What are some weird facts?

 Time for some anti-gravity shit.

You all know about the Hoover Dam,

Now, look at these:

The water is going upwards.

It seems like the water here is defying gravity. I have to admit, it’s a pretty cool and freaky phenomenon.

If you want, you can go there and try it out yourself.

The structure of the dam creates an upward draft that makes water seemingly defy gravity.

An aerial view of the dam shows where the strong wind would travel up the Colorado River to hit the wall.

What are some weird facts about North Korea?

 It's been a little over five year since Kim Jong-un came into power in North Korea. Here are some interesting facts about the world's most "secretive" leader.

1. His real age is a mystery

He is thought to be the world's youngest ruler, but no one has any clue to his actual birthday. It is believed that he was either born in 1983 or 1984. The US Treasury Department, in 2016, lists his birth date as January 8, 1984. He is the youngest son of the late "supreme" leader, Kim Jong-il.

2. He attended the best Swiss school using a fake name.

Kim Jong-un was enrolled at a top private school in Switzerland's capital city of Bern but proved to be poor academically. Clad in a Chicago Bulls sweatshirt and Nike shoes, he was introduced to his classmates as Pak Un from North Korea. Money was spent lavishly on his education but he was more inclined towards music and basketball, a sport that he is still passion about, than his studies. With no improvement in his grades in mathematics and science, his father moved him to a Swiss state school where he was put in a lower grade.

3. His addiction to Swiss cheese is the source of his chubbiness.

In Switzerland, Kim became fond of Swiss cheese. His consumption of Emmental has been blamed for his bulging body and lumbering walk. Large amounts of cheese are imported every year to satisfy his cravings.

4. He is a military commander with no training

When his father died in 2011, he took command of the North Korean Army. With practically no experience in the armed forces, the world is on edge as Kim has control of his nation's military.

5. He underwent surgery to resemble his grandfather.

For some, plastic surgery is a means of improving their looks, but Kim Jong-un's goal was to look like his grandfather, Kim Il-sung.

6. He ordered North Koreans to style their hair like his, but he's afraid of barbers

In North Korea, there are strict rules regarding haircuts. Kim Jong-un's haircut is special – it's called the "ambitious".

A decree was passed in the country in which males were ordered to sport a similar hairstyle. Females were asked to wear their hair in a bob, like his wife, Ri Sol-ju. Performers are not bound by these rules.

Kim is also believed to be scared of barbers, so he cuts his own hair.

7. He is a die-hard basketball fan

His love affair with basketball began during his days in Switzerland. He is an ardent fan of the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan is his favourite player. He is close friends with former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who has made several trips to North Korea.

8. He has executed many of his family members

Kim Jong-un, in December 2013, reportedly ordered the execution of his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, who was accused of plotting against the state. Some reports suggest he was fed to a pack of wild dogs, while some believe he was killed by a firing squad.

8 strange facts about North Korea's Kim Jong-un

What are some weird facts?

 Facts are always interesting & sometimes it goes beyond curious about it.

• English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet in 1781 during a telescopic survey of the zodiac. He promptly named it the Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, King George III.

• A writer predicted how the Titanic would sink in 1898, 13 years before it was even built.

• "She sells seashells by the seashore" was written about an actual person named Mary Anning.

• The United States technically has no official language. Although English is the most commonly spoken language, there is actually no official language in the United States at the federal level.

• Is estimated that about 2000 different kinds of musical instruments exist in the world. There are four main categories woodwind, brass, string and percussion, with hundreds of instruments in each category.

• Studies show that traffic and air pollution are to blame for 12% of heart attacks worldwide.

• If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene , can manage only .002% of that.

• You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan.

• More people in the world currently suffer from obesity than from hunger.

• Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

• When adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the history of the world with a net worth between 4 and10 times more than Bill Gates. An estimated, it could’ve been more than $350 billion in today's dollars.

• Two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow.

• It would take over 1,000 years (merely a maths cal.) to watch every video on YouTube.

• The words written on Twitter every day would fill a book of 10 million pages.

• Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10,000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs.

What are some weird facts?

 

• The deaths of both Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were announced to the public on the date of May 1st, in 1945 and 2011, respectively.

• Men are five times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. This is thought to be because men are more likely to be unaware of the dangers (or to take more risks).

