Twenty Crazy Things You Need to Know!

       From Paris, Tokyo,Australia, New York, Milan to Lagos, there are crazy things discovered daily ranging from laws, culture and so on. Here are twenty crazy things about the world. Enjoy!

1.In the 1870s, a Belgian village attempted to train a fleet of 37 official mail cats to deliver letters. It didn’t work.

2. Every baby is born with blue eyes!.

3. The cotton candy machine was invented by a dentist.

4.  Twelve percent of sleepers dream in black and white.

5. Zebras’ coats are just black. (Their undercoat has white stripes.)

6. The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige. The oldest star is nicknamed Methuselah. It’s 13.8 billion years old. If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called eigengrau. There may be no sound in space, but it does have a distinct smell: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.

7. In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.

8. Where do baby carrots come from? Ugly carrots. When a California farmer realized he was discarding 400 tons of carrots a day because they were too bent to be sold, he gave his harvest a makeover and shaved them down to snackable nubs. Today, baby carrots are a $1 billion business.

9. In Iceland, it’s hard to come up with a creative name for a newborn. A government committee prevents parents from giving babies names it deems too weird. The committee’s name? Mannanafnanefnd.

10. Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was initially pitched as Where the Wild Horses Are. His editor loved the title, but Sendak couldn’t draw horses. The wild things he ended up drawing are caricatures of his relatives.

11. The most shoplifted food item in the U.S. is candy. In Europe, it’s cheese. In Latin America, it’s meat.

12. Sweden’s Left Party has campaigned to make men sit when they pee. (The campaign isn’t going very well.)

13. In 2008, Carl Mosca Dionisio strung together 18,500 latex condoms and used them to bungee jump from a 100-foot tower. In 2001, Beaver College changed its name to Arcadia in part because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school's website.

14. A 2009 study found that when men interact with an attractive woman, they may become “cognitively impaired.” Further studies found that the mere thought of talking to a pretty girl increases a man’s likelihood of saying something really, really stupid.

15. Juggling while jogging is a marathon phenomenon. It’s called joggling.

16. In 2005, executives from Christie’s and Sotheby’s played a game of Rock Paper Scissors to determine who’d get to sell a $20 million art collection that included works by Picasso, Van Gogh, and Cézanne.
Christie’s scissors beat Sotheby’s paper.

17. The FBI investigated the song “Louie Louie” because the agency thought the lyrics were dirty. After three months, the FBI abandoned the investigation because it couldn’t make out the words.

18. In the 1940s, the British government launched a series of PSAs on the proper way to use a handkerchief. Kleenex was originally marketed not as a disposable hankie, but as a cold-cream remover.

19. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift apart. Male caimans dance to impress potential mates.

20.Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

21. German chocolate cake isn’t German. It’s named for Sam German, an American baker. Could the Swiss cake be named after a Nigerian baker?.

22.“Hello” wasn’t a common greeting until the invention of the telephone. Thomas Edison convinced the printers of the first phone books to make it the sanctioned greeting. Alexander Graham Bell disagreed. He pushed for “Ahoy!”. In 1997, Kleberg County, Texas, designated “Heaven-o” its official new phone greeting.
Now you know the origin of the word "Hello"

23. The best man’s original purpose was to serve as an accomplice in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from disapproving parents.Meanwhile, the bridesmaid tradition started because people believed that dressing everyone up in the same clothing would confuse evil spirits.

24. Ever practical, Puritan brides-to-be accepted engagement thimbles from their fiancés.When the wedding day arrived, they’d simply cut the bottom off and wear it as a ring.

25. The world’s shortest scheduled flight lasts 47 seconds. It covers just over a mile on Scotland’s Orkney Islands. What a record! Can you try it?

26. In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to $3,000 before eBay shut it down. $3,000 dollars to buy New Zealand! What would you do if you buy New Zealand?

27. In 1967, the Nigerian Civil War ground to a halt for two days because both sides wanted to watch Pelé play in an exhibition soccer match.

28. Some cats are allergic to humans.

29. In 2006, a Wisconsin man legally changed his name to Andy Griffith, hoping it would help him get elected as county sheriff. Instead, he was sued by Andy Griffith. What a twist!

30 . Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay. Imagine calling in to claim lesbian!

These are the thirty crazy things discovered about the world!.