Fun Facts That’ll Actually Make Your Life Better

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Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.​

Alternatively, you can walk your dog for 45 minutes, which also burns 150 calories – and is much less painful.

 

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In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.​

This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone.

 

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Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.​

It’s also a fear of feathers themselves. The word “ptero” is the Greek word for feather, and “phobia” is also Greek, meaning fear.

 

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Snakes can help predict earthquakes.​

They can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away (121 km), up to five days before it happens.

 

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Crows can hold grudges against specific individual people.​

Crows can very easily distinguish humans apart from each other, whereas humans find it nearly impossible to tell crows apart.

Fun Fact: This is known as The Crow Paradox.

 

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The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.​

It was discovered in Iraq in 1976, however since then the tablet has been lost, but the text remains preserved.

 

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So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.​

The last naturally occurring case of smallpox was diagnosed in October 1977, and the last case of rinderpest was diagnosed in 2001.

 

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Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.​

That’s one phobia I wouldn’t like to have… it would probably mean they would fear these fun facts!

 

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7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.​

I know 7% doesn’t sound like a lot, but that actually works out at 16.4 million American adults.

Sounds like a lot now right?

 

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If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.​

Kangaroos use their tails for balance whilst hopping, so if you elevate their tail, they would have no balance and fall over.

 

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Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.​

Bananas go through a process called “negative geotropism.” Instead of growing towards the ground, they start growing towards the sun.

The fruit grows against gravity, which gives the banana its familiar curved shape.

 

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Most Korean people don’t have armpit odor.​

Only 0.006% of the Korean population have the ABCC11 gene, which is the cause of armpit odor.

As a result deodorants are rarely sold in Korea.

 

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The original London Bridge is now in Arizona.​

It was taken apart in 1963 and shipped overseas before being reassembled piece by piece.

This was to help bring people to the new, developing town.

 

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During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.​

An average human produces between 1 to 2 liters of saliva each day, which is a maximum of 730 liters per year.

The average life expectancy is just over 70 years, which gives a maximum of 51,100 liters of saliva produced in an average lifetime.

This is more than enough to fill two swimming pools.

 

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If Pinocchio says “My Nose Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox.​

This is known as Pinocchio’s Paradox.

If you think about it, Pinocchio’s nose would have to grow to make his statement not a lie, but then it can’t grow otherwise the statement would not be a lie.

 

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Polar bears could eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting…​

…If they didn’t live at opposite ends of the earth! Polar bears live in the arctic, whereas penguins usually live in Antarctica.

 

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Car manufacturer Volkswagen makes sausages.​

Not only that, they make more revenue from their sausage sales than they do from their car sales!

 

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Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”.​

The problem with the trailers showing after the film was that audience wouldn’t stay around to watch them, making the trailers rather ineffective.

 

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An eagle can hunt down a young deer and fly away with it.​

Never underestimate an eagle!

 

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The smallest bone in your body is in your ear.​

The stapes is a bone in the middle ear of humans that which helps conduct sound vibrations for identification.

It is only roughly 0.04 inch (1mm) in size.