Weird
But True
Facts!
Created by Mrs. Moye’s
Advanced Reading Classes
Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on television.
Penguins droppings can be pink.
Ancient Romans and Greeks often ate salted fish that had rotted in the sun for at least a month.
Gorillas sing/hum happy songs when they eat.
Medical doctors in 500-1500 A.D wore bird masks stuffed with herbs to ward off bad smells.
Jellyfish are 95% water.
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Stomach acids can dissolve metal.
56 million years ago horses were the size of cats.
Artists in italy created a pink stuffed rabbit big enough to see from space.
Polar bears are black, not white.
Scientists can extract DNA from a polar bear by using it’s footprint.
Dogs relieve themselves in alignment to the Earth’s magnetic field.
A human bone is five times stronger than steel of the same weight.
A chameleon’s tongue can be the size or even twice as big as its body.
Only its fur is striped.
A zebra’s skin is black;
Pirates used their eye patches for their eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Otters hold hands while sleeping.
The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.
If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and could die.
Head
Body
Cockroaches can live up to a week without a head!
If you weighed 50 pounds on earth, you would weigh about 3 pounds on Pluto.
A rabbit’s vision covers nearly 360°
Snails have 14,000 teeth.
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Lewis Carroll was terrible at finances despite being a mathematics scholar at Oxford.
The most expensive book sold is $30.8 million.
Guy de Maupassant who was a 19th century French short story writer who hated the Eiffel Tower so he would eat at the restaurant there to avoid seeing the Eiffel’s profile.
It takes sloths two weeks to digest their food.
Alligators can live up to 80 years old.
When Gorillas are happy they burp.
Garnet stones were named after pomegranates.
Someone had hiccups for 68 years.
People who fear numbers suffer from arithmophobia.
On average, humans shed around 50-150 strands of hair a day.
Sunsets on Mars are blue.
Some musicians with amnesia can still remember.
One year on neptune last about 165 earth years
A shrimp’s heart is on its head.
Ketchup was once used as stomach medicine!
Ketchup was once used as stomach medicine!
20,000 people die every year by the kissing bug!
There is a cucumber out there that squirts poison!
Your brain is sometimes more active when you sleep then when you are awake.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
.
Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth.
The air around a lightning strike is 5 times hotter than the sun.
Bats have thumbs.
Russia is only 2 miles away from Alaska.
Astronauts can’t
cry properly in
space because
there’s no
gravity.
Leonardo da Vinci invented scuba gear.
Some Turkeys have
drowned
In rainstorms.
Sloths can hold their breaths longer than dolphins.
3 Musketeers candy was named after the Three Musketeers as they used to come in three flavors.
Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel.
Lions can jump 36 feet.
A Tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane.
You can buy insurance coverage that covers ALIEN ABDUCTIONS.
Kangaroo rats don’t need to drink any water during their whole life.
Michael Jordan makes more money in one year than all Nike workers in Malaysia.
In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government.
6,700-year-old popcorn was found in Peru.
BEFORE
AFTER
A woman ONCE made 1,127 PANCAKES IN ONE HOUR.
A schoolteacher of Thomas Edison inventor of the lightbulb thought he was too “addle-brained” to ever learn anything.
The Slow Loris is one of the very few mammals that have a poisonous bite.
King cobras are the largest venomous snakes in the world.
The rarest stone in the world is the red diamond.
There are decomposed wasps inside of figs.
Chameleon spit is 400 times thicker than human spit.
Scientists have discovered how to 3D print human bone and tissue.
One day in the future the sun will consume Earth!
Snakes can eat animals bigger than their head.
Snakes can eat animals bigger than themselves.
Australia has the longest golf course covering over 850 miles.
Horse’s teeth take up more space in their head then their brain!
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up.
Butterflies will drink blood when given the chance.
Babies are born without kneecaps, which grow later on.
An inventor once designed diapers for birds.
Bibliosmia
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There’s a word for loving the smell of books: bibliosmia.
