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Published: January 5, 2024 at 7:27 am
If you’re looking to impress your friends, kids and family with random fun facts, and weird and wonderful trivia, you've come to the right place. Below you can find 71 interesting facts that will reshape how you see our world – and far far beyond.
So, buckle up and prepare to amuse children, impress (or annoy) your co-workers, dazzle your dinner party guests, and have your own mind blown with our best collection of extraordinary and fun tidbits.
With random facts about everything from animals, space, geography, science, health, biology and much more, welcome to our odyssey of oddities.
A cloud weighs around a million tonnes. A cloud typically has a volume of around 1km3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m3 – that's a density that’s around 0.4 per cent lower than the air surrounding it (this is how they are able to float).
Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. True, there are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. You can’t blame your crimes on your twin, after all. This is because environmental factors during development in the womb (umbilical cord length, position in the womb, and the rate of finger growth) impact your fingerprint.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. It's actually slowing. This means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.
Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter.
The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume. Believed to be a Tyrannosaurus rex turd, the fossilised dung (also named a 'coprolite'😉 is helping scientists better understand what the dinosaur ate.
The Universe's average colour is called 'Cosmic latte'. In a 2002 study, astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige colour that’s close to white.
Animals can experience time differently from humans. To smaller animals, the world around them moves more slowly compared to humans. Salamanders and lizards, for example, experience time more slowly than cats and dogs. This is because the perception of time depends on how quickly the brain can process incoming information.
A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head. Mike the chicken's incredible feat was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly intact, ensuring just enough brain function remained for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless chicken dies in a matter of minutes.
All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years. Together, Earth's 0.001mm-long microbes could wrap around the Milky Way over 20,000 times.
-VR
@very-rusty saidMy brain constantly eats other peoples brains.
Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter.
(I've said too much).
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYes Ghost of course it does. 🙄
My brain constantly eats other peoples brains.
-VR
@very-rusty saidYour brain has nothing to fear from my brain sir...
Yes Ghost of course it does. 🙄
-VR
@ghost-of-a-duke saidWhy would it? This is a silly conversation.
Your brain has nothing to fear from my brain sir...
-VR
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Here are some fun and amazing facts that will thrill and surprise you at the same time!
Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. ...
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. ...
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. ...
Ants take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12-hour period.
-VR 🙂
I Bet you didn't know:
It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.
Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.
Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
Cat urine glows under a black-light.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).
A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.
The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
So my sign off would be shortest with the exception of the hyphen.
-VR
