31 fun facts to unpoison your mind

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[ornitorrinco_en_la_caverna]

Loved the editor's explanation. Simple, to the point, giving this channel's vibes. Just perfect.

[camthecamposer]

Fun fact: Back in 1802, there was a book titled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" written by american businessman Timothy Dexter, which he used to complain about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. However, the book was special in that it used zero punctuation and he pretty much spelled every word he could unconventionally. There were so many complaints that in the second edition, published in 1805, he added an extra page at the end with 11 lines of nothing but punctuation marks, which readers were instructed to insert wherever they felt they were necessary.

[lucabalsasalsa]

Fun fact: Kermit is implied to have caused 9/11. In a Muppets special in 2002, Kermit is shown the world if he didn’t exist, and the Twin Towers are still up. This implies that Kermit somehow caused it.

[NickAsNickName]

fun fact: in norwegian, in certain dialects, a small and simple conversation can be had without the use of any consonants, only vowels. (a very situational one, but it is possible.)

[StressedYeti]

Fun fact: the word "oxymoron" comes from 2 Greek words:
Oxy (Oxus) - meaning sharp
Moron (Mōros) - meaning slow, stupid, or dull
So "oxymoron" means "sharp-dull" making it an oxymoron itself.

[SpizNitrate]

Fun Fact: If you buy a bigger bed you get more bedroom but less bedroom

[xaviertullis]

Fun fact: The first guy to use anesthesia in surgery, Robert Liston, also once cut a persons leg off so fast that a spectator died of shock, the patient and an aide to Robert also both died of sepsis from the unclean saw. This lead to the only known surgery with a 300 percent death rate.

[typo]

Fun fact: The roman emperor Caligula was widely considered to be mad, once forcing an entire legion to do nothing but collect seashells after a defeat, and is said to have made his favorite horse, Incitatus, a consul. It's also said he once had an entire section of the audience at an arena tossed in with the wild beasts during intermission because he was bored

[sebastianquintero]

One of my favorite fun facts: The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3, 500-year-old Babylonian tablet.

[marmotlord]

Fun fact: In 1997 a cat named Stubbs became the honorary mayor Talkeetna, an Alaskan town. The town didn't even have a real human mayor. He served as honorary mayor until 2017.

[AnanasVert]

Fun fact: otters have a little pouch of skin under the arms, where they keep their favorite rock. It helps them open seashells, among other things, and we've got records of them getting upset when losing the Special Rock.

[lenawenger]

FunFact: Once you had your first hiccup, you never truly stop hiccuping again, the intervals between the hiccups simply get longer

[agnieszkakmieciak]

Okay, I don't know if anyone mentioned it before (I don't want to go through all the comments), about the Charlie Chaplin one. The issue was that when he entered the contest, he was walking as he usually does. Meaning: at the normal human pace. The other contestants however, where imitating the accelerated speed from the movies. He lost the contest for being most like him... by acting exactly as he does. 😂 Personally, I always find it amusing 🙂

[julianneloy]

Fun Fact: It was common practice for Egyptian kings to schedule battles with their enemies, and if the other king couldn't make it that day, they would reschedule. 😁

[samanthawilliams]

The fact that Daniel grew up in Florida answers all the questions I ever had about his content 😆

[mayamenon]

Fun fact: Ninjas didn’t actually wear black, in the night they usually wore grey or navy as it blended in better with the sky or walls (black would have a more distinct silhouette), or they wore regular civilian clothing during the day to blend in with a crowd.
The reason why ninjas are said to wear black comes from the theatre, when the “stage crew” would wear black (they weren’t members of the cast but they might have held/moved props or scenery) and so people were used to just sort of mentally cropping them out. One playwright used this to their advantage and had one of the stage crew murder a character, and because they were made to be ignored, it seemed as thought they appeared out of thin air - like a ninja.
I always like facts about misconceptions :)

[lucahermann]

Fun Fact: Penicillin was only discovered because Alexander Fleming was too lazy to clean up after himself.
"In 1928 Dr Alexander to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to it from growing. He soon identified that the mould produced a self-defence chemical that could kill bacteria. He named the substance penicillin."

[SLStrawberry]

I think one of my favorite odd facts is that rhino's can jump, but they just basically don't do that ever 😂

[ODISeth]

Fun Fact: A samurai could have theoretically sent a telegram to Abraham Lincoln at some point between the invention of the telegraph in 1844 and Lincoln’s death in 1865, as samurai weren’t abolished in Japan until 1876.

I don’t have an Instagram I just wanted to share.

[mungoman]

Here's one: When a horse was being prepped for surgery in 2012, they tried to oxygenate it by putting it in a pressure chamber filled with oxygen.
They had forgotten to remove its horseshoes, however, so when it panicked and kicked the metal walls, it created a spark and EXPLODED THE CHAMBER.