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20 Amazingly Random Facts
Here are a few shards of knowledge that you possibly don’t know, and maybe don’t need to know!
- “A spoonful of sugar keeps the hiccups down” has been proven to be true!(for some people).
- An average male consumes about a ton of food every year.
- The average human nose is only able to detect about 20 basic odors.
- There are about three and a half times as many countries north of the equator as there are south of it.
- The largest tomb on Earth is 485.8m (1594 ft) long, 304.8m (1000 ft) wide, and 45.7m (150 ft) high.
- The winter of 1925 was so cold in Canada that the Niagara Falls were completely frozen!
- If it were possible to fly an airplane to the moon, it would take about 2 and a half weeks.
- The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was a 40 year old teacher trying to commit suicide!
- The Earth weighs approximately 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes.
- The Baltic Sea is the least salty sea in the world.
- There are about 1600 rivers in China, and about 300 lakes.
- Snow sometimes falls on the mountains in the Sahara Desert.
- The wheel was invented at about 3000 BC.
- The ancient Chinese and Japanese enjoyed the sound of insect “music”, and some actually kept their own special performing grasshoppers.
- “Henry the eighth he had six wives.
All of them lived in fear of their lives
Two were divorced and one of them died
Two were beheaded and one survived!” - A dragonfly can catch its prey by formings its legs into the shape of a basket.
- About 30% of the human body consists of muscle.
- The British Stock Exchange began in a London coffee house.
- The tomato is a vegetable.
- I just wasted 30 mins writing this pointless article!
If any of these facts are slightly in accurate, it is not my fault!
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You did not waste 30 minutes! These facts were fun and interesting to read! I love stuff like that!
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
good list, though i dont agree with a tomato being a vegetable. its clearly a fruit, although it is used as a vegetable much of the time.
Dude, I love that, it was a totally cool and amazingly awesome waste of time.
I don’t think it was a waste either, I enjoyed it.
tomatos are fruits
very nice article!
um tomatoes are a fruit and a vegetable since fruit is a class of vegetable so hahahahahahahahahaha
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