Alright, here’s a huge pile of random information for you!
1. Space Facts
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the Earth’s
beaches.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Saturn’s moon Titan has lakes of liquid methane and ethane.
The largest volcano in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars, standing
at about 13.6 miles (22 km) high.
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a storm that’s been raging for at least 350
years.
2. Animal Facts
An octopus has three hearts and blue blood.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins—up to 40 minutes.
Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they are separated.
Penguins propose to their mates with a pebble.
A giraffe’s neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human’s neck
(seven).
Sharks have been around for more than 400 million years, longer than
dinosaurs.
The heart of a blue whale is as large as a small car.
3. Human Body Facts
The human body has over 600 muscles.
Your stomach gets a new lining every three to four days to prevent it from
digesting itself.
Human bones are about five times stronger than steel of the same density.
The strongest muscle in the body relative to its size is the masseter (jaw
muscle).
Your brain uses about 20% of your body’s total oxygen supply.
The average person has about 100,000 hairs on their head.
4. Historical Facts
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the
construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Eiffel Tower can grow by more than 6 inches in the summer due to the
expansion of the iron.
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27,
1896. It lasted between 38 and 45 minutes.
Ancient Egyptians used moldy bread to treat infections, which unknowingly
introduced them to penicillin.
5. Interesting Food Facts
The world’s most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, comes from beans eaten and
excreted by civet cats.
Cashews grow on the outside of the fruit, not inside like most nuts.
Apples float because 25% of their volume is air.
The average American consumes about 18 acres of pizza in their lifetime.
The world’s most expensive chocolate is made with the rarest cocoa beans,
which are produced only in Ecuador.
6. Geography Facts
Antarctica is the driest, windiest, and coldest continent on Earth.
Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world, stretching over
125,000 miles.
Russia spans 11 time zones and covers more land area than Pluto.
The Dead Sea, located between Jordan and Israel, is so salty that people can
easily float on its surface.
There’s a place in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo, and it’s the farthest
point on Earth from any land.
7. Tech Facts
The first computer virus was created in 1983, named “Elk Cloner.”
The word “robot” comes from the Czech word “robota,” meaning forced
labor.
There are more mobile phones on Earth than there are people.
The first website ever created is still online today: info.cern.ch.
Google was originally called “Backrub” before its name was changed.
8. Miscellaneous Facts
The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and refers
to a protein called “titin.”
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The shortest commercial flight in the world is just 47 seconds long, between
two islands in the Orkney Islands off Scotland.
The original name of Bank of America was “Bank of Italy.”
The “@” symbol is called an “at sign,” but it’s also known as “commercial at”
in the business world.
9. Random Fun Facts
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.
The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 1950.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar using pennies, nickels,
dimes, and quarters.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time—1/100th of a second.
The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”
That’s a boatload of random info! Let me know if you need more!
