500+ Random Facts! that will Surprise you

500+ Random Facts that will Surprise you

Elephants can’t jump.
Octopuses have three hearts.
Snakes can belch fire.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.
Snails can regenerate their eyes.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
French Poodles are actually from Germany.
You can’t hum while plugging your nose.
Baby puffins are called pufflings.
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
We’re one to two centimeters taller in the morning than at night.
One-quarter of all our bones are in our feet.
The human body contains enough fat to make about seven bars of soap.
You can’t lick your elbow.
You can’t tickle yourself.
Seahorses mate for life and can often be seen holding each other’s tales.
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
Want to know if your pet turtle is a boy or girl? Listen closely! Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt.
Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn’t stop swearing. Polly wants her mouth washed out.
Sloths can hold their breaths for up to 40 minutes.
Henry VIII knighted all four of his “Grooms of Stool” — the people in charge of wiping his butt for him.
Think before your season. In Egypt, it’s considered incredibly rude to salt food that has been served to you.
Ninety percent of Libya is desert.
The height of the Eiffel Tour can vary up to six inches, depending on the temperature.
Spend too much on drinks when you eat out? A small town in Italy actually has a fountain that serves free wine.
Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.
Want to go to Rome? Which one? There’s a city named Rome on six out of seven continents. (You really dropped the ball, Antarctica.)
When visiting Key West, you’re actually closer to Havana than you are to Miami.
Mary, of “Mary Had A Little Lamb” fame, was a real person and the song is based on a true story.
The first Akita dog came to this country in 1937 — as a present for Helen Keller!
Turns out, a dog’s paw print is just as unique as a human’s. Good news for dog detectives!
A camel can drink up to 40 gallons of water in one go. That’s seriously impressive!
Don’t bring your crystal ball to Maryland! Fortune telling is illegal in the state.
Speaking of ferrets, did you know they used to be used to protect grain stores from rodents?
The White House has 35 bathrooms. So every bathroom break can be different for POTUS!
Got a song stuck in your head? That’s called an “earworm.”
None of The Beatles could actually read music.
However, George Harrison could reportedly play 26 instruments.
Barry Manilow did not, in fact, write “I Write The Songs.”
Metallica is the only band to perform on all seven continents.
Most department stores tend to play slower music, in order to slow down customers and keep them shopping longer. The opposite is true for restaurants.
Monaco’s orchestra is bigger than its army.
A concert promoter once sold a thousand tickets to a Spice Girls concert in Hawaii that was never actually booked. Maybe that’s where they got the idea for Fyre Fest.
Humans could never “land” on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they are made of gas and have no solid surface.
But you could ice skate on one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, which is covered in ice. An Axel jump would take you 22 feet in the air!
Our modern interpretation of Santa Claus with a red outfit and white beard is due in large part to holiday Coca-Cola ads that began in 1931.
Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, wasn’t the first to introduce Christmas trees to Britain from his native Germany—Queen Charlotte did that in the late 1700s. But, Victoria and Albert are credited with popularizing the custom in the mid-1800s.
Buckingham Palace in London, England, has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms.
The White House in Washington, DC, has 132 rooms, including 35 bathrooms.
It takes 570 gallons to paint the exterior of the White House.
The teddy bear is named after President Theodore Roosevelt. After he refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt, a stuffed-animal maker decided to create a bear and name it after the president.
Lincoln Logs were created by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the 1920s. They were named after Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in a log cabin.
Don’t like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
A typical cough is 60 mph while a sneeze is often faster than 100 mph.
Some fish cough. Really.
Are you terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. That is anatidaephobia.
American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
Because of the 4 stages of the Water Cycle – Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation and Collection – water falling as rain today may have previously fallen as rain days, weeks, months or years before.
Goats have rectangular pupils in their eyes.
There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
Birds can not live in space – they need gravity to be able to swallow.
Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
Your feet typically produce a pint of sweat every single day.
The snow on Venus is metal.
We’re the only species known to blush.
