150 Weird, Maybe Useless, But Definitely Fun Facts To Know, As Shared In This Online Thread

That the celestial event known as Bailey's Beads can only be seen during a total solar eclipse

Oldest wombat in captivity is named Wayne and lives in Japan.

More people have died falling or jumping from the monument to the great fire of London than died in the fire itself.

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were all born in 1946.

In 1997, Dutch hackers discovered an exploit in Hotmail that allowed an attacker to log into any email account with a single password. The password was “eh”.

The father & son who appeared in the most movies together were Bernard and Leo Gorcey in the Bowery Boys series. Bernard was Louie, the proprietor of Louie’s Sweet Shop. Leo, of course was Slip Mahoney. 

Caesar Salad originated in at Caesar Hotel in Tijuana Mexico

Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow because of David Attenborough.

During the b&w TV era he was at the BBC and suggested the colour as they would show up clearer on TV.

The blanket octopus is immune to the venom of the Portuguese Man'o'war, a jellyfish-like animal with long, venomous tentacles. Knowing that it is immune, the blanket octopus will pull the tentacles off the man'o'war and use them as venomous flails to beat the s**t out of other sea creatures. 

The first CD to sell a million copies was Dire Straights-Brother in Arms

One of the fastest manmade objects ever recorded is a manhole cover. There was a nuclear test back in the 1957, where they placed a nuke 500 foot deep hole, and capped the hole off. They recorded the detonation with a camera that shot one frame per millisecond. The manhole cover was only seen on one single frame. It was calculated to have been launched out at 125,000 MPH, or 5x the escape velocity of earth.

Chevy Chase was the original drummer for Steely Dan

The deck of cards in your house is probably in an order never before seen in history

Charles Darwin attempted to eat every species he discovered. When he was in college he was part of the “Glutton Club” which was dedicated to eating unusual animals.

That the English verb 'hang' has a different past tense depending on whether someone was executed. E.g. 'I hung a Christmas wreath on my door' versus 'The convicted bank robber John Doe was hanged yesterday'.

A woodpeckers tongue wraps around it brain to give it protection from all the head bashing it does

Before vanillin (aka artificial vanilla) was invented, people used castoreum, a substance extracted from beaver a**l glands, to make vanilla-flavored products.

When one thinks of ninja its is more based on legend than on reality. The black outfit that is associated with the shinobi comes most likely from the practice in Japanese theater to use a black costumed actor or stagehand to indicate an invisible person.

Ninjas would disguise themselves as a priest, merchant, monk, peasant, or any other normal person. Same thing for their weapons, hide in everyday objects, then infiltrate and complete the task.

The TV show Gilligan's Island. What was the skippers name ? Allen Hale was the name of the actor who played Skipper but what was his name ? It was mentioned once in the first episode .

Jonas Grumby .

Mitochondria is the power house of a cell.

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