35 strange and interesting facts that will blow your mind

An infant survived the Titanic disaster. She lived to be 97 years old and was the last Titanic survivor.

Tokyo currently boasts the most Michelin-starred restaurants in the world!

Helen Keller once flew an airplane, even though she was deaf and mute!

Dolphins live in the Amazon River!

"James Bond" was originally the name of a bird.

Finland won't have a KFC restaurant until 2021!

The U.S. Senate has a special table that is always filled with candy for the senators to enjoy!

According to the Guinness World Records, this is the world's longest car. It even has a swimming pool, a golf course, and a helipad!

Disneyland uses cats to control pest populations.

Camel racing is a popular sport in the Middle East, and they now use robotic jockeys instead of human jockeys!

Medical students experience hunger when dissecting corpses, supposedly because formaldehyde is an appetite stimulant.

The cream in the center of an Oreo cookie contains absolutely no dairy.

Animal Planet's reality TV series "River Monster" has ended because star Jeremy Wade has caught every large freshwater fish that can be caught on Earth.

Some urban birds, such as tits and sparrows, use cigarette butts as nesting sites to control pests. This is because the nicotine in cigarettes helps to repel parasites.

Iceland was once covered with trees until the Vikings came and cut them down to make room for sheep.

The two dim stars of the Big Dipper were an ancient test of eyesight. If you lived in the early Roman era and could see them, you would qualify to be an archer in the Roman army.

Princess Martha Louise, the eldest daughter of the King of Norway, claims to be "clairvoyant." She runs a school for communicating with angels and the dead and is currently dating a man who claims to be a shaman.

Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal. After Napoleon conquered Portugal, the Portuguese royal family fled to Brazil (1808-1821). They then established Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Portugal.

Two buttons on the uniform of the British Royal Air Force during World War II could be put together to form a mini compass pointing north.

Wild dogs were brought to Australia by humans around 4,000 years ago; they are actually an ancient type of domestic dog.

A proposed Pennsylvania law in 1896 required drivers who encountered livestock to stop, dismantle the vehicle, and hide parts until the livestock were adequately calmed.

On average, half of service dogs fail training. Due to this low rate, South Korea attempted to clone service dogs that had already passed training. The resulting clones had a much higher success rate than average.

The crawfish farming industry began to take off in Louisiana. People realized they could raise crawfish year-round without affecting their rice production. It also provided them with an additional source of income.

Forty-five years ago, tuna were caught and ground into pet food. In Japan, tuna is called neko-matagi, which means "a fish that even cats would despise."

Mozart was actually among the top 5% of earners in his time. By the time he died, he had spent most of his money and was buried in a poor man's grave.

A “silent man” in Britain has been arrested multiple times for blocking traffic by standing on a road. He never speaks, not even to the court or his own lawyer. Each time he is released, he repeats the offense and remains completely silent.

Since 1992, New York City law has allowed women to take nude photos in public.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) first began painting in his twenties. He did not begin attending art school until he was 27 in 1880. Most of his paintings were created in the last two years of his life.

In the Red Sea, giant moray eels have been observed hunting cooperatively with coral groupers. A grouper approaches an eel's hiding place and quickly shakes its head to indicate its intention to hunt. The eel recognizes the signal and accompanies it during their coordinated hunt.

Chinese checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 and was referred to as "China" as part of a marketing campaign.

The giant scorpion was an extinct, largest arthropod in the world, reaching lengths of up to 3 meters.

Tetrachromatic vision (primarily in women) can distinguish up to 100 million colors because they have a fourth type of cone cell in addition to the regular RBG cone cells.

Mortality rates were lower during economic downturns. This was primarily attributed to cleaner air, less traffic, and reduced spending on vices such as tobacco and alcohol.

Human procrastination is considered a complex psychological behavior because people do it for a variety of reasons. Although often attributed to "laziness," research suggests it is more likely caused by anxiety, depression, fear of failure, or a dependence on abstract goals.

The International Space Station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes.

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