For a few months, we have been collecting the strangest and most interesting facts we could find and turning them into cool drawings that we post on our Instagram. We have over 150 drawing ideas and counting now!
In our quest for strange facts, we came across all kinds of topics including nature, culture, climate, history, and technology. And we have discovered things we didn’t know about farts, selfies, pizzas, sweat, Ikea, Nutella, and even sex toys.
Here are 69 of our coolest facts! We hope they’ll intrigue you as much as they intrigued us. You can also visit our Instagram for more of these enlightening funny drawings!
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Not to save the bees, but to stick it to anyone who will pay the price of gold just to have honey to eat. I still have cravings for toast, with churned butter that even I was allowed to have my turn, & fresh honey, from the honey farm, just up the road. And, don't even get me started on how much I miss honeycomb. NO! Not the cereal! The real thing, with the honey still in the combs. That stopped when we moved back to the flattest province in Canada in 1973. I was 16, & never knew I'd never realized, how very much I'd miss the smell of the ocean, or how tiny I felt when looking up at a mountain. Now, we're both 63, disabled & living on a very fixed income, so vacation doesn't seem likely kkiuttyy
Load More Replies...Leafcutter ants. They also developed rudimentary vaccination. Amazing creatures.
So you're saying there are ants smarter than anti-vaxxer humans? I believe it.
Load More Replies...Ants are also know to tend gardens of aphids for their honeydew secretions, meaning that they engage in animal husbandry as well. Even though, they are just sucking sugar juice off a bug's butt.
We are only trying our best. Please, do not belittle our efforts.
Load More Replies...And they have herd of "cow" too.. Which I really hate because it a real mess to any plant.
And there are stars that would make the sun a grain of sand in comparison! ;)
so you're telling me that I can make a tennis ball out of 1m grains of sand?
oof this makes me think about how we're all just tiny, meaningless specks in this never-ending universe. ARGH HELP ME!!!
Abo-freaking-lutely, there is nothing better than crossing off a task! GUILTY
Umm, by the picture above showing us how sad he is...
Load More Replies...how in the world do we know this and why the heck are the rabets dum and follow the killer tell it craps
Load More Replies...OMG i don't even care about the sience behind it LOOK AT THAT POOR SOUL D:
It's eight limbs, the type of limbs on an octopus are called arms. Some sources refer to two of them as "legs" as they are known to chose two arms for floor locomotion They are not, scientifically speaking, legs in any way. Octopuses have eight arms.
trees are pretty underrated.. they even can "suckle", with the help of fungus
Load More Replies...My initial thought was "What the hell are they going to do about it?", but I also don't know enough about trees other than they can't bloody run away and they help me breathe
Plants defend themselves with chemicals. E.g. lot of what makes herbs taste good to us makes them less palatable to insects. Some plants emit certain substances when they are strongly damaged and other plants can react to that. I wouldn't consider that actual communication, though - the emitted substance might just be accidental, or help with the healing. I mean, you wouldn't call it a secret signal if one animal sheds blood and another animal sees it and is extra cautious of predators.
Load More Replies...Tree 1-"Psssst, Rob" Tree 2-"Yeah, Steve" Tree 1-"Bug swarm, 12 o'clock" Tree 2-"Thanks, Tree" Tree 1-"I got your six, my Oak"
Otters get pockets by mother nature but women – whose pants really are made by intelligent design – don't get proper pockets in their pants. How is that fair?
Proof positive that maybe Mother Nature is smarter perhaps? I dunno
Load More Replies...So otters have pockets in their skin but clothing designers still haven’t gotten around to making proper pockets in women’s clothing.
If sea otters can have pockets in their fur, why can’t women have pockets in their clothing?
Otters get pockets but women can’t get them in their clothing?! Typical.
i just found out that they usually have a favorite stone they keep in their left pocket too! ARGH can these creatures be any cuter?!
In their defence wheels on baggage are rather useless on the uneven Moon surface
FALSE: Steamer boxes have had wheels sonce the 1800s when train travel became popular. I have one from the 1850s
All those years people just dragging their luggage on the ground. Such a wonder
if you beliiivvvvvveeeeee, they put a man on the moon, man on the moon! (music note)
nobody was on the moon in 1969, the tech wasn't ready for, only a big bluff to win the space race
...and before the United States Post Office came up with the idea of self-adhesive stamps (1974) for the 10-cent stamp, but that was a fail. They re-grouped and tried again in 1994 (!!) . No more licking stamps! Gee, brilliant idea. Wonder what took so long?
