1.Play-Doh was originally designed to remove soot from wallpaper.
The only reason it became a toy was because vinyl wallpaper became a thing, making his product obsolete.
The creator needed to save the company and accidentally found that kids loved the stuff.
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After making it safe to play with, it was then marketed for kids.
Then when they do wake up in the spring, they have these really rough massive shits.
6.Tim Burtons inspiration forThe Nightmare Before Christmaswas seeing retail stores setting up their Christmas displays before Halloween had finished.
10.Erasers stop working because the whiteboard gets porous with age.
So instead of replacing erasers, use ethyl alcohol to re-dissolve the pigment and then wipe it away.
11.DumDums mystery flavor lollipop is made when they change from producing one flavor to the next.
Instead of throwing the contaminated mixture away, they labeled it as the Mystery Flavor.
Thus they started saying they were feeding their night pilots a special diet that included a lot of carrots.
A surprising number of people still believe this myth today.
14.The S in Harry S Trumans name doesnt stand for anything.
His middle name was just the letter S.
15.A flock of crows is known as a murder.
16.The reason old animated characters wore gloves is in short because its easier for them to wear them.
Easier to draw, animate, and do color differentials.
17.Cleopatra lived closer the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Pyramids of Giza.
20.The interrobang is punctuation used when you are both surprised and confused.
It is a combination of the question mark and exclamation point.
22.A palindrome is a word that can be read the same both ways, like level or race car.
The fear of palindromes is called aibohphobia, which itself is a palindrome
23.Albatrosses can sleep when they fly.
24.Theres an island littered with landmines that is only inhabited by penguins.
25.Giraffes are the only animals born with horns.
Other animals grow horns when they are older.
26.The cross sum of the numbers of a roulette wheel is 666.
27.Dragonflies have the highest successful kill rate of any creature on earth.
The Pope tried it and was like, Yo.
This is fucking lit, and baptized it.
Thats why Europe has coffee and why Italy has such a strong culture built around it.
32.Dogs never get insomnia.
33.A blue whales fart bubble is large enough to encase an entire horse.
34.Babies are born without kneecaps.
Its just cartilage that turns into bone when theyre around 4 years old.
37.Cockroaches are notoriously clean critters.
They ingest the poison which ultimately ends up killing them.
38.Almost exactly 90 years ago, Pluto was discovered (Feb 18, 1930).
Since its discovery, it has not completed a single orbit around the sun.
In fact, its only gone about 1/3rd of the way around in all that time.
39.Alaskas state website includes a video regarding moose safety.
Its made for middle schoolers, by middle schoolers.
41.The genitalia on a female hyena looks almost like the males.
Researchers thought hyenas were hermaphrodites for quite a long time before realizing otherwise.
The female hyenas penis is actually an elongated clitoris.
Its referred to as a pseudo-penis.
Female hyenas pee, mate, and give birth through it.
Also… even though the female hyenas penis isnt an actual penis, its longer than the males.
42.A giraffe has the same number of bones in their neck as humans.
43.Lego produces more tires than any manufacturer in the world.
44.The chainsaw was invented as a tool to assist in giving birth.
45.Clown fish will change sex if their partners die to mate with their children to survive.
46.Cheetahs can sprint for about 17 seconds straight.
47.Rabbits grind their teeth in happiness similar to how cats purr when theyre content.
48.It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
50.Wyoming only has two escalators.
