Some Funny But True Facts

Some Funny But True Facts

Nov 01

Some things that we hear in life sound so unbelievable or so funny that we wonder if they’re actually true. I thought it would be fun to look into some of these to find out if they are, in fact, true or not. So, here are some funny but true facts:

Fact Check The Funny

• Hope you had as much fun enjoying this funny little tidbits as much as I did in finding them to share with you!
• A group of crows is called a murder.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• Despite its name, the Pony Express had no ponies in it. They were all horses.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: purple, orange, or month!
• “Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds!
• In West Virginia, it is illegal to taunt anyone that does not agree to a duel.
• There’s a book on the market that’s titled “Everything Men Want to Know about Women”. This bestselling book contains 128 blank pages.
• A high school played Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. The school raised $1000 in three days. Check out the report here.
• It’s impossible to lick your elbow.
• In the 1990s, Taco Bell’s slogan was “Make a Run for the Border”.
• In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.
• Nokia was once famous for manufacturing toilet paper.
• Over 75% of people reading this will try to lick their elbow.
• There are over 300 superheroes currently registered in the United States.
• The University of Florida has set up an emergency plan should there be a sudden zombie attack.
• If you lived in Ancient Greece and threw an apple at a woman, it was considered a marriage proposal.
• In Canada, the University of Victoria offers a course in the science of Batman.
• A woman in CA filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s and her ex-husband, claiming they turned her into a prostitute.
• A FL woman named Linda Ducharme married a fairground ferris wheel named Bruce.
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
• A woman set fire to her roommate for throwing out her spaghetti dinner.
• A woman in FL was arrested after for stabbing her boyfriend after he reportedly tried to hurt her pet turtle. After calling 911 three times to ask a dispatcher if she was interested in going on a date with him, a man was finally arrested.

Hope you had as much fun enjoying this funny little tidbits as much as I did in finding them to share with you!