Follow us on Twitter
50 Random Facts
50 random facts to amaze you. Maybe you will already have known some of these, maybe not. Hope you enjoy.
- 40% of the world’s newspapers are printed on paper that comes from Canada.
- 55% of people will yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.
- A blink lasts 0.3 seconds.
- A bolt of lightning can strike the Earth with a force as great as 100,000,000 volts.
- A human head can remain conscious for up to 20 seconds after decapitation.
- A Sultan’s wife is called a sultana.
- According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother called Bells Nichols.
- Aircrafts are forbidden from flying over the Taj Mahal.
- All the planets in the solar system rotate anti-clockwise apart from Venus.
- Antartica is the only continent without snakes or reptiles.
- Australia is the richest source of mineral sands in the world.
- Austria was the first country to use postcards.
- Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
- Ellen Mary Sewell was the first woman to serve overhand at Wimbledon.
- Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world.
- If straightened, a coat hanger is 44 inches long.
- Impotence is legal ground for divorce in 24 states in America.
- It is illegal to leave the house without underwear in Thailand.
- Ithyphallophobia is the fear of seeing, thinking or having and erect penis.
- Laughing can burn off 6 calories a minute.
- Less than 7% of the population in the UK donates blood.
- Mexico once had 3 presidents in one day.
- Nearly 1000 tons of space material hit the Earth’s surface every year.
- One out of every 70 people who pick their nose will eat what they find.
- The average 2 year old learns 16 new words a day.
- The average adult can read between 150 and 200 words a minute.
- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
- The average person walk, in their lifetime, twice around the world.
- The average web page contains 500 words.
- The blood in the shower scene in ‘Pyscho’ was actually chocolate sauce.
- The dot over the letter I is known as a ‘tiitle’.
- The Earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000 million tons.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The first American flags were made from hemp cloth.
- The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung a noodlemaker from Los Angeles.
- The hardest thing to flush down a toilet is a ping-pong ball.
- The King of Hearts, in a deck of cards, is the only king without a moustache.
- The longest bone in the human body is the femur.
- The most common place name in the UK is Newton.
- The most popular pub name in Britain is the ‘Red Lion’.
- The most widely used drug on the Earth is valium.
- The nose on the Statue of Liberty is 4ft 6in long.
- The only painting Van Gogh sold during his lifetime was ‘Red Vineyard’.
- The word ‘and’ appears in the Bible 46,227 times.
- There are 13,000 varietes of rose in the world.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word that is spelt without repeating any letters.
- Underground is the only word that starts and ends in ‘und’.
- You use more calories eating celery than are in celery.
- Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth, spent 108 minutes in space.
21
Liked it
Liked it
11 Comments
So many interesting things, love it!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
interesting facts
Fascinating!
amazing facts !
That was entertaining reading, and most of that I didn’t know. The decapitation one is really freaky – imagine that!
I felt as if these facts were not enough random, entertaining and interesting.,Great job..
I have been to Las Vegas many times and never realized there were no clocks, I guess we really wasn’t watching the time too busy playing the tables…lol…
Wonderful!
I found these fascinating. Good entertainment and conversation article. Thanks for sharing. TU
Interesting but not entirely accurate. Venus is not the only planetary exception to the counterclockwise rotation rule. Uranus is tilted on its side about 90° so its direction of rotation is ambiguous. Its angle of inclination is usually given at 98°. So basically the rotation of Uranus is perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, and therefore cannot be consider either clockwise or counterclockwise.
just had a quiz night – could have done with this!!