Category: Fun Facts

Alan Smithee is a name that no person wants to see listed as the director of a movie they’re seeing. He was known for making horrible movies that were poorly-received, ranging from Death of a Gunfighter in 1969 to an extended cut of Dune in 1984. Why is he still making movies then? It’s simple… […]

Cheese has been a favorite dairy product for nearly 4,000 years, when people started processing milk from their animals. Today, over 1,770 kinds of cheese exist. Beyond your basic American, mozzarella, Swiss, feta, cheddar, parmesan, and provolone cheeses, there are tons of cheeses most people have never even heard of. Some of these not-so-popular cheeses […]

During World War I, many women left the home and worked in factories on assembly lines to support war efforts. Because of the chemicals they were exposed to, the women on these lines had their hair and skin stained yellow. This earned them the nickname of “Canary Girls”. This job involved filling shells with trinitrotoluene, […]

If you’ve ever suffered from heartburn or stomach acid, you know painful it can be. What most people don’t realize is that the acid is powerful in more ways than just causing discomfort. The stomach acid in your body is strong enough that it could destroy metal. On the pH scale from 0-14, 0 is […]

In September of 1999, 47-year-old Joan Murray decided to go on a skydiving adventure. This was nothing out of the ordinary for Murray, who was a thrill seeker and had already been skydiving over 30 times. On this particular day, Murray’s main parachute failed to activate, and she was just 700 feet from the ground […]

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of Stanley Kubrick’s most iconic movies. Over forty years after the film was released, in 2010, seventeen missing minutes of footage from the film were found in storage at a Kansas salt mine. To this day, no one other than the special effects supervisor and several others working on […]

One of Queen Elizabeth’s footmen had a popular party prank that got him into some deep trouble. Matthew King was known for putting alcohol into the queen’s corgis’ food and water bowls. For what reason? He and the other staffers found it amusing to watch the dogs become tipsy. According to sources, the dogs’ drinks […]

It is estimated that the average human body has 1.6 trillion skin cells. Obviously, this can vary by size, but it still averages about 16% of your entire body’s cells. Whether you realize it or not, you’re losing skin cells every day. A whopping 30 or 40 thousand skin cells fall off every hour. That […]

Baby carrots are a key part of many school lunches, vegetable trays, and healthy snacks. However, unlike regular carrots, these miniature carrots aren’t grown naturally and sold the same way. Baby carrots are full-sized carrots cut into smaller sections, peeled, and pumped through pipes, then formed into the little carrot pieces that are now recognizable […]

The Beatles had an impact on much more than just the music scene. They weren’t afraid to make their political opinions known, which fans took notice of. While many people know that The Beatles took a stance against the Vietnam War, not as many people know that they also took notice of the segregation in […]