Strange But True: Japanese Fart Contest

By Lucie Winborne

  • Pass the Beano! In Japan, they used to hold contests to see who could fart the longest and loudest. The winner received a prize and high honors.

  • Leeches have 32 brains.

  • In June 2017, a tire shop in Fort Worth, Texas, was robbed so often that the owner bought a guard dog. But that didn't solve the problem -- the next time the shop was robbed, the intruders stole the dog!

  • Native Americans planted "Three Sisters"-- corn, beans and squash -- together for their mutual benefit. Corn provided a structure for the beans to climb, beans provided nitrogen to the soil, and squash spread along the ground, preventing the growth of weeds.

  • PayPal once accidentally credited a man with $92 quadrillion.

  • "Highway hypnosis" is a mental state where a person can drive a vehicle great distances while responding to external events in a safe and correct manner, but with no recollection of having consciously done so.

  • Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American reservation, allegedly suggested that starving natives eat grass. While the quote's validity has been debated, he was notably found dead on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862 with grass stuffed in his mouth.

  • The average man spends about one year of his life staring at women.

  • A tattoo needle doesn't actually inject ink. It's just coated with pigment and your skin absorbs the color via capillary action.

  • In 2014, 13-year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, became the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary, unloading an impressive 117 boxes in just two hours.

Thought for the Day: "You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later." -- Greg Plitt

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