Random Facts That You Might Find Interesting
- When a male penguin falls in love with female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
- Whenever a pregnant women suffers from organ damage like heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the organ helping it to repair.
- When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
- A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun.
- When a person cries and the first drop of tears come from the right eye, its happiness. If it's from the left eye, it’s pain.
- Mount Everest is pronounced as Eve-rest, not Ever-est , as it is named after George Everest.
- All pandas in the world are on loan from China.
- Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
- The Bermuda Triangle has as many ship and plane disappearances as any other region of the ocean.
- An ant’s sense of smell is stronger than a dog’s.
- A snail breathes through its foot.
- Cat kidneys are so efficient they can rehydrate by drinking seawater.
- When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
- 90% of U.S. media(TV, news, radio) is owned by 6 companies.
- Goldfish don’t have stomachs.
- The main exporter of Brazil nuts is not Brazil. It’s Bolivia.
- A single tree can absorb more than 10 pounds of CO2 each year.
- Amazon River once flowed in the opposite direction, from east to west.
- A koi fish named Hanoko lived for 225 years.
- Almost a third of the worlds languages are spoken only in Africa.
- The longest jellyfish on record measured 160 feet, more than half the length of a football field.
- Giraffe are already extinct in at least seven countries in Africa.
- In the U.S., if you find a bald eagle feather on the ground, you need a permit to pick it up.
- Air pollution in China increases snowfall in California.
- The oil in cashews helps prevent tooