This is a guest post by List25.com for more interesting lists, subscribe to their newsletter here. 1) The Dissolving Tooth:  There are numerous urban legends involving Coca Cola. In fact, there are so many that these legends all now have their own category known as “Colklore”. The most popular is that if you were to leave a tooth in a […]

This is a guest post by List25.com for more interesting lists, subscribe to their newsletter here. 1) Origin of “Bite the Bullet”:  This phrase was first attested in the late 18th century in the military.  At the time, it was a common practice during emergency, battlefield surgeries to have the person being operated on bite down on a lead bullet […]

This is a guest post by List25.com for more interesting lists, subscribe to their newsletter here. 1) In 2002, the BBC aired a report about German scientists who discovered that blond hair would be extinct in the next couple centuries due to being a recessive trait. Barely a year later, the New York Times published a report about how the […]

This is a guest post contributed by list25.com 1) The human brain uses about 20% of the entire body’s oxygen and caloric intake, despite accounting for only about 2% of an adult body’s mass. 2) Around 85% of humans primarily breathe out of one nostril at a time and this breathing pattern happens cyclically, with about four hours or so […]

This is a guest post contributed by List25.com Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double through the first six films, David Holmes, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that included an explosion. The actress who played Moaning Myrtle, Shirley Henderson, was 37 years old at the time Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets […]

This is a guest post contributed by List25 Depending on which government list you’re reading from and which countries they recognize, it’s estimated that there are about 196 official countries in the world.  While I’m not about to do an interesting fact about all 196, here are a list of 25 fascinating facts about various countries in the world today: […]

Note: This is a guest post contributed by List25.com. *Editor’s Note: Happily, most of the myths on this list were covered a couple years ago on Today I Found Out‘s sister site, Misconception Junction, which has since been merged with Today I Found Out.  So I went ahead and linked to each of those articles in the below myths list […]