Weird but interesting facts of life

Some are funny facts and some will make you say WTF. But being inconvenient and not useless, all those facts will enrich your knowledge base and help you pass through.

There were so many mummified cats excavated in Egypt that 19 tons of them were shipped to England to be used as fertilizer

In 1975, Alaska legalized recreational Marijuana use, and it's still legal today

Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title, had his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for refusing to serve in the U.S. Armed Services at the height of the Vietnam War. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong," he said. "They never called me n****r."

Troop of 15 monkeys escaped a primate research center in Japan by using trees as catapults over a five-metre high electric fence (and afterwards were lured back with peanuts).

There is a Jewish myth about a giant lion called Tigris. The lion had a head 21 feet (9 cubits) wide. In the myth, Tigris roared, women within 2200 kilometers miscarried and a city was destroyed. Tigris roared a second time and the teeth of the men looking for Tigris fell out

The song "Mr. Blue Sky" by the Electric Light Orchestra was found to be the happiest song ever using a formula made by studying songs from a period of 50 years.

Turkey violated Greek airspace no less than 2244 times in 2014

Three border collies have been trained to run around a Chilean forest devastated by wildfire while wearing special backpacks that release native plant seeds.

In 2013, a Pizza Hut GM Stood Up and Refused to Force His Employees to Work Thanksgiving, Believing They Should Get to Spend Time With Family Instead.

Anthony Daniels (the actor who plays C3PO) is the 11th highest grossing actor of all time-- because he's been in every Star Wars movie

Children from some ethnic groups of southeast Asia (called Sea Gypsies) are capable of seeing clearly underwater and this skill wears off as they grow up. Some suggest that with practice any young person could achieve underwater vision.

Pope Francis hasn’t watched television in almost 30 years after he promised the Virgin Mary that he wouldn’t anymore

Sarah Jessica Parker's second line in the 1994 movie Ed Wood is "Do I really have a face like a horse?"

"the" was originally written as "þe" in old english. It was eventually abbreviated to "þͤ". Since "þ" looked similar to "y" in old english blackletter script, they were both mixed up. So, in old english, "Ye olde" was simply pronounced "The olde."

The top speed of the Bugatti Veyron is limited not by the engine, but rather its tires exploding.