Amazing Facts You Don't Know: 1,100 Unbelievable Trivia Facts by Michael Gonzalez

Author:Michael Gonzalez [Gonzalez, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

Section Eight:

701–800

701–800

“Jay” was a slang term for a foolish person. That is where the term “jay-walker” comes from.

“Nice” used to mean accurate.

90% of the world’s human population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

A 2008 survey of British teenagers found that 58% thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person and 20% thought Winston Churchill was a fictional character.

A degree in bra studies can be attained at Hong Kong's Polytechnic University.

A doll named “Growing Up Skipper” was made by Mattel in the 1970s and when you rotated her left arm her breasts grew larger.

A flock of crows is known as a murder.

A large percentage of Monty Python and The Holy Grail’s budget was donated by the members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

A single starfish arm can regenerate a whole new body.

About 1 million Japanese men are estimated to be locking themselves in their bedrooms for years, creating social and health problems — a condition called Hikikomori.

About 10 million people visit the Great Wall of China each year.

Air pollution in China can increase snowfall in California.

Airplane food is relatively unappetizing because our sense of smell and taste decrease by 20–50% during flights.

American soldiers were known as G.I. Joes during World War II. As they drank large amounts of coffee, the drink soon earned the name “a cup of Joe”.

An ad campaign for Kellogg’s in 1907 offered a free sample box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

An estimated 40 million people in northern China live in a type of cave houses (yaodong 窑洞).

Ancient Egyptian ruler Pharaoh Pepi II purportedly hated flies so much that he would keep naked slaves smeared with honey near him in order to keep flies away from him (and attract them instead to his human flystrips).

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to signify their loss when grieving the death of their cats.

ATMs in the Vatican City have Latin as one of the language options.

Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.

Bees can sense the Earth’s magnetic fields.

Boanthropy is a psychological disorder in which sufferers possess the udderly ridiculous conviction that they are cows.

Captain Morgan really existed. He was a Welsh pirate who later became Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.

Casper the Friendly Ghost’s family name is McFadden, making his proper name Casper McFadden.

Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was Macedonian Greek.

Clinically speaking, people under the influence of power act as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury.

Coffee beans are not beans — they are the fruit pits of a flowering evergreen tree.

Comedians and funny people, research has shown, are in general markedly more depressed than average.

Derealization is a peculiar dissociative phenomenon that causes the external world to feel dreamlike.

Dolphins have names for each other and can call for each other specifically.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the well-known sex therapist, was trained by the Israeli Defense Force to be a sniper.

Everything falls into one of two groups: It’s either alive, or it isn’t. Ever since scientists have known of viruses, they’ve been unable to successfully determine which of these two categories viruses belong to.

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