1. Interesrting Facts
1) There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
2) Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
3) The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, promised his daughter he’d write her initials on the
moon. He did, and her initials, “TDC”, will probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.
4) The Mimic Octopus can not only change colors, but will mimic the shapes of other animals, like the
flounder, lionfish and sea snakes.
5) Twenty percent of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
6) If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human of Earth, the
entire world population could fit into an apple.
7) In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies by turning cats into listening
devices. The program, called Acoustic Kitty, involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and
antennae inside cats.
8) The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-
eight poorest nations.
9) A traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days, with car only moving 0.6 miles a day.
10) Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood doners.
11) Caterpillars completely liquidfy as they transform into moths.
12) There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers.
13) Dr. Suess wrote “Green Eggs and Ham” to win a bet against his publisher who thought that he could
not complete a book with only 50 words.
14) A human will eat an average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
15) There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms known in the universe.
16) When the University of Nebraska cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s
third largest city.
17) Russia didn’t consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as soft drink.
18) If a male lion takes over a pride, he executes all of the cubs.
19) Two-thirds of people on Earth have never seen snow.
20) A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
21) There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the united states.
22) When St. Louis held the 1904 Summer Olympics Games, events included greased pole climbing, rock
throwing and mud fighting.
23) The Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.
24) The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
25) If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
26) When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
27) The average person walks the equivalent of three times arounf the world ina lifetime.
28) A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
29) A jellyfish is 95 percent of water.
30) You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning.
31) It would take 1000 years to watch every video in YouTube.
32) 1 in 10 European babies are conceived in an Ikea bed.
2. 33) A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
34) A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
35) Fifteen percent of the air you breathe in the metro station is human skin.
36) The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
37) Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
38) A group of pugs is called a grumble.
39) Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
40) The number of words posted on Twitter each day would fill a 10-million page book.
41) Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
42) French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
43) If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
44) You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than a shark attack.
45) The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is actually greater than your chance of
winning.
46) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
47) Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
48) Earth is the only planet not named after God.
49) Going to work is statistically three times more dangerous than war.
50) In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
51) An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
52) Polar bears trying to blend in with the ice will cover up their black nose with their paws.
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