Random Strange Facts

    142 facts tagged with Strange Facts

    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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    Atacama Skeleton
    Atacama Skeleton
    In 2003, the skeletal remains of a human that measured 6 inches in length were found in a Chilean ghost town. A definite explanation for its size, mutations, and origin has yet to be found.
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    Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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    Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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    It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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