Enhance your knowledge : Here are 50+ interesting, amazing, shocking and weird facts for you.
1.One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
2. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”
3. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
4. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
6. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
7. Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.
8. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
9. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
10. If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.
11. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
12. A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
13. James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.
14. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
15. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
16. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
17. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
18. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
19. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
20. Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat.
21. Scientists have tracked butterflies that travel over 3,000 miles.
22. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
23. The population is expected to rise to 10.8 billion by the year 2080.
24. You breathe on average about 8,409,600 times a year
25. More than 60,000 people are flying over the United States in an airplane right now.
26. Hamsters run up to 8 miles at night on a wheel.
27. A waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down.
28. A church in the Czech Republic has a chandelier made entirely of human bones.
29. Under the Code of Hammurabi, bartenders who watered down beer were punished by execution.
30. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
31. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
32. You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning
33. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
34. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
35. A flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. That is the equivalent of a human jumping the Empire State Building.
36. There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the outlines and footprints.
37. There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
38. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
39. Saturn’s density is low enough that the planet would float in water.
40. A total of 68% of the universe is dark energy, and 27% is dark matter; both are invisible, even with our powerful telescopes. This means we have only seen 5% of the universe from earth.
41. The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
41. In the past 20 years, scientists have found over 1,000 planets outside of our solar system.
42. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
43. If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ.
44. If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
45. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
46. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty.
If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die.
47. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
48. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
49. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
50. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
51. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
52. What is called a “French kiss” in the English-speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
53. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
54. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
55. Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
56. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
57. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
58. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.
59. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
60. There’s an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.
61. The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely to fall asleep.
62. You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.
63. Women have twice as many pain receptors on their body than men. But a much higher pain tolerance.
64. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
65. Each grain of sand has more atoms than the total numbers of stars in the whole universe.
65. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.
67. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.
68. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.