The Scotsman James Chalmers put forward this idea in December 1837 . However, Sir Rowland Hill is more commonly stated to have invented the idea of adhesive postage stamps, having put it forward at the time of his evidence before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Management of the Post-Office Department on 13 February 1837.
Load More Replies...If you try to achieve that, you may likely need to see a different kind of doctor
Load More Replies...I've eaten about (estimated) 32850 apples in my life. So bring me these varieties and I'll happily crunch away. (Three apples a day for 30 years.)
I am jealous! I love apples but they give me stomach ache. ☹
Load More Replies...That is why it is important to make sure we save heirloom varieties.
My Mom can do that. She is left-handed but was forced to write with her right hand at school. So she writes with the right hand and draws with her left. Simultaneously :)
Load More Replies...So, I could do that as well. Doesn't mean the writing would make any sense or the drawing would be any good but whatever.
And he could smell who were his rivals in skills by sniffing their poop alone. ( Check out #6 )
I even can´t imagine 400 mio. years....who then can know yet what was growing at that time? And how it looked like?
idk how people think a human library is weird... and its only my ritual books.
Load More Replies...I don't know, but they are probably completely ordinary books. The nazis used human skin to bind books as if it were a natural thing to do. I even heard an anecdote of an actress who lived in a little village in Argentina and she befriended this lovely elderly couple of German emigrants. One day they showed her the most valuable thing they owned: a very old Bible... bound in human skin. Imagine binding a Bible in human skin!!!! Or any other book! But a Bible!!!!!
Load More Replies...They can be really old books, you know, times ago they hadn't our moral code.
Load More Replies...Everything on the slopes is ski-through if you're going fast enough...
Of course 🙄. McDonald's will probably be the first fast food joint on the moon. Come out with some b.s. "moon fries" and "Galaxy sauce". Yo when that happens, you know who wrote it first.
Ah. So if a starfish lost an arm because it go cut off, there'd be two starfish - one that regrew the arm ,and one arm that regrew a body and four limbs?
Hmm, interesting. I’d like a new slim and trim b ody but not prepared to chop off all my bits.
Spongebob taught me this. In one episode, Patrick chops everything, but then regrets it and pulls his arm off. He grows a new arm, but the arm grows a new body.
Which piece gets its brain? Or some rudimentary bunch of neural cells that serves for its brain?
Isn't it the same if a worm gets chopped in half or was that just a rumour we got told as kids?
That's not very nice. I'd like to speak to your manager.
Load More Replies...It's called the "Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir" and contains a complaint about the wrong quality of copper.
depending on what you watch, he likes what he sees.
Load More Replies...Oh frigg, I actually live in that city xd , Świebodzin, didn't know that fact was that popular
That's actually close to Szczecin. I might pop down there and take a look, when I get the chance!
Load More Replies...I laughed louder than I should. I know about the statue [I live in Poland] but I was not aware of its hidden functionalities. Brilliant.
how much you wanna bet someone used that wifi at one time to watch porn
This was actually very, very common in Rome too. Many people had no way to cook at home in their cramped living quarters and bought food from street vendors instead.
Domino's takeout insurance probably has them covered, even under feet of volcanic ash.
This is a hoax: According to George Yaghmour, a licensed physician working at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, the consequences of such use of coconut water would not be nice at all. In fact, coconut water is not going to imitate extracellular plasma, but actually intracellular fluids. During periods of crisis such as serious wars or epidemics, coconut water could certainly have served as an alternative for medical personnel to gain time with the cure. In reality, however, the levels of acidity, hypotonia and potassium do not make coconut water the perfect solution for resuscitation. From: Bufale.net
id say: "that sounds cool! i wanna try! inject it into me!!!!!" but then id probably be arrested
I did some googling and this isn't really true. Some research was started to determine if using the game would be a good tool to help train the self-driving cars, but the video game company sent cease and desist orders pretty quickly and shut it down.
A teacher of mine mentioned that all (dont know if this is 100% true) preys have their eyes on the side of their faces to spot predators while predators have them facing forward to focus on their prey better. Hence why nearly all preys can see approximately 360 degrees around due to the position of their eyes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, this is the only thing I remember from elementary school.
It's pretty much accurate. The forward facing eyes give predators the ability to better estimate the distance to the prey. Prey, on the other hand only needs to see that something is there and the direction without knowing the exact distance.
