50 Weird Facts No One Really Asked For, But They’re Pretty Neat To Know (New Facts)

In 1984, a boy wrote a letter to Ronald Reagan asking for federal funds to clean his bedroom after his mother called it a “disaster area”.

After being denied rights to use “Another One Bites the Dust” for Rocky III, Sylvester Stallone hired Survivor to write an original song instead, which turned out to be “Eye Of The Tiger.”

Rats can squeeze through holes or gaps the size of a quarter because their skulls are not plated together, allowing them to change the shape of their heads and fit through tiny openings. They can leap four feet sideways, fall from a height of five stories without sustaining injuries, and tread water for up to three days.

A South African girl was kidnapped when she was two days old. Seventeen years later, she was reunited with her real family when she coincidentally started going to the same school as her younger sister. The girls formed an almost immediate friendship and had a strong resemblance. A DNA test confirmed their relation.

When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”

Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, the Yakuza, provided food, water, diapers, blankets, and more during both the 1995 and 2011 Japanese earthquakes, responding faster than the Japanese government.

A 75-year-old woman took shelter from a tornado by hiding in her bathtub. The tornado ripped off the roof of her house, lifted the tub, and transported it to the woods with the uninjured woman still in it.

A study involving 80 pairs of jeans found that women's pockets are generally half the size of men's pockets for the same brand. Only 40% of women's pockets can comfortably fit an iPhone X, and just 10% can accommodate an entire hand. In contrast, 100% of men's pockets can fit both.

In 2015, researchers tested the efficiency of mosquito repellents by using Victoria’s Secret perfume, believing its floral fragrance would attract mosquitoes. Surprisingly, they found that it repelled mosquitoes better than various mosquito deterrents.

Sir Ben Kingsley, born Krishna Bhanji, changed his name and observed an immediate increase in job offers, shifting from "We don't quite know how to place you" to "When can you start?"

In 2008, Nebraska implemented a law allowing parents to drop off unwanted newborns at safe-havens. The law did not specify an age limit, resulting in nearly all of the abandoned children being over ten years old, with some as old as 17.

A psychology study of more than 4,000 millionaires found that people with more wealth are indeed happier in life. They also found that people who earned their wealth were happier than those who inherited it.

A hiker was lost on a mountain for 24 hours and ignored calls, texts, and voicemail messages from rescuer teams because he didn’t recognize the phone number.

The appendix does have a purpose. It stores samples of good bacteria so they can repopulate your digestive system in case they are wiped out entirely by diseases such as diarrhea.

You can hire a “coffin confessor” in Australia, who will gatecrash your funeral and reveal all your secrets to your loved ones.

A 60-year old truck driver sued the Tokyo hospital where he was born after discovering that he was accidentally switched with another newborn in 1953. He ended up with a poor single mother while the other baby grew up to own a real estate company under his rich biological parents.

A man secretly outsourced his job to China, spent his time at work surfing the internet and watching cat videos, and made hundreds of thousands of dollars before being caught and fired.
It turned out that the work done in China was of high quality; the employee’s code was clean, well-written, and submitted on time. In fact, his performance reviews consistently recognized him as the top developer in the building, quarter after quarter.

Even though they don't have wings, spiders can fly for hundreds of miles (across entire oceans) on long strands of silk using Earth's electric fields; it's called "ballooning." Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.

While filming ‘Tokyo Drift,’ the crew was unable to obtain a permit for a scene. They filmed it anyway, and the studio hired someone to pose as the director to take the blame and spend a night in jail.

Men process other men's voices with the part of the brain that processes simple sounds such as car engines and machinery, but they process female voices with the part of the brain that processes music.