40 Totally Wacky Random Facts For You | Random List #188

In 2015, a pet mouse named snuggles consumed heroin that was left on a table. It was unresponsive and barely breathing when brought into an overdose prevention site in Vancouver, British Columbia. Volunteers at the site administered Narcan and were able to save Snuggles’ life.

27. Domino's Pizza locations in Scotland have the official, registered tartans for employees who would prefer to wear a kilt.

28. An American serial killer named Nannie Doss is responsible for the deaths of 11 people between the 1920s and 1954. Also referred to as the “Giggling Granny,” it was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a mother-in-law.

29. Before the Battle of Pratapgarh, Shivaji met with the enemy general Khan; prepared for treachery. He wore an armor under his clothes which saved him from being stabbed during a hug, to which he retaliated by disemboweling the general with Wolverine-style claws. The battle was won.

30. On Saturday night (31 March, 2012), the Chief of the Israeli Navy (Major General Ram Rothberg) gave a surprise order for 3 ships to prepare to leave for a 10-day exercise; the men on the ships worked all night only to learn the next morning that it was all an April Fool's Day joke.

There is a European custom of “telling the bees,” wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.

32. A “Box Social” is a tradition in the U.S. state of Vermont where women fill a box with a meal and men bid on the box with the expectation to share the meal with the woman whose box it is. It is typically used as a fundraiser.

33. Chinese students can rent fake parents to meet their teacher to avoid embarrassment.

34. During World War 1, artist Norman Rockwell tried to enlist into the U.S. Navy but was refused entry because, at 140 lbs, he was eight pounds underweight for someone 6 feet tall. To compensate, he spent one night gorging himself on bananas, liquids, and doughnuts and weighed enough to enlist the next day.

35. Paris Hilton was pranked by an Egyptian TV Host Ramez Galal in 2015, where she was in a fake plane crash that left her screaming hysterically. She proceeded to sue for emotional distress.

Difficulty in hearing in noisy places is a real medical condition called "cochlear synaptopathy" or "hidden hearing loss" and it is undetected in most hearing tests.

37. Submarine Commander Eugene B. Fluckey is credited with the most tonnage sunk in World War 2, including a Carrier. He also led his men on land to blow up a train. He got 4 Navy Crosses, the Medal of Honor, his boat got several Presidential Unit citations and not one of his men got a Purple Heart.

38. Apples are generally red, green, yellow, but if the right geographical conditions are met, they can apparently grow dark purple, almost black, as well. These rare apples are called Black Diamond and they are currently only grown in the mountains of Tibet.

39. Winston Churchill once said that one of life's four essentials was cold champagne and so he drank over 42,000 bottles of champagne during his lifetime(about two bottles a day). The other three essentials were hot baths, new peas, and old brandy

40. A 22-year-old woman Hilda Clayton, an Army combat photographer and visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company, captured her last photo, and the moment of her death when a mortar shell exploded in the launch tube during a training exercise with Afghan soldiers.