101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts Quotes

“5. A polar bear's liver is poisonous – by vitamins. In various cultures, pork or chicken liver is considered a delicacy, due to its taste and nutritious value. The same is true for liver of some wild animals, such as boars or deer. However, eating a polar bear's liver will most likely kill an average human – but not due to its poison. Polar bears have liver that is rich in vitamin A, containing 24,000 – 35,0000 IU (international units) per gram. For humans, a tolerable upper limit is 10,000 IU, while doubling this amount will result in first symptoms of hypervitaminosis (vitamin toxicity). Tripling the amount, which is normal for polar bears (who are immune to such hypervitaminosis), would result in death.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“2. A sea cucumber will vomit its intestines when threatened.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“76. Two men, one heart – one widow?! It was over the news around the end of 2010s – a man called Sonny Graham, 57 at the time, had received a heart transplantation which saved his life. The heart had belonged to Terry Cottle, an adopted father of two, and a husband of a woman named Cheryl, who had taken his life at the age of 33. Here is where things got creepy. Mr. Graham suddenly changed some of his life habits, including his food and drink preferences, which now strangely matched Mr. Cottle's. On top of that – he fell in love with Cheryl, Mr. Cottle's widow. Soon after, they married. However, there was no happy ending to this story. 13 years later, Sonny Graham, who had previously never displayed any signs of mental or emotional instability, took his life as well – in much the same way as late mr. Cottle did. So who says our brain is our only thing responsible for our thoughts and emotions?”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“Most hackers are good guys.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“7. The monstrous rats of Tehran In Tehran, Iran, a squad of snipers is employed to protect citizens from – rats! Do not think for a single moment that such rats could be easily dealt with by a domestic cat, because the poor cat may this time end up having its rear side kicked big time. The official statement is that the rats were exposed to radiation, which resulted in a severe genetic mutation. They now grow up to over 5 kilograms (10 pounds), and are just as cunning, aggressive and always hungry as the small sewer rats we have all seen. Although there is a disagreement to their origins within the scientific community, there is really no evidence that would point to an explanation where the ravenous, overgrown rodents came from. Good thing they are not skilled in the far-eastern martial arts… we hope.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“The Dark Side of the Internet”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“Church websites are, on average, more often infected by viruses than any other.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“The Earth is not completely round.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“Fish with human teeth”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“Komodo dragon's mouth is cleaner than our own”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“64. Are snowflakes exactly unique? We are terribly sorry to burst anyone's bubble here. Seeing both claims numerous times (i.e. “every snowflake is unique” vs. “no snowflake is unique”), we feel this needs clarification. Also, the truth is far more interesting, let alone weird than you may think. First of all, we do recognize 35 basic snowflake shapes today. But those are merely templates upon which actual snowflakes are built. Secondly, it is clear that microscopic snowflakes and snow crystals (i.e. water crystals) can be identical. However, what we see with our bare eyes are complex snowflakes, which are composed of a large number of such crystals. Interestingly enough, those crystals grow in fractals, beautiful shapes described by complex mathematical functions. But most mind-staggering part here is the probability of two snowflakes being identical. When we crunch the numbers on this, every complex snowflake can have one of many – very many – combinations. In fact, the number of these combinations is larger than the total number of atoms in the known universe. Thus, it is extremely unlikely you will see two identical snowflakes. Ever.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“64. Are snowflakes exactly unique? We are terribly sorry to burst anyone's bubble here. Seeing both claims numerous times (i.e. “every snowflake is unique” vs. “no snowflake is unique”), we feel this needs clarification. Also, the truth is far more interesting, let alone weird than you may think. First of all, we do recognize 35 basic snowflake shapes today. But those are merely templates upon which actual snowflakes are built. Secondly, it is clear that microscopic snowflakes and snow crystals (i.e. water crystals) can be identical. However, what we see with our bare eyes are complex snowflakes, which are composed of a large number of such crystals. Interestingly enough, those crystals grow in fractals, beautiful shapes described by complex mathematical functions.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“60. Does 1+1=2 need proof? The answer is yes. Evidently, it is not enough for some things to be “just plain obvious”. Exact scientific disciplines, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology etc. require solid proof for claims which are made, and only then can they be considered “facts” or “scientific theories” - otherwise, they are just called “hypotheses”, and can be both proven and disproven. Such is the example of the statement that one plus one equals two. The three-volume book titled Principia Mathematica, written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russel, dedicates no less than 162 pages to the proof of this statement. Until then, “1+1=2” was considered an axiom in mathematics, a fact which cannot be proven, but has practical application, it is “obvious” to see, and its assumption “makes sense with everything else we know”.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“59. We eat insects on a daily basis. Sure, there are cultures where insects are either presented as a delicacy, especially to rich tourists. There are also cultures where insects are one of the most important source of vital nutrients, such as proteins. But would you believe you eat insects even in the Western culture? Evidently, there is no 100% certain way to remove insects out of natural foods, such as meat – especially ground meat – and vegetables. Most of these foods were insect-infested even before they were harvested, and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration in the United States of America) allows a certain portion of insects in every single food product. For example, it is allowed to have up to 60 insect parts (leg bits, wing parts, etc.) in 100 grams of chocolate! On average, a person living in the Western world eats between 400 and 450 whole insects per year – which is around 1.1 – 1.25 insects daily. This would go a long way to explain why some foods have a certain crunchy quality to them.