69 Wild, Weird Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

10. The grumbling sound your stomach makes particularly when you’re hungry is called borbyrygmus. Its actually gas moving through the bowels.

11. “Arkansas” and “Kansas” are spelled the same because they both derive from the same etymological root (a Sioux word meaning “downriver”).

They are pronounced differently because Arkansans took the French pronunciation of the word and the Kansans took the Spanish pronunciation.

12. Braille was made because Napoleon wanted a way for his soldiers to communicate quietly without the use of vision or light so one of his people made a version of Braille as a solution but was scrapped and later simplified for blind people.