60 "Weird" Facts They Won't Teach You In School
Who would have guessed this would be as big of a thing as it is?
There’s something addictive about learning cool facts. Besides priming yourself to be the next trivia champion, just being able to learn and know things that aren’t so common can be exciting. As Dr. Dan Siegel, a child psychiatrist, states, "The mind is like a river; it flows and changes, and we can influence its direction." This sentiment resonates with many, as evidenced by the popularity of various educational platforms. The founder of the ‘Weird Facts’ initiative emphasizes the importance of curiosity in learning, stating, "Curiosity is the engine of achievement." Dr. Janet Lansbury, a parenting expert, asserts, "When we nurture curiosity, we foster a love for learning that lasts a lifetime." Thanks to platforms dedicated to sharing fascinating and often overlooked facts, we can explore some of the most interesting and hard-to-believe science and history facts that are often neglected in traditional education. Some are wholesome, others shocking, and a few downright sad. These are definitely things you wouldn’t be taught in everyday school. Keep scrolling to see more.
1. Gordon Ramsay hired an ex-convict after they appeared on his cooking shows
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4. A Chinese farmer achieved the unthinkable
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5. A teenager completed her bucket list by saving a friend's life
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6. Playboy challenged societal norms way back in the 1950s
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7. Volunteers worked for 8 years to clean a beach in India with a huge payoff
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8. A brilliant Iranian woman found a workaround to be able to compete in a chess tournament
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9. A Russian couple was miraculously reunited after 60 years
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10. A very lucky pup survived 5 weeks stranded on an island
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11. An Australian man was greatly rewarded after he was proclaimed dead for 14 minutes
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12. A doodlebug approached humans for help after being abandoned
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13. Students at a Swedish university have a nightly scream session
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14. A man saved over 2.4 million lives
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15. Inmates helped save a prison guard
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16. A husband literally changed his life to save his wife
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17. Russia erected a monument to honor laboratory mice used in scientific research
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18. Identical twins separated at birth found each other by accident via social media
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19. Mozart was petty AF
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20. Two surgeons spent 32 consecutive hours successfully removing tumors from a brain
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21. Billy Joel doesn't sell "front row" tickets
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22. Mr. Rogers started announcing when he fed his fish after receiving a letter from a blind child
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23. The U.S. will allow you to take a kidney from a stray dog if yours needs one, under one condition
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24. Steve Buscemi returned to firefighting to help after 9/11
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25. Joyce Diane was the first woman to win the game show "The $64,000 Question"
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26. Matt LeBlanc only had $11 when he auditioned for his role on FRIENDS
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27. An elephant family was caught snoozing by a drone
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28. A pig saved their owner's life
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29. Sylvester Stallone kept the turtles from the movie Rocky
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30. A single man spent his life savings to send 33 people to college
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31. The oldest bar in the world is over 1,100 years old
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32. A New York restaurant employs grandmothers to run their kitchens
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33. A dad created beeping Easter eggs so his visually impaired daughters could participate in Easter egg hunts
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34. A homeless man readily returned an accidentally dropped engagement ring and was greatly rewarded
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35. A homeless man returned a $10,000 check he found on the street and was rewarded with a sustainable life
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36. A homeowner avoided losing everything to wildfires by turning on sprinklers
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37. In 1975, the women of Iceland went on strike for equal rights and delivered a powerful message
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38. Koko the Gorilla loved Robin Williams
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39. A janitor at Boston College was able to send all 5 of his kids to study there for free
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40. A gay man facing discrimination was only allowed to adopt a special needs child
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41. A doctor tested his theory on himself and won a Nobel Prize
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42. A student used his body to hold a door shut during the Parkland shootings, saving 20 other students
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43. Italian doctors created a fake disease to help save Jewish people from the Nazis
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44. A millionaire got folks riled up with a publicity stunt about organ donations
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45. A pair of tortoise hatchlings were found in one egg
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46. A group of women kept a 30-year secret helping people at random
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47. A sewer worker found an old drain that led directly into a bank's gold vault
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48. Dolly Parton has a program that sends a book monthly to children aged 0-5
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49. Cats know what we want; they just don't care to do anything about it
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50. KFC sent a man a picture of him riding the Colonel's back while holding a drumstick for a small observation
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51. The Queen broke a 200-year-old tradition after 9/11
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52. Indonesian rice farmers figured out a mutually beneficial way to increase yields
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53. A woman held her horse's head for 3 hours waiting for help
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54. A father went to extreme measures to save his son from the doctor's wrong diagnosis
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55. 600 men showed up to volunteer at a middle school's "Breakfast with Dads" event
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56. A 3-year-old survived 11 days in a Siberian forest thanks to the family dog
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57. Two paramedics stayed behind to help feed and clean up after 5 kids when their mom was taken to the hospital
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58. A dog figured out how to "pay" for food by watching people
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59. Due to a law in Germany, all German animal shelters are "no-kill" shelters
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60. A cow broke free from a slaughterhouse to live out her days alone on an island
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Did you happen to know every single fact we listed in this article? Or did any of these facts help change how you view our world, whether for better or worse?
In the comments section below, let us know everything—your thoughts, feelings, and weird or otherwise not widely known facts. And be sure to share these weird facts with your friends!
