Friday, January 23, 2026

What's a random fun facts?

 

  • A grain of sand is halfway in size between an atom and the planet earth.(on the logarithmic scale).
  • Newton was born in the same year as Gallileo's death.
  • An average person spends 24 years of his life sleeping.
  • When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
  • There used to be a flying reptile that was as tall as a giraffe. (Quetzalcoatlus)
  • Only 10 to 13% of indexed data on the Internet is pornography. 4 times that amount is spam.
  • It is possible for a professional mimic to forget his voice. (That happened to Gary Oldman, IIRC. He had to take voice training classes to regain his British accent while they were making Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, he had spent so long doing other accents on screen he'd forgotten his original voice.)
  • An avocado is a berry, a strawberry is not.
  • Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
  • Russia has a greater surface area than Pluto.
  • More people are killed each year by vending machines than by sharks.

  • The dot used in lowercase "i" and "j" is called a 
    tittle.
  • The plastic or metal piece on the end of a shoelace is called an "aglet"
  • The space between your eyebrows is called your "glabella"
  • You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
  • 'Subcontinental' has all vowels in reverse order.
  • That line between your nose and your lip is called the "philtrum."
  • 'Raise' and 'Raze" are both homonyms and antonyms.
  • 'Facetious' has all the vowels in normal order.
  • There was once a novel that was completely devoid of the letter E
  • The guy who voices Spongebob was The Narrator on The Powerpuff Girls
  • 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language spelt in alphabetical order.
  • Apple works better than coffee to wake you up in the morning