Discovering Little Known Facts – Unveiling the Untold Stories
Did you know that elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump?
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter of the alphabet.
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 dots on a dice have a specific pattern: the opposite sides always add up to seven.
Astronauts can become up to two inches taller while spending extended periods of time in space, due to the lack of gravity compressing the spine.
The world’s quietest room is so silent that visitors can hear their own blood circulation and even the movement of their joints.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
A snail can sleep for up to three years.
Sunflowers are not a single flower but a cluster of many tiny flowers arranged in a spiral pattern.
Octopuses have three hearts.
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.
Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for whiskey.
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.
Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal on Earth.
In Japan, it is common to see watermelons grown into a square shape to make them easier to stack and store.
Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas.
Discovering Little Known Facts – Unveiling the Untold Stories part 2
The first video ever uploaded to YouTube was titled Me at the zoo and featured one of the site’s co-founders.
Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they are separated.
The fortune cookie was actually invented in Japan, not China.
The Hundred Years’ War between England and France actually lasted for 116 years.
There are more possible iterations of a game of Chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust.
The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
The world’s oldest known customer complaint was written on a cuneiform tablet from ancient Mesopotamia about 4,000 years ago.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The pineapple is actually not a single fruit but a group of berries fused together.
Humans shed about 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.
The continent of Africa accounts for about 20% of the Earth’s total land area.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for about 30 minutes.
Birds don’t urinate; instead, they excrete nitrogenous waste as a white paste called uric acid.
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.
Chewing gum while peeling onions prevents tears.
A person’s nose can remember up to 50,000 different scents.
Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.
The highest-ever recorded temperature on Earth was 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) in Death Valley, California.
A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for a red light to turn green.
The oldest-known recipe for bread is over 5,000 years old.
The average person laughs about 15 times per day.
Watermelon can technically be classified as both a fruit and a vegetable.