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Category: Strange History

Here Are Some Olympic Games Facts From All The Way Back

Posted on July 30, 2024

A fun Olympic Games fact is that a 10-year-old won Gold in the first games. Do you know what the only even was in the first games? In the first of the Olympics, women could not only not compete, they weren’t even allowed to attend. In the Olympics of ancient Greece, only freeborn Greek men …

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6 Eerie Legends of Curses in American Folklore

Posted on July 30, 2024

Curses are a staple of stories worldwide. From the curse of King Tut’s tomb to the 27 Club, many of these legends are famous all over the globe. That said, local stories always tend to hit harder than those from exotic and strange places. That’s probably because we can easily imagine ourselves being on the …

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The More Random Fun Facts, The Better

Posted on July 30, 2024July 28, 2024

What really is better than random fun facts? Nothing, that’s the answer. “Prunes!” Doesn’t really have the same ring to it, does it? In the case of pictures that is, saying ‘prunes’ instead of ‘cheese’ was common in the 1840s. You can sit, lie, stand or dance on the Four Corners monument while being in …

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A Bunch Of Circus Fun Facts Because Why Not?

Posted on July 29, 2024July 28, 2024

It’s not April anymore, the month that has a national circus holiday, but there’s no bad time for circus fun facts. “Circus” comes from the Latin word circle or ring.  Rome’s Circus Maximus could fit an audience of over 150,000 Romans.  A typical circus is a traveling company of acrobats, performers, trained animals and clowns. …

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Fun Facts For Kids Of Any Age Or Anyone Who Likes Fun Facts

Posted on July 27, 2024

Did you know the most common eye color is brown? Here are more fun facts for kids, that really anyone will enjoy.  Skin is the largest organ on the body.  It takes your body about 12 hours to digest food. Your nose won’t grow when you lie, but it does get warmer. Almost half of …

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That One Time a Million Years Ago When Humanity Almost Went Extinct

Posted on July 24, 2024

Today, there are 8.1 billion people on the planet and the number just keeps growing. There are scant few places on planet Earth where you won’t find any humans. Things were a little bit different roughly a million years ago. At the time, humanity wasn’t doing so well. In fact, we were teetering on the …

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Fun Facts For Kids, Or Kids Of All Ages, As It Were

Posted on July 23, 2024

These fun facts for kids are really fun facts for everyone. Did you know that there were square watermelons in the world? You will spend an average of 25 years sleeping in your lifetime. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. Farts are fast and travel about 10 feet per second or almost seven miles …

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7 Weird (and Obviously Incorrect) Doomsday Prophecies

Posted on July 23, 2024

It’s all over! The world is coming to an end, any minute now! Any minute now… Well, we’re all still here, despite the probably thousands of predictions of the imminent end times. While you might think anyone prophesizing about doomsday is a looney, some predictions are decidedly more bizarre than others. Well, we at Oddee …

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The 4th Has Passed But Here Are Some Fun Facts!

Posted on July 8, 2024

Did you read July 4th Fun Facts For The Upcoming Holiday? Because this is more of that. As of 1776, there were only about 2.5 million people living in the United States, which is crazy considered there are about 332 million people that live in this country today. The Liberty Bell hasn’t rang since 1846, …

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July 4th Fun Facts For The Upcoming Holiday

Posted on June 28, 2024June 27, 2024

The best summer holiday of them all is next week and these July 4th fun facts will remind us why it’s so great! Is this holiday your favorite holiday, too? The colonies established independence when King George III ruled in England.  King George III declared the colonies “in a state of rebellion” when William Penn …

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