100 Cool and Weird Fun Facts that you should know

1. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
2. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”
3. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
4. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
6. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
7. Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.
8. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
9. One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
10. If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.
11. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
12. A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
13. James Buchanan, the 15^th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.

Fun Facts

14. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
15. A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
16. Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
17. New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.
18. A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.
19. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
20. Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.
21. It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.
22. 10% of the World’s population is left handed.
23. A broken clock is right two times every day.
24. According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
25. Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”
26. A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.
27. A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4 foot tall child in.
28. Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
29. If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
30. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer
31. There are more collect calls on Father’s day than on any other day of the year.

Nutrition Facts

32. Drying fruit depletes it of 30-80% of its vitamin and antioxidant content
33. A 2010 study found that 48% of soda fountain contained fecal bacteria, and 11% contained E. Coli.
34. 9 out of 10 Americans are deficient in Potassium.
35. Blueberries will not ripen until they are picked.
36. About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
37. Ketchup was used as a medicine back in the 1930’s.
38. Honey never spoils.
39. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
40. A hardboiled egg will spin, but a soft boiled egg will not.
41. Avacados are poisonous to birds.
42. Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
43. Studies show that eating spicy food can help you live longer.

Funny Facts

44. The word “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “A tribe of hairy women.”
45. Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
46. Gorillas burp when they are happy
47. In New York it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.
48. In 2006 someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price got up to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
49. It is considered good luck in Japan when a sumo wrestler makes your baby cry.
50. A man from Britain changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
51. A woman from California once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch, because the Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”
52. Apple launched a clothing line in 1986. It was described as a “train wreck” by others.
53. In Japan, crooked teeth are considered cute and attractive.
54. A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring, and found it 16 years later- growing on a carrot in her garden.

Unbelievable Facts

55. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
56. Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat.
57. Scientists have tracked butterflies that travel over 3,000 miles.
58. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
59. The population is expected to rise to 10.8 billion by the year 2080.
60. You breathe on average about 8,409,600 times a year
61. More than 60,000 people are flying over the United States in an airplane right now.
62. Hamsters run up to 8 miles at night on a wheel.
63. A waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down.
64. A church in the Czech Republic has a chandelier made entirely of human bones.
65. Under the Code of Hammurabi, bartenders who watered down beer were punished by execution.

Did You Know

66. If 33 million people held hands, they could make it all the way around the equator.
67. Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god.
68. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
69. You are born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you only have 206.
70. A ten gallon hat will only hold ¾ of a gallon.
71. Just like fingerprints, everyone has different tongue prints.
72. ATM’s were originally thought to be failures, because the only users were prostitutes and gamblers who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.
73. Of all the words in the English language, the word “set” has the most definitions. The word “run” comes in close second.
74. A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100^th of a second.
75. One fourth of the bones in your body are located in your feet
76. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
77. Blue-eyed people tend to have the highest tolerance of alcohol.

Animal Facts

78. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so that they do not drift apart.
79. The Golden Poison Dart Frog’s skin has enough toxins to kill 100 people.
80. The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.
81. Mountain lions can whistle.
82. The giraffe’s tongue is so long that they can like the inside of their own ear.
83. Cows kill more people than sharks do.
84. Cats have 32 muscles in each of their ears.
85. Butterflies taste their food with their feet.
86. A tarantula can live without food for more than two years.
87. The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than most elephants!
88. Ever wonder where the phrase “It’s raining cats and dogs” comes from? In the 17^th century many homeless cats and dogs would drown and float down the streets of England, making it look like it literally rained cats and dogs.
89. It takes about 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for the NFL for only one year.
90. Male dogs lift their legs when they are urinating for a reason. They are trying to leave their mark higher so that it gives off the message that they are tall and intimidating.

Mind Blowing Facts

91. A flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. That is the equivalent of a human jumping the Empire State Building.
92. There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the outlines and footprints.
93. There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
94. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
95. Saturn’s density is low enough that the planet would float in water.
96. 68% of the universe is dark energy, and 27% is dark matter; both are invisible, even with our powerful telescopes. This means we have only seen 5% of the universe from earth.
97. The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
98. In the past 20 years, scientists have found over 1,000 planets outside of our solar system.
99. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
100. If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ 

Woman finds 3 inch leech in her nose after Asia holiday

It’s hard to imagine that you could have a 3 inch creature in your nose for a month and not realise it! Well a backpacker from Scotland who had been seeing the sights of Vietnam and Cambodia found on returning home that a leech had found a nice comfortable new home in her nose!
The unfortunate host of the leech was 24 year old Daniela Liverani from Edinburgh and believed that the nosebleeds from which she was suffering were down to a crash she had been involved in and thought a leaking blood vessel was the cause.
However when she took a shower she noticed that the rather dark thing in her nose was not a blood clot but an animal of some description. . That was the moment when Miss Liverani realised it was not a blood clot, but that she was housing a parasite.
Reporting to accident and emergency, the staff there set to work to try and remove the creature with forceps and tweezers. Now of course it is not every day, that as a medic you are presented with this sort of task and although it apparently took about thirty minutes they eventually presented Miss Liverani with the parasite that she had been housing for a few weeks.
So did she decide to keep Mr Curly as she called him, well no, she decided that the best course of action was to boil him and set him to rest in the Edinburgh City Council waste bin. A fitting end to the hitch hiker Daniela brought back from her travels.

