Incredible Facts You Didn’t Know
FACT#451: Interesting Facts never go out of fashion
We could all use a little more knowledge if just to impress your guests at your house party. If you’ve been looking for fun conversation starters, we suggest that you arm yourself with these amazing, unbelievable, and very cool facts.
Winnie the Pooh was actually a girl.
Winnie the Pooh was written as a male bear in books and cartoons, but it was originally inspired by a girl bear named Winnipeg or Winnie.
Mama dolphins sing for their unborn babies.
Research suggests that dolphin mama sing their own name to their unborn calves as a “signature whistle” right before birth and in the two weeks after.
Honey doesn’t go bad.
Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil. You could easily eat 3000-year-old honey. However, it has to be sealed pretty well to be preserved for so long.
The Unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. In 1603, the Scottish Royal Arms had two unicorns supporting a shield and the current royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom is supported by a unicorn for Scotland.
Australia has more beaches than any other country in the world.
Australia’s seaboard length is almost 50,000 kms, and is linked by over 10,000 beaches more than any other country in the world. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years.
The water we drink today was gulped by dinosaurs first.
The water on our Earth today is the same water that’s been here for nearly 5 billion years. That means there’s a very high chance the water in your glass is what thirsty dinosaurs were consuming about 65 million years ago.
The Pig Beach.
Pig Beach is an uninhabited island located in the Bahamas. The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
The lobster was considered as “cockroach of the ocean”
In the early 1900s, Lobster was originally referred to as the “Cockroach of the Ocean”. It was seen as trash food often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners.
Greenland Shark could be the longest-living vertebrate on Earth.
A new study shows that the Greenland shark has an average lifespan of 272 years and they reach sexual maturity at the age of about 150.
The world’s most prolific tire manufacturer company is Lego.
Lego makes more than 50% more tires than other tire manufacturers. In 2011, Lego manufacturer 318 million tires, while other brands such as Bridgestone, Goodyear, Michelin all produced below 200 million each.
18-inch pizza has more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas.
According to Fermat’s Library, two 12-inch pizzas only have about 226 square inches of “pizza”, while one 18-inch pizza has 254 square inches of “pizza”.
Peanuts are not nuts.
Peanuts are not nuts at all, but they are legumes like peas and lentils and they grow in the ground.
There are more ways to sort a deck of cards than the number of atoms on Earth.
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than the number of atoms estimated to be on earth. The standard 52-card deck has 8×10^67 possible arrangements of the cards.
The idea of Guinness Book of Records came in the 1950’s
The idea of the Guinness Book of Records came to Sir Hugh Beaver in the 1950s when he went to a shooting party and he became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. But he realized that it was impossible to confirm in reference. He realized that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful.
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