27 Bizarre Urban Legends You Never Knew Were Actually True
by N/A, 9 years ago |
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A lot of times when you hear these random facts online or from friends, you're most likely to brush them off as fake, because let's face it, a lot of stuff online is fake. But, every once in a while, something comes along that is so ridiculous sounding, it has to be true.
1. Women prefer men who play instruments
2. The Pentagon has a plan for zombies
3. Twister was thought to be a very dirty game
4. There's a building that is in both the United States and Canada
5. Someone has landed a plane in downtown Manhattan, twice
6. A death row convict requested a single olive with a pit inside as his last meal
7. Leonardo da Vinci wrote right to left
8. The cherry blossom trees in Washington D.C. were a gift from Japan
9. Genetically altered mosquitoes exist to avoid diseases
10. "I have a dream..." was not in Martin Luther King's original speech
11. Otters sleep holding hands so they don't float away from each other
12. Condoms in Venezuela can run you hundreds of dollars
13. Native American languages helped America win WWII
14. Pinocchio in Italian means "pine head"
15. Stopping a sneeze could rupture a blood vessel, crack a rib or pop an eardrum
16. Einstein would have been a musician if not a physicist
17. All other planets, except Earth, are named after gods
18. One set of twins was born almost 3 months apart from each other
19. Pablo Picasso full name is 14 names long
20. 10% of all babies in Euorpe are conceived on an Ikea bed
21. Your phone has 18 times more bacteria than a toilet seat
22. Auraville, India is home to people from 50 different countries
23. Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were roommates while at Harvard
24. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark
25. Women are more attracted to men with dogs
26. The womb can expand up to 500 times its original size during pregnancy
27. Martin Van Buren was the first President born a U.S. Citizen
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