210 Crazy Facts That Will Surprise You

210 Crazy Facts That Will Surprise you

Pigs can't look up at the sky.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
They can really hold their drinks.
Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor.
If it does not break, a glass ball can bounce higher than a rubber ball.
The first condom was made somewhere in the 16th century.
Camel’s milk doesn’t curdle.
All porcupines float in water.
China only has one time zone.
In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.
No only child has been a U.S. President.
Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The T-rex’s closest living relative is the chicken.
Female Kangaroos have three vaginas.
Peaches are members of the almond family.
The longest one-syllable word is “screeched.”
Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.
The eye makes movements 50 times every second.
Hawaii is the only state with one school district.
You don’t have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.
The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
Before 1687, clocks were made with only an hour hand.
Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.
Dim lights reduce your appetite.
The longest music performance began on 5th September 2001 in a church in Germany and will end in 2640.
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic lasted for around 6 to 18 months.
Forbes estimated Scrooge McDuck's wealth to be around USD 65.4 billion.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin was 1st man to pee on the moon.
Yeah Neil, so what if you stepped on it first? Buzz marked his territory like a boss.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match stick.
Alfred Hitchcock's 'Pyscho' was the first film to show a toilet being flushed on screen.
Psyched?
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 Utah, birds have the right of way on a highway.
Jellyfish are considered biologically immortal. They don’t age and will never die unless they are killed.
There is an island called “Just Enough Room”, where there’s just enough room for a tree and a house.
The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Mob boss, Vincent Gigante, used to wander around New York in his bathrobe to convince the police he was insane and avoid capture.
There is a town in India called Santa Claus.
You’re not allowed to swear if playing in Wimbledon. Because of this, line judges have to learn curse words in every language.
Some people in Russia think that eating ice cream will keep you warm.
Originating in Berlin in 2008, aggressive sitting became a sport. You can purchase a special stool for this sport for around 70 dollars.
Cucumber can actually cure bad breath.
There are over 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest. Some of them are used by mountain climbers as indicators for direction.
Tarahumara tribe a.k.a. super athletes run 300 km at once.
The largest snowflake was recorded to be 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
Now that is really 'cool'.
In 1386, a pig was executed for the murder of a child in France
Des'pig'able.
James Fixx, who popularized jogging in USA, died of a heart attack while jogging.
Many Americans owe their fitness to him. His demise was both sad and ironic.
315 entries in the Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
About 10 percent of the people in the world are lefties.
The elephant is the only mammal which cannot lift all four feet off the ground at the same time.
The world's oldest chewing gum is 5,000 years old.
Chew on that.
If you remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world's population can fit in an apple.
It would take 12,00,000 mosquitoes sucking at once to completely drain a human of blood.
If that were to happen, it would really suck!
The small percentage of static you see on 'dead' TV channels is actually residual radiation from the Big Bang.
It is the afterglow of the universe's creation.
The Greek national anthem, Hymn to Liberty, has 158 verses.
More than 50% of people in the world haven't made or received a phone call.
Their lives are so much simpler than ours.
'A duck's quack doesn't echo' is a myth. It does.
Due to shortage of metal, the Oscars were made of painted plaster during World War II.
Only one was made of wood.
There are more possible iterations in a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
The China Highway 110 traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days. Cars moved at the speed of 0.6 miles per day.
Beer in Russia was considered a soft drink up until 2011.
Mohammad is the most popular first name in the world. Lee is the most popular last name.
If you wanted to watch every video on YouTube, you have to watch 55 crore hours worth of videos as of now. Minus what you have already watched. And every minute you spend watching a new video, a 100 hours of video are added. So basically, you cannot watch every video on YouTube.
Snakes can help predict earthquakes. They can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away, up to five days before it happens.
The hand and footprints in front of Los Angeles’s Chinese Theater tradition started accidentally when silent film actress, Norma Talmadge stepped on wet cement.
An animal’s yawn based on how large their brain is. The bigger the brain, the longer they will yawn.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone
There are more Lego mini-figures than there are people on Earth.
Dinosaurs would swallow large rocks which stayed in their stomach to help churn and digest food.
Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
When cellophane was invented in 1908, it was originally intended to be used to protect tablecloths from wine spills.
The mayor of a historical district in Alaska is a cat named Stubbs.
In the 1980s, Fredric Baur, the founder of Pringles, requested to be buried in a Pringles can. His children honored the request.
In Israel, it is illegal to bring bears to the beach.
There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
Without saliva, humans are unable to taste food.
It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on February 18, 1979.
