523 Hard To Believe Facts Quotes

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― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“The number of teenagers in a car proportionally increases the chances of having a car accident.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“For humankind, the three deadliest animals are mosquito, human, and snake. In this order.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“A picture of an egg has over 53 million likes on Instagram.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born in 1977) is a French politician serving as President of the French Republic since 2017. Macron’s wife is almost 25 years older than him, and one of his stepchildren is two years older than him.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“There have been cases of men getting their penis stuck in various weird places. The crazy locations include bottles, pipes, benches, vacuum cleaners, subway gates, dumbbells, etc.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 1992, a US father injected his baby boy with a HIV-infected syringe to avoid paying alimony. The child, named Bryan Jackson, survived so far against all odds, while the father is in prison for life.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 2018, a 1-year-old boy who was separated from his family was forced to appear in front of an immigration judge in Arizona, USA. The judge asked the child whether he understood the proceedings. Eventually, the child was granted a voluntary departure order so that he could be reunited with his family in Honduras.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In the 18th century England, people could enter London Zoo without having to pay the entrance fee – all they had to do was to bring some cats or dogs to feed the always hungry lions.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In ancient China and Japan, “laughing” was used as a method for torture by making a goat lick the captive’s legs. Abusive tickling is capable of provoking extreme physiological reactions in the victim, such as vomiting, incontinence (losing control of bladder), and loss of consciousness due to an inability to breathe.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“You can marry a dead person in France. You only need to prove that the deceased had serious intentions to marry you.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Amazon Alexa, known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon. “She” receives hundreds of marriage proposals every day. S”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Statistically speaking, you will be better off financially at the age of 40 if you were born slightly more intelligent than average, rather than slightly richer than average.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Since 2011, inmates in several federal prisons in Brazil get four days off their sentence for every book they read.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“It has 697 “sides”, making it a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it will be so thick that it could reach the Moon.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“More than 90% of the living creatures weighing over 5 kg (11 pounds) are either humans or domesticated animals.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“A Bosnian couple decided to divorce in 2007 when they found out that both of them had been having an online affair. The ironic part was that the couple were actually having an affair with each other.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Poor US kids who have above-average academic results are less likely to graduate from college than richer kids who have worse-than-average marks.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Thomas Edison invented the word “hello”. Alexander Graham Bell initially used “ahoy” (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 2018, the minister in charge of Japan’s cybersecurity, Yoshitaka Sakurada, said he had never used a computer.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“The phobia of palindromes is called aibohphobia, which is itself a palindrome.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“A baboon called Jackie served in the 3rd South African Infantry Regiment during World War I. He saluted superior officers, stood sentry, and was even wounded by enemy fire. For his bravery, Jackie was awarded a medal for valour, as well as promoted from private to corporal.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In late 2018, Google’s CEO explained to the US Congress why a picture of Donald Trump comes up when you search for “idiot”.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“A modern Formula One car is capable of developing 3.5 g-force – which is three and a half times its weight – thanks to the aerodynamic downforce of its spoilers. That means, theoretically, at high speeds, they could drive upside down on the ceiling of a tunnel.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Redheads can produce their own personal supply of Vitamin D. This means that ginger-haired people are significantly less likely to develop rickets or contract tuberculosis.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Platinum can turn snails into slugs. During embryogenesis of the freshwater snail, Marisa cornuarietis, the exposure to platinum results in the formation of an internal shell instead of the habitual external shell.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“Statistically speaking, women named Eleanor are 100 times more likely to get into Oxford University than women called Jade.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In Thailand, touching the queen was punishable by death. In 1880, the queen drowned as no-one dared to save her when she fell in the water from the royal boat. Numerous witnesses watched her drown and did not dare to help.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts

“In 2018, a newly discovered blind and burrowing amphibian was officially named Dermophis donaldtrumpi, in recognition of the US president’s climate change denial.”
― Nayden Kostov, 523 Hard To Believe Facts