• Bananas share 50% of their DNA with humans.

• The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

• The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.

• Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.

• NASA uses countdowns because of a sci-fi film.

• British military tanks are equipped to make tea.

• You can see four states from the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower.

• The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat by retracting them into its head.

Ridiculously Weird Facts That Are 100% True

• Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
• A group of crows is called murder.
• Tomato sauce was sold in the 1800’s as medicine.
• A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won’t.

• A lion in the wild, usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
• India has a Bill Of Rights for cows.
• Dartboards are made out of horse hairs.
• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
• In France, there’s a place called Y.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• The Bible is the world’s most shoplifted book.

• A male seahorse carries eggs, not the female
• Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
• In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A snail can have 25,000 teeth.
• And finally, it is illegal to carry an ice cream in your back pocket in Kentucky.

What are some weird facts?

 

• The word pencil comes from a Latin word meaning a small penis.
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the official name of a village in Wales.
• A swarm of 20,000 bees once followed a car for two days because their queen was stuck inside.
• What is called a “French kiss” in the English-speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
• There is a snake, called boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.

• A Japanese woman was having a laser surgery on her cervix when she farted, igniting the laser and setting herself on fire.
• People with higher intelligence tend to appreciate dark humor more.
• When mating, the male octopus tears off his arm (the one with the penis), places it in the female, and then swims off to die.
• An unborn baby can taste what it's mother is eating and develop a preference for the foods that she eats.
• 4 is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
• Pirates wore eye patches to have one eye adjusted for the top deck and the other already adjusted for the darkness when going below deck.
• Pluto has a heart-shaped sea that's filled with poisonous ice.

• You can die from popping too hard.
• -4° looks like a depressed guy on a toilet seat.
• A woman (Elvita Adams) once tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building, New York, USA. She jumped from the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by the gust of wind.

What are some weird facts about North Korea?

 •North Korea only has 3 TV channels

•Visiting Kim Jong-il’s body is the country's most popular attraction

•Choco Pies are banned in North Korea because they got so popular that Kim Jong-un feared they would cause an uprising. Because of this, South Korea packed many Choco Pies in balloons and sent them over the border into North Korea

•North Korea claims to have a 99% literacy rate

•The people of North Korea may only choose from 28 approved haircuts; disobeying this results in jail time

(something tells me this one isn't allowed)

What are some weird facts?

 Do you know that people in the Mongol Empire never, ever took a bath?

The people in the old Mongol Empire never washed themselves because of a prevalent superstition of the time. In order to understand this, you need to first know that the Mongols of those times believed that the water cycle was controlled by dragons.

They never washed themselves because they thought that it would result in the water getting polluted. This pollution, according to them, would make the dragons that controlled the water cycle angry. So if you were to meet any Mongolians of those times, you would be overwhelmed by their filth!

Since the people in the Mongol Empire didn’t bother to clean themselves, it shouldn’t surprise you that their clothes were in the same boat. This means that they never washed their clothes either. You would think that common sense would at least make them change their clothes regularly since they didn’t wash them.

However, this was not the case. In fact, people of the Mongol Empire didn’t change their clothes till they got torn or came apart on their own. The only exception to this was during festivals and holidays. On festivals and holidays, everyone in the Mongol Empire would change into special robes.

It’s only natural for a person to smell if he or she has never taken a bath in his or her life. However, the Mongol Empire took this to another level too. They treated a person’s smell as something special and personal. Effectively, while you or I would treat their stinky clothes with upturned noses, they saw them as something honorable. It was also connected to their personalities.

For instance, if the great Genghis Khan was to give some individual his old, worn out, and stinky clothes, then the person would feel honored. This feeling wouldn’t only stem from the fact that the individual got to own the clothes of the great Mongol Empire’s leader, but also because he received his smell with them.

Yikes

People in the Mongol Empire mainly wore long, flowing gowns which are known as caftans. Depending on an individual’s status in the society, the detailing on his caftan would vary. Furthermore, the material of the caftan also varied according to the status of the person wearing it.

The materials used by the Mongols included silk, fur, cotton, leather, wool and even brocade. Along with their gown, they wore boots made of cow fur and belts. The worst part is that their boots almost always smelled of cow dung.

Source:Link #91: The Mongols Never