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We bet it’s not as strange as any of these! You might think these facts sound totally false, but trust us, they’re totally true!

So, if you’ve got 10 minutes to spare, why not check out these 50 strange but true facts that will shock you!

#1/“Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.

#2/All dogs are banned from Antarctica since April 1994. This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals.

#3/People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow.

#4/The name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’.

#5 /Thereis a McDonald’s in every continent except Antartica.

#6/Mr Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.

#7/A duel between three people is actually called a truel.

#8/The stage before frostbite is called “frostnip”.

#9/The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

#10/In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies.

#11/Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is a high demand for “ninja shows,” but it is a dying tradition and companies have trouble time finding properly trained ninjas.

#12/Snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill you!

#13/Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet.

#14 /Sonicthe Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.

#15/Even though Froot Loops are different colors, they all have exactly the same flavor.

#16/George Clooney did the voice for ‘Sparky’ – a gay dog in South Park.

#17 /Mosttoilet paper sold for home use in France is pink.

#18/Marmite was one of most confiscated items at airports from the U.K. – to overcome this issue, Marmite made smaller ones for traveling.

#19/The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

#20/Cards against Humanity bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. It is called Hawaii 2.

#21/Daddy longlegs have penises, which technically makes them not a spider.

#22/The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

#23/Bullfrogs do not sleep.

#24/The dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.

#25/Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.

#26/In 2015, a silver coin with Superman on the heads side was made which is legal tender in Canada. There was only 350,000 produced.

#27/It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; as of June 2018 the world record is 4.22 seconds.

#28/Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible.

#29/Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.

#30/Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’.

#31/The Himalayan Honey Bee – the largest of the honey bees – makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.

#32/In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!

#33 /Thecollars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.

#34/The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991 (Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.

#35/Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.

#36/Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.

#37/Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Trivago, Travelocity, and Orbitz are all owned by the same company, Expedia Inc.

#38/Before the term “bloopers” was coined, ‘out-takes’ were called ‘boners’.

#39/Baked beans are actually not baked, but stewed.

#40/Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.

#41/The most popular item at Walmart is bananas. They sell more bananas than any other single item they have in stock.

#42/Sunsets on Mars are blue.

#43/‘lbs’ comes form the Latin word ‘libra’ which means pound.

#44/The small indents in the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles forming inside the dough.

#45/The term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of film making.

#46 /In2005, Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell Facebook for $75 million. Back then it was called TheFacebook.

#47/There is an opposite of albino animals, which aren’t white, but black. These are known as Melanistic animals.

#48/Some areas in Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights at night, and saw a decrease in crime & suicide rates.

#49/The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”.

#50/The brain is our fattiest organ, being composed of nearly 60% fat.

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