25 Strange Facts That You’ll Never Be Able To Get Out Of Your Head

16. Male ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, and some even have barbs at the end to scrub away leftover sperm in the female from rival males.

 

 

17. Arsenic was used to dye clothes green in the 19th century, but Victorian Britain didn’t know it was poisonous, so several people died.

 

 

18. In the Victorian Era, it was common to take pictures with the bodies of a deceased family member, as a final way to preserve their memory.

 

 

19. In 1978 in the midst of his murder spree, serial killer Rodney Alcala won an episode of The Dating Game. The woman who picked him refused to go on the date because he seemed “creepy.”

     

 

20. The first person to die while building the Hoover Damwas John Gregory Tierney, and the last was Patrick William Tierney, his son, exactly 14 years later.