Amazing and Surprising Facts

The smallest bone in the human body is located in the ear.

Honey never spoils, it can last indefinitely.

There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red traffic lights to turn green.

The world’s longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.

The largest volcano in the solar system is located on Mars and it is three times taller than Mount Everest.

The average human brain can generate enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

Every year, more people are killed by vending machines than by sharks.

The shortest war in history lasted only 38-45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.

Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

The average person will spend about 25 years sleeping in their lifetime.

Honey is the only food that never spoils.

The shortest war in history was between two African countries and lasted for just 38 minutes.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have been confused at a crime scene.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

The speed of a computer mouse is measured in mickeys.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The average person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.

Amazing and Surprising Facts part 2

The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.

The smell of rain is caused by a certain type of bacteria.

There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones.

The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter of the alphabet.

The world’s largest desert, the Sahara, is larger than the entire United States.

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater into fresh water.

The average person will produce enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

Astronauts cannot burp in space due to the lack of gravity.

The human eye can distinguish approximately 10 million different colors.

Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans.

The world’s oldest living organism is a 5,000-year-old tree named Methuselah.

The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit in Antarctica.

The average person will spend 6 months of their lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green.

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories per hour.

A flea can jump up to 200 times its own body length.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The world’s oldest known joke is an ancient Sumerian joke dating back to 1900 BC.

The average person will spend about 6 months of their life waiting for traffic lights to turn green.

Dolphins have been known to call each other by specific names.

The world’s first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace.

The average person will produce enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

Africa is the only continent situated in all four hemispheres.

The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.

The average person will spend approximately 25 years of their life asleep.