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1. 78% of NFL players are bankrupt two years after finishing their careers.
2. 60% of NBA players are bankrupt within five years of leaving the league.
3. Male koalas have two penises. Female koalas have two vaginas.
4. In Utah, it is against the law to fish from the back of a horse.
5. If you put a can of Diet Coke in water, it floats. Regular Coca-Cola sinks.
6. Also, according to Utah law (where I live) a husband is responsible for any criminal act that his wife commits while in his presence.
7. Apparently, if you eat a Polar Bear’s liver, you will die of a vitamin A overdose.
8. The number one tire manufacturer in the world? LEGO.
9. If you combine all the ants in the world, they’ll weigh about the same as if you combine all the people.
10. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
11. Because news traveled so slow back then, slaves in Texas didn’t know they were free for more than two months after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
12. Talk about pressure. Female ferrets die if they can’t find a mate after going into heat.
13. There are 18.6 million vacant homes in America. There are 3.1 million homeless people.
14. Humans have had dogs as companions and workers for more than 14,000 years.
15. A snail can sleep for more than three years at a time.
16. The air quality of Mumbai is so bad, it’s equivalent to smoking 2½ packs of cigarettes a day.
17. Everyone on earth is born with the ability to wiggle their ears, but if you don’t learn how early on, the muscle atrophies and you can’t learn any longer.
18. Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball that hit a fan in the stands. As they were carrying her away, he hit another one which hit her again.
19. More than 13,000 years of human life have been spent watching the Gangnum-Style video.
20. In 1938, Time Magazine named Adolf Hitler Man of the Year.
21. Your fingernails grow faster in cold weather.
22. Four out of five people over the age of 100 are women.
23. Moles can dig more than 300 feet in a single night.
24. The average person eats about 60,000 pounds of food in their lifetime. That’s six elephants, in case you were wondering.
25. There is no word that rhymes with “month.”
26. The Mississippi River once started flowing backwards after an earthquake.
27. The Ribbon Worm will eat itself if it can’t find food.
28. If there are three people involved in a duel, it’s not a duel. It’s a truel. I’m not making this up. It’s truel!
29. The first engines put into Fords? They were made by Dodge…
30. Jimmy Carter once left nuclear launch codes in his dry cleaning. Oops.
31. Cows have the ability to walk upstairs but not down again.
32. People who measure more intelligent also measure more zinc and copper in their hair.
33. Every year, millions of trees around the world grow where squirrels forgot their buried nuts.
34. Baby rabbits are called… kittens.
35. Smallpox does not exist anywhere on Earth except in a laboratory.
36. The brain can’t create a new face. It only remembers faces you’ve seen somewhere before. This includes in your dreams.
37. Nachos were invented by a guy named Nacho.
38. If you love ice cream and eat a lot of it, chances are you’ve had plenty of beaver anal gland extract.
39. Speaking of dreams, did you know that 12% of people dream in black and white?
40. There is a significant population of people in Argentina who speak Welsh.
41. Ulysses S. Grant tried to have the Dominican Republic annexed so that a special safe-haven could be setup for blacks to get away from the Klu Klux Klan.
42. The American Sports industry is worth $422 billion a year, and more than 1% of all Americans are employed by it.
43. Wikipedia banned the Church of Scientology from editing any articles.
44. Farts measure more potently in the shower than they do outside it.
45. Never heard this one. Apparently there is a conspiracy theory that remnants of an Egyptian Civilization was discovered in the Grand Canyon and covered up by the Smithsonian Institute.
46. Two days after they die, ants give off an odor which other ants pick up on. They come pick up the ant and carry it to an ant graveyard.
47. Birds cannot live in space because they can’t swallow without gravity.
48. Freddie Mercury refused to have his teeth worked on because he was afraid it would change his voice.
49. ‘Rubber Duckie’ by Ernie on Sesame Street won a Grammy nomination in 1970. And reached #16 on the charts.
50. In 1995, the winner of the $1 million Monopoly game piece at McDonald’s sent it to St. Jude’s in an anonymous letter.
SwordsToTheSkyWeRideAtDawn
13. There are 18.6 million vacant homes in America. There are 3.1 million homeless people.
jebstat59365
It's spelled and pronounced Ku Klux Klan... Get a Klu...
SirGilbert
#31 is true. I put 6 cows on the second floor my high school as a senior prank. It shut the school down for 3 days.
hardytardigrade
Two days after people die, they also give off a scent which brings ants
brandsilven
#6 Cop: "You're under arrest for attempted murder!" Man: "But my wife tried to kill ME!" Cop: "Yeah, in YOUR presence!"
dovebair
#38 so are we just not going to talk about the beaver anal gland extract in ice cream claim?
JakeFist
#42 "More than 1%" is an incredibly unhelpful statistic.
Leithoa
#11 Lincoln didn't free slaves. Congress did.
Glitchoff
Cunt!
shanepalmero29
Runt
downvoteacct
I’m never touching ice cream again.
jacrisspi77
BTW the Smithsonian Institute is located in Washington, DC. I am also currently in DC. What a coincidence!
gtferrari
#38 WTF
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
~Citation needed.
