Weird Facts

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.

In 1977, a 13-year-old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.

There are scrolls from the Edo period of Japan that suggest fart battles took place. The drawings show men blasting farts at other men, women, and even a cat.

Cherophobia is the fear of happiness — sufferers actively avoid joyful experiences because they believe something bad will follow.

Larry Walters tied 42 weather balloons to his lawn chair and rose to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles.

In 1992, a cargo ship spilled 28,800 rubber bath toys into the Pacific Ocean. Some were found in Alaska 10 months later, while others traveled over 17,000 miles and washed up on Atlantic shores 15 years later, helping scientists study ocean currents.

Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.

Sago worms taste like bacon when roasted.

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

In 15th-century Ottoman Turkey, a woman could legally divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with enough coffee.

Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!

Collect seven or nine different flowers on midsummer eve and place them under your pillow and it is said that you will dream of your future spouse. (Sweden)

It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.

Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.

In surveys about fears and phobias, more people report being afraid of spiders than death.

It would take about 17,000 McDonald's strawfuls of water to fill a 34-gallon bathtub.

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.

Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.

The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!

Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.

Researchers find new emperor penguin colonies by looking for their poop from a satellite in space.

Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!