Fascinating Facts You Probably Didn't Know

1.

The Back To The Future DeLorean and the Star Trek Enterprise were designed by the same man.

2.

The majority of Darwin Award winners, nearly ninety percent, are male.

3.

Nicolas Cage once awoke to a naked man wearing a leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed, in his Orange County house. Cage couldn't live in that house again and moved to the Bahamas.

4.

Sweden is so proficient at recycling that it has run out of rubbish and imports 80,000 tons a year from Norway.

5.

Trey Parker's father is a geologist named, Randy, his mother's name is Sharon, and has an older sister named Shelly.

6.

Potato chips were invented in 1853 when a frustrated chef sliced potatoes razor thin, fried them until crisp and seasoned them with extra salt in response to a restaurant customer complaining that his potatoes were cut too thick. The customer loved them.

7.

The author of the Wonder Woman comic book invented the lie detector.

8.

There was a study where rats were given access to "junk food" for 40 days. On subsequent testing days, the rats would voluntarily get electrically shocked, just so they could still have access to the sugary food.

9.

In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.

10.

Canada has a semi-professional women's pillow fight league.

11.

Spider bites are very rare and most lesions attributed to bites are actually bacterial infections.

12.

Whales let dolphins ride on their head for fun.

13.

There is a charity organization that makes porn to protest against tropical deforestation. Their name: Fuck For Forest.

14.

David Bowie turned down a knighthood in 2003.

15.

The longest recorded tennis match was at Wimbledon and was 11 hours 5 minutes long.

16.

Flavors from food a mother eats are present in her amniotic fluid and can influence the unborn baby's taste preferences.

17.

That there is a name for the practice of sticking peeled ginger in someone's bum. It's called "figging."

18.

The movie "The Scorpion King 4" is the sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a spinoff of the sequel of a remake that is currently getting a reboot trilogy.

19.

Panthers are not a real species, they are jaguars and leopards who have melanism, which is the opposite of albinism.

20.

It took 40 minutes for Supercomputer K to simulate just 1 second's worth of 1% of the activity of the human brain.

21.

In 2000, Netflix tried to partner with Blockbuster but were laughed out the boardroom.