Hey Pandas, What Is The Most Interesting Random Fact You Can Think Of? (Closed)

Competitive art used to be in the Olympics.

There was a sect of monks in Japan who attempted live mummification. Sokushinbutsu. They basically starved themselves and once they reached a specific point they'd just consume this posionous tea to try to dehydrate themselves. After X amount of time they were buried and other Monks sat vigil and when they were buried they had access to a string that rang a bell. They'd ring the bell like once a day and then when the bell stopped ringing they'd wait 3 days before exhuming them to see if it worked.

Not many worked. Several did but not compared got the numbers that tried it. The ones that worked were put in a temple and the ones that didn't were put to rest. I want to say the last one that happened was in the 1960's or thereabouts but I might be wrong on that. I know it was recent-ish.

If you have had canned food, you have eaten a bug. Your welcome ;)

An ostrich eyeball is the same size as a golf ball. (0/10 recommend for substitution)

Elon Musks birthday is 69 days after 4/20 (American style date).