People Share 44 Facts That Completely Changed How They Think About, Well, Everything

In the year 1910, in the American state of Ohio, there were only 2 registered automobiles...and they hit each other.

That in Germany attempting to escape from prison is not considered a crime in itself as the law recognizes the human instinct to seek freedom. If no other laws are broken while escaped, the escape is not punishable under German law.

Everyone has kicked a pregnant woman.

Everything in the universe is either a duck, or it is not a duck.

In 1956, a drunken Thomas Fitzpatrick bet he could get from New Jersey to a Manhattan bar in 15 minutes. He then steals a plane and flies it to New York and lands on 191st in front of the bar.

2 years later, at the same bar, he's telling the story and someone said they didn't believe him... So he did it again.

The Canadian British who burned the White House down in 1812, first held a session of Mock Congress where they unanimously voted to do said arson.

Manatees fart to control their buoyancy.

Two pharmacists were trying to recreate a fish sauce from Asia. The result was basically inedible. So they stuck it in the basement for 18 months and before throwing it away decided to try it and Worcestershire sauce was born.

The spikes on a tail of the stegosaurus was named after a term in a ‘the far side’ comic.

The thagomizer.

If you are bored, you can rotate a cow in your mind. It's free and the cops can't stop you.

When Lockheed Martin was working on the prototype that would eventually become the SR-71 blackbird spy plane they decided they needed to make the airframe out of titanium. It was the only metal that could withstand the insane heat this thing would undergo when cruising at Mach 3+ without being structurally compromised. So they sourced the massive amount of titanium they'd need from the largest producer of titanium metal in the world...The Soviet Union.

You heard me right. Through a series of shell corporations and dummy accounts the CIA helped buy titanium from The Soviet Union to build a plane that would go on to spy on The Soviet Union.

A bridge once collapsed because 300 or so people gathered on it to watch a clown in a bathtub be pulled along a river by 4 geese.

If you stack all the blue whales in the ocean on top of each other to build a tower to the moon, they would die.

In the Middle Ages, Catholic theologians wrestled with the idea of God’s omnipotence. If God is unlimited then he could have created more worlds, more men, even whole other civilizations. That led to other debates: was Christ’s sacrifice on the cross infinite enough to redeem beings beyond Earth or would God stage separate incarnations for them?

In short medieval theologians debated about aliens living on alien worlds.

Australia lost a war against birds.

The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.

At the zoo here, an orangutan named Fu Manchu figured out how to pick the lock of his enclosure. He used a piece of wire that he hid in his mouth during the day, escaping at night. The wire was only discovered after he'd broken out multiple times.

Whales are mammals which mean they lactate. Their “milk” is the consistency of toothpaste and has so much fat in it that it’s pretty much butter. They squirt it into their calf’s mouths.

The milk tastes fishy from the whales diet.

Kathleen Coronna is an NYC resident who was severely injured at the Macys thanksgiving parade when a float knocked over a light pole. Almost 10 years later, NY Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into her apartment building and sent wreckage into her apartment (she was not home). That’s some Final Destination stuff.

When Spanish explorers brought tobacco to Europe from the Americas. One of them demonstrated smoking in his home town. His neighbors were frightened to see him exhaling smoke because it seemed demonic. The Spanish Inquisition threw him in prison for 7 years.