Prefix- Bibli (books)
Sufix- Osmia (sense of smell)
There was once a lake the size of England in the Sahara.
Snails can sleep for almost three years.
Edgar Allan Poe Married his 13-Year-Old cousin.
“Dumbledore” is Old English for “Bumblebee.”
The World Record for Longest Conga Line was set in 1988.
Green Eggs and Ham was written because of a bet!
Hamburgers make fly-traps rot.
Horses produce up to ten gallons of saliva a day!
The tallest known snowman is 37.21 meters tall.
Dogs in the U.K. were trained to fly an airplane.
A 600-pound octopus can squeeze through an opening the size of a quarter.
Thieves in Wisconsin stole 20,000 pounds of cheese.
In Taiwan, it’s trendy to get your dog’s fur groomed into geometric shapes.
In 2012, $18.7 million worth of maple syrup was stolen in “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.”
Hitler, and Stalin were both nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chernobyl's "Elephant's Foot" will kill you if you look at it.
The most powerful nuclear bomb ever created was called tsar.
Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin
One Artist Turned Cans Of Poop Into $300,000 Pieces Of Art
Volcanoes can be found inside some glaciers.
Scorpions glow under black light.
Large forest fires can create tornadoes made of flames.
Thousands of tiny earthquakes happen each day.
Gorillas are ticklish.
Make sure to go skip the video to 18 seconds to see the laugh!
Scientists can make peanut butter into diamonds.
Tiger’s skin has the same pattern as the fur.
Flamingos don’t have backward knees but they bend their legs at the ankle.
Ice pops were accidentally made by an 11 year old.
The average lifespan of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
Bonobos are the closest human relative.
A hardboiled egg will spin, but a soft-boiled egg will not.
When flamingos eat Brine Shrimp they turn pink.
You can compete in an underwater mountain bike race in Wales, UK.
The longest paper airplane flight was 200 feet.
Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.
The Sahara desert is bigger than Australia.
From 1967-1976 slam dunks were illegal during an game.
A tropical ant can snap it’s jaws together at a speed of 78-145 miles an hour.
Octopus have a very unique anatomy.
Tomatoes were considered poisonous until the 1800s.
A rhinoceros horn is made of hair.
The longest game of Monopoly played in a tree house lasted 286 hours.
Koala’s fingerprints are almost indistinguishable from humans’.
Scientists have figured out how to make a toilet that can generate electricity out of urine.
If humans continue to grow as fast as an average baby, you’d weigh about 412,300 pounds by age 10.
Penguins only live in the southern hemisphere.
The U.S Canadian Border runs through the middle of a library.
A billionaire bought eight 1,000 dollar smartphones for his dog.
A family in New Jersey, U.S.A. , lived in a farmhouse encased in an aircraft hangar.
In Ancient Egypt, only pharaohs could eat mushrooms.
A swordfish can swim about as fast as a cheetah can run.
You can’t move your body when you're in a certain stage of sleep.
A camel can drink 848 cups of water in 3 minutes.
Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip Hamilton both died in similar conditions and in the same place.
J.K Rowling was jobless, penniless, and a single-mother while writing the first Harry Potter book.
Maui, from Moana, was originally going to be bald.
George Washington's teeth were made from many weird things.
Many ancient physicians used spider webs as band aids.
synthetic material = band aids
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
The earth weighs 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons.
A starfish eats and urinates out of the same hole.
Turtles lived on earth before dinosaurs did.
Dust from Africa can travel all the way to florida
There’s a heart-shaped coral reef in Australia.
Water goes down the drain in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemisphere.
A horse's heart can weigh up to 9 pound!!
You can swim as fast in syrup as you can in water.
Diamondback rattlesnakes can strike in about half the time it takes you to blink.
Lady Jane Grey was the queen of England for nine days.
Bulletproof candidate, Teddy Roosevelt ,was shot and instead of going to the hospital he gave a speech.
There are mites living in the hair follicles on faces.
Headis, a sport played on a ping pong table with a rubber ball and the ball can only be touched their heads.