110 Random Facts I Had to Double-Check to Believe

Of all places, the Statue of Liberty is made of copper, which is why it was originally the same color as a penny. It turned completely green due to rust in 1920. Well, it's not easy being green. A glass of water has more atoms than glasses of water in all the oceans on earth. See for yourself. Some mountain ranges, for example, the Sierra Nevadas in California, have pink snow that tastes and smells like watermelon. Stay away from yellow snow. Always an ear of corn. It contains an even number of rows usually 16 of them and grains on average 800 you can really smell the rain, it smells like a mixture of vegetable oils, bacteria and ozone.

Salvador Dalí himself designed the lollipop logo in 1969. He also insisted that it be placed on top of the packaging so that everyone could see it. The Southern Hemisphere version of the Northern Lights is the Aurora Australis. The best time to see the Southern Lights is also in winter the victorians used to say prunes instead of cheese before taking a photo to look more serious smiling was reserved for the uneducated the sargasso sea has no coast, it is located right in the middle of the north atlantic ocean and its borders are completely natural, they are four ocean currents, when you sneeze, the air comes out of your nose at 100 miles per hour to know if the blueberries are ripe or not.

Growers drop them and see if they can bounce off a wooden barrier. Only ripe berries can do this. Ninety percent of the world's population lives in the northern hemisphere. Ketchup used to be a medicine sold in pill form throughout the United States in the 19th century. the longest piece of music lasts 639 years oregon 2 aslsp as slow as possible it is being performed in germany and should be finished in 2640. don't miss it every episode of friends has the word friends who would have thought jousting is the official sport by maryland video game designer toru atawani explained that a pizza with a slice removed was the inspiration for pac-man sesame street cookie monster has a real name and it's sid, an adult It is made up of seven octillion atoms at seven with a boat full of zeros, in our galaxy there are only three billion stars in comparison, the heart of a blue whale is as big as a small car and you can hear its heartbeat two miles apart, the dolphins call each other by names or, rather, with special vocal whistles, Cleopatra lived closer at the time of the first moon landing two thousand years then to the construction of the great pyramid 2500 years originally assumed that bubble wrap was textured wallpaper was invented by sealing two shower curtains together.

Facebook's "like" button was supposed to be the awesome first button you'll spend six months of your life waiting for the red lights to turn green enjoying lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread in 1992 almost 30,000 ducks From Australia to Alaska there is a road bridge in the Netherlands built just for squirrels, but a maximum of five squirrels use it per year. The small hole in the bottom of the lock allows water to drain in case the lock is left outdoors during a rain shower. The largest snowflake in history was the size of a Frisbee. It fell in Montana in 1887.

Los Gallos. They have built-in earplugs that prevent them from being deafened by their own noise. Croissants, which many see as one of the symbols of France, were invented in Vienna, Austria and only reached France in the 1830s. The largest pyramid in the world is not there. in Egypt but in Puebla Mexico if your brain were a computer it would perform 38,000 billion operations per second even the most powerful supercomputer in the world only has point zero zero two percent of that capacity to become a taxi or better taxi driver in London you would have to Memorizing 320 routes, 25,000 streets and 20,000 GPS sites is cheating.

The expiration date of a water bottle is for the bottle, not for the water. Plastic can leak inside, over time and the water never goes bad. The most successful pirate of all time was a woman named Ching Shin, she had 80,000 men under her command, the average human being

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s their phone every 6 minutes, which adds up to a total of 150 times a day. The African continent is the only one located in the four hemispheres and both the equator and the prime meridian pass through it. Highway lines were invented thanks to some leaky milk cars that a guy named Edward Hines saw leaking in the center of the road in 1911 and thought it was a great idea.

The Incas used knots instead of notes to keep records. Nascar drivers sweat so much in extreme heat that they can lose up to 10 pounds in a race Pineapples were named pineapples by European explorers because of their pointy appearance Your body emits enough heat in half an hour to boil a gallon of water Apple He had his own clothing and lifestyle line in 1986, but it was not a success. All blue-eyed people share a distant ancestor, as they all have the same genetic sequences for eye color. a man tried to sell new zealand on ebay ebay officials stopped bidding at three thousand dollars mount everest is not the tallest in the world the champion is mauna kea it is a rock only 13,800 feet above sea level but the rest it's hidden under water there's a city called boring in oregon that has a sister city called dahl in scotland the question mark and the exclamation point you probably use a lot to finish sentences it has a name it's interobang doritos can be used as good firewood they are easily Flammable and burns for a long time.

Wow, that's incendiary. ikea means the name of this guy. I'm not even going to try the name of the founder, the farm where he grew up and the hometown of him, when the glaciers melt, they make a loud gaseous sound called bergy seltzer. I'm not even going to try, but he was the only person who ever played golf outside of Earth. He did it on the moon in 1971 during the Apollo 14 space mission. The continental plates move at about the same rate as fingernails grow. Cats can be allergic. for humans, but it's most likely the perfume you wear or the soap you use, not your natural scent.

