The world is a fascinating place, and it’s full of weird and interesting facts that you might have never realized were true.
It’s good to get a little freaked out every now and then. And in many ways, the best way to freak yourself out is by learning something totally, shockingly, and bizarrely new—something that completely upends your view of the world and what you think you know about it.
To broaden your knowledge about the world we live in, we have put together a list of amazing facts you probably didn’t know. Here are 20 Interesting facts about life that are sure to make you raise an eyebrow-:
1. 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day”.
This strange holiday spans back to the early 1900’s, where families would place a piece of cloth in their larders.
It’s celebrated in Europe and the U.S.A to bring luck & wealth to the household.
2. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
3. Dead women can give birth.
This is very rare but proven to occur. Called “Coffin Birth,” this is a condition that happens when a pregnant woman delivers a child unexpectedly after her death — because of gasses built up in the pelvic cavity, causing pressure on the uterus of the mother and pushing the baby out of the birth path.
4. The largest living organism is the honey fungus, a giant mushroom that spans 2.4 miles (underground) across Oregon’s Blue Mountains.
5. 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
6. If a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it has less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the 20th floor.
7. A jellyfish’s mouth is also its anus.
Yep, these creatures eat and discard waste from the same opening, according to National Geographic.
8. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
Billy goats or bucks is the name given to male goats.
Generally, they urinate on themselves in late summer through fall, and for humans, it’s not a pleasant smell.
9. It’s possible to sail a boat from Pakistan to Russia if you sail in a completely straight line.
10. Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”.
The problem with the trailers showing after the film was that the audience wouldn’t stay around to watch them, making the trailers rather ineffective.
11. Isaac Newton died a virgin.
12. Microscopic mites live on your face.
Don’t freak out, but your face is crawling with eight-legged, spider-like creatures. Fortunately, they are microscopic and impossible to see—but, according to the BBC, they’re mites with long, worm-like bodies residing in hair follicles and pores or sebaceous glands.
13. In Uganda, around 48% of the population is under 15 years of age.
Of the 41 million inhabitants, nearly half of those are youths.
If you were to expand the age to just 30, that brings the percentage up to 77%!
14. In China, the day a baby is born, the baby is considered 1 year old.
15. It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
It turns out, a couple of distant planets sport some serious bling. Atmospheric data indicates that the gaseous planets of Saturn and Jupiter experience hail storms of diamonds, due to lightning storms that turn methane into soot, which hardens into graphite then diamonds as it falls. One scientist told the BBC that the biggest diamonds would be about a centimetre in diameter—or “big enough to put on a ring.”
16. A swarm of 20,000 bees followed a car for two days because their queen was stuck inside.
When the car parked, the thousands of bees swarmed onto the car and had to be taken off by beekeepers.
The next day, the bees were back on the car because the queen was still inside and the swarm had to be taken off again.
17. Male koalas have two penises; luckily female ones have two vaginas.
18. High heels were first designed for men.
Though closely identified as a female fashion staple today, high heels were first designed for men. At the end of the 16th century, Persian-inspired style was all the rage in Europe, according to the J. Paul Getty Museum, and heels were seen as being virile and masculine—and a great way to boost your height a few inches.
19. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
This is a method mostly used by a mother and her pup to prevent them from separating.
Other than holding hands, they may also wrap themselves in kelp to keep from drifting away!
20. The Twitter bird actually has a name – Larry.
The name comes from Larry Bird, who is a famous Hall of Fame basketball player.
The species of Larry the Bird still remains a secret!
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