UniThinktank
Cunth:)
jebstat59365
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September of 1862... There were a few more years of war left before slaves were truely free.
TheAdventuresofStealy
Texas even saw a huge boost in # of slaves over that time because many out-of-state slaveholders moved theirs there to avoid emancipation.
littleindianboy94
17. I wiggled my ears after reading this
Unsafefurball
The housing one is real and it's fucked up, there's a similar statistic about food. We live in manufactured poverty.
TGWolf
Fact #52: Hugs from Wolves are pawsome :3
ilikedogsandhockey
I need sources for all of these.
AmericanIcon
#29 The engines were built by the Dodge Brothers. They didn’t build Dodge the company until they left Henry Ford. Ford also started Cadillac
bobsCondomShopWeMakeEmYouBreakEm
#18 "fuck that bitch" - Richie ashburn probably
crisponella
So 1 elephant weighs 10,000 lbs? If 6=60,000?
crisponella
Holy cow, I just googled it because it felt wrong but its true! Today I learnt...
RSNBLMAN
I thought baby rabbits were bunnies?...
derekjohn
But rabbits are baby coneys (as in 'Coney Island'). It's just that the word coney has slipped out of use (Tolkien did use it in LOTR).
MrRogers247
WRONG.... Kittens, we just went over this.
DarksteelPenguin
No bunnies are just rabbits.
shelbalitus
So in Utah if a woman kills her husband, is he technically responsible for his own murder?
TheWorldAccordingToAtlas
The ol' Mormon suicide.
TheFeralDog
Only if she does it in public
loser9999
It's considered suicide
eathotdog
He should have been a proper man and subdued his woman.
threedogsbark
For #11 They remained slaves until Juneteenth because the slave owners wanted to finish their harvest
larryrathbun
At least to #50, the winner wasn't anonymous, it was criminal. Jerome P. Jacobson, chief of security, perpetuated a fraud from 1995 to 2000
rocoveto818888
Fact #51
larryrathbun
He admitted to sending that piece to St. Judes. It's a interesting read. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-mcdonalds-story.html
larryrathbun
https://priceonomics.com/the-mcdonalds-monopoly-fraud/
TheAdventuresofStealy
Interesting. He gave the pieces for the $1M prize to St. Jude's but only made 1M for himself. Sounds like way too many people were involved
larryrathbun
Yeah, he had a lot of folks involved.
TheAdventuresofStealy
And on a side note, the rarity of those pieces is ridiculous. Many of the odds are far, far higher than lotteries worth 10s of millions here
firecloud42
#36 I believe this has been debunked...as in it’s impossible study so it can’t be a fact but a theory
TheAdventuresofStealy
I think you can, but then again you just might not be conscious of it. But if you can take a face and tweak random features, it's clearly BS
lDanielHolm
Art exists. So yes, this is utter nonsense.
lDanielHolm
In fact, our brain will go into overdrive to pull faces out of things that only vaguely resemble faces because of how good we are at it.
HikariShade
I would really call the Egyptian conspiracy thing a real 'fact'....
ImNotDumbIJustPlayOne
Please do, go on. I’d like to hear your crazy Conspiracy Hypothesis.
Uzernaime
It’s a fact that it is a conspiracy?
knowfux
http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp264-ss15/2015/03/05/an-odd-place-to-find-egyptians/
jltough19
The conspiracy was a fact, maybe?
TheAdventuresofStealy
But there's something very similar. The find: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/10/world/rio-artifacts-may-indicate-roman-visit.html [1/2]
TheAdventuresofStealy
Cover-up: www.nytimes.com/1985/06/25/science/underwater-exploring-is-banned-in-brazil.html - dig further and it's clear they buried the boat
Glitchoff
Go on...
SmellOfMonkey
Well, it may be a fact that there is a conspiracy theory. It just may not be a fact that the theory is true.
HikariShade
WOULDNT I meant WOULDNT... Omg... *bangs head*
PossiblyATank
Oh thank god
Glitchoff
Hahaha awwh buddy. That made my day
Thojira
andddddd upvote the mistake
imasandwichho
You poor thing...I love ur response of banging head. I got the image in my head. Ur funny
marc55410
#17 not true. I taught myself to wiggle my ears after noticing the connection to my yawn. I was easily 19
sitemoth
That doesn't contradict what OP said. You just relearned it.
lDanielHolm
OP said you can't learn it anymore, which is wrong.
sitemoth
Oh, my bad, I misread that one.
drinkingouttacups
The beaver anal gland is true. It's used as artificial vanilla. Look it up if you don't believe it.
eadanke
Well it's not like I'm wheezing it right from the source am I?
imasandwichho
Grosssssssss! Geez y kill a beaver for fake vanilla...turds need to go get their asses vanilla extract at a freaking STORE...I’ll buy it
TheAdventuresofStealy
Is it actual vanillin (or made into it) though? That stuff is present in more than just vanilla orchid beans.
itwasbuilticame
*Was used. It's VERY rare to be used in icecream now.
ayeseaturtles
Yes, but it's still used in other "natural" vanilla-flavored foods.
ayeseaturtles
Regardless, I just wanna know who discovered that a beaver anus smelled/tasted like vanilla. Ew.