Weird Facts
1) Oranges are not natural but are actually man-made
2) Oranges are a mix of Mandarin and Pomelo
3) They are 75% Mandarin and 25% Pomelo
4) The first Orange Tree was planted in 1513
5) Hot Water freezes faster than cold water
6) Some Cats are Allergic to Humans
7) The Hottest Temperature ever recorded on Earth is 2 Billion degrees kelvin
8) The interior of our sun is 15 million degrees kelvin
9) This means that the highest temperature on Earth is hotter than the sun
10) The Temperature was caused by a superheated gas in a Lab
11) A Majority of your brain is fat
11a) 60% of your brain is just fat
12) Queen Elizabeth is a trained mechanic
13) The Unicorn is the National Animal of Scotland
14) An Egyptian Pharaoh covered his slaves in honey to keep the bugs away from him
14a) Pepy II was the Pharaoh
15) Greenland is more North, South, East, or West than Iceland
16) A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is leftover radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation
16a) Because the Big Bang was BIG
17) When we breathe through our nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other one and this changes every 15 minutes
18) If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple
19) The Wooly Mammoths were around when the Pyramids were built
20) If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
21) There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
22) It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
23) The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green
24) The World’s Largest Pyramid isn’t in Egypt
24a) The Largest Pyramid is in Mexico
25) We may have already had alien contact
25a) In 1977, a volunteer for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence received a 72-second-long signal from a distant star system, 120 light-years from Earth.
Superman helped take down the KKK
In the 1940s, a 16-episode series of the hugely popular Adventures of Superman radio series incorporated the findings of activist Stetson Kennedy, who had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan but had been unable to get local authorities to use the information he'd found to crack down on them. The creators of the Superman show used the secrets he provided them to help tell the story of "Clan of the Fiery Cross," exposing the organization to the public and removing much of the mystery that the resurgent organization was enjoying at the time, earning it widespread mockery and condemnation.
26) Bottled water expiration dates are for the bottle, not the water
27) Roald Dahl was a spy
28) McDonald’s sells 75 Hamburgers every second
29) In some places in America, Halloween is called Cabbage NIght
30) Halloween has been around for 2000 years
31) The Liberty Bell is from London
32) Flipping a shark upside down renders it immobile for up to 15 minutes
33) During World War II Germany tried to make British Economy fail by dropping hundreds of counterfeit bills on the streets of London
34) If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the keys signal range. This works by using your brain as a radio transmitter
35) A single strand of Spaghetti is called Spaghetto
If a Grizzly Bear and a Polar Bear mate, their offspring is called a Pizzly Bear
36) Cats meow to Humans, never to other cats
37) Helen Keller was related to Robert E. Lee
38) Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year
39) SEVERAL OF THE FACTS ON SNAPPLE CAPS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE OUTDATED, INCORRECT, OR EXAGGERATED
40) It rains metal on Venus
41) During World War II an American Warship won a battle against a Japanese submarine by throwing potatoes at them, the Japanese thought they were grenades
42) Bubble Wrap was originally invented to be used as wallpaper
43) The total weight of all the air in the world is 11 quintillion pounds
44) The Great Pyramid of Giza has 8 sides
45) Pumpkins are technically berries
46) Sudan has 255 pyramids
47) The Bigger an Animal's Brain is, the Longer the Animal will Yawn
48) The word robot means forced labor or work
49) The name for the shape of Pringles is Hyperbolic Paraboloid
50) Without Saliva, Humans are unable to taste food
51) In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 pm
52) The oldest “yo mama” joke was found on a 3500-year-old Babylonian Tablet
53) A Snail can sleep for 3 years
54) Lettuce is part of the Sunflower Family
55) The Monster in Frankenstein proposed its name to be Adam
56) Volkswagen owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche