The 100 Most Important facts to know!

The 100 most important facts to know!

1: Artificial banana flavouring doesn’t taste like banana because it is based on the Gross Michel banana, a species that went extinct in the 1960s after a widespread banana disease.

2: Despite its romanticised reputation, the pony express was only in operation for two years. 3: The Motion Picture Association of America has trained two Labradors to detect pirated DVDs and Cd's. 4: The US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed, and the British eggs are illegal in US markets because they are unwashed. 5: Shakespeare is the only author who has his own Dewey decimal number its 822.33. 6: In the Bible God kills over 2 million people and Satan kills just 10(Nauzubillah). 7: The original prints of forty six episodes of Cartoon Network’s “What a Cartoon!” have been lost forever. The only surviving prints are “No Smoking” and “The Chicken from Outer Space”. 8: The stickers that supermarkets use on the fruit is completely edible. Even the glue is food grade. 9: Micro-gravity can cause severe flatulence. 10: The Roman Colosseum was built with a retractable roof 11: The Huns had no writing system, so all the accounts of them were written by their enemies who all describe the Huns as monstrous in appearance, speech, and behaviour. 12: The first video game was called “Tennis for Two” and was created in 1958.

13: April 11, 1954 is considered the most boring day of the 20th century because nothing significant happened. 14: Since they were required to notify suspects before they were arrested, in reality, EVERYONE expected the Spanish Inquisition. 15: A Fish Called Wanda is the only movie with a recorded death of laughter. 16: After Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath , Michael Bolton auditioned to replace him 17: The 1946 ‘Adventured of Superman’ radio show revealed the ‘secret’ codes and rituals of the KKK, making it a laughingstock and drying up Klan recruitment almost overnight 18: Rembrandt’s students prank ed him by painting fake coins on the floor to watch him try to pick them up. Hahaha now that’s a good one 19: Vampire Bats not only drink blood, but also urinate on whatever animal they are drinking blood from. ‘Interesting Fact’ 20: Graffiti is Plural. Graffito is the singular form. 21: The only surviving examples of Shakespeare’s handwriting are six signatures he signed on legal documents and none of them spell his name correctly leading many to believe Shakespeare was illiterate. (TBH I was also one of them who cant spell his name correctly) 22: The Pringles man’s name is actually “Julius” 23: The Statue of Liberty is not depicted as standing still, but rather breaking shackles of oppression and stepping forward. 24: A very large number of dinosaurs were probably covered in feathers – even the mighty T-Rex. 25: Had Titanic hit the iceberg head on rather than try to go around It, the ship probably would have survived. 26: The melody for the American National Anthem is based on an old English drinking song. 27: New Years Day has a religious background to it. It was celebrated as the day Jesus was circumcised. 28: There’s a school in Jacksonville Florida named Nathan Bed ford Forrest, first grand wizard of the KKK. The school bears the name to this very day. 29: Mr. T started wearing gold chains as a club bouncer. They were either lost by customers or left behind by them after fights. 30: It is estimated that there is one landmine for every 17 children on Earth. (Seriously!!). 31: The Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic Priest 32: Graham Crackers and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were invented as a way to stop people from masturbating. 33: the inventor of 5 Hour Energy Drink lived as a monk in India for 12 years. 34: The Bagheera Kipling is the only known spider in the world that is an herbivore. 35: Cookie Monster real name is “Sid”. 36: For most of us, a human earlobes and nipples are perfectly aligned. 37: You have been further up your mom’s vagina than your dad has. 38: By body size ratio, the barnacle has the largest penis in the animal kingdom. 39: The average male ejaculation contains approximately 1.5 terabytes of genetic data. 40: Because of time dilation caused by the speed of the planet’s orbit, the Earth has journeyed seven years into the future relative to the sun over the last 10,000 years. 41: There is a desk in the Senate Chamber called ”The Candy Desk” and it is filled with, you guessed it… candy. 42: Dora the Explorer’s real name is Dora Marquez 43: India has a mascot named “ Mr. Poo”. A talking and dancing pile of shit that discourages people from defecation in public. 44: C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia series of books, had symphalangism, a genetic deformity that causes people to be born with only joint in their thumbs. 45: Collectively, “Gangnam Style” has wasted over 15,400 ears of humanity’s time on You Tube (as of 2014). 46: Researches at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that all mammals over a certain size (including humans) take approximately 21 seconds to pee under normal circumstance. 47: Trinity Site is a museum in New Mexico, where the first a-bomb was detonated. The museum is only open 12 hours each year. 48: Sunflowers can be used to clean up nuclear waste. 49: Bill Murray agreed to voice Garfield because he thought “Garfield” was a Coen Brothers movie. 50: Agatha Christie book “And Then There Were None”(also known as “Ten Little Indians”) was called “Ten Little Niggers” when it was first released in 1939. 