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Source: shockingtimes.co.uk

Top 10 Most Strange Looking Birds In The World

10

California Condor

 

 The largest North American land bird, unfortunately this species became extinct. The total number of known condors in the world is just 437. They are found within several regions of United States, Mexico and Canada. The brownish red eyes, featherless head, ivory colored bill and the standing black feathers surrounding the neck make California Condor  looking weird. The featherless neck and head of this bird also capable of make flushing in accordance with different state of emotions.
California Condor have huge wingspan than any other North American bird, measures 3 meter in length. It weighs between 10 to 14 kilograms, have longest lifespan of 60 years. They can fly at height of 15000 feet and can glide in air currents for long time. Condors makes their nest on high cliffs and large trees. The decaying flesh of animals is the main food of condors, travel up to 150 miles in a single day in searching for food.

9

Sri Lanka Frogmouth

 

As the name suggests Sri Lanka Frog mouth have large gaping mouth, wide head and hooked bill. As their eyes facing forward they get a wide binocular vision. This strange species of bird are mainly found within Southwest part of India and Sri Lanka. They also known for loud laughing song, to passing message between each other
They reach up to a length of 9.1 inches. Male and female Sri Lanka Frogmoth are varied by color of feather, female are rufous and male have grey coloration on feather.They are very weak in flight. Frogmouth birds used to hunt insects at night, take rest during day time on tree branches.

8

Long Wattled Umbrellabird

The long wattle hanging from the chest and large crest extending over the bill of male bird makes long wattled umbrella bird looking so weird. Their wattle have length up to 35 cm, covered with short feathers and it is inflatable, used during courtship. Both crest and wattle of female bird is much shorter than that of male bird.
The long wattled umbrella bird held this long wattle against the chest during flight. They lives in wet forest of Colombia and Ecuador. Insects, lizards and nuts are main food of long wattled umbrella bird.

7

Marabou Stork

Many of people consider marabou stork as the ugliest bird in the world.  It have bald pink head and neck, long inflatable featherless wattle hanging just below the bill, big wedge shaped bill and massive body with dark color makes a vampire like appearance. Marabou storks mainly lives within dry South African regions. They grow up to a height of 60 inches and gain weight up to 9 kilogram.
Marabou stork is also one of birds with largest wingspan in the world, have length of 13 meter from tip to tip. Like vultures marabou stork found of having carrion as their main food. Sometimes they steal carrion from vultures, also eats other birds like pigeons, pelicans, chicks and doves.

6

Shoebill

It is a prehistoric looking bird, mainly found within Sudan to Zambia. The enormous bill itself make it looking strange. This huge bills have length between 7.5 to 9.5 inches and have sharp edges, also have grayish marks. It is also known as whale head and shoe-billed stork. Shoebills are also one of endangered species of birds in the world. Only 8000 shoebills are left in the world.
Shoebills have average height of 5 feet and weighs between 4 to 8 kilogram. During nesting season they produce sound using bills for communicate between each other. They usually hunt for snakes, amphibians, lizards and rats at night. Stay in calm for longtime for prey and make sudden attack on appearance, crush the preys using enormous bill.

5

Magnificent Frigate Bird

They are much known for their bright red throat pouch, only found within male magnificent frigate birds during breeding season. This throat pouch also inflated like a balloon, makes brilliant reflection as male birds have deep black color. Female frigate birds are also black in color but they have white breast. They also have a long grey colored bill with hooked tip.
Magnificent frigate birds lives within coast of Florida and California. They spend most of time in flying, have habit of chasing other birds and snatching their food. Small fishes, squids and jelly fishes are main food of magnificent frigate birds.

4

Andean Cock Of The Rock

The large disc like crest of male andean cock of the rock gives it completely different look. They also have bright orange colored head, neck and chest, have black body and grey wings. Unlike male bird the females have small crest and have brownish-orange color in upper body part. It is also regarded as national bird of Peru.
They mainly lives within Andean mountains of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. Andean cock of the rocks only grow up to length of 32 centimeters and weighs up to 230 grams. Their nest have a concave cup like shape, uses saliva, mud and vegetable wastes for construction. Fruits, berries and insects are main food of andean cock of the rock.

3

Ribbon Tailed Astrapia

Ribbon tailed astrapia is a medium sized bird endemic to highlands of Papua New Guinea. The long tail itself make this species of bird so attractive, only found within male bird. In fact they have longest tail feathers in comparison with body size than any other species of birds in the world.
The tail of ribbon tailed astrapia have length up to 3 fees where it’s body length is only 1 feet. They have olive green and bronze colored feathers on it’s body. The long tail is misses within female birds, males used the long tail and bright plumage for attracting females. At same time the female birds have brownish-black body.

2

King Of Saxony Bird Of Paradise

The much elongated scalloped or ornamental feathers of king of saxony bird of paradise make a bizarre appearance. The long head plumes of this bird measured up to 50cm. The bird can also wave these head plumes back and forth at it’s wish. King of saxony bird of paradise are endemic to New Guinea.
They make nest in Kratke mountain range at height of 1400 to 2800 meters above sea level. The male birds also sing at loud to compete with other male birds.

1

Superb Bird Of Paradise

Superb bird of paradise much known for their bright ornamental plumage and mating dance, endemic to New Guinea forests. There is so much of difference in appearance of male and female superb bird of paradise. The male bird have bright blue crest,blue green mix shield on chest and velvet black at it’s back. In case of female bird it has reddish brown color, not so attractive like male bird.
While taking population of superb bird of paradise it can seen that relatively short number of females in compare with population of males. So there arise competition among male birds for females. To attract females they display fascinating mating dance. This courtship display is done by folding black feathers and green-blue shield on it’s chest upward direction and spread symmetrically.
Then the male bird dance around female by moving it’s tail feathers. It is a small sized bird only have length up to 26 cm and weighs between 60 to 100 grams. They also sing ion loud to attract female birds. Superb bird of paradise preferred to live in sloping m,mountain ridges of New Guinea at elevation of 1600 to 2300 meters above sea level.


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