15 Better Than Average Facts That Absolutely Rule
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This is the story of how, in a fit of insanity, I attempted to discover why and for what purpose God gave me the gift of being able to see into people's minds—to see their thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams—and then to tell them exactly how it was all going to turn out in the end. In other words, I tried to find God. The attempt nearly destroyed my mind, and left my body so damaged that even if I had been able to locate him, I would not have recognised him. He would not recognise me in return, of course. It's a sad story, really—a pathetic tale of human weakness and vanity.
It all began on the day I learned the Dreadful Knowledge. It was merely something that seemed innocuous at first, and for most people certainly was, but it turned out to be the exact key that, when placed in the lock of my mind, drove me insane. It was a list of fifteen facts that went:
Babies can chug better than anyone.
![Babies can drink and breathe at the same time, even though adults can't. GRAGKED.COM For the first 3 months of life their larynx acts like a little snorkel. Around three months of age, the larynx drops much lower in the throat, making choking easier but speech possible.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/3/840663.jpg)
There is no such thing as too much sugar when you’re a kid.
![We typically do not start to think of foods as too sweet until our bone growth stops. GRACKED.COM Infants don't have to learn to like sweet or salt, it's there from before birth. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/4/840664.jpg)
Humans lost their penis bones.
![Humans are the only primates without a penis bone. CRACKED.COM This leaves us dependent on hydraulic pressure alone. The penis bone in other primates aids sexual reproduction by maintaining sufficient stiffness during sexual penetration.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/1/840661.jpg)
Salt water pulls blood into your lungs when you are drowning.
![Drowning in salt water is different from drowning in freshwater. CRACKED.COM In a saltwater drowning, the lungs fill with salt water which draws blood out of the bloodstream and into the lungs. You drown in your own blood.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/840653.jpg)
A road in Russia is paved with good intentions – no wait, those are human bones.
![There is a highway in Russia built on the bones of the laborers that constructed it. CRACKED.COM The Road of Bones was built during the Soviet Union's Stalinist era. Inmates of the Sevvostlag labor camp started the first stretch in 1932, and construction continued with the use of gulag labor until 1953.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/840654.jpg)
The bones of a medieval archer are noticeably different.
![Archeologists can tell which skeletons belonged to archers because the bows deform the bones. CRACKED.COM The high poundage of war bows, coupled with years of training in their use from a young age, led to skeletons having over-developed shoulder and arm bones to compensate for the growth of muscle.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/6/840656.jpg)
Sword swallowing is indeed dangerous.
![29 deaths resulting from sword swallowing have been reported since 1880. CRACKED.COM Sword swallowing is not an illusion of any kind: the performer actually pushes the sword down their esophagus and into their stomach.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/5/840665.jpg)
A nudey beach caused a boat of lookie loos to flip.
![A boat capsized in 2004 when all 60 passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach. CRACKED COM Partygoers apparently hoping to catch a glimpse of nude sunbathers crowded on one side of a floating barge, prompting the ship to capsize and dump all 60 people into Lake Travis in Texas.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/8/840658.jpg)
Norway introduced raw salmon to Japan.
![Raw salmon sashimi in Japan is all thanks to Norway. CRACKED.COM The Japanese considered raw salmon dangerous since Pacific salmon was prone to parasites. Norway had too much salmon and decided to focus on teaching Japanese consumers that Atlantic salmon was safe to eat raw.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/840652.jpg)
Crowd noise was added to the studio recording of "Bennie And The Jets."
![Bennie And The Jets by Elton John isn't a live recording. CRACKED.COM Producer Gus Dudgeon wanted a live feel on the recording, so he mixed in crowd noise and whistles into the song.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/0/840660.jpg)
$70k was (legally) stolen from an MMO RPG bank.
![A player set up an in-game bank in EVE Online that operated legitimately for several months. CRACKED.COM The bank's founder then stole nearly 790 billion units of in-game currency, nearly $170,000 in real-world dollars. This was all perfectly legal.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/7/840657.jpg)
Bluefin tuna can cook themselves when fighting with a fisherman.
![Tuna can move so powerfully that they cook their own flesh. CRACKED.COM The warm-blooded Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is so powerful that when fighting fishermen it can cook its own flesh with sudden bursts of muscle activity.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/2/840662.jpg)
A man went to jail based only on testimony from a teenager, who admitted to lying.
![Carl King took it upon himself to prove his friend was innocent after being jailed for 21 years. CRACKED.COM The jury convicted Colin Warner on charges of second-degree murder based solely on the eyewitness testimony from a 14-year-old boy who admitted to lying on the stand.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/9/840659.jpg)
Cassius Clay wasn’t going to take being assassinated sitting down.
![Before he was the US Ambassador to Russia, Cassius Clay cut up a hired assassin with a bowie knife. CRACKED.COM Abolitionist Cassius Clay was shot by Sam Brown during a 1843 debate for the Kentucky House of Representatives. Despite being shot in the chest, Clay drew his Bowie knife and cut off the hired gun's nose and one eye.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/840651.jpg)
“Storm babies” are caused when the barometer drops.
![Women often go into labor during storms because of the change in barometric pressure. CRACKED.COM This is why storm babies happen- low barometric pressure induces rupture of the fetal membranes, resulting in delivery.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/840655.jpg)