15 Believe-It-Or-Not Facts That Awoke Something In Us

Kentucky has enough bourbon to give every resident their own barrel.

I'm a writer. I have always been a writer and I'll be writing for as long as I can write. I don't know when I started writing stories or if anyone else even noticed, but the fact remained: I had always wanted to write. I was always creating things in my mind—fantasy worlds and stories that would never be published.
One of those things was an adventure story that I wrote about a group of people who were searching for the lost city of Atlantis. The story was set in modern times, with some fantastical elements added to give it more depth. In my world, Atlantis didn't exist as we now understand the concept of Atlantis; it was a magical city that existed thousands and thousands of years ago, before the fall of its grand civilization.
The religion of Atlantis was built up entirely around a strange list of fifteen facts, and that list went like this:


 

There is more bourbon in Kentucky than Kentuckians.

The Atlantic

Beaver Goo

NCBI

There is a reason for the hole at the tip of your pen cap.

BIC

Twitter’s mascot has an actual name.

Mashable

The Incan people sacrificed guinea pigs.

Gizmodo

Animal Planet tricked people into thinking mermaids were real.

Daily Mail

10 percent of the bombs dropped on Germany in WWII never exploded, and are still there.

Spiegel

Pluto hasn’t completed a trip around the sun since its discovery.

Universe Today

Australian Parliament

ABC

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read