62 Random Facts

The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space.
Someone squished their hands in jelly to make the sound effect for E.T. walking around.
90% of U.S. money has cocaine on it. The green dye on dollars causes cocaine residue to stick to the bills.
Trypophobia is the fear of closely-packed holes.
Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.
Australia is wider than the moon. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.
In some parts of Texas, it is illegal to cuss in front of a dead person. In Reno, possession and distribution of sex toys is also illegal.
The Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch.
Crows can recognize human faces and remember them for their entire lives. They've also been known to leave gifts for humans.
Iceland is the only one country without mosquitoes: Its low temperatures make it impossible for the pest to breed.
It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. It's considered animal abuse because they're social beings and get lonely.
Scientists have taught rats to drive. According to an experiment, rats can learn how to drive. The scientists conditioned the rats to manoeuvre different ways by rewarding them with cereal pieces.
Carrots can turn you orange. If you eat three large carrots a day for several weeks, the increased beta-carotene in your blood could turn your skin orange.
The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health - hence why we 'raise a toast'.
Wombats' poop is cube-shaped. This apparently has to do with their digestive process and various bodily contractions.
The blue meth in Breaking Bad is rock candy.
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.
People are more creative in the shower. When we take a warm shower, we experience an increased dopamine flow that makes us more creative.
"Horizontal refreshment" used to be the 19th century slang for sex.
Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.
All clownfish are born male. They have the ability to change their sex later on. That explains Marlin and Nemo.
Adult cats are lactose intolerant.
A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction in 2018, going for $558,000. The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000.
Only 5% of the ocean has been explored. The intense pressure at the deepest depths of the ocean makes it virtually impossible to navigate.
The house from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a family restaurant.
Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the international sporting events awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture and architecture.
Honey will never go bad, so that's one less thing you have to throw out when you clean out your pantry. You also don't have to refrigerate it.
If you look strictly at statistics, you’re more likely to win an Olympic Medal than the lottery. According to statistics, your chances of winning an Olympic gold medal is about 1 in 3.5 million. However, the chances of you winning the lottery is 1 in 14 million.
A book called 'A la recherche du temps perdu' by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters, making it the longest book in the world. The title translates to "Remembrance of Things Past".
Most countries don't refrigerate their eggs. In America, they are considered a perishable item and therefore have to be refrigerated, but they have a surprisingly long shelf life.
The CDC website has a zombie preparedness section.
Google images was created after Jennifer Lopez wore that infamous dress at the 2000 Grammys. So many people were searching for her outfit, the search engine added an imagine function.
There are more than 200 languages that have been invented just for television or movies.
A man once hired someone to slap him to avoid checking Facebook. Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him in the face every time he tried checking Facebook at work. He paid the woman $8 an hour.
Big Ben's clock stopped at 10:07 p.m. on 27 May 2005, most likely due to an extremely hot temperature of 31.8 degrees Celsius.
One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
Birds can not live in space they need gravity to be able to swallow.
The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
There's a fruit called black sapote that tastes like chocolate pudding.
The lyrebird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws. Wildlife watchers have recorded the Australian species copying not only other birds but other animals, like koalas, and artificial sounds such as car alarms and camera shutters.
Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.
There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
There was a company you can pay to kidnap you. The Ultíme Réalité was a French company that offers kidnapping services. If you pay them a fee, they will come to kidnap you when you least expect it – ropes, binds, and all. They won’t do it immediately, though. They’ll wait for a certain period so you won’t remember that you paid someone to kidnap you. The company seemed to be close for a while unfortunately.
Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.
The way you eat Oreos says something about your personality. Kraft Foods once surveyed hundreds of Oreo eaters (check out these cookie butter Oreos!) and sussed it out: Biters are easy-going and self-confident, while dunkers displayed more energetic and adventurous qualities. Twisters, on the other hand, are sensitive and trendy.
The CIA spend $25 million dollars on “spy cats.” In the 1960s. The Acoustic Kitty Experiment tried using cats to gather intel on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. They equipped cats with a batter, microphone and antenna to record data.
The Easter Island heads have bodies. In the 2010s, archaeologists found that two of the Pacific Island figures actually had torsos that measured as high as 33 feet.
Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
NASA saw 168 errors in the space film Armageddon. The film Armageddon is so scientifically inaccurate that NASA uses it as a test for their management training program. NASA shows the film to new managers, and makes them spot as many errors as possible. So far, about 168 have been found.
M&Ms are named after the businessmen who created them. Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie.
Pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet. A 1995 study shows that the birds can differentiate between the two artists.
Pringles are not potato chips. Pringles are actually just 42% potato; the rest is made of wheat.
The last letter added to the English alphabet was 'J'. The letter dates back to 1524, and before that the letter 'i' was used for both the 'i' and 'j' sounds.
There is actually a word for someone giving an opinion on something they know nothing about. An 'ultracrepidarian' is someone who voices thoughts beyond their expertise.
Ketchup was once sold as medicine. The condiment was prescribed and sold to people suffering with indigestion back in 1834.
There were over 300 banana-related injuries in Britain in 2001.Over 300 banana-related accidents were reported in Britain in 2001, mostly involving people slipping on skins.
Humans are the only animals that blush. Apparently, we're also the only animals that experience embarrassment, too. This is because it's a complex emotion that involves understanding other people's opinions.
All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4.20.
You can't hum if you hold your nose. Admit it... you just tried it!
Japan has over 200 flavours of Kit Kats.
In Russia, competitive face slapping is a sport. The winning contestant must deliver the hardest slap and endure the longest time being slapped.

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