Weird Facts!

By Anonymous -
For procrastination purposes only; 

·      Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

·      Every year, hundreds of new trees grow because squirrels forgot where they buried their nuts.

·      It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.

·      When you remember something, you're only thinking of the memory of that event, not the time it happened.

·      The order of the alphabet is completely random.

·      The weird white dots you see floating when you look at the sky are your white blood cells.

·      If you eat too many carrots you turn orange.

·      Anatidaephobia is the weird fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

·      Leeches have 32 brains.

·      If you feel like you wasted your time reading this, remember that your entire life led up to this fact.

·      Many expensive perfumes contain whale poop.

·      In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.

·      Alpacas can die of loneliness. When bought, they have to be bought in pairs.

·      Being annoying was against the law in Grand Rapids, Michigan, until 2014.

·      Steve Jobs was scared of buttons.

·      Mozart wrote numerous letters, and even an entire song, focused solely on poop.

·      Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying in 2007.

·      In 2011, a woman bought a "non-visible" piece of art for $10,000.

·      The head of the CIA had their email account hacked by a teenager in 2015. 

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