Fascinating Facts and Trivia

There are more people living in Tokyo than there are in the entire country of Canada.

A flea accelerates around 25 times faster than the Space Shuttle.

A breeding pair of mice can produce over 100,000 descendants in just one year.

Oliver Cromwell cancelled Christmas and it was a crime to even eat a mince pie, but Charles II reinstated it but it wasn't the same.

Kissing under the mistletoe had slightly sinister connotations in the Victorian times. It was said that you kissed someone the number of berries on a sprig hung up and this could lead to some rather risqué shenanigans.

The game Blind Man's Bluff was really quite salacious once; servants joined in and it could consist of either the male servant groping the mistress or the female servants groping their master and complications could arise-as you might expect.

Beef used to be the meat of Christmas for rich(as only they could afford it) and Turkey came in much later. Goose, as in the Cracthett's meagre feast in A Christmas Carol, was mostly for the poor.

Particles can flow UP streams of water. The effect is called vertical contamination.

A cloud may look fluffy and lighter than air, but an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds (500,000kg).

Retired NFL cornerback Antonio Cromartie (34 years old) has 14 kids with 8 different women, 3 of which were born after he got a vasectomy.

Here he is (6 or 7 kids ago) struggling to remember all of their names (47 seconds in):



I wonder what he's thinking when he's rubbing his forehead at 1:09. "Why didn't I pull out?"




On the tv series The Sopranos, actor Steve Schirripa (character Bobby Bacala) was made to wear a fatsuit like Fat Bastard in Austin Powers for the first couple seasons because he wasn't deemed obese enough for the role. After a few years, show creator David Chase decided he had tacked on enough mass to ditch the suit

Benjamin Franklin was such a prankster that the Declaration of Independence had to be proofread to make sure he didn't write anything silly.

The uniforms of the notorious SS were designed by Hugo Boss.

China used more cement in three years — between 2011 and 2013 — than the US did in the entire 20th century.

Cheetahs can't roar. They can only meow like domestic house cats.

The Holy Roman Empire still existed when the US was founded.