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!
#21

A "moonbow" is a rainbow that happens at night. It is produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight.
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38points
#22

A pineapple plant can only produce one pineapple a year. Then it dies. But before it dies it also produces offspring.
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37points
#23

Ashes of man who designed Pringles packaging is now buried in one of the cans.
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37points
#24

Humans did not come from monkeys. But we do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago.
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36points
#25

A Canadian woman who lost her wedding ring found it 13 years later on a carrot in her garden. Also, the same thing happened to a Swedish woman, but she found her ring 16 years after losing it.
36points
#26

Sunglasses were originally designed for Chinese judges to hide their facial expressions in court.
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#27

The Russian shooting team was 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics because they were still using an old calendar.
35points
#29

Lightning strikes the earth 100 times each second. Each bolt contains up to one billion volts of electricity.
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#30

The longest recorded tennis match lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes. It was contested over three days between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at 2010 Wimbledon.
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32points
#31

All international astronauts (the ones going to the International Space Station) must be able to speak Russian.
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31points
#32

Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day, and sends over 2,000 gallons of blood throughout your body daily.
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#33

Recycling glass jars saves energy. It takes 40% more energy to make glass from scratch compared to recycling it.
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#35
The world’s largest waterfall is underwater. It lies beneath the Denmark Strait, which separates Iceland and Greenland.
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#36

Clouds hold a lot of weight. A 1 cubic kilometer cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds (about 551 tons).
29points
#37

A lottery winning combination was once foretold in a fortune cookie. A record 110 players were claiming second prizes of either $100,000 or $500,000, and they selected the winning combination because it had been the set of “lucky numbers” given to them in their fortune cookies.
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29points
#38

Shadows are darker on the Moon because there is no air, no Rayleigh scattering. So shadows are very dark and, where sunlight hits, very bright.
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#39

Most lipsticks contain fish scales. To be exact, the byproduct of fish scales, called pearl essence. It's the stuff that makes one's lips shiny.
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#40

Driving to space would only take an hour. But you would have to drive in a straight line upwards into the atmosphere at a speed of 60 mph.
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