You only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
Babies are born with more bones than adults. (Babies have 300 bones while adults only have 206.)
How do you tell if a cranberry is ripe? It’ll bounce like a rubber ball.
Most U.S. stamp adhesive contains about one-tenth of a calorie. British stamps could set you back 5.9 calories. Of course, one lick won’t transfer all of that to your belly.
Here’s a little funny and creepy fact: not only are groups of crows called murders, but the birds actually hold funerals for their dead. Spooky!
Bees are the only insect that produce food that people eat. Thanks, bees!
Squeamish? Don’t go to any cheese shops in Sardinia, lest you find yourself face to face with Casu Marzu, a cheese that gets its taste from live maggots. Eek!
Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. Is your mind blown?
Jin Songhao of China won the world record for longest skin contact with snow at 46 minutes and 7 seconds!
The heaviest onion on record was grown by Pete Glazebrook of England. It weighed 17 pounds!
Joseph Stalin used to have people removed from photos after they died or were removed from office.
Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with the necessary items for making tea.
Pope Gregory IV once declared war on cats because he believed Satan used black cats. His declaration lead to the mass extermination of cats.
That lack of cats led to a rat infestation which led to the spread of the plague.
John Adams was the first president to live in the White House.
Go to bed! Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and the Challenger explosion have all been attributed to a lack of sleep.
The average person living in Sweden eats about 22 pounds of chocolate a year.
In 2016, Mozart sold more albums than Beyoncé.
During a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, someone donated $35,000 so that VH1 Classic would have to play “99 Luftballons” on repeat for an entire hour.
“A Boy Named Sue” wasn’t written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it.
In 2015, Belfast police used ice cream truck music to deter teenage rioters.
Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators.
China didn’t win its first Olympic medal until 1984.
The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in or host a Super Bowl.
Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress four years before women could even vote.
Women couldn’t apply for credit at a bank until 1974.
Before the invention of modern false teeth, dentures were commonly made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh.
It was once considered sacrilegious to use a fork.
Abe Lincoln was a champion wrestler. He was also a licensed bartender. Maybe they should call him an “Abe of all trades.”
George Washington owned a whiskey distillery.
You can cut a pie into 8 pieces with only three cuts.
If a Donkey and a Zebra have a baby, it is called a Zonkey.
The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
A tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane.
There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
All babies are born with blue eyes.
When you look at a bright sky and see white dots, you are looking at your blood. Those are white blood cells.
The difference between jam and jelly is that jam is made with mashed up fruit while jelly is made with fruit juice.
Preserves are like jam but made with more whole fruit. Marmalade is preserves made from citrus fruit.
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were developed by a janitor at Frito-Lay, Richard Montanez, who got the idea after putting chili powder on some reject Cheetos and then pitched it to the CEO. He’s now a successful executive and motivational speaker, and a movie is in the works about his life.
Coca-Cola actually sells soup in a can. Bistrone is a nourishing meal on the go, available in two flavors in Japan.
The biggest pizza ever created was 13,580 square feet, made in Rome, Italy, in 2012. The pizza was gluten-free and named “Ottavia” after a roman emperor.
Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts.
Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls once went eight seasons (starting in 1990) without a three-game losing streak.
NFL refs also get Super Bowl rings.
President Hubert Hoover invented a game called “Hooverball” which was a cross between tennis and volleyball and was played with a medicine ball.
Only one city has won three major championships in one year. In 1935, the Detroit Lions won the Super Bowl, the Tigers won the world series, and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup.
More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical professional baseball game.
By the time we die, we’ll have spent roughly a year sitting on the toilet.
You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.
Astronauts can grow up to two inches taller while they’re in space.
Some blood vessels in a blue whale are actually big enough for humans to swim through.
Turkey was probably not eaten at the first Thanksgiving — instead, wildfowl, goose, and even possibly… passenger pigeons and swans were consumed!
A flock of ravens is called a conspiracy. Dark stuff!
Caterpillars have 12, count ‘em, 12 eyes!
