Ever have an embarrassing moment when you're alone in the room with another person, and
there's that awkward silence between you?
Me too many to count!
Well, you don't have to worry about experiencing anything like that anymore!
Because now, you can use any of these cool facts as an icebreaker!
- Facebook once created two AI chatbots that could talk to each other.
But this experiment had to be shut down soon after the chatbots started to communicate
in a language no-one but them could understand.
- Coffee taster Gennaro Pelliccia works for Costa Coffee and has his tongue insured for
13 million bucks.
The man states that his taste buds are crucial for his profession since they allow him to
pick out thousands of flavors.
I’ll bet tongues are wagging about this!
- If you want to express irony or sarcasm in your message, you can use a special punctuation
mark which looks like a backward question mark: ⸮. Maybe draw it out for them.
- Back when dinos were roaming our planet, volcanoes were still erupting on the Moon.
Not sure of the connection here but, hey try it!
- When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones, she refused to sit on the
now-legendary chair.
Apparently, the Queen can't just sit on any throne she likes.
Foreign thrones are off-limits, even if it's only fictional.
- According to the 2010 census, Monowi, a small town in Nebraska, has a population of
one.
The only female inhabitant of the place is the Mayor, Librarian, and Bartender all in
one.
“Hey, gimme another drink, your honor, along with that book”.
- In 2006, a worker of the Coca-Cola Company was trying to sell the newest development
of her employer to one of its main competitors, Pepsi.
But Pepsi responded by informing Coca-Cola about the incident.
Yep, when it comes to the law, never violate a writ of Habeas Colas.
- The Canadians are so polite, and say "sorry" so often, that the country has passed a law
stating that an apology can't be considered as an admission of guilt in court.
Sorry about that.
- Researchers have discovered that mysterious Pacific sleeper sharks live in an underwater
volcano called Kavachi, not far from the Solomon Islands.
To learn more about them, scientists have to send in robots because people can't stand
the heat and acidity of the environment.
- Crocodiles are unlucky animals which can't stick their tongues out because they're attached
to the roofs of their mouths.
But the alligators, the closest relatives of crocodiles, can do it without any problems!
So there, p-f-f-f-f.
- In 2009, Steven Hawking organized a party for time-travelers.
But he didn't announce the event in advance to make sure that each person who arrives
at the party is really from the future.
Unfortunately, no time travelers turned up.
- If you heat a magnet up to 176 degrees F, it’ll lose its magnetism.
Well, that’s not very attractive.
- Sunflowers can clean radioactive soil.
That's why the Japanese government has given more than 10,000 packages of sunflower seeds
to the inhabitants of Fukushima and asked them to grow them.
- Ever wonder why bananas are curved?
No.
It's because instead of growing toward the ground, they grow toward the sun.
This means they have to fight against gravity, which explains the fruit's curved shape.
- In 2016, a huge swarm of 20,000 bees was following a woman's car for two days in a
row because their queen was trapped inside.
When the woman parked the car on the first day, the bees immediately got inside, and
beekeepers had to get them out.
But the next day, the bees returned because the queen was still stuck inside.
- More than 75% of the world's food is made from only 5 animal species and 12 plants.
And although people know about 250,000 to 300,000 edible plants, they use only 150 to
200 of them.
Picky Picky.
- If you cut down a Saguaro cactus in Arizona, the chances are high that you'll spend the
next 25 years of your life in jail.
And that can get a little pickly.
- While hunting, stoats (which are weasel -like mammals) jump, spin, twist, and perform
crazy tricks to attract rabbits' attention.
Such movements hypnotize rabbits, allowing the stoats to get close enough to attack.
- When movie trailers first appeared, they were shown after the movies finished.
That's actually the reason why they were called "trailers"!
But since the audience rarely stayed to watch them till the end, making them ineffective,
they started to show them before the movie.
- Squids and octopuses have beaks.
These beaks are made of keratin, just like your fingernails or birds' beaks.
- The average man gets bored after 26 minutes of shopping, while the average woman can spend
2 hours on the same activity until she feels like giving up.
The man is more efficient.
- The first motel in the world was opened in 1925 in San Luis Obispo.
At that time, you had to pay a buck-twenty-five for a bungalow with two rooms, a kitchen,
and a private garage.
Oh, the times!
You think they’ll offer that same price to celebrate their 100th anniversary coming
up in 2025?
Nope they closed in 1991.
- As research shows, Americans don't think that millionaires who own only $1 million
are wealthy.
To be considered rich, a millionaire should have at least $2.4 million.
Really.
- Approximately 40% of all the gold ever mined on Earth has come from one place: Witwatersrand
plateau in South Africa.
