23 Random Facts To Make Your Day More Interesting
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23 Random Facts To Make Your Day More Interesting

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23 Random Facts To Make Your Day More Interesting
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Here are some random facts to make your day more interesting! If you're ever feeling bored, sad, angry, happy...actually, any emotion really, just take a look at this list. Really. Read it. These random facts could one day save your life, like if you are someday caught in an obscure fact contest, and you have to win in order to survive. You know. It could happen. So read on!

1. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

Get in better shape while punishing yourself for something embarrassing you might have done...and signing up for a concussion test...

2. May 29 is officially “Put a pillow on your fridge day."

Your fridge needs a good night's rest sometimes too.

3. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.

4. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out.

Would you look at that grin?

5. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

Get your scuba gear on!

6. In England, in the 1880’s, “pants” was considered a dirty word.

Hmmm...

7. March 20 is known as Snowman Burning Day!

Bet you didn't know this was possible!

8. An apple, potato and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.


9.The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.

I'm unsure if this is a good or bad sign for humanity...

10. Studies show that sandwiches actually taste better when other people make them for you—when we make food, we get desensitized to the smell.

11. When hippos are upset, their sweat becomes red.


12. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Well, isn't that ironic.


13. Turtles can breathe through their butts.


14. Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.


15. There is a "Hug Me" Coca-Cola machine in Singapore, which gives you a can of Coke each time you hug it.


16. When you wake up around 2 or 3 a.m. without any reason, there's an 85 percent chance that someone is staring at you.

That's right. Have a nightmare about that thought now. Have fun in that paradox.


17. According to some old myths, birth marks show where you got killed in your last life.

This is slightly alarming.


18. It's impossible to say "good eye might" without sounding Australian.


19. If you search 241543903 in google images, you will find alot of pictures of people sticking their heads in refrigerators.

I wonder who discovered this...


20. Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck.

You never know, they could be watching from afar.


21. The most used line in the movies is let's get out of here.


22. It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.

That owl never could figure it out.


23. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

That's right. You have to start counting inedible objects on your diet chart now.


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