FUN FACTS

 

Check out these amazing facts you probably have no idea of:

  • Barbara Millicent Roberts is Barbie's full name.

  • Laika was the name of the first cosmonaut in history, a dog.

  • Freelancer used to be a colloquial term for mercenary.

  • The United States Supreme Court building has a basketball court.

  • Kangaroos can’t walk backwards…

  • Sharks can attack in the womb! Tiger shark embryos begin attacking each other in their mother’s womb.

  • Every person farts an average of 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.

  • You can't smell anything while you ate asleep – even really, really bad or potent smells.

  • Some tumours can grow hair, teeth, bones, and even fingernails.

  • Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.

  • Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.

  • A typical cough is 60 mph while a sneeze is often faster than 100 mph.

  • Your feet typically produce a pint of sweat every single day.

  • Elephants only sleep for about 4-5 hours per day.

  • There’s a Starbucks cup in every scene in the movie ‘Fight Club.’

  • We have 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

  • Bears have 42 teeth.

  • Shakespeare invented about 1,700 words in the English language.

  • A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

  • A group of frogs is called an army.

  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

  • Freddie Mercury was born in Africa.

  • Someone stole Einstein’s brain when he died.

  • Wombat poop is cube-shaped.

  • Chewing gum is banned in Singapore.

  • Vikings discovered Russia.

  • Once exposed to oxygen, a lobster’s colourless blood turns blue.

  • Graffiti was found in the ruins of Pompeii.

  • The oldest word in the English language is “town.”


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