Weird facts are those "strange but true things" that we hear from time to time and we react by saying, "That’s weird".

Not all the weird facts we have are in the form of videos. A fact is a fact weird or not and weird facts have been around for a long time and pre-date the video camera. The thing about them is that they are often things that amaze us when we hear them, but for some reason we don’t remember them for long. (at least that is how they work on me) This means that we do not have a huge amount of them to show you just now. But, we are always on the look-out for weird facts and hope to have more and more posted here as time goes by.

The list below is a random selection of weird facts:

  1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. They were painted over when the painting was refurbed, but they are still visible under X-RAY. More information1 – 2
  2. Tablecloths were first used as towels dinner guests used to wipe their hands and faces when eating.
  3. In Iceland tipping is considered an insult. (This may change in the current economic climate).
  4. Lightening is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
  5. The first product to have a bar code on it was Wriggly’s Gum.
  6. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old
  7. You can not fold a piece of paper more than seven times.
  8. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
  9. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
  10. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  11. Cat urine glows under a black-light.
  12. The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.
  13. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
  14. Under the right conditions, a mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
  15. The world weighs 5,940 billion billion metric tons.
  16. A cockroach can live for weeks after its head is cut off – it only dies from starvation.
  17. A young child has 300 bones and an adult has 206 bones.
  18. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  19. Lightning strikes Earth about 8,500,000 times per day
  20. There were no ponies in the "Pony Express".