Nusrat Jahan Progga
The amount of things that I had no clue about stuns me every day! I hear some weird facts and like everyone else I go “Oh no this cannot be true at all” and move on to dump the thought, and that is just when the little Sherlock in me kicks in- I Google the “fact” and viola! Turns out that most of the absurd shi-oops-stuff I read on the internet is actually true. *This is where you imagine me putting the poker face emoji*
•Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto
•Nintendo was originally a trading card company
•There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
•For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants. However, the total weight of all those ants is about the same as all the humans.
•On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.
•Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.
•Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.
•There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.
•A strawberry is NOT a berry but a Banana IS.
•An octopus has three hearts. (Why do I find this kind of cute?)
•By law, a pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses, in a police officer’s helmets.
•If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn pale.
•Spanish national anthem has no words.
•Anything a duckling meets 10 minutes after its born becomes its parent.
•Honey is the only food that included all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, minerals, water and vitamins.
•Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
•There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the Earth
•It would take 100 years to watch every video on Youtube.
•An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
•Blue whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.
•Baby tiger sharks eat each other in the womb until only one shark is born.
•Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
•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.
•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.
•Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He’d tied the man’s head to his horse’s saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.
(Karma is real, folks!)
•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.