Unbelievable facts

The demand for Ozempic, a diabetes drug made by the Danish company Novo Nordisk, is so great that it has boosted Denmark’s entire economy.

In 2015, police in the Netherlands caught cannabis growers after noticing the only house on the street without snow on its roof. It requires warmth to grow cannabis, which is why a bare roof is a good indicator of possible farms inside.

Danya Sherman, a university student, invented “KnoNap,” a napkin capable of identifying 26 of the 40 most commonly used “date rape” drugs. She became aware about the issue when she was assaulted by a “friend” using one such drug. 

Leah Betts, a girl that made headlines after dying from taking a single ecstasy pill, didn’t die directly from taking the drug. Instead, she died from drinking seven liters of water in 90 minutes, while on ecstasy. The drug causes water retention which makes drinking too much water dangerous.

While waiting in line at the airport on his 20th birthday, Bill Murray joked to another passenger about having two bombs in his suitcase. A ticket agent overheard, called over some U.S. marshals, and they found ten pounds of marijuana in Murray’s luggage. He was convicted and sentenced to probation.

In 2007, China executed the head of the State Food and Drug Administration (Chinese FDA) for accepting bribes and approving unsafe medicines.

At a medical clinic in the Congo, 18 patients with drug-resistant malaria were in critical condition and medications didn’t help. So doctors tried a not-yet-approved therapy made from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In five days, all 18 people fully recovered.

Just 12 days before he died of a drug overdose, Mitch Hedberg went on the Howard Stern show and said, 'I got the drugs under control now,' and that he only used them for the 'creative side of it'.

The drug cocktail that allows AIDs patients to survive came along just months after Freddie Mercury died.

Police in Washington, D.C. created a fake recording studio to lure in criminals. Undercover cops posed as rap-label executives and said they were looking to buy drugs and guns. The phony studio was open for a year and police seized 161 guns, 21 pounds of cocaine, and 80 pounds of meth.

On October 13, 2016, a man high on LSD drove through his neighbours’ fence, broke their glass door and stole their dog, hallucinating that the neighbours’ house was burning and he was saving the canine. He then peacefully handed the dog to police officers.