Weird Facts
Facts that are weird, strange, and generally offbeat. Trivia in this category will raise an eyebrow or two.
In London, there is a public toilet on a busy side walk that’s made of 1-way mirrors.
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In 2007, a woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel married the Eiffel Tower.
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Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages to explain in the three volume work “Principia Mathematica”.
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According to the Outlawz, after Tupac was cremated, his ashes were mixed with marijuana and smoked by the members of the rapper's former group.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and ended up as real news in China.
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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
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There is a man who claims to have travelled to an alternate dimension in which The Beatles never broke up and brought back a mix tape of Beatles songs no one in this dimension has ever heard.
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There's a company in Switzerland called Algordanza that will turn your ashes into a diamond for your family.
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The 'Bicycle Tree', found near Brig o' Turk in Scotland, has consumed an entire bike that now hangs out of its bark.
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In Mechanicsburg, Ohio, an avid 82-year-old biker has been buried atop his prized Harley-Davidson in a see-through coffin.
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A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women.
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Australian Graham Barker has been collecting his own belly button fluff every day since 1984 - keeping it in storage jars.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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As many as 62% of Iceland's population think it is possible that elves may exist.
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There is actually a superhero called “normalman.” He was the only person without superpowers on a planet full of superheroes.
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The smallest park in the world is a two-foot circle in Portland, Oregon.
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There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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