Facts: Some Cool, Some Disturbing, All Of Them Strange

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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM In the 18th century, you could pay your ticket to the London zoo by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions TICKETS SOURCE: factourism.com/source/pet-ticket
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    Text - FACTOURISM A teaspoon of honey is the life work of 12 bees SOURCE: factourism.com/source/teaspoon-honey
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    Line - FACTOURISM The Harvard University Library has several books bound in human skin SOURCE: factourism.com/source/books-human-skin
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    Water transportation - FACTOURISM Pepsi was of 17 Russian military submarines at one point the owner nehcu ЩУКА-5 SOURCE: factourism.com/source/pepsi-submarines
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM Some ant species developed agriculture millions of years before we did, and live on mushrooms that they cultivate themselves (m M SOURCE: factourism.com/source/farmer-ants
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    Text - FACTOURISM Cities with a higher number of Walmart stores tend to have higher crime rates Waln ert CRIME SCENE SOURCE: factourism.com/source/walmart-crimes CRIME SCENE
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    Text - FACTOURISM Prehistoric Britons used human skulls as cups SOURCE: factourism.com/source/skull-cups
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    Text - FACTOURISM Scientists have found evidence of take-out restaurants in the remains of Pompeii ZA SOURCE: factourism.com/source/roman-fast-food
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    Text - FACTOURISM If the Earth were the size of a grain of sand, the Sun would be the size of a tennis ball Earth Sun SOURCE: factourism.com/source/tennis-sun
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    Text - FACTOURISM There is a giant statue of Jesus in Poland that serves as a Wi-Fi antenna SOURCE: factourism.com/source/wifi-jesus
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    Text - FACTOURISM The oldest known customer complaint clay tablet 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia was written on a SOURCE: factourism.com/source/oldest-complaint
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    Text - FACTOURISM The man who invented pop-up ads, has officially apologised to the world SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! SKIP SO TERRIBLY SORRY SO TERRIBLY SORRY! SO TERRIBLY SORRY! SO TERRIBLY SORRY RRY! ACCEPT MY APOLOCIES ON PURPOSE ок SOURCE: factourism.com/source/pop-up-sorry
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM McDonald's has a ski-through restaurant in Sweden SOURCE: factourism.com/source/ski-through
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    Text - 50% of people admit writing down tasks they have already done on their to-do list before satisfyingly crossing them off FACTOURISM Mose-০০-d০ 2CRass Out thetasks To-do list SOURCE: factourism.com/source/done-list
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    Astronaut - FACTOURISM Humans put a man on The Moon before they put wheels on luggage Wheeled luggage 1970 Man on The Moon 1969 SOURCE: factourism.com/source/moon-luggage-wheels
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    Text - Women's voices have deepened 23 Hz over the past five decades FACTOURISM (due to gender equality!) Today Cf# 1945 A# SOURCE: factourism.com/source/women-voice-deep
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    Text - it would take over 20 years to taste them all if you ate one every day FACTOURISM There are so many varieties of apples that July 4 July 3 July 2 July 1 June 30 SOURCE: factourism.com/source/apple-varieties
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    Furniture - FACTOURISM Pablo Escobar cheated at Monopoly with his kids, hiding extra money ahead of time where he planned to sit SOURCE: factourism.com/source/escobar-monopoly
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    Line - FACTOURISM William Bullock, inventor of the web rotary press, was killed by his own invention SOURCE: factourism.com/source/mortuary-press
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    Text - FACTOURISM Steve Jobs chose the name Apple because it would be placed before Atari in the phone book SOURCE: factourism.com/source/apple-phonebook
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    Organism - FACTOURISM Trees can send secret warning signals to other trees about incoming insect attacks M SOURCE: factourism.com/source/trees-secret-signals
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    Text - FACTOURISM Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other hand at the same time SOURCE: factourism.com/source/leonardo-hands
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    Land vehicle - Self-driving cars play Grand Theft Auto to learn how to drive better FACTOURISM gRand Gheft SOURCE: factourism.com/source/self-driving-gta
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM Sea otters have pockets in their skin where they keep food and rocks for crushing seashells SOURCE: factourism.com/source/otters-pockets
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM Rabbit vision is almost 360° 360 SOURCE: factourism.com/source/rabbit-vision
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    Line - FACTOURISM Coconut water can be used as an intravenous drip instead of saline SOURCE: factourism.com/source/coconut-drip
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    Kangaroo - FACTOURISM Female kangaroos have 3 vaginas SOURCE: factourism.com/source/kangaroo-vaginas
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the faeces of predators SOURCE: factourism.com/source/dead-rabbits
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    Text - FACTOURISM You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year SOURCE: factourism.com/source/birthday-death
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM The space suits for the Moon landing were made by a lingerie brand SOURCE: factourism.com/source/space-lingerie
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    Cartoon - FACTOURISM Left-handed people tend to live shorter lives because almost everything is designed for right-handed people SOURCE: factourism.com/source/left-handed-life
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    Water - FACTOURISM Most people can hear the difference between hot and cold water when poured, just by the sound it makes COLD НOT SOURCE: factourism.com/source/hot-cold-water
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    Text - FACTOURISM An octopus actually has 6 arms and 2 legs, not 8 legs SOURCE: factourism.com/source/octopus-arms
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    Mushroom - FACTOURISM 400 million years ago, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms that were 8 metres tall MM SOURCE: factourism.com/source/mushroom-world
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    Text - FACTOURISM Some species of starfish can regenerate a whole body from a single arm SOURCE: factourism.com/source/starfish-body
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    Text - FACTOURISM Machine-spun cotton candy was invented by a dentist SOURCE: factourism.com/source/cotton-candy
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    Organism - FACTOURISM "Hello" didn't become a greeting until the telephone arrived Hello? SOURCE: factourism.com/source/hello

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