Discovering Fascinating Fun Facts

Did you know that elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump?

In Japan, it is considered good luck to let a sumo wrestler make you a baby cry.

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar, lasting only 38 minutes.

Scotland has 421 words for snow.

Sloths only poop once a week.

The Great Wall of China is visible from space.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

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

If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.

Octopuses have three hearts.

The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches in the summer due to the expansion of the iron in the heat.

Astronauts cannot burp in space because there is no gravity to separate the gas and liquids in their stomachs.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

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

Strawberries are not berries, but bananas are.

The Guinness World Record for the oldest cat ever is 38 years old.

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

Dolphins give each other names.

Mosquitoes have killed more humans throughout history than any other creature.

Discovering Fascinating Fun Facts part 2

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The first oranges weren’t orange. They were green.

Bees can recognize human faces.

Apples float in water because they are 25% air.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Some cats are allergic to humans.

The earth weighs around 13 quintillion pounds (5.97 quintillion kilograms).

The average person will shed about 10,000 skin cells every minute.

The world’s oldest known recipe is a Sumerian beer recipe from 1800 BC.

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts saltwater into freshwater.

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

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

Astronauts on the International Space Station can’t cry because there is no gravity for tears to flow down their faces.

Cows have best friends.

The shortest war in history was between two countries you’ve probably never heard of, called Nauru and Australia. It lasted exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Turkeys can blush.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles per hour.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.

The average person spends 6 months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The world’s fastest ant can travel up to one meter per second.

The oldest known evidence of human tattoos is from a 5,000-year-old mummy named Ötzi the Iceman.

Male puppies raise their legs when they pee to appear taller to other dogs.

The average person blinks approximately 15,000 times per day.