Grade A Fun Facts

1.  The old phrase "raining cats and dogs" started off in 17th century England. During heavy rainstorms, homeless cats and dogs would drown and float down the street which gives off the impression it is raining cats and dogs.

2. All the planets in our solar system can fit in the distance between Earth and the moon. Goes to show how far we are from the moon.

3.  While swimming in the sea, it is more likely that you will be bitten by an American than a shark.

4. Pirates used to wear eye patches to get their eye used to the dark. When they do raids and go to the lower deck, their eyes will be used to the darkness and help them see better.

5. Koalas should be killed off by natural selection soon. The only food they eat destroys their teeth; eventually they won't have teeth and will starve.

6. You have a 50% chance of going to jail if your a governor from Illinois. You have a 40% chance of getting caught if you commit a murder in Chicago. Statistically speaking, it is safer to kill someone in Chicago than become governor in Illinois.

7. In feudal Japan, lords purposely built homes with squeaky floors as a defensive measure against ninjas.

8. Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer.
Bonus Fact: They also are the world's smallest (in size) tire manufacturer.

9. Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler were buddies. Henry Ford's Antisemitic literature inspired Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, to the point where some of Hitler's wiring were directly copied from Ford's book. Henry ford also showed the Nazis how to streamline production, and create a high volume of product using the assembly line. Hitler used this to rearm Germany before World War II. Ford was given the Iron Cross by Hitler, the highest honor a non citizen can obtain. On top of all that, Hitler kept a picture of Ford in his office.

10. The bible is the most shop lifted book.

11. There are over 56 billion legos in the world. Enough for each person to have 8 pieces.
Bonus Fact: 99% of Legos are owned by 1% of the population.

12. When the Vikings first landed in America, they gifted the leader of the natives milk. But the natives had never drank milk before, and were lactose intolerant. The leader thought this was an attempt to poison him. So to take revenge, he raided the settlement shortly after.

13.The sun makes up 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system.

14. The Great Pyramids were actually shiny like glass ~4000 years ago. Craftsman were tasked with polishing the stones to perfection.

15. Blind people forget many memories because they don't have visual imagery to reminisce.

16. In 1979, a college student only had to work about 182 hours per year in order to pay for tuition. In 2013, the average student has to work 991 hours to pay tuition.

17. When Gmail was announced by Google in 2004, it had 1GB of storage. (Hotmail offered 2Mb) 1Gb of data was so huge people thought it was an April Fool's joke.

18. Some of the crew working on American Horror Story had to leave set at times because Twisty the Clown was so scary, that other cast members would complain about nightmares after filming. Photo for reference because I have such a kind soul.

19. A man by the name of Cornealious Mike Anderson helped robbed a Burger King employee and was ordered to serve 13 years in prison. No one ever came for him, so he continued living his life in St. Louis. When the prison he was supposed to go to prepared for his release 12 years later, they realized they had never captured him at all.

20. Poombah was the first character to fart in a Disney movie. 

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1. Most Japanese schools do not employ janitors or custodians. It is expected that people clean up after themselves. This supposedly teaches respect, responsibility, and emphasizes equality.

2. Perfectionists are more likely to have suicidal thoughts because of the social pressure they feel.

3. April 11 1954 is known as the most boring day in modern history. Nothing memorable or anything of importance happened.

4. Tigers that come across each other while hunting will share their meals. Males also wait for the female and cubs to eat.
Bonus Fact: The lion is basically a polar opposite of the tiger, if lions come across each other during hunting, they will fight to the death.

5. Women tend to do slightly better then men in academics.
Bonus Fact: Despite there being very few women in engineering, science, or math careers, they also tend to do better in these classes.

6. Watermelon contains a chemical called B6, which helps relieve stress and anxiety.

7. If anyone was found brewing bad beer in ancient Babylonia was punished in two ways : drowning in their own beer or drinking their beer until they die.

8. In the top 5 things that people wish they did before they died, people wished they worked less and had more family time.


9. Children with autism can benefit from video games because it shows them self control, self awareness, and flexibility.

10. There is a tradition that a traffic cone must be put upon the Duke of Wellington's head. It costs the government about 10,000 euros each year to keep the cone on his head.

11. The longest word that can be spelled in English without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

12. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

13. There is a man named Kim Ung-Yong who began doing calculus problems at age 4 and mastered it by the grand old age of 7. He began teaching calculus to high school students when he was eight years old.

14. There are 500 different ways to cook a potato.

15. Two thirds of the human population doesn't know what their strengths are and do not know what they are good at.


16. Research has shown that singing is not a gift given at birth, but a skill that can be taught and learned. Nearly everyone has the potential to sing well.

17. Tokyo's Keikyu Aburastubo Marine Park lets visitors hold hands with the otters.

18. In March of 2015, a Georgia teen was fined for stealing a goat. The man later confessed that his intention was asking a girl if she wanted to "goat" prom with him.

19. Psychopaths are only capable of perceiving positive consequences for their actions.  This means most psychopaths aren't capable of perceiving the negative consequences.

20. A research paper from 2013 concluded that Harry Potter fans tend to be more open to diversity, more politically tolerant, less authoritarian, (favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority[simply put, they are more likely to question authority]) and less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture devices.