The Giant Book Of Strange Facts Quotes

“John Hamm, of Mad Men fame, was suspended from the University of Texas for putting a student's testicles in a claw hammer and leading him around a house while the student was beaten, paddled, and set on fire.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“A guinea pig named Randy broke into a female enclosure and impregnated over 100 female guinea pigs.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Olympic Gold Medals are actually made out of silver. 1912 was the last Olympics to hand out solid gold medals. Today's gold medals are 92.5% silver.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The September 11th terror attacks on the World Trade Center released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan. An estimated 410,000 people have been exposed. It’s believed that lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Ingesting caffeine will caffeinate your semen.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The University of Texas team ate their longhorn mascot, Bevo, in 1920.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Sada Abe was a Japanese prostitute who killed her lover after erotically asphyxiating him repeatedly, cut off his penis and testicles, committed necrophilia with his severed penis, went to jail, wrote a book, became an actor, and eventually joined a nunnery, among other things.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Early methods of CPR included blowing smoke up people's anus.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Instead, balls won from games are exchanged for prizes or tokens. These items are then exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs as an aspiring chef because he was tired of "the rages, the bullying and violence" perpetrated by the head chef.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The United States once planned to nuke the Moon. According to physicist Leonard Reiffel, one of the leaders of the project, hitting the Moon with an intercontinental ballistic missile would have been relatively easy to accomplish.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Barbie was based on the comic strip, and later doll, of a high-end prostitute.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Tondalo Hall got 30 years in prison for failing to stop a man from abusing her child. The man who abused her child got 2 years.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Baltic States won their independence from the Soviet Union by singing banned songs of hope in groups of thousands.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Romania shipped 93.4 tons of gold to Russia in 1916 so that Russia would safe keep the Romanian Treasure in the Kremlin until the end of the war. As of 2014, they gave back only 33 kilograms of it.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Brain scans show that compulsive gamers have hyperconnected neural network. One researcher stated that, “Hyperconnectivity between these brain networks could lead to a more robust ability to direct attention toward targets, and to recognize novel information in the environment.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Human–animal breastfeeding, women breastfeeding young animals, or animals breastfeeding human children, such as goats, has been practiced throughout history.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Hitler had a pet dog, whom he ordered to be killed.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“A pianist named Reginald Dwight was touring with a band called Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. They laughed at him when he told them he was adopting the stage name of Elton John.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“A man sold one of his testicles for $35,000 to buy a Nissan 370z.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning 7 times. He survived them all. The chances of this happening are 4.15 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Ranulf Flambard is the first person to be imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1100. He was also the first to escape in 1101.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“African wild dogs are the most successful predators, even better than lions, with a kill rate per chase of more than 85%.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The word “avocado” comes from the Aztec word “ahuacatl” which means “testicle.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

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― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“An English organist named Jeremiah Clarke wanted to commit suicide but he couldn’t decide whether to hang himself or drown, so he flipped a coin. The coin landed on its edge in the mud so he ended up shooting himself instead.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“By suppressing the expression of certain genes specifically for beak development, scientists were able to grow a chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Hip Pocket Syndrome is a spinal injury that’s caused by carrying a wallet in your back pocket.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“1790 to 1862, are still alive.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Human pet food tasters serve as professional quality control for pet food. They make up to $120,000 per year.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts