the Most Interesting Facts, Ever

If you’re anything like us, you enjoy knowing an abundance of useful(less) information. You never know when it will come in handy!

As our grandparents always told us, “Every kind of information and/or education can be helpful at some point or another.”

These days, you pick up a lot of information. You can’t turn anywhere without constantly being bombarded by facts, figures and news from the television, Internet and magazines.

No, these aren’t things you need to know, but it doesn’t hurt to be well-versed in trivia.

Usually, unless you’re going to compete in the ultimate nerd-off, where knowledge of useless facts is celebrated, these things will just sit in your memory bank waiting for their time to shine.

But who knows? Maybe the next time you’re out with your friends playing bar trivia these things will come in handy. If someone were handing out medals for knowing random junk, you’d win the gold.

Hannibal Lecter

In the movie Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter never blinks. Apparently, Anthony Hopkins watched a video of Charles Manson being interviewed and he didn’t blink. Acting at its finest.

Want to grow a beard faster?

Think about sex. Since facial hair is largely governed by the production of testosterone, even the anticipation of sex will help you grow a beard faster.

Overdosing on Chocolate

A lethal dose of chocolate is 22 pounds… or 40 Hershey bars.

Cleopatra

Apparently, she lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Giraffes

A male giraffe will headbutt a female in the bladder until she urinates, then taste her urine to determine whether she is ovulating.

Goosebumps

Dead people can still get them. Creepy.

Honey

It does not spoil. You could probably still eat 3000 year old honey if you wanted to.

McDonalds

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”

Mosquitos

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

Plastic Surgery

Worldwide, the United States undergoes the most plastic surgery procedures. Next in line is Mexico.

Porn

Surprise, surprise. For every “normal'”webpage, there are five porn pages.

Sleeping

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Southern Sea Otters

These cute creatures have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.

Turtles

Turtles can breathe through their butts.