1. The longest time between two twins being born is 87
days .

2. The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan .
It’s 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to
fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone
contract without paying a fee. It didn’t work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s
(they were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle), and were
made from animal and fish intestines .

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park
in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart
attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his
horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most
Muppeteers are right-handed , so they operate the head
with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas .

9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint
each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth.
Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the
coins being made.

10. Light doesn’t necessarily travel at the speed of light.
The slowest we’ve ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph .

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live
maggots . The maggots can jump up to five inches out of
cheese while you’re eating it, so it’s a good idea to shield it
with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has been
calling out for a mate for over two decades — but whose
high-pitched voice is so different to other whales that they
never respond .

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus’ tail are known
among paleontologists as the “thagomizer” — a term
coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side
drawing .

14. During World War II, the crew of the British submarine
HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna
aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the
Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its
eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat by
retracting them into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin,
shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting
drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a gene
scientists have named “happyhour” .

18. Experiments show that male rhesus macaque monkeys
will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques’
bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the
world died after he tripped over his beard running away
from a fire .

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of
inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg , in which hundreds of
people danced for about a month for no apparent reason.
Several of them danced themselves to death.


21. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads ; its
buildings are connected entirely by canals and footbridges.

22. A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for
many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are
thought to have gained their blue skin through combination
of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as
methemoglobinemia.

23. Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the
length of Earth’s day, by moving the spin of the Earth’s
axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds
off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us around 6.8
microseconds.

24.The first American film to show a toilet being flushed
on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

25.Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing
noise known as “bergy seltzer”.

26.There is a glacier called “Blood Falls” in Antarctica
that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the
ice is bleeding. (It’s actually oxidised salty water .)

27.In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria
that lives in hairspray .

28..The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as
the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can
move as much as 7 inches.

29.The longest musical performance in history is currently
taking place in the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt,
Germany. The performance of John Cage’s “Organ²/ASLSP
(As Slow As Possible)” started on Sept. 5, 2001, and is set
to finish in 2640. The last time the note changed was
October 2013; the next change isn’t due until 2020.

30. The katzenklavier (“cat piano”) was a musical
instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century
German scholar Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row
of caged cats with different voice pitches, who could be
“played” by a keyboardist driving nails into their tails.

31.An epidemic of laughing that lasted almost a year
broke out in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1962. Several
thousand people were affected, across several villages. It
forced a school to close. It wasn’t fun, though — other
symptoms included crying, fainting, rashes, and pain.

32. The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with
urine . Apparently it works. Please don’t do it, though.

33. There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the
human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to
end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice. But,
seriously, don’t do that either.

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