Weird Facts

1. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

2. If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it. The only way to see a complete, full circle, rainbow is to be flying (or falling).

Otherwise whatever you’re standing on will cast a shadow that will cut off the bottom of the circle. A rainbow is an angle-dependent illusion. They don’t actually exist anywhere, they just appear to.

3. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it’s smiling.)

4. It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

5. Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets then didn’t exist.

6. Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill, ‘If you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. He replied, ‘ if you were my wife, I would drink it!’

7. Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do

8. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”

9. More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the US Treasury

10. Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave

11. 89 percent of the weight of water is made up of oxygen

12. Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite

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