Mind Blowing Facts

A Swedish man survived for over two months in a snowbound car in temperatures as low as -22F (-30C), relying on the igloo effect to retain warmth, eating snow, and staying inside his warm clothes...

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When “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it was heavily booed by the audience. Ed Norton recalled that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said, “That’s ...

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In 2005, the Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer.” In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. Th...

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GPS, which is free for global use, costs approximately $1.84 billion per year for maintenance and operation, which is financed by American taxpayers. (source )

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Ancient Greeks voted to kick politicians out of Athens if enough people didn’t like them. (source )

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In January 2007, a woman was refused entry to the UK because an immigration official couldn’t believe her reason for visiting - that she wanted to have a week’s holiday in Gateshead. source...

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In 1988, Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives, jumped from the plane for his third dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachut...

https://weird-facts.org/post/747757577140584448

mindblowingfactz : > Dolphins have been known to protect humans when they’re in > trouble. A California surfer was once being attacked by a shark when > a group of d...

https://weird-facts.org/post/747717921029177344

There’s a Japanese water beetle that, when eaten by a frog, will travel through its digestive system and escape out the back end alive and unharmed.

https://weird-facts.org/post/740675571629080576

A convenience store hanging on a cliff has been nicknamed “the most inconvenient convenience store” in China.

https://weird-facts.org/post/740592364083707904

International Shooting Union barred women from shooting with men in 1993 after Zhang Shan won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

https://weird-facts.org/post/740584051126222848

A death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitio...

https://weird-facts.org/post/735979886398865408

In 1963, a 16-year-old sent a 4-question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English tutor that writers don’t intentionally add symbolic content to t...

https://weird-facts.org/post/735796985924304896

In 1991, a teenage cheerleader’s mother tried to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter’s cheerleading rival. She thought if the rival’s mother was killed, she would be too sad to...

https://weird-facts.org/post/735792397915734016

mindblowingfactz : > When General Motors unveiled the Camaro name in 1966, the automotive > press asked Chevrolet product managers, “What is a Camaro?” and > were tol...

https://weird-facts.org/post/733255304852144128

mindblowingfactz : > Union Army general John Sedgwick once said to his men under enemy > fire: “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an > elephant at t...

https://weird-facts.org/post/733249262180270080

mindblowingfactz : > A study found that America’s poor can’t afford money-saving > habits like buying in bulk or timing their purchases to take > advantage of sales.

https://weird-facts.org/post/733212744667512832

mindblowingfactz : > In 1958, two pilots flew an aircraft for more than two months > without landing, refueling by matching speed with a truck driving > down a road. T...

https://weird-facts.org/post/730080389919588352

Those who pay off their credit card balance each month are known as “deadbeats” in the financial world.

https://weird-facts.org/post/729273106314690560

Many haunted houses have been investigated and found to contain high levels of carbon monoxide or other poisons, which can cause hallucinations. The carbon monoxide theory explains why haunted ho...

https://weird-facts.org/post/729269133633568768