90 Random Facts You Might Find Interesting
I love a weird fact about the world. Here are 90 random facts about the world that you might find interesting! Keep your brain engaged while scrolling this great post..
- There are more LEGO mini-figures in existence than actual people on earth.
- Four babies are born every second.
- In the time it took for you to read this sentence, around 50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- Teeth are the only part of the human body that lacks the capacity to heal itself.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Honeybees flap their wings 230 times every second.
- You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
- Every continent except Antarctica has at least one McDonald’s.
- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- Sunsets on Mars are blue.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- MySpace still gets more than eight million visitors per month.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- One-quarter of all your bones are located in your feet.
- Humans have been performing dentistry since 7000BC, which makes dentists one of the oldest professions.
- Flamingos bend their legs at the ankle, not the knee.
- In 300 B.C., Mayans worshipped turkeys as vessels of the gods.
- The first-ever documented feature film was made in Australia in 1906.
- Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin.
- Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
- Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers – were all invented by women.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- Messages from your brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles per hour.
- Canada eats more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
- Froot Loops loops are all the same flavor.
- Snakes can help predict earthquakes. They can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away, up to five days before it happens.
- Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
- An animal’s yawn based on how large their brain is. The bigger the brain, the longer they will yawn.
- The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
- The mayor of a historical district in Alaska is a cat named Stubbs.
- The world’s largest waterfall is underwater.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- You can now get a headstone with a QR code. Called “Living Headstones”, they show pages with photos, video biographies, and comments from loved ones.
- A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- It snows in the Sahara Desert.
- There are only two countries in the world where Coca Cola does not exist.
- In every scene of Fight Club, there is a Starbucks coffee cup.
- In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm.
- Sudan has the most pyramids in the world (not Egypt).
- On Valentine’s Day in South Korea, only women give gifts, not men.
- Macchu Pichu is an earthquake-proof city.
- Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
- China has only one timezone.
- Snoop Dogg’s real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. His nickname came from his mother who thought he looked like Snoopy from the Peanuts.
- Kangaroos keep growing until they die.
- You’re always seven years behind in Ethiopia.
- The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
- France is the most visited country with 89 million annual tourists.
- There’s a village in the Netherlands with no streets, only canals.
- A group of horses will not go to sleep at the same time – at least one of them will stay awake to look out for the others.
- In Hawaii, you can experience sunny beaches and snowy mountains on the same island.
- Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel.
- Jellyfish are considered biologically immortal. They don’t age and will never die unless they are killed.
- Shadows are darker on the Moon.
- The Statue of Liberty used to be a lighthouse.
- A flock of ravens is called an “unkindness”.
- “Albert Einstein” is an anagram for “ten elite brains”.
- There is a town in India called Santa Claus.
- British military tanks are equipped to make tea.
- There’s only one Shell gas station shaped like a shell.
- Scotland has more than 400 words for snow.
- There are more than 70 species of mushrooms that glow in the dark.
- The world’s largest national park is located in Greenland.
- The Eiffel Tower took exactly 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days to create.
- Neptune was the first planet to be found through mathematical predictions rather than telescopic location.
- Crows can remember the faces of individual humans. They can also hold a grudge.
- There are 5 countries in the world that don’t have airports.
- The smallest country in the world (by landmass) is Vatican City.
- In America, it is a federal crime to use your roommate or friend’s Netflix account.
- The last letter added to the alphabet was actually “J”.
- A fungus is more closely related to animals on a genetic level than they are to plants.
- The “butterflies” you get in your stomach when you see someone you like is actually a stress response called adrenaline.
- Iceland has a dating app that stops you from hooking up with your cousin.
- People in North Korea are legally only allowed to have one of 28 haircuts. Men and women can choose from 14 different styles.
- There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
- Humans cannot walk in a straight line without a visual point. When blindfolded, we will gradually walk in a circle.
- Selfies now cause more deaths than shark attacks.
- Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer.
- Allodoxaphobia is the fear of opinions.
- Dogs can be allergic to humans.
- Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
- The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.