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30 Interesting Random Things

May 26, 2019

Amazing and weird random facts: 

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Some Japanese and East Asian people have dry, white earwax. It’s not uncommon to see black cotton sticks in stores that are used to clean their ears. The same gene is said to also make it to where you have little to no body odor!
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Some Japanese and East Asian people have dry, white earwax. It’s not uncommon to see black cotton sticks in stores that are used to clean their ears. The same gene is said to also make it to where you have little to no body odor!


Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Native Americans created a universal sign language known as Hand Talk in the mid-1500’s, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Native Americans created a universal sign language known as Hand Talk in the mid-1500’s, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: None of The Beatles, considered by many to be the greatest musical act in history, are able to read or write sheet music
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: None of The Beatles, considered by many to be the greatest musical act in history, are able to read or write sheet music

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Hippo’s have a red sweat (with hipposudoric and norhipposudoric acid pigments) which has both a sunscreen and antibiotic property for when they need to leave the water during the day and endure the sun in order to eat additional vegetation.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Hippo’s have a red sweat (with hipposudoric and norhipposudoric acid pigments) which has both a sunscreen and antibiotic property for when they need to leave the water during the day and endure the sun in order to eat additional vegetation.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Underneath the avenues and boulevards of southern Paris, France, there are catacombs/ossuaries holding the remains of more than six million people.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Underneath the avenues and boulevards of southern Paris, France, there are catacombs/ossuaries holding the remains of more than six million people.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: In the courts of Ancient Rome, when a man was testifying, he would swear on his testicles, which is where the term ‘testify’ comes from. However, other primates have been doing this practice for millions of years.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: In the courts of Ancient Rome, when a man was testifying, he would swear on his testicles, which is where the term ‘testify’ comes from.  However, other primates have been doing this practice for millions of years. 

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The band Coldplay was originally formed under the name of Pectoralz, and later changed to Starfish. It wasn’t until Will Champion joined that they became Coldplay.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The band Coldplay was originally formed under the name of Pectoralz, and later changed to Starfish.  It wasn’t until Will Champion joined that they became Coldplay.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Leo Fender, the founder of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation which produceded the iconic Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not himself play the guitar.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Leo Fender, the founder of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation which produceded the iconic Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not himself play the guitar.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Disney’s character Goofy was originally known as Dippy Dawg. He has also been known as George G. Geef, Goofus D. Dawg, and Goofy G. Goof.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Disney’s character Goofy was originally known as Dippy Dawg.  He has also been known as George G. Geef, Goofus D. Dawg, and Goofy G. Goof.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The original purpose of the United Nations in 1942 was to win the Second World War. It’s peacekeeping mission only came later near the end of the war.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The original purpose of the United Nations in  1942 was to win the Second World War.  It’s peacekeeping mission only came later near the end of the war.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: 1 out of every 8 American workers have worked for McDonald’s, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and pop singer Pink.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: 1 out of every 8 American workers have worked for McDonald’s, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and pop singer Pink. 

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: In 1567, the man with the world’s longest beard, Hans Steininger, died from tripping over it when running away from a fire.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: In 1567, the man with the world’s longest beard, Hans Steininger, died from tripping over it when running away from a fire. Or did he die from tripping over his beard and breaking his neck?  Regardless, he dead.  Do not confuse Steininger with Hans Langseth, who also had a world record length beard.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Winston Churchill once said one of life’s four essentials was cold champagne, and thus he drank over 42,000 bottles of Champagne between 1908 and 1965.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Winston Churchill once said one of life’s four essentials was cold champagne, and thus he drank over 42,000 bottles of Champagne between 1908 and 1965. The other 3 essentials?  A hot bath, new peas, and old brandy.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Nearly a fifth of China’s homes are vacant, meaning there are enough empty homes in China for everyone in the United Kingdom to have one each.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Nearly a fifth of China’s homes are vacant, meaning there are enough empty homes in China for everyone in the United Kingdom to have one each.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The largest dam built by beavers is over twice as long as the Hoover Dam. The busy beavers have been building it for over 40 years in Northern Canada.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The largest dam built by beavers is over twice as long as the Hoover Dam.  The busy beavers have been building it for over 40 years in Northern Canada.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The original manuscript of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, has his children’s drawings on them.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The original manuscript of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species, considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, has his children’s drawings on them.






Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The letters Q, W, and X were illegal for over 80 years in Turkey. They were legalized in 2013; however, they were still not included in the Turkish alphabet.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The letters Q, W, and X were illegal for over 80 years in Turkey.  They were legalized in 2013; however, they were still not included in the Turkish alphabet.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: There is a law in the state of Iowa that if you are a one-armed piano player, that you must perform for free.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: There is a law in the state of Iowa that if you are a one-armed piano player, that you must perform for free.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Rod Stewart used to take his cocaine anally, rather than risk destroying his nasal passages.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Rod Stewart used to take his cocaine anally, rather than risk destroying his nasal  passages.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: 47-year-old Mark Inglis climbed Mount Everest in 2006, despite having no legs and one of his prostheses snapping in half during the middle of his climb at 21,000 feet.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: 47-year-old Mark Inglis climbed Mount Everest in 2006, despite having no legs and one of his prostheses snapping in half during the  middle of his climb at 21,000 feet.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: There are more than 5000 mammals on our planet but Humans (Homo Sapiens) are the only ones with permanent breasts. All other mammals develop temporary breasts during ovulation or when nursing in order to produce milk for their offspring and they disappear afterwards.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: There are more than 5000 mammals on our planet but Humans (Homo Sapiens) are the only ones with permanent breasts.  All other mammals develop temporary breasts during ovulation or when nursing in order to produce milk for their offspring and they disappear afterwards.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: If you own any chickens in Quitman, Georgia, it’s illegal to let them cross the road. Simply put, the law essentially wants owners to have their chickens under control at all times.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: If you own any chickens in Quitman, Georgia, it’s illegal to let them cross the road. Simply put, the law essentially wants owners to have their chickens under control at all times.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Coral are extremely agressive and territorial. They will form colonies and will fight other coral colonies to the death to defend or expand their own territories.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Coral are extremely agressive and territorial. They will form colonies and will fight other coral colonies to the death to defend or expand their own territories.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The first man made object to enter the stratosphere was a shell from a German Paris gun.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: The first man made object to enter the stratosphere was a shell from a German Paris gun. A massive artillery weapon designed to be able to hit the city of paris from up to 80 miles away. It could fire so high that the Earths rotation had to be taken in account so the cannon could hit its target.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: One of the original suggestions as a name for Twitter was ‘Friendstalker’, but it was dismissed as too creepy. Other options included 'Vibrate’ and 'Jitter’.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: One of the original suggestions as a name for Twitter was ‘Friendstalker’, but it was dismissed as too creepy.  Other options included 'Vibrate’ and 'Jitter’. 

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: President James A. Garfield was both mulitlingual and ambidextrous, and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand, simultaneously.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: President James A. Garfield was both mulitlingual and ambidextrous, and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand, simultaneously.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: One of the original inventors of the frisbee and frisbee golf, Edward Headrick, was cremated and his ashes were made into tribute frisbees.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: One of the original inventors of the frisbee and frisbee golf, Edward Headrick, was cremated and his ashes were made into tribute frisbees.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Humans don't actually have five senses, we have other senses like balance, heat, pain and the passage of time. Humans actually have at least 14 senses.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Humans don't actually have five senses, we have other senses like balance, heat, pain and the passage of time. Humans actually have at least 14 senses.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Thailand used to have a prison called "Khuk Khi Kai", or "Chicken poop prison."
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: Thailand used to have a prison called "Khuk Khi Kai", or "Chicken poop prison." The first floor of the prison contained prisoners, and the second floor was a large chicken coop. The grated floor ensured that prisnoers were constantly subjected to chicken poop.

Amazing WTF Fun Fact: When Lawrence Anthony, known as "The Elephant Whisperer", passed away. A herd of elephants arrived at his house in South Africa to mourn him. Although the elephants were not alerted to the event, they travelled to his house and stood around for two days, and then dispersed.
Amazing WTF Fun Fact: When Lawrence Anthony, known as "The Elephant Whisperer", passed away. A herd of elephants arrived at his house in South Africa to mourn him. Although the elephants were not alerted to the event, they travelled to his house and stood around for two days, and then dispersed.
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