PART 5 TOP 30 BEST FACTS WHICH CAN BLOW YOUR MIND🤯
Random Facts About Everything
1. Hydrogen Is Flammable
2. Random Advice Fact
Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard in part on the recommendation of an 11-year-old girl, who suggested it to him via fan mail.
3. A Fact Full of Hot Air
Here’s the most random of random facts: The first passengers to ever ride in a hot air balloon were a trio of sheep, duck, and rooster.
4. The Great Debate
Some scientists still argue the facts about whether corn is a vegetable or a grain—or maybe even a fruit! Who would have thought that something so harmless could cause such a controversy?
5. The Chance Case of the Curious Mummy
Found in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, ötzi “the iceman” is the earliest natural human mummy ever found in Europe. Ötzi was alive from sometime between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The most surprising thing about him? He had tattoos! And not just a couple…researchers have identified a total of 61 different tattoos covering his body. That means he’s not only the oldest tattooed person ever found, but also (probably) one of the oldest ancestors to today’s Brooklyn hipsters.
The tattoo ink itself was produced from ash or soot and is believed to have been used as a form of pain relief.
6. Mmmm, Random BBQ Smell
If you could breathe in space without dying, it would in fact smell like barbecue, gunpowder, and diesel. These combined scents are created by dying stars.
7. Eat Your Vegetables!
During World War II, British intelligence spread the rumor that the Royal Air Force pilots enjoyed superior night vision because they ate copious amounts of carrots. The real purpose of the rumor was to keep German intelligence from discovering the Brits’ advanced use of radar. Of course, there’s just one little problem.
The fact is, while the vitamin A in carrots is good for eye health, it probably won’t help you detect enemy forces in the dark from an airplane.
8. Random Access Boo-Yah
Here’s a fact for the ages: a singing birthday card has more computing power than the entire Allied forces had during World War II.
9. A Recycled Fact
There is a swirl of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, roughly the size of Texas. It’s known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While it’s often described as “an island of garbage,” the GPGP is more accurately seen as something like garbage soup: a massive portion of the ocean with a high concentration of plastics, sludge, and other debris.
It’s disgusting. But no reason to despair! There are a number of wildly innovative and interesting proposals to clean up the patch. Here’s hoping they work out!
10. Bear-ly Succeeding
The Polish army adopted a bear named Wojtek during World War II and gave it the official rank of private so that it could be transported around from place to place with them, carrying their equipment and helping to boost morale. After a few years around humans, Wojtek loved beer, cigarettes, and wrestling.
In fact, the army loved Wojtek so much that he was eventually promoted to corporal.
11. A Fishy Fact
Once a year, in the Honduran city of Yoro, it rains fish. It’s aptly named the Lluvia de Peces (or Rain of Fish). In May or June every year, like clockwork, a torrential rainstorm rolls through town. In its wake, a mass of living fish can be found in the streets. The phenomenon was confirmed by a National Geographic team in the 1970s…
…but whether or not the fish are literally raining from the sky is still unknown. Some scientists believe the fish could be carried into town by waterspouts or water tornadoes, which drop their strange parcels over land when they run out of steam. Whatever the explanation, we hope the residents of Yoro like seafood.
12. A Cat by Any Other Name
The cougar goes by more names than any other animal. You might know it as a puma, mountain lion, panther, catamount, or one of another 40 English, 18 native South American and 25 native North American names.
13. Catchy Tune
When Kazakh gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko took the podium in Kuwait for the medal ceremony she had trained her whole life for, she was shocked to hear an unfamiliar song playing in place of her national anthem. It turned out that the song playing was the fictional Kazakh anthem from the satirical film Borat, which mocks her country of Kazakhstan.
The event’s staff had mistaken it for the country’s actual anthem. Needless to say, more than a few people watching were unimpressed.
14. Sting or Bite?
Here’s a biting fact: a mosquito has 47 teeth. These teeth are located at the end of their proboscis and are used not used to chew food like our teeth. They are used to cut through the skin or layers of protective clothes. Either way, they can buzz off.
15. Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Cover Whale
Many expensive perfumes contain whale poop. More specifically they contain ambergris, which is a waxy substance produced in the intestines of sperm whales. The fragrance is iconic; some say it’s like bottling the smell of the ocean breeze through a 5-star hotel window.
