Weird, scary, bizarre, and useless facts, Do you know any?

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There are tons of strange and almost unbelievable facts around the world. Do you know any?

Did you know that for most people (not everyone), if you eat a banana before you go to bed, you have bad dreams?

Share your strange and unusual facts in this thread!
 
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Leeches have thirty-two brains.
If you spray hairspray on certain spiders, and run over them with roller skates, they burst into flames.
You can walk on custard.
 
The cries of the following two Pokémon sound like a Boo:
  • Croagunk
  • Toxicroak
 
If you listen to Starly's cry, it sounds like the Puzzle Completed tune in Legend of Zelda games.
 
I am nature's greatest miracle.
 
There's a kind of parasite that attacks fish in a very personal manner. Well, there's two, actually. One I don't know the name of. It swims into the mouths of fish, bites a vein under its tongue, and drinks up. As the tongue atrophies due to blood loss, the parasite gets bigger. Eventually the parasite replaces the fish's tongue entirely and takes part of the food the fish eats. Here's a picture.

Another is the Candiru fish of the Amazon. If you've seen The Venture Bros. you know what it's like. If not... imagine a little bloodsucking fish that lives in rivers. It instinctively seeks out the gills of fish. If things are in the water that are not fish, it finds whatever little openings are available that remind it of fish-gills... including the urinary tracts of people wading in the river. When it hunkers down to feed, it uses thorned hooks to clamp in and get its blood-drink on. The pain, as you might think, is incomprable.
 
Fireflies normally use there lights to attract mates and every species each have their own mating flash patterns. However, the females of firefly species that fall under the genus Photuris tend to mimic the mating flashes of other firefly species. It is done to trick males of certain firefly species in thinking they've found a potential mate, but get eaten instead.
 
When left in the sun, mayonnaise grows hair.
 
The average person swallows three spiders a year in their sleep.

I killed Ganondrof on Twilight Princess by using the fishing pole XD it's scary that the most evil villian ever can be downed with a fishing pole...and weird o.o (no, I didn't use cheats)
 
Here are some really farfetched facts:
  • A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electrical shock.
  • A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
  • A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
  • A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
  • A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.
  • A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
  • A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
  • Apple pits contain cyanide.
 
It is illegal to ride a horse under the influence of alcohol in the state of Colorado.
 
The world's second-longest serving political prisoner - behind Nelson Mandela - is Chia Tye Poh, who was held by Singapore for 22 years, six months, two weeks and four days in jail for being accused, among other things, in participating in violent Communist activities, despite protesting his innocence, without charge or trial.

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Kim Il Sung - the dictator of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 - was born on the same day when the Titanic sank - April 15, 1912.

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Unsettling enough?
 
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The average person swallows three spiders a year in their sleep.
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Urban legend. That fact was, in fact, made up by a folklore student who wanted to see if people would accept facts made up whole-cloth as the truth if they read them in an email about "strange true facts." It worked.
 
The Tunguska Blast went down in 1908, as I recall. It was a volt of energy that could be seen for miles, and when photographed seemed to be a column of light slamming into the middle of the Tunguska forest. Its impact destroyed windows hundreds of miles away. It light up the night skies of London for several days. Its force was greater than the first nuclear weapons detonated almost forty years later. Exactly what it was is still unknown. Had it arrived several hours earlier, it would have wiped St. Petersburg from the map.
 
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