Funny Facts

    Funny Facts

    Funny facts tailored to putting a smile on your face. These fun facts are typically amusing and will make you laugh.

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    McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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    Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.
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    Guinness Book of Records Was Originally for Solving Bar Arguments
    The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling bar arguments.
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    Queen's Surprise Visit
    Queen's Surprise Visit
    A couple invited the Queen to their wedding as a joke, and she turned up.
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    Thomas Edison and Morse Code
    Thomas Edison and Morse Code
    Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so they could communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around.
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    President Coolidge
    President Coolidge
    Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”.
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    MI6 Al-Qaeda Hack
    MI6 Al-Qaeda Hack
    In June, 2010, MI6 hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe.
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    Gay Bomb
    Gay Bomb
    The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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    Evil Birthday Clown
    Evil Birthday Clown
    In Lucerne, Switzerland, you can hire an evil clown to stalk your child for a week before their birthday, and on that day, he will smash a cake into your child’s face.
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    Ex-Husband's Revenge
    Ex-Husband's Revenge
    In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.
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    Emergency Plane Farts
    Emergency Plane Farts
    In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing and an FBI investigation.
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    In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed Wendy's.
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    Evanston Township High School in Illinois played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. $1,000 was collected in 3 days.
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    Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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    Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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    There's a book titled "Everything men know about women" that has over 100 blank pages.
    There's a book titled "Everything men know about women" that has over 100 blank pages.
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    Netflix and Chill Button
    Netflix and Chill Button
    Netflix has invented a 'Netflix and Chill' button that can be programmed to automatically order food, dim the lights, silence your phone, and put Netflix on the TV.
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    Rosa Parks Highway
    Rosa Parks Highway
    In 2000, the KKK adopted a stretch of highway near St Louis, the MO government responded by renaming the road the “Rosa Parks Highway.”
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    In 2012, a Chinese gamer's father was so concerned about his son's habit, he hired virtual hitmen to kill off his avatar.
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