40 Random Facts We Found Hiding in the Cushions of the Fact Couch

We told you, you can't keep coming around here looking for more random fun facts. What happened to the last large batch we gave you? You learned them already? Sorry, we have to put our foot down on this one — if you’re really desperate for facts, you can head over to the dusty old fact couch and shake out what’s been lost in the cushions for yourself.

We remember accidentally dropping all kinds of good stuff in there, tidbits like authors who hated their most famous work, a human-made structure that changes height depending on the season, the most unexpected thing that can actually stop a bullet and how the world felt about superheroes when they first appeared on comic book stands for the first time in the 1940s.

If you blow through these too quickly, you'll have to go clean out the Fact Car — there might be a few things in there, too.

40 What the hell, doctors?

Military women aren't taken seriously by doctors. When women serving in the military report a medical problem, they often get a diagnosis that can be summed up as period cramps, crybaby, or women be crazy. Sometimes they only get proper care from civilian doctors after their condition has worsened. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

39 Louisa May Alcott's problem with Little Women

Louisa May Alcott hated Little Women. Alcott wrote her best known work in record time just for the money. She called it moral pap for the young, much preferring to pen lurid, bloody thrillers. She was shocked when the novel turned out to be successful. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

38 The Eiffel Tower grows and shrinks depending on the season

As metal expands on heating, the Eiffel Tower is actually 15-17cm taller in the summer CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

37 Water is old as hell

CRACKED.COM The Sun may be older than Earth, but the water we drink is older than the Sun. — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

36 Coffee just wants to chill!

Plain hot coffee cools down faster than hot coffee which has had cold cream added to it! CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

35 Alaska's whole weird deal

Alaska is the most northern, eastern, and western state in the U.S. EASTERN HEMISPHERE 75° N RUSSIA Alaska 60° N 180° CANADA 165° E Alaska's Aleutian Islands 45° N 165°W USA 150°W 135°W 30° N 30° N WESTERN Florida MEXICO 120°W HEMISPHERE CUBA 20° N Hawaii M While it's obviously the most northern and western state, how is it possible that it's also the most eastern? Well that's thanks to Alaska's Aleutian Islands that stretch across the 180° line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere. I OIL CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

34 Water balloon vs Bullets

Water balloons can stop a bullet! Water slows down the speed of a bullet so much, 5 water balloons in a row can totally stop a bullet (even one from a rifle) CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

33 The weight of electrons

If you add up the weight of the electrons that are used to power up the entire internet, it would add up to approximately 50 grams or 1.76 ounces! IN OTHER WORDS, THE INTERNET WEIGHS ABOUT AS MUCH AS A LARGE EGG! GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

32 Did we invent time travel?

CRACKED.COM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE ACTUALLY LOOKS BACK IN TIME. WHEN IT TAKES A PICTURE OF A GALAXY 100 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY, WE ARE SEEING THE GALAXY AS IT LOOKED 100 MILLION YEARS AGO. — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

31 Take that, rabbits

GRAGKED.COM A breeding pair of mice can produce over 100,000 descendants in just one year — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

30 Particles are like salmon?

CRACKED.COM Particles can flow UP streams of water. The effect is called vertical contamination. — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

29 Venus' rotation speed

If you were born on venus you'd celebrate your first birthday before you were even a day old. venus is the slowest rotating planet in the solar System. It can make a complete orbit around the sun in less time than it takes to rotate just once on its axis. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

28 Bambi's surprising career path

The voice of Bambi became a Marine. Donnie Dunagan voiced young Bambi when he was 6-and for decades, he didn't tell anyone. Не went on to join the Marines Corps, and became the youngest drill instructor ever- a career path where being a baby fawn would have only brought him endless mockery. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

27 Monsters in the sewers

Alligators weren't the first mythical sewer dwellers. Urban legends about sewer gators have their roots in Victorian London. Underground workers known as toshers had tales of wild pigs and supernatural rats. Similar myths go back even to ancient Rome. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

