Use this knowledge to impress others will all the strange things you know.
Life is more fun when you spend it learning new things. While it can be hard to learn a new skill and costly to pick up a new hobby, facts are an easy way to expand your horizons while doing absolutely nothing.
Did you know there is such a thing as "space oceans" and there might even be "space sharks" swimming in them? Well, doubtful about the sharks, but astronomers did find a body of water in space larger than our entire solar system.
Let that sink in while you peruse these fun facts.
1
Meaty human thighs have 13,355 calories.
2
Spider legs are on a hydraulic system. To move their limbs, they use their hemolymph (basically their blood) which is why when they die, their legs curl.
3
When Haiti was fighting the French in a civil war the French send some polish to deal with it when they saw how the slaves were treated the Polish joined the haiti revolution.
5
The word *millennium* has two N's in the middle, because it comes from the Latin word for "year", *annus*. If you spell it with one N, this changes *annus* to *a**s*, which makes it mean not "a thousand years" but rather "a thousand a******s".
6
Dragonflies suck water up their butts and shoot it out like jets when they get tired.
7
Elephants can purr, like cats.
8
Imitation vanilla used to be made from Beaver a**l sack juice.
9
For my fellow 90s kids who heard a lot about this growing up - the hole in the ozone over antarctica is basically fixed! Turns out we do have the power to make positive environmental changes if we work together as a global community.
10
Whales are mammals. Mammals make milk. Whale milk is so high in fat it is the consistency of toothpaste.
11
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
12
In 1884, a crew stranded on a boat on the high seas ate the cabin boy, Richard Parker, to survive. (R v Dudley and Stephens case) In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe's first and only novel was published (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket). In the novel, a group of whaling sailors are stranded on a boat. To prevent them from dying of hunger and thirst, one of the crew offers to draw lots. The crew agrees. The one who draws the short straw is also the one who offered it. But the irony is not there. The real irony is the name of this fictional character in the novel: Richard Parker.
13
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one. Bonus fun fact: He was also a licensed bartender.
14
Cows have accents depending on where they’re born and they also have best friends and get depressed when separated.
15
Before the movie Psycho came out, movies didn’t have showtimes. You just walked in and watched until you’d seen the whole movie. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t want the twist spoiled for people, so he insisted on showtimes.
16
There is a tiny little island in the Arctic called "Hans" island. It has been disputed Territory between Canada and Denmark. Denmark would plant its flag, and leave a bottle of schnapps. Eventually the Canadian ship would arrive remove the Danish flag and take the schnapps. They would then raise the Canadian flag on the island and leave a bottle of Canadian club. This has been going on since the 1980s and was finally resolved in 2022 when they decided to share the island.
17
"Louie Louie" was a #2 hit in 1963 for The Kingsmen. The vocals were so garbled and slurred, rumors spread that the lyrics were dirty. The FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics were "unintelligible at any speed."
18
Gandhi arrived in London right before Jack the Ripper started his k*lling spree and there were no more murders after he left. He can't be ruled out as a suspect.
19
Locusts are just grasshoppers that have undergone a transformation. This usually only happens when huge numbers of them get together, but you can trigger it by rubbing their butts. The transformation only takes a couple hours.
20
Playing a B flat on a tuba can cause arousal in alligators.
21
The tips of giraffe tongues are dark purple, to protect against the sun. They spend most of their time in the wild, eating.
22
Chessy (Lisa Ann Walters) from Parent Trap (1998) gave birth to twin boys on October 11th 2000 which is the same birthday the twins had in the movie!
23
On 8 April, 1942, a detachment of Polish soldiers, deployed to Iran by the Allies, bought a **bear cub** from an Iranian boy. In August the bear was given to the 22nd Artillery Supply company and named Wojtek by the soldiers. They fed him condensed milk, honey, fruit, and beer, which ended up being his favorite drink. He also picked up smoking, and enjoyed wrestling with his human friends, and bunking in on cold nights. When the Polish II Corps was redeployed it Italy to fight alongside the British, the Brits wouldn’t transport mere mascots on a troop ship, so Wojtek was formally enrolled in the Polish army as a private. During the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino Private Wojtek helped keep the guns firing by hauling boxes of ammo, each containing four 25 pound shells. These crates normally took four men to haul. For his bravery and service in battle Wojtek was promoted to Corporal, and his visage became the emblem of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company. After the war the 22nd was sent to Scotland, before being demobilized, at which point Wojtek was given to the Edinburgh Zoo, where he was often visited by Polish soldiers until his death in 1963.
24
A cockroach can live up to 168 hours without its head.
25
Penguins have an organ behind their eyes that turns sea water in to fresh water.
26
Oxen are just bulls (or a cow) with jobs, not a whole separate species of bovine.
27
They found a giant ocean of water floating in space thats supposed to be something like 140,000 times the size of our solar system. Space sharks might actually exist.
28
Cold water holds oxygen better than warm water. Which is why you'll usually find fish in shadier areas during sunny days. Also, if you want ice cubes to be clear, you have to boil the water first to get the extra oxygen/bubbles out.
29
Someone in the world just died as you were reading this.
30
The reason UK Pubs had stupid names, was so the illiterate patrons could find them with the artwork.
31
Cornflakes were invented to try to stop kids jerkin off.
