The meat sauce pasta comes with a side of “McDo” fried chicken. McDonald’s serves spaghetti in the Philippines. Nutmeg is a hallucinogen.īecause it contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects, you can experience hallucinations if you ingest large quantities. In the 1840s, it was considered childish to smile for pictures so it became popular for people to say “prunes” instead of “cheese” in order to keep their mouths taut. People used to say “prunes” when taking pictures. Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise.Įvery 225 Earth days, Venus travels around the sun, but Venus rotates clockwise once every 243 days. It’s often used as a substitute since real wasabi is expensive. If you’ve always thought that your store-bought wasabi tastes more like horseradish, you’re probably right. This keeps them edible and ready to sell for 6 to 12 months! 19. Supermarket apples can be a year old.Īre those apples you just bought actually a year old? Maybe! Farmers often pick apples in the fall, cover them in wax, hot-air dry them, and then put them in cold storage. Wilbur and Orville Wright took the first airplane on four short flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The first airplane flight was on December 17, 1903.
This is such a disappointment, but it makes sense when you think about it! 17. Froot Loops are all the same flavor despite their different colors. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.ĭolphins need to come up for air every 10 minutes, but by slowing their heart rate, sloths can actually hold their breath for 40 minutes! 16. Here’s one of the most useful weird fun facts! If you’ve ever felt like you think better in a warm shower, you’re probably right! The warm water increases the flow of dopamine and makes us more creative. When he discovered the mixture had frozen, the “Epsicle” was born. In 1905, young Frank Epperson left water and soda powder outside overnight with a wooden stirrer in the cup. An 11-year-old a ccidentally invented i ce pops. If that wasn’t interesting enough, due to the nature of their open circulatory system, shrimp have no arteries so their organs just float around in blood! 13. Since guinea pigs are such social creatures, one guinea pig would get lonely so having just one is considered animal abuse in Switzerland. Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig.
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The Sesame Street characters were named after Bert the police officer and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Bert and Ernie’s names came from a Christmas movie. Teeth are not made of live tissue and are coated in enamel, which can’t spontaneously regenerate. Human teeth are the only part of the body that can’t heal themselves. Horrendous, tremendous, hazardous, and stupendous. Only four words in the English language end in “dous.” When the iron heats up, the tower can be up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) taller due to thermal expansion. The Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer. This is one of the weird fun facts we could do without. There’s a good chance that we will swallow 10 spiders and 70 types of insects (or more) in the course of our lifetimes.
Avocados are not vegetables.Īvocados are fruits because they are single-seeded berries.
In Celtic mythology, the fictional creature is connected with both chivalry and dominance as well as purity and innocence. Scotland chose the unicorn as its national animal. Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times. Headphones can increase the bacteria in your ears. The moon sits at 3,400 kilometers (2,113 miles) in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4,000 km (2,485 miles).
We’ve put together this list of weird fun facts to surprise and amaze everyone in your classroom. Where’s a shrimp’s heart located? How did Bert and Ernie get their names? What’s a nurdle? Finding the answers to these questions and more will leave your classroom shook.
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