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[edit] Interesting Facts

Every single one of these facts were typed up by me so accuracy is not guaranteed
Special thanks to Reywas for a peer review!


Did You Know...?

  • Gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened to the size of a tennis court?
  • The sentence, "The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet?
  • Mosquitoes are more likely to bite you right after you've just eaten a banana?
  • Camels are the only land mammals that can survive on salt water?
  • Camels have 3 eyelids so they can see through the sandy wind?
  • Mosquitoes favorite color is black, so they will more likely bite you where you have dark clothes (on your leg near a black sock or on your arm where you are wearing a black mitten or sleeve).
  • All polar bears are left-handed?
  • Every continent's name begins and ends with the same letter: Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, America (North and South America are considered as America.)
  • Taxi is spelled the same in all languages that use the ABCs for writing.
  • Bats always exit to the right from a cave?
  • Bats are the only mammals that can fly?
  • A quarter has about 119 grooves (I don't remember the exact number) and a dime has one less?
  • Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries?
  • If you think nothing is impossible, consider this: "It is impossible to be impossible"?
  • When you say a list of 2 or more things, you automatically put them in a certain order without even thinking about it. (It doesn't sound right to say "Bananas and apples"; you would normally say "Apples and bananas". It also doesn't sound right to say "Dogs and cats"; you would normally say "Cats and dogs". See Siamese twins (English language)
  • In Egypt, only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms?
  • Ancient Egyptians used stones as pillows?
  • The linen cloth used to wrap mummies was as long as the Empire State Building?
  • Playing video games for over an hour can take your memory away. If you want to play longer, you should juggle for 15 minutes.
  • The human brain can hold more than 10000 times the Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • If you have a sore throat, gargle salt water. It will cure it.
  • Racecar spelled backward spells Racecar.
  • 2,000,000 frowns can make a permanent wrinkle.
  • You're just as likely to die from falling out of bed than you are to be struck by lightning; 1 in 1,000,000 chance.
  • Thomas Edison (The inventor of the light bulb) was afraid of the dark.
  • There is a city called Rome on every continent.
  • The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
  • Scissors were reportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Experts say that tips rise by about 5% when waiters draw a happy face on the check.
  • You buy a lot more groceries (food items) when you shop while you are hungry.
  • Most lipsticks contain fish scales (The shiny part of the lipstick).
  • Dogs can see less than color. (Example: They can see the difference between Red and Blue but not Blue and Violet).
  • Monkeys can count.
  • If you are lost and very hungry, chew on leather. It has enough nutrients to sustain life for a short time.
  • If you are lost in a desert and very thirsty, suck on pebbles.
  • Monkeys have blood type B.
  • It takes about the same amount of energy as a city would use to make one anti-matter.
  • Scientists predicted that all the galaxies that came from the Big Bang would eventually go back to that spot where it happened because of the gravity in our universe; but they recently found out that the galaxies are speeding up in the opposite direction as they predicted. Scientists think that there might be an opposite force of gravity in space, which they called dark force. This might mean in trillions of years from now, there won’t be any stars when we look up at the sky.
  • The Tyrannosaurus Rex had a brain the size of a walnut.
  • We previously thought that Daddy-Long-Legs are very poisonous, except that they don't bite humans because we're of our size. This is now just known as a past myth. see here. Thanks Owen×
  • Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving, not for Christmas.
  • Wrigley's Gum was the first product to have a barcode.
  • If there were two paths (right and left), and if you could choose which path to take, you would choose the path on the right if you are right-handed (or maybe right-eyed) and left if you are left-handed. (This is only true if the paths look the same (the same because you would really take the path that looks the nicest to you) and if you don't care where you end up).
  • Kids who have autism usually think with pictures, not words.
  • Kelp (seaweed) if the fastest growing thing on Earth. Bamboo is 2nd.
