The Most Interesting Facts Vol.34

Interesting, weird, cool, fun Facts that you should know!

Most Converse shoes have a layer of felt on the bottom of them. This classifies them as slippers and saves the company tax dollars.

The average person sheds about 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.

Cows have best friends and get stressed out when they’re apart.

A group of 150 wallabies escaped a French zoo in the 1970s and have been thriving in the wild for decades now.

Medieval Europeans commonly had beer soup for breakfast.

Ancient Romans shared a poop sponge in public bathrooms.

Root beer was invented by a pharmacist named Charles Elmer Hires 153 years ago. It was originally called root tea.

In 1844, Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber and the first rubber condom came out a decade later.

It’s impossible to fart if you are 33 or more feet below sea level.

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were quarantined for three weeks after returning to earth. This was a precautionary measure in case the men picked up space viruses.

A group of pugs is called a grumble.

The blood in the famous shower scene in Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ was, in fact, Hershey’s chocolate syrup.

The first-ever Academy Awards ran for just 15 minutes.

Dolphins intentionally chew on toxic pufferfish to get high.

The inventor of the karaoke machine, Daisuke Inoue, never patented it.