Random Revelations: Article #85- 34 Incredibly Bizarre Random Facts

In 2012 a German civil servant, in an email announced his retirement to his colleagues, admitting that he had done zero work for the last 14 years.

27. Cats are attracted to squares taped on the ground because they think of them as cozy, safe boxes.

28. In 2000, the Sheriff of Dekalb County, Georgia, had his political rival (Derwin Brown) murdered after losing to him (Sidney Dorsey) in the Sheriff's election.

29. Coffin Torpedo is a small shotgun secured inside the lid of a coffin to “prevent the unauthorized resurrection of the dead.” The shotgun fired lead balls at whoever pried the lid open and were used as an experimental deterrent to the rising tide of body snatchers in the late 1800s.

30. Johnathan Swift wrote a satirical essay in 1729 where he proposed that poor Irish should sell their children as food for rich people to eat.

Nuxalk is an indigenous Canadian language, which has the word clhp'xwlhtlhplhhskwts' that features no vowels and means "Then he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant." Nuxalk is believed to challenge the very notion of a syllable.

32. Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe got a job at QVC to win a bet and was subsequently fired 3 different times.

33. Roughly 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year. Most end up on the ocean floor, while a few end up washing ashore.

34. Elephas Falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant that only grew about as big as a dog.