67 mind-blowing facts you’ll think are made up (but aren’t)

The crotchety green guru and the pink porcine diva were both voiced, at times, by Frank Oz, a multi-talented actor, puppeteer, director and producer.

Devrom, the brand name for bismuth subgallate, can be used as an “internal deodorant” that makes your flatulence and bowel movements completely odour-free. It may discolour your tongue and stool, leading to some surprising bathroom (and third date?) moments, so definitely talk to a doctor before trying it.

On the other hand, these are 14 body odours you should never ignore.

The Las Vegas Strip is probably the most famous thing about Nevada and the top reason tourists come to Las Vegas. But the strip is misnamed – it’s actually in the unincorporated city of Paradise. Las Vegas’ founders ordered all casinos be built outside city limits to avoid sullying their reputation. In an ironic twist, now that’s all anyone knows the city for.

Country clubs and hotel ballrooms are so passe – if you really want to throw a party everyone will remember, try renting out an entire country for the night. For just $70,000 you can rent Lichtenstein for an evening. If that seems excessive, you can always just rent one of the six Austrian villages, three German towns, or one Swiss ski-resort village.

Thanks to its proximity to the north pole and incredibly large land mass (it’s twice as big as Texas), Alaska is both the state farthest to the west and to the east in the United States.

There’s a good scientific reason for shaking your ketchup before you pour it on your fries: The more you shake it, the thinner the consistency gets. Why? Spherical tomato particles form into thinner ellipses when shaken, making your ketchup 1,000 times runnier.

The people of the Middle Ages prized sesame seeds so highly that they cost more than their weight in gold. They’re highly nutritious and tasty but many civilisations thought they also held magical or spiritual properties, bestowing luck and fortune. Now you’ll never pick them off your hamburger bun again, right?

Think the famed Sahara desert is big? At 9.06 million square kilometres, it’s definitely a monster, but it doesn’t even compare to the Antarctic Polar Desert. It covers the continent of Antarctica and has a size of about 14.2 million square kilometres. Surprised? The definition of a desert is simply a place that receives less than 25 centimetres of precipitation per year – it doesn’t have to be hot!

Here are 14 crazy facts about earth you never learned in school.

Over 31 million people in the United States suffer from chronic kidney disease and it’s the ninth leading cause of death, making kidney transplants relatively common. But did you know that most of the time the surgeon doesn’t remove the diseased kidney? The doctor normally leaves the old kidney in place and puts the donor kidney in the lower belly on the front side of the body.

Forget War and Peace. If you’re looking for a nice, long read, you’ll want The Subspace Emissary’s Worlds Conquest. This piece of fan fiction, based on the Nintendo video game Super Smash Bros., is 4,102,328 words long – more than seven times the length of Tolstoy’s masterpiece – as of April 2019. We added the date because it’s still a “work in progress” and may get longer!