Top 100+ Random Fun Facts

Top 100+ Random Fun Facts: Whimsical Wonders and Curious Quirks! - The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
Octopuses have three hearts.
The oldest known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is over 188 years old.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Cleopatra VII of Egypt lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The surface area of Russia is larger than the surface area of Pluto.
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the United States.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The national animal of Australia is the kangaroo.
The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time, defined as 1/100th of a second.
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
Cows have best friends and can become stressed when separated from them.
The national animal of India is the Bengal tiger.
Did you know women blink twice as much as men?
Did you know Scotland has the most redheads?
Did you know household dust is made of dead skin cells?
Did you know the word ‘testify’ derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles?
Did you know you take over 23,000 breaths every day?
Did you know your foot and your forearm are the same length?
Did you know you burn more calories sleeping than watching television?
Did you know 56% of typing is completed by your left hand?
Did you know human thigh bones are stronger than concrete?
Did you know more people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food?
Did you know your mouth produces 1 liter of saliva a day?
Did you know your head contains 22 bones?
Did you know the colored part of your eye is called the iris?
Did you know if your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times?
Did you know everyone has a unique tongue print?
Did you know you begin to feel thirsty when your body loses 1% of water?
Did you know hiccups usually last for 5 minutes?
Did you know not all your taste buds are on your tongue (10% are on the insides of your cheeks)?
Did you know your most active muscles are in your eye?
Did you know your liver has over 500 functions?
The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It’s 10 meters underwater.
In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn’t work.
The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s and were made from animal and fish intestines.
In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
Most Muppets are left-handed.
Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
Light doesn’t necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we’ve ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph.
Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you’re eating it.
The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has been calling out for a mate for over two decades — but whose high-pitched voice is so different from other whales that they never respond.
The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus’ tail are known among paleontologists as the “thagomizer”.
During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks.
The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes.
The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin.
Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named “happyhour”.
In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg.
Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the smiley.
In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty.
Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier.
The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads.
A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations.
Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth ’s day.
The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as “bergy seltzer”.
There is a glacier called “Blood Falls” in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid.
In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.
The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun.
Lt. Col. “Mad” Jack Churchill was the only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow.
A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times.
The longest musical performance in history is currently taking place in Germany.
There’s an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border.
The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can only breed sexually when in the guts of a cat.
The katzenklavier (“cat piano”) was a musical instrument made out of cats.
There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents.
The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across.
An epidemic of laughing that lasted almost a year broke out in Tanganyika in 1962.
The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine.
There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
The inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a Frisbee after he died when his ashes were molded into Frisbees.
Astronauts can’t burp in space.
The total weight of all the ants on Earth is greater than the total weight of all the humans on the planet.
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.
A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
The world’s largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
Some cats are allergic to humans.
The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
A single strand of spaghetti is called a “spaghetto.”
The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.
It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.
A group of pugs is called a “grumble.”
Some cats are allergic to humans.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The average person spends six months of their lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.