Random Weird Facts

    212 facts tagged with Weird Facts

    Swimming Pigs
    Swimming Pigs
    There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Giant Anteater
    Giant Anteater
    Giant Anteaters' front legs look like a panda.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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    A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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    Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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    Japanese Closet Squatter
    Japanese Closet Squatter
    In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.
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