18 Fascinating Facts You Probably Didn't Know

1.

A man once drunkenly stole a plane and landed it in the middle of Manhattan in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Two years later he did it again because someone doubted he had done it the first time.

2.

A cat named Stubbs is the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska.

3.

Stalin tried to have John Wayne assassinated.

4.

The 'Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell' book series was not written by Tom Clancy, despite his name in the title.

5.

Platypuses have no teats, they secrete their milk through their pores.

6.

Porn companies hire professional strippers to take part in spring break wet t-shirt contests, that would take all their clothes off early on in the contest. Peer pressure usually makes most of the amateur contestants do the same, because they don't want to lose. The companies then sell the recorded footage for top profit.

7.

In around 1820, there was about 20,000 pigs roaming the streets of NYC eating all organic debris that people produced. They were the first garbage disposal service.

8.

The last song of the '90s was Sisqó's "Thong Song" which was released on December 31, 1999.

9.

The producer of the hit song "I put a spell on you" by Jay Hawkins brought in ribs and chicken and got the musicians drunk. Hawkins then went on to say "... I don't even remember making the record."

10.

The NES game Contra was released in Germany under the name Probotector. It redesigned the human's as robots to circumvent the censorship laws in Germany, which prohibits the sales of violent video games to minors.

11.

Ireland is the only country in the European Union that does not use postal (zip) codes.

12.

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster at reactor 4, the other reactors on that site were not shut down. Every day, workers were brought in by train to keep them running until the year 2000.

13.

Pasta was invented in China and not Itally or Sicily.

14.

The 1994 film True Lies was the first film to have a 100+ million dollar budget.

15.

The Statue of Liberty was originally brown. It is made of copper and slowly oxidized to the green color it is today.

16.

Nobody knows if frogs sleep. They also do not drink through their mouths, and swallow by pushing food down their throat using their eyeballs.

17.

Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that enrichment opportunities should be made available to all children, including the poor. In 1995, he founded the Inner City Games Foundation (ICG) which provides cultural, educational and community programming to youth. The ICG serves over 250,000 children.

18.

Pretending to perform WITCHCRAFT is illegal in Canada. Actual witchcraft is fine.