In this article, you will discover weird and wacky things about the world around you. Here are some of the most awesome facts - so incredible that you won't know whether to believe them or not. You'll find out that subjects like the human body, food, animals and history are far more surprising and exciting than you have ever imagined. So dive in and be prepared to be amazed, amused and astounded.
Unbelievable Body Facts
- An operation on a patient in a Belgrade hospital was disrupted when two surgeons started to fight. They took their punch-up outside and the assistant surgeon completed the procedure.
- A Michigan couple opened a parcel delivered to their home and were shocked to find a liver and an ear inside. The parts should have been delivered to a nearby research laboratory.
- A British pensioner who lost her false teeth discovered that her dog had eaten them. The dog had a three hour operation to have them removed.
- Florida girl Jennifer Mee hiccupped continuously for five weeks. The hiccups stopped as suddenly as they had started.
- A Yemeni man was found to have four kidneys instead of two. Although he was offered money for his spare ones, he decided that they were a gift from Allah and kept all four.
- A New Zealand tree surgeon broke his leg near the top of a 40-metre (130 feet) high tree. He was injured further when the rescue helicopter swung him into another tree.
- A Chinese man has grown the nails on his left hand for 15 years so that their total length is more than one metre (3 feet). He avoids crowded places in case one of them gets broken.
- A Brazilian woman who had suffered from stomach pain for years was finally given an X-ray that revealed a scalpel inside her body. The surgical tool had been left there 23 years earlier when she had given birth by caesarean section.
- An 80-year-old Chinese man agreed to have his hair washed for the first time in 23 years. It took twelve relatives and friends five hours to get all the grime out of his 2-metre (6 feet) long matted locks, followed by his beard which measured 1.5 metres (5 feet).
- Surgeons trying to correct the limp of a 5-year-old boy in China lengthened the wrong leg. The confusion arose when the boy was anaesthetised whilst lying on his back and operated on whilst lying on his stomach. So it's always best to check.
Unbelievable Food Facts
- An Italian woman was cleaning the soil from potatoes for dinner when one turned out to be a hand grenade. Neighbours called the police and the weapon was safely detonated.
- Welshman Captain Beany worships baked beans. He dresses in baked bean orange, bathes in beans and formed the New Millennium Bean Party.
- A British girl put two shop-bought organic eggs in an incubator to see if they would hatch. A few weeks later, two fluffy chicks popped out.
- A Chinese car dealer covered a Volkswagen Beetle in 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of chocolate for his Valentine's Day display.
- The remains of 4,000-year-old noodles was found at a site in China in 2005, settling the argument of where they were invented.
- A Chinese man fed instant noodles to his dogs too often that they became addicted and refused to eat anything else.
- A British man with a food phobia has lived mainly on cheese for 20 years. The only other thing he can bear to eat are crisps.
Unbelievable Animal Facts
- Workers at a Kenyan animal sanctuary were surprised when an orphaned baby hippo chose Mzee the 130-year-old giant tortoise as its new parent.
- Since Owen the hippo was rescued from the sea after the 2004 Tsunami, the pair has lived, slept and played together.
- Staff at a British zoo had to hand-feed milk to a baby colobus monkey after it was rejected by its mother for having hiccups.
- A tiny frog wandered into the freezer of a cafe in Darwin, Australia and was found frozen solid. Once thawed out, it was fine. Maybe it had just gone in for a croaka cola…
- A German cat was sent through the post after sneaking into a parcel while its owner looked for more tape.
- An Australian crocodile was so annoyed by the sound of a chainsaw nearby that it ran at the man using it and grabbed it from him.
- A cow caused an accident by wandering into a road in Columbia and was punished by being put in prison.
- 200 cats brought to a Chinese village to get rid of the rat problem were rewarded for their hard work with an enormous fish banquet.
- A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
- An elderly Swedish woman took animal rescue a little too far. Police found that she had been sheltering 11 swans in her tiny Stockholm apartment for more than five years.
Unbelievable History Facts
- Before coins were invented, shells were used in many countries as money.
- The first five Tarzan films were silent. There were no Tarzan calls in those then.
- The three mile (5 kilometres) long tomb of Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang contains more than 8,000 life-size clay soldiers created 2,300 years ago to protect him in the afterlife.
- Many 19th century artists and writers living in Paris were fond of a green alcoholic drink called absinthe, also known as 'the green fairy'. It was believed to be dangerously addictive and could cause madness, so was banned in most countries in 1915.
- The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was travelsick as a child.
- The Chinese invented fireworks more than 2,000 years ago. The sound was created to scare off evil spirits.
- French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec broke both his legs in his early teens and they stopped growing. As an adult, he had a fully-grown torso and child's legs.
- Sunglasses were worn in China as early as the 12th century, using pieces of smoky quartz as dark lenses. They were worn more to conceal facial expressions during interrogation rather than for protection against the sun.
- Early false teeth were made from hippopotamus bone and dead people's teeth.
- The first living beings to go up in a hot air balloon were a sheep, a duck and a rooster in 1783.
- Heavy snow slowed down the normally accurate Big Ben clock in London on New Year's Eve 1962, making it announced the New Year ten minutes late.
- Yellow tennis balls were not used at Wimbledon until 1986. Before that they were white.
- Can openers were invented 50 years after tin cans.
- The owl was a symbol of death for the Aztecs, Mayans and ancient Romans.
Maybe next time, you'd like to pen down your own unbelievable facts and amaze others…but for now, enjoy reading!
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