19 Hilarious Facts You Have Never Heard Of
By
Waleed Raza in
Facts
On 28th December 2015
Prepare yourself life may never be the same again after reading these mind-blowing facts.
You will be the hit of every party with a reel of fascinating truths to trick people into thinking you are either; well educated or someones bought you fact of the day toilet paper. Either way you are on to a winner.
#1 t’s legal to deny work based on race in Korea.
#2 Steven King is a legend and only charges $1 to adapt his short stories into films.
#3 Here is someone who must have gone down in the lad hall of fame. Jack Woolams would fly past unexpecting propeller planes dressed in a gorilla suit and smoking a cigar whilst test piloting for top secret “jet Engine” aircraft in 1942.
#4 About 95% of bee species actually live in solitary and do not work in a collective hive, so do not live in colonies. Who knew some bees lived such a lonely existence?
#5 Gone right off eggs? Apparently blood can act as a substitute as eggs i baking because of its similar protein composition. One egg is equivalent to 65g of blood and one egg white is 43 grams.
#6 A Nazi physician won a Nobel Prize in 1927 by curing syphilis by giving people malaria. Nice one.
#7 Cleopatra’s family ruled Egypt for hundreds of years but she was the first in her family to learn the Egyptian language.
#8 Famous Japanese spa Fudo no Yu had to be closed down after repetitive complaint of orgies.
#9 Since 1945 all British tanks have been equipped with the ability to make tea. How frightfully British.
#10 Scientists found that in our belly buttons lives 2,368 different species of bacteria. Gross.
#11 The English word for the earthy smell produced when rain falls on fry soil is “Petrichor” who knew?
#12 A day is longer than a year on Venus.
#13 Staggeringly 10% of the worlds population is illiterate.
#14 Some Giant Redwood Trees grow hundreds of feet tall and are older than the Egyptian pyramids. Damn that’s old.
#15 In the last 3,00 years in the civilised world it has been calculated that there have only been 240 years of peace.
