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Our book is finally released! 📙 🎉

150 pages full of the most fascinating facts, colourfully illustrated and bound into a very nice hardcover volume.

Visit http://factourism.com/book to get yours!

3, 2, 1… Factourism has launched! We’re super excited to have you on board. Factourism brings you the most fascinating facts of our world. It’s funny, horrible, and unbelievable facts about people, animals, science, history, you name it. Let’s go explore! http://factourism.com

George W. Bush was the head cheerleader at his high school

Source: http://factourism.com/source/cheerleader-bush

1% of the static on the empty channel of an analog television is a remnant of the Big Bang

Source: http://factourism.com/source/big-bang-tv

Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion

Source: http://factourism.com/source/lincoln-wrestling

There is a beer brewed out of fossils

Source: http://factourism.com/source/fossil-beer

Karl Lagerfeld owned hundreds of iPods

Source: http://factourism.com/source/lagerfeld-ipods

You can make diamonds out of tequila

Source: http://factourism.com/source/tequila-diamonds

Coca-Cola was the first soft drink in space
(it was followed by Pepsi a few hours later)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/space-drink

Cheese is the most shoplifted food

Source: http://factourism.com/source/stolen-cheese

1 hour of running could add 7 hours to your life

Source: http://factourism.com/source/running-hours

Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another

Source: http://factourism.com/source/goldfish-music

Deceased human bodies can be turned into electricity

Source: http://factourism.com/source/dead-electricity

Dynamite can be made from peanuts

Source: http://factourism.com/source/peanut-dynamite

Until the early 19th century, Australia was best known as New Holland

Source: http://factourism.com/source/new-holland

20% of mugs at work contain faecal bacteria

Source: http://factourism.com/source/mug-poop

The odds of a coin flip are actually not 50-50 but 51-49 (it will land slightly more often facing the same direction)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/coin-flip

One of the big life threats for baby pandas is getting crushed by their mothers

Source: http://factourism.com/source/crushed-baby-panda

Our book is finally released! 📙 🎉

150 pages full of the most fascinating facts, colourfully illustrated and bound into a very nice hardcover volume.

Visit http://factourism.com/book to get yours!

The first animals sent into space were fruit flies

Source: http://factourism.com/source/space-fly

The office chair with wheels was invented by Charles Darwin

Source: http://factourism.com/source/darwin-chair

Coco Chanel was a Nazi secret agent

Source: http://factourism.com/source/nazi-chanel