Weird but interesting facts of life

Some are funny facts and some will make you say WTF. But being inconvenient and not useless, all those facts will enrich your knowledge base and help you pass through.

The upside-down cross, sometimes associated with Satanism, is actually the symbol of St. Peter and his successors, the Catholic Popes.

that the Muppets first big break was on The Jimmy Dean Show (the sausage guy) from 1963-66. Rowlf the dog had a 7-10 minute spot with Jimmy every episode. Jim Henson was so grateful he offered Dean 40% of the Muppets, but he turned it down saying he didn't earn it.

1968, Olympic long jumper Bob Beamon's first attempt exceed the limit of the official measuring equipment. It took over 15 minutes before a distance was posted, and only then did he realize he had broken the world record by nearly 2 feet (0.6m).

The US founding fathers formally said,"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" in the Treaty of Tripoli

Otto Von Bismarck said in 1888 “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans." 26 years later in 1914 World War 1 broke out after Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo

The same gene controls both body odor and earwax type. If you have dry, flakey earwax you have minimal body odor (common in East Asians). If you have waxy, wet earwax you'll have body odor (common in Caucasians).

November 18 is Micky Mouse's birthday. Steamboat Willie was released in 1928 and is considered by Disney to be his official birthday.

Dogs can get PTSD and it affects 5-10% of working military dogs

The most stolen food item in the world is cheese, with 4% of all cheese being sold end up stolen.

The University of Paris existed for 820 years from 1150 AD to 1970, when it was broken up for being the main source of student revolutionaries who nearly overthrew the French government in May 1968.

There is a village in Africa's Burkina Faso where crocodiles and humans have lived side-by-side in peace for over 600 years

Only 91 of the 3,715 animals in the Berlin Zoo survived World War II. After the Soviet occupation of Berlin, most of these remaining animals were eaten by Red Army soldiers or simply "dissapeared".

When the number of chlamydia cases in young Swedish people doubled in one year, it was decided that condom ambulances would be on standby three days a week, waiting for calls from those caught in a promising situation, but without protection.

13.8% of cigarette smokers do not consider cigarette butts to be 'litter'

A woman named Chante Mallard hit a homeless man with her car, sending him through her windshield. She drove home, parked her car in her garage & left him stuck there. He died, so she took the body to a park & set fire to the car. She was caught 4 months later when she talked about it at a party