Wacky Wednesday: 15 Wild and Fun Facts That Will Make You Say “Huh?”

As is Wednesday tradition, BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 fun and crazy you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining AND factual information and we would be crazy or wacky ourselves not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this Humpday treat courtesy of BB Insurance Marketing. Check them out!

– Twins interact with each other in the womb as early as 14 weeks into the pregnancy.

– If everyone in America scrounged up their loose change and put it together, they would have $15 billion.

– The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel Prize — even though the invention was later deemed inhumane to the mental patients it was used on.

– Eggs are shaped the way they’re shaped because when a nest is jostled, the egg will roll in a circle rather than out of the nest.

– You are more likely to die from the accidental detonation of a nuclear warhead than you are a commercial airliner accident.

– If you heated the head of a pin to the temperature of the center of the Sun, it will kill anyone within 1,000 miles of it.

– The happiest single people are those over the age of 65, according to a survey.

– There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.

– Paul McCartney is the only musician who has topped the chart as a solo artist, in a duo, in a trio, in a quartet, and a quintet.

– German was once the second most widely spoken language in the U.S.

– Genghis Kahn killed 11% of the world’s population.

– There are still 5 people alive who are born in the 1800s, and they are all women.

– It was calculated that the total weight of all the ants on Earth is almost equivalent to the total weight of humans.

– Women are more influenced by how a man smells than how he looks. Men, choose your fragrance wisely.

– Blowing into old game cartridges doesn’t help the game work, it actually corrodes and contaminates it.

(via @UberFacts & @GoogleFacts)