Is there any difference between a weird fact and any other kind of fact?
What is the definition of a “weird fact”? According to the Online Dictionary it is a fact “of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.”
The problem with that definition is that the fact may only seem strange if you don’t know it already.
And, what are you to do with this knowledge? Well, knowing some weird facts may be useful if, for example, you need to impress someone – like a potential employer, or even possible future parents-in-law!
Having weird facts at your fingertips is also handy when conversation is flagging. Being able to introduce the fact that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows will guarantee some comment. When someone asks “why not?” you quickly reply “because it was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!”
You can quickly follow that up with the information that the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!
By this time, your friends will be clamoring for more, so our Life Daily team has put together a short list of wildly assorted facts that you can memorize. The first two facts we already showed you – so here are the other 19!
It only takes a few moments to browse the list. It may take just a little longer to commit it to memory:
1. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.
2. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
3. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders.
4. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
5. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
6. It’s illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you’re sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
7. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys chewing gum.
8. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
9. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
10. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
11. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
12. It’s against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
13. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
14. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
15. In Natoma, Kansas, it’s illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
16. Thomas Edison, the light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
17. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
18. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
19. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
How many of these weird facts did you already know?
If you want to show off your knowledge, you can answer that question in our comments feed below. Or, perhaps, you have some other facts to add to the list. Feel free to tell us.
