Uncommon Knowledge

Why can I see myself in the mirror? What is a blue waffle? (don't google that one. Trust me)These are all questions curious minds search the internet for every day. You hear a phrase and the answer is right at your fingertips, thanks to the extensive and thorough research done by someone else. The internet is a magical thing where we learn and discover new things that were not as available before. Thank you internet. We love you. Enjoy some uncommon facts below that may just stick with you forever.

1. Not all weed gets you high.- When a cannabis plant is growing it is non-psychoactive. This is because there is no THC – only THCA, which doesn’t get you high. If you take weed fresh from a plant it won’t do anything. THCA has to be converted into THC. Some of this conversion will happen during the curing phase; however, much of the conversion happens when the THCA is heated e.g. smoking.

2. The first 500 Twitter User IDs were generated between Tuesday, March 21, 2006 and Wednesday, July 12, 2006. These 500 IDs yield a total of 282 actual accounts. 218 are not inactive and may have been the Twitter team themselves, testing the site.

First civilian is Noah Glass @noah. His description reads "i started this".

3. Baltic Way, in 1989 August 23, was a human chain that stretched for 675 km and included roughly 2 million people across three Baltic countries - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, demonstrating for solidarity in their journey for independence.

4. The Philippines is an archipelago with 7,107 islands. Less than 15% of these islands are populated.

5. Ethiopia has 13 months in a year. New Year is celebrated on September 11th. To us (USA) it is year 2015 and to them it's 2008. The picture above is from 2005.

Ethiopian alphabet consists of 252 characters,compared to English with 26.

6. Agnes Gonxha aka Mother Teresa was Albanian. She was born August 26th in 1910.

7. Earth is not a perfect sphere. As Earth spins, gravity points toward the center of our planet and a centrifugal force pushes outward. But since this gravity-opposing force acts perpendicular to the axis of Earth, and Earth's axis is tilted. This imbalance adds up at the equator, where gravity pushes extra masses of water and earth into a bulge making the planet a 'squished sphere' shape.

8. A dimple is a genetic defect that is caused by shortened facial muscles.

9. The tongue of a cat has tiny, backward-facing barbs (papillae) on it and they’re the things that create that rough sensation. The barbs serve several important functions. They make it easier for a cat to rasp the meat from the bones of his prey. The barbs also aid in grooming as they collect dirt, debris and loose hair from the cat’s coat.

10. Samuel Adams' Utopias is the most expensive beer in the U.S. It costs $150 per 700 ml and is banned in 13 states.