1. Charles Manson was a declared Scientologist while he was in prison and even ordered a member of his cult to work at an organization in the United Kingdom. Manson, however, eventually left Scientology because he thought it was too crazy.

2. Free-ranging street dogs in cities all around the world have learned how to navigate through traffic, wait to use crosswalks during a red light, and ride public transportation.

3. When electricity was introduced to the White House in 1891, President Benjamin Harrison and his wife refused to touch any of the light switches because they were afraid of being electrocuted. They ended up having employees at the White House follow them around and turn the switch on and off for them when they entered or left a room.

4. Chicken wings used to be throwaway parts of the chicken in restaurant kitchens until 1964 when Teressa Bellissimo invented the buffalo wing at her restaurant The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. Wings are now the most popular and expensive part of the chicken in the U.S.

5. The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous is Bill Wilson and he believed that using LSD could cure alcoholism based on his own experiences with the drug. He wanted to incorporate the drug into the program but the other leading members refused.

6. When sharks are flipped upside down they fall into a trance-like state called tonic immobility. Orcas have figured this out and have been seen in the wild turning Great Whites over and killing them. It became one of the few instances of something else preying on Great Whites sharks instead of humans.

7. There is a giant grizzly bear in Banff, Canada known as “The Boss”. He’s eaten two black bears, walks through the town in the middle of the day, and has fathered many of the bears that live in the Banff, Yolo, and Kootenay national parks.

8. Spearfish, South Dakota broke the world record for fastest temperature change on January 22, 1943. The temperature rose from -20 degrees celsius to 7 degrees celsius in a span of two minutes when the Chinook winds passed through. After the wind passed, the temperature dropped back down -20 degrees celsius in only 27 minutes, which caused glass windows to crack. (-4 degrees F, 45 degrees F)

9. The term “freelancer” refers to the medieval warriors who were not under the oath of any lord, making them a free lance.

10. It took author J.R.R. Tolkein 18 years to write and publish “The Lord of The Rings” in 1955 after he started working on the books in 1937.

11. According to the advisory company CEB TowerGroup, about one billion dollars worth of gift cards go unused every year.

12. Camels now live in Australia as an invasive species but some Aboriginal recall seeing them in earlier times.

13. The Circus Maximus was the first and largest stadium ever built in Ancient Rome, accommodating 150,000 people. In the 6th century, the massive stadium was decayed and quarried off of for materials. It is now a park in Rome.

14. When author Mark Twain was 70 years old in 1905, he began to collect young girls from the ages of 10 to 16 for a club and called them his “angel fish”.

15. One percent of static on your television comes from light of The Big Bang.

16. Singer Eartha Kitt, known for the song “Santa Baby”, also played the voice of the character Yzma in the 2000 Disney animated film “The Emperor’s New Groove”.

17. the oldest selfie photograph dates from 1839.

18. Roadrunners are so adapted to their dry environment that they do not need to drink water. They get all of their moisture from their food. They are also known to kill and eat rattlesnakes.

19. A large majority of the world now uses the Gregorian calendar with the exception of three countries: Ethiopia, Iran, and Afghanistan.

20. When the ill-fated Donner Party set out from Springfield, Illinois in 1846, a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln considered joining the group on their journey. He ultimately decided to not go because he had a toddler at home and his wife Mary Todd was pregnant.

21. Wilt Chamberlain averaged a mind-boggling 50.4 points per game for the Philadelphia Warriors during the 1961-1962 NBA season. He also scored 100 points in a game during that same season on March 2, 1962.

22. George Washingtons’s dentures were not made out of wood. They were actually made out of human, horse, and cow teeth. They were also made of ivory, lead-tin alloy, copper alloy, and silver alloy.

23. The Guiness World Record for longest career with one company belongs to Walter Orthmann from Brazil. He started working for Industrias Renaux S.A. in 1938 and continues to work for the company, now called RenauxView, as of April 2, 2018.

24. A fruit from Asia called the durian smells so bad that Singapore banned them on their rapid mass transit systems. Food writer Richard Sterling has written that “the odor is best described as turpentine and onions garnished with a gym sock”.

25. Hippopotamuses are known as one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. They kill about 500 people a year in Africa and are capable of running the same speed as humans on land. Their jaws are so strong that they can snap canoes in half.

