69 Wild, Weird Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

 4. Michael Jackson’s hair caught fire at the exact middle of his life, to the day.

5. The original definition of a factoid is “an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.”

But the word has been used so much as “a small piece of trivia” that it has now been accepted as such.

So the definition of a factoid is, in itself, a factoid.

6. The sea bird, Boobie, is named such after the Spanish word “bobo”, referring to an idiot. Boobie’s would be the only seabird to land on sailing ships, thus sailors took advantage of this and started setting traps for the birds to catch and eat them. Want to know what the traps were called?