Amazing Random Facts:
At the edge of the desert, in the middle of nowhere, sits a motel decorated with thousands of clowns that’s next to an abandoned graveyard. The Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada, is considered one of the ‘scariest motels in America’ and shares a lot with a cemetery occupied by hundreds of townspeople who died during a mysterious plague in 1902.
Killing spiders makes their gene pool much sneakier. If zombies attacked tomorrow and killed off the slowest, dumbest people, the human race would become faster and smarter.
Therefore, if you smash a spider, you likely just got rid of the dumbest one in your house, which allows the smarter spiders hiding in the shadows to hook up and make lots of baby spider geniuses.
Studies show drinking alcohol can permanently damage your DNA and increase your risk of developing cancer.
The Lion King was mostly created by first-time animators. Many of Disney’s senior animators had zero faith in the project, said “the story wasn’t very good” and “I don’t know who is going to want to watch that one,” and chose to work on Pocahontas instead.
Pantheism is the belief that the universe and all things within nature are God. Pantheists do not celebrate a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god, but accept all gods into worship because they view God as everything and everyone, and everyone and everything as God.
We say ‘hello’ because of Thomas Edison. When Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, ‘hello’ was mostly used to grab attention ('Hey, you!’).
Bell favored 'ahoy’ as a greeting, but Edison envisioned phones as business tools with always-open lines that didn’t “need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away.”
Edison won the battle, but Bell was so tied to 'ahoy’ that he used it for the rest of his life.
The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was a 63-year-old retired teacher. In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor completed the stunt inside a pickle barrel in hopes of becoming famous. When pulled from the water nearly 20 minutes later, she emerged from the barrel, battered and bloody, and said: “No one ought ever to do that again.”
High heels were invented for men, and they weren’t made for walking. For centuries, Persian soldiers wore heels as riding footwear that helped them secure their stance when they stood in their stirrups to shoot arrows. By the 1600s, western aristocrats began wearing heels as a status symbol, because they were so uncomfortable and impractical that they reflected the privilege of the upper class.
Ancient Egypt was repeatedly attacked by a mysterious army of massive warships. The raiders suddenly showed up around 1250 BCE and continued attacking until they were defeated by Ramesses III.
No record of them exists past 1178 BCE, and scholars continue to debate theories about where they went, where they came from, and who they were- so everyone just calls them the Sea Peoples.
After the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, many Civil War soldiers’ lives were saved by a phenomenon called ‘Angel’s Glow.’ The soldiers, who lay in the mud for two rainy days, had wounds that began to glow in the dark and heal unusually fast. In 2001, 2 teens won an international science fair by discovering the soldiers had been so cold that their bodies created the perfect conditions for growing a bioluminescent bacteria, which ultimately destroyed the bad bacteria that could’ve killed them.
Count Dooku and Grand Moff Tarkin were best friends in real life. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were in 24 movies together, and they once got kicked out of a movie theatre for laughing too hard while watching Looney Toons.
Crows love to pull tails. It’s a strategy they use to distract an animal from eating so they can steal its food, but they’ve also been known to do it just for fun.
There’s a Japanese town that looks just like Sweden, sells Swedish folk crafts, and celebrates Swedish traditions. Sweden Hills, located on Hokkaido island, hosts Swedish festivals throughout the year and is popular with tourists.
The Pet Alliance of Orlando animal shelter sorts its dogs into Hogwarts houses. Happy, friendly dogs are placed in Hufflepuff, brave and easygoing dogs go to Gryffindor, puzzle-solving pups are in Ravenclaw, and ambitious, determined dogs land in Slytherin. Once sorted, they get a house banner over their kennel and a profile on social media. So far, the shelter hasn’t bothered sorting the cats.
There’s a company that specializes in designing high-security secret passageways and hidden doors, some of which can only be opened by playing the right piano keys or precisely arranging pieces on a chessboard.
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