World Weird Facts

1. 160,000 U.S. children miss school every day due to a fear of bullying. 2. 75% of school shooting incidents have been linked to bullying and harassment. 3. Bullying affects nearly 1 in 3 American schoolchildren in grades six through 10. 4. 6 out of 10 teenagers in the U.S. say they witness bullying in school once a day.  5. In 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 people rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. 6. People with unfortunate initials, such as P.I.G. or A.S.S. have significant lower life expectancy, due to psychological stress related to childhood bullying. 7. 64% of children who were bullied did not report it. 8. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was bullied as a kid for his gangly form and big ears. 9. As a child, Elon Musk was bullied so severely, he once had to be hos...

1. The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google US$110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads. 2.   Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined. 3. Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google. 4.   Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank. 5. Firefox web browser's lead developer is now working for Google Chrome. 6.   On April Fool's day of 2007, Google sent an e-mail out to its employees warning that a python was loose in the facilities. It wasn't a joke. 7.   Google's first tweet ever was "I'm feeling lucky" written in binary code. 8.   Google's First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO. 9.   Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself. 10. Google beats Facebook: it...

1. Indonesia is the world's largest island country, with more than 13,000 islands. 2. The Komodo dragon is the national animal of Indonesia. 3. Indonesia has the world's highest rate of deforestation, with Brazil as a close second. 4. Indonesia is home to the world's largest Islamic population. 5. Homo sapiens reached the region of Indonesia around 45,000 years ago. 6. There's a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue flames. 7. 60% of the world's population live in countries where the death penalty is legal, such as China, India, the U.S. and Indonesia. 8. The Minangkabau tribe of Indonesia, where marriage perpetuates the female line, refer to a husband as the "borrowed man." 9. The average women in Bolivia, Indonesia, and Guatemala is short enough to be considered a Dwarf (4'10 or under). 10. In 2010, a 2-year-old boy from Indonesia, Ardi Rizal, made headl...

1. With over 4 billion people and 30% of Earth's total land area, Asia is the Earth's largest and most populous continent. 2. The five most practiced religions in the world --Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Chinese folk religion and Buddhism-- have their origins in Asia. 3. 90% of all the rice in the world is consumed in Asia. 4. About 50% of Asians have trouble metabolizing alcohol due to a missing liver enzyme needed to process it. 5. Monkey brains are eaten as a delicacy in parts of China, South Asia and Africa. 6. Contrary to popular belief, there are no wild tigers in Africa. Only in Asia. 7. The richest man in Asia, Sir Ka-shing Li, dropped out of school at the age of 15. 8. Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the mid-1st century in Judea. It quickly spread to Europe, Mesopotamia, Asia and by the 4th century had become the official state church of the Roman Empire. 9. Ne...

1. Fidel Castro led Cuba for five decades and was the world's third longest-serving head of state, after Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand. 2. Despite assassination plots, an invasion and five decades of economic sanctions, Fidel Castro outlasted nine U.S. presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton. 3. The CIA had a plot to use a depilatory chemical on Fidel Castro to cause his beard to fall out. 4. Fidel Castro holds the record for the longest speech ever delivered to the United Nations: 4 hours and 29 minutes, on Sept. 26, 1960. 5. Fidel Castro was born on a Friday the 13th. 6. In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before. 7. The CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was dubbed "Operation Castration." 8. Fidel Castro has said that he saved ten working days a year by not bo...