Life is weird, and history is weirder. Here are some weird fun and not so fun facts you may or may not know. 

• A human tooth has 36 calories. 

• The first slogan of the U.S. coin wasn’t “In God We Trust”, it was “Mind Your Business” and was designed by Benjamin Franklin. 

• The current American flag was designed by a 17 year old as a high school class project for which he got a B minus. 

• The word “Brain Freeze” is trademarked by 7-Eleven, Inc. 

• The word “Man” was originally gender neutral in old English. 

• Several elite universities including Ivy Leagues and Seven Sister schools in the U.S. took nude photos of every incoming freshman in the 1940s to 1970s. 

• “Poopen Shart Farten” in Hindi means “Full terms and conditions” in English. It only translates to this in Hindi because google translate cannot detect the correct language, so it just directs to Hindi. Apparently, nobody can really pinpoint exactly where the phrase originated (lmao) but sources claim it started as an online joke to say poo jokes with a German accent. 

• Kirby was named after John Joseph Kirby Jr., an American lawyer who successfully defended Nintendo in a lawsuit against Universal City Studios over the copyrightability of the character Donkey Kong. 

• New York City has so many restaurants that you could eat at a different restaurant for 12 years and never visit the same place twice and still have many places left to explore. 

• The FBI struggles to hire hackers because they have to have not smoked marijuana in 3 years. 

• If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you will get 1.2345678987654321 E+16 

• The entire state of Wyoming has only two working escalators. 

• The online art retailer CITIZEN is selling 24 karat gold pills for $425 each capsule that is designed to make your poop sparkly gold. 

• The original release of “Halo 2” for PC was delayed because Microsoft discovered that one of the developers hid a picture of his butt in the game’s source code. 

• There is a pizza hut perfume that smells like a box of fresh pizza hut pizza when you spray it on yourself. 

• There is a movie called “Rubber” that is about a murderous car tire named Robert that rolls around killing people and blowing things up. 

• There is a rumored sport called Banzai Skydiving that involves throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping right after it. There is no credible evidence that this has been successfully performed as defined. 

• A moment, a medieval unit of measurement, is equal to 90 seconds. 

• Since 1898, Motor vehicles have been banned on Mackinac Island in Michigan. 

• Pineapple skin can withstand temperatures of up to 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit. 

• Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes and let them fly freely in one of his Ted Talks in 2009 saying, “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some. I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.” He later revealed that there were malaria free. 

• The Bible does not mention December 25 because early Christians did not observe Jesus’ birth with a fixed date, and the celebration of Christmas developed hundreds of years later. 

• Mistletoe literally means “dung on a twig”. 

• Jingle bells was originally a Thanksgiving song. 

• Emperor Nero had a young boy named Sporus castrated and married him as his “Empress,” reportedly because Sporus resembled Nero’s deceased wife Poppaea Sabina. 

• Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to write the Declaration of Independence because the delegates feared he might sneak jokes into the document. 

• Ponies are not baby horses, just like how chihuahua and pugs are not baby dogs. Ponies are a type of horse that stay small even as adults. 

• YouTube started as a video based online dating site inspired by “Hot or Not” and its tagline was “Tune in Hook Up”. 

• Denmark allows the burning of its country flag as it is a form of self-expression, but prohibits the burning of other countries’ flags. 

• Humans are the only animal with a true chin. 

• High heels were originally designed for men and were used to help cavalry secure their feet while riding horses. 

• Shakespeare invented the name “Jessica” for one of his plays (missed opportunity to copyright since everything is copyrighted now). 

• The average American worker has 52 days off less than a medieval peasant. A medieval peasant gets 185 days off and the average American gets 132 days including weekends and holidays. 

• India is the only country with McDonald’s two outlets that are completely vegetarian. 

• Research suggests that people who are obsessed with celebrities may be less intelligent. 

• The only blue McDonald’s exists in Sedona, Arizona because yellow signs are banned there.