Weird but true facts

Did you know that Coca-Cola was originally green in color?

Human babies have more bones than adults.

The average person spends six months of their lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green.

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 shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.

Astronauts cannot burp in space because there is no gravity to separate the gas from the stomach.

Scotland has 421 words for snow.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.

The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.

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

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

The shortest complete sentence in the English language is I am.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

The word nerd was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his book If I Ran the Zoo.

The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.

The first recorded use of the hashtag symbol (#) was to mark numbers in a legal document in 14th-century England.

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 am.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

Weird but true facts part 2

The Eiffel Tower can be 15cm taller during the summer due to the expansion of the iron.

It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.

Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.

The world’s oldest known living creature is a 507-year-old clam named Ming.

A cow can go upstairs, but not downstairs.

The Earth’s total landmass is actually 29% larger than what we see on maps due to distortion.

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

A cat’s nose is as unique as a human’s fingerprint.

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach the moon.

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately two teeth every ten years.

The great wall of China is not visible from space without the aid of a telescope.

There are more possible ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

The average car has 30,000 parts.

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

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

The shortest war in history was between two African countries, Angola and Botswana, and it lasted only 38 minutes.

In 1660, Harvard University had a rule that required students to bring a servant with them, just to keep their rooms clean.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The dot on top of the lowercase letter i is called a tittle.

The human brain is capable of recognizing and remembering up to 10,000 different smells.

The weight of all the ants on Earth is equal to the weight of all the humans on Earth.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

There are more fictional books written about Sherlock Holmes than any other character in history.