101 Random Facts That’ll Blow Your Mind

From the “wow, that’s hard to believe” to the outright weird

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What’s the most random fact you know? Here’s 101 of them compiled in one handy list. This is totally ripped off from a viral tweet by Brittany Packnett Cunningham.

1. The phone company Nokia originally sold toilet paper.
2. The act of touching glasses to cheers comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each other, so you would slam mugs together to spill each others drinks into your own to show trust you weren’t trying to kill them.
3. Dimes have 118 ridges on the edge.
4. There is a frequency of sound that humans technically can’t hear but can still sense and is a very common cause of claims a location is haunted.
5. The Basque language, spoken by fewer than a million people in Europe, is completely unrelated to any other European language. It is, as far as anyone can tell, completely unrelated to *any* other language.
6. Catherine Hickland was married to and divorced David…