853 Hard To Believe Facts Quotes

“When flatworms mate, two “males” fence one another with their bifurcated penises. The winner (the one that stabs the other with its penis) remains male while the loser becomes female.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“On several occasions, pigeons were arrested in India on suspicion of being spies.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“The French poodle dog breed in fact originated in Germany.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“In Japan, ladies cover their mouths when laughing because it is considered rude to show one’s teeth.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Koalas almost never drink water. Their name actually means “no water” in several aboriginal languages of Australia.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“It is technically possible to be born more than once. A baby was “born” twice in Texas, USA, in 2016 after she was taken out of her mother’s uterus for twenty minutes in order for the surgeons to perform life-saving surgery.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Are you an atheist? If so, it turns out that you are also considered a terrorist in Saudi Arabia and could be given a death sentence.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“White candy cotton is 100% sugar.”
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“The English custom “wife selling” meant exactly this: a husband could sell his wife. This weird tradition died out towards the end of the 19th century.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“In July 1975, Erskine Ebbin was riding his moped when he was hit and killed by a taxi in Hamilton, Bermuda. The same taxi driver, carrying the same passenger, had killed Erskine’s brother, Neville, in July the previous year. Both brothers were seventeen years old when they died, and had been using the same moped.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 2002, 15 girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The religious police (aka mutaween) did not allow them to leave the burning building because the girls were not covering their hair.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 2016, Facebook’s Marketplace debut was very controversial with people trying to sell weird stuff. For instance, in London, UK, someone tried to “sell” his pregnant girlfriend for $400.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“In May 2016, a seven-year-old Japanese boy went missing after his parents left him for a while in the woods as punishment. He was found safe and sound a week later.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Airlines deal differently with in-flight deaths. Some major airlines keep body bags on-board just in case, while Singapore Airlines is known to have fitted the aircraft with special cupboards for corpses.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“It is that simple: if a month starts with a Sunday, it will have a Friday the 13th.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“LEGO recently created Anti-LEGO slippers. Anyone who has stepped barefoot on a LEGO block knows the pain…”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 2013, two wannabe robbers armed with squirt guns entered Clifton Grill restaurant in Chicago, USA. The owner asked them to return in an hour since he was busy. The two men actually came back only to be caught by the police.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Mount Everest has 4G mobile phone coverage since 2013.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“The city of Shanghai hosts the first Disneyland in China.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Pope Benedict IX was elected pope at the tender age of 11.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Barra Airport, Scotland, is the only airport in the world where scheduled flights use a beach as a runway.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“On the Faroe Islands, they fit cameras on the back of sheep to create Google Street View.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“The streets of Chesham’s town centre (UK) feature Smart Wi-Fi Pavements, providing free internet since 2015.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“The smallest town in the world is Hum, Croatia. It has only 30 inhabitants but has preserved its town institutions from the time when its population was considerably larger.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“An 85-year-old Austrian woman singlehandedly shredded almost one million euro in banknotes. She wanted to annoy her relatives one more time before dying.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“The budget of the movie “Titanic” (1997) was in fact larger than the cost of building the actual ship.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“When Marco Polo first saw rhinos, he thought they were unicorns.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts

“Taste tester of pet food is an actual job.”
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“Peanuts used to be a key ingredient in dynamite.”
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“Japanese eat Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) for Christmas. It all started in 1974 when KFC Japan successfully promoted fried chicken as a Christmas meal.”
― Nayden Kostov, 853 Hard To Believe Facts