Things You Might Not Know
British secret intelligence service managed to hack into an Al-Qaeda website and replace certain bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.
The CIA attempted to train cats to gather intel in the 1960s.
English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, but he originally named it George.
The Hague city spent pent €150,000 on a bridge to allow squirrels to cross a busy main road.
John Steinbeck's dog, Toby, ate the first draft of "Of Mice and Men"
Match.com founder lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com
President Calvin Coolidge used to push the emergency buzzer and hide under the table from the Secret Service
High-heeled shoes were originally designed in the 10th Century, specifically for men.
Unicorn is Scotland’s national creature.
You can acquire a unicorn hunting license from Lake Superior State University in Michigan.
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Miss Piggy and Yoda were both voiced by the same person.
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is the official term for the "fear of long words."
Invisible artwork called "Fresh Air" sold for $10,000
Cartoon character Winnie the Pooh images are being blocked on social media sites in China
It could take you 76 work days to read all the privacy policies you encounter on the internet over a period of 1 year.
Slow music that was played at a large dairy farm increased the cows’ milk production by 3 percent.
Chile minted 1.5 million 50-peso coins with a spelling error, they were issued in 2008 with Chile spelled “Chiie”. The error was only noticed a year late
German chocolate cake does not originate in Germany. It was named after Sam German, who in 1852 invented a type of baking chocolate for Baker's.
CDC has a real website dedicated to emergency preparedness for a zombie apocalypse.
A person tried to sue God, but was unable to proceed due to an unlisted home address.
Japanese police confront aggression by wrapping people in a futon
In the state of Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday.
There are more barrels of bourbon than there are people in Kentucky.
It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
The small town of Dorset, Minnesota elects a major by picking a name out of a hat, once it elected a 3-year-old.
Diet soda cans float in the water, but regular soda cans sink due to the difference in density.
In 2001 there were 300 banana-related accidents in Great Britain.
A Jiffy is a unit of real-time. A jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one Femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a Millimetre
There's a musical road in Lancaster, California that plays the song "William Tell Overture" if the cars drive over 55 mph.
Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest and lost.
Monowi, Nebraska, used to be the only town in the United States with an official population of one person.
Nearly every movie & tv show has to end with a disclaimer saying it's fiction. The disclaimer issue is rooted in a lawsuit against MGM for the 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress.
'The Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong shared a cell while in prison.
Engineer Richard James accidentally invented the Slinky when a spring designed to stabilize the device of a ship fell off a shelf.
Israeli and Australian researchers conducted a study that determined - Viagra makes flowers stand up straight.
Vladimir Nabokov came up with the concept of emoticons in 1969.
The house from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a family restaurant called Grand Central Café.
Horses only breathe through the nose.
According to 2022 research done by Life Way, seven percent of Christian Americans pray for a good parking spot
The CIA attempted to train cats to gather intel in the 1960s.
English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, but he originally named it George.
The Hague city spent pent €150,000 on a bridge to allow squirrels to cross a busy main road.
John Steinbeck's dog, Toby, ate the first draft of "Of Mice and Men"
Match.com founder lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com
President Calvin Coolidge used to push the emergency buzzer and hide under the table from the Secret Service
High-heeled shoes were originally designed in the 10th Century, specifically for men.
Unicorn is Scotland’s national creature.
You can acquire a unicorn hunting license from Lake Superior State University in Michigan.
-------------------------------------(Take That Scotland)------------------------------------------------------
Miss Piggy and Yoda were both voiced by the same person.
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is the official term for the "fear of long words."
Invisible artwork called "Fresh Air" sold for $10,000
Cartoon character Winnie the Pooh images are being blocked on social media sites in China
It could take you 76 work days to read all the privacy policies you encounter on the internet over a period of 1 year.
Slow music that was played at a large dairy farm increased the cows’ milk production by 3 percent.
Chile minted 1.5 million 50-peso coins with a spelling error, they were issued in 2008 with Chile spelled “Chiie”. The error was only noticed a year late
German chocolate cake does not originate in Germany. It was named after Sam German, who in 1852 invented a type of baking chocolate for Baker's.
CDC has a real website dedicated to emergency preparedness for a zombie apocalypse.
A person tried to sue God, but was unable to proceed due to an unlisted home address.
Japanese police confront aggression by wrapping people in a futon
In the state of Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday.
There are more barrels of bourbon than there are people in Kentucky.
It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
The small town of Dorset, Minnesota elects a major by picking a name out of a hat, once it elected a 3-year-old.
Diet soda cans float in the water, but regular soda cans sink due to the difference in density.
In 2001 there were 300 banana-related accidents in Great Britain.
A Jiffy is a unit of real-time. A jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one Femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a Millimetre
There's a musical road in Lancaster, California that plays the song "William Tell Overture" if the cars drive over 55 mph.
Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest and lost.
Monowi, Nebraska, used to be the only town in the United States with an official population of one person.
Nearly every movie & tv show has to end with a disclaimer saying it's fiction. The disclaimer issue is rooted in a lawsuit against MGM for the 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress.
'The Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong shared a cell while in prison.
Engineer Richard James accidentally invented the Slinky when a spring designed to stabilize the device of a ship fell off a shelf.
Israeli and Australian researchers conducted a study that determined - Viagra makes flowers stand up straight.
Vladimir Nabokov came up with the concept of emoticons in 1969.
The house from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a family restaurant called Grand Central Café.
Horses only breathe through the nose.
According to 2022 research done by Life Way, seven percent of Christian Americans pray for a good parking spot
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