Earth is no stranger to crazy things. I mean, it’s inhabited by humans, the most bizarre creatures ever, despite how normal we may look! Humans remain mysterious, even though we’ve been studying ourselves and the world for thousands of years.
And it’s not like we haven’t made any progress or found out tons of interesting facts about our planet, of course. It’s just that there are too many things to dive into and explore! Like, did you know that vending machines kill more people than sharks? Or that men have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan? Or again, that the longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days?
Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on around the globe, and here at Bored Panda we have a weird obsession for learning about insane coincidences and random events happening in this cool, cool world. If you’re like us, you’ll be mesmerized by the amazing facts we’ve collected on this list! Go on, read them and let your brain get tickled for good.
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A large percentage of the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail was donated by members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
Also true: Beatle George Harrison saved "Monty Python's Life of Brian" with an influx of 2 million pounds after the chairman of EMI shut down the project.
Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, have been sister cities since 2012.
In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.
Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.
The "most typical human" is right-handed, makes less than $12,000 per year, has a mobile phone, and doesn't have a bank account.
A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year.
In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally.
Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.
Her name was Skłodowska-Curie, not just Curie. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and lived there until the age of 24, when she moved to Paris to study there.
Machine-spun Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist.
More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.
You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
All the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans.
The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day.
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights.
The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for 55 people.
Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
Multiple "Marlboro Men" have died from lung cancer.
Odd fact: 100 years ago, Marlboros were marketed to women. The slogan was "ivory tips protect the lips." Men refused to buy the cigarettes, so the company wooed them back with images of a rugged cowboy alone on the range.
Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.
I didn't know this. Apparently this was revealed in the 2004 song "The First Time Me Eat Cookie," 35 years after the birth of Sesame Street.
Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.
And, as Mark Twain said, we're the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
If "The Simpsons" aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season.
Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.
Uranus was discovered in 1781, but it’s orbit didn’t make sense, so they started looking for another planet. Neptune was found in 1846, it’s approximate location predicted ahead of time. Fun fact! At the time Neptune was discovered, asteroids Ceres (1801) and Pallas (1802) were considered planets, and were only demoted as the real nature of the asteroid belt because apparent. Pluto is not the first to get the boot.
The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.
While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed.
Sounds like he had an all-nighter at the office. Does anybody know what choices he rejected? And by the way: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GameOn/pac-man-10-secrets/story?id=13084900
There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
I'd really like to thank the person that did the math for this. Lol
Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
I think that is because the Indian subcontinent is still moving and pushing against the rest of Asia. So the mountain is being squeezed upwards as it is located along the intersection between the 2 land masses
New creatures have been found in deep-sea volcanoes.
The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.
You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.
Seeing as how I don't buy lottery tickets I suppose this is technically true...
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Hmm... We've had less than 50 presidents, but at least 3 big loterry winners a year. This "fact" doesn't check out.
The reason I don't play the lottery is that you have the same chance of your numbers coming out as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I just stick to the Women's Institute tombola these days. I'm up by 1 tin of pilchards, an out-of-date box of chocolates and a pair of mens size 16 slippers, which were kindly donated by Pickles, the local clown.
But other countries have a presidency as well.
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Nope that math don't work. In most countries there are several lotteries a week, often multiplied by different states or regions all having additional localised lotteries weekly etc. If you add up the number of presidents in countries who have President, only a portion of total world countries and take note that AT BEST you can average a president changeover every couple of years, there will be a lot less total number of presidents in the world ever than there have been lottery winners.
If you went by the USA only, there have been only 46 presidents in its entire history. The have been thousands of state and national lottery winners.
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There have been 10+ winners per year since the game was launched. Got it?
How many times in every four years do the hold the lottery? And how many tickets can you buy for each run? Also, and most persuasively, since the introduction of the lottery, how many people have won lottery jackpots, and how many people have become president? B******t statement.
So that’s how Trump got in. All these years I’ve just thought there were lots of incredibly stupid people in the USA who mistakenly voted them in.
Why would you say that to someone? Don't you like them? Being president is terrible fate.
Actually, it technically works in NZ if you assume your chances of being PM are 1 in 5 million (population) and the chances of winning lotto's jackpot are 1 in 36 million
Oh, allowing for lottery draws between elections, your chances are 312 in 36 million...of course elections aren't random and not everyone in the country is over 18. TLDR: Spend your lottery money on something you enjoy 😉
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Ah hah, president of what though. Cheese society? Guild of wonderful Johns? Does the maths work I wonder? Not convinced. US president, one in 300 million, every 4 years. Powerball one in 300 million, every week. Can buy multiple tickets to infinitesimally increase odds. Easy to go and buy a ticket. Quite hard to idly pop into politics, get backed, succeed. That said, if you are "born into the purple" (rich, connected family) your odds probably are better than lottery.
I have neither thrown my hat in the ring, nor bought a lottery ticket.
Even more so if I start putting a dollar per week toward my campaign.
The longest music piece in the world is being performed in the city of Halberstadt in Germany: John Cage's composition for organ ORGAN2/ASLSP.
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Thanks for the info! I'm going to use this figure in my statistics paper! Wish me luck :)
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Some BP posters are getting lazier and lazier. This is mostly a rip off of a post last week, and that post was a lazy one as well, literally no context to any "Fact".
Over. And over. And over. Same photos. Same "facts." It's getting really... BORING.
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Well, yes! That made-up "fact" belongs right here on this list of totally made-up "facts."
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Thanks for the info! I'm going to use this figure in my statistics paper! Wish me luck :)
Load More Replies... Some BP posters are getting lazier and lazier. This is mostly a rip off of a post last week, and that post was a lazy one as well, literally no context to any "Fact".
Over. And over. And over. Same photos. Same "facts." It's getting really... BORING.
Load More Replies... Well, yes! That made-up "fact" belongs right here on this list of totally made-up "facts."
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