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Random Facts That Make You Seem Smart
Published by James Roy Caellec in Trivia
July 20th, 2008
Use these to impress your friends with your mega knowledge.
- Children grow faster in the spring.
- The U.S. has never lost a war in which mules were used.
- The plastics caps at the end of your shoelaces are called aglets.
- Plants run fevers when they are sick.
- Lightning bolts are two inches wide.
- The average human will eat 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- Women blink almost twice as much as men.
Keeping a goldfish in a dark room will turn it white.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter they start with. - Your stomach must produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or else it will digest itself.
- The dot over the letter “I” is called a tittle.
- A duck’s quack won’t echo
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
- The first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- Bruce Lee’s moves were so fast; they had to slow down the movie when filming him.
- Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
- Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China.
- 111,111,111X111,111,111= 12,345,678,987,654,321.
- Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
- If you spelled out all the numbers, the first one to have an “a” in it is one thousand.
- Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
- 60% of statistics are made up.
- Banging your head on a wall for an hour burns 150 calories.
- A typist’s fingers travel over 12.5 miles in an average day.
- The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
- Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
- A can of SPAM is opened every four seconds.
- An ostrich egg takes four hours to boil.
- On an average day, a four year old will ask 437 questions.
- Every year the moon moves .5 inches away from Earth.
- There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.
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Very good.
Pi has been calculated to over 51,539,600,000 (Fifty-One Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty Nine Million Six Hundred Thousand) places now with the millionth number being 1.
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Wow!This facts does really make me seems smart!
i already knew most of these facts
Wow sunni you must be so awesome.
i bet sunni is very popular with the ladies
North America and South America don’t start and end with the same letter!
Wow that spider thing freaked me out! I’m probably going to end up taping my mouth closed at night. Lol.
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oh man these are good haha
A lot of these are wrong. The spider one is a myth, snopes it, same with the duck quacking one. Many, if not all of these are Snapple facts, which are actually quite unreliable.
Ah, but AmericA starts & ends with the same letter. I didn’t think south and north america were continents anyway ?
i dont eat spiders wtf and i will never do.
lmfao someone needs to go through 2nd grade again if they dont think north and south america are continents
i dont belive some of these but true ryan hahaa