@ You’re more likely to get bitten by a person than a shark.
@ Dogs can learn up to 250 words and gestures.
@ 40 million years ago penguins were 6 feet tall.
@ 25% of all mammal species on Earth are bats.
@ Jellyfish are 95% water.
@ On statues, a horse’s legs tell you how the statue figure died.
If a horse has both its front legs in the air, then the person died in battle.
If the horse has one of its front legs in the air, they died of wounds received from a battle.
And if the horse has both its front legs on the ground then the person died of natural causes
@ In the Californian White Mountains, there are trees older than history.
These wise old trees, known as Pinus longaeva, have been aged at up to 5,060+ years old!
Written history is believed to have begun roughly 5,000 years ago – back then these magnificent trees would have just been starting out their long lives.
@ Roughly half a human body is red blood cells.
We have roughly 50 – 75 trillion cells in our bodies, and almost half of those are red blood cells.
It takes one of these little red blood cells just 20 seconds to travel around our entire body.
@ 10 gallons of carrot juice will kill a person.
That is because the Vitamin A content of that much juice is high enough to make your brain swell and kill you, along with a load of nasty other symptoms!
You can also overdose on Vitamin A by eating 1 pound of polar bear liver.
@ The movement of falling cats is used as part of an astronaut’s training.
The way cats try to correct themselves when falling was studied and analyzed by NASA scientists.
They then used their findings as a means to teach falling astronauts how to correct their movements in zero gravity.
@The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
@Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
@Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.
@The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.
@One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
@If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzy Bear”.
@In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.
@There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
@Nintendo trademarked the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong” in 2010.
Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to his Harry Potter glasses.
He had an allergy to nickel, and they were quickly replaced with hypoallergenic specs.
Also, did you know that his glasses had no lenses? This was to stop the reflection from anything happening behind the scenes. The glass lens was added in post-production.
@The famous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised.
@A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
@Hershey’s Kisses are named that after the kissing sound the deposited chocolate makes as it falls from the machine on the conveyor belt.
@Princess Peach didn’t move until 1988, designers believed it was too complicated to make her a movable character.
@To leave a party without telling anyone is called in English, a “French Exit”. In French, it’s called a “partir à l’anglaise”, to leave like the English.
@If you cut down a cactus in Arizona, you’ll be penalized up to 25 years in jail. It is similar to cutting down a protected tree species.
@The Buddha commonly depicted in statues and pictures is a different person entirely. The real Buddha was actually incredibly skinny because of self-deprivation.
@In Colorado, USA, there is still an active volcano. It last erupted about the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
@The first movie ever to put out a motion-picture soundtrack was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range.
This works by using your brain to act as a radio transmitter.
@Fruit stickers are edible, though the same with any fruit, washing prior to eating is recommended. The glue used for them is regulated by the FDA.
@The scientific name for Giant Anteater is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla. This means “ant eating with three fingers”.
@Astronaut is a compound word derived from the two Ancient Greek words “Astro” meaning “star” and “naut” meaning “sailor”. So astronaut literally means “star sailor”.
@The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called “phosphenes”.
@At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
@Iceland does not have a railway system.
@The largest known prime number has 17,425,170 digits. The new prime number is 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, minus 1.
@Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author, hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars. It still has not been found.
@The lead singer of The Offspring started attending school to achieve a doctorate in molecular biology while still in the band. He graduated in May 2017.
The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.
The piano is a little over 18 feet long and has 85 keys – 3 short of the standard 88.
@The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.
@There is a company in Japan that has schools that teach you how to be funny. The first one opened in 1982. About 1,000 students take the course each year.
@The Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. There are more Lego minifigures than there are people on Earth.
@The Bagheera kiplingi spider was discovered in the 1800’s and is the only species of spider that has been classified as vegetarian.
@There is a boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 that can be defeated by not playing the game for a week; or by changing the date.
@The Roman – Persian wars are the longest in history, lasting over 680 years. They began in 54 BC and ended in 628 AD.
@Elvis was originally blonde. He started coloring his hair black for an edgier look. Sometimes, he would touch it up himself using shoe polish.
@If you translate “Jesus” from Hebrew to English, the correct translation is “Joshua”. The name “Jesus” comes from translating the name from Hebrew, to Greek, to Latin, to English.
@Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.
German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker by the name of Samuel German.
It has has no affiliation with the country of Germany.
@The first service animals were established in Germany during World War I. References to service animals date as far back as the mid-16th Century.
@An 11-year-old girl proposed the name for Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.
@The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.
@An Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is considered a modern-day Robin Hood. Over the course of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.
@Octopuses and squids have beaks. The beak is made of keratin – the same material that a bird’s beak, and our fingernails are made of.
@An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.
@75% of the world’s diet is produced from just 12 plant and five different animal species.
@The original Star Wars premiered on just 32 screens across the U.S. in 1977. This was to produce buzz as the release widened to more theaters.
@The British government coined the slogan, “Keep Calm and Carry on” during World War 2 in order to motivate citizens to stay strong.
Apple paid a couple $1.7 million dollars for their plot of land, which was only worth $181,700.
While Apple was building a huge data center in the middle of North Carolina, they wanted to occupy the area of a couple that lived there for 34 years. When the couple refused to leave, Apple paid them $1.7 million dollars for their land.
