20 random facts you wouldn't come across
13.10.2017
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Well, here are the most random and yet mind-boggling facts for you! Enjoy them!
1. Trailers used to be shown after the film. This is why they're called "trailers".
Things changed because people tended to leave after the film ended.
2. Avocados, pumpkins, bananas and watermelons are technically berries.
3. Actually, the well-known doll Barbie has her full name. It's Barbara Millicent Roberts.
4. The Tic tac is labeled as "sugar free" though it contains sugar. They are able to get away with it as each one has less than 0.5 grams of sugar.
5. 177 147 ways to tie a neck tie have been determined by Swedish mathematics.
6. You can sweeten a pineapple by adding some salt.
7. Matches were invented 3 years after lighters.
8. Among more than 20 000 species of bees, only 7 are honey bees.
9. There is 99% of the total amount of gold inside of the Earth core.
10. In order to supply the whole world with toilet paper, 127 000 trees are chopped everyday.
11. You can fold a 0.1 millimeter sheet of paper more than 7 times.
12. Buttermilk is the liquid that remains after churning butter. It doesn't contain butter.
13. Peanuts are not nuts, they are legumes.
14. Oreos took the idea from the cookie brand "Hydrox". Though many people believe that it happened vice versa.
15. A baby rabbit can also be technically called a "kitten".
16. Strawberries are not berries from the botanic point of view. They are aggregate accessory fruits.
17. There is more gold on the Earth than platinum.
18. The chainsaw was invented for surgery: to widen the pelvis during childbirth.
19. No one knows who invented the fire hydrant as the original patent was lost in fire.
20. Invented by an Irish physician, chocolate milk was sold as medicine in the United Kingdom.
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112 Comments
Ray Zagata
# 18 ouch
Savagemama
Ray Zagata, yeah! No kidding!!
Caroline Weis
Boy I'm glad they don't use chainsaws in the maternity ward.
Gail Cusack
I would like to see how a tie is tied 177147 ways! Sad so many trees are cut daily for toilet paper. As for the chainsaw - really??? Undoubtedly a male invention!
Vimala Padmaraj
NO: 19 IS REALLY IRONIC. THE FIRE BURNT THE PAPERS.
Taunia Lee Berg
Ray Zagata, I cringed when I read that one!
wendy absolom
Hard to believe the chainsaw one! Glad I wasn't around then!!
lmoores
Oh well if medicinal I'll just have to drink it up 🤣🤣.
dmarkc
Gerald Barnett, you don't know if we are?
dmarkc
KUNDUR N REDDY , more likely used to prevent childbirth.
Cindy Ursan
Really interesting!!! Thanks for sharing!
Laura Herendeen
KUNDUR N REDDY, google it, look it up. It was absolutely was invented for childbirth. I’m just glad the advancement of medicine realized that it wasn’t a good thing.
rldominik
Thank you, I knew a few, was astonished by some and enjoyed them all.
James Klingenberg
Thanks for the smarts.
loreilly
Glad the use of chainsaws didn't work out!! OUCH
Louise Ramsey
Interesting! Did not know these!
KUNDUR N REDDY
Of all the things, the chainsaw was invented for surgery to widen the pelvis during childbirth is absolutely rubbish I think
Nure Jahan
Li me it very muc' h