135 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts

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He did this because a young blind viewer once asked him to do so . She wanted to know the fish were OK.

In 2017, they added Bland Shire, Australia, to their “ League of Extraordinary Communities .”

The two women went on a joyride to Baltimore.

If you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream instead, there’s a different term for it: .

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police .

The program was originally in Tennessee , but it has since spread worldwide.

Here are some tips on how to cook perfect eggs .

Congratulating opponents and abstaining from trash talk are part of what's known as the “ Spirit of Curling .”

It contained a total of zero words. (But here's how some famous authors dealt with it .)

This is perhaps not one of the many historical reasons to grow a beard .

His recipe included rye whiskey, rum, and sherry.

Yes, you may be the reason your cat is sneezing.

In 1945, at just 18 years old, Queen Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she trained as a truck driver and mechanic.

The company did this to save lives.

There’s no shame in having a large to-be-read pile !

The clever corvids can mimic several other sounds.

The first two tell you the nearest street , and the next two tell you whether you're closer to the east or west side of the park (even numbers signal east, odd signals west).

The writer did have a knack for coming up with nonsense words .

At one point, there were more than 9000 Blockbuster stores in the U.S.

The message is along the lines of “Thank you, the blood you gave is now benefiting a patient.”

They’re the first known non-mammal species to communicate with infectious laughter.

The verbal throwdowns were popular in England and Scotland from the 5th to 16th centuries.

Instead, the trees received love letters .

Leaving a pet money in a will can get a bit legally complicated.

According to rangers, they often end up returning the stolen goods in the mail—along with an apology note.

They were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

She began working that job when she was 16 .

The tradition even has its own festival.

M&M’s have a long, interesting history.

In traditional vampire folklore, the bloodsuckers have arithmomania , a compulsion to count.

In the English Midlands, new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage, and Japanese people believe that black cats are good luck—particularly for single women.

Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be Boston, Oregon.

A friend of Armstrong ’s slipped the tardy form in with the others.

He named her Winnipeg. “Winnie” was later a resident of the London Zoological Gardens where she was an adored attraction, especially to a boy named Christopher Robin Milne , the son of A. A. Milne.

During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.

This is due to the restaurant’s reputation for staying open in extreme weather.

Fortunately, that isn’t the brand’s slogan.

Touching it can leave chemical burns on your skin, its fruit is toxic, and its bark—when burned—can cause blindness.

If drivers adhere to the 45 mph speed limit on a stretch of Route 66 in New Mexico, the road's rumble strips play a rendition of "America the Beautiful."

They’d use the shotgun to fend off bears.

It smells like a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.

Perhaps the ocean is safer than the Big Apple.

Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.

She'd never met him; she was just a fan.

He co-founded the company.

They decided to split one course.

The car’s name is rooted in a Latin word.

At their 1905 wedding, President Teddy Roosevelt gave away the bride.

This was for their durability in all weather conditions.

“Bob” would have been at least more creative than a simple geographic description.

She also once investigated a psychic medium .

It read, “Shaking or waving can actually damage the image.”

The artist painted the scene in 1889.

It’s the Latin word for and .

If enough ants join, they can form massive “death spirals.”

When the sky suddenly darkened during a battle between the Lydians and the Medes in modern Turkey, soldiers took it as a sign to cease fighting .

His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

Their deaths were exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

The average dog is as intelligent as a 2-year-old child.

All the more reason to take a bubble bath.

Recently unveiled frescoes may even depict the food that was served.

Many Scottish immigrants moved to the colonies in the southern U.S. in the 1700s.

Georgia’s a big fan of its peaches.

Ezra Warner patented a can opener in 1858. In between, people used chisels and hammers.

The weird shape helps them stay aware of their surroundings.

His other choices were Whirlwinds, Olympians, and Unicorns.

They were sent by kids who were concerned for Charlie, who got rocks instead of treats in his Halloween sack.

It’s partially defended by trained dolphins .

Supermarkets must either compost it or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.

When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one .

New parents notoriously get little sleep.

That has yet to happen, though some places have experimented with a four-day work week .

This was done to mark Pokemon's U.S. debut.

He said he was the only person who'd met John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Sirhan Sirhan.

She never paid the fine .

Even purées that advertise as “100 percent pumpkin” are actually made of a range of different winter squashes.

In his first appearance, Wilder wanted Wonka to limp toward the crowd with a cane in hand before falling into a perfect somersault and jumping back up. The reason? “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

It actually took a year and a half.

He was a former Hershey employee who created the famous candy in the 1920s.

Some dictionaries, however, do list cul-de-sacs as an option.

The moon dust caused the inside of his nose to swell, and also messed with his throat.

Talk about taking the idiom literally!

Australia is, after all, home to some very dangerous arachnids.

Research shows that watching horror movies can increase a certain clotting protein in our bloodstreams.

Here are some other collective nouns for groups of animals .

The jokes were probably not as terrifying as his famous books .

According to the report , “words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except that it could only be heard within a person’s head."

Both sides wanted to watch Pelé play in an exhibition soccer match.

He was given honorary American citizenship in 1963.

He calls sick kids in hospitals and chats with them in character.

Good luck trying to get the lazy orange cat to answer your urgent work requests.

They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George .

It was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to people in prison.

The name combines craie (French for “chalk”) and ola (short for “oleaginous,” or “oily”).

In the above episode from 2012, he insisted that though he loves vegetables, he is not the “Veggie Monster.”

Two psychiatrists coined the term in 2008.

Excite turned them down.

It’s sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia .

And yet, he’s the only Kansas Jayhawks basketball coach with a losing record.

A federal arbitration panel decided that the government had to pay for the “ unique historical item of unprecedented worth.”

He fought in nearly 300 matches and only lost one of them.

But on average, a licking machine made at Purdue needed 364.

The law aims to prevent guinea pigs from getting lonely.

The spaces are meant to promote fitness and combat loneliness in elderly citizens.

It’s when patients speak their native language in a foreign accent.

She had liked corgis since she was a young girl.

They’re very easy to train .

It’s a combination of the end of one batch of candy and the beginning of another.

A strawberry , however, is not.

The 26-year-old was inspired by the Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven.

She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished in 7th place .

The most common is the President's Book of Secrets , from the 2007 movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets .

Not surprisingly, both parties involved were research scientists.

Young elephants will also suck their trunks to comfort themselves.

If you look closely, you can see that the colors of the secondary rainbow appear in reverse order.

It’s also a time capsule.

One past winner said he prepared for the event by “mainly drinking.”

He agreed, and she was true to her word. "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again," Fitzgerald said . "She was an unusual woman—a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."

He has one for film, one for music, and one for television.

Instead they played piano music .

They can travel as much as 20 millimeters per year .

This was the performer’s unconventional way to make money off people who weren’t buying his merchandise.

It contains every set they’ve ever made.

They’re gold during the summer and blue in the winter.

Farmers can use trees as storage and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.

This also helps the animals become more socialized.

The character became legendary among fans, and was eventually given a name (Willrow Hood) and a backstory.

Dalí would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.

They rent them out for about $1 million a year.

Ross did this for a viewer who was worried that his color blindness would prevent him from being able to paint.

Emperor penguins today are about 4 feet tall and 100 pounds.

This story was originally published in 2018; it has been updated for 2023.

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