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50+ Crazy Random Facts To Truly Blow Your Mind !

If you want to read some Random Crazy Facts, mind blowing facts & you’re not sure where to look, then check out these 50 + awesome facts That will truly make your mind explode!

#1)The reason the taste of artificial banana flavoring and artificial banana flavored products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.

#2)Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years!

#3)It was Nicholas Cage who first advised Johnny Depp to pursue a career in acting, during the mid 1980’s.

#4)The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

#5)The directors of the film Despicable Me actually wrote their own language for the Minions called Minionise.

#6)The mayor of the Alaskan town, Talkeetna, is called Stubbs and has been mayor of the town since July 1997. Stubbs is a cat.

#7)Due to the humid and moist conditions that a sloth lives in, moss and other similar plants will sometimes grow in its hair. Sloths also have very bad eyesight. These two factors can sometimes culminate in a sloth grabbing its own arm, whilst thinking it is a branch, and falling to its death!

#8)Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut-flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would. Try it!

#9)There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.

#10)Catnip is ten-times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in insect repellents.

#11)If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being.

#12)American microbiologist Maurice Ralph Hilleman is accredited with developing 8 of the 14 routine vaccinations used today, these being; Measles, Mumps, Hepatitis A & B, Chickenpox, Meningitis, Pneumonia, and Hemophilia influenza. He also discovered that Chlamydia was not a virus as it was previously thought to be.

#13)In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.

#14)American college, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, deems certain students who take courses in Pistol Marksmanship, Archery, Sailing and Fencing as certified ‘Pirates’.

#15)It is predicted that the reason why night insects, such as moths, are attracted to lights is because they mistake them for the light of the moon, which they used to navigate the Earth before mankind made artificial lights.

#16)Justin Bieber once held up a sign from his hotel room window saying “Go to McDonald’s and get me a Big Mac”. He got his Big Mac.

#17)In the early 1900’s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and a food associated with the aristocratic classes.

#18)Hares are born with fur and can see whilst rabbits are born ‘naked’ and blind.

#19)In the 16th Century, it was a common belief amongst people that the Mandrake Plant grew only where the ejaculated semen of a dead hanged man touched the ground.

#20)On one of the islands off the West-Coast of Australia lies Lake Hillier. A bright, bubble-gum pink lake! Despite not being the only colored lake in the world, it is unique because it is the only colored lake where scientists have not yet determined what causes it to be such a bright pink.

#21)In 2014, Netflix spent $0 on marketing its DVD rental business, but over 6 million people still used it.

#22)In the film Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, every single one of the clone troopers was produced using CGI effects.

#23)In China, 2013, scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.

#24)There is now technology built into some guns in America that allow a gun’s owner to control the safety-catch using their smartphone or tablet.

#25)French author Alexander Dumas (The Three Musketeers) was promoted to General by age 31 – making him the first Afro-Antilles person to reach that rank in the French army.

#26)Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.

#27)Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills.

#28)When written down, the word ‘almost’ is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

#29)Sonic the Hedgehog has registered itself in Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest gaming character ever.

#30)Put A Pillow on Your Fridge Day, is celebrated on 29th May in Europe & USA and supposedly brings good luck and wealth to the household.

#31)Household-cleaner Cillit Bang was used to clean plutonium stains away in a defunct nuclear power-plant in Scotland as it was being dismantled. Bang and the radiation is gone!

#32)As of May 2015, 2.3 Million Americans still subscribed to AOL Dial Up Internet.

#33)Nokia was originally founded in 1865 as a paper printing company. Apt, to say when it was founded paper was one of the world’s most used methods of long-distance communication!

#34)The world’s biggest ever recorded turtle was a Leatherback Turtle that washed up Harlech Beach, Wales, in 1988. It was estimated to be 100 years old, and was almost 9 foot in length weighing a tumultuous 2,016 lbs!

#35)A Dachshund (a.k.a. a sausage dog) was originally bred to hunt in low, narrow badger burrows. In fact, the term ‘Dachshund’ translates from German as ‘badger dog’!

#36)The word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where ‘oxy’ means ‘sharp’ and ‘moros’ means ‘stupid’.

#37)2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.

#38)During the First World War, so many starving wolves had amassed together in a great pack that opposing German and Russian forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!

#39)The least financially successful Harry Potter film made approximately $90 million more than the most successful Twilight movie.

#40)In 2007, a 1000-gallon inflatable swimming pool was stolen from someone’s back-garden without a single drop of water being found!

#41)You are three times more likely to get a virus on your computer from a Religious website than from a Porn website.

#42)Tic Tacs got their name from the sound they make when they are tossed around in their container.

#43)Chewing gum boosts mental proficiency and is considered a better test aid than caffeine – but nobody knows why.

#44)Even though Irish is the official language of Ireland, Polish is more widely spoken.

#45)In Japan, Domino’s started testing pizza delivery via reindeer in 2016.

#46)Helen Keller was related to Robert E. Lee. Her paternal grandmother was second cousins with him.

#47)Bees actually have knees. The expression comes from the fact that they store large build ups of pollen in hairy baskets on their knees.

#48)Videogames have been found to be more effective at battling depression than therapy.

#49)Bi-weekly has two different definitions: Twice a week, or once every two weeks.

#50)A study from Harvard University finds that having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking. Both effect levels of a blood-clotting protein.

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