I love useless random facts. So here are some of the most facinating I've found. All from credible sites. So if you're bored check them out!.
- The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
- What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
- "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
- There is a city called Rome on every continent.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
- The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
- The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
- The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
- Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
- The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
- More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
- You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
- Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
- Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- The average person laughs 10 times a day!
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
- If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
- The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
- Humans dream every single night, if you wake up and can't remember what you dreamed you woke up during the wrong stage of sleep!
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
- More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
- A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
- Honolulu, Hawaii is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
- One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
- Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women!
- In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
- A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
- The creosote bush, which grows in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years, scientists say
- It is possible for a person to eat too many carrots to where there skin turns orange from the pigments called
- A polar bears skin is actually black and it's fur is actually colorless (clear) but it reflects light from the sun which gives the polar bear it's white color!
- An average human speaks 4,800 words in 24 hours
- The focusing muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.
- The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle
- Butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators, next to bees
- If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall
- Iceland is actually full of lush green plants/grass and Greenland is actually full of ice.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
- If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world’s currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
- Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp
- Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
- Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
- According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
- A snail can sleep for three years
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
- Butterflies taste with their feet
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