Category: Fun Facts

Uein Buranibwe and Temaei Tontaake were lost at sea for 33 days in 2012 before washing up on one of the Marshall Islands. Over 350 miles from home, their GPS had stopped working, and they were surviving on fish they were catching. On Namdrik Island, the two were given food and water, but, more than […]

Police helicopters play a pivotal role in the success of the police force in Los Angeles, and the LAPD helicopter fleet is now the biggest fleet of police helicopters in the United States, with 17 choppers. Over the course of the year, the helicopters do a combined 18,000 hours of flight, observing crime, serving as […]

Red meat allergies, also known as alpha-gal syndrome, have been on the rise in recent years. Alpha-gal, which stands for Galactose-alpha-1, 3-galactose, is a molecule found in meats like beef, pork, and lamb. Research has found a connection between this red meat allergy and tick bites, most commonly what’s known as the lone star tick. […]

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Fernald School in Massachusetts was a school for mentally disabled and abandoned children. Students were not treated well, so members of the Science Club were excited when they started being fed cereal for breakfast each morning. What they didn’t know was that they were part of an […]

North Sentinel Island is a small island in the Indian Ocean the size of Manhattan. Owned by the government of India, visitors are not allowed within three miles of the island for their own protection. The indigenous people of North Sentinel Island do not take kindly to outsiders, as they’re used to the seclusion of […]

Japan has an annual festival that draws in crowds from all over: the Festival of the Steel Phallus. The annual event has been around since 1969, and, in addition to being a popular event for tourists, helps raise awareness about safe sex, celebrates fertility, and raises funds for HIV research. Steel phallus statues line the […]

Every two minutes, people in the United Kingdom go through 10,000 coffee cups. However, what most do not realize is that these paper coffee cups are not recyclable. While most consumers assume that the paper cups are the more eco-friendly choice, most end up in landfills. Because the cups are not made from recyclable material, […]

Natalie Portman is one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood today, starring in films like V for Vendetta and Black Swan. When she’s not acting, she has another secret talent: she’s a master letter writer. Portman has a pen-pal friendship with Jonathan Safran Foer, a best-selling author, known for his books Extremely Loud & […]

In the early days of trains, women were discouraged from using them as a means of transportation. The technology was unfamiliar to the public, and it was thought that women’s bodies were not made to travel at 50 miles per hour and that their uteruses would physically fly out of their body if they traveled […]

Jack Daniel’s goes back to the 1870s, when the five-foot-two Jack Daniel decided to make a whiskey with charcoal filtering that could be sold at a premium price. Distilling whiskey was common in Lynchburg, Tennessee, where Daniel resided, as was filtering through charcoal, so he searched for another way to differentiate his whiskey from all […]