Mice have pretty funny names: A female mouse is a doe and a male mouse is a buck. Baby mice are sometimes called pinkies because of their color and sometimes called pups.
Did you know that gorillas, monkeys, bonobos, and other primates make a new nest to sleep in every night?!
13. Chickens don’t just eat seeds, they like to eat insects and also mice and lizards! Ew, chickens!
Giraffes don’t just have long necks: They have long tongues! Their tongues are between 18 and 20 inches long.
In Arizona, you can’t feed garbage to pigs without getting a permit.
Sea otters like to hold each other’s paws when they sleep, so they don’t drift apart while dreaming. How sweet is that?!
Forgetful? Move to Eastern Pennsylvania where the word “jawn” can be used to a person, place, or thing you just can’t remember.
The oldest domestic cat on record lived for 38 years. She was Creme Puff of Austin, Texas.
Apparently, the world’s fastest ant runs faster than Usain Bolt!
Little brown bats make for the longest nappers — in captivity, they nap up to 19.9 hours a day. Wish we could take a nap that long!
The longest noodle ever made is more than 10,000 feet long. That’s almost two miles! Wonder how long it would take us to slurp that?
Otto the bulldog broke the record for dog to skate through the longest human tunnel when he skated through the legs of 30 people without any assistance. Otto, you’re our hero.
The expression “heart of gold” was invented by Shakespeare.
To make one pound of honey, a bee has to fly 90,000 miles! Though one bee typically only makes one twelfth of a teaspoon of the stuff in its lifetime.
Some lipsticks apparently contain fish scales. Eek!
An ostrich’s eye is actually bigger than its brain.
42. The United States apparently makes 25 percent of the world’s cheese. That’s a whole lot of cheese!
Here’s one to tickle your funny bone: the human hand has 54 bones. That’s more than a quarter of the bones in the whole body. Wow!
Want a license plate in the shape of a polar bear? All you have to do is move to Nunavut Province in Canada!
The title of tallest Mohawk goes to Kazuhito Watanabe, a Japanese fashion designer. His ‘hawk’ measures three feet 8.6 inches!
Elmer Fudd’s original name was Egghead.
What’s inside a Kit Kat? Broken Kit Kats that are damaged during production—they get ground up and go between the wafers inside, along with cocoa and sugar. That’s a way to not let anything go to waste!
Pound cake got its name because the original recipe required a pound each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs. That’s a lot of cake—but it was meant to last for a long time.
The tallest building in the world is the Burg Khalifa in Dubai, standing at over 2,700 feet.
The tallest building in the US is One World Trade Center in New York, which comes in at number six on the worldwide list. It stands at exactly 1,776 feet as a nod to the date of the Declaration of Independence.
The Empire State Building in New York was the tallest building in the world from 1931 until 1971, and was the first building of over 100 floors.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s really, really hard to see the Great Wall of China from space, particularly with the naked eye.
Although no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by the managing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s.
Michelin stars are highly coveted by elite and upscale restaurants the world over—but they’re actually given out by the Michelin tire company, the same one whose mascot is the marshmallow-like Michelin Man. If you want to get fancy, pronounce it in the original French, “mich-LEH.”
You can still stay at the world’s oldest hotel, Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan, which was founded in 705 AD.
The longest place name in the word, at 85 letters, is “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu,” New Zealand. Locals just call it Taumata Hill.
The coldest temperature ever recorded occurred in Antarctica, -144 Fahrenheit, as reported by researchers in a scientific journal in 2018.
The hottest temperature ever recorded occurred in Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, at 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
Most newborns lose all the hair they were born with by the time they’re six months old.
It’s impossible to burp in space.
Everyone has their own unique smell, except identical twins.
Thumbs have their own pulse.
Goosebumps developed to make our ancestors’ hair stand up, making them appear more threatening to predators.
A sneeze shoots through the air at 100 miles per hour, sending 10,000 germs flying.
Know how a bat or whale uses echolocation to communicate? Humans are also capable of echolocation.
Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve metal.
The longest hiccuping spell lasted a whopping 68 years.
People started wearing pajamas, originally spelled “pyjamas,” instead of nightgowns so they’d be prepared to run outside in public during World War I air raids in England.
At Medieval Times dinner attractions, you eat with your hands because people didn’t use utensils in the middle ages.
Freelancers originally referred to self-employed, sword-wielding mercenaries: literally “free lancers.”
We shake hands to show we’re unarmed.
Japan records the most earthquakes of any country in the world; but the most earthquakes actually occurs in Indonesia.
Each year 16 million thunderstorms happen around the world, and at any given moment, there are about 2,000 thunderstorms in progress.
Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world.
Australia contains a number of pink lakes, but the most stunning is the Pepto Bismol-colored Lake Hillier. The color may be the result of certain algae.
There are over 700 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. That’s a lot compared to 26 letters of the alphabet!
A woodpecker’s tongue is bigger than its entire head. It keeps it wrapped up around its brain to protect it from the impact of all that pecking!
Saturn’s surface is less dense than water. That means it could float in your bathtub — if it were big enough.
The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie mouse from the 1980s to the 2010s were married!
In some Harry Potter movie scenes where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are doing their Hogwarts schoolwork, the actors were actually doing their REAL schoolwork!
A flock of peacocks is called a party. Party hard, peacocks!
The Supreme Court has its own basketball court, with a great nickname: “The highest court on the land!” Get it?!
Did you know that jellyfish have been around even before dinosaurs?
All clownfish are born male! They can also all change their sex to female, but they can’t turn it back to male after doing so. So Nemo could become a girl fish all along!
Did you know apples come from the same plant family as roses? So do plums, raspberries, and many other delicious fruits. Next time, instead of roses, just send your mother a lovely bouquet of plums!
Greyhounds can run up to 45 mph. So don’t challenge one to a race!
Hiking naked is illegal in Switzerland. Though we must say, it doesn’t seem like a good idea in general!
29. A flock of flamingos is called… wait for it… a flamboyance! Fancy.
30. New York’s Central Park is bigger than Monaco. That’s right, one park is bigger than an entire country!
sing ferrets to hunt other animals is illegal in West Virginia. Good to know!
Don’t let the chicken cross the road in Georgia (the country.) No, seriously. It’s illegal!
Toilet seat covers are basically pointless.
There is an island in the Bahamas that's inhabited only by swimming pigs.
Richard Nixon once smuggled a suitcase full of weed through the airport for Louis Armstrong.
Ancient Greeks came up with the idea of cyclops after they found a fossil of a mammoth, and had no idea what it was.
There are 70 (!) ingredients in a McRib sandwich.
There are lower-case numbers in addition to lower-case letters.
The first person to perform a successful C-section in South Africa was Dr. James Barry...a doctor who was actually a woman.
For a brief time, Melbourne had the best name on the planet: Batmania.
In 1981, a black lab named Bosco was elected honorary mayor of Sunol, California.
Modern thong underwear was introduced by Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York City.
The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, has so many cats on its grounds that it employs a "Press Secretary to the Cats."
A writer predicted how the Titanic would sink in 1898, 13 years before it was even built.
There's a town in Poland where everything is decorated with paintings of flowers.
There are trees that can grow more than one kind of fruit, and they're called fruit salad trees.
"Horizontal refreshment" was 19th century slang for sex.
In Queensland, Australia, it's illegal to own a pet rabbit unless you're a magician.
All colors of Froot Loops have the same flavor.
April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 PM, the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."
Before the 1800s, people had a "first" and "second sleep." They would sleep 3-4 hours, wake up for 2-3 hours to do some type of activity, then go back to sleep until morning.
Cows have "best friends" and get stressed when separated.
Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s.
Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, was in close proximity to three out of four presidential assassinations.
If you're being violent or drunk in Japan, police will get a futon and roll you into a burrito.
All mammals take about 12 seconds to poop, regardless of size.
