20 Fascinating Facts You Likely Didn't Know

1.

Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.

2.

11% of people have 1234 as their ATM pins.

3.

In 1978 Aerosmith put up the money to bail out every arrested fan in a concert pot bust.

4.

Chinchilla fur is so thick and soft that fleas will suffocate if they try to live there.

5.

In 2003 a man in Belgium stole diamonds worth 100M Dollars after getting past a lock with 100M possible combinations, infrared heat detectors, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, a magnetic field and security force. He was caught because he left a partially eaten sandwich near the crime scene.

6.

Only 22 countries have not been invaded or attacked by Britain.

7.

In Iceland a Naming Committee exists that maintains a pre-approved list of male and female names. it is illegal to call your son/daughter something not appearing on these lists.

8.

The 1980 Moscow Olympics were a financial disaster and became one of the reasons for the fall of the Soviet economy.

9.

Michael Jackson wouldn't watch a movie unless he had spray butter and hot sauce on his popcorn. (source)

10.

In 1983, wrestler Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon shot a man in the head from his own gun, after he was attacked outside of a strip club. The charges against him were dropped due to lack of evidence.

11.

The Star Trek introduction to boldly go where no man has gone before was taken from a government pamphlet.

12.

PETA had a problem with the whaling segment of Assassins Creed : Black Flag. Ubisoft dismissed it saying they did not condone whaling any more than they they condoned a pirate lifestyle.

13.

Ron Jeremy was in Ghostbusters.

14.

Approximately 7% of LGBT Americans DON'T support same-sex marriage.

15.

Prostitutes used to wear pubic wigs in the 1500s to cover up signs of disease, such as syphilis.

16.

German soccer player Mesut Özil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgeries for 23 children in Brazil.

17.

In 2006 Japan declared October 10th as Tom Cruise Day.

18.

The first vibrator (invented in 1869) was steam powered.

19.

The youngest mother on record was Lina Medina from Peru, who gave birth to a baby boy when she was 5 years old, in 1939.

20.

The school in the first Silent Hill video game was based off of the school from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie kindergarten cop.

21.

During WWII, the Gestapo's most wanted person was New Zealand born Allied agent Nancy Wake. Among her numerous exploits, she killed an SS soldier with her bare hands, to prevent him from raising the alarm during an undercover raid.