Skip to content
- Americans consume an equivalent of 100 acres of pizza daily.
- Sloths would take a month to travel one mile.
- Dreamt is the only English word ending in “mt.”
- Teeth are the only part of the human body that cannot self-repair.
- A piece of paper can be folded in half no more than seven times.
- There is debate on what is the densest substance in the world, with some saying it’s hydrogen solids or Osmium.
- Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite.
- Refrigeration prolongs the lifespan of rubber bands.
- Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher’s chocolate bar melted near a radar tube.
- Apple seeds contain cyanide.
- Hawaii is renowned for being the best place in the world to witness rainbows.
- Good is the most common adjective in English.
- Humans produce approximately six pounds of stool weekly.
- Stewardesses can be typed with only the left hand.
- The giant squid has the world’s largest eyes.
- Refrigerating rubber bands can extend their lifespan.
- In 2021, three French men set a record by using 834 different types of cheese on a pizza.
- The infinity sign is known as a lemniscate.
- Camels were imported to Arizona in 1856 and 1857.
- Early Christian art portrayed Satan as blue.
- The average person walks the equivalent of 5 laps around the world in their lifetime.
- The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Coca-Cola would be green without coloring.
- Pablo Picasso carried a loaded revolver with blanks to fire at those questioning his work’s meaning.
- Month, “orange,” “silver,” and “purple” have no English rhymes.
- The only capital letter with one endpoint in the Roman alphabet is “P.”
- Lined up, all Oreos ever made could reach the moon and back five times.
- Edgar Allan Poe wed his thirteen-year-old cousin.
- Liquor on a scorpion will cause it to go mad and sting itself to death.
- More Monopoly money is printed annually than real U.S. currency.
- Women blink almost twice as frequently as men.
- Sharks are the only fish capable of blinking with both eyes.
- Quebec City holds the distinction of being North America’s sole walled city north of Mexico.
- Bees have five eyes, with three small ones on top and two larger ones in front.
- Scientists believe Tyrannosaurus rex hissed or rattled instead of roaring.
- Our eyes remain the same size from birth, while our nose and ears continue to grow.
- Ham radio operators is derived from “ham-fisted operators” referring to early radio users.
- The pound sign or hashtag is called an octothorpe.
- The fear of beards is known as pogonophobia.
- Queen Elizabeth II received training as a mechanic.
- A dime has 118 ridges around its edge.
- Only 23% of released prisoners avoid returning to jail.
- Left-handed individuals make up 10% of the world’s population.
- Al Capone’s occupation on his business card was listed as a used furniture dealer.
- The “pound” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
- The observable universe contains roughly the same number of stars as there are grains of sand on Earth’s beaches.
- In “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the chariot scene.
- Some lions mate more than 50 times a day.