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“48. There is a fear for nearly everything. Sure, there is acrophobia (fear of high places), agoraphobia (fear of open spaces), claustrophobia (fear of closed spaces), as well as homophobia and xenophobia (both essentially meaning “being a bad person”, rather than some actual fear). However, did you know that George Washington suffered from taphephobia (fear of being buried alive)? Richard Nixon, on the other hand, had nosocomephobia (he was afraid of hospitals), while Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from ailurophobia (irrational fear of cats). Comedian Woody Allen might be the most peculiar of all – he suffers from panophobia, which is fear of virtually everything. Heights, bright colors, insects, elevators, closed spaces… you name it, mr. Allen is afraid of it – or at least was at one time. He is under psychoanalysis since 1970s. And since we're talking about psychoanalysis, none other than Sigmund Freud was supposedly afraid of ferns.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“44. Paper money is not paper. Take a piece of paper and print (or just write) something on it. Now fold it a few times, place it in your hind pocket, sit on it, take it out, fold and re-fold it some more. How long do you think this piece of paper will last? Will it live up to a month, or even a year? How much do you think will it take before it becomes illegible? In order to make American Dollars last longer, they are printed on cloth, rather than paper. 75% of a dollar bill is cotton, while 25% is linen. This cloth mixture is far more durable than plain paper – life expectancy of an average $1 bill is almost six years. On the other hand, an average $100 bill can live up to 15 years.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“43. How much does it cost to make a dollar? American dollars, like all printed money, start out as pieces of paper and ink used to print the value on them. Printing money is a complex process, which uses special paper and ink, along with a number of security measures which prevent conunterfeiting. Taking mass production into account, and the fact that nobody will ever print a single dollar bill, but a large number of them in a bulk, the printing price may come up surprisingly cheap. It costs less than 10 cents to print a $1 bill. A mere 10 cents per dollar bill is enough to cover the industry expenses. To make things weirder, making coins is much more expensive – forging a penny costs just a bit under $0.025 (2.5 cents). A real bargain is, of course a $100 bill – it costs exactly the same as a $1 bill.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“33. Most hackers are good guys. When we say “hacker”, the first thing that comes to mind is a nerdy guy in his garage or basement, staring at his computer for at least a few dozen hours straight, breaking into some computer network and making thousands – or millions – of dollars of damage. Luckily, “hacker” is a much broader term. Some people do not even limit it to computer hacking. By definition, a “hack” is “an intelligent solution to an interesting problem”, and most hackers are actually in it just for exploring. Through exploring, they find holes in computer systems, and most of them will report those holes and propose patches for them, rather than exploiting them for their own selfish goals. The selfish ones are actually a minority, while the majority of them are in fact the so-called white-hat hackers, who make a living from preventing disasters, rather than causing them. And even hackers which deal with illegal activities are nowadays rather busy with harassing various hate groups, terrorist organizations and similar “movements” online.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“32. The Dark Side of the Internet There is a whole layer of the World Wide Web right under your fingertips, which you can never access through “conventional” means – it is not listed in search engines, the social media and the social bookmarking sites almost never mention it, and you are highly unlikely to stumble upon them just by surfing the Web. The terms Dark Web, Deep Web, Invisible Web, etc. have been in use ever since the Web was around. Although Deep Web and Dark Web are not the same thing, most people mistakenly identify them for one and the same. The Invisible Web is a benevolent part of it, where website owners merely wish to avoid being indexed around. On the other hand, the Dark Web is a terrifyingly “evil” part of the Internet where people can engage in a widest variety of illegal activities – from purchasing illegal drugs and watching videos of other people performing violent crimes, all the way to hiring professional assassins. And no, we are not going to tell you how to get there – you are better off without it. 33.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“30. The first Google server casing was built from LEGO bricks. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the masterminds behind the largest IT project in the world started out with little beyond a pile of budget PC components assembled – or, better to say, scrapped – together. In 1996, they had to assemble multiple components, such as ten hard disks, into working clusters, the expenses for such machinery left them without funds to buy a decent computer casing. Thus, they built the casing from LEGO building blocks. Two years later, it was superseded by a large production server rack. Then, two years after that, their computing power counted around 5,000 (yes, five thousand) computers, and today the number is estimated to between 1,5 and 2 million. Talk about investment and growth!”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“There is a species of wasp living all over the world – Africa, Americas, Southeast Asia and Australia – which grows up to 2 inch (5 cm) long. Its prey are mostly tarantulas. By the end of the mating season, this nightmare-fuel wasp attacks a tarantula from behind with its venomous stinger. The venom usually only paralyzes the spider, rather than killing it instantly, which is when the wasps vicious plan continues. The wasp then digs a hole in the ground, placing the dying, paralyzed tarantula into it, before laying eggs on the spider's body. The idea here is that the tarantula's meat remains as fresh as possible by the time the young wasplings hatch – which is why the venom does not kill it too soon.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“It is also a known myth that garlic repels vampires. While we have never seen a vampire in real life, one thing is known – the smell of garlic does repel mosquitoes. Close enough, right?”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“drunk”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“components,”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time

“hoax.”
― Tyler Backhause, 101 Creepy, Weird, Scary, Interesting, and Outright Cool Facts: A collection of 101 facts that are sure to leave you creeped out and entertained at the same time