The Spanish national anthem has no words. Unfortunately, it had to be cut down to one during World War II due to rations being too expensive. The original candy from the 1930s had three different kinds of nougat: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry (hence the name!). 3 Musketeers candy bars used to come in three flavors. Competitive art was once an Olympic sport.įrom 1912 to 1948, artists could earn medals for painting, music, sculpture, and even architecture. This sounds too tasty to be considered one of our weird fun facts! 23. The meat sauce pasta comes with a side of “McDo” fried chicken. McDonald’s serves spaghetti in the Philippines. Nutmeg is a hallucinogen.īecause it contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects, you can experience hallucinations if you ingest large quantities. In the 1840s, it was considered childish to smile for pictures so it became popular for people to say “prunes” instead of “cheese” in order to keep their mouths taut. People used to say “prunes” when taking pictures. Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise.Įvery 225 Earth days, Venus travels around the sun, but Venus rotates clockwise once every 243 days. It’s often used as a substitute since real wasabi is expensive. If you’ve always thought that your store-bought wasabi tastes more like horseradish, you’re probably right. This keeps them edible and ready to sell for 6 to 12 months! 18. Supermarket apples can be a year old.Īre those apples you just bought actually a year old? Maybe! Farmers often pick apples in the fall, cover them in wax, hot-air dry them, and then put them in cold storage. Wilbur and Orville Wright took the first airplane on four short flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The first airplane flight was on December 17, 1903. This is such a disappointment, but it makes sense when you think about it! 16. Froot Loops are all the same flavor despite their different colors. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.ĭolphins need to come up for air every 10 minutes, but by slowing their heart rate, sloths can actually hold their breath for 40 minutes! 15. Here’s one of the most useful weird fun facts! If you’ve ever felt like you think better in a warm shower, you’re probably right! The warm water increases the flow of dopamine and makes us more creative. When he discovered the mixture had frozen, the “Epsicle” was born. In 1905, young Frank Epperson left water and soda powder outside overnight with a wooden stirrer in the cup. An 11-year-old a ccidentally invented i ce pops. If that wasn’t interesting enough, due to the nature of their open circulatory system, shrimp have no arteries so their organs just float around in blood! 12. Since guinea pigs are such social creatures, one guinea pig would get lonely so having just one is considered animal abuse in Switzerland. Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig.
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The Sesame Street characters were named after Bert the police officer and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Bert and Ernie’s names came from a Christmas movie. Teeth are not made of live tissue and are coated in enamel, which can’t spontaneously regenerate. Human teeth are the only part of the body that can’t heal themselves. Horrendous, tremendous, hazardous, and stupendous.
Only four words in the English language end in “dous.” When the iron heats up, the tower can be up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) taller due to thermal expansion.
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