PART 4 TOP 50 BEST FACTS WHICH CAN BLOW YOUR MIND🤯

Random Facts About Everything

1. China owns all of the pandas in the world. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.

2. Bones found at Seymour Island indicate that at one time, 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at a formidable 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.

3. Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant tabs by using checks. He would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.

4. An avocado never ripens on the tree, so farmers can use trees as storage and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.

5. A reindeer's eyes change color through the seasons. They’re gold during the summer and blue in the winter.

6. One April day in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead they played piano music.

7. In the '50s, Marilyn Monroe promised nightclub owner Charlie Morrison she'd be in the front row every night if he booked Ella Fitzgerald. He agreed, and she was true to her word. "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again," Fitzgerald said. "She was an unusual woman—a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."

8. The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships are held in Finland. One winner (not pictured) said he prepared for the event by "mainly drinking."

9. There's a Nikola Tesla statue in Palo Alto that provides free Wi-Fi.

10. A double rainbow occurs when sunlight is reflected twice inside a raindrop. If you look closely, you can see that the colors of the secondary rainbow appear in reverse order.

11. In 2016, a rogue bloodhound named Ludvine joined a half-marathon in Alabama. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished in 7th place.

12. In 1971, a Dallas man named Mariano Martinez invented the frozen margarita machine. The 26-year-old was inspired by the Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven.

13. Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare side effect of brain trauma. Patients speak their native language in a foreign accent.

14. After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley's mayor in Back to the Future III.

15. Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion of his county. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one.

16. In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.

17. Wisconsin is the Badger State because the area's lead miners used to spend winters in tunnels burrowed into hills. Like badgers.

18. Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

19. Cookie Monster is not changing his name. In a 2012 episode he said, "We've got to stop this Veggie Monster rumor before me reputation ruined."

20. In colonial America, lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy. It was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners.

21. Before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

22. In 1967, the Nigerian Civil War ground to a halt for two days because both sides wanted to watch Pelé play in an exhibition soccer match.

23. In 1998, the U.S. Army tried developing a telepathic ray gun "where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except that it could only be heard within a person’s head."

24. An episode of Peppa Pig was pulled from Australian television for teaching children not to fear spiders.

25. "Bloodcurdling" isn't just an expression: Research shows that watching horror movies can increase a certain clotting protein in our bloodstreams.

26. The Reese in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is Harry Burnett Reese, a former Hershey employee who created his famous candy in the 1920s.

27. When Gene Wilder accepted the role of Willy Wonka, he had one condition: In his first appearance, Wilder wanted Wonka to limp toward the crowd with a cane in hand before falling into a perfect somersault and jumping back up. The reason? “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

28. Canned pumpkin isn't actually pumpkin. Even purees that advertise as "100 percent pumpkin" are actually made of a range of different winter squashes.

29. Truman Capote said he was the only person who'd met John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Sirhan Sirhan.

30. In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would only be working 20 hours a week with seven weeks vacation.

31. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

32. It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. Supermarkets must either compost it or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.

33. One of the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons—a U.S. Navy base near Seattle—is partially defended by trained dolphins.

34. After It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown aired, Charles Schulz was overwhelmed with candy shipments sent from kids who were concerned for Charlie, who got rocks instead of treats in his Halloween sack.

35. In 1946, Boston owner Walter Brown chose the nickname Celtics over Whirlwinds, Olympians, and Unicorns.

36. The bend in a flamingo's leg isn't a knee—it's an ankle.

37. Goats have rectangular pupils.

38. Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810. Ezra Warner patented a can opener in 1858. In between, people used chisels and hammers.

39. Fried chicken was brought to America by Scottish immigrants.

40. Scientists have found evidence of take-out restaurants in the remains of Pompeii.

41. Bubbles keep your bath water warmer longer.

42. Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures. The average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child.

43. Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dropped out of high school but earned his GED in 1993. His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

44. Army ants that misinterpret the scent trails left by other ants will sometimes break from the crowd and march in circles. If enough ants join, they can form massive "death spirals."

45. The Starry Night depicts Vincent van Gogh's view from the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum.

46. After OutKast sang "Shake it like a Polaroid picture," Polaroid released a statement: "Shaking or waving can actually damage the image."

47. When Canada's Northwest Territories considered renaming itself in the 1990s, one name that gained support was "Bob."

48. After an online vote in 2011, Toyota announced that the official plural of Prius was Prii.

49. At the 1905 wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, President Teddy Roosevelt gave away the bride.

50. Tootsie Rolls were added to soldiers' rations in World War II for their durability in all weather conditions.