35 Random Fun Facts That’ll Animate Your Mornings – Part 243

Raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease source, making it one of the world's most dangerous food products.

27. Ho Chi Minh, the former prime minister of Vietnam could speak conversational Esperanto, a language which was constructed by a Polish ophthalmologist with the intent to create a universal language that is easy for anyone to learn.

28. Egyptian Arabic is the first language of 92 million Egyptians and the most widely spoken Arabic dialect. It is understood by almost all of the 300 million Arabic speakers in the world, thanks to the Egyptian cinema and media industry.

29. Super Saiyans in Dragonball Z has blonde hair because the author didn't want his assistant to waste so much time coloring their hair black.

30. A man named Brandt Kuykendal created his own ISP after discovering that he could not get reliable and fast internet in his town. He mainly built the ISP because his daughter needed fast internet to excel in school.

Cities used to have 'ugly laws.' People were fined $1 to $50 per day if they were deemed 'too ugly' to go out in public. The last Ugly Law wasn't rescinded in Chicago until 1974.

32. "The Mandalorian" is shot primarily inside 'The Volume', a large array of LED screens that allow the CGI backgrounds to be filmed live, creating realistic settings and shadows.

33. In 2005, Mikhail Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, fired the country's entire traffic police force of around 30,000 officers due to widespread corruption.

34. The Wanggongchang explosion in 17th-century China killed 20,000 people, released roughly the same amount of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and contributed to the eventual fall of the Ming dynasty. Survivors reported broken rocks, timber, body parts of men and animals raining down from the sky for hours, with the bodies of victims all naked with their clothes mysteriously stripped off. The cause of the explosion has never been conclusively determined.

35. An estimated 8 million war horses were killed in the conflict during World War 1. They were used to help carry food, water, ammunition, and medical supplies. More than a million dogs were also killed. They were used as messengers, sentries, rescuers, and small beasts of burden.