18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know

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18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know

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People keep mistaking a porn star for the British Prime Minister. Prime Minister Theresa May and glamour model Teresa May should be easy to tell apart

Black children are seen as older than they are, which sucks for them. Studies have found that from an early age, black boys and girls are thought of a

Chewbacca was given bodyguards against hunters. While filming Return of the Jedi in Northern California's redwood forests, Peter Mayhew (in full Wooki

Nuclear Today's fracking's got nothing on fracking Project Plowshare. Back in the '60s and '70s, this U.S. government was once operation detonated ove

DNA testing companies aren't very reliable. Maybe you've sent a spit sample to one of those companies that tell you exactly how much Irish or Navajo y

Professional farters used to be highly appreciated artists. Flatulists, or fartists (yes, that's what they were called), turned their intestines int

H.R. Giger was repeatedly screwed over by the Alien franchise. Giger is credited for that walking toothy nightmare known as the Xenomorph. And... that

Jon Snow's cloak is an IKEA rug. According to Michele Clapton, costume designer for Game of Thrones, the Night's Watch cloaks are made from rugs bough

Part of a Nazi encryption machine turned up on eBay. The Lorenz machine that the British National Museum of Computing had on loan was missing a few pa

A racist doctor made up a mental disorder to explain runaway slaves. Dude, slaveowners would say, why do our slaves keep trying to escape? Becaus

Gene Simmons owns the money bag symbol. Simmons is worth $300 million, and part of that comes from royalties paid to him by cartoon bank robbers. He l

18 Amazing Things You Probably Didn't Know

Sufferers of sexsomnia initiate sex while sleeping. Sexsomnia is kind of like sleepwalking, except that you get unconsciously freaky with whoever is n

There's child slavery on Mars! No less an authority than Alex Jones has covered this. According to this conspiracy theory, NASA has been kidnapping ch

Sleeve tattoos already existed in the 19th century. Even back in Victorian times, ladies would sometimes ink themselves copiously. While a popular cir

Tinder is helping NBA players perform better. Itolats: J4TE No, not that kind of perform. (Well, perhaps it does we have no data on that.) But since p

Researchers use vibrators to sex turtles. They sex them literally- that is, they use the toys to Turns out, a nice determine the turtles' sex. vibe ma

An amusement park is being built where Osama bin Laden was killed. Abbottabad's most famous resident hasn't done the town's touristic reputation any f

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