Miami is the only major US city founded by a woman.
The story you've probably heard about lemmings jumping off of cliffs to their deaths is FAKE.
Canadians say "sorry" so much that The Apology Act was passed in 2009, declaring that an apology can't be used as evidence of admission of guilt.
Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once ditched a White House dinner party to go on a joyride flight to Baltimore.
There's a high school in Minnesota that gives service dogs yearbook photos.
Most American movie villains have British accents because we associate them with having high intellect and low morals.
Earth used to be covered with giant mushrooms that were 24 feet tall and three feet wide, instead of trees.
Mother's Day was quite literally invented to be anti-commercialism.
There's a sexual phenomenon named after President Calvin Coolidge.
The logo for Chupa Chups was designed by Salvador Dalí.
Elizabeth Jennings Graham did what Rosa Parks did, but a century earlier on a New York City streetcar. Her eventual lawsuit led to the desegregation of New York's public transit system.
A female architecture student prevented a Manhattan skyscraper from collapsing in the 1970s when she caught a massive design flaw.
It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get lonely.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
The British royal family isn't allowed to play Monopoly.
Popcorn wasn't always a beloved movie snack — in fact, prior to the Great Depression, movie theaters hated popcorn.
Paper bags aren't any better for the environment than plastic ones.
In the 19th century, experts warned women about a disease called bicycle face, which meant getting stuck with the awkward faces they made while biking.
A cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975.
Cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation.
When the University of Nebraska plays football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Shaggy from Scooby Doo's real name is Norville Rogers.
Every year on Aug. 5, the Mars Curiosity rover sings itself a sad, solitary "Happy Birthday."
There are turtle tunnels in Japan to save them from being run over by trains.
She sells seashells by the seashore" was written about an actual person named Mary Anning.
Mr. Rogers announced that he was feeding his fish on every episode of his show because a blind viewer once asked if they were okay.
Red Sour Patch Kids are the exact same candy as Swedish Fish, just with some sour sugar sprinkled on them.
Elephants suck on their trunks for comfort.
Anteaters have no teeth.
Nine-banded armadillos always have quadruplets, and they’re always identical.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
Hippos and horses are actually distant relatives.
All clownfish are born male.
In the UK, The Queen legally owns all unmarked swans.
To keep from drifting apart, sea otters hold hands while they sleep.
Goats have accents.
Dolphins give names to each other.
Among lost works, this story might be even worse: Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, left a suitcase full of the author’s writing on a train. When she went back to get it, it was gone. “I had never seen anyone hurt by a thing other than death or unbearable suffering except Hadley when she told me about the things being gone,” Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast.
The original title of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was First Impressions.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she 18, during a ghost story competition while staying in Switzerland with writers Percy Shelley (her lover) and Lord Byron.
German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany. It was named for a person, Sam German, who created a type of baking chocolate for Baker’s in 1852.
Hawaiian pizza was created in Ontario, Canada, by Greek immigrant Sam Panopoulos in 1962.
Almost all commercially grown artichokes, 99.9 percent, come from California. One town in particular, Castroville, is nicknamed “the Artichoke Capital of the World.”
All of an adult human’s blood vessels, if laid out end to end, would be about 100,000 miles, so they could encircle the earth four times.
According to recent research, the human nose can distinguish at least a trillion different odors.
The longest fingernails ever were over 28 feet in total. American Lee Redmond started growing them in 1979 and set the record in 2008. Sadly, she lost her nails in a car crash in 2009.
The origin of the word “sinister” reflects a historical bias against left-handed people. It comes from the Latin word for “left,” which was also seen to be unlucky or evil.
There is not one letter “q” in any US state name, the only letter in the alphabet to be missing. “J” and “z” are only represented once each, in New Jersey and Arizona.
The word “strengths” is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
Until the 1980s, it was illegal for a woman to drive a car down Main Street in Waynesboro, Virginia, unless her husband was walking in front of the car waving a red flag.