26 And now they're everywhere...

Superheroes used to be the bottom of the comics barrel. Back in the '40s, comics boasted a much greater variety than today. Crime and horror were the top-sellers, while those lunatics in tights were seen as a passing fad. Then moral panics crippled the industry in the '50s, leaving supers as pretty much the sole survivors. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

25 Use your vacation days! Seriously!

GRAGKED.COM Unlimited vacation time usually means less vacation time. More and more companies are offering the perk of unlimited paid time off-but this policy often results in their workers taking shorter vacations. No one wants to be seen as the lazy employee who took one day too many, right? — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

24 Prison Bomb Club!

Three notorious bombers became friends in prison. 6 11 a i2 1 1 0 5. D 8 Timothy McVeigh, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski, and Ramzi Yousef (who bombed the WTC in 1993) were all locked away in the same supermax prison in Colorado. And they shared common interests other than bombs, so they struck a friendship. The gang was broken up when McVeigh was executed in 2001. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

23 The Battle of Blair Mountain

CRACKED.COM A huge battle was fought to stop a strike. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest on American soil since the Civil War. 10,000 striking coal miners in West Virginia exchanged fire with 3,000 strikebreakers, police officers, and troops. The miners were defeated after five days. — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

22 Alright, can't wrap our brains around this one.

Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

21 Radioactive Grand Central

Grand Central Station is more radioactive than a nuclear power plant. This is because of all the granite, which is slightly radioactive. While harmless, the radiation levels CRACKED.COM in the station are still more than allowed for nuclear power plants. — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

20 That's a lot of trees!

GRACKED.COM 3.04 TRILLION TREES THERE ARE MORE TREES ON EARTH THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE MILKY WAY. APPROXIMATELY 400 BILLION STARS — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

19 I guess we were expecting more... sand?

THE LARGEST DESERT ON EARTH ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK. ANTARCTICA CONTAINS 90% OF EARTH'S FRESH WATER, BUT KEEPS IT INACCESSIBLY FROZEN. WITH LESS THAN 2 INCHES ON AVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION A YEAR, IT'S ALSO THE PLANET'S LARGEST DESERT. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

18 Fleas go from 0 to 60 in... a short amount of time!

A flea accelerates about 25 times faster than a space shuttle! A flea can launch up to three inches in the air, 38 times its body length, withstanding 100 times the force of gravity (100Gs) whereas one of mankind's proudest creations, the space shuttle, peaks around 4Gs. United States CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

17 We'll live on the Sun!

CRACKED.COM The Sun's atmosphere extends far beyond Earth. So, basically we live inside the sun. — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

16 Darwin was the Pokemon Master of eating

Charles Darwin was on a quest to eat every animal species. Darwin's interest in animals was twofold- both scientific and gastronomical. Не sampled pumas, iguanas, birds, and tortoises during his five-year trip around the world. Не discovered that all living creatures shared common ancestors and also tasted delicious. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

15 Blue-eyes and alchohol

CRACKED.COM Blue-eyed people are likelier to become alcoholics. Genetics is a mess. If you have genes for blue eyes, it's likely that you also have genes for a higher alcohol tolerance, which can lead to drinking too much. The effect is small, but study after study keeps showing the same thing. — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

14 Lincoln really stole the show

The sinking of the Sultana was horrific, but no one paid attention to it. The steamboat Sultana was carrying over 2,000 recently-released POWs of the Civil War-most of whom died when the boilers exploded. It was a tragedy worse than the Titanic-and it was totally upstaged by the Lincoln assassination, which happened around those same days. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

13 The problem with drugging livestock

Drugged livestock is causing rabid dogs. One day, vultures started dying in India and Pakistan. The culprit was found to be diclofenac, an anti-inflamatory drug given to livestock that was lethal to vultures that ate the carcasses. With vultures gone, feral dogs took their place as scavengers-and with more dogs, rabies skyrocketed. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

12 Bernie Sanders & Larry David are related

Bernie Sanders and Larry David are cousins. Is David's killer impression of Sanders related to the fact that the two share DNA? In 2017, a PBS show about ancestry found that they have three identical chromosomes, making them third or fourth cousins. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

