A Theme park in France employs specially trained rooks-a member of the crow family-to pick up cigarette butts and small litter from the grounds.

Each time a bird drops trash into a special box, it receives a food reward.

#Animals

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Singapore's street food is so renowned that some hawker stalls have received Michelin stars, highlighting their exceptional culinary quality.

#Foods

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Rachel McAdams, at age 26, played 17-year-old Regina George in Mean Girls, while Amy Poehler, 33, portrayed her mother.

This small seven-year age gap between the actors surprised many fans.

#Celebs

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

In Korea, wisdom teeth are called “love teeth” in reference to young adulthood and the pain of first love.

#Culture

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

In 2009, a Ugandan woman gave birth to a baby girl on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston.

Since the birth happened over Canadian airspace, the baby was automatically granted Canadian citizenship.

#Random

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

In 2001, Russia had more abortions than live births, with 2.11 million abortions performed compared to 1.31 million live births.

#Countries

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Your veins look blue because subcutaneous fat only allows blue light to penetrate skin all the way to veins, so this is the color that is reflected back.

#Medical

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

African elephants are known to help injured or resting humans and even bury the dead, A woman once fell asleep beneath a tree and woke to an elephant gently touching her.

As more elephants gathered, they covered her with branches. She was found the next day, completely unharmed.

#Animals

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Since 2006, Rajesh Kumar Sharma and Laxmi Chandra have run a free school beneath a metro bridge in Deľhi, teaching nearly 300 slum children who can't afford regular schooling.

#People

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

In 2002, milkman Steve Leech spotted a shop fire during his rounds and used 320 pints of milk to douse the flames saving seven nearby stores.

He was later honored with the title "Hero Milkman of the Millennium."

#History

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Fennel tea and fennel seeds contain volatile oils that have antispasmodic properties and help prevent gastrointestinal problems like bloating, IBS and gas.

#Nature

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

In 1915, a woman arrived late at her sister's funeral. When she arrived, she demanded that her sister's coffin be raised so that she could see her one last time.

When the coffin lid was opened, Essie sat up and smiled at her. She lived for 47 more vears.

#People

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Mihailo Tolotos reportedly passed away at age 82 without ever seeing a woman.

Orphaned at birth, he spent his entire life as a monk in a monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, where women have been strictly forbidden for centuries.

#People

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Until recently, steel for scientific and medical use had to come from sunken battleships, as all steel made after 1945 was tainted with radiation from nuclear testing.

#Random

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Japan has created over 250 square kilometers of new land by burning garbage and using the leftover ash for land reclamation.

#Countries

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

Soviets created a poison called c-2 that physically shrunk human subjects and killed them within 15 minutes from administration.

#latest

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

In 2017, a 4-year-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving.

After speaking with her blind grandfather, she walked 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead, where she successfully found help for her grandmother.

#People

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

The strangers in our dreams are actually real people who have crossed our path at least once in our lifetime.

Our brain simply stores their faces, and our subconscious may end up casting them in our dreams during REM sleep.

#Health

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

The Philippines consists of about 7,641 islands. If you spent one day on each, it would take you nearly 21 years to visit them all.

#Countries

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

A Syrian boy with a genetic condition causing extremely fragile skin spent most of his life covered in open wounds and wasn't expected to survive.

Doctors in Germany used gene therapy to repair his DNA and grew 9 square feet of healthy skin grafts from his modified cells, allowing him to now live a normal life.

#Health

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT

There are eight churches in Antarctica.

#Random

Join and share @SHOCKINGFACT