These are not just your regular fun facts, these are actually INTERESTING! So get ready to expand that knowledge of the weirdly fascinating information in your head.
Here are your unknown weird facts!
# 1: A donkey sanctuary in Canada shows us how four-legged animals should wear their pants
Big Ben is one of the animals at the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada, who had been suffering too many bites from flies. To protect his legs from the bites, a volunteer at the sanctuary designed these pants. Aren’t they cool?
# 2: If cans of Diet Coke and regular Coke are placed in water, Diet Coke floats while regular Coke sinks
Well, as they say, its all about the sugar! Regular soda cans use corn syrup for sweetness, which has higher density than artificial sweeteners that are used in diet sodas. There’s the science. Now go try it!
# 3: A bag of chips will puff up at high altitude places
Bear with me, some science again (interesting though). It’s about the air pressure. The air inside the bag of chips matches the pressure of the altitude it was sealed. When you go higher and the pressure gets lower, the pressure inside the bag of chips becomes higher than what it is outside, causing it to push against the bad and hence puff up.
# 4: The word “snack” originates from dogs stealing food through history
During the 1400s, if a dog took away some food from a person’s plate, it was said that the dog “snaked”. The word “snaked” is a version of the Middle Dutch word “to bite”. Slowly with time, the word “snack” started to be used for any small portion of food.
# 5: In Roman numerals, it is okay to say IIII instead of IV as the number four
Ancient Romans used these both numerals to represent four, sometimes in the same document too! Even though “IV” is the standard numeral, both are correct.
# 6: A Hollywood actress invented the technology behind wifi and GPS
You go, girl! Hedy Lamarr was an actress known for her movies like Samson and Delilah, but she loved experimenting engineering. During the World War II, she worked with the composer George Antheil and created a system for a radio frequency that was intended to prevent the jamming of radio-targeted torpedoes. This system was further used very significantly for the invention of modern wireless technology.
# 7: The first ever vending machine in the world was used to dish out holy water
Bet you didn’t know this one! The vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria in 1st Century AD and it was used to dispense holy water, which would pour out into a vessel after a coin was inserted into it.
# 8: Bicycles fit into a group of vehicles known as “velocipedes”
Velocipedes? What are they, right? Velocipede is a term given to vehicles that are powered by humans with one or more wheels. Of these, bicycles are the most common.