28 Random Facts About the Weird World We Live In

1. You can neutralize the smell of a rotting corpse by covering it with the ashes of a common camp fire! any wood ash should work.

2. Before clocks were invented clockwise and counter clockwise were called deisul and widdershins

3. SUGAR WAS ONCE CONSIDERED A SPICE, NOT A SWEETENER.

4. The farthest fall for a human being to survive without a parachute is 33,300 feet

5. Chickens (hens) have an egg song when they lay an egg. It’s like them yelling “I JUST LAID AN EGG! WOOOO!” And then the other hens chime in yelling “YAAAS SHE JUST LAID AN EGG! WOOO!”

6. Hedgehogs poop when they run fast therefore if sonic the hedgehog was real he would pooped himself to death

7. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a really popular novel, and was made into a stage play. The actor playing the eponymous role(s) was so good at switching from the good doctor to the evil Hyde that people wrote to the police claiming that he absolutely had to be the real Jack the Ripper (who was thought likely to be a qualified doctor based on the way he dissected his victims). They thought no normal person would be able to make such a transformation.

8. Dogs like squeaky toys because the noise reminds them of small animals dying.

9. It’s illegal to be intoxicated in a bar in Alaska.

10. One billion pounds of shrimp are eaten every year by Americans.

11. On average, you walk past 15 murderers in a lifetime.

12. Necropants are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man, which are believed in Icelandic witchcraft to be capable of producing an endless supply of money

13. An important predator to the Canadian Moose is the Killer whale. The Moose will swim over seastraits and get picked off by the killer whales.

14. Bananas can be found in other colors, including red.

15. There are now over 600 varieties of oranges worldwide.

16. I broke my collar bone and had to have physical training to strengthen it. They had me squeeze some equipment to measure my grip strength. I hit 140 lbs. He said “Holy crap, thats great! You know, It only takes 50 lbs to strangle someone.” My first question was why the f*** do you know that??

17. Pigeons sing in 5/4 and 17/8 time signature.

18. According to a study by a German sex researcher who found that women with red hair had sex more often.

19. A sock over a baseball bat is a really effective home defense weapon. If they grab the bat, the sock will make the bat slip out of their grasp and you can continue beating them until they get out

20. Moths Outnumber Butterflies by a 9 to 1 Ratio

21. Male hedgehogs masturbate for pleasure and you have to be careful picking them up because sometimes they have semen on their feet.

22. Fidel Castro loved dairy so much that he invested in trying to breed a cow that could survive in the climate of Cuba and still produce a lot of milk. He failed over and over for years until one day a cow that was exactly to his specifications. She produced obscene, record breaking amounts of milk even for a regular cow and could live in Cuba’s sweltering climate. There were regular updates on her health in the Cuban national newspaper and he loved her so much that when she died he erected a huge marble statue of her in her honor

23. If you squeeze a male’s testicles hard enough, the adrenaline overload can kill him.

24. There are well over 1 billion cattle in the world.

25. A pig's squeal can be as loud as 115 decibels.

26. You can fit ×8 250lb* (intact) human bodies (supine) in the back of a 2001 Subaru Outback wagon. Fold down the back seat and toss em in. Source: moved training dummies for an Army first aid class. Got pulled over because a hand was out and “reaching.” Sherriff walked up, saw the dummies, laughed and told me to have a nice day after explaining the call.

27. Each summer more than 50% of all marshmallows sold are toasted over a fire.

28. Butterflies sometimes drink blood.