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.
Again, more information needed. Even modern maps show Finland exist even though conspiracy theorists have found it was just made up. Seriously.
I think I know what they are talking about. Back in the day creating maps was A LOT of hard work. You had to travel to said location, take measurements and then draw the map accordingly. So cartographers tried to cut corners by copying existing maps, like when they wanted to create a map of a larger region. Just put all existing maps together, right? So the ones who did the actual work for the original maps were less than thrilled about that. So they included totally made up details into their maps. Like islands or streets that don't exist. That way they would know if someone copied their maps.
Load More Replies...Most maps contain what are commonly called "bunnies." These are intentional mistakes or places that do not exist that are included to prove copyright violation. I make a historical stars' homes map and have twice stopped others from selling maps with information from mine because they included buildings that do not exist.
Good point. Didn't know they were called bunnies, though. Thought they were honey pots, or something.
Load More Replies...There are thousands of historical maps with fake landmarks on them, it's one of the ways map makers caught people who stole their work. City and town maps often had fake streets/roads known as trap streets placed specifically to detect forgeries.
Yeah, Google has had me take some of those... There are some crazy mofos out there.
Load More Replies...Cartographers usually and knowingly put false data into their maps so they can determine when someone rips off their copyrighted work. If their work gets ripped off often enough, such false data gets propagated down through generations.
And then the delivery guy is mad at me for sending him through Fake Crescent to get to my house on Phantom Road...
Load More Replies...California used to be depicted as an island, because mistakes led to thinking the water east of the Baha peninsula was the "proof" that California was surrounded by water. Back then, before California was a state, it was a much larger territory.
Did the island used to exist and now doesn't? Or was there a non-existent island on the map?
Never existed. Typically, small insignificant islands added. This was done as a guard against oher map makers copying that map. If the copied map were done using real cartographic data, it should not have them. So, the original map maker can then prove the copier guilty of copying.
Load More Replies...Dogs actually understand some English.
No, they can understand languages. Stop making this so English centered.
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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.
Load More Replies...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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