28 Random Facts About the Weird World We Live In
Bizarre trivia to impress/creep out your friends with.
Published 4 years ago in Wow
Not all facts are created equal. While some facts are truly wholesome and wonderful to know, others can be deeply unsettling. Some facts blow your mind by revealing something pretty cool, while others just make you wonder "WTF?"
These facts are definitely in that last category. It's the kind of knowledge you can use to make your friends wonder if you're doing alright, and if your life takes a turn for the creepy, you might even be able to utilize some of it (like how many bodies fit into a Subaru Outback).
These facts are definitely in that last category. It's the kind of knowledge you can use to make your friends wonder if you're doing alright, and if your life takes a turn for the creepy, you might even be able to utilize some of it (like how many bodies fit into a Subaru Outback).
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a really popular novel, and was made into a stage play. The actor playing the eponymous role(s) was so good at switching from the good doctor to the evil Hyde that people wrote to the police claiming that he absolutely had to be the real Jack the Ripper (who was thought likely to be a qualified doctor based on the way he dissected his victims). They thought no normal person would be able to make such a transformation.22
Fidel Castro loved dairy so much that he invested in trying to breed a cow that could survive in the climate of Cuba and still produce a lot of milk. He failed over and over for years until one day a cow that was exactly to his specifications. She produced obscene, record breaking amounts of milk even for a regular cow and could live in Cuba’s sweltering climate. There were regular updates on her health in the Cuban national newspaper and he loved her so much that when she died he erected a huge marble statue of her in her honor26
You can fit ×8 250lb* (intact) human bodies (supine) in the back of a 2001 Subaru Outback wagon. Fold down the back seat and toss em in. Source: moved training dummies for an Army first aid class. Got pulled over because a hand was out and “reaching.” Sherriff walked up, saw the dummies, laughed and told me to have a nice day after explaining the call.