sixty-two random facts that are very interesting have you ever heard a fact
or a random piece of trivia that has really made you think despite it being
kind of useless the world is full of them some people like to make a hobby of
collecting random trivia and facts and today we're going to join in but before
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useless facts that are actually really interesting number one according to
Scientific American animals such as the capybaras and beavers were once
considered fish by the Catholic Church and therefore they could be eaten during
Lent number two here's a pretty useless fact the zip in zip code stands for zone
Improvement Plan the more you know number three here's a
mind-blowing one Yoda and Miss Piggy have the same voice actor if you think
about it it makes sense they're both controlled by the same
puppeteer Frank Oz number 4 there is a Norwegian penguin named Sir Niles Olaf
and he is the honorary colonel in chief of the Norwegian Kingsguard number 5 you
may be surprised to hear that the longest word in the English language
with a single vowel is strength number 6 according to Ocean today otters will
often have a favorite rock that they store in flaps of skin they use them for
breaking open shelves so basically otter cutlery number 7 according to the
Washington Post the same guy who's saying you're a mean one mr. Grinch
voiced the original Tony the Tiger saying they're great number eight did
you know that just like everyone has their own unique fingerprint we also
have our own unique tongue prints we dealt we'll start using that as
identification anytime soon though number nine it has been estimated that
about 17 percent of Sweden is covered in fresh blueberries that could result in a
heck a lot of blueberry pies and jam number
10 have you ever been so bored you decided to count the ridges on your
coins no well someone has a quarter for example has 119 ridges fascinating
number 11 it has been estimated that there are more trees on the planet than
there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy 3 trillion versus 100 to 400 billion
number 12 at the nearest point Russia and America are less than 4 kilometers
apart the Cold War could have really heated up if they fought there number 13
it is illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk Virginia we did a spit-take when
we read that one number 14 Greece's national anthem has 158 verses
number 15 no bones about it or should we say fewer bones about it you're born
with 300 bones but by the time you'll become an adult you only have 206 number
16 try and sweat this fact the human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
number 17 according to useless facts a full moon is 9 times brighter than a
half moon we don't know how they measured the intellect of different
moons but we applaud them for the reference number 18 the name Wendy was
made up for the book Peter Pan there was never a recorded Wendy before it fun
fact the burger chain Wendy's didn't get their name from the book biography.com
says that Dave Thomas opened his own restaurant on November 15 1969 Wendy's
is named after Thomas's eight-year-old daughter he opened it because he
couldn't get a burger in his area number 19 there are a lot of strange fears out
there saamne phobia is the fear of falling asleep a bluto phobia is the
fear of washing or bathing Boyka phobia is the fear of household items our
writers have ergo phobia or fear of the workplace or at least that's what they
tell us number 20 termites have been known to eat food
twice as fast when heavy-metal music is playing no word on which metal although
we hope it's Megan number 21 at Birth a panda is smaller
than a mouse and weighs about 4 ounces that's so cute we can hardly bear it
number 22 a normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour we're sure this
fact is going to make a splash number 23 ever wonder which word you say
the most well I is the most spoken word in the English language so it's probably
that unless you speak in the third person we would have no idea what that's
like number 24 rugby North Dakota is the
geographical center of North America rugby the sport however is hard to find
on this continent number 25 in ten minutes
a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons
combined number 26 certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can
pass through flesh and wood number 27 the glue on Israeli postage is certified
Kosher number 28 in Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow
number 29 baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day number 30 an inch
of snow falling evenly on one acre of ground is equivalent to about 2715
gallons of water number 31 Mexico City sinks about 10 inches each
year number 32 bamboo the world's tallest grass can grow up to 90
centimeters in a day it's called a BAM boom when it grows that much we can't
find our sources on the last part of that fact but trust us it's totally real
number 33 cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for
them to fit through or not number 34 bananas are most likely the
first fruit ever to be grown on a farm number 35
lassi was played by a group of male dogs the main one was named Pal number 36
a rat can last longer without water than a camel number 37 the first license
plate on a car in the US was issued in Denver Colorado in 1908 number 38
it was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland number
39 the first World Series was played between Pittsburgh and Boston in 1903
and was a nine game series Boston won the series five to three and they have
not stopped winning since number forty in Papua New Guinea there are villages
within five miles of each other which speak different languages
number 41 the average person laughs 10 times a day
ha number 42 in most advertisements including newspapers the time displayed
on a watch is 10/10 this is because 10 and 10 are the numbers of zeus the god
of the sky now we made up one of those facts but which one was it
number 43 fish that live more than 800 metres below the ocean's surface don't
have eyes number 44 instead of bones sharks have a skeleton
made from cartilage number 45 while in Alcatraz Al Capone was inmate number 85
number 46 Britain's shortest river is the Brun
which runs through Bellini in length Shire number 47 Julius Caesar's
autograph is worth about two million dollars number 48 earthworms have five
hearts number 49 camels have three eyelids number 50 flies jump backward
during takeoff number 51 a b-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the
Empire State Building on July 28 1945 the b-52s luckily are still touring
today number 52 a dog was the first animal to be launched into space we
assumed this was the premise for the newest Disney Channel movie space Budd
53 yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th
century we wonder how walk the dog was used in combat number 50 for the average
American or Canadian will eat about eleven point nine pounds of cereal every
number 55 you share a birthday with at least nine million people in the world
oh happy birthday by the way number 56 a shark is the only fish that
can blink with both eyes number 57 Alabama was the first state to recognize
Christmas as an official holiday number 58 most lipsticks contain fish scales
number 59 on a Canadian $2 bill the American flag is flying over the
Parliament building number 60 a typical banana travels 4000 miles before being
eaten we're going bananas for the banana facts on this list number 61 in Iceland
a Big Mac costs five dollars and fifty cents number 62 in a survey of 200,000
ostriches over 80 years not one that tried to bury its head in the sand how
they managed to get an ostrich to answer a survey we'll never know and so our
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