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Some days fall pretty flat in the entertainment department. You wake up, go to work, eat your dinner afterward and maybe watch an episode or two of a series that’s just mildly interesting. In short - meh. But you know what could save such a day? A couple of things, really - a cat, a dog, a hearty meal, or a funny fact! And while we cannot provide you with the first three, we can definitely offer you our list brimming with ridiculously funny facts that might just make your day a tad bit brighter. 

So, what categories do these fun facts encompass, you ask? Truthfully, so many of them we’ve lost count! There are unbelievable facts stemming from science, random facts about animals, and interesting facts about humans. However, we’ve made sure that they are all wildly entertaining, and hopefully, some will coax a snicker out of you. That’s why they’re here, after all! 

Now, let’s figure out if the day that you are having is a particularly dull one. If so, you can definitely choose to read all of these hilarious facts at once. You know, the more, the merrier! And if your day is just slightly meh, you could ration these fun facts for a longer period of time. Either way, the facts are just a bit further down, and you should definitely check them out. Once that’s all well and done, give the most entertaining facts your vote and share this article with your friends.

#1

British secret intelligence service managed to hack into an Al-Qaeda website and replace certain bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.

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#2

Brown Little Squirrel Running On The Road The Hague city spent pent €150,000 on a bridge to allow squirrels to cross a busy main road.

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English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, but he originally named it George.

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Person in White Socks Sitting Under the Table President Calvin Coolidge used to push the emergency buzzer and hide under the table from the Secret Service.

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

I could see it being funny once. But in reality, these days it would cause mayhem.

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#6

The CIA attempted to train cats to gather intel in the 1960s.

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

Wow! I think that actually worked…? The way a cat can sit and look at you… judge you… in silence… It was actually taking notes?

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#8

Person Putting Toothpaste On Toothbrush The blob of toothpaste that you put on your toothbrush is called 'nurdle'.

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#9

On Friday, April 18, 1930 people from Britain tuned into BBC only to hear: “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.”

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You can find a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. The name of the basketball court is - The Highest Court in the Land.

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

Little known secret: there is a basketball court hidden in a secret area on top of the Matterhorn at Disneyland.

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#12

Woman Slapping A Man At Night Computer programmer Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him every time he tries to check Facebook.

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#13

Unicorn is Scotland’s national animal.

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Remi (He/Him)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There also is a fake religion about invisible pink unicorn. Wondering how they're faring in Scotland

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#14

Dolly Parton entered a celebrity look-alike contest and lost.

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Remi (He/Him)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Charlie Chaplin came in 3rd at Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest too. (if I remember correctly)

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#15

Woman Wearing High Heels Above A Pool High-heeled shoes were originally designed in the 10th Century, specifically for men.

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#16

Alexander Fleming at first called penicillin “mould juice”.

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#17

A person tried to sue God, but was unable to proceed due to an unlisted home address.

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

If I'm not mistaken, I believe god has a known legal representative with an adress somewhere in Rome tho.

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#18

Woman Looking AT The Screen And Reading It could take you 76 work days to read all the privacy policies you encounter on the internet over a period of 1 year.

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

It’s almost as if they do it on purpose, so people give up reading them…?

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#19

Many Of Orange Lobsters Lobsters can communicate by urinating at one another.

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#20

Slow music that was played at a large dairy farm increased the cows’ milk production by 3 percent.

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

They tested which genre of music reduced stress the most and which corresponded to highest milk production. Lullabies reduced stress the most, but the cows produced the most milk when researchers didn't play any music at all. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/honorstheses/41/

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#21

Winnie The Pooh Holding A Red Balloon And Hammer In A Forest Cartoon character Winnie the Pooh images are being blocked on social media sites in China.

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#22

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the official term for the "fear of long words."

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

I hate this one. I have always hated this one. "Hippo" means horse and "Potomo" is from "potamos" meaning "river". How do either of those come into a word that's supposed to mean "fear of long words"? "Sesquipedalianism" is the use of long words, so the fear of long words ought to simply be "Sesquipedaliaphobia".

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#23

There's a small village named 'Hell' right next to Trondheim Airport Værnes in Norway.

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#24

Game of Thrones costume designer revealed that Nights Watch cloaks were made from IKEA rugs.

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#25

German chocolate cake does not originate in Germany. It was named after Sam German, who in 1852 invented a type of baking chocolate for Baker's.

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#26

Person Dropping Vote In The Box The small town of Dorset, Minnesota elects a major by picking a name out of a hat, once it elected a 3-year-old.

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#27

CDC has a real website dedicated to emergency preparedness for a zombie apocalypse.

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

So does the U.S. government - CONPLAN 8888. I think it is a good story: for training strategic military planning - and they chose zombies as enemy, so no other country could get offended. EDIT: link, if you wanna read it: https://www.stratcom.mil/Portals/8/Documents/FOIA/CONPLAN_8888-11.pdf?ver=2016-10-17-114016-887

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#28

Invisible artwork called "Fresh Air" sold for 10,000$.

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

I actually also have this piece, if anyone is interested in buying? I offer to pay the shipping costs?

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#29

80 Funny Facts About Anything And Everything The Twilight movie series has 26 minutes of silent staring.

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

And between 607 - 634 minutes (dependant on what cut you are watching) of bad storyline, acting, romance and plotting.

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#30

Boot Stepping On A Banana Peel In 2001 there were 300 banana-related accidents in Great Britain.

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#31

A Jiffy is a unit of real-time. A jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre.