The voice of Mickey Mouse and the voice of Minnie Mouse got married IRL.
A can of Mountain Dew can dissolve a mouse 😳.
For a short time, the planet Uranus was named...George.
Movies have to clarify that they're fiction because of a 1930s lawsuit that traces back to none other than Rasputin.
Iceland has an elf whisperer who inspects construction sites before anything gets built to make sure no elves are hanging around.
In the 1920s, women in several US cities organized Anti-Flirt Clubs in to combat catcalling.
Lego is the largest tire manufacturer in the world.
A "buttload" is a real measurement of weight.
4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down.
If someone gives opinions on topics they know nothing about, they're an ultracrepidarian.
The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997.
Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread?
The Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, who lived in the 1700s, reportedly invented the sandwich so he wouldn’t have to leave his gambling table to eat.
The first college football game was played on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton (then known as the College of New Jersey) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won.
Experiments in universities have actually been carried out to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, both with the machine and human lickers (because this is important scientific knowledge!). The results ranged from 252 to 411.
Three presidents, all Founding Fathers—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe—died on July 4. Presidents Adams and Jefferson also died the same year, 1826; President Monroe died in 1831. Coincidence? You decide.
The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, from Willows, Wisconsin. Her birthday is March 9, 1959, when she was first displayed at the New York Toy Fair.
There actually aren’t “57 varieties” of Heinz ketchup, and never were. Company founder H.J. Heinz thought his product should have a number, and he liked 57. Hint: Hit the glass bottle on the “57,” not the bottom, to get the ketchup to flow.
One of President John Tyler’s grandsons is still alive today—and he was born in 1790. How is this possible? President Tyler, the 10th US president, was 63 when his son Lyon Tyler was born in 1853; Lyon’s son was born when he was 75. President Tyler’s living grandson, Harrison Tyler is 92. Lyon’s other son Lyon Jr. passed away in 2020 at the age of 95. The Tyler family still maintains the President’s home, Sherwood Forest Plantation in Virginia.
The tallest man ever recorded was American giant Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches. Wadlow’s size was the result of an abnormally enlarged pituitary gland.
Kangaroos can not walk backward.
A horse’s canter is a 3-beat gait. On the second beat, opposite front and rear legs hit the ground at the same time. After the third beat is a “rest”, or suspension when all three legs are off the ground.
Want chocolate-smelling poo? There is a pill for that.
The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
Sea Lions have rhythm. They are the only animal able to clap to a beat.
While you sleep you can’t smell anything – even really, really bad or potent smells.
Some tumors can grow hair, teeth, bones, even fingernails.
Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.
Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.
The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles: Vatican City.
Hippopotamus milk is pink.
Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.
Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.
Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet flushing.
One of the most famous movie lines in history was never said. We often quote, “Play it again, Sam,” from Casablanca; but the real line is, “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’”
The green code in The Matrix was actually created from symbols in the code designer’s wife’s sushi cookbook.
The wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles was watched by 750 million people worldwide in 1981; sadly, 2.5 billion watched her funeral in 1997.
With 3.572 billion viewers, half the world’s population watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup of soccer (or football, as many international fans call it), which is held every four years. That number is on par with the 2016 Summer Olympics; but only a quarter of the world watched the less-popular Winter Olympics in 2018.
The most common wild bird in the world isn’t the sparrow or blue jay—it’s the red-billed quelea, which live in Africa and have an estimated population of 1.5 billion.
The heart of the blue whale, the largest animal on earth, is five feet long and weighs 400 pounds. The whale in total weighs 40,000 pounds.
For comparison, an elephant’s heart weighs around 30 pounds. And a human heart? A mere 10 ounces.
Cows don’t actually have four stomachs; they have one stomach with four compartments.
The platypus doesn’t have a stomach at all: Their esophagus goes straight to their intestines.
This is one animal myth that’s true: Eating parts of a pufferfish can kill you because, in a defense mechanism to ward off predators, it contains a deadly chemical called tetrodotoxin. There’s enough in one pufferfish to kill 30 people—and there’s no antidote. Still, pufferfish, called fugu, is a highly-prized delicacy in Japan, but can only be prepared by well-trained chefs.
