25 funny and interesting facts that you are not ashamed to share with friends (26 photos)

Nothing brings friends together like sharing memes and fun facts, but where can you constantly find new ones? Luckily, there are tons of them on the r/FunFacts subreddit—I don’t want to share them!



1. The happiest criminal in the world



This 99-year-old true crime fan has always dreamed of being behind bars. When the Dutch police found out about this, they "arrested" her, handcuffed her and put her in a cell. She was delighted!

2. There is a cleaning company in the US and Canada that cleans the homes of women with cancer for free so they can focus on getting better.





3. In Switzerland, it is illegal to have just one guinea pig because these animals are very social and keeping them alone is considered cruelty.



4. A deck of cards has a hidden meaning.



52 cards - 52 weeks of the year, 4 suits - seasons, 13 cards of the same suit - 13 phases of the lunar cycle. If you add up all the card values ​​in the game deck, you get 365 days (including the Joker). The second joker is a leap year.

5. In 1850, young Dmitry Mendeleev rode horseback from Siberia almost 2 thousand kilometers to Moscow to enter Moscow University. He was not accepted



6. Iceland is the only mosquito-free country in the world



7. A black robin named Old Blue became the mother of her entire species as she was the last fertile female of the 5 remaining robins. There are currently over 250 individuals living on the Chatham Islands



8. Armadillos can hold their breath for up to six minutes and even cross streams on foot, moving along the bottom



9. Dr. Religa monitors his patient after completing a 23-hour heart transplant. Below is a photo of the same patient 30 years later. He outlived his doctor



10. Eggplant in English is called “eggplant” (lit. plant-egg), because it looks like an egg in the process of ripening



11. In England there is a garden entirely dedicated to the deadliest plants in the world.



12. The largest tire manufacturer in the world is LEGO



13. Kiwis are practically blind, so they rely on their sense of smell to hunt. This is the only bird in the world with nostrils at the tip of its beak



14. The Greek word "Cerberus" means "spotted", so you could say that Hades' dog's name is "Spot"



15. This is a water deer or swamp musk deer. He has no antlers, but has tusks instead of teeth, for which he was nicknamed the “vampire deer”



16. A Japanese village besieged by monkeys is defended by three elderly women armed with air guns. Bonus: They call themselves the "Monkey Busters."



17. Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented pop-up advertising, apologized to the world for inadvertently creating one of the most hated forms of advertising on the Internet.



18. Koalas have fingerprints that are almost indistinguishable from human fingerprints.



19. In 1985, in Mexico City, after an earthquake of magnitude 8.0, almost all newborns survived in one destroyed hospital. They are called "miracle babies" because they survived 7 days without food, water, warmth or human contact



20. 28-year-old Jenny Joseph, who posed for the Columbia Pictures logo, was a graphics editor at the studio, and this was her first and last shoot as a model.



21. Nomadic ants have such strong jaws that some peoples use them instead of sutures - they force the ant to cling to the skin, and then simply break off the body



22. Some fish eggs remain viable even after being swallowed by ducks. These eggs are then released in duck droppings and hatched in water



23. Bluetooth was named after the Danish Viking king Harald Bluetooth, who received this nickname due to his rotten teeth. Technology logo - crossed runes H and B



24. There is a type of sheep with two pairs of horns. The species is called "Father Jacob"



25. Holding a chicken's head still and drawing a straight line in front of it while the chicken is watching will hypnotize it.