It's the richest goldfield ever discovered.
- Sea otters, especially moms and their pups, sleep holding each other's hands so they don’t
drift away from each other at night.
And if a sea otter doesn't have anyone to hold onto, it just wraps itself in kelp.
Aw.
- The Milky Way galaxy, which is our home galaxy, is 105,700 light-years wide.
How Astonishing is that?
Considering 1 light-year is the distance which light covers in a year, moving at a speed
of more than 186,000 miles per second!
Um, you do the math.
- Although very small and fragile, ladybugs emit a unique smell we humans are super-sensitive
to.
- Lions can roar 25 times louder than a working gas-powered lawnmower, and you can hear their
roar from 5 miles away.
If you hear a lion roar from any closer, I’d get outta there!
- With more than 1,200 tornadoes every year, the US has the largest number of tornadoes
in the world.
But Britain (surprise-surprise!) is the country that experiences the most tornadoes per square
mile!
Whaddya call that, A Brit-Twister?
Leave your vote down in the comments.
- Venus and Mercury are the only planets in the Solar System that don't have any moons.
In total, there are 176 moons orbiting the planets of our Solar System, with some of
them being even bigger than Mercury itself!
- Pirates didn’t wear earrings to look pretty, but because they believed they protected them
from bad eyesight, blindness, seasickness, and even drowning!
Also, they used to call them “RRRR-rings.
No I made that up.
- The mountains on Venus are covered with a snow-like metal similar to frost.
Icebreaker?
Maybe…
- The first alarm clock was invented in 1787, but it could only ring at 4 AM.
It took several decades to create an alarm clock that could go off at the time you needed.
- The Sun weighs approximately 330,000 times more than Earth.
Plus, it's so huge that you could fit our planet inside it 1,300,000 times!
And think of this: the Sun contains 99.85% of all the mass in our Solar System!
You sure that’s an icebreaker…
Might be a more like a repellant.
- One of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, has such an icy surface that it reflects more than
90% of the Sun's light.
That's the reason why this moon is incredibly cold: -394 degrees F. Certainly some ice here
that could use some breaking…
- In Silicon Valley, there’s a statue of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American engineer
and inventor.
This statue radiates free Wi-Fi as homage to Tesla's vision of wireless communication.
- It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland.
Since these animals are very social, being alone is considered to be bad for their health.
- Your sense of smell makes up 80% of your sense of taste.
That's why if your nose is stuffed, an onion, a potato, and an apple will taste the same
to you.
- Not only people can be left- or right-handed.
It turns out that the majority of female cats mostly use their right paw, while males are
likely to be left-pawed.
My Pa could use either hand.
- Tic Tacs got their name because of the sound they made while being tossed around in their
plastic container.
- The highest mountain in the Solar System that people know about is Olympus Mons on
Mars.
Its peak reaches 16 miles high, which makes the monstrosity three times taller than Mount
Everest.
Plus, the Martian mountain occupies a huge area of about 120,000 square miles, which
is even bigger than the state of Arizona!
- Almost 95% of people prefer to text things they don't have the courage to say in person.
Cowards!
- A bolt of lightning can get 5 times hotter than the surface of the Sun and reach a temperature
of 53,540 degrees F!
Hey I gotta thermometer.
Let’s measure it!
- Kangaroos can't hop if their tail is lifted off the ground.
Apparently, they use this mighty appendage for balance, and once they can't use it, they
just fall over.
And t rhat’s your tail tip for the day.
- Do you have a habit of buying too many books, piling them up in your house, and never reading
them?
The Japanese have a special word for that: "tsundoku."
- Your brain fibers lose almost 10% of their total length every 10 years.
And if you get extremely stressed, they can shrink even more!
I like that excuse.
- Snakes can help people predict earthquakes.
They can not only feel an approaching natural disaster from almost 75 miles away, but also
sense it up to 5 days before it happens!
Wow.
There’s a whole lot of snakin’ going on.
- In their lifetime, the average person will walk about 110,000 miles, which is equivalent
to almost 5 times around the planet.
Then they have to find their way back home…
- On April 18, 1930, a BBC radio announcer honestly said, "there is no news."
Instead, piano music was playing during that uneventful day.
If only they’d do that now.
- Nepal has the most mathematical flag in the world.
Even better, the country has a separate article in its constitution which describes the steps
of drawing such a flag.
Finally this bonus: The term Icebreaker comes from the technique used on the Titanic in
the First Class section, to help the Rich and Famous start conversations among themselves
without much effort.
No I actually made that all up, but you can still use it.
Really.
You’ll probably even get a laugh from a perfect stranger.
Which counts as a two-fer!
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