20 Crazy WTF Random Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

'Home Alone' was originally financed/produced by Warner Bros. When the budget grew from $13 million to $18 million and no confidence of success, WB dropped the film, which was then picked up by 20th Century Fox. The film grossed $476.7 million worldwide (of which $285.8 million were from America).

According to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.

Robert Hubert was accused of causing the Great Fire of London. He declared that he had thrown a grenade through a window into the bakery where it had started. Yet, he hadn’t been in England, the bakery didn’t have any windows, and he was a cripple. He was still executed.

According to a large study of American dietary habits, 84 percent of vegetarians and vegans eventually go back to eating meat. The study was funded by advocacy group the Humane Research Council, which partnered with Harris Interactive to survey the meat-eating habits of 11,399 adults ages 17 and older.

In the card game Arboretum, tie-breakers are decided by players each planting a tree, coming back in 5 years, and seeing which one grew the tallest.

The first written recipe for guacamole was written down by a pirate.

Elizabeth I spent her reigning summers travelling with an entire royal entourage of 400-600 horse drawn carts. They travelled slowly, an average of 10-12 miles a day. Her visits to houses incurred significant expenses for the host, thus they weren’t always happy to have her stay.

The artist Banksy financed and helped design the hotel 'with the worst view in the world' overlooking the wall separating Israeli and Palestinian sections of Bethlehem.

The Welsh word Hiraeth means to have a homesickness or to long for something, someone, or somewhere that may not have existed or no longer exist and there’s no English equivalent.

In the 1700s, pineapples were expensive, so rich American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around parties to show off their wealth.

The ancient Greeks had a democratic process to nominate and vote to send any citizen away for 10 years. Like the opposite of an election.

Sylvester Stallone is still pals with turtles from original ‘Rocky’ They're 44 years old.

The nirvana fallacy is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. Under this fallacy, the choice is not between real world solutions; it is, rather, a choice between one realistic achievable possibility and another unrealistic solution that could in some way be "better".

You weigh less if you visit certain areas of Canada, namely the Hudson Bay Area and parts of Quebec, because there’s less gravity there than other parts of the world.

The financiers of The Human Centipede did not know about the mouth-to-anus aspect of the film until after it was complete.

Young chimpanzees outperformed college students, in both in speed and accuracy, at a working memory task involving numbers. This suggest that chimps have a photographic memory, which allows them to memorize a complex scene or pattern at a glance.

5-10% of Melanesians (a dark-skinned Pacific Island people) have blonde hair. This is not due to mixture with European populations, but rather due to an independently arising mutation.

Illinois red-light cameras have collected more than $1B from drivers since 2008.

Tim Burton did not direct or write 'Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas', asides from creating a poem that became the premise of the movie and working with Danny Elfman on several songs.

Inventor Lewis Latimer, not only made Thomas Edison's Light Bulb more efficient & practical, he invented an Apparatus for Cooling & Disinfecting, making rooms more sanitary & climate-controlled. He also improved the design of elevators & co-invented (1874) a toilet for train cars.