The thing about unusual trivia is that you don't actually need to know it -- it's not essential for any tests, you won't need it to get a job, and your life certainly never depends on it. However, weird trivia is important to learn for one reason only: It's super entertaining.
Below are 30 fascinating and utterly bizarre facts from across the world and throughout the decades. Some of them are a little bit disturbing, while others will simply leave you scratching your head. No, you don't have to take the time to read these weird and wonderful tidbits of trivia -- but your brain is going to be much better off if you do.
#1. For many generations, a family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky. They were thought to have gained their blue skin through a combination of inbreeding and a genetic condition called methemoglobinemia.
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#2. Witzelsucht is a rare neurological condition that results in uncontrollable tendency to tell puns, inappropriate jokes, and/or pointless or irrelevant stories at inappropriate times.
#3. Shakira was rejected from the school choir because the teacher thought she sounded like a goat.
#4. The world's oldest divorcees are Antonio and Rosa C, divored after 77 years of marriage. Antonio is 99, and Rosa C. is 96.
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#5. On an old episode of The Price Is Right, a contestant was offered a "bonus prize:" An elephant. The real gift was supposed to be about $4,000, but the contestant insisted on the elephant. Eventually, he got it.
#6. Piss from maned wolves smells like marijuana. In fact, police once got a call about someone smoking pot at the Rotterdam Zoo, only to find out the smell was coming from the wolves.
#7. If you search for "askew" in Google, the content on the page will tilt slightly to the right.
#8. Some of the dinosaur noises in "Jurassic Park" were made from recordings of tortoise sex.
#9. Many expensive perfumes contain whale feces.
#10. Falling in love produces a similar response in the human brain as addiction.
#11. The most expensive bag to sell at auction sold at Christie's in Hong Kong. It went for $221,844, and was a pink crocodile Hermès Birkin studded with diamonds.
#12. When the Queen of England dies, no comedy programming on BBC will be aired for 12 days.
#13. Until the twenties, there was an old English occupation known as a “Knocker-Upper." The person went from client to client, tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they were awake. Think of it as the human alarm clock.
#14. Nine out of ten individuals in the United States are living with moderately decreased kidney function.
#15. Viagra will keep cut flowers standing up straight for as long as a week longer than normal -- something to think about next time you grab a bouquet.
#16. With 800 languages represented, New York is the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
#17. "Anatidaephobia" is defined as the irrational fear that you're being watched by a duck.
#18. If you inhale a pea, it can actually sprout and grow in your lungs.
#19. Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand is the steepest street in the world.
#20. If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could actually fit into a space as small as an apple.
#21. Netflix uses incognito warehouses and unmarked trucks for security purposes.
#22. Humans can actually inflate balloons with their ears.
#23. A child that was Bart's age when The Simpson's first premiered would now be the same age as Homer.
#24. After Chernobyl, many radioactive boars have been documented wandering around Germany.
#25. Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack are widely credited with helping end segregation in Las Vegas, by refusing to perform in venues that wouldn't allow black people.
#26. There's a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice so they can use accurate science in their films.
#27. Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
#28. An emperor penguin in the middle of a huddle can warm its body temperature to about 99.5°F, despite the frigid air around it.
#29. Africa is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres and the only to have land on the prime meridian and the equator.
#30. Within days of first appearing on social media, Grumpy Cat had earned so much money for his owner that she was able to quit her job as a waitress.
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