26. Sears published and distributed tombstone and monument catalogs in the early 20th century for Americans.

27. Australian jewel beetles have been documented attempting to mate with empty beer bottles instead of females because of the bottle’s brown color. This has led to a reduced survival rate for them.

28. Because of varying hormone levels, 40% of pregnant women develop gingivitis at some point during their pregnancy. This condition is called pregnancy gingivitis.

29. The font Comic Sans, which is known as one of the worst and most unprofessional fonts, is commonly used by and for people with dyslexia. The are able to focus on the individual parts of the worlds because of the irregular shapes in their letters.

30. There are about 2,000 native greek speakers in Italy today who derive from the Ancient Greek colonization on the Italian peninsula.

31. The name of the bar in the opening fight scene of the 1984 film Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom is called Club Obi-Wan, which is based off of the character Obi Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars films.

32. A computer at MIT in 1973 predicted that the end of our society would happen by the year 2040 because of overpopulation, pollution levels, lack of natural resources on Earth.

33. The first motel opened on December 12, 1925 in San Luis Obispo, California and was called The Milestone Inn. The purpose of the motel was to lodge automobile travelers, which is why they’re called mo-tels.

34. The “i” in apple products such as the iPod, iPad, and iMac stands for “internet”. Steve Jobs explained this when he first introduced the iMac in 1998.

35. The bluefin tune was considered a trash fish until the 1970s and was either put in cat food or hauled off to the dumps. The fish had such a bad reputation with the Japanese that they called it neko-matagi, which means food too low for even a cat to eat.

36. Roland the Farter was a 12th century entertainer for King Henry II of England. Every Christmas he would perform a dance for the king that always ended with a jump, a fart, and whistle simultaneously. For these annual performances he was given a manor house and over 100 acres of land.

37. Javelins are allowed on Delta Airlines as long as the trip is not to and from Amsterdam in the Netherlands or Dublin, Ireland.

38. Hopeful contestants are not allowed to compete on Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy! if they have already competed on any other national game show.

39. If all of the gold that was ever mined was gathered and melted down together, it would be enough to fill about 3.5 olympic sized pools.

40. A cat’s nose prints are just as unique as a human’s fingerprints and can be used to identify lost cats whose microchips have become useless. Also, a cat’s sense of smell is fourteen times more sensitive than ours.

41. Actor Idris Elba used to be a drug dealer and would sell marijuana while he was a bouncer at the popular club Carolines. Celebrities who frequented the nightclub such as D.L. Hughly and Dave Chappelle simply knew him as “the doorman”.

42. Between 1860 and 1916 every soldier in the British army was required to have a mustache. If they ever shaved it then they would be disciplined or even imprisoned. Facial hair does have its benefits in battle though by protecting the soldier’s face from the cold elements.

43. According to a RAND study in 2017, 60% of American adults now have at least one chronic condition and 42% have more than one. This accumulates to hundreds of billions of dollars spent on health care every year.

44. The United States Department of Defense employs 2.86 million people from military, national guard, and civilian backgrounds as of 2018. The annual budget for the Department of Defense is 717 billion U.S. dollars.

45. Sound designer Ben Burtt created the unique sound of the TIE fighter from the Star Wars films by combining the sound of an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement. According to the book The Sounds of Star Wars, the sound of the engine was supposed to be similar to the German junker bombers that would use sirens to scare civilians during raids.

46. Reindeer and caribou are the same species but there are differences between them. Caribou are larger and usually found in northern North America and Greenland while Reindeer are smaller and can be found in Europe and Asia.

47. Semantic satiation is the psychological act of repeating a word or phrase over and over again until it loses its meaning to the listener.

48. Michael Dillon is the only IRS revenue officer to ever be killed in the line of duty. In 1983 he tried to collect a sum of $500 from a former service employee on behalf of the IRS but was shot three times by him by an M-1 rifle and killed instantly.

49. In Icelandic folklore there is a vicious creature called the Yule Cat that hunts and eats people who did not receive any garments or clothes to wear for Christmas.

50. The largest known prime number ever discovered has 23.2 million digits. There are also prizes offered by the Electric Frontier Foundation for anyone who finds record primes. Participants are capable of winning over $50,000.


































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