In every scene of Fight Club, there is a Starbucks coffee cup.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10pm.
William Shakespeare had a curse engraved on his tombstone to prevent anyone from moving his bones.
On Valentine’s Day in South Korea, only women give gifts, not men.
Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
March 3 is known as “What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day”.
The largest living thing on earth is a giant sequoia named General Sherman.
Elvis was originally blonde. He started dying his hair black for an edgier look. Sometimes, he would touch it up himself using shoe polish.
Astronauts actually get taller when in space.
People in North Korea are legally only allowed to have one of 28 haircuts. Men and women can choose from 14 different styles.
In 1907, a woman was arrested on a beach in Boston for wearing a one-piece swimsuit.
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.
Even though smoking has been banned on airplanes, ashtrays are mandatory on every plane. This is for safe disposal in case someone breaks the law.
In Greece, women are not legally allowed to wear high heels or tall hats in the Olympic Stadium.
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.
The Matami Tribe of West Africa have a different version of football. They play with skulls instead of a ball.
Charles Osborne, an American, had hiccups for 68 years.
Guinness Book of World Records holds a world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.
A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
The loneliest creature on earth is a whale near the Pacific Coast which hasn't had any response to its mating call for decades.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he does not wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. Before that, it was considered poisonous as it was made from other items like grapes and berries.
The average lead pencil can be used to write a line about 56 km long or around 50,000 English words.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a god.
The eye of an Ostrich is bigger than its brain.
Talk about being a pea-brain.
'Jiffy' was actually a proposed unit of time which was equal to the time it takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds).
Be back in jiffy seems impossible with those numbers
The biggest tapeworm found inside a body was 35 meters long.
No words.
Astronaut Eugene Cernan wrote his daughter's initials on the moon as promised.
Her initials 'TDS' will last for years to come.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Humans have been performing dentistry since 7000BC, which makes dentists one of the oldest professions.
The first-ever documented feature film was made in Australia in 1906.
Ancient Roman surgeons were trained to block out the screams of human pain.
From 1953 to 1957, NBC’s Today Show had a chimpanzee co-host named J. Fred Muggs. It is estimated he brought in the network around $100 million.
Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the rose family.
There is a geocache on the International Space Station placed in 2008. It has since been visited four times by other astronauts.
Canada eats more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
Scotland wanted to replicate the Parthenon bigger and cheaper in 1826. It was never completed and is now nicknamed “Scotland’s Disgrace”.
A French general gave John Quincy Adams a pet alligator. Adams kept it in one of the White House bathtubs and enjoyed showing it off.
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.
The NYPD had a police officer follow Andre the Giant whenever he went out drinking. This was to make sure he didn’t get drunk and fall on anyone.
A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.
Hershey’s chocolate syrup, Ritz Crackers, DumDums, and Oreos are all vegan.
The sound of a Star Wars lightsaber was created by pairing together the sound of an idle film projector and the buzz from an old TV set.
Your tonsils can grow back if there was tissue left behind during the removal process.
In California, you can get a ticket if you’re driving too slow.
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.
Originally, the Eiffel Tower was going to be erected in Barcelona, but the project was rejected because citizens thought it was an eyesore.
Kangaroos keep growing until they die.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Females are better at distinguishing colors, while males excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance.
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
Using a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving is shown to be equally or more dangerous than driving drunk.
There are more than 70 species of mushrooms that glow in the dark.
Canadian law requires citizens to answer a math question when entering sweepstakes.
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.
In America, it is a federal crime to use your roommate or friend’s Netflix account.
A fungus is more closely related to animals on a genetic level than they are to plants.
In Zimbabwe, it is illegal for citizens to make offensive gestures at a passing car.
“She sells seashells by the seashore” was written about a female paleontologist from the 1800s. She actually sold dinosaur bones and fossilized shells.
Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.
Another term for your nieces or nephews would be “niblings”.
The “butterflies” you get in your stomach when you see someone you like is actually a stress response called adrenaline.
Pure cocoa can help prevent tooth decay.
Iceland has a dating app that stops you from hooking up with your cousin.
Eye of newt, the toe of frog, and wool of bat are just archaic terms for mustard seed, buttercup, and holly leaves.
The U.S. government gave Indiana University $1 million to study memes.
Someone who has Geomelophagia also has the urge to eat raw potatoes.
The most leave ever found on a clover is 56.
The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan. It is 10 meters underwater.

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