13 Interesting Facts To Impress Others With
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Are you one of those people who love to know interesting facts? Do you like to be the life of the party and share little-known information that will make everyone think you're smart? If so, this blog post is for you! Here are some interesting facts that will impress your friends and make you the coolest person at any gathering. Ready to learn something new? Let's get started!
For example did you know that the average person has about 10,000 thoughts per day? Or that a sneeze can travel up to 100 mph? If you remember the Lion King game from the 1990s, you know how difficult it was. That wasn't an artistic decision; Disney simply wanted to ensure that it would take a long time to complete.
If you're looking to impress your friends and family with some interesting facts, you've come to the right place. Keep reading for more amazing tidbits of information! Here's the whole thing, plus 12 more:
![Online pizza delivery was inspired by the 1995 Sandra Bullock movie The Net. The inspiration for the very first online delivery service, CyberSlice, came from the scene were Bullock's character orders a pizza online. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/8/790398.jpg)
Source: AppStorey
![In the mid-90s, Quentin Tarantino rewrote what turned out to be one of SNL's worst movies. Hers His It's Pat was a comedy based on an SNL sketch about a character whose gender was uncertain - and they got Tarantino, of all people, to rewrite the script. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/2/790392.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![There's a US state highway that doesn't allow any motor vehicles at all. Mackinac Island It's an 8-mile stretch on Mackinac Island - when they shot the Christopher Reeve film Somewhere in Time there, they had to get permission for vehicles. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/8/790388.jpg)
Source: MackinacIsland.org
![They got a double for Willem Dafoe's penis in Antichrist, because it was too big. Director Lars von Trier said Dafoe's junk was so big that people got confused when they saw it, so they got another guy to stand in for Dafoe. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/3/790393.jpg)
Source: The L Magazine
![Around 1,000 people were saved thanks to a wounded man aboard a ship in WWII. After Major Francis Harvey on the HMS Lion got wounded in battle, he kept a fire from detonating nearby explosives, which saved the whole ship from blowing up. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/0/790400.jpg)
Source: IWM
![South Florida's building code requires that exterior doors swing outward. That type of door allows people inside to leave a building more quickly, and the new code was adopted after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/5/790395.jpg)
Source: AlcoImpact
![By tradition, if you're baptised on a navy ship, that's done in the ship's bell. The tradition started in the British Navy (though it's not clear when), and it kept going in the American and Australian navies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/7/790397.jpg)
Source: Eternity News
![NASA astronaut Alan Shepard golfed on the moon half a century ago. He did that on live TV, during the Apollo 14 landing in 1971. He took two shots one travelled 2 yards, and the other about 40 yards. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/9/790389.jpg)
Source: Space.com
![In a strangely meta twist, KitKats are actually made up of other KitKats. Nestle Kitkau it at DARK 70 Cu ciocolata The KitKats' filling is actually just ground-up older KitKats. Apparently, taking broken-up KitKats and turning them into fillings is called re-work. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/9/790399.jpg)
Source: Today.com
![Sea cucumbers have a weird defense mechanism they eject - their organs. Somehow, that's supposed to deter any predators - and it happens in response to, say, being prodded. They just regrow the organs later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/6/790396.jpg)
Source: Nature
![Disney made the Lion King video game almost impossibly hard on purpose. Renting video games was super popular at the time, so Disney asked the developers to make the game too hard to beat in a rental period. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/4/790394.jpg)
Source: CBR
![There's a Lorax parody called Truax (from the National Wood Flooring Association). In Truax, the title character is a tree logger (and a good guy) who's harassed by Guardbark, a kind of environmental activist (and definitely a bad guy). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/1/790391.jpg)
Source: Quartz
![The Star Wars film set provoked official concern from the Libyan government. The sandcrawler set looked like it might be a military vehicle, so Libyan authorities had to inspect it to make sure it was really just for a movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/0/790390.jpg)
Source: Wired