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#32

You can acquire a unicorn hunting license from Lake Superior State University in Michigan.

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

But don’t mention that to the Scots, it’s their national animal.. EDIT: just found out it was further down - sorry, didn’t mean to repeat the list

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#33

Chile minted 1.5 million 50-peso coins with a spelling error, they were issued in 2008 with Chile spelled “Chiie”. The error was only noticed a year later.

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#34

Japanese police confront violence by wrapping people in futons.

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

Their traffic police you use paint ball guns to mark cars that make off from them so they don't need to have dangerous pursuits.

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#35

Soda Can In Water Diet soda cans float in the water, but regular soda cans sink due to the difference in density.

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#38

Art used to be rewarded with medals at the Olympics.

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#39

It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

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#40

Blooming Flower In A Sunny Weather Israeli and Australian researchers conducted a study that determined - Viagra makes flowers stand up straight.

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

Well, it's a vasodilator, so presumably it has the same effect on a flower's xylem as it does on human blood vessels.

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#42

There's a musical road in Lancaster, California that plays the song "William Tell Overture" if the cars drive over 55 mph.

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

They actually built it twice and messed it up both times. Here's a link to the brilliant Tom Scott driving the road so you can listen to it and explaining the errors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0

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#43

Woman And Man Parachuting In the state of Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday.

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#44

Jennifer Lawrence has "H2O" tattooed on her hand to remind her to drink water.

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#47

Three Cows In Field Under Clear Blue Sky Researchers who study bovine behaviour have discovered that cows have different accents.

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#50

You're more likely to get killed by a vending machine than a shark.

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#51

In 2014 L.A. Times published a study that shows that 1 in every 9 Americans think that HTML is actually a sexually transmitted disease.

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

But are they the SAME Americans that think the Earth is flat and injecting yourself with bleach will kill Covid? Or is every American allowed just one dumb idea? Very democratic.

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#52

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain!

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#54

Tattooed Man Eating A Carrot Eating too many carrots can cause a yellowish discoloration of the skin and turn you orange!

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#55

Matt Groening intended for Homer Simpson to be Krusty the Clown, but the idea was dropped.

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

It makes sense when you see how similar in shape the characters are.

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#56

Four People Riding On Camels Across The Pyramids Australia exported camels to Saudi Arabia.

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

That's absolutely ridiculous! How are the camels supposed to walk upside down in the sand?

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#57

There's a Starbucks cup in almost every scene of Fight Club.

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#58

In the 1830s Ketchup was sold and used as medicine.

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

You can still use it as medicine today. It won't cure anything but you shouldn't let that stop you.

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#59

Engineer Richard James accidentally invented the Slinky when a spring designed to stabilize the device of a ship fell off a shelf.

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#60

Nearly every movie & tv show has to end with a disclaimer saying it's fiction. The disclaimer issue is rooted in a lawsuit against MGM for the 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress.

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

OK, I'm Polish so I'll say it first. Of course it's the Russians who can't tell the fantasy from the real life

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#62

Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand is 55 miles long.

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

Did a man name it? Apparently us men tend to exaggerate about size, according to several ex girlfriends.

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#63

Psychotria Elata is a flower in the rainforests of Central and South America that resembles lips covered in lipstick.

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#64

A man from New Zealand lost a bet and had to change his name to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova." It took 5 years for the government to approve the change.

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

No, it took the government five years to endorse the idiocy of a bet. Unless bets are considered a legally binding contract, in which case I need to have a word with my little brother over the eighty quintillion Smarties he still owes me from 1987...

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#66

A football fan once dedicated his obituary to disrespect an NFL team.

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

That's nothing. There's a grave in England which is basically a lonely hearts ad - I paraphrase, but it reads something like "John Smith, 62, survived by his young widow Miranda, who has many of the qualities of a good wife and is still of childbearing age"

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#67

Monowi, Nebraska, used to be the only town in the United States with an official population of one person.

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

In Denmark we have a law that a place where ppl live is not a village unless there are more than 200 inhabitants in that area. I personally live in an area where there are 11 houses close to eachother but since we are fewer than 100 people living in the area we are not a village. (Hope this made sense). :)

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#69

'The Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong shared a cell while in prison.

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

And it was Tommy Chong who told Jordan he should write an autobiography.

#71

A worker sued his former company for A$1.8m because the worker claimed his ex-boss repeatedly broke wind at him.

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#72

Camels have straight spines, despite their humps.

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

Well... obviously. Did anyone really think a camel's spine followed its humps?!

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#73

Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal hit over 11000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.

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#74

The house from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a family restaurant called Grand Central Café.

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#75

Giant Rubber Ducky In Water At The Park Anatidaephobia is the fear that a duck may be watching you.

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

No. Etymologically it is the fear of ducks, Anatidae being the genus of many duck species. Don't believe everything you read in The Far Side, for it may turn out to have been A JOKE.

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#76

According to 2014 research done by LifeWay, 7 percent of Christian Americans pray for a good parking spot.

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

I've always been taught that one should only pray for forgiveness or pray for someone else or pray for thankfulness. Never for oneself.

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#78

While in graduate school Neil DeGrasse Tyson thought about becoming a stripper to earn extra money.

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#79

In 1893 there was a proposal for a U.S. constitutional amendment, suggesting changing the name of the United States to 'The United States of Earth.'

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#80

Jennifer Lopez's dress at the 2000 Grammys inspired the creation of Google Images.

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