26-30 Fun Facts
26. All provinces in Canada have banned expiry dates on gift certificates. – Source
27. In 2004, the Parisian police in an uncharted area of the Paris Catacombs found a secret room with a stocked bar and restaurant. They returned to trace the installed power and phone lines to discover they had been cut, with a note left behind reading, “Do not try and find us.” – Source
28. After the Italian Prime Minister complained about Finnish cuisine, the Finns entered an international pizza competition, named their entry (with marinated reindeer meat) after the PM, and came in first place. – Source
29. Watermelons originated in Africa and were first cultivated solely for their water content; their flavor was very bitter. – Source
30. In October 1994, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time. – Source
31-35 Fun Facts
31. A framed photo of a 4chan post sold for $90,900 on Ebay. The post read: “Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art/This post is art”. – Source
32. Tigers, jaguars and leopards love the smell of Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession For Men’. This fragrance is used to lure the big cats to the cameras in the wild. – Source
33. Harrison Ford received $10,000 for his role in A New Hope and $20,000,000 for his role in The Force Awakens. – Source
34. Millionaire Michael O’Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams. – Source
35. The mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. the creator said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store. – Source
36-40 Fun Facts
36. Usain Bolt demands his ad shoots to be done in Jamaica to bring money to his country. – Source
37. Romanian sewer workers accidentally discovered a cave which was sealed for 5.5 million years. Movile Cave is filled with evolutionary distinct exotic creatures (albino crabs, worms) which feed off sulfur-producing bacteria. – Source
38. Rice does not need to grow in water, but since it can survive it, is done so to control weeds and other pests- creating higher yields. – Source
39. “Inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx. – Source
40. Engineers in Canada receive an Iron Ring to remind them to have humility. It is in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice due to incorrect calculations involving iron. – Source
41-45 Fun Facts
41. A Japanese farmer discovered a gold seal while repairing an irrigation ditch in 1784. The seal turned out to be 95% pure gold and was a gift from the Chinese Emperor to a Japanese envoy from 54 CE, the earliest recorded date of contact between the two countries. – Source
42. Because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections – rather than with a single, continuous pour – the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet. – Source
43. Scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that ants return to their nests by counting their steps. The ants with stilts overshot their nest by roughly 50% due to the new length of their steps. – Source
44. Most toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city’s scarce freshwater resources. – Source
45. NASA has 2 satellites chasing each other around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry! – Source
46-50 Fun Facts
46. Sergei Bubka repeatedly and deliberately broke the world pole vault record by the smallest possible height so he could cash in on a Nike bonus with each new record. In a two-year span, he broke his own world record 14 times. – Source
47. Wounded Viking warriors were given strong onion soup. After a few minutes, someone would smell the wounds and if onions could be detected it meant that there were serious abdominal injuries and that death was inevitable. – Source
48. One of the thirteen articles in the 1781 US Articles of Confederation states that if Canada wants to be admitted into the United States, it will automatically be accepted. – Source
49. FedEx uses several empty cargo planes that roam the country’s skies overnight in circuitous flight paths, ready to divert on demand in order to accommodate unexpected package volume. – Source
50. In 1898 Nikola Tesla once tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a toy boat by shouting commands – he had in fact invented Radio Control and was piloting the boat himself. – Source
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