23 Fascinating Facts You Probably Don't Know
Mizuka Published 01/10/2016
Impress your friends with your new found knowledge.
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2. Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country, and despite being landlocked, there is a Kazakh navy, which is based on the Caspian Sea.
3. Marlon Wayans was going to play Robin in Batman Returns (1991). He still earns money for his 2-movie deal, despite never actually appearing as Robin.
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4. Tennis balls used to be white, but were switched to yellow so they could be seen better on television.
5. There is a real Umbrella Corporation which also deals in pharmaceutical and bio mechanical engineering.
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10. Chili Peppers bassist, Flea, has become a beekeeper in an effort to stave off the declining honeybee population.
11. Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia but produces less than a forth of what Saudi produces per year.
12. Gal Gadot, the new Wonder Woman, served two years as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.
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13. Bill Watterson was thinking of allowing his famous Calvin and Hobbes comic strip to be animated, as he admired animation as an art, but decided against it once he realized he didn't want to hear Calvin's voice.
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16. You shouldn't brush your teeth within 60 minutes of eating a meal as your acidic oral pH makes your tooth enamel too easy to brush away.
17. Female orangutans and capuchin monkeys have both been observed using sticks and other plant parts as makeshift dildos.
18. At 84 years old, Harvard Professor Tom Lehrer was asked by 2 Chainz for permission to sample a song Lehrer wrote at 24. He responded: "I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"
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19. Biologists that have worked with Arctic wolves on Ellesmere Island, Canada over 25 field seasons describe 'wolves as wimps’ as they are so gentle and caring for each other.
20. Cuba has a vast no-Internet file-sharing network with terabytes of regularly-updated movies, television, music, and software delivered by USB drives over sneakernet for $2/week subscription fees.
21. Gene Simmons (of KISS) used to be a school teacher in Harlem until he was fired for substituting Shakespeare with Spiderman Comics.
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22. The first artificial insemination took place in 1884 when a med professor injected his unconscious patient with the semen of "his most handsome student", unbeknownst to both the woman and her infertile husband.
23. The couple kissing on the bridge as Tinkerbell flies Peter Pan away from London to Neverland in "Hook" are Carrie Fisher and George Lucas.
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