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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.

#1

Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie scene A large percentage of the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail was donated by members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

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Pirates of Zen Pants
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Sherlock Holmes movie scene In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not.

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If Sherlock Holmes wasn't real then who defeated Moriarty? Honestly, some people.....

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#4

Michael Jordan playing golf Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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#5

Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

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#6

Man Walking and balancing on Train Rail 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.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is also a very rare sense which few people seem to possess nowadays: 'Common'.

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#9

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.

Chinese Academy of Sciences Report

#10

A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

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#11

Lighted Vending Machines on Street Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year.

CPSC , Florida Museum of Natural History Report

#12

In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally.

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#13

Marie Curie portrait Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.

nobelprize.org , Henri Manuel Report

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Przemek Soroka
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#16

You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

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#18

Small kid with mom walking on branch The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day.

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#20

Airplane food plater Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights.

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#21

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And a lot of the U.S.'s "patriotic" songs are old drinking songs. They really set the U.S. up for success, didn't they?

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#22

Red and Gray Pagoda Temple in Japan Japan is the world's most earthquake-prone country.

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you have Godzilla trampling up and down your country you are bound to feel a few earthquakes.

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#24

Multiple "Marlboro Men" have died from lung cancer.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#25

Elmo and Cookie Monster in the street Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#26

Three Prairie Dogs on a Brown Rock Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

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Kate
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also tend to carry bubonic plague (or rather, their fleas do), so please don't go kissing prairie dogs.

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#28

Two Women Standing Inside Parking Lot Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.

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#29

The Simpsons series scene If "The Simpsons" aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season.

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#30

Planet Neptune Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#32

Pac-Man Protagonists Cutouts While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#33

Person Holding Drinking Glass There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

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#34

The English word with the most definitions is "set."

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#35

Whale's Tail sticking out of the water Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oooOooOOo wheee OooOO WHEE ooOO! Translates as That's where our Dave lived after he left Phyllis.

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#36

Snowy Mount Everest Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.

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Elliot Fowler
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#37

New creatures have been found in deep-sea volcanoes.

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#38

Person Washing Hands The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.

Human Microbiome Project Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But most of that bacteria is good, even vital, for your health!

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#39

Abraham Lincoln Statue You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are so many assumptions in this statement that it is worthless.

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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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