, 2018   120

In Norway, all prisoners have access to the internet, even in their cells.

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In Quebec, Sweden and Norway, advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal.

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Mickey Mouse has a sister named Amelia Fieldmouse.

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According to various international studies, the world's most popular color is blue.

  Sep 28, 2018   85

Summer on Uranus lasts one long day, which is equivalent to 42 Earth years.

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There is a food substitute intended to supply all daily nutritional needs, known as 'Soylent'.

  Sep 28, 2018   100

Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, was allergic to Harry Potter's iconic glasses.

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