There is a fruit in Central and South America called black sapote that tastes like chocolate pudding. Art used to be an Olympic sport between 1912 and 1948. People competed. In sculpture, music, painting, and architecture, airplane black boxes are actually bright orange, making them easier to locate if you know what they are meant to be. German chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany, it is named after the American baker Samuel German, wow, the sky on Mars is red and the sunsets are blue this has to do with the dust in the Martian air the famous A chef's hat is called a toke and it has exactly 100 folds that symbolize 100 ways to cook an egg and in France an egg is sixty percent of your brain.

Made of fat, in fact, it is the fattiest organ in the body. Plato was designed as a way to clean wallpaper. Stop signs were yellow for 30 years in 1954. A non-fading red dye became available and everything changed. In 2014, two research scientists living in a 45-minute helicopter ride met each other using a dating app in the Antarctica. Tree rings widen when the weather is warm and humid. The hottest inhabited place in the world is Dallo, Ethiopia, with an average annual temperature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit and summer highs of 116 degrees. the only letter that is not in the periodic table is j a single strand of spaghetti is called spaghetto and a ravioli is a raviolo a french exit is what they call leaving a party without telling anyone in english in french they call it leaving style English You can burn about 100 calories per hour just by standing and doing nothing.

GPS is free to use, but costs $2 million a day to run. The UK has more tornadoes per area than any other country in the world. Times Square was called Long Acre. plaza until the headquarters of the new york times moved here in 1904 the word kimono translates as something to wear key means where and monkey means thing santa claus received a pilot's license and airway maps from the us government. in 1927. They also promised that the track lights would be for him the first band to play live on all seven continents was Metallica on December 8, 2013 they played a show called frieza mall in antarctica there are more cell phones than humans in the planet the eiffel tower was supposed to be erected in barcelona but the citizens didn't like the project so much that they moved it to paris there are no key holes in the presidential limousine and only the secret service knows how to open it the only window that opens is the one on the driver's side to pay tolls or talk to the secret service agents escorting the car the longest cricket game lasted more than 12 days between england and south africa and ended without a winner because the english team had to take the boat back home there was a qantas airways interstate flight powered by cooking oil it was the first commercial flight in australia to run on sustainable biofuel the guy who started the guinness book of world records couldn't find any information on the bird fastest hunt in history and got so angry that he invented his own way of keeping all records in a single source, the bigger an animal's brain. will yawn longer mice have the shortest ones and dogs and camels have the longest ones second only to humans margherita pizza has mozzarella tomato and basil on top to represent the italian national flag was created around 1890 for queen margherita of italy and became his favorite a human heart beats about 115,000 times a day 42 million times a year and more than 3 billion times in an average lifetime Abraham Lincoln loved cats so much that he once let a kitten eat the table at a formal dinner at the White House.

It is named after canned meat that was said to taste horrible and was ubiquitous and inescapable in a Monty Python parody. The least used letters in written English are j q x and z. There is only a 1 in 1,461 chance of a child being born on February 29. As it only happens once every 1,461 days, the world's most remote ATM is in Antarctica, serving around a thousand residents of a scientific facility. You really need cash there. Papua New Guinea has more languages ​​than any other country, more than 820 indigenous languages. king of the jungle was the original name of the lion king, then the creators realized that lions do not live in the jungle and changed the name.

There is a special word that means both nieces and nephews. They are bites. A surprising way to cure a tickly throat is to scratch it. ear if your throat tickles scratching your ear can help calm it down this way you will stimulate the nerves that cause muscle spasms in your throat fruit stickers are edible because a special safe glue is used for them, but that doesn't mean they aren't You do it. You have to wash the fruit before eating it. The smallest thing ever photographed is the shadow of an atom, it was thrown on a detector and only then could a digital camera capture it.

Every year 16 million storms occur around the world and 1,800 of them are occurring right now. One of the strangest holidays in history is celebrated on March 3. What if dogs and cats had opposable thumbs day? What do you think they would do first if they really had opposable thumbs? Share your ideas in the comments section below. The largest tree in the world is a giant. sequoia named general sherman is more than two thousand years old and is as tall as the statue of liberty or big ben and 18 times heavier than a blue whale elvis presley used to have blonde hair in his childhood in his adolescence, then he decided that the black hair was cooler and sometimes even touched up with shoe polish the first photograph was taken in 1826 and took eight hours to expose imagine sitting still for all that time to show affection in ancient greece men used to throw apples at women catching it meant accept that love the babies that emerged from these unions were generally called fuji or macintosh no, just kidding, the original idea of ​​tea bags was to take out the tea before drinking it, but people decided that it was much more convenient to prepare it in the bag The temperature of a hive is approximately the same as the healthy temperature of the human body.

When it gets hotter, bees relocate throughout the hive and flap their wings to cool it. Extreme ironing is a real extreme sport that was invented in England. idea is to take an ironing board to a remote location and iron tons of clothes, okay, so where do you plug the iron into the first roller coaster? It was built in the early 19th century as a construction to haul coal downhill, then people discovered how much fun it was and it waswilling to pay to get on it. the smallest inhabited island is located in upstate New York and is called enough room, there is literally enough room for a tree and a house and finally this, if baby owls are called owls, then our baby items are called bathrooms, well, no.