323 Disturbing Facts about Our World Quotes

“The UK Royal family follow some weird rules. Among the least known are that they cannot play Monopoly, cannot eat shellfish, and every royal bride should carry myrtle in her wedding bouquet.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In May 2020, a five-year-old US boy was pulled over by Utah police while driving his parents’ car “to California to buy a Lamborghini”. The boy had $3 in his pocket.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In April 2020, during his daily White House briefing, US President Donald Trump suggested research into whether coronavirus might be treated by irradiating patients’ bodies with UV light or by injecting disinfectant into the body. Many Americans misheard “ingestion of disinfectant”, and in the following days, at least 100 people were admitted to hospitals after having swallowed various disinfectants.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2012, a woman on a visit to Iceland took part in a major mountain search operation for a lost tourist. A few hours later, she realised that she was the missing person everyone was looking for.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Frane Selak (born 1929) is a Croatian man who has allegedly escaped death seven times, and afterward won the lottery in 2003, prompting journalists to dub him “the world’s luckiest man”. Encounters with death started in January 1962 when the train he was on crashed into a river, drowning 17 passengers. The next year, he survived an airplane accident that killed 19 people. In 1966, a bus that he was riding in fell into a river, drowning 4 passengers. In 1970 his car caught fire as he was driving, but he managed to escape before the fuel tank blew up. Three years later, in another driving incident, the engine of his car burst into flames. In 1995, he was struck by a bus in Zagreb. In 1996 he eluded a head-on collision on a mountain curve and his car fell 90 metres (300 ft) into a gorge; he was ejected from the car and managed to hold onto a tree. In 2003, two days after his 73rd birthday, Selak won €900,000 (US$1.1 million) in the lottery.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2018, a British woman, Freda Jackson, then aged 81, claimed her holiday was ruined because her hotel had “too many Spaniards in it” and that “Spanish people should go somewhere else for their holidays”. She had a vacation in Benidorm, Spain.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2018, Anna Mae Blessing, a 92-year-old woman from Arizona, USA, shot and killed her son, aged 72, in order to avoid being sent into a care home.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Globally, cats kill billions of birds every year and have led to the extinction of at least 33 bird species. A 2014 study claimed that domestic cats have the urge to kill humans and would do so, if only they were larger.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“The suicide plant, Dendrocnide moroides – also known as the stinging brush, mulberry-leaved stinger, gympie stinger, or moonlighter – is a plant common to rainforest areas in Indonesia and the northeast of Australia. When touched, it delivers multiple stings with a long-lasting neurotoxin that is so painful that people would rather kill themselves than live through a few days of excruciating pain, and then a further several years of lesser pain. If the tiny hairs that deliver the stings are not removed or are buried, the pain will continue for years. The pain, which has been described as feeling like being doused in hot acid and being electrocuted simultaneously, is so bad that the people have been driven mad by it and have resorted to suicide. Horses stung by this plant have literally thrown themselves off cliffs.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“The Bonnot Gang (La Bande à Bonnot) was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium during the Belle Époque, from 1911 to 1912. The gang used cutting-edge technology (including automobiles and repeating rifles) not yet available to the French police”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

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― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“While the Asian giant hornet massacres honeybees in their hives worldwide, Japanese honeybees have developed a remarkable defence: cooking the hornets alive. When attacked, the bees swarm around the hornets and overheat them to death.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2014, 11% of Americans thought that HTML was a type of sexually transmitted disease.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In September 2019, Kenyan MP Lilian Achieng Gogo proposed a law to tackle people farting on airplanes, which she reckoned was causing “discomfort and insecurity” on flights. This proposal came just a month after a fart accident created a commotion in a local Kenyan Parliament. A member of the Homa Bay County Assembly let off a fart so vile the Speaker had to suspend the debate and evacuated the MPs for several minutes.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In Victorian England, having all your teeth removed was considered the perfect gift for a 21st birthday or a newly married bride.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Some car manufacturers should have known better when choosing the names for their car models. Some examples: Mazda LaPuta (in Spanish it means: “the whore”), Mitsubishi Pajero (in Spanish: “wanker”), Chevrolet Nova (in Spanish: “It doesn’t go”), Opel Ascona (in Portuguese: “female genitalia”), and Honda Fitta (in Swedish and Norwegian: “cunt”).”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 1940, two identical twin boys were separated when they were three weeks old and adopted by separate families in Ohio, USA. 39 years later, the brothers were reunited and found amazing similarities in practically every aspect of their lives. They had both been named James by their adoptive parents and they both went by Jim. Both became law enforcement agents as adults. Both married women named Linda, divorced, and then remarried women named Betty. Both had dogs named Toy at different times in their lives. Both had sons named James Allan (or Alan). Both drove a Chevrolet and were avid chain smokers.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“2016 was the first year since 1968 when no British soldiers died in a military operation.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Harold Joseph “Harry” Greene (1959-2014) was a United States Army general who was killed during the War in Afghanistan. At the rank of major general, Greene was the highest-ranking American service member killed by hostile action since the Vietnam War.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 1918, Quentin Roosevelt – a World War I pilot in the United States Air Service and the fourth son of former US President Theodore Roosevelt – was shot down and killed by a German Fokker plane in France. The German Army buried him with full military honours.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“The quokka (Setonix brachyurus) is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), quokkas are herbivorous, are mainly nocturnal, and do not need a lot of water to survive. They are notorious for their survival instinct: if a quokka mother is threatened by a predator, she will often throw her baby on the ground to distract the predator and save her own life.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Cockroaches find humans to be totally disgusting. When they see a human, cockroaches run away as quickly as possible, and if touched by a human, they wash themselves.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Robert Lane from New York, USA, named his two sons “Winner” and “Loser”. Winner grew up to be a criminal and Loser became a detective with the police.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Most college-age Americans cannot find the UK on the map.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2017, Saudi Arabia accidentally printed a textbook showing the Star Wars character Yoda sitting next to King Faisal as he signed the UN charter.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“Alcatraz Island (often referred to as Alcatraz or The Rock) was a maximum-security federal prison 2 km (1.2 mi) off the coast of San Francisco, USA, which operated from 1934 to 1963. Unlike other prisons, inmates were always offered hot showers. Why would the authorities do that? They believed it would deter prisoners from trying to escape by swimming in the cold waters around the island.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2018, a 32-year-old US woman, Lauren Cutshaw, was arrested after speeding through a stop sign. She became famous for having asked the police to let her off because she is “a clean, thoroughbred white girl”.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“In 2016, Albanian police purchased electric cars. However, at the time, there were no recharging spots at Albanian fuel stations or around Albanian cities, so the cars had to head back to the police stations to be recharged every day or twice a day. The estimated range of the purchased Volkswagen e-Golf varied between 130 and 190 kilometres (80-118 miles).”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World

“On 23 May 2018, four US teens snuck into school before graduation and sprayed racist and homophobic graffiti. Wearing masks, Seth Taylor, Tyler Curtiss, Joshua Shaffer, and Matthew Lipp committed the vandalism at night on the Glenelg High School campus in Glenwood, Maryland. While cameras did not capture their faces, their cell phones automatically connected to the campus Wi-Fi thus recording their individual student IDs.”
― Nayden Kostov, 323 Disturbing Facts about Our World