Incredibly weird fact

 

1. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much

as 7 inches.
 

2. powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth’s day, by moving the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us around 6.8 microseconds.

3. Experiments show that male rhesus macaque monkey swill pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques’ bottoms.

4. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.

5. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason.Several of them danced themselves to death.

6. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the smiley.

7. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.

8. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He’d tied the man’s head to his horse’s saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.

9. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named “happy hour”

10. The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

11. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as “bergy seltzer” .

12. There is a glacier called “Blood Falls” in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It’s actually oxidised salty water.)

13. In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.

14. A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.