I Love Weird Facts Stories of Experiences (Page 53)

The first toy advertised on T.V. was Mr. Potato Head (1952)

Mr. Potato Head was originally arms, legs, eyebrows and hair that kids pushed into a real potato borrowed from the kitchen. The plastic body came in 1964. Mr. Potato Head's...

The other day some boys I know had to do a presentation for us all and they did it on facts. So, Bryn brought in a sheet of facts containing:
If man evolved from monkeys and apes. . . why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Is ...

Found this on the net - have no idea how true it is......
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was...

Turns out the public health truism that exercising will make you lose weight is unsubstantiated in scientific tests. The idea got picked up in public health circles in the 50's and 60's and became first policy and then accepted doctrine...

I am really random and  love weird facts because they make me laught and well my friends expect me to say something weird......what ever gave tham that idea?
maybe it is because i say stuff like "eye give you the evil I"...

> > THE YEAR 1907
> >
> > This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
> > The year is 1907.
> > One hundred years ago.
> > What a difference a century makes!
> >...

Would you call it mind control?

There's a parasite, Toxoplasma, that lives in the guts of cats. But the eggs of the parasite are shed by the cat and picked up by rats, which become infected by the parasite. How do the eggs get back...

...only 10% are human.

Doesn't that make you feel just a little squiggly inside, all those hitchhikers along for the ride, outnumbering us 9 to 1?

...only 10% are human.

Doesn't that make you feel just a little squiggly inside, all those hitchhikers along for the ride, outnumbering us 9 to 1?

I just heard something I found really interesting. I always was quite scared of being buried alive and waking up in the coffin. I always wanted to be burned after I was dead because of that. Now I heard that the writer Hans Christian...

i know some people would feel some way about this article. but you know i don't really say certain things without having some kind of proof or fact to go with it.september 11 2001 was a tough time for every one  even me.it was...

In my life i have always! thought and asked the most random weird questions that nobody would ever think about or even know how to answer.
like for instance just today i asked how they get the phone cord to be ringed iono how else to...

do you think most people who love weird facts are people who often get weird, random thoughts? i think so...
at work today i had a random thought..."where did the term 'cold feet' originate from?"
i leave that with you...

I love weird facts.  Really.  However, I think there is a big difference between genuinely interesting and little-known trivia and the kind of drivel that gets circulated around on the internet and isn't even true a lot of the...

Count every " F " in the following text: 
 FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW) 

HOW MANY ?
WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no...

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the...

The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.
When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish...

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton..

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

4. A raisin dropped in a glass...

I'm always saying some random off-the-wall fact that causes me to receive strange looks from people. When I was younger, a friend's mother called me "a plethora of useless information" and that has stuck, seeing as many of my...

The buck stops here
This phrase was popularized by president Harry Truman who kept a sign with the phrase inscribed on his desk and is a rebuttal to the older phrase "Pass the buck".
The media interpreted Harry's sign to...