Category: Fun Facts

In Anderson County, Texas, John Joe Gray has withstood what is called the longest-running standoff with police officers in America’s history. Gray and his six children have remained holed up in a 47-acre piece of land they own, in a one-sided siege that has taken place for over a decade. It all began when he […]

Maple Syrup Urine Disease may sound like something made up in a cartoon, but it is, in fact, a real disorder. As part of Maple Syrup Urine Disease, the body is unable to break down parts of proteins, which results in the urine smelling lie maple syrup. The disorder is inherited and caused by a […]

In humans, there are two earwax types—wet and dry. While nearly 97% of people in Africa and Europe have wet earwax, that number drops to half in places like central Asia and southern Asia. Researches in Japan have found that this is likely due to genetics. There is one gene in DNA that is said […]

In 2008, Zimbabwe saw an inflation rate unlike anything else in global history. The rate surged to a whopping 231,000,000% in July, which was twenty times higher than just a month before. As a result, shops in the country temporarily accepted South African rands and United States dollars, as the Zimbabwean dollar was worth so […]

Margaret Thatcher was a controversial political figure in the United Kingdom. When she died in 2013, a song that had been the anthem for a campaign against her reached number two on the United Kingdom music charts. The song? “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead.” Some radio stations played the song due to its newfound […]

Queen Victoria once joked that, “It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.” She of all people should know, as the center of eight assassination attempts. The first came in 1840, shortly after she married Prince Albert. Riding through Hyde Park, 18-year-old Edward Oxford fired a shot at the queen. […]

In an average lifetime, a person breathes in around 45 pounds of dust and debris. More than that, there is more bacteria in a person’s mouth than there are people in the United States and Canada combined. A person can grow up to six feet of nose hair in their lifetime. If a man went […]

Chefs for the President of the United States each come with their own unique story. In the early days, many of the White House chefs were slaves. Besides the Roman hero, Hercules—and the Disney film adaptation of the mythological figure—there is another notable Hercules. Hercules was one of George Washington’s slaves and his personal chef […]

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were twins adopted out to separate families, and didn’t meet one another until they were 35 years old. What they didn’t know is that they were part of a research project that separated identical twins in the 1960s and 1970s in order to see the impact of nature versus nurture. […]

It seems someone in Hong Kong wanted to cash in on the success Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has had in the United States. In 2016, KFC in Hong Kong released a new innovation: edible nail polish. The nail polishes came in a several of colors and flavors, like a neutral color for original fried chicken, […]