When life tends to be a hustle and bustle, we sometimes need something to make us fascinated with our interesting world again. Whether it be funny, wacky or just outright astonishing.
Blogger, Savannah Cox compiled a list of 100 interesting facts about the world. Here are 25 of the ones that stood out.
- When the game, Twister was introduced in 1966 it was denounced by critics as ‘sex in a box’
- Artist, Leonardo da Vinci could draw with his one hand and write with the other at the same time
- Caterpillars completely liquefy as they transform into moths
- All clocks in the movie, Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4.30am
- A human will eat an average 70 assorted bugs and 10 spiders while sleeping
- Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcohol till 2011, before that it was considered a soft drink
- Two-thirds of people on earth have never seen snow
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
- The woolly mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built
- The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year
- If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
- It would take 1000 years to watch every video on Youtube
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries
- Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
- The number of words posted on Twitter each day will be enough to fill a 10-million word book
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland as he does not wear pants
- You are more likely to die from a fallen coconut than a shark attack
- Elvis Presley got a ‘C’ in his Grade 8 music class
- Coca-Cola would be green if colouring was not added to it
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god
- An ostrich eye is bigger than its brain
- It would take 1 200 000 mosquitoes, each sucking at once, to completely drain the average human of blood
- Blue whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse
- Only one person in two billion people will live to be older than 116 years old.
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