Finals week has many college students down in the dumps. The countless number of hours spent in libraries slaving away over textbooks and computers is enough to make anyone go stir crazy. Your brain can only handle so much. So when you’ve reached a breaking point or hit a wall, let your brain take a short vacation and take a look at some of the most random, weird facts. They’ll only make you smarter and create great table talk at dinner.
1. Only 2% of the world has green eyes.
2. When you blush, the lining of your stomach turns red.
3. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
4. It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
5. Right handed people live 9 years longer than left handed people.
6. There’s a city called Rome on every continent.
7. Women blink twice as much as men.
8. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
9. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
10. There are 1665 steps in the Eiffel tower.
11. China has more English speakers than the U.S.
12. The human nose can remember 50,000 scents.
13. Even though Froot Loops have different colors, they all have the same scent.
14. There are no bridges over the Amazon River.
15. Sunsets on Mars are blue.
16. The state of Ohio gives out different license plates for those convicted of DUI.
17. Dead people can get goosebumps.
18. The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
19. The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this “dead line” then they would be executed by their guards.
20. Pablo Escobar, the infamous Colombian drug lord, had 4 hippos on his property and when he died they escaped and became an invasive species for the country.
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