Fact Of The Post
Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink.
True Facts
1. Donkey Kong got his name because his creator believed “donkey” meant “stupid” in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape”.
2. More than 1/5 of all the calories consumed by humans worldwide are provided by rice alone.
3. People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow.
4. The name for the shape of Pringles is called “Hyperbolic Paraboloid”.
5. There is a McDonald’s on every continent except Antarctica.
6. Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.
7. A duel between three people is actually called a truel.
8. The stage before frostbite is called “frostnip”.
9. The two tiny holes in every BIC pen are to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.
10. In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies.
11. Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is a high demand for “ninja shows,” but it is a dying tradition and companies have trouble time finding properly trained ninjas.
12. The process by which bread toasts is called the “Maillard Reaction”.
13.“Weird Al,” Yankovic wrote “Albuquerque” to be as a joke specifically to “annoy people for 12 minutes.” It ended up becoming one of his most popular songs.
14. Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet.
15. Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
2. More than 1/5 of all the calories consumed by humans worldwide are provided by rice alone.
3. People can suffer from a psychological disorder called Boanthropy that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow.
4. The name for the shape of Pringles is called “Hyperbolic Paraboloid”.
5. There is a McDonald’s on every continent except Antarctica.
6. Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.
7. A duel between three people is actually called a truel.
8. The stage before frostbite is called “frostnip”.
9. The two tiny holes in every BIC pen are to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.
10. In South Korea there is an emergency number (113) to report spies.
11. Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is a high demand for “ninja shows,” but it is a dying tradition and companies have trouble time finding properly trained ninjas.
12. The process by which bread toasts is called the “Maillard Reaction”.
13.“Weird Al,” Yankovic wrote “Albuquerque” to be as a joke specifically to “annoy people for 12 minutes.” It ended up becoming one of his most popular songs.
14. Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet.
15. Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
17. The first roller coaster was used to transport coal down a hill. After people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour, tourists asked to ride on it for a few cents.
18. Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink.
19. Marmite was one of the most confiscated items at airports from the U.K. – to overcome this issue, Marmite made smaller ones for traveling.
20. Warner Bros canceled “Home Alone” because they didn’t want to spend $14 million on it. 21st Century Fox continued the production, and the film grossed $476 million worldwide.
21. Cards against Humanity bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. It is called Hawaii 2.
22. In 1862, the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln many elephants because a “Country as great as the United States should not be without elephants.” Lincoln politely declined.
23. The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
24. Bullfrogs do not sleep.
25. Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
26. The dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.
27. In 2015, a silver coin with Superman on the head's side was made which is legal tender in Canada. There were only 350,000 produced.
28. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; as of June 2018, the world record is 4.22 seconds.
29. Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible.
30. Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.
Funny Facts
1. Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called “ke-cheap”.
2. In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc. correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved.
3. In Morse Code -.- means k.
4. Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001, and Gran Turismo 2 have scratch & sniff discs. The FIFA 2001 smelled like a soccer field, while Gran Turismo 2 smelled like car tires.
5. Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and started allowing visitors for the first time in 2018.
6. Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.
7. In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!
8. The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.
9. There’s a flower that smells like chocolate! Native to Mexico, this dark red flower is not edible. It is called “cosmos atrosanguineus” or “chocolate cosmos.”
10. In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
11. If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.
12. Your tonsils can grow back if there was tissue left behind during the removal process. Sometimes it’s accidental, other times it’s left on purpose.
13. Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.
14. Crystal – the monkey from The Hangover 2 and Night at the Museum has her own IMDB page!
15. Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.
2. In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc. correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved.
3. In Morse Code -.- means k.
4. Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001, and Gran Turismo 2 have scratch & sniff discs. The FIFA 2001 smelled like a soccer field, while Gran Turismo 2 smelled like car tires.
5. Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and started allowing visitors for the first time in 2018.
6. Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.
7. In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!
8. The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.
9. There’s a flower that smells like chocolate! Native to Mexico, this dark red flower is not edible. It is called “cosmos atrosanguineus” or “chocolate cosmos.”
10. In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
11. If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.
12. Your tonsils can grow back if there was tissue left behind during the removal process. Sometimes it’s accidental, other times it’s left on purpose.
13. Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.
14. Crystal – the monkey from The Hangover 2 and Night at the Museum has her own IMDB page!
15. Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.
17. The world record for the longest human chain (holding hands) is 652.4 miles and it consisted by 5 million people in Bangladesh as part of a campaign.
18. Baked beans are actually not baked, but stewed.
19. Rowan Atkinson – also known as Mr. Bean – is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.
20. The most popular item at Walmart is bananas. They sell more bananas than any other single item they have in stock.
21.“lbs” comes to form from the Latin word “libra” which means “pound”.
22. The small indents in the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles from forming inside the dough.
23. The term “footage” comes from films being measured in feet when being edited in the early days of filmmaking.
24. In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell Facebook for $75 million. Back then it was called TheFacebook.
25. In 2016, a student left a pineapple in an art museum in Scotland. Two days later, it had been placed in a glass case as part of an exhibition.
26. The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.
27.“Digging a hole to China” is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.
28. Researchers found fossils of a “Mega Penguin” that stood over 6 feet tall and weighed in at over 250 pounds.
29. The term “brah” is Hawaiian pidgin, short for bah dah (brother), and was popularized by surf culture.
30. As of 1998, over 50% of Iceland’s population believed in the existence of elves.
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