Load More Replies..."eyes on the side, born to hide" "eyes to the front, born to hunt" :)
i fell sorry for my rabbit know because my brother sat in front of him
all prey have vision 360, all the predators have stereoscopic vision, if you don't know why, try to put sugar in a cup of tea with one eye.
They would say how do you do sir/madam and the first word utilised when the phone was invented was ahoy.
Why would they want military devices? This puts the pepsi/cocacola war to another level.
They didn't, but Russia was in debt. They had previously traded Russian vodka for Pepsi products, but that wasn't enough to cover their bill. A more interesting fact is that Pepsico was very briefly the worlds 6th largest navy. The russians also gave them a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer (all of which were obsolete ships from the Soviet mothball fleet). More realistically, the Russians paid for their pepsi with scrap metal.
Load More Replies...To explain... when Pepsi finally came to the Soviets, they freakin loved it, but currency exchange wasn’t so great. Thus they used goods instead, like weaponry, which Pepsi then sold for metal and parts in the USA.
It was a trade for the sale of Pepsi in Russia, Russia gave Pepsi a fleet of ships, Pepsi then had the 6th largest navy in the world.
Family curses mostly. Demons coming to claim your soul promised to them by your great great grandmother. Oh nana you and your witchcraft
Load More Replies...But we have a high tolerance for hot water! When you turn on a faucet, which one do you turn on? Lefties will turn on hot first.
In ireland you need a ticket to operate a chainsaw professionally. If you are left handed (which I am) you CANNOT obtain this ticket as left handed chainsaws aren't made...
Well, my grandfather was left handed, and he lived until he was 92. And he was a farmer, so he was around tools and equipment made for right handed people everyday.
I'm left handed. Notebooks are horrible and I could possibly launch a "new" dry erase marker with "invisable ink". (Works only for lefies)
News flash, kangaroos don't actually wear underwear.
Load More Replies...its not exactly like in the draw, the "three vaginas" are inside, separated before the two uterus, theres still just one canal in the kangaroo genitals (the entrance)
I once saw a petition a church started to put pants on all the animals in the zoo. They were too revealing
If they wanted to have a go at putting them on all the animals I am happy to watch.
Load More Replies...That's actually quite interesting, I find some of female voices from movies from 40s, 50s unpleasantly high.
I remember the first time I saw the old Snow White & the Seven Dwarves as an adult. Her voice was so annoying!
Load More Replies...it was an affectation in the old days for women to sound more childlike and feminine
Try testing Brazil´s ex president: Dilma Roussef. Deeper than any human being ever!
I find it really annoying when a grown a*s woman talks like she's a little girl. You hear it all the time: in movies, in public, on the phone. It sounds so fake.
Why didn’t my singing improve also. Family and friends would love to know that one.
Thank God! Women in the past use to be annoying. Mimicking children voices
Not mimicking! Normal pitch. Rather the deep voice is mimicking - higher gender equality means deeper voices in women. Sweden and Norway for example
Load More Replies...Warm/room temp. water is round and cold water is sharp and pointy. change my mind.
Jesus, I had a friend that would always insist on listening to my water
Cold water has a lower tone, of course most people can distinguish it
logical, have you ever had hot water on your hand, you make another sound than when its cold one
I feel like there’s more reason than that, or else they’d be Abacus or Accel or Abracadabra...
As far as I know, every trustworthy source, including Jobs himself, state the name choice was really just random, because he likes apples. But people did try to give it deeper meaning over time. However, Jobs insisted, it was just random.
Load More Replies...Steve Jobs was a friend of mine, we came to know each other back in 1997. He came up with the name while on fruit-diet, he was coming back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating", he later offered this same explanation to Walter Isaacson while the latter was working on Steve's biography.
I beleive that's Activision, when a bunch underappreciated programers left Atari and started a new company.
Luckily the suits were made of enough fabric to prevent an accidental "mooning"
It was not intended to be worn on a full moon day 😄
Load More Replies...That lingerie brand must launch a new collection named "birthday suit". Hihihihi
Eh my sister would just take the money, photo copy it and stuff if in her pockets. and that's why she's not allowed to be banker anymore
That’s a great idea I will incorporate it into my next family game night :D
18th century, so public executions are still common place. I don't think people cared as much back then. However, if someone grabbed my dog is toss them in with the lions.
