Reading Time: 2 minutes If you needed another reason to quit the nasty habit of smoking perhaps this is it. Urea is found in cigarettes. Well, it’s not actually found in cigarettes. Saying that it is found would be like saying that it was either lost in them or somehow lurking about like an undiscovered piece of landscape. You can’t …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forget buying your girl beautifully scented roses on your next date. There’s an odd-looking mushroom, ugly in just about all respects, that will make her night far more memorable. And no, we’re not talking about magic mushrooms here, although what they do is really magical. We are talking about a special type of fungus that can …
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Reading Time: 13 minutes 1 Super Glue Was Invented By Accident Taking the lead in our list of surprising facts about ordinary things is this surprising little fact about one of the most commonly used items in the house. Super glue was invented by accident! The amazing household glue that can be used for a multitude of uses, both …
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Reading Time: 14 minutes 1 The World’s Largest Frog, the Goliath Frog, is over 1 Foot in Length What better way to start our list of creepy facts than with this particular one. For those who suffer from Batrachophobia, which is a fear of amphibians such as frogs, this particular fact would be a nightmare come true. Unlike the world’s …
Reading Time: 17 minutes Time for a list of 21 facts nobody needs to know. 1 Buffalo Hump’s Real Name Was Po-cha-na-quar-hip (erection That Won’t Go Down) Leading our diverse list of facts nobody needs to know is what I would call a socially awkward name, or cruel parenting. Buffalo Hump, whose Comanche name was Po-cha-na-quar-hip, was a Comanche chief who rose …
Reading Time: 14 minutes 1 The Gospel of Eve Promoted Free Sex I think it would be interesting to start our odd but true facts with a little known gospel. How well do you know the New Testament? There is a Gospel of Eve that is an almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, which may be …
Reading Time: 3 minutes So when I first heard of this plan for a Gladiator sequel I was a little disappointed that it never came to fruition. I mean, the original was a fantastic movie, full of violence, blood and gore and awesome special effects. Oh, and it had a storyline of some description attached to all of the …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the ancient world’s most powerful men, Alexander the Great, had two different eye colors. For a lot of people reading this right now, this might come as a bit of a surprise. Eyes are supposed to match, and different colors just isn’t possible, or is it? Well, it is, and it is a …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The original meaning of the word nice was ignorant. As you can see, this is a far cry from what the word actually means today. But what’s even more surprising is that the meaning of the word nice, as it stands today, is a very recent change from its original meaning. In fact, for the majority …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In 1880, Sunandha Kumariratana, the queen of Thailand, drowned helplessly as her able bodied subjects simply watched from safety. This surely has to be one of the oddest things for a person to do. It’s part of our basic instinct to help someone who is in imminent danger. Yet Sunandha Kumariratana, the queen of Thailand drowned. So why …
