parts 10
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Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.
Japanese people rarely leave rubbish on the streets. As a result, Japan doesn’t need janitors.
The costume designers for The Lord of the Rings worked for two straight years making custom armor. Just one Orc suit had 13,000 rings and took 3 days to make.
Eye of newt, toe of frog, and wool of bat are just archaic terms for mustard seed, buttercup, and holly leaves.
Northern Korean people are legally only allowed to have one of 28 haircuts. Men and women can choose from 14 different styles.
Eating a banana can help to form a lining that prevents heartburn from getting worse.
The closest living relatives of hippopotamuses are whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
The Great Wall of China is 3,728 miles long.
When Play-Doh was first developed in the 1930s, it wasn’t a toy… it was a way to clean wallpaper.
In Ancient Bafia culture, one could purchase a wife for the price of thirty potato mashers.
In a human foot, there are 26 bones.
Antarctica is the only continent that turtles don’t live on.
Warren Buffett eats at McDonald’s every single morning and only orders one of three things. It never costs him more than $3.17.
Psychopaths can only think of the possible positive consequences of their actions, not the negative ones.
Disney World is the second-largest purchaser of explosives in the United States, the first being the U.S. Department of Defense.
Hard cheeses have a longer shelf life than soft cheeses.
There were 19 living men in Austria found to be genetic relatives of Ötzi the Iceman in 2013, determined by blood testing.
The Latin name for banana is “musa sapientum” which translates to “fruit of the wise men.”
July 3rd is International Plastic Bag Free Day – it’s a day about making a little change to make a big impact (for the better) in the future.
Coca-Cola owns all website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
In 1907, a woman was arrested on a beach in Boston for wearing a one-piece swimsuit.
Mountain Dew is slang for moonshine. It was originally created as a mixer for moonshine and whiskey in Tennessee.
The center of a comet is called a nucleus.
A crocodile escaped out of a duffel bag on board a flight in the Congo, causing everybody to go to the front of the plane. This caused the plane to crash, leaving only one survivor.
August 5th is known as National Underwear Day – the perfect day to add some new, confidence-boosting pieces to your underwear collection.
Sprite was manufactured as Coca-Cola’s response to the popularity of 7 Up.
The word “white” comes from the Indo-European root “kweit” meaning “to shine.”
Although many people think shaving causes hair to grow back quicker, there is no scientific evidence for this.
In 1999, PayPal was voted as one of the top ten worst business ideas.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon Arthur when he was 26.
Cameron Dallas‘ middle name is Alexander.
Around 70% of people tilt their heads to the right rather than the left when kissing somebody else.
The name Milky Way derives from the Greek “galaxías kýklos” or “milky circle” due to its appearance as a dim milky band in the sky.
If your throat tickles, scratching your ear can make it go away.
Fruit flies were the first living creatures to be sent into space in 1947.
There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
Of the 70% of water covering the Earth, only 3% of it is fresh, and the other 97% of it is salted.
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the U.S., with a population of 621,849. Meaning that it is not part of any county.
Applying non-fat yogurt to a sunburnt area is a natural way to deal with sunburn.
Humans cannot walk in a straight line without a visual point – When blindfolded, we will gradually walk in a circle.
Baby horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.
Even though smoking has been banned on airplanes, ashtrays are mandatory on every plane. This is for safe disposal in case someone breaks the law.
79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
Brussels Airport is the world’s biggest chocolate seller, selling over 800 tons of chocolate a year.
Although Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system, it is also the lightest planet!
The Apple Lisa was the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse.
When you have to make a choice, and every choice is a bad one, it’s called a zugzwang.
Victoria’s Secret was originally supposed to be a*****e for men to shop for their female partners without feeling embarrassed.
The mongoose is one of those rare animals that are immune to a snake’s venom.
Mulan has the highest kill count of any Disney character, including villains, and was the first Disney Princess to be shown killing people on-screen.
In Greece, women are not legally allowed to wear high heels or tall hats in the Olympic Stadium.
Most catfish are normally active at night; however, the Peppered Cory Catfish is active more often during the day.