16. Texas True Facts
The phrase “don’t mess with Texas” was originally an anti-littering slogan. Put that in your random facts notebook!
17. Accidental Hero
Bao Xishun, a Mongolian herdsman and the current record holder for World’s Tallest Man, used his incredibly long arms to remove plastic from the stomachs of two dolphins, saving their lives. Bao stands 7 feet 8.95 inches tall and each arm extends over 3 feet long. All other attempts at saving the dolphins had failed.
18. Searching for Giants
The expedition of Lewis and Clark is famous for many reasons, but they had one goal you might not expect: Thomas Jefferson asked them to find a mammoth. Turns out, Jefferson had a thing for mammoths (or, more accurately, American Mastodons). He was completely enamored with the extinct behemoths, and held out hope that they continued to live many miles away in the west of America.
So when he sent Lewis and Clark out on their famous expedition, he told them to look for mammoths. What a discovery that would have been!
19. Fun Fact (Unless You’re a Whale)
The loneliest creature on earth is a whale that has been calling for a mate for two decades. Researchers identified the whale’s abnormally high call over 20 years ago. The unknown whale is called ‘lonely’ because it communicates at a frequency not used by any other whale in the North Pacific, and so far, it has never received a response.
20. A Not-So Random Name
Here’s a juicy fact. Watermelons may be delicious today, but they weren’t always. The melons originated in Africa and were first cultivated solely for their water content, not for taste—their flavor was very bitter.
21. Peel Me
Bananas share 50% of their DNA with humans. You’re looking a little yellow there.
22. Gorgeous Ghosts
Did you ever hear the expression, “That gives me the willies?” Did you ever wonder what the heck “willies” are? It’s likely actually the name for heartbroken ghosts, Wilis, from Slavic folklore. The romantic ballet Giselle features these beautiful zombies prominently, and the description of these ghosts is absolutely terrifying.
In their long white dresses and wedding veils, the Wilis wander the moonlit forests in search of men to kill. They travel in packs, and their method of killing is to round up the victim and force him to dance until his heart gives out. Creepy, huh?
23. Oscar Who?
Oscar Hammerstein is the only person named Oscar to win an Academy Award or “‘Oscar.” Hammerstein won two Best Original Song awards in the 1940s.
24. Odd Eyes You’ve Got There
The eyes of Ramses IV, who died in 1149 BC, were replaced with a couple of small onions during the mummification process. Ancient Egyptians associated the onion with mysticism and though them to possess magic powers.
25. Not for All the Gold in the World
Almost 30% of the world’s gold reserves are held in a vault underneath the island of Manhattan. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York takes up a full block between Maiden Lane and William, Liberty and Nassau streets, and it holds the world’s largest gold depository. Only 5% of the USA’s gold reserves are kept there though—the rest belongs to international banks like the IMF.
26. May I Offer You a Night Cap?
Thomas Jefferson hated formal events, and he often greeted foreign dignitaries in his pyjamas.
27. Space Pharaohs
Scholars generally agree that the Ancient Egyptian empire lasted for thousands of years-which can be hard to wrap your head around. To put it in perspective, the Great Pyramid of Giza was built roughly between 2550 and 2490 BC, while Cleopatra took the throne in 51 BC. That’s a lot of facts and information, so let me put it into perspective for you:
That means that Cleopatra’s reign was closer in time to the freaking moon landing than it was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
28. Do Whales Have Irregular Heartbeats?
A Volkswagen Beetle is the same size as a Blue Whale’s heart. Its arteries are wide enough to swim through. That being said, we would advise you do not try to swim through a Blue Whale’s heart after reading this fact, just to see if this is true. Some things are better left undone.
29. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
The “mirror test” is one of the key ways scientists determine the intelligence of a species. It involves placing an animal in front of a mirror to observe whether it can realize that the image it sees is a reflection of itself rather than a different animal, and many species fail. Nevertheless, some individual animals can stand out from the crowd.
For example, the late, beloved Koko the Gorilla passed this test, even thought the gorilla as species in general failed.
30. Sneaky System
Ukrainian pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka had it all worked out—he repeatedly and deliberately broke the world pole vault record by the smallest possible height so he could cash in on a Nike bonus with each new world record. In a two-year span between 1991-1993, he broke his own world record 14 times.
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