Facts, facts, facts – we can’t get enough of them! This list looks at facts that are both fun and fascinating and, hopefully, largely unknown to most of our readers. They are generally tidbits of information that are not going to help you in your daily life, but they might give you something to talk about at a party. Feel free to add more to the comments.
1. Dracula is the most filmed story of all time. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde comes second and Oliver Twist comes third.
2. Donald Duck has a sister called Dumbella.
3. Coca Cola has a pH of 2.8.
4. Al Capone’s older brother was a policeman in Nebraska.
5. Henry Ford never had a driver’s license.
6. The original name of Pacman was going to be Puck Man until the developers saw the obvious potential for parody.
7. Frank Baum got the name Oz in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ from his alphabetized filing cabinet (O-Z).
8. The Buzz generated by an electric razor in Britain is in the key of G. In America it is in the key of B flat.
9. More than half the world’s population have never made or received a telephone call.
10. Eskimos never gamble.
11. The Snickers bar was named after a horse the Mars family owned.
12. Tomato Ketchup was once sold as medicine
13. George W. Bush was the 17th US state governor to become president.
14. Buenos Aires has more psychoanalysts, per head, than any other place in the world
15. Oscars given out during World War 2 were made of wood, because metal was in short supply.
16. 75 percent of Japanese women own vibrators. The global average is 47 percent.
17. The Christmas holidays are the busiest times in plastic surgeons offices.
18. There has never been a sex-change operation performed in Ireland.
19. In China, the bride wears red.
20. Mexico City has more taxis than any other city in the world.
21. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
22. President Andrew Jackson once killed a man in a duel because he insulted his wife.
23. The first ice pop dates back to 1923, when lemonade salesman Frank Epperson left a glass of lemonade outside one cold night. The next morning, the ice pop was born – and originally called the epsicle ice pop.
24. Nobody knows were Mozart is buried.
25. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Would a Japanese male like to explain himself?
あなたは何を意味するのですか？私は何かを説明するが好きではありません。なぜあなたは自分自身を説明できないのですか？
I absolutely love listverse! I absolutely love facts! But sadly the above ones are either uninteresting or just plain silly. Almost half of women own a vibrator? Don’t talk such rot! There are people who struggle to survive on less than a pound a day, do you think that they would be concerned with vibators?! Or is that to say that if certain countries wouldn’t own such things that ALL of western women regardless of age would?! Imagine Little Red Riding Hood’s shock on visiting her grandmother! “My! What a big…..” Yikes! Have you considered your sales figures could be based on several purchases by the same women over the period of their adulthood? Or perhaps by rather hopeful gentlemen?!
People know about Pac-Man from Scott Pilgrim.
My stepmother’s father could also write/draw two separate things at the same time. I was so transfixed by this that I worked at trying to become ambidextrous. As a result, I am dominantly left-handed, but write better than most I know with my right (almost as good as my left). Everything else (chopsticks, saw, hammer, potato peeler, etc.) is comfortable in either hand.
… although a bat (racquetball, baseball, cricket) is definitely a right-handed thing for me.
5. Henry Ford never had a driver’s license.
ummm excusr me but how could THE INVENTER OF THE CAR not have a drving lisense??? just sayin,check yr fax b4 doing a list
Too bad Henry Ford didn’t invent the car.
you sure that’s lemon?
“14. Buenos Aires has more psycho*****ysts, per head, than any other place in the world”
And yes, we need them.
There has never been a *****change operation performed in Mongolia too
I think Ghenghis Khan might have done a few. Gotta keep the troops in line.
Eskimos never gamble? Gee, that sounds like a load of crap.
Everyone is moaning and groaning that people are getting upset about the inauthenticity of this list. Well, there are some people like me who like to dig up little known facts or gain useless knowledge.
And why, might you ask?
Because FACTS are my thing. Some people like baseball, others like knitting or scrapbooking. Me? I like to learn. So excuse me, and the others like me, who feel a little let down that an awesome site such as Listverse has accepted and posted the trash that is this article. Screw the sources, it’s not even researched. Don’t claim it as fact, label it as nonsense.
Go girl! You tell ‘em!
Benjamin Franklin said. “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.” – I would add: “Believe only some of the things your read, and only up the point where they inform your mind rather than reinforce it.”
So is the photo a Japanese or Chinese woman?
#22: If I were forced to duel everyting I insulted my wife…
“14. Buenos Aires has more psycho*****ysts, per head, than any other place in the world” And 2/3 of them are jewish. And NO it’s not a racist comment, I’m from Buenos Aires and 2/3 of the psycho*****ysts that I’ve been to were jewish women. And yes, we need them a lot, our country is a mess
10 and 24 are wrong and almost anyone can do 25
#25 is amazing.
Puck it.
