FACTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND AND PUSH YOU TO KNOW MORE

• Sate your curiosity for the world around us with these hilarious, and downright interesting facts:
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• There are more lifeworms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
• Oj Simpson was originally cast to play terminator but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
• Leonard Da Vince could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• If you were to remove all the empty space from the atom that make up every human on earth,the entire world population could fit into an apple.
• In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn’t work.
• The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
• Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
• The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has been calling out for a mate for over two decades — but whose high-pitched voice is so different to other whales that they never respond.
• Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth’s day, by moving the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us around 6.8 microseconds.
• The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.
• An epidemic of laughing that lasted almost a year broke out in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1962. Several thousand people were affected, across several villages. It forced a school to close. It wasn’t fun, though — other symptoms included crying, fainting, rashes, and pain.
• The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works. Please don’t do it, though.
• There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice. But, seriously, don’t do that either.
• In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
• A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
• A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
• Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”
• Ketchup was used as a medicine back in the 1930’s.
• Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat.
• A waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down.
•  A ten gallon hat will only hold ¾ of a gallon.
• Just like fingerprints, everyone has different tongue prints.
• ATM’s were originally thought to be failures, because the only users were prostitutes and gamblers who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.
• There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
• The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
• 68% of the universe is dark energy, and 27% is dark matter; both are invisible, even with our powerful telescopes. This means we have only seen 5% of the universe from earth.
• If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ.

The world is a weird place, after all! Do you have any weird facts you'd like to share with us – if so, please comment below. And, be sure to check out our other posts for more information to enrich your daily life, or simply for an entertaining distraction from your busy workday.