15 Facts About Celebrities, Banned Books, and Why You Shouldn't Kiss A Sloth
Learning is a lifelong endeavor, or at least that's what they say. We pretty much buy it. Bulking up one's knowledge reservoir is a good practice, you never know when trotting out some cool fact or arcane piece of news will light up the room and make everybody think you're the smartest person in it.
As such, we’ve compiled a nice, handy list of cool information for you to download right into your knowledge reservoir for just such occasions. Or maybe just for your own edification, that’s fine, too.
So with that in mind, here’s a small selection of what we have in store for you: China has a weird stance on enchanted animals, like censoring Winnie the Pooh references. Long before Chinese President Xi Jinping, it was against the law for bears and other animals in fiction to talk with human speech. Read more about this and other weird facts from around the globe below.
Donut Lassies brought the fried treats to the states.
Source: Salvation Army USA
Lawn mowers will horn up a lady cicada.
Source: CNET
Bela Lugosi is wearing his Dracula garb for eternity.
Source: Grunge
"Dude" used to be an insult to dandies.
Source: BBC
Captain Kirk sold a kidney stone.
Source: CBS News
A contronym is its own opposite.
Source: Merriam-Webster
You can hunt unicorns in Michigan.
Source: LSSU
The Soviets drank all of their vodka in a day.
Source: MentalFloss
Sloths don't fart, at least not out of their butts.
Source: Vox
The Galápagos
Source: National Geographic
China
Source: The Guardian
The FBI was useless before Shazam technology.
Source: NPR
Octopi don't actually have any tentacles.
Source: Discovery
Reagan had candy holders on Air Force One.
Source: The Guardian
The term "undertaker" was deemed too unfriendly.
Source: MentalFloss
