SOME INTERESTING RANDOM FACTS THAT WILL MELT YOUR BRAIN AND SHOCK YOUR YOUR FRIENDS

 

From Abraham Lincoln's wrestling career to the killer habits of cats, these random facts are guaranteed to boggle your mind.

Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost only once in more than 300 matches.Public Domain

It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost more than $100 million in 2013 just because of the cost it took to make the coins.Public Domain

Christopher Columbus never set foot in mainland North America.Getty Images

The Earth is actually farthest from the Sun during summer (in the Northern Hemisphere).

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their cousins.

Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints.Public Domain

About eight percent of men in 16 populations spanning Asia are related to Genghis Khan.

Napoleon was actually slightly taller than average.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, but Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on it.NASA

Humans did not evolve from chimps or any other extant primates, but instead, chimps and humans evolved from the same, now extinct, common ancestor.

The longest time between two twins being born was 87 days. 

Domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals every year.Wikimedia Commons

Light doesn't always travel at the speed of light. In fact, it's been clocked at speeds as low as 38 miles per hour.Public Domain

Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.Public Domain

There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents, covering much of Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan.Public Domain

The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg (in present-day France), in which hundreds of residents danced continually for no apparent reason. Several danced themselves to death.

A United States park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and survived it — seven times between 1942 and 1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1983. 

There are no words in the English language that rhyme with "wolf.

Humans have far more than five senses, with some scientists putting the number above 20.

In 1923, a man named Frank Hayes won a steeplechase at Belmont Park in New York. Before crossing the finish line, he suffered a fatal heart attack, making him the first – and only – dead man to win a horse race. 

The first foreign-born samurai was named Yasuke and was of black African origin.

A penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building could not actually kill anyone.

One of Richard Nixon's favorite snacks was cottage cheese topped with ketchup.

German doctors were the first ones to link smoking and lung cancer. As a result, the Nazis initiated the first government anti-smoking campaign in modern times.  

Physicist William Higinbotham worked on the first nuclear bomb and what is thought to be the first video game ever, "Tennis for Two.  

Cowboys mostly didn't wear cowboy hats, but instead bowlers, derbies, and the like. 

In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer named Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist's dummy named Brendan O'Smarty. He was.

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