There are millions of things you don't know about the world. As human beings it is our job to keep educating ourselves and become better people. It is impossible to know everything (unless you are a monk), but the least you can do is try your best. Here is a collection of amazing facts about the world which you didn't know (or you knew about them but then forgot because you were busy learning other stuff)
Amazing Fact 1: In 1996, US Congress passed a law, which clearly states that all school children in Florida must be taught to walk on their eyeballs, in order to avoid alligator attacks.
Amazing Fact 2: Projectile vomiting has been considered a mainstream Olympic sport amongst peasants in Kazakhstan, since 1863. The event is nationally televised and is sponsored by local pharmaceutical companies.
Amazing Fact 3: The African elephant can squeeze its body through a hole the size of a pea.
Amazing Fact 4: Nasal discharge from Orangutans is often used in the manufacture of smoke alarms.
Amazing Fact 5: During the 1600s, Spanish sailors would often cover themselves in dog poop to ward off sea monsters. This method is still used today by the British Navy and Chihuahuas are specially bred for the purpose.
Amazing Fact 6: The average man has no clue about romance and often needs a map to find his way around a woman's body.
Amazing Fact 7: Midgets and gypsies have been known to spontaneously combust when exposed to moths.
Amazing Fact 8: Peasants in Uzbekistan often celebrate the New Year by smearing horse manure on themselves and slapping each other with rubber gloves.
Amazing Fact 9: Tom Jones is actually a government experiment to create the first music idol, entirely from bacon and aluminium foil.
Amazing Fact 10: During the mating season, zebras and wildebeest have been known to ritualistically commit suicide in order to attract a mate.
Amazing Fact 11: A badger has a tendency to freeze up and die with fear if it ever gets into a fight with another badger. They both die as a result before they even start fighting.
Amazing Fact 12: A Golden Retriever Labrador retriever contains more venom than a spitting cobra. The only reason they are not dangerous to humans, is because their jaws cannot open wide enough to bite.
Amazing Fact 13: Magician David Copperfield once pulled a couch out of his ass. He then went on to extract a motorbike, 2 helicopters, several woolly mammoths and an entire ocean liner.
Amazing Fact 14: In England, during the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon to see live peasants served up in the salad bowls of the royal family. This was due to a mad magician called "Derek The Naughty" who was hypnotizing people into thinking they were iceberg lettuce.
Amazing Fact 15: During WWII, midgets were often employed to sniff out landmines, due to their amazing sense of smell.
Amazing Fact 16: It is illegal to urinate in Gibraltar if you are under 18. Its also illegal to paint your genitals blue over there, incase the local authorities mistake them for beehives.
Amazing Fact 17: Police patrolling the streets of Miami, often mistake watermelons for prostitutes. Watermelons account for 70% of vice related false alarms.
Amazing Fact 18: The Alaskan bear is the only mammal which is 16 meters high, has horns and sings. It has a frontal pouch full of human skulls and can grow a moustache 3 metre long.
Amazing Fact 19: Some takeaways often employ giant flying tadpoles and cats to deliver food to customers.
Amazing Fact 20: Armadillos can cause leprosy within human being if they look at you for more then 10 seconds.
Amazing Fact 21: Ants are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Amazing Fact 22: It is actually possible for human females to lay eggs if they are fertilized correctly. Science denies this fact in order to promote hospitals and national health services.
Amazing Fact 23: The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, once accidentally trapped himself in a refrigerator for 3 days. In order to prevent public panic, the Labor party cabinet ministers ordered a moving cardboard cut-out of him to make public speeches via radio control.
Amazing Fact 24: Paracetamols (painkillers) can sometimes reverse aging if crushed up, cut into lines and snorted like cocaine.
Amazing Fact 25: Microsoft used to produce recliner chairs before they moved to cricket bats.
Amazing Fact 26: The myth of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was originally created during biblical times, as a huge frightening monster with razor sharp teeth. This was to scare children into eating sprouts.
Amazing Fact 27: Employees fired from McDonalds are often forced to eat worms and fried mice before being given the pink slip.
Amazing Fact 28: Mooning a cow in a field is considered a crime in many countries such as the Gambia and Nigeria, and can get you arrested. Some have even done time in prison for it.
Amazing Fact 29: Infamous Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was not the real mastermind that the media make him out to be. He actually took his orders from an intelligent horse called "Graham" who he kept locked in his room.
Amazing Fact 30: An extremely effective cure for warts is to sing religious hymns to them. Eventually they disappear.
Amazing Fact 31: Farmers in Texas often use shampoo to disguise their chickens from predators such as foxes.
Amazing Fact 32: Bad tempered Emperor Penguins wielding cricket bats, have been found as far as Central Africa and have been known to ravage entire villages.
Amazing Fact 33: In some British towns, if you knock over anybody's trashcan lid by accident, you will be punished by being thrown into a metal trashcan and 10 small children will beat the sides of the bin with cricket bats.
Amazing Fact 34: Pixies have been known to occasionally steal copies of Playboy and Hustler from shop shelves and cause worldwide shortages.
Amazing Fact 35: Retino-Mesocricetus is a rare disease, which causes the sufferer's eyeballs to explode if they accidentally look at hamsters.
Amazing Fact 36: Suckling baby monkeys are sometimes fooled by their tired mothers, who will stick a turnip in their mouths to keep them quiet.
Amazing Fact 37: The award for the highest number of casualties on any movie set goes to Disney's Bambi. Apparently the deer who played Bambi's mother is a crack addict in real life and, would beat up the other cast members in order to get money out of them.
Amazing Fact 38: 20% of women claim to have given birth to a Lexus and sold it on E-bay.
Amazing Fact 39: Pubic hair is considered an exotic pizza topping in certain parts of Romania.
Amazing Fact 40: Animals, the size of horses have been found living in stables all over the world.
Amazing Fact 41: Human skin is stronger than concrete and can glow blue if kept out of the sun and cared for with a daily cleanse, tone and moisturize routine.
Amazing Fact 42: Horses are no longer allowed in the military because they attract enemy radar.
Amazing Fact 43: In 1999, during the Mango wars of Syria, all men's jeans were declared unsafe as they had the tendency to conduct lightning.
Amazing Fact 44: In 1993, the British government passed a law, requiring all bald people to convert their scalps into solar-power units, as part of the country's energy conservation programme.
Amazing Fact 45: All residents in California are legally required to be trained to turn into amoeba and crawl through tiny gaps in the event of a major earthquake.
Amazing Fact 46: Spiritual mediums from Lithuania can tell a persons fortune by sniffing their chins.
Amazing Fact 47: Peasants and villagers in Nepal, often disguise themselves as snowballs in order to get a close up picture of the legendary Yeti.
Amazing Fact 48: A 28-year-old man in Columbia was arrested back in 1998 and charged with "mooning" a police officer while driving on the freeway. He claimed he was sticking his rear end out of the car window to cure a rectal itch.
Amazing Fact 49: Dressing up as Mickey Mouse actually repels mosquitoes in winter. This doesn't work in summer though.
Amazing Fact 50: Despite what chemistry experts tell you in school, rust is actually caused by microscopic chimps who love to eat iron and spray acidic urine on it from their nipples.
And if you believe any of this crap
Amazing "facts" you never knew!
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