lizzymodblog:

gearholder:

lizzymodblog:

gearholder:

lizzymodblog:

rustywidget:

gearholder:

gearholder:

lizzymodblog:

Gingerbread was invented in 1723 by a dyslectic ship cook serving under the pirate captain Gingerbeard.

At least six localities (all in the Midwestern United States) claim to be the “Popcorn Capital of the World”:

• Ridgway, Illinois
• Valparaiso, Indiana
• Van Buren, Indiana

On january of 1972, the entire continent of Alaska, which was under property of the Soviet Alliance of Russias, was sold to the government of the United States for about 2 cents an acre.

Tryin’ to throw everybody off by putting a few actual facts into the mix?

Bowling was originally created by a native american tribe, who used coconuts for bowling balls. Traditionally, the victor would get to eat the coconuts once the game was over. Last year, over two hundred native american teeth were lost, trying to eat bowling balls.

The Lithuanian Zebra, now extinct, was famous for possessing horizontal stripes instead of the vertical ones we see today on the surviving Savanna Zebra. It is theorized that the muslims knew the way to perfectly breed them into a hybrid with both horizontal and vertical stripes, whose skin was used in the elaboration of highly priced chessboards.

Oranges are actually not orange at all. They’re blue. The man who named them was colourblind, but the name is now so common that the human brain has become hardwired to see them as orange.

After the War of the Pororoca, Dutch sailors would often end up stranded in Brazilian territory due to the strong currents that kept pushing towardsthe Amazon river, making it impossible for their boats to leave. Soon they began to be known as “Sea Beggars” for how much they would beg the sea itself for a chance to leave.

Only 33% of the people on Earth have never eaten an octopus ring. This is because 34% of the people on Earth are octopi in disguise, 1% of which are cannibals.

When he was 22, Bear Grylls had a skydiving accident 16,000 ft over Africa, and fell on his back, crushing several vertebrae.

He wasn’t even angry about it.

(via )