11 17th Century Instagram

Instagram posts were already a thing in the 1700s. Social media didn't exist back then-but braggy vacation pictures did. Wealthy young men would visit far-away cities and commission vedute, which were highly detailed paintings of the place (sometimes including the visitor himself) to show his friends at home. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

10 The volume of a sugar cube

REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

9 Look at all that... sperm

A HUMAN MALE WILL PRODUCE ABOUT 525 BILLION SPERM IN HIS LIFETIME. THAT'S AROUND FIVE TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER LIVED. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

8 How many neck bones you got?

Whether it's a giraffe or a mouse, pretty much all mammals have the same number of neck bones. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

7 Tomatoes are gene machines

A tomato has about 7,000 more genes than a human being. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

6 Clouds are heavy, man

A cloud may look fluffy and lighter-than-air but an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's more than twice the weight of the Statue of Liberty. GRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

5 Tokyo vs Canada

THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE LIVING IN TOKYO, THE CAPITAL OF JAPAN, THAN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF CANADA, THE SECOND BIGGEST COUNTRY AFTER RUSSIA. CANADA POPULATION TOKYO POPULATION 36.44 MILLION 38.24 MILLION TOKYO IS REPRESENTED WITH A RED DOT ON THE MAP OF JAPAN. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)**

4 When will Matches Malone be in a movie?

Batman has a second secret identity. In the comics, Matches Malone was a gangster who died while trying to kill Batman-and who happened to look exactly like Bruce Wayne. So sometimes Wayne glues on a fake mustache and passes himself off as Malone to infiltrate the criminal underworld. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

3 Cruises get away with a lot

CRACKED.COM Cruise ships keep finding ways to get away with polluting. Given a deadline to get their act together re: pollution, the cruise industry got to work-to find loopholes. Rather than switch to cleaner fuels, now they use scrubbers to remove pollutants from the exhaust gases (and then dump those pollutants into the ocean.) — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

2 Super Sayain Poop?

The poop emoji comes from comics. Everyone's favorite emoji was already big in Japan before emoji were even a thing. A popular 1980s manga called Dr. Slump (later adapted to anime) regularly featured sentient piles of poo. Its author eventually left friendly feces behind and went on to create Dragon Ball. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

1 The Original Netflix (?)

CRACKED.COM Pixelon was the (fake) Netflix of the '90s. Pixelon was the hottest startup in Silicon Valley. There were just a couple wrinkles: The whole show was run like a cult by a fugitive con man, and their video streaming tech was fake. Their only accomplishment was to reunite The Who for the site's stupidly lavish launch party. — **Source:** **Fun Facts For Your Brain To Munch On**

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40 Random Facts We Found Hiding in the Cushions of the Fact Couch

40 What the hell, doctors?

39 Louisa May Alcott's problem with Little Women

38 The Eiffel Tower grows and shrinks depending on the season

37 Water is old as hell

36 Coffee just wants to chill!

35 Alaska's whole weird deal

34 Water balloon vs Bullets

33 The weight of electrons

32 Did we invent time travel?

31 Take that, rabbits

30 Particles are like salmon?

29 Venus' rotation speed

28 Bambi's surprising career path

27 Monsters in the sewers

26 And now they're everywhere...

25 Use your vacation days! Seriously!

24 Prison Bomb Club!

23 The Battle of Blair Mountain

22 Alright, can't wrap our brains around this one.

21 Radioactive Grand Central

20 That's a lot of trees!

19 I guess we were expecting more... sand?

18 Fleas go from 0 to 60 in... a short amount of time!

17 We'll live on the Sun!

16 Darwin was the Pokemon Master of eating

15 Blue-eyes and alchohol

14 Lincoln really stole the show

13 The problem with drugging livestock

12 Bernie Sanders & Larry David are related

11 17th Century Instagram

10 The volume of a sugar cube

9 Look at all that... sperm

8 How many neck bones you got?

7 Tomatoes are gene machines

6 Clouds are heavy, man

5 Tokyo vs Canada

4 When will Matches Malone be in a movie?

3 Cruises get away with a lot

2 Super Sayain Poop?

1 The Original Netflix (?)

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