Cartoonist Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey, came up with names for the things we often see in comics and cartoons: “briffit” is the dust cloud a character makes when he runs away quickly; “plewds” are the beads of sweat when a character is under duress; and “grawlix” are symbols such as “#@*%” that stand in for curse words.
A mash-up of two words to make a new word (such as breakfast and lunch into brunch, or motel from motor and hotel) is called a portmanteau. In case you’re wondering, the word “portmanteau” itself is not a portmanteau; it’s a compound word that refers to a duel-sided suitcase.
The dog ate John Steinbeck’s homework—literally. The author’s pup chewed up an early version of Of Mice and Men. “I was pretty mad, but the poor fellow may have been acting critically,” he wrote.
The different colors of Froot Loops cereal all taste the same—they’re not individual flavors.
The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.
Days on Venus are longer than years. Due to its slow axis rotation, it takes 243 Earth days to spin once; but it only takes 225 Earth days to go around the sun.
There are no muscles in your fingers: Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms.
The hardest working muscle in your body is your heart: It pumps more than 2,000 gallons of blood a day and beats more than 2.5 billion times in a 70-year life span.
It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose (just try it!).
Skin is the body’s largest organ.
The earth’s circumference is 24,900 miles.
Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and rebranded it.
In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candyland to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color system required no reading, young kids could easily play.
At over 29,000 feet tall, Mt. Everest is the highest point on Earth, but it doesn’t compare to the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench, which is over 36,000 feet deep—nearly seven miles—in the Pacific Ocean.
The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros.
The oldest known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882.
Bats are the only mammal that can actually fly.
Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines from the feces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory.
Polar bears have black skin. And actually, their fur isn’t white—it’s see-through, so it appears white as it reflects light.
Tigers’ skin is actually striped, just like their fur. Also, no two fur patterns are alike.
Flamingoes are only pink because of chemicals called carotenoids in the algae and fish (which also eat the algae) they eat; their feathers are grayish-white when they’re born.
The tallest living man is 37-year-old Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, who is 8 feet, 2.8 inches, who set the record in 2009. His growth is also due to a pituitary issue.
The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world: They kill more people than any other creature, due to the diseases they carry.
What do Miss Piggy and Yoda have in common? They were both voiced by the same person, puppeteer Frank Oz.
This isn’t exactly a “fun” fact, but there are over 200 dead bodies of climbers on Mt. Everest because it’s so difficult to bring them down.
Only two people have ever swum the entire length of the 2,350-mile Mississippi River: Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel in 2002 and American former Navy SEAL Chris Ring in 2015. Steel swam for 68 days in a row; Ring took one day off a week, taking 181 days.
Visitors are not allowed to scatter loved ones’ ashes at Disney World or Disneyland. This is apparently a problem, particularly around the Haunted Mansion attraction.
The man who designed the Pringles can, Fred Bauer, is buried in one—or at least some of his ashes are.
There’s a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, who’s set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from the fastest mile on a pogo stick, the longest time to hula hoop underwater and the greatest distance traveled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head.
Polar bear fur is actually clear, and their skin is black.
Baby flamingos are born grey, not pink.
A woodpecker’s tongue actually wraps all the way around its brain, protecting it from damage when it’s hammering into a tree.
A shrimp’s heart is located in its head.
Gorillas can catch human colds — you’re probably still safe to go to the zoo with the sniffles, though.
Forget bald eagles. The turkey was once almost named the national bird.
More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War.
While the Wright Brothers are famous as a pair, they actually only flew together once. They promised their father they’d always fly separately.
Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.
Ninety percent of the world’s population lives above the equator.
Finland has more saunas than cars.
Sixty percent of the World’s lakes (three million total) are located in Canada.
Virginia is the only state that has the same state flower and state tree, the Dogwood.
