In the Middle Ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death. True or false? Weirdly enough, it actually checks out as true. In fact, during the Great Plague of London in the 1600s, some doctors would recommend that people keep “fart jars” to ward off the bubonic plague.
While it more than likely did not save many people, the strange piece of information has been forever immortalized in history books. And it's just one of many very strange but fascinating tidbits that can be found on the Weird Facts IG page. Over 1.2 million people follow the account for their daily dose of oddly interesting information.
Bored Panda has picked out a few of our personal favorites from the page for your scrolling pleasure. Upvote the ones that leave you intrigued, and enjoy sharing your newfound knowledge with your family and friends this holiday season.
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Kate Hepburn wore pants in the 1939 Broadway play "Philadelphia Story." Her action was considered scandalous.
I'm often relieved to not have a husband. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have one to help. Then I remember all the stuff they'd probably want me to do for them.
The coffee flavor is still yummy and the new deep dark chocolate is beyond yummy. My dumb a*s means Hagen dass.(sp?)
Load More Replies...I met Ben Cohen. Not a fan of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream. I like Tillamook and hagen daaz because they use oregon strawberries to make strawberry ice cream.
I used to pick strawberries in Oregon when I was a teenager. Varieties intended for jams and such, super juicy and too fragile to ship to stores. But heavenly good right off the vine.
Load More Replies...This wonderful person, whom his fellow cast called a "a sweet man", suffered with such pain. He had Marfan syndrome and gigantism that caused respiratory problems, and he was forced to use a wheelchair due to the pain.
06 dec 1917, halifax nova scotia. the s.s. mont blanc, a freighter HEAVILY loaded with explosives for the war raging in europe, collided with another ship in the harbor. the mont blanc caught fire and the crew could not put it out. they radioed the harbor of the situation and then abandoned the ship, made it to shore and took shelter behind a small rise. the explosion is one of the largest non nuclear explosions caused by man, killing 1,782 people in the town.
If I die I think I might want potatos plants each year planted on my grave site. My favorite food when growing was mashed potatoes and gravy. Either that be cremated and my ashes be spread in a potato field.
Money may not buy happiness but it sure as hell helps with what does give happiness. Access to better food and medical care, less stress, doing things to enjoy your life like traveling and experiences like concerts and plays. Things you simply can't afford if you're poor.. Next can they study why there are idiots who need to study the obvious?
I can't help but think of Alan Davies (QI) every time I read/see something about Blue whales.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat." "Fück boats. I'm gonna get an orca." (From an early rejected draft of "Jaws".) 🤫
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Scholastic_Ability_Test On test day, the KRX stock market opens late, and bus and metro service is increased to avoid traffic jams and allow students to get to the testing sites more easily. Planes are grounded during the listening portion of the English section so their noise does not disturb the students. In some cases, students running late for the test may be escorted to their testing site by police officers via motorcycle.
He was working from home before it was cool /s. He did have to pay back a fine which was equivalent to a year's salary. That's the most the company could recoup so he still got 5 years pay for nothing. His defense? He moved to a location that had no work. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35557725
Sometimes it doesn't take much to set a good example. But we all know why the dads took up this responsibility.
Still. If I were to be in the water and see one of them, I am outta there!
Had to make someone, anyone, pay. That's just the way justice works. Hence the blindfold. She doesn't see a thing. We have cases pending here in the US where death row prisoners have been medically exonerated via DNA or expert research, and their cases are still pending. Some of them could actually be executed in spite of the scientific evidence.
He lost - the court found that human tissues and organs are not "marital property" and can't be considered an item of property to be valued in a divorce suit. The court also warned Batista that his attempt to extort money for the kidney was legally unsound and could expose him to criminal prosecution.
Apparently, this is more common than you might expect, and may be responsible for claims of Japanese longevity.
He “invented” Vaseline by scooping it off the surface of a creek in Pennsylvania, as the Shoshone had already been doing for centuries for use as a salve and leather conditioner
I used to be an organ donor, and we had a cheap funeral arrangement where the casket was "rented", and the silk liner was actually a body bag. Our corpses would be put in a styrofoam "box", then our remains interred into a double-deep cement vault. Years later, I decided to give my body to our State University for as long as they wanted it, in order to train future Doctors. Yes, they will cremate it when they're done with my body & put the ashes into a memorial wall. The best part?, that wall is less than a stone's throw away from our cemetery plot. (And, no, they don't sell the organs, they study them. Previous poster is a liar.)
This is, kind of, difficult to believe. 20 years is a very long time.
And that's indirectly the fault of Thomas Edison, as he sent his employee Maxim to Britain to get rid of him as competitor. Maxim got bored with doing paperwork and developed the first real machine gun
Glad he wasn't around my place last night. I fell asleep on the couch and woke at 4am and went to bed. After lying there for about 10 minutes I suddenly wondered if I had locked the front door. Glad I got up to check, because I hadn't.
No, you thick-skulled ignoramuses, it's THREE months of darkness. Some terminally ignorant person on Weird-facts posts something astoundingly moronic, which is then copied by an equally ignorant person on BP, because some of the "writers" on BP evidently failed out of school before they learned about the tilt of the earth in third grade.
My daughter recently went tandem skydiving. You fall at terminal velocity which is close to 150mph. She said she was told not to look down. And the reason was it was so hard to take a breath into her lungs from the pressure on her ribs. Apparently when you look up you can catch a breath.
It's repeating that Antisemitic propaganda that was added to the New Testament by the Church. Any part of the story from before his arrest until the crucifixion that involves Jews was added on to shift the blame away from the Romans to the Jews. There are some many parts of that story which are contradicted by basic Jewish law, how the Temple was run, the strict separation between the Priesthood and the Rabbis, the actual struggles between the different movements (the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the Essenes, and more), the assorted courts of Jewish law, etc. Yet the movie tries to be true to Christian antisemitic propaganda, rather than to historical truth.
Another paywall! I’m not voting on any articles that have this, please join me in this mildest of acts of rebellion!
It's rather silly when you think about it. Everything is ranked by user votes with most popular first. So they're paywalling literally their worst content as defined by reader votes.
Load More Replies...Birb - Just ignore, downvote, and mark as harassment. The guy upvotes himself from his mom's basement, but he is still several hundred points in the red overall.
Load More Replies...Another paywall! I’m not voting on any articles that have this, please join me in this mildest of acts of rebellion!
It's rather silly when you think about it. Everything is ranked by user votes with most popular first. So they're paywalling literally their worst content as defined by reader votes.
Load More Replies...Birb - Just ignore, downvote, and mark as harassment. The guy upvotes himself from his mom's basement, but he is still several hundred points in the red overall.
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