  • A giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.
  • A day on Mercury is hot enough to melt lead.
  • The days on a desert are hot enough to fry an egg and the nights are cold enough to freeze a cup of water.
  • Glue used to be marked Kosher because it didn’t have any meat products in it.
  • A jiffy can vary in the amount of time. (see here). Thanks Nocturnal Wanderer
  • Babies in America are usually fed Cheerios first before any other hard, solid food.
  • Only three rivers in the world flow uphill.
  • About 68% Americans say that they have an IQ higher than average.
  • It is illegal to look at a moose in any flying object in Alaska.
  • Nose prints are used to identify pigs as fingerprints are for humans.
  • Alaska's state sport is dogsledding.
  • In Tibet, it is considered polite to stick your tongue out at people.
  • Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.
  • A week old gazelle can outrun a full-grown horse.
  • In college, Robin Williams was thought to be the least likely to succeed.
  • To remove permanent marker, use nail polish remover or alcohol.
  • Every day, Americans eat an average of 8 acres of pizza.
  • Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep him cool. He changed it every 3 innings.
  • Humans have 7 neck bones, the same as giraffes and all mammals.
  • Adults have fewer bones than when they were born.
  • If you are right-handed, you will draw a circle counterclockwise.
  • If you eat an apple in the morning, it might wake you up. (Try this instead of drinking coffee).
  • If your car gets stuck in a ditch in the snow, and you can't drive out of it, and you’re also in the middle of nowhere, and if your cell phone doesn't work in that area, take half the air out from your tires. If you do that, you can drive out of the ditch until your cell phone works.
  • If you feed a spider coffee, it will become drunk and it will spin its web in a mess.
  • Black widows spin their webs messily.
  • Sea urchin and black widow babies eat their mothers after they're born. Some shark parents eat their babies after their born if they can't swim away fast enough from them.
  • During the year 2001, there has been about 6 people killed by sharks and over two thousand sharks killed by humans.
  • The area of skin below your eye gets dark if you don't drink enough water.
  • Vitamin A improves eyesight and it lets you see your dreams clearer and more often.
  • Comets are made up of ice and other materials. It is thought that Earth's waters came from comets colliding into Earth and then melting.
  • Venus flycatchers bloom pretty, delicate white flowers.
  • A sneeze travels out of your mouth at about 100 mph.
  • There aren't any clocks or windows in Las Vegas Casinos.
  • Every time you get hit by a baseball, you lose about 10 brain cells.
  • If you like round things rather than sharp, pointed things, your writing tends to be rounder than some who likes sharper things.
  • Fish oils improve eyesight much better than carrots do.
  • Strawberries and loquats are both members of the rose family.
  • It is a mistaken thought that being cold will make you sick.
  • The average lighting bolt is about 6 times hotter than the surface of the sun. (54,000 degrees F)
  • One in 300 have one blue eye and one brown eye.
  • Jeans were invented in California.
  • There are chemical elements called californium (Cf), americium (Am), and europium (Eu).
  • If you chew gum and raw tuna fish at the same time, the gum will dissolve. This idea might take gum off the carpet or other places (but I’m not really sure).
  • The longest word in English is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, which is a disease.
  • Particles in our atmosphere that are approximately the same size as the wavelength of visible light cause the white light from the sun to scatter and split into individual components. Oxygen and Nitrogen (the main components of our atmosphere) scatter violet and blue light due to their small size. This is why the sky appears to be blue in the day time, especially at midday when the Sun is closest to us.
  • Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
  • The biohazard symbol was invented by Dow Chemical Company.
  • The radiation symbol ,was invented by University of California, Berkeley and at the time was rendered as magenta (pinkish-purple), and was set on a blue background.
  • The science of lightning is termed fulminology and a person studying it, a fulminologist.
  • There are 95 facts above this sentence. * (Not Including This One)

I typed all these facts, and I got them all from my memory (I didn't copy anything while I typed), and I got the information from many different sources (but none from the Internet), so these facts may not be very accurate.


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