There was a man in the late 1700s who had such a constant and severe appetite that he was once kicked out of a hospital because they thought he ate an entire toddler.
Lake Superior contains 10% of the world’s freshwater. It is the size of South Carolina and contains 2,900 cubic miles of water.
Erotomania is a psychological disorder where the sufferer has delusions that another person is in love with him or her.
Harry Burnett Reese, the founder of Reese’s chocolate, was a former shipping foreman and a dairy farmer for Milton S. Hershey, the founder of Hershey’s chocolate.
Selfies now cause more deaths than shark attacks. It is estimated there are 28 selfie-related deaths per year, with the leading cause being heights.
Carrots have zero fat content.
Cards Against Humanity bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. It is called Hawaii 2.
Leather products like handbags or shoes can be polished with the inside of a banana skin, simply rub it on and wipe it off with a cloth.
“Death by PowerPoint” is a term relating to the intense boredom of useless PowerPoint presentations.
Intentionally farting on a California prison guard can get you an additional 11 years in prison.
Nearly every brand of hard liquor is vegan.
Giving up alcohol for just one month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure, and reduce the risk of liver disease and diabetes.
The Cesky Terrier is the rarest breed of dog in the world. Around 350 of them exist in total worldwide.
Puma, cougar, and mountain lion are names for the exact same animal. The scientific name is puma, but they are more commonly referred to as cougars.
Kesha was an extra in Katy Perry’s music video for “I Kissed a Girl.” Katy had some of her friends in the video – among those, a then unknown Kesha.
In the Philippines, it is considered good luck if a coconut is cleanly split open without jagged edges.
One of Hitler’s favorite tunes to whistle was the very popular “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
Jennifer Lopez was the first actress to have a movie, and an album hit number one in the same week.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were 3 sailors trapped in the USS West Virginia who could not be rescued, and it took 16 days for them to die.
Jack Daniel (the founder of the whiskey) died from kicking a safe. When he kicked it, he broke his toe, which got infected. He eventually died from blood poisoning.
Clinomania is the excessive desire to lay in bed all day.
At his audition for The Office, John Krasinski told someone he was nervous about the producers ruining the show because of how great the British version was – little did he know, the person he was talking to was the show’s executive producer.
Hawaii’s state flag is the only U.S. state flag to feature the Union Jack upon it.
The radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million. The television took 13 years, and the iPod only took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
If a snake has its head chopped off – that chopped-off head can still bite and unleash a huge amount of venom.
Instead of having an army, Andorrans all must keep a rifle. The law also says that police officers can offer up a firearm if the need arises.
Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer.
King Kong was the first movie to ever have a sequel.
With the exception of a few organs, caterpillars liquefy almost completely while undergoing metamorphosis.
Sonic the Hedgehog is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest gaming character ever.
Each day, your mouth produces anywhere from 2 to 4 pints of saliva.
BTS was the first K-Pop group to get their own Twitter emojis.
The Green Lantern debuted in 1940, making the Lantern’s first debut only two years after Superman’s.
Gleeking is the act of stimulating the salivary glands underneath your tongue into spitting a concentrated jet of pure saliva.
Bill Gates’s house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
Playboy has been publishing braille versions of its magazines since 1970; however, no pictorial representations are included.
In 1986, a soviet Aeroflot pilot tried to land the plane blindly with all the windows curtained due to a bet with the co-pilot. He crashed and killed 70 of the 94 passengers on board.
26 is the atomic number of iron.
The swan has over 25,000 feathers on its body.
Biting someone with false teeth in Louisiana, USA, is considered aggravated assault.
Allodoxaphobia is the fear of opinions.
Temperature affects your attitude towards others. For example, if you hold a warm coffee as opposed to a cold coffee, you are more likely to be more selfless towards others.
Male cats are called toms, and females are called queens or mollies.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say there were three wise men, just three gifts.
When Kurt Russell smashed the guitar in “The Hateful Eight,” he accidentally destroyed an irreplaceable 145-year-old museum piece instead of one of the replicas.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Ladybugs bleed from their knees when threatened.
Butterflies have skeletons on the outside of their bodies. This is known as the exoskeleton.
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