“Happy Birthday” was the first song ever played on Mars. Mars Rover Curiosity played the song to itself on its first anniversary on the planet.
While listening to music, your heart can sync to the rhythm.
President Nixon was an accomplished musician. He played five instruments, including the accordion.
Leo Fender, the inventor of the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, couldn’t play guitar.
Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Some golf balls are filled with honey.
Despite taking about three hours to play out, the average baseball game only has about 18 minutes of active playing time.
MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case they split their pants.
Bo Jackson refused the teams that originally tried to draft him in both baseball and football.
Guide dogs do their “business” on command — to make things easier for their owners. So considerate!
In WWII British soldiers had to make do with only three sheets of toilet paper per day!
In Russia, beer was considered a soft drink, not alcohol, until 2011!
Strawberries are NOT berries, but bananas actually are!
A tomato is actually a fruit.
The cashew nuts we eat are actually attached to a large cashew apple that is used to make soft drinks in Brazil. Cashew on that fact!
Mice actually do not like cheese! They prefer sweets if given the choice — they like to eat fruit, seeds, and grains!
Here’s a fact to sit on: there are over 9,000 benches in Central Park.
Theodore Roosevelt’s kids had a pet bear, badger, and hyena, to name but a few animals — and they brought them all to the White House!
Time stops at the speed of light.
The average human body carries more bacteria cells than human cells.
In their lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the Earth.
Humans wouldn’t be able to taste food without saliva.
If Betelgeuse exploded right now, the star’s last light show would brighten our sky for around two months.
Oona Chaplin, who played Robb Stark’s wife in Game of Thrones, is Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter.
The founder of sportswear companies Puma and Adidas were brothers! Rudolf “Rudi” Dassler is the brain behind Puma, while his big bro Adolf “Adi” Dassler gave the world Adidas.
Giant Pandas eat approximately 28 pounds of bamboo a day – that’s over 5 tons per year!
The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
Cats are not able to taste anything that is sweet.
You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.
One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
The largest living organism in the world is a fungus. It is in Oregon, covering 2,200 acres, and is still growing.
Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.
Baby koalas are fed poo by their parents after they are born which helps them digest Eucalyptus leaves later in life.
Many mammals, including cats and dogs, walk on their toes in contrast to humans, who walk on the soles of their feet.
20% of all the oxygen you breathe is used by your brain.
Your small intestine is the largest internal organ in your body.
Love carrots? Don’t eat too many or you will turn orange.
Cows can walk upstairs but not down them.
Tiger shark embryos begin attacking each other in their mother’s womb before they are even born.
The surface of Mars is covered in rust, making the planet appear red.
German chocolate cake is named after a guy named Sam German, not the country.
Almost as many people were killed by guillotine in Nazi Germany as in the French Revolution.
The creature that kills the most people every year isn't snakes, sharks, or even other humans — it's the mosquito.
The Sun City Poms is a cheerleading squad in Arizona that only people 55 or older can join.
"What in tarnation?" is literally just another way of saying, "What the hell?"
Chainsaws, the horror-movie murder weapon of choice, was invented to aid in childbirth 😊.
There's an island in Japan you can visit that's inhabited only by friendly bunnies.
There are actually more public libraries in the US than McDonald's.
The last letter added to the English alphabet wasn't Z — it was the letter J.
In 1518, a “dancing plague” took over the town of Strasbourg, France.
People wore fake moles (or "beauty patches") made of velvet, silk, or mouse skin in the 18th century as a fashion statement.
Before the invention of color TV, 75% of people said they dreamed in black and white. Today, only 12% do.
Sea otters have a pouch under their forearm to store their favorite rocks.
T-shirts were originally marketed to unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons back on collared shirts by themselves.
Prior to the 20th century, squirrels were one of America's most popular pets.
Anxious travelers can play with mini horses at a Kentucky airport.
In 1965, a patent was filed for a "birthing apparatus" which would spin pregnant women around at as much as 7G until their baby was flung out from the centrifugal force.

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