These facts may appear to be BS but they are not. They were researched and compiled by Shane Carley who is also obsessed with weird but true facts.
- The first leader of an independent Chile was Irish.
- The Hundred Years War actually lasted 116 years.
- The Austrian army once mistakenly attacked itself. The Battle of Karansebes resulted in losses of up to 10,000 soldiers when one Austrian regiment mistook another for the enemy.
- Surprisingly, the U.S. state closest to Africa is not Florida – it’s Maine.
- President Richard Nixon had a speech prepared just in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin died on the moon.
- The people of Loss Angeles were so accustomed to light pollution that when an earthquake caused a blackout in 1994, many citizens called observatories to ask about the weird lights in the sky. They were the stars.
- Early astronaut toilets were so bad that feces sometimes floated through the space capsule.
- Believe it or not as far as official records are concerned, no one has ever had sex in space.
- Marijuana and the hops in your beer come from the same plant family.
- You can generally tell the color of a chickens eggs by the color of its ears.
- As recently as 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted the production and marketing of maggots for limited use as a “medical device”.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on animal skin.
- Taking into consideration the upcoming holiday season. Christmas was originally banned in the American colonies.
- Jackie Mitchell, the first (and only) female player in Major League Baseball, once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in consecutive at bats.
- Hall of Fame MLB pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm hit a home run in his first MLB at-bat. He never hit another home run over the remainder of his 21 year career.
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