35 Unmissable Random Facts You’ll Want To Read Again | Random List #259

Solitary bees can pollinate exponentially more flowers than honey bees and there are many important bees that live alone and aren’t part of a colony.

27. A Pakistani judge told a convicted serial killer (Javed Iqbal); “You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children.” The killer died before that happened.

28. Afghanistan shares a 46-mile border with China. Venetian explorer Marco Polo used it in his Silk Road travels. It's rumored to have a fort Alexander the Great was not able to conquer, and it has one of the largest untouched copper mines in the world.

29. Charles Darwin was invited on the voyage of HMS Beagle not as a biologist but for his interest in geology. The ship’s primary mission wasn’t even on zoology, it was to conduct hydrographic surveys and test new chronometers.

30. While Mexico only drinks 50% more soda per capita than the US (100 liters and 150 liters respectively), the Mexican state of Chiapas drinks 820 liters per capita every year(2.2 liters per day) due to the drink being introduced into the religious activities of the Mayan people of the region.

Ancient Greek slingers used to write “ΔΕΞΑΙ” (Dexai) meaning “take that” or “catch” on their lead sling bullets. Soldiers have been writing sarcastic taunts on their weapons forever.

32. Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley threw Nicolas Cage’s $65,000 engagement ring into the ocean during a fight on his yacht. Cage hired professional divers to find the ring, but the ring was never recovered.

33. Male cichlids have oval-shaped dots on their anal fins called egg-spots used to trick females who are carrying unfertilized eggs in their mouth to think they have dropped some. The female will then place her mouth to the anal fin and receive a load blown into her face.

34. The Icelandic band Sigur Ros felt so strongly that music was more than words they made up their own language for one of their albums.

35. The RIAA criticized the first MP3 player (MPMan) for having "no function other than playing material that was stolen from record companies."