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I was stationed at South Pole in December of 2015. At station midnight on Dec 31st, I went out to the geographic pole marker alone. Because of this, I like to tell people I was the first person to reach the South Pole in 2016….
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Whenever my daughter has to tell a “fun fact” on the first day of school she says she was named after Thomas Jefferson. He was named a long time ago and she was named after him.
Over 99% of German Shepards are dogs.
Platpuses are not only mammals that lay eggs and have venom, but they also make milk without having nipples. They sweat the milk out of their belly and make a bowl shape for their babies to lap it up.
the papal conclave (the vote thingy to decide who’s pope) in 1294 took so long that some hermit dude named Pietro sent a letter telling the cardinals to hurry the fk up or God is gonna smite their holy aes. The cardinals (who were also lowkey fed up of fighting between themselves) were like ‘ok then, you should be Pope. We shall now call you Celestine the Fifth.’ And Pietro was like ‘oh st’. He ran away. The other cardinals were like ‘no, Celestine, don’t do that,’ and crowned him. Pietro spent a few months then made a decree saying ‘popes can resign, also stop calling me Celestine for f*s sake’ then ran away. then the cardinals threw him in prison and he died. Poor bastard.
The inventor of match.com’s wife left him for someone she met on match.com.
More of a rhetorical question:Who’s the evil bastard who put an “s” in the word LISP?
Due to the shape of the North American elk’s esophagus, even if it could speak, it could not pronounce the word lasagna.
Virtually all honey found in stores has been diluted with corn syrup, and is one of the biggest agricultural scams of all time. And all the “big brand” honey comes from India, and average 10% corn syrup.It’s been that way for years, but it’s only recently gotten enough traction for the US govt. to start investigating.Always buy your honey from a guy with a bee suit.
Wholesome fact: Male mantises mate for life.
One time I plugged a USB cable in correctly on the first try.Edit: I am 100% lying. This never happened but it’s my go to fact to get a laugh. Then I say I like dogs or something like that.
The government is hiding a billion pounds of cheese in a cave in Missouri.
The average cloud weighs a million pounds.
I have 120+ first cousins.Answering a couple questions…These are direct first cousins.The older siblings had 10-14 kids each. The younger seem to have figured out either birth control or self control.My mom and her siblings all had the same mom and dad.My dad and his siblings all had the same mom and dad.
The Eiffel Tower can grow six inches in the summer sun.
I start talking about sleep apnea, then I call my cpap mask a strap on.
The world’s largest tire manufacturer is Lego.
So if you are at dinner, and there is a bottle of A1 sauce on the table. Look at the label, on the front it states “Est. 1862.” 1862 was the bloodiest year of the American Civil War. Somebody out there in the middle of the war was like you know what we need right now? Some STEAK SAUCE!*this is from a comedian but I can’t remember who. so props to that guy for noticing because it’s hilarious.
Cold coffee and warm beer have the same temperature.
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Due to the Migratory Bird Act, it is generally more illegal to own bird bones than it is to own human bones.
7 years ago I became an ordained minister for the sole purpose of having a “fun fact”. I’ve not used my ordination once.In 3 weeks I’m the officiant for my sister’s wedding.
Lawrence Sperry - the man who invented autopilot for the airplane - also invented the mile high club.
The Dutch once did a genocide so they’d have a nutmeg monopoly. It used to be worth more than gold. Now every household has some that’s often forgotten somewhere in our spice cabinet.
Gary Numan is a couple of weeks older than Gary Oldman.Also Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams share the same birthday.
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John Wilkes Booth’s brother saved Abraham Lincoln’s son’s life a few weeks before the Lincoln assassination.
In Great Britain from the 1500s until 1901 there was a position in the royal household of official royal buttwiper. It was a Knighted position. Amongst all of the knights who had fought many battles there was that one guy whose sole function was to wipe the Kings a*s every day.
The largest icebreakers in the world are nuclear powered, and in 1977 one of them broke its way though the arctic ice all the way to the North Pole.
“Well, Pac-man was originally called Puck-man. They changed it because.. Not because Pac-man looks like a hockey puck. “Paku Paku” means “flap your mouth”, and they were worried that people would change, scratch out the P turn it into an F, like..”.
With the character Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will is short for William.But with the actor Will Smith, Will is short for Willard.
My grandfather used to take over the machinist work station for the guy believed to be The Boston Strangler at the end of his shift.
The suffix “wich” is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “place that has salt.” English towns with the suffix used to be salt producers.
The human brain named itself.
To help understand money amounts…a million seconds is roughly 9 days. A billion is 32 years…..Years!!Edit: it’s actually 11 days as I was corrected, but I think the huge difference between the two is still understood.
I know what it sounds like for an airplane you’re in to completely lose power 5k feet above the ground.Edit: grammar.
As a bartender, I had a regular who would send a corn dog (cheapest item on our menu, food or drink) to cute girls at the other end of the bar. If they ate the corn dog, he had an opener. If they rejected the corn dog, he knew they sucked and he was only out $2.50.
Your bellybutton is your original mouth.
Lightning McQueen’s real name is Montgomery.
I just ask “how many Wu-Tang Clan members can you name”.
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