Fascinating Facts of the Day

Did you know that the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime?

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Honey never spoils – archaeologists have even found jars of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are still perfectly edible.

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896 – it lasted just 38 minutes.

Every second, over 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

The Eiffel Tower grows about 6 inches in summer due to the expansion of its iron.

Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.

Wombat feces are cube-shaped.

The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.

The human brain is more active during sleep than while watching TV.

The shortest recorded war in history was between two city-states in Italy in 1886 – it lasted only two hours.

Octopuses have three hearts.

Cows have best friends and get stressed when they are separated.

The word set has the most definitions in the English language.

The average person spends six months of their life waiting at red traffic lights.

The world’s shortest scheduled flight is between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland, lasting just 1.5 minutes.

The smell of freshly-cut grass is a distress signal plants release to deter grazing animals.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Fascinating Facts of the Day part 2

The oldest known recipe is for beer and is over 4,000 years old.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.

A single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.

Sloths only poop once a week.

The world’s oldest computer, the Antikythera mechanism, was built in ancient Greece around 150 BC.

Humans share 98% of their DNA with chimpanzees.

The average American spends about 65 days of their life brushing their teeth.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

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

The weight of all the ants in the world is equal to the weight of all the humans.

The first oranges were actually green.

The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War, lasting only 38 minutes.

The human eye can distinguish between 2.3 and 7.5 million different colors.

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

The oldest living thing on Earth is a bristlecone pine tree that is over 5,000 years old.

Dolphins have names for each other and call out to each other when separated.

The oldest known musical instrument is a bone flute, which is over 40,000 years old.

The average person will eat around 70,000 meals in their lifetime.

The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which is about the size of a thumbnail.

The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia.

The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.

The Earth’s atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

The world’s largest snowflake was recorded in 1887 and measured 15 inches across.

The average person blinks about 28,800 times a day.

The world’s oldest known living organism is a colony of sea grass in the Mediterranean, estimated to be around 200,000 years old.

Birds descended from dinosaurs.

Bees can recognize human faces.