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If you want the most random, obscure and Amazing facts,you've come to the right place! Trying to make the world a little happier!
Joined February 2013
The human anus can expand up to 8 inches. A raccoon can fit through a 4 inch hole.
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In Sweden you can legally drive a tractor if you are 15. This has led to teenagers speed-limiting old cars and ripping out the back seats so that they qualify as tractors.
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Shirley Jackson, the American author of Gothic horror and mystery novels, usually kept at least six cats. They were usually all black or all gray so that her husband, who had poor eyesight, couldn’t tell exactly how many there were.
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If you mix lunar or Martian dust with a protein from human blood, you will get a material that could be used to build houses on the moon or Mars and is stronger than concrete. If you add a compound from urine, you can make it even stronger.
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For every human on the earth, there are 16,000 mosquitos.
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ABC journalist Kirsten Drysdale tested the Australian naming registry with an outrageous submission and now has a baby boy called ‘Methamphetamine Rules’.
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New research suggests that drinking alcohol doesn’t make others seem more attractive, but it may give the drinker the confidence to approach people they already find attractive.
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Having books or plants in your Zoom background makes you seem more trustworthy. Having a blurred background does the opposite.
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NASA genuinely faked part of the Moon landing. While Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface were categorically not faked, the astronaut quarantine protocol when the astronauts arrived back on Earth was largely just one big show.
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We do not check the refrigerator multiple times to find new food, we check to see if our standards have dropped enough to eat what was available.
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In the UK, houses that back on to each other have to be at least 21 metres apart because of a 1902 law. This is all about protecting a woman's modesty. This distance was decided by two topless men backing away from each other until they couldn't see each others nipples.
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RT @DrNeilStone: HPV vaccine is crushing cervical cancer in Australia🇦🇺 to the point where it could be ELIMINATED!! Incredible. Historic.…
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China’s CO2 emissions for the last eight years are greater than the UK’s emissions since 1750
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important - T. S. Eliot
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The Backfire Effect is the phenomenon whereby someone believes even more strongly in their mistaken belief after being shown evidence that they are wrong.
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When Bob the Builder was first launched in Japan, the human characters had to have extra fingers so that children didn’t think he was a yakuza member.
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The National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight has an interactive display where you can polish a turd.
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Because of high inflation in the 16th and 17th centuries, many Welsh families were no longer able to afford a household poet.
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A blue whale's anus can stretch up to 4 foot wide, making it the second biggest arsehole in the world.
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