36 Informative Random Facts You Haven’t Heard a Million Times – Part 235

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26Smells Like Nirvana

Smells Like Nirvana

When Weird Al Yankovic created the music video for “Smells Like Nirvana”, he used many of the same props and actors from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video. It was also shot in the same location. He was helped by the producers of the original Nirvana video.


27. In 2019, Hatty, a Labrador retriever was sworn in as an Illinois County as a “Comfort Dog.” Her paw was on a law book as an oath was read. Hatty’s job is to comfort sexual trauma victims during testimony and interviews. The dog works 9-5 on up to 200 cases per year. She was trained by prison inmates.


28. 30 Billion honey bees from around the US are shipped to California once a year to pollinate almond trees. They are then shipped to other parts of the country through the year for the same purpose.


29. Because she supported the Civil Rights movement, the FBI created a fake story that actress Jean Seberg had cheated on her husband with a black man. The stress of this fake story caused her to go into labor prematurely and resulted in the death of her baby.


30. During a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, an SS guard was burned alive by prisoners in a crematorium oven.


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31Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen doesn't serve ice cream. To be categorized as ice cream, the minimum butterfat content must be 10% and their product only has only 5 percent butterfat. Therefore, it is called “soft-serve.”


32. When a 36-year-old Indian man named Sanju Bhagat who had been teased his entire life for looking pregnant got the condition checked out, the doctors ended up pulling out hair, hands, bones, and limbs of the man’s twin brother, who had been trapped in his twin as a fetus and continued to grow post-birth, from his stomach.


33. A duck is called a duck because it ducks its head under the water to feed. The animal was named after the verb and not the other way around.


34. Eric Erickson was a Swedish businessman who pretended to be devoted to the Nazis but was really a spy for the American military. He made more than 30 trips to Germany between 1939 and 1945. He mapped out oil refineries that were later bombed. His family had disowned him for “supporting” Hitler.


35. Dogs can “laugh” when they’re playful. Researchers played recordings of dogs laughing to stressed shelter dogs, resulting in the dogs showing significantly fewer signs of stress. Many of the dogs and puppies began to bounce around and responded with laughs of their own.


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36Emperor Nero

Emperor Nero

Emperor Nero gave musical performances in which citizens were so forbidden to leave that pregnant women would give birth during them. Despite this, the historian Suetonius records, some people were so desperate to leave that they would fake their own deaths in order to get dragged out.

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