Hello, curious folk, this is your captain, Bored Panda speaking. Welcome to our crazy fun facts galore, where we discuss things that are hard to believe yet absolutely true! We’re happy to see you here, and that you trust us to take you on a journey of unbelievable facts.
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Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.
Linus Pauling won for Chemistry and Peace. I guess Peace isn't a science, but still.
Crows hold grudges!
Crows can recognise faces and human behaviour. If you create a stressful situation with a crow it will warn others and it's offspring that you are a dangerous person. It will also remember if you are nice to it, so will recommend you to its family and friends :) Which is why the crows who visit my garden bring their babies to eat too xx
Potato chips cause more weight gain than any other food.
Detroit undercover cops in a drug ring once fought another group of undercover cops.
Dogs can smell cancer.
My cat can tell when something is wrong with my mother. My cat will come wake me up.
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
So like they had committed murders before being placed there? Thrilling, tell me more!
America's first bank robber deposited the money back into the same bank.
Only in America folks. lol. Edit: I am an American so i do see the humor in all the roasts we get on BP.
The fire hydrant patent was lost in a fire.
Star Trek's Scotty stormed the beach at Normandy.
Born a Canadian he was in the Canadian Army and did indeed land at Normandy :)
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Legend states that the Unicorns natural enemy was the Lion and Englands' National animal is .. wait for it ... A Lion.
Germany uncovers 2,000 tons of unexploded bombs every year.
WW2 relicts. I remember an anecdote, where a railway station was temporarily shut down because of that. An English speaking couple was terrified and asked "Do they know, who planted the bomb?" The dry (and correct) answer was "Yup, the Royal Air Force"
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
A 70-year-old woman once completed seven marathons in seven days, across all seven continents.
Bees can detect bombs.
Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
Why is there a buy now button am I the only one who can see it!!!??!
Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks.
It's only partially true, this (and I speak from experience). If you've got cirrosis (even if it's non alcohol related) your liver never quite recovers, and the 'dead' or hardened bits never regenerate / regrow. but the other bits will compensate so it's all good unless your whole liver shuts down, then you're basically buggered unless you can find a donor / get a transplant
The world's biggest tire producer is LEGO.
Most laughter isn't because things are funny.
In Germany, people help toads cross the road.
They build small fences at spawning season and dig in buckets. Toads end up in buckets, which are regularly (once or twice a day, I think) emptied into the next pond.
There's a town in nebraska with a population of one!
The Bermuda Triangle isn't any more likely to cause a mysterious disappearance than anywhere else.
Redheads aren't actually going extinct.
Correct, go to Ireland or the West of Scotland. Infected with redheads ....
Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone.
For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.
Dogs actually understand some English.
No, they can understand languages. Stop making this so English centered.
Bee hummingbirds are so small they get mistaken for insects.
The majority of Americans choose dogs over love.
Tree shrews are the only mammal aside from humans known to deliberately seek out spicy foods.
Water makes different sounds depending whether it's hot or cold!
Dinosaurs lived on every continent.
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster goes back nearly 1,500 years.
She's a very old lady :) The waters there are so deep ( over 750ft in some places) and un-explored that there is a very good chance that there are water beasties and creatures that are yet to be discovered there.
Most people break up on Mondays.
A restaurant in New York employs grandmas as chefs.
Dolphins have been trained to be used in wars.
Sad but true, there are dolphins trained by the military to detect bombs, human intruders ( divers ) to protect ships and even to carry bombs
The man who wrote Dracula never visited Transylvania.
Bram Stoker. Fun fact: the church at Whitby, Dracula's landing site in England in the novel, has a sign in its graveyard warning visitors who are looking for Dracula's grave that he's NOT REAL
Tornadoes can cause "fish rain."
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you get a combination that's never existed.
Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.
Newborns don't shed tears.
Children ask 300 questions a day!
The longest book title is 4,558 words!
https://www.vercalendario.info/en/what/guinness-records-for-longest_title_of_a_book.html
The cast of Friends still earns around $20 million each year.
Humans are also the only animals whose brains shrink.
You lose up to 30 percent of your taste buds during flight.
The English word with the most definitions is "set."
Actor Bill Murray uses a 1-800 number instead of an agent or manager.
Plastic Easter eggs and plastic Easter grass were invented by a man who holds more patents than Thomas Edison.
Creedence Clearwater Revival has the most No. 2 Billboard hits — without ever hitting No. 1.
