22 Extremely Random Things I Just Found Out That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind Last Week

    I never knew any of this.

    1. You can find balls of of salt in the Dead Sea. BALLS OF SALT!

    2. This is what a blue jay going through puberty looks like:

    It's NOT just a phase, mom.

    3. If a burn or cut is severe enough dirt won't stick to it:

    4. Some airports have bathrooms just for dogs:

    5. Pink grasshoppers are out there in the wild:

    Read more about them here.

    6. This is what a $500 bill looks like:

    That's President McKinley on it.

    7. A giraffe's leg is even bigger than my wildest dreams could have imagined:

    8. This is what a nude Twix looks like:

    9. This is the rocking chair Abe Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot:

    10. This is what an ASL word search looks like:

    11. There used to be typewriters with the sole purpose of writing music:

    12. Some ovens will tell you when you started cooking if you forget to put a timer on:

    Bless this.

    13. This is what your blood without red blood cells looks like:

    It's plasma.

    14. You can use "extra long scissors" for annoying tasks like cutting wrapping paper:

    15. Parking spaces with lines all the way up the wall in front of you exist and need to be a thing everywhere:

    16. Some knives already know your clumsy little rear-end is going to get hurt:

    17. This is what a $10 coin looks like:

    Okay, so it's not actually legal tender. It's a commemorative coin from the now-defunct and never formally recognized Principality of Hutt River in Australia.

    18. You can replace your boring office chair wheels with rollerblade wheels for MAXIMUM SPEED:

    19. For some reason, you can buy sausages with bones in them in Japan:

    20. There are batteries that take precautions to make sure kids don't chow down on them:

    It's called denatonium benzoate.

    21. There are solar-powered park benches where you can charge your phone:

    22. And, finally, some brilliant mind finally fixed the infamous "huge gap in the bathroom stall" problem: