Discovering Intriguing Facts
Did you know that the shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes?
The average person spends about six months of their life waiting at traffic lights.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
The term OK originated in the 19th century when people used to write all correct as oll korrect as a playful abbreviation.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.
Coffee was originally eaten. African tribes crushed the coffee berries, mixed them with animal fat, and shaped them into edible energy balls.
The world’s oldest known living organism is a grove of quaking aspen trees in Utah, estimated to be around 80,000 years old.
A sneeze travels at a speed of about 100 miles per hour.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit in Antarctica.
The average person will spend about 25 years sleeping in their lifetime.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The first alarm clock was a water clock invented by an ancient Greek philosopher named Plato.
The world’s largest land creature, the African elephant, can weigh up to 7 tons.
The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars. It is called Olympus Mons and is three times the height of Mount Everest.
Discovering Intriguing Facts part 2
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The human brain can hold about 2.5 petabytes of information, which is equivalent to three million hours of TV shows.
The average person blinks about 15 to 20 times per minute.
The oldest known written recipe is for beer, dating back to around 1800 BC in ancient Mesopotamia.
The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
The shortest war in history between two sovereign nations was fought between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after only 38 minutes.
The first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel was Annie Edson Taylor in 190
The world’s largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
The shortest scheduled flight in the world is between two Scottish islands and lasts only 1.7 miles, lasting about a minute.
The world’s largest pyramid is not in Egypt but in Cholula, Mexico. The Great Pyramid of Cholula is over 2.8 million cubic meters in volume.
The shortest war in history was fought between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar. It lasted only 38 to 45 minutes.
The average person will spend about six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, grows about 6 inches taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
The name Velociraptor means swift seizer or swift robber in Latin, but they were actually about the size of a turkey.
Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever existed on Earth. Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant.
Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in third place.
The world’s largest snow maze is located in Warren, Vermont, covering an area of over 2 acres.
The typewriter is the only mechanical device to be declared a symbol of freedom of expression by the United Nations.
The muzzle velocity of a paintball traveling through a paintball gun can reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.
The world record for the most people crammed into a Smart car is
The world’s largest ball of twine made by a single person weighs over 21,000 pounds and took 44 years to create.
The first oranges weren’t orange; they were green!
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space without the aid of magnification.
The average person will walk the equivalent of three times around the Earth in their lifetime.
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
Astronauts cannot cry in space because there is no gravity to pull their tears down.
The shortest war in history between two countries was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.
There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.