The Queen has some hidden hideaways.
Nearly all species to have ever existed on Earth are extinct.
Cell phones are full of bacteria.
Our bodies are full of bacteria. There's bacteria absolutely everywhere.
Fat bear week is a thing.
There's no such thing as "pear cider."
The Bayeux Tapestry is 70 metres long!
There is graffiti that's 1000s of years old!
A narwhal's tusk reveals its past living conditions.
There's a decorated war hero dog.
Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
Danes once bred a pig to look like the flag.
The least interesting day in history was April 11, 1954.
The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body.
Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.
"E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.
Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard left his post at Ford's Theatre to go for a drink.
The man who founded Atari also started Chuck E. Cheese.
The Silverback gorilla can lift almost a literal ton.
"This new fun yet terrifying fact is brought you by Bored Panda. Now back to the show"
It's a myth that people are either "left-brained" or "right-brained."
The dot over the lower case "i" or "j" is known as a "tittle."
The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple.
There may be 2,000 active serial killers in the U.S. right now.
The longest word you can type with just your left hand is "sweaterdresses".
The word "typewriter" is the longest word you can type using letters from only one row on a traditional keyboard.
Urine used to be a detergent.
The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer.
In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer (also known as the Gruen effect) is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulse buys
There's a country where twins are most likely to be born.
There's a textbook written entirely by an AI author.
Bees sometimes sting other bees.
It is illegal to sell a "bounceless" pickle to somebody in Connecticut.
The world's smallest reptile was first reported in 2021.
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A dozen bodies were once found in Benjamin Franklin's basement.
Playing the accordion was once required for teachers in North Korea.
Teachers in Australia used to be required to know how to play the recorder, guitar and/or accordion, or so I was told when I was studying. Now I think about it though, my grandad wouldn't have known how to play any of those, so maybe it was just at one particular time in the history.
The Australian government banned the word "mate" for a day.
A pharaoh once lathered his slaves in honey to keep bugs away from him.
Children's medicine once contained morphine.
Coca cola used to containe cocaine. Soda used to be recommended for babies. Doctors used to smoke in hospitals. There are things we do now that in 100 years people will know were insanely dangerous (SADs, anyone?)
Nutmeg can be fatally poisonous.
Harriet Tubman was even more heroic than you thought.
More info! (And outside of the US she's hardly known anyway, so ANY info might already help)
Apple Pie isn't actually American.
Sharks can live for five centuries.
Only one species of them (Greenland /gurry/grey shark) can - and that's an estimation (250 to 500 years)
The London tube didn't used to have a roof.
A lot of the tube is underground, so roofs kinda come as standard. Is this supposed to mean that tube *trains* didn't have roofs?
That fish is probably labeled wrong.
You're pronouncing Dr. Seuss' name wrong.
No I am not. "According to an article published in Slate, and apparently well-documented elsewhere, the “correct” pronunciation as Dr. Seuss intended is not Seuss-that-rhymes with “Zeus,” but “Soice,” as in a word that rhymes with “voice.”" https://www.fatherly.com/play/how-is-dr-seuss-pronounced
Blue Ivy Carter is the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart.
There's a world record — and a happy ending — for the greatest distance thrown in a car accident.
France has a dozen time zones.
...because of its overseas territories (the main county itself isn't all that big)
The Queen owns all the Swans and Dolphins!
In the UK maybe, or the Commonwealth. Either way (or none? Maybe only England?): More info needed
Charles Darwin was a bit of an oddball.
A chef's toque contains 100 folds.
The healthiest place in the world is in Panama.
More info. Healthy in what way? High life expectancy? Many doctors? Very good air? No pollutants? Most apples??
Many languages have the same roots.
Ants have a built-in FitBit.
Mr. Cherry breaks all the records you've never heard of.
Cold baseballs are worse than warm ones.
Women are attracted to the scent of good & plenty licorice candy and cucumber.
Some of these "facts" are meaninglessly vague and lack context. Is there a translation issue? Or just laziness?
Laziness, I bet. I've never done so much Googling for a BP article in my life. Most of the vaguer ones now have links added in my comments.
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Some of these "facts" are meaninglessly vague and lack context. Is there a translation issue? Or just laziness?
Laziness, I bet. I've never done so much Googling for a BP article in my life. Most of the vaguer ones now have links added in my comments.
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