Jake Jacobs > Quotes

“Kodak had a nuclear reactor in the basement”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of True Facts

“John Hamm, of Mad Men fame, was suspended from the University of Texas for putting a student's testicles in a claw hammer and leading him around a house while the student was beaten, paddled, and set on fire.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“A guinea pig named Randy broke into a female enclosure and impregnated over 100 female guinea pigs.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Stalin tried to kill Yugoslavian leader Tito 22 times. Tito then wrote a letter in reply saying: "Stop sending people to kill me. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Shocking Facts

“Olympic Gold Medals are actually made out of silver. 1912 was the last Olympics to hand out solid gold medals. Today's gold medals are 92.5% silver.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Brain scans show that compulsive gamers have hyperconnected neural network. One researcher stated that, “Hyperconnectivity between these brain networks could lead to a more robust ability to direct attention toward targets, and to recognize novel information in the environment.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The University of Texas team ate their longhorn mascot, Bevo, in 1920.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Sprite is caffeine free.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Shocking Facts

“Human–animal breastfeeding, women breastfeeding young animals, or animals breastfeeding human children, such as goats, has been practiced throughout history.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“A black, Nigerian couple living in the U.K. gave birth to a white, blonde, blue-eyed baby that they call the “miracle baby.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Huge Book Of Amusing Facts

“Romania shipped 93.4 tons of gold to Russia in 1916 so that Russia would safe keep the Romanian Treasure in the Kremlin until the end of the war. As of 2014, they gave back only 33 kilograms of it.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Early methods of CPR included blowing smoke up people's anus.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Hitler had a pet dog, whom he ordered to be killed.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Madagascar has a higher population than Australia by over a million people.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Shocking Facts

“Ingesting caffeine will caffeinate your semen.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Tondalo Hall got 30 years in prison for failing to stop a man from abusing her child. The man who abused her child got 2 years.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs as an aspiring chef because he was tired of "the rages, the bullying and violence" perpetrated by the head chef.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Instead, balls won from games are exchanged for prizes or tokens. These items are then exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The September 11th terror attacks on the World Trade Center released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan. An estimated 410,000 people have been exposed. It’s believed that lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The United States once planned to nuke the Moon. According to physicist Leonard Reiffel, one of the leaders of the project, hitting the Moon with an intercontinental ballistic missile would have been relatively easy to accomplish.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Sada Abe was a Japanese prostitute who killed her lover after erotically asphyxiating him repeatedly, cut off his penis and testicles, committed necrophilia with his severed penis, went to jail, wrote a book, became an actor, and eventually joined a nunnery, among other things.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Baltic States won their independence from the Soviet Union by singing banned songs of hope in groups of thousands.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Barbie was based on the comic strip, and later doll, of a high-end prostitute.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“When the KGB tried to blackmail the Indonesian President, Achmed Sukarno, with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn't upset. He was pleased, in fact, he was so pleased that he even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Medicine often has dangerous side effects for women as opposed to men because most testing is done on men.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Serial killer, David Berkowitz, claimed that the neighbor’s dog “Harvey” ordered him to kill during the summer of 1977 in New York City.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“Kangaroos are able to pause their pregnancy; a phenomenon known as embryonic diapause.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Crazy Facts

“Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning 7 times. He survived them all. The chances of this happening are 4.15 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“The “blobfish” was voted the world’s ugliest animal. It now serves as the mascot for the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts

“In 1994, former Guns N Roses bassist, Duff McKagan, decided to invest $100,000 in local Seattle companies, including an expanding chain of coffee shops, a software company and an online book seller; Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts