Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The first thing ever bought and sold on the Internet was a bag of weed.

Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes responded by calling into work “sick,” saying they “felt gay.”

Nearly 3% of ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.

When you mimic a rooster crowing, they will consider you their mortal enemy for life and always attack you on sight. They will also try to show off their might by tapping their feet on the ground in quick succession, and do a little sideways dance with one wing almost touching the ground, with the back of the rooster in full display. Also, chickens only know very few words, which you can learn easily and use to talk with them.

Good man Carl.
The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.

The first tiger shark to hatch inside of its mother's womb eats all the other embryos of its siblings.

High heeled shoes were originally created for men.

Baby porcupines are called “porcupettes”.

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

Every flight you have been on and will go on, there is always something not working. Whether it be an arm rest or a minor electrical system.

The crew will know about it but it’s usually something minor so there’s no danger what so ever.

It’s called the ‘Minimum Equipment List’. It varies depending on aircraft type.

“Arkansas” and “Kansas” are spelled the same because they both derive from the same etymological root (a Sioux word meaning “downriver”).

They are pronounced differently because Arkansans took the French pronunciation of the word and the Kansans took the Spanish pronunciation.

In 2000, ABBA was offered $1 billion dollars to reunite for 100 shows – which would have been $250 million per member. They turned it down because it wasn’t for them.

There has never been a verified snow leopard attack on a human being. Unlike many other big cats, snow leopards are not aggressive towards humans. They are very reclusive creatures, and even if they are disturbed, they are more likely to run away than to attack.

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m. Invented in 1787, Levi Hutchins needed a way to wake up in time for work, so he made the alarm clock. It took almost 100 years for a wind up alarm clock to be invented that could be set to any time.

Birds don’t urinate. Contrary to what most mammals do, birds convert nitrogen to uric acid. They get rid of this uric acid through the same place as they get rid all their other waste – their anus.

Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliament. Strange as it is, this law is in place because anyone who dies in the Houses of Parliaments is entitled to a state funeral. This has been voted as the most ridiculous law by the British citizens.

The most venomous jellyfish in the world is the Irukandji. While it’s not the most deadly jellyfish, it is number two! Even more shocking, is that this tiny jellyfish is smaller than your fingernail. Its venom is 100 times more powerful than a cobra’s!

The 20th of March is Snowman Burning Day. This strange holiday was spawned by American and Swiss citizens to symbolize the end of the winter season.

Queen Elizabeth can’t sit on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. The Queen visited the set of Game of Thrones, but because of an obscure rule, she wasn’t allowed to sit on it – the ruling monarch can’t sit on a foreign throne, even if it’s fictional, apparently.
(These facts get sillier and sillier)

It is illegal to hunt camels in the US state of Arizona.

$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the United States.