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There is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration

Eggplants contain nicotine

Source: http://factourism.com/source/eggplant-nicotine

Fish are getting dumped from aeroplanes in order to repopulate lakes

Source: http://factourism.com/source/fish-airdrop

Some cities in the US used to have ‘ugly laws’, fining people $1 to $50 for how they looked

Source: http://factourism.com/source/ugly-laws

About once a week, sloths make a trip to the bottom of their tree in order to poop

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

Scientists can grow teeth out of the stem cells found in urine

Source: http://factourism.com/source/urine-teeth

Pineapples were status symbols in 18th century Europe
(they were so expensive that people rented them for the evening to show off at parties)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/fancy-pineapple

The IKEA catalogue is as widespread as the Bible

Source: http://factourism.com/source/ikea-bible

In 1930s London, babies were dangled out of windows in “baby cages”

Source: http://factourism.com/source/baby-cage

A Japanese toilet brand has built a motorcycle that runs on excrement

Source: http://factourism.com/source/toilet-motorcycle

We sigh every 5 minutes on average, without which our lungs would collapse

Source: http://factourism.com/source/sigh-or-die

Tiny mites are living and having sex on your face

Source: http://factourism.com/source/face-mites

Greenland is farther east, west, north, and south than Iceland

Source: http://factourism.com/source/greenland-iceland

Play-Doh was originally sold and used as a wallpaper cleaner

Source: http://factourism.com/source/playdoh-cleaner

Pen-tailed treeshrews spend every night drinking fermented nectar (drinking the human equivalent of 9 glasses of wine a night)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/alcoholic-shrew

The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dalí

Source: http://factourism.com/source/dali-chups

A cow and bison hybrid is called a ‘beefalo’

Source: http://factourism.com/source/beefalo

The spot where Hitler shot himself is now a kids’ playground

Source: http://factourism.com/source/hitler-playground

One testicle usually hangs lower than the other

Source: http://factourism.com/source/testicles-heights

There are over 1,000 varieties of bananas
(and most the ones we eat are the same: Cavendish bananas)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/bananas