Category: Weird Facts

In the 19th Century, Americans purposely filled their parks with squirrels for entertainment purposes. They were rarely found outside of the forest beforehand. (source)

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Viganella, Italy is cut off from direct sunlight for 83 days in the winter due to the surrounding mountains, so they set up a giant, computer-controlled mirror on top of the mountainside to reflect the sun’s rays onto the town. (source)

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Graham crackers and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were invented so you would stop masturbating. Their inventors both believed that eating bland foods would suppress sexual desires and ‘unhealthy’ urges. (source)

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A loaf of bread made in Pompeii in first century AD was discovered. Impressed on it was a Roman bread stamp, which bakeries were required to do to prevent fraud. (source)

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