“For a short time during the 80s, Pepsi was the sixth world military power. Russia didn’t have money to pay for a massive order so Pepsi accepted a big ass sea fleet as a payment. Warships, submarines, the works. They were eventually scrapped for parts.”

“It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.”

“A second is called a second because it is the 2nd division of the hour by 60, the 1st division being a minute.”

“A woman once jumped off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building but the wind pushed her back and she fell on a ledge on the 85th floor. She survived.”

“The reason why it is the ‘top 40’ is that jukeboxes could fit 40 records, and the owners would use the top 40 list as a way to know which records to buy (as the more popular ones would get played more, and thus get more money).”

“A shotgun’s barrel will break if it’s fired partially underwater, at least with buckshot. It’ll break wherever the waterline is.”

“Dragonflies have the highest successful kill rate of any creature on earth.”

“Cheetahs can sprint for about 17 seconds straight. After that they have to stop because they generate so much heat from the exertion that if they continued running they would literally cook their own brains.”

“Ants can enslave their neighboring ants and once the slave-ants get fed up with their bullshit they rebel against their masters in a bloody winner-takes-all deathmatch and the survivors repopulate the colony with help of their queens”

“The chainsaw was invented as a tool to assist in giving birth.”

“A palindrome is a word that can be read the same both ways, like level or racecar. The fear of palindromes is called aibohphobia, which itself is a palindrome.”

“Before bears hibernate, they eat a bunch of twigs and grass to plug up their butts so that they don’t have to wake up in the middle of the winter to shit. Then when they do wake up in the spring, they have these really rough massive shits.”

“During World War 2, when the Nazis took over France, the government of France destroyed the elevator in the Eiffel Tower so if Hitler wanted to plant a flag on top of the tower, he would have to take the stairs to the top.”

“Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. other animals grow horns when they are older.”

“Giraffes have the weirdest (or kinkiest) mating habits: To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.”

“Almost exactly 90 years ago, Pluto was discovered (Feb 18, 1930). Since its discovery, it has not completed a single orbit around the sun. In fact, it’s only gone about 1/3rd of the way around in all that time.”

“If everyone lived at the same density as Manhattan we could all fit into New Zealand.”

“Ever seen a pet bird trying to pull their owner’s jewelry (earrings, bracelets, metal things mainly) out/away from them? It can be annoying and painful but it’s actually a sign of affection – they think the owner has things stuck in their feathers and are trying to preen/groom them!”

“Lego produces more tires than any manufacturer in the world.”

“If ancient Egyptians got divorced they would throw a massive party and invite everyone they knew to celebrate how close they all were to each other.”