Funny Facts

Lemurs chew toxic millipedes and rub the secretions on their fur to repel mosquitoes, but the side effects accidentally send them to another dimension.

Researchers used machine learning to decode 15,000 Egyptian fruit bat calls. Over 60% were arguments — about food, sleeping positions, personal space, and unwanted mating advances. They even change their calls depending on who they're talking to. Basically, bats have names.

James Van Der Beek spent six years starring in Dawson's Creek, filming over 120 hours of television. The internet reduced his entire career to a 3-second crying GIF. Instead of fighting it, he embraced it — launching jamesvandermemes.com with Funny or Die.

A male cat named Xiaopi had to be put on a glucose drip after mating with five female cats in a single night at a pet hotel in China. The hotel staff had let the unneutered Russian Blue roam freely overnight, and CCTV footage captured the marathon session.

A man bet $50,000 that someone would streak at the Super Bowl — then did it himself. He claimed he cashed out $374,000 and walked away with a $1,000 fine.

Green vine snakes aren't dangerous. They just stare at you like you've disappointed them.

You have roughly equal numbers of bacterial and human cells—about 38 trillion of each. You're a 50/50 partnership with microbes.

A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance.' These pink birds form groups of up to a million individuals and perform elaborate synchronized dances to attract mates.

A completely silent song on Spotify called "Sleepify" earned a band over $20,000 in royalties before being removed. Fans played it on repeat overnight while sleeping to support the band Vulfpeck, who used the money to fund a free tour.

All clownfish are born male. When the dominant female in a group dies, the dominant male will transform into a female to take her place—making Finding Nemo's plot biologically impossible.

In 1932, the Australian military deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to combat an invasion of 20,000 emus destroying farmland in Western Australia. After six days of failed attacks, the emus outsmarted the soldiers, and the military withdrew in defeat.

On 2nd Nov 2017, President Trump's Twitter account was deactivated for 11 minutes by a departing Twitter employee.

In 2000, the KKK adopted a stretch of highway near St Louis, the MO government responded by renaming the road the “Rosa Parks Highway.”

After being dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years prior, a Chinese man spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers 4 - just to prove her wrong.

In 2008, Russian man Dmitry Agarkov received a credit card offer from Tinkoff Credit Systems. He didn't like the terms, so he scanned the contract, rewrote it to include 0% interest, no fees, no credit limit, and penalties of up to 6 million rubles if the bank violated the terms, then signed and returned it. The bank approved the modified contract without reading it. When the bank later sued him for unpaid fees, a judge ruled the altered contract was valid and Agarkov only owed the principal. The two parties eventually settled out of court.

In 2009, a drunk New Zealander lost a poker bet and legally changed his name to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova". He only discovered the change had been approved five years later when he applied for a passport.

Former US President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) enjoyed buzzing for his Secret Service agents and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him.

There's a caterpillar that looks like Caterpie from Pokémon.

A computer programmer named Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him across the face every time he uses Facebook during working hours.

There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.

The cat featured in the popular internet meme "grumpy cat" has a permanently grumpy face due to feline dwarfism. Her real name is Tardar Sauce.

Chewing gum can make a person fart more.

Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell and received a B-.

No one really knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.