60 "Weird" Facts They Wont Teach You In School

Who would have guessed this would be as big of a thing as it is?

Kylin

• Published in Interesting
• May 29, 2022

There’s something addictive about learning cool facts. Besides priming yourself to be the next trivia champion, just being able to learn and know things that aren’t so common can be exciting.

And I know for a fact that it’s not just me that feels this way. At least a whopping 1.2 million other people share a similar sentiment, as they all follow the ‘Weird Facts’ Instagram page.

The Weird Facts Instagram project has expanded all over social media, with a dedicated Facebook, Youtube, Telegram, Pinterest, and website. Their following grew so large that the founder decided to take on the challenge and created a smartphone app.

The app has over 900 random, fascinating, and real facts that you can learn to wow your friends, family, and trivia goers with. While some of the facts might sound strange or maybe even impossible, it’s all been double and triple-checked by ‘Weird Facts.’

Thanks to ‘Weird Facts’, we were able to collect some of the most interesting and even hard-to-believe science and history facts shared for you to enjoy. Some manage to be wholesome, others are shocking and thought-provoking, while a few are just downright sad.

These are definitely things you wouldn’t be taught in everyday school. Keep scrolling to see more.

1. Gordon Ramsay hired an ex-convict after they appeared on his cooking shows

2. Bob Ross is an even better human than we once thought

3. Hedy Lamarr was as smart as she was beautiful

4. Chinese farmer achieved the unthinkable

5. A teenager completed her bucket list by saving a friends life

6. Playboy challenged societal norms way back in the 1950's

7. Volunteers worked for 8 years to clean a beach in India with a huge payoff

8. A brilliant Iranian woman found a work-around to be able to compete in a Chess Tournament

9. A Russian couple were miraculously reunited after 60 years

10. A very lucky pup survived 5 weeks stranded on an island

11. An Australian man was greatly rewarded after he was proclaimed dead for 14 minutes

12. Doodlebug approached humans for help after being abandoned

13. Students at a Sweden university have a nightly scream session

14. A man saved over 2.4 million lives

15. Inmates helped save a prison guard

16. Husband literally changed his life to save his wife

17. Russia erected a monument to honor laboratory mice used in science research

18. Identical twins separated at birth found each other on accident via social media

19. Mozart was petty AF

20. 2 surgeons spent 32 consecutive hours successfully removing tumors from a brain

21. Billy Joel doesn't sell "front row" tickets

22. Mr. Rogers started announcing when he fed his fish after receiving a letter from a blind child

23. The U.S. will allow you to take a kidney from a stray dog if yours needs one, under one condition

24. Steve Buscemi returned to fire fighting to help after 9/11

25. Joyce Diane was the first woman to win the game show "The $64,000 Question"

26. Matt LeBlanc only had $11 when he auditioned for his role on FRIENDS

27. An elephant family was caught snoozing by a drone

28. A pig saved their owners life

29. Sylvester Stallone kept the turtles from the movie Rocky

30. A single man spent his life savings to send 33 people to college

31. The oldest bar in the world is over 1100 years old

32. A New York restaurant employs grandmothers to run their kitchens

33. A dad created beeping Easter eggs so his visually impaired daughters could participate in Easter egg hunts

34. A homeless man readily returned an accidentally dropped engagement ring and was rewarded greatly

35. A homeless man returned a $10k check he found on the street and was rewarded with a sustainable life

36. A homeowner avoided losing everything to wild fires by turning on sprinklers

37. in 1975 the women of Iceland went on strike for equal rights, and delivered a power message

38. Koko the Gorilla loved Robin Williams

39. A janitor at Boston College was able to send all 5 of his kids to study there for free

40. A Gay man facing discrimination was only allowed to adopt a special needs child

41. A doctor tested his theory on himself and won a Nobel Prize

42. A student used his body to hold a door shut during the Parkland shootings, saving 20 other students

43. Italian doctors created a fake disease to help save Jewish people from Nazis

44. A millionaire got folks riled up with a publicity stunt about organ donations

45. A pair or tortoise hatchlings were found in one egg

46. A group of women kept a 30 year secret helping people at random

47. A sewer worker found an old drain that led directly into a banks gold vault

48. Dolly Parton has a program that sends a book monthly to children 0-5

49. Cats know what we want, they just don't care to do anything about it

50. KFC sent a man a picture of him riding the Colonel's back while holding a drumstick for a small observation

51. The Queen broke a 200 year old tradition after 9/11

52. Indonesian rice farmers figured out a mutually beneficial way to increase yields

53. A woman held her horses head for 3 hours waiting for help

54. A father went to extreme measures to save his son from doctors wrong diagnosis

55. 600 men showed up to volunteer at a middle schools "Breakfast with Dads" event

56. A 3-year-old survived 11 days in a Siberian forest thanks to the family dog

57. 2 paramedics stayed behind to help feed and clean up after 5 kids when their mom was taken to the hospital

58. A dog figured out how to "pay" for food by watching people

59. Due to a law in Germany, all German animal shelters are "no-kill" shelters

60. A cow broke free from a slaughterhouse to live out her days alone on an island

Did you happen to know every single fact we listed in this article? Or did any of these facts help change how you view our world, whether for better or worse?

In the comments section below, let us know everything, your thoughts, feelings, and weird or otherwise not widely known facts. And be sure to share these weird facts with your friends!

Kylin