We all love a good dose of random trivia and useless facts, right? Well, here are 58 more for you to enjoy!
- The average person spends about 2 years of their life dreaming.
- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Giraffes only sleep for 20 minutes a day.
- A single cloud can weigh as much as 1 million pounds!
- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks to prevent itself from digesting itself. Yum!
- Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil – it will actually get more delicious over time!
- Babies are born without knee caps – they don’t start to form until around 6 months old.
- Humans have been on Earth for around 200,000 years, but the first recorded history is only about 5,500 years old. That means there’s a whole lot we don’t know about our early ancestors!
- The average lifespan of a human is about 70 years, but the oldest person ever officially recorded lived to be 122 years old.
- The longest word in the English language is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”, which refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand particles.
- The largest living creature on Earth is the blue whale. These gentle giants can weigh up to 200 tons and grow up to 100 feet long!
- The smallest mammal in the world is the pygmy shrew, which weighs in at only about 1/14 of an ounce and is around 3 inches long from nose to tail.
- There are more than twice as many cells in your body than there are stars in our galaxy!
- There are more cells in your gut than there are neurons in your brain.
- You produce about one litre of saliva every day – enough to fill two swimming pools over the course of a lifetime!
- The average person farts around 14 times a day. Gross!
- A bolt of lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun – around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit!
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, was rejected by 27 different publishers before finally finding success with his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
- A single cup of coffee can contain up to 1,000 different chemical compounds.
- In Japan, it is considered good manners to slurp your soup.
- During the California Gold Rush of 1849, miners spent more money on whisky than they did on gold.
- At any given time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
- There are over 100 verses in the Bible that specifically mention alcohol or wine.
- The word “flammable” and its counterpart “inflammable” both mean “capable of being set on fire.”
- The world’s youngest country is South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011.
- Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
- There are more public libraries in the United States than there are McDonald’s restaurants.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of just over 800 people.
- Canada has more lakes than any other country in the world, with over 3 million lakes!
- If you were to hit every key on a standard keyboard, you would produce enough heat to make a cup of tea.
- A single dust mite produces about 20 waste droppings each day! Ew…
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- The world’s largest pyramid isn’t in Egypt – it’s actually in Mexico!
- Crocodiles can live up to 100 years!
- Feather beds used to be illegal in England because they were considered too luxurious!
- In France, it is legal to marry a dead person as long as you have proof that they planned on marrying you while they were alive!
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus – 243 Earth days long, to be precise!
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- Every day, 13% of the world’s population consumes Coca-Cola products.
- You can fit all of the planets in our solar system between Earth and the Moon!
- On average, we blink around 20 times per minute – that’s over 10,000 times per day!
- The “sixth sense” is actually a real thing and is called proprioception – it is the ability to sense where your body parts are without looking at them directly (like knowing where your hand is without looking at it).
- It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked on top of each other, to equal Mount Everest’s height!
- ‘Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’ was almost canceled after its first season because it was “too slow-paced.”
- In 2015, a woman in China gave birth to twins – one of them had microcephaly due to the Zika virus.
- The process of making tequila actually starts with a type of worm that lives in the agave plant!
- It would take you over 31 million years to watch all the content on Netflix currently available.
- Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts – and she has an extensive resume including being an astronaut, doctor, and even president!
- One atom of uranium is heavier than 118 atoms of lead!
- Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed, but he wrote with his right hand to prevent smudging the ink while he drew with his left hand at the same time!
- During WWII, American soldiers used chewing gum to help fix tanks – they chewed it into a sticky mass and applied it to leaks!
- There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.
- If you took all the blood vessels out of your body and laid them end to end, they would stretch for 100,000 miles – that’s enough to go around the world 4 times!
- It would take a tortoise about 150 years to walk around the entire circumference of our planet.
- Caterpillars have 12 eyes – 3 pairs on each side of their head!
- A full moon is not actually white – it just looks that way because it’s reflecting all the sunlight that hits it.
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