21 Unbelievable Facts You Didn’t Know That Will Literally Make Your Head Explode

Do you think you know a lot? That’s how I thought I was when I discovered that there were at least 21 strange and incredible things I didn’t know about the world. These bizarre events blew my mind, and I think the same will happen to you.

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1. Bubble wrap was invented to be a wall wallpaper

Bubble wrap

2. Less than 1% of Antarctica’s surface is ice-free

Penguins in Antarctica

3. A Relentless Pursuit

Loch Ness Monster

A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster was completely unsuccessful, but scientists found at least 100,000 golf balls

4. To mislead the enemy

Koala Arrested

Koalas have their fingerprints so similar to those of humans that even experts could easily get confused at a crime scene

5. Have you suffered from sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia?

Cat with brain freeze

The scientific name for frozen brain is sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia

6. Babies Don’t Recognize the Taste of Salt Until They’re 4 Months Old

Baby Eating

7. Easter Island Heads Have Bodies Too!

Easter Island Head

8. Don’t Fall Asleep!

Pin on Chinese Soldier

In China, they put pins on the military to make them stand firm and vigilant

9. I Have a Feeling They Made a Bad Decision

Google Logo

The creators of the renowned company Google were going to sell it for less than $1 million in 1999, but their offer was rejected

10. Kool-Aid started out as Fruit Smack

Kool Aid Man

11. You Didn’t Know

Image of a platypus

The only mammal that does not have a belly button is the platypus, as they lay eggs

12. Impressed?

Map of Qatar

Qatar is the only country that begins with the letter “Q”, and Iraq is the only one that ends with the same

13. Paris only has one “Stop” sign in the entire city

High Sign City of Paris

14. He changed his name to annoy phone agents

Man holding a credential

Now his name is Tim Pppppppppppprice

15. Blood travels through the body more than a thousand times a day

red blood cells

16. To cook an egg in the sun, you would need 70°C

Egg lying on the road

17. Barry Manilow wrote State Farm’s “Lika a Good Neighbor” jingle

Cat Meme

18. Almost 10% of the bones in a cat’s body are in its tail

Cat's Tail Image

19. This Gives You Perspective

An orange

If the earth shrunk to the size of a grain of sand, the sun would be the size of an orange

20. Prairie Dogs Greet Each Other By Kissing

Prairie dogs kissing

21. Mr. Clean in France is known as Mr Propre

Mr Propre

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