Mind Blowing Facts
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This blog contains verified mind blowing facts, cool and weird stories and news around the world. Information on this blog is for general information purpose only.
Mind Blowing Facts
6d ago
In 1988, Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives, jumped from the plane for his third dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachute, so he jumped to his death from around 10,000 feet. The camera footage of the fatal fall survived.
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Mind Blowing Facts
3M ago
There’s a Japanese water beetle that, when eaten by a frog, will travel through its digestive system and escape out the back end alive and unharmed ..read more
A convenience store hanging on a cliff has been nicknamed “the most inconvenient convenience store”…
Mind Blowing Facts
3M ago
A convenience store hanging on a cliff has been nicknamed “the most inconvenient convenience store” in China ..read more
Mind Blowing Facts
3M ago
International Shooting Union barred women from shooting with men in 1993 after Zhang Shan won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics ..read more
Mind Blowing Facts
4M ago
A death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitioned the courts to run the tests. They were found to be his own fingerprints ..read more
Mind Blowing Facts
5M ago
In 1963, a 16-year-old sent a 4-question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English tutor that writers don’t intentionally add symbolic content to their books ..read more
In 1991, a teenage cheerleader’s mother tried to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter’s…
Mind Blowing Facts
5M ago
In 1991, a teenage cheerleader’s mother tried to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter’s cheerleading rival. She thought if the rival’s mother was killed, she would be too sad to cheerlead, thereby giving the spot to her daughter. The plan ultimately failed when the man she asked to arrange the hitman turned her in to the authorities. [1, 2 ..read more
Mind Blowing Facts
6M ago
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When General Motors unveiled the Camaro name in 1966, the automotive press asked Chevrolet product managers, “What is a Camaro?” and were told it was “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.” [1, 2 ..read more
Mind Blowing Facts
6M ago
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Union Army general John Sedgwick once said to his men under enemy fire: “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” He was shot moments later under the left eye and mortally wounded ..read more
Mind Blowing Facts
6M ago
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A study found that America’s poor can’t afford money-saving habits like buying in bulk or timing their purchases to take advantage of sales ..read more