I remember an incident in a newspaper when I was a teenager about a circus that stole pets in the town they visited, to feed their lion...
Worse still goes on. Thankfully not often. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49908430
Load More Replies...What do you think animals are fed with in zoos? Of course, visitors don't bring meat these days, but carnivorous animals are fed..well..other animals. Lions aren't vegans. Zoos usually have to buy meat from slaughter houses.
Yes but feeding a lion an already dead animal isn't messed up it's nature, but bringing in a stray just to have it eaten alive is kind of dark (if thats how they do it) or just to have an animal think its found a family only for it to be used for a free ticket
Load More Replies...And he wasn't alone, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions
Yikes... though in fairness, most of those people died when their invention didn't work properly.
Load More Replies...The inventor of the segway was also killed by his own invention...
But correlation is is enough to suggest the possibility of causation (scientific method)
Load More Replies...Walmart sites its stores near its target market, which is downscale -- many shopping centers in affluent areas will flat out refuse to rent to a Walmart. And lower-income, poorer socioeconomic areas tend to be higher in crime.
duh they don't target anyone. They sell products cheaper to out sell others and most happened to be poor people in low rent areas
Load More Replies...It could be that the more Walmarts, the poorer the population of the city.
And is now being sued for knowingly scamming peoe with fake match emails that are actually spam. It's estimated 30% of the profiles on Tinder are fake.
They stank so badly that they had to leave them there, couldn't take them back into the capsule.
Load More Replies...Just the lunar overshoes. Both pairs were left on the lunar surface along with everything that wasn't needed on the way back, including several bags of human waste, to make the module lighter and allow more lunar samples to be taken. This, by the way, had been planned and rehearsed well in advance, not a spur of the moment decision.
Have you seen the “space garbage” left by us humans… it’s crazy insane!!!
Load More Replies..."Skål" is the Scandinavian word for "cheers", but it also means "bowl" and is derived from the English word "skull"
The other way around, the English word skull is from the Old Norse for bowl.
Load More Replies...For everyone arguing- some people call it a football. Some people call it a soccer ball. It generally doesn't matter what country you live in, but rather what you grew up calling it(family influence and so forth)
You mean... Fußball? ^_- Then I say it's "nogomet" or "calcio". ♥
Load More Replies...I wonder how that compares with Europe - and what the difference is between say, Norway and Italy.
I'm sure it's a quicker, almost painless death than being barbecued alive in an electric chair.
Actually, they say it is not sudden death to die this way, since you stay alive for very short after the cut. It might appear short enough for those who see it, but for the unfortunate one who experiences it, it's long enough to die a painful and traumatic death.
Load More Replies...That song is actually used in CPR training. The rhythm is perfect for chest compressions.
Load More Replies...I just want to understand the evolutionary imperative for them to be able to drink near boiling water. I find it hard to believe that their food source is found swimming in those water temperatures
They are though. They eat red algae that grow in shallow pools on mountain plateaus. Hence their pinkish color.
Load More Replies...Their food source (a small type of copepod or shrimp) often swims in geothermal springs, so this kind of makes sense.
My first thought on seeing this was, “I gotta try this!” However, they don’t say how much grape soda so I’m not gonna pee red to poo blue.
Load More Replies...Eating too much beetroot turns your poop red and you think you have bowel cancer!
When I was a kid, grape koolaid and grape popsicles would turn my poo green. Guess I never drank enough to make it to blue
and half of it is before the age of 2. (of course I'm making this up, but it sure does seem it!!! :-O)
Goldschlager (cinnamon liquor with real gold flakes floating in it) has been around forever. I didn't think this was obscure info
"ciao" is italian for "hello" or "goodbye", but it comes from Venice dialect "sciao vostro" literally "i'm your slave", or more appropriatley "I'm at your service", a greeting used a long time ago. Nobody apart from linguist geeks knows that nowadays, it's just an informal greeting.
Nobody apart from linguist geeks? I wouldn't say so. We are taught about this regularly in elementary school in my hometown...? It's true it derives from "slave", but how that word became a greeting, I heard different stories. Yours included. Others are about the way of addressing Slavic slaves (hence, "Slav" also means "slave"), and so it slowly became a greeting. Another story was on a more cheerful note, about how womanizers greeted women with "I'm your slave" to appear more flattering. I believe each story holds a bit of truth.
Load More Replies...´Servus´ in Slovak means ´hello´ but in latin is literally ´slave´ or ´servant´
Italian. Although the word was adopted by some other languages as well, such as Croatian and German (apparently, yeah, but not as common in German, I guess).
Load More Replies...You wouldn't. The tongue of a goat was so rough that it would slowly scrape the flesh of your feet, and it would keep licking because of the salt, so it was like your feet were slowly skinned.
Load More Replies...My grandma ate Vicks Vapo Rub for congestion. She lived longer than she should have. Evil woman :(
My grandmother did the same, a spoonful a night in a glass of hot water.
This would have been a much better choice without the chance to do so much damage.
I am sure that Christians have killed more people than Nazis.
Load More Replies...and then he was a teacher, and then he was an artist on the streets selling postcards, and THEN he was a fascist dictator.
No I think it's the opposite actually - it excites them
Load More Replies...... or maybe even being vegan, old instincts are still there... though this does sound like a bit of a stretch either way.
Load More Replies...Maybe in the future for extra-security we’ll have to do a tongue-print check too!
More economical for fuel, more planes in the sky (more traffic) safety?
It could also be because aereoplanes nowadays carry much more weight (luggage, passengers, pets) than they might've done in the past.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: They actually tried (unsuccessfully) to sue DC for the name.
Yeah, something about hurting the tourism of “Baht-mahn”, as it’s pronounced as a town. If they want tourism, DC should just let them go all in and build a Batman tourist trap.
Load More Replies...Melbourne Aus used to be called Batmania and there's a train station in the North called Batman
Does it have to do with the overall slowing down of the Earth's rotation? Or is it something else?
Winds are not because of the rotation but because of pressure differences.
Load More Replies...Weather vs climate. You can’t take extreme data points as the average
Load More Replies...What does it mean by "purchased"? Was it like an object, then purchased? Or like the design?!?
The designer was paid $35 for the design.
Load More Replies...Actually, unlike Apollo era suits, the current NASA Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits used on board the ISS are "mix-and-match" - the torso and limbs come in several standard sizes so that they can be assembled to fit a specific astronaut, but they aren't made to measure. The soviet Orlan suit is even simpler, since it is a semi-rigid one-size-fits all suit which is entered from the backpack which also functions as a hatch. Of course, that also means it will only accommodate cosmonauts between 165 and 190cm, so they simply don't accept cosmonauts which are taller or shorter. NASA's next-gen suit will be a mix of both designs, with the torso being accessed from the back, but with interchangeable limbs to allow for greater size variations.
Load More Replies...There is one teaspoon of sugar in one tablespoon of ketchup. A teaspoon of sugar really did make the medicine go down.
I'd actually like someone to sport this scale pattern on their lips, it'd look awesome.
The next new trend. And you can take credit for it.
Load More Replies...At first, yeah. But then when you think about it, why would someone keep a cracked phone? They either have no money to repair it, or they don't care that much (implication of being untidy). That is, of course, not always the case, but you want to give your best image at your dates and job interviews.
Load More Replies...Maybe I'm weird but it would make me think he might have a bad temper. I realize that phone screen get cracked in a myriad of ways, and I wouldn't automatically label him as aggressive, but it would put up a red flag for me to watch out for it
Because earth rotation is slowing down. It was around 22 hours 620mil years ago.
Load More Replies...Typing this without double-checking first. But I think it was because there was still part of the brain stem attached.
You’re absolutely correct. Because it was cut at a weird angle or something, there was enough stem for basic life functions. Had to fed with a dropper and died by choking while on tour.
Load More Replies...I actually live in the town where this happened! Every year we have a "Mike the Headless Chicken Festival", and there's a 5k, live music, and eating contests. It's a lot of fun :)
How did it eat and drink without a head? Maybe it lived without part of it's brain, but not without its head.
To all the Pandas freaking out... this is worldwide and a total... a quick Wikipedia search finds restaurants in China and a Swiss Christmas dish amongst others. I’m sure there’s someone else eating your 1/600 of a cat where it’s culturally all right.
People here are big hypocrites. The US consumes way more cows, pigs and chickens then china does cats. It is culturally fine to eat in some places. This would be like Chinese people hating Americans for eating cows.
Why is that disgusting, but eating cows, chicken, pigs, etc. isn't? Hypocrites.
These "facts" need documentation. Seems like a bit of BS without it.
These "facts" need documentation. Seems like a bit of BS without it.
