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15 Bizarre Facts That Deserve To Be Memorized

By Suzanne in Facts On 8th July 2015

The reason you should try to commit these bizarre facts to memory, is that they then become handier then a pocket on a shirt if you want to impress someone! Once memorized, you’re very unlikely to meet someone else with this same knowledge and as a result you can seem to be at least 20% smarter than the equipment you’re running.

#1 Elephants can't jump because the bones in an elephant's foot are more closely packed together than other mammals so they do not have the flexibility or spring mechanisms that would enable them to jump.

#2 In Germany many fake bus stops can be found outside nursing homes. There are placed there to prevent confused senior citizens from wandering off.

#3 In the book, Pinocchio actually kills the cricket, imprisons his maker for 3 years, bites off a cats hand, kills a snake by making it explode from laughing to hard, and turns into a donkey.

#4 Cats don’t meow to communicate with other cats. They only meow to communicate with humans.

#5 According to National Geographic, red-heads might become extinct by the year 2060.

#6 Butterflies in your stomach, when you see someone you like, is actually a stress response caused by adrenaline.

#7 American actor, writer, director- and three-time Emmy Award winner, Bryan Lee Cranston, played two different Power Ranger villains in 1993 (Snizzard, and Twinman).

#8 Cat’s kidneys are so efficient that they can rehydrate, while drinking seawater.

#9 British police cars carry a teddy bear to comfort children after an accident.

#10 There is a dying Mexican language that only two people in the world speak fluently and they are not talking to each other…

#11 2010′s Oldest living person wasn’t real.

#12 On average we fart a balloon’s worth of gas a day.

#13 Charles “Pretty Boy”Floyd, wasn’t all bad.

#14 Every year Louis Vuitton burns all their unsold bags.

#15 The location of the world’s tallest tree, ‘Hyperion’, is kept secret from all but a select few scientists.

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