My Mind Is Completely Blown After Seeing And Reading These 35 Extremely Random Facts

Well, I'll be.

1. Plymouth Rock is much, much smaller than I thought:

This is Plymouth Rock. from mildlyinteresting

2. American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different:

American Froot Loops are different colours than Canadian Froot Loops. from mildlyinteresting

3. Circulated money gets worn out real quick:

$1000 of brand new vs circulated $1 bills. Sharpie for scale. from mildlyinteresting

4. Wolves are frighteningly huge:

Fresh wolf print I came across while lost in Denali, Alaska from mildlyinteresting

5. Soda can do this to metal over time:

The metal grates have been completely eaten thru from the Pepsi/mountain dew dispenser at my Taco Bell. from mildlyinteresting

6. Some bocce balls have little surprises inside:

There was a billiard ball inside of my bocce ball from mildlyinteresting

7. Phone numbers used to be two numbers:

A 50's era yardstick from a local lumber yard. Their phone number was "18". from mildlyinteresting

8. Highway signs are really, really, really huge:

This is a truck carrying the signs you see on the interstate from mildlyinteresting

9. There's not only a place that claims the longest hallway in America, there's also a plaque commemorating it:

I work in the building with the longest hallway in America from mildlyinteresting

10. Platinum is really, really, really expensive:

This is $721 of pure platinum. from mildlyinteresting

11. The American food section in a European grocery store is...interesting:

American food section in a supermarket in Ireland from mildlyinteresting

12. And this is what "American Candy" is:

American Candy according to a UK petrol station from mildlyinteresting

13. Blueberries can be bigberries:

This giant blueberry I found today from mildlyinteresting

14. Pineapples can be just casually grown like this:

The person who lived in my apartment before me planted pineapples. from mildlyinteresting

15. Toblerones... well, they can be huge:

This big Toblerone I bought from mildlyinteresting

16. Corner pianos are real things that exist in space and time:

Found a corner piano at the piano store today from mildlyinteresting

17. Fanta in the USA and Fanta in the UK could not be more different:

USA Fanta vs UK Fanta from mildlyinteresting

18. Someone tried to make circular playing cards happen but they most definitely did not happen:

This circular playing card deck from 1929 from mildlyinteresting

19. This is what the inside of a garbage truck looks like:

Interior and controls of my garbage truck. from mildlyinteresting

20. Meat vending machines exist:

This butcher has a vending machine for after hours from mildlyinteresting

21. Mosquito bites can make a tattoo enter the third dimension:

I got a mosquito bite next to a tattoo and it made the letters swell up into 3D. from mildlyinteresting

22. Peeled fruit makes me very, very uncomfortable:

Peeled citrus fruits from mildlyinteresting

23. The inside of an air mattress is sort of unsettling yet strangely beautiful:

the inside of my inflatable air mattress from mildlyinteresting

24. Horizontally sliced bread not only exists, you can buy it:

The supermarket I work at sells horizontally sliced bread. from mildlyinteresting

25. There are six packs with cardboard packaging instead of plastic:

Cardboard rings for this 6 pack instead of the plastic ones from mildlyinteresting

26. This is what happens to colored pencils after termites get to them:

This old color pencil box after termites ate all the wood from mildlyinteresting

27. And you can make a perfect circle with LEGOs:

I made a circle out of lego bricks from mildlyinteresting

Neat!

28. Some really old pianos have built-in candle holders:

My piano from 1885 has a hidden pop-out candle holder from mildlyinteresting

29. Vodka does wonders on your dirty little driveway:

Last year we had a bag break and it dropped a 1.75L bottle of vodka and the pavements been clean there ever since from mildlyinteresting

30. Big ol' sticks of pasta can be used as straws:

A local bar started using pasta as straws instead of plastic. from mildlyinteresting

31. Some hotels in Iceland have Northern Lights-specific wake-up calls:

My hotel phone in Iceland has a special button that will wake you up if there are northern lights in the sky. from mildlyinteresting

32. Old cellular telephones used to have a peripheral for texting:

Found my old cell phone with optional clip on chatboard for ‘easy’ texting from mildlyinteresting

33. Ants, when putting their powerful ant strength together, can lift a glove up a pole:

I saw some ants carrying a glove up a lamp... from mildlyinteresting

34. Water can do this to a bunch of bricks:

This piece of wall that got rounded by the sea from mildlyinteresting

35. And, finally, under the right (or wrong) conditions, a lemon can look a lot like a big ol' yellow carrot:

This weird lemon that grew on our lemon tree from mildlyinteresting

Wow. What a wonderful world.