1. The Nazis were the first ever people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement.
2. There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
3. In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.
4. Justin Bieber once held up a sign from his hotel room window saying “Go to McDonald’s and get me a Big Mac”. He got his Big Mac.
5. On one of the islands off the West-Coast of Australia lies Lake Hillier. A bright, bubble-gum pink lake! Despite not being the only colored lake in the world, it is unique because it is the only colored lake where scientists have not yet determined what causes it to be such a bright pink.
6. In 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called “U.F.O.“, which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.
7. In China, 2013, scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.
8. Artist Salvador Dalí would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the checks, making them priceless works of art and therefore un-cashable.
9. Hawaii’s state flag is the only US state flag to feature the Union Jack upon it.
10. There is an Australian man, James Harrison, who has a singularly unique blood plasma composition that has been used to cure Rhesus disease, a hemolytic disease that affects newborn babies. He has donated his blood plasma over 1000 times.
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The Book of Ultimate Randomness
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