Friday, December 12, 2025

What are some interesting random facts?

 

  • To get from Norway to North Korea you only need to pass through one country: Russia.
  • In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay for $3,000 until eBay shut it down.
  • In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
  • The actor who was inside R2-D2 hated the guy who played C-3PO, calling him "the rudest man I've ever met."
  • Michael Jackson’s song Billy Jean was actually based on a real story where a girl was stalking him and said that she was pregnant with his kid.
  • The Vatican City is the country that drinks the most wine per capita at 74 liters per citizen per year.
  • Approximately 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
  • If a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die.
  • Steve Jobs relieved stress by soaking his feet in Apple’s company toilets.
  • Fredric Baur was the man who invented the iconic “Pringles” can. When he died, his ashes were buried in one.
  • There is a town in Canada called “Dildo.”
  • There’s also a town in Austria called “Fucking.”
  • And there’s another called “Fuckersburg” and it’s also in Austria.
  • Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.
  • What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
  • Male students enrolled at Brigham Young University need a doctor’s note to grow a beard. I wonder if female students do too… I’m sure feminists would be angry.
  • The Vatican Bank is the world’s only bank that allows ATM users to perform transactions in Latin.
  • In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital fired some workers for betting on when patients would die.
  • There are five calories in a teaspoon of semen.
  • In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
  • Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
  • If you type vine.com into your address bar it brings you to Amazon.