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21 Fascinating Facts You Probably Don't Know

Impress your friends with the fun kind of knowledge.

By Mizuka Ishiwatari

Published 9 years ago in Wow

Impress your friends with the fun kind of knowledge.

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1
Sleeping Beauty herself only has 18 lines of dialogue in the entire movie.

2
Facebook's theme is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is colorblind.

3
Princess Zelda was actually named after Zelda Fitzgerald.

4
Donnie Yen once beat up a gang of 8 men who were harassing him at a club; they had to be hospitalized.

5
If you pick up the tail of a kangaroo, it can't hop!

6
The black fungus that grew inside Chernobyl that eats harmful radiation is proposed as a possible dish for future astronauts.

7
The adult film "Debbie does Dallas" had a spin off as a fairly successful Broadway Musical with the same name.

8
In the Battle of Pelusium Persian soldiers held cats as they invaded Egypt because Egyptians regarded certain animals, especially cats, as being sacred and would not injure them on any account.

9
Vin Diesel broke into a Theater in New York with his brother when he was 7 with the intent of vandalizing it. When they were caught, instead of calling the police, the theater's artistic director offered them roles in an upcoming show, thus starting Diesel's acting career.

10
The Mongolians valued women in battle, and some of their women were even generals. Marco Polo wrote about the legendary Mongolian female Khutulun, who he described as a superb warrior, one who could ride into enemy ranks and snatch a captive as easily as a hawk snatches a chicken.

11
There was a bank robber who covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.

12
A London based firm has sold more than 30,000 alien abduction insurance policies throughout Europe.

13
A Swedish man named Roger Tullgren received disability benefits because of his "addiction to heavy metal," having attended nearly 300 concerts in one year.

14
The Chinese army is under the control of the Communist Party and not the national government of China.

15
A group of ferrets is called a "business".

16
United States has more people of Norwegian descent than Norway.

17
60% of grey squirrels, a non native species, in England and Wales carry the squirrel pox virus. While greys are immune to the disease it is deadly to reds. Red Squirrels are now virtually extinct in Southern England.

18
It's near impossible to get jobs in famous companies, law enforcement, government jobs, and so on for a Japanese person with tattoos. There are also many pulic bathhouses that don't allow entry to people with tattoos. It's because tattoos hold stigma within the Japanese society - tattoos are a trait of the Yakuza and can indicate whether the person is a member of the crime family or its property.

19
Americans spend more money on pets yearly than Germany spends on its entire defense budget.

20
In Mexico and the UK you can pay your taxes with artwork if you're an artist.

21
The role of April Ludgate was specifically created for Aubrey Plaza, after the casting director met her and felt she was, "weirdest girl I’ve ever met in my life."

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