Factourism @factourism@mastodon.xyz

Factourism is turning 3 today! 🎂 We collected our favourite facts from the past few years and turned them into a short animated film! 🎬 From honey bees to dead bodies, it’s a journey across the marvels and the weirdness of our existence on this planet. https://youtu.be/nJEfOUweBsU

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

The time has come to leave Factourism behind and move towards new adventures.⁠Thank you for your support, comments, and for spreading the word about all the funny, horrible, and unbelievable facts from around the globe.⁠

To discover our new projects follow us at @ferdiocom@twitter.com

Factourism is turning 3 today! 🎂 We collected our favourite facts from the past few years and turned them into a short animated film! 🎬 From honey bees to dead bodies, it’s a journey across the marvels and the weirdness of our existence on this planet. https://youtu.be/nJEfOUweBsU

Adults humans contain up to 60% water

Source: http://factourism.com/source/human-water

Before the eraser, bread was used to remove pencil marks

Source: http://factourism.com/source/bread-eraser

Finns have a term that means ‘drinking at home, alone, in your underwear’

Source: http://factourism.com/source/underwear-drinking

Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore

Source: http://factourism.com/source/illegal-gum

A French dog created legal history by appearing as a witness in a murder case

Source: http://factourism.com/source/dog-witness

In Russia, beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage until 2013

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

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