Category: Fun Facts

We sadly now are used to hearing that different athletes have been banned from the Olympic games because they have used some kind of illegal drug to gain an advantage. Do you know who the first person was to be banned? Also, do you know what they were found guilty of using? Surprisingly, the country […]

The quest to find the perfect mosquito repellent has been going on for decades with scientists testing out a wide range of products and chemical combinations to see which one they believe is able to work best. However, it seems that they stumbled across a better option and it was one that they could never […]

The Olympic Games is a massive event so you would think that it would be impossible for a country that had competitors actually being able to miss it. However, that has actually happened in the past, but it turns out that there was a perfectly logical reason. In 1908, the Olympics were taking place in […]

Richard Nixon had a very strange idea that he did not want any pigeon poo to appear in the path for his inauguration. Of course, as the President he had the power to go ahead and do what he wanted about it, but it could be argued that he did take things a step too […]

Sadly, racism does exist in the world today, but it seems that it was not such a problem when we go back in times, which then makes it even worse that we are in the predicament that we are right now. If you check out the Roman Empire, then people that had a different color […]

Farmers in India are faced with a problem in that everything costs so much money and it does mean that they are forced into searching for alternative and cheaper solutions to the most common problems. However, nobody in their wildest dreams could ever think about this solution to a pesticide problem. It was noted that […]

The British library has what could only be described as an extensive library and catalog of books, but are you aware of just how many and the length of time it would take you to read each one? Well, if you were somehow able to read five books per day, it would still take you […]

The humble sandwich is believed to have been born out of a request by the Earl of Sandwich and that in itself makes sense rather than something just being dedicated to him. Apparently the Earl was a heavy gambler, and when he was in the midst of a game he would do anything that he […]

What would you think if you were told that gasoline was not actually gasoline? Well, apart from being shocked it would then open up a completely different story than what you probably expected when it came to this term that we are all familiar with. It turns out that gasoline actually has no direct correlation […]

Coming across a snake can be a horrific thing for a number of people as they are not exactly the most liked of animals. However, even though people are guilty of trying different methods in order to kill them, there is one case where the snake ended up having the last laugh. An unnamed woman […]