Useless facts of the day
Did you know that snails can sleep for up to three years?
The average person spends six months of their lifetime waiting for red traffic lights.
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea, which has been around for over 5,000 years.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.
Koalas have fingerprints that are virtually indistinguishable from human fingerprints.
The shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
Alaska is the only state in the United States that can be typed using a single row on a typewriter keyboard.
The letter E is the most commonly used letter in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
Useless facts of the day part 2
The average person laughs 10 times a day.
The Great Wall of China is visible from space.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
The tallest sunflower ever recorded was over 30 feet tall.
Cats have five toes on their front paws but only four toes on their back paws.
Some birds can recognize themselves in the mirror, just like humans.
The average person spends one hour a month looking for misplaced items.
A strawberry is not actually a berry, but a banana is.
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
A sneeze can travel up to 100 miles per hour.
Hippos can run faster than humans on land.
The average person sheds between 50-100 hairs a day.
Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
The average person will spend six months waiting for red traffic lights in their lifetime.
Toilets flush in the key of E flat.
The world’s largest rubber duck weighs over 1,500 pounds.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.
The average person spends about two weeks of their life kissing.
Astronauts cannot burp in space due to the lack of gravity.
There is a species of spider that feeds exclusively on human flesh.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The average person takes 21,000 breaths a day.