28 Random Facts About the Weird World We Live In
These facts are definitely in that last category. It's the kind of knowledge you can use to make your friends wonder if you're doing alright, and if your life takes a turn for the creepy, you might even be able to utilize some of it (like how many bodies fit into a Subaru Outback).
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
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!”
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Hedgehogs poop when they run fast therefore if sonic the hedgehog was real he would pooped himself to death
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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.
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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.
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??
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
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
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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.
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