What is it with the human brain and its propensity to remember the useless and shun the actually useful info? Is it because weird facts are seemingly that much more interesting than something related to your work? Or is it because brains are their own sentient being and like to make fun of us sometimes? Who knows, but we bet you'll definitely remember some of these weird facts we've gathered here after you're done reading them!
Some of these pieces of info can absolutely be categorized as useless facts. You really don't need to know how fast ketchup squirts out of a bottle or that there's a place on the Earth that hasn't had any rain in 400 years. Yet, although totally random and seemingly worthless facts, they somehow find a place in your memory, only to be stuck there forever. And, of course, remembered in the most awkward situations. Maybe that is the real charm of these random facts.
Anyhoo, it seems to us that it is interesting facts o'clock already, isn't it? If your clock is on the same spot as ours, you should probably head down and read the cool facts! After you are done with them, show these funny weird facts some love by upvoting the most useless ones to the top of this list. And lastly, share this article with your friends!
#1
The tea bag was an accidental invention. A New York tea merchant sent samples of tea to his customers in small silken bags. Some recipients mistakenly placed the silken bags directly into a teapot instead of emptying out the contents.
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59points
#2
Crying makes you feel better. It releases oxytocin and endorphins, which can help ease both physical and emotional pain.
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#3
There's a company based in Florida that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. The permanent memorials placed on the ocean floor create new marine habitats for fish and other forms of sea life.
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54points
#4
McDonald's introduced drive-through service due to the military, because some soldiers were not permitted to get out of their cars off-post.
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#6
Alpine bumble-bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.
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#7
In 2006 a man in Australia tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The auction jumped to $3,000 before eBay pulled the plug on the auction.
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#8
Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from Satan’s temptations.
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#10
Stubbs was a cat that served as mayor of an Alaskan town for 20 years, until his death.
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#11
Blood donors in Sweden receive a text when their blood is used. The initiative was meant to emphasize donors’ importance and, presumably, encourage them to come back and give more.
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#12
A woman with two uteruses gave birth to twins less than a month after having a baby.
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#13
A full-size human could swim through a blue whale's arteries.
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#14
The children of two pairs of identical twins are legally cousins, but genetically more similar to siblings.
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#15
There is a town called Calama that once went without a single drop of rain for 400 years.
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#16
Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel.
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#17
The five colors on the Olympic flag were carefully selected. They were selected blue, yellow, black, green, and red, because at least one of those five colors occurred in each of the participating nations’ flags.
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#18
There is a garden in England filled exclusively with around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants.
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#19
Usain Bolt has scoliosis. It curved his spine to the right and made his right leg half an inch shorter than his left.
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#20
Shakesphere's grave does not bear his name, merely this warning rhyme: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.”
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38points