10 Interesting Facts

1. Crows can hold grudges against specific individual people.

Crows can very easily distinguish humans apart from each other, whereas humans find it nearly impossible to tell crows apart.

Fun Fact: This is known as The Crow Paradox.

2. The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.

It was discovered in Iraq in 1976, however since then the tablet has been lost, but the text remains preserved

3. 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

I know 7% doesn’t sound like a lot, but that actually works out at 16.4 million American adults.

Sounds like a lot now, right?

4. Most Korean people don’t have armpit odour.

Only 0.006% of the Korean population have the ABCC11 gene, which is the cause of armpit odour.

As a result deodorants are rarely sold in Korea.

5. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

Not only do they make plates out of wheat, but spoons, bowls, and chopsticks as well.

6. In 2011, more than 1 in 3 divorce filings in the U.S. contained the word “Facebook.”

References to social networks are on the rise when it comes to divorce cases, as well as child custody cases.

7. In June 2017, the Facebook community reached 2 billion active users.

Meaning, more than a quarter of the world’s population uses this popular social media outlet!

8. In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’s clothes.

These cameras had special lenses that use infrared light meant to be used as night vision, but it also allowed you to see through some types of clothing.

9. Pigs are very smart animals.

They are smarter than dogs, they can solve puzzles better than chimpanzees and they have some of the best long-term memories known in animals.

In fact, pigs are considered as the world’s fifth-smartest animal.

10. The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

The third Pokemon of the Hitmons is also named after a martial artist.

Hitmontop is named after a lesser known martial artist, Larry Top.