Tell me something I don't know

[Longhorn]

shouldn't be too hard, considering I'm me

A thread for random fun facts


I'll start
Otters sleep holding hands

[Nope]

The doctor who first discovered that H. Pylori was responsible for ulcers ingested H. Pylori to prove he was right.

[SteelCurtain]

In 1942, in Mississippi, there was a man called the Phantom Barber. He would break into people's houses at night and cut their hair.

[Chad32]

Pewdiepie has more followers than anyone/thing on Youtube,

[Jericho]

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

[Longhorn]

'dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'

[Jericho]

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

[Longhorn]

A group of crows is called a murder

[dahrling]

The French manicure (a.k.a "french nails") became popular after prostitutes started using white nail polish to cover the dirt beneath their nails.

[SteelCurtain]

'polish' is the only word in the english language that changes it's pronunciation if you capitalize it.