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At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
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Traditional chefs in China boil eggs in urine.
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It is now possible to be buried in space! A company called Memorial Space Flights launches cremated remains into outer space for a fee.
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In Tibet, it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone.
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In Australia, putting your glass upside down on the counter at a pub means you're saying you can fight against everyone there and win.
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The average child will eat 1, 500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time he/she graduates from high school.
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English novelist Arnold Bennett drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid.
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Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off.
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Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
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The lifespan of every mammal is about 1 and a half billion heartbeats.
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A study suggests Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin. A co-author of the study has said horseback riding is more dangerous than ecstasy.
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There's an electromechanical teenager repellant, a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults.
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There's a word to describe the opposite of sparkle, and it's "darkle."
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Studies show that sleep deprived people perform as badly or worse than those who are drunk.
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People are most truthful in face to face conversations and in anything written and lie the most during phone conversations.
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Studies have shown that sarcasm enhances one's problem-solving ability. An inability to understand it can be an early sign of brain disease.
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Study finds that playing video games makes you more creative. [MW3]
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People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages: study.
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A woman trying to commit suicide from the Eiffel Tower, landed on a car and later married the owner of the car.
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The Power Rangers were censored in Malaysia, because censors thought it would get kids addicted to drugs.
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Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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The music a person hears in childhood may affect that person's musical preferences as an adult.
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There's enough iron in your body to make a nail.
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Humans share 75% of genetic code with worms, 70% with sea sponges, and 50% with bananas.
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It has been scientifically proven that the less you know, the more you think you know.
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Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colourblind, which means the best colour he can see is BLUE. /// Mosquitoes are most attracted to the colour blue.
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It took three actors to portray Darth Vader: David Prowse (body), James Jones (voice), & Sebastian Shaw (face).
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In Thailand, it's against the law to leave your house without wearing underwear.
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Many hospitals in China don't label the fourth floor. Why? Because the pronunciation of "Four" sounds like "Death".
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Zenzizenzizenzic: The Eight Power of a number.
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If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people (with all the existing human ratios remaining the same), there would approximately be: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas, & 8 Africans.
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The correct pronunciation of Dr. Seuss rhymes with "voice" not "loose".
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100 people die choking on a ballpoint pen every year. /// 13 people are killed each year by vending machines.
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Swearing when you hurt yourself actually helps with the pain. It makes you release Enkephalin, which raises your pain threshold.
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According to student researchers at the University of Cambridge, it takes 3, 481 licks to get to the centre of a Tootsie pop.
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Colours like red, yellow, and orange make you hungry.
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Yawning is contagious. Even thinking about yawning is enough. After reading this fact, there is a 50% chance that you will yawn.
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When a person is tickled, the response is actually a form of panic, as the brain interprets the tickling sensation as produced by spiders or other creepy crawlies on your skin.
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Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe thought that Justin Bieber was a woman. /// Daniel Radcliffe didn't know who Miley Cyrus was, whilst she was telling people that he said he had a crush on her.
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Every year, dogs kill more people in the US than Great White sharks have in the past 100 years. /// More than 90% of shark attack victims survive. /// You're more likely to be killed by a coconut, a vending machine, or a toaster than by a shark.
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An Iowa artist built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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Writing down your worries just before taking an exam can boost your test score.
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Cracking you knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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The shortest man in the world, He Pingping, died 15 March, 2010 at 2 feet 5 inches tall.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you'd produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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The human brain cannot create faces. Therefore when you dream, if you see someone you do not know, you have seen their face before - even if it was for a split second at the store.
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It would take 1, 200, 000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
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Someone starts reading a Harry Potter book every 30 seconds.
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You can escape a python's grip by biting its tail.
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
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The reason your ring finger bears your wedding ring is because it's the only finger that has a vein which leads to the heart.
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No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.
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A way you can tell if you're whispering or not is to put your hand at your throat. If you feel vibrations, you're talking. If you don't, you're whispering.
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Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
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Tanning can give you cancer and kill you (duh). Tans are just damaged skin cells.
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Blind people CAN see in their dreams.
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Most dreams last 5 to 20 minutes.
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2% of people on Earth have red hair.
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The voice of Mickey Mouse (Wayne Allwine), and the voice of Minnie Mouse (Russi Taylor) were actually married in real life.
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"Dumbledore" means "bumblebee".
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The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was only paid $35 for the design.
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A 3 month old baby starved to death because her parents were raising a virtual child.
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Watermelons are approximately 92% water.
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Almost 40% of Vietnamese people have the last name 'Nguyen'.
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Strawberries contain more Vitamin C than oranges do.
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Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They are 98% water.
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The mathematician who first theorized about infinity died in a mental institution.
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Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev holds the world record for TIME TRAVEL. He travelled 0.02 seconds into the future.
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Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites.
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People who eat chocolate 3 times a month will live almost a year longer than those who eat more or less of it.
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In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
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The sloth moves so slowly that its fur offers a comfortable environment for algae to grow on.
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If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
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The healthy human eyes can distinguish 17, 000 different colours.
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By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
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A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
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A ball made of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The billionth digit of pi is 9.
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A snowflake can take up to an hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of Earth.
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In the White House, there are 13, 092 knives, forks, and spoons.
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Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day.
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If Saturn fell into an ocean, it would float.
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It's possible for your bones to self-destruct without enough calcium intake.
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2 people have died playing "Chubby Bunny".
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Over 1, 000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
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The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
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Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors.
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Fruits are ovaries.
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