15 Believe-It-Or-Not Facts That Awoke Something In Us
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.
Beaver goo is sometimes used to enhance food.
You can learn a fictional Game of Thrones language online.
There is a reason for the hole at the tip of your pen cap.
Twitter’s mascot has an actual name.
The Incan people sacrificed guinea pigs.
Animal Planet tricked people into thinking mermaids were real.
10 percent of the bombs dropped on Germany in WWII never exploded, and are still there.
Stress may make men prefer curvier women.
The protest pig was bred to look like the Danish flag.
Pluto hasn’t completed a trip around the sun since its discovery.
Pregnant pigs can’t be held in cages in Florida.
Australian Parliament tried to ban the word “mate.”
An island that didn't exist appeared in maps for 100 years.
The tale of the Loch Ness monster is older than we thought.