Interesting…half the stuff I’ve never heard of…but it was good to learn something new.
mozart is burried in my backyard
Number 10. There’s no way anyone could verify that as true.
the vibrator one is ridiculous
Nobody knows wher Attila the Hun is buried.
Oh my! I’m in Buenos Aires and studying Psychology.
I even live a few blocks away from “Villa Freud”.
Uh..yeah nice list, Troll. Who approved this?
Number seven is only a theory. A better known one (at least where I live) is that it is short for ounce. The book Is full of symbolism of politics in the late 1800′s. Namely the free coinage of silver
You are a douchebag. If this site want to be taken seriously it should go over their grammar mistakes two or three times. I guarantee you the highly comical, somewhat immature site cracked has better grammar then this waste of time.
The list is dubious to say the least.
vibrator one is totally off. I’m 100% no one took a poll of the world and found that 47% of women have vibrators. I’m also 100% no one took a poll of Japan and found that 75% of women there have vibrators, they probably took a very small sample (polls are usually 100-1000 people). Small samples are not reliable.
Sorry – Eskimos never gamble? That’s not a fact, it sounds like the punchline to a joke. I haven’t even finished the rest of the list, I just had to be yet another person to point that out. I bet Eskimos don’t do a lot of stuff, probably enough for another list really. Number 1. Eskimos rarely windsurf. Number 2. Eskimos didn’t invent the telephone…
@12 – ‘This should cure your case of tastless fries’
I’ve read about #9 in a book before…a book that was published between 1990 – 1998. It couldn’t be “more than a half of the world population”. It would at least be ¼ of the world population.
What is the evidence behind ‘eskimos’ never gambling? And i checked the pH level for pepsi/coke and the pH level can vary significantly… Any where from 2.5 to 4.2, especially since the pH scale takes into account logirithms. Good light hearted list though
Ha I only know about the Puck man fact because of Scot Pilgrim vs the world =)
i see the inuits?eskimos spending there welfare checks in the casino regularly. Walk into any casino in canada odds are youll see atleast 3 no matter what casino you go to
In India Also the bride wears RED
lolz. people arguing about facts that may or may not be factual based on information found on one source on the internet. I guess your university educations or even HS educations served you well didn’t they?
Missing an h in #24
Um.. #5: http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/collections/Collections/library/ford/family/license.html
LOL, great list
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#24 should say “where” not “were!”
Not all Chinese women wear red for a wedding… in fact not many do. This is an old custom. Recently, Western fashion has grown and although culturally, the color white signifies death, women in China now have white wedding dresses.
“75 percent of Japanese women own vibrators. The global average is 47 percent”. Asian men have small penises. Just sayin
This list is full of statements that are probably not facts. Some are guesses, some are highly-disputed tales, some are just wrong. And, yes, a little research would have eliminated some of these just because there are so many versions of the truth you don’t know which is correct. To get the TRUTH would require hundreds of hours of research. For a list like this, it isn’t worth it.
In the version I read, Epperson had a lemonade stand so he was, technically, a lemonade salesman. The statement that Eskimos don’t gamble isn’t just wrong, it’s somewhat racist. That brides in certain countries wear red is probably somewhat outdated, but brides in the U.S. don’t always wear white, either. The info on women and vibrator ownage is probably just made up. If you knew how many vibrators were actually sold and divided it by the number of women, you’d get a number but it wouldn’t be useful. Too many other factors. Are we sure the horse wasn’t named Marathon?
I once looked up the James Worson story (He disappeared in plain view.). I started with Wikipedia and then went through about 30 other sites. I reported back that I hadn’t found any info I considered reliable and useful. Several people told me I should do research as they had spent 30 seconds looking on Wikipedia and found the TRUTH. Hehehe.
Da vinci da bamf. Just kidding. Great list.
wow…great facts…:))
fact # 23 … I found in another one of your lists “4. Popsicle
The Fact: The Popsicle was invented by an 11 year who kept it secret for 18 years.
The inventor was Frank Epperson who, in 1905, left a mixture of powdered soda and water out on the porch, which contained a stir stick. That night, temperatures in San Francisco reached record low temperature. When he woke the next morning, he discovered that it had frozen to the stir stick, creating a fruit flavored ice treat that he named the epsicle. 18 years later he patented it and called it the Popsicle.
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Why does it say eskimos never gamble?? They sure do. In almost all villages there is Bingo, a big favorite past time of eskimos, and also they love to gamble money with board games (such as Sorry!) and poker.
I dont know if anyone mentioned this yet but Oscar actually was not made out of wood but of plaster and were exchanged for the real thing after the war.
Eskimo is derogatory. They are Inuits.
Duuuude saying Eskimos don’t gamble is like saying religious people don’t sin… They gamble!