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Bizarre Facts That Are So Weird You’ll Be Thinking About Them All Day

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By Nathan Johnson

Published 9 years ago in Wow

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The condition in which people have a fear of bellybuttons is called omphalophobia. Omphalos means navel in Greek.

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In 1875, 13 people died of alcohol poisoning after a brewery caught fire. The fire had caused wooden casks to burst open, resulting in whiskey flowing through the streets. Some men reportedly used their boots to scoop up the free liquor.

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It is mind boggling for us to think that a USB memory stick is more powerful than the computers that helped guide the Apollo spacecraft to the moon, but it proves how even the most basic forms of technology have made a world of difference.

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Marissa Mayer currently serves as the CEO at Yahoo. During her time at Google, she worked up to 130 hours per week. She credits the success of these companies to "really hard work."

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Before forming Nirvana, Kurt Cobain dropped out of Weatherwax High School and later worked there as a janitor.

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Louis Armstrong observed his birthday on July 4 and claimed that he was born in the year 1900, but his actual birthdate is August 4, 1901. The New York Times hinted at poetic license as the reason for this discrepancy.

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Adultery is considered a crime in Qatar, even when it comes to rape cases. This year, a Dutch woman was convicted of the crime, given a fine for being drunk outside a licensed location, and jailed after reporting that she had been raped.

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Former cult leader and criminal Charles Manson was sold to a woman that wanted children for a pitcher of beer by his own mother. His uncle had to find and retrieve him.

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The acronym for CAPTCHA is "Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart."

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Did you know that a hippopotamus can swallow a man whole?

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The process of tanning leather in Victorian London involved excrements. Collectors would search the streets for dog feces, items that were referred to by the colloquial term 'pure', before carting it off to the leather workers.

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One inmate filed a $5 million lawsuit against himself under the claim that he had violated his own civil rights when he got arrested. In addition, he wanted the state to pay because of his lack of income as a ward of the state. The judge called his approach innovative but ludicrous before dismissing the lawsuit.

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We might compare someone with a short attention span to goldfish, but a study in Canada reveals that humans have a shorter attention span than goldfish today! Goldfish have an attention span of 9 seconds and thanks to the use of smartphones, people now have an average attention span of 8 seconds.

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If you are familiar with Korean culture, you already know this one. Koreans are already considered a year old at the time of their birth. When it comes to age, it doesn't matter when your birthday is. Everyone turns a year older on New Year's Day.

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Hylophobia is the fear of forests, trees, or wood. Hylo, as you may have guessed, translates as wood or forest in Greek.

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When Michael Phelps was heading into middle school, he was an easy target for bullies because of his protruding ears and ADHD. Today, he is considered the most decorated Olympian of all time.

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Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, was built 300 years before the pyramids.

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Tigers hunt at night. This is because their night vision is six times better than that of a human. Their ability to identify shapes is much greater than their color vision, which isn't much useful in the dark anyway.

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Why can't we remember much about when we were a baby? We have more suggestions of what happened in our childhood than actual memories because the hippocampus is under developed at the time.

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Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khada, a 59-year-old Dubai man, survived a near death experience after an Emirates airplane crash landed and caught fire. He won a 1 million dollar lottery 6 days later with a ticket he had purchased on the way to the airport.

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In 2014, 8.5% of adults around the world were living with diabetes, nearly twice the amount reported 30 years before.

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In 2000, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that banned interracial marriage.

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Army ants build bridges by linking their bodies together in order to create shortcuts and fill in any gaps when traveling across rainforests.

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You can run for president as long as you're at least 35 years old, a born citizen that has resided in the U.S. for 14 years. Nevada resident Santa Claus received 670 votes in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, according to the Green Papers. His choice running mate? Tracy Chapman.

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A 12-year-old Florida student discovered that 70 percent of the time, ice from fast food restaurants contained more bacteria than the restaurant's toilet water. This is because toilets are regularly cleaned while ice machines are not.

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Before Steve Harvey made it, he was homeless for 3 years. During that time, he slept in his Ford Tempo and survived on a diet consisting mainly of bologna sandwiches.

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The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published a report revealing that the average Chinese consumer is willing to pay more for an American made product. Nearly half would choose the U.S. version over a Chinese-made alternative.

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We didn't see the first modern bra until the late 19th century. Before that, women used articles of clothing referred to in some medieval primary sources as 'breast bags' or 'shirts with bags.'

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Just how popular is Pokemon Go? App development platform Sensor Tower estimates that Pokemon Go has earned over $200 million in global net revenue.

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