51: Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire (Whaatt!!! Seriously!!) 52: According to Stephen Hawking, the primitive ancestors of the chicken laid the egg that the first chicken came from, therefore, the egg came before the chicken 53: Continuum was an AIDS/HIV denial magazine that ceased publication in 2001 after all its editors died of AIDS. 54: The sabre toothed squirrel depicted in Ice Age was not real……at least 2011 whe one was actually discovered 55: During the 18th century, the price of admission to an English zoo was three half-pence or you could bring a cat or dog as payment. They were fed to the lions. (WOW!) 56: When the US president is unmarried or his wife dies while he is in office, one of his female relatives becomes first lady. 57: The movie which holds the record for the most uses of the word “fuck” is a movie called “Fuck”. Its used 857 times – over nine times a minutes. 58: Movie trailers used to be shown after the movie which is why they were called trailers 59: The Alphabet song, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” and Baa Ba Black Sheep” all used the same tune, a tune that was written by Mozart 60: There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth, but there are more atoms in a single grain of sand than there are stars in the universe! (Now This is Mind Blowing!!) 61: Harvard recently discovered that three books in its library were bound in human flesh. 62: Alaska is the farthest north, farthest west and the farthest east state in the United States. 63: The time difference between when the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex lived is longer than the time difference between when the Tyrannosaurus Rex lived and today 64: R. Kelley is illiterate. 65: Nintendo is so wealthy, they could lose 250 million dollars every year and remain solvent until 2052. 66:The United States experiences 75 percent of the world’s known tornado's. 67: As of 2010, Bill gates donated well over half of his estimated 61 billion dollar fortune to various charities. 68: One United States aircraft carrier has a more powerful air force than 70 percent of the countries on earth. 69: The smell of freshly cut grass is actually the grass giving off a chemical distress call. 70: When properly sealed I a glass container, honey will not rot and stay edible for thousands of years or longer. 71:The phrase “Luck of the Irish” was actually meant as an insult in that the only way an Irishman could ever succeed at anything would be through sheer luck. 72: A survey in Oregon discovered that panhandlers outside of a Wall-Mart were making more than the workers inside. 73: If the sun was the size of the white blood cell, the galaxy would be the size of the continental United States. 74: The Church of Satan does not worship or believe in the existence of Satan. 75: It snows metal on Venus. 76: All of the United States flags placed on the moon are now bleached white due to sun’s radiation. 77:The Tourette Syndrome Associated praised South Park for its accurate portrayal of the disorder. 78: There is a metal band called Hate beak whose lead singer is an African Gray parrot (Whattt a parrott!!) 79: At 150 billion dollars, the International Space Station is the most expensive structure ever built. 80: Anywhere between 1% and 10% of people of European decent are immune or resistant to AIDS. 81: Ray and Edith sued the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the USA in 1951, leading to the humorous case title ‘Batman v. Commissioner’. 82: No NBA player has ever worn the number 69 while playing professionally. 83: Betty White is literally older than sliced bread. 84: Michael Jackson composed the music for the video game, Sonic 3 and Knuckles: Project Chaos. 85: Nearly all koalas have chlamydia. 86: Leonard DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire starred together in a low budget movie that they believed was so bad, that they agreed it would never be released in the US or Canada. 87: There is enough water in Lake Superior to flood an area the size of both North and South America under a foot of water. 88: There is an animated Star Wars series called “Detours” which has completed episodes and may never be officially released. 89: The University of Phoenix a Master’s Degree to teach there, but if your masters came from the University of Phoenix, they don’t consider you qualified enough. 90: Adam West is ten years older than the character of Batman. 91: The word “Utopia” comes from a Greek word meaning “no place”. 92: The word “run” has 645 different meanings in the English language. 93: When television stations play Groundhog Day, it is customary to play the same six commercials in every station break to reference the movie’s theme of repeating the same day over and over again. 94: These are undertaker bees that remove dead bee bodies and carry them 50 feet away from the hive. 95: King Tutankhamun’s penis was mummified erect. 96: There is such a thing as a poop transplant. 97: In some Catalan cultures, a Nativity scene will feature a character called the Caganer who is pooping near the manger. 98: Allergies to the Brazil Nut can be passed on sexually. 99: There was an Atari game named Custer’s Revenge, with the goal being to avoid arrows while trying to rape an Indian woman tied to a pole. 100: When you call someone a “pussy”, you aren’t calling them a vagina, you are calling them a shortened word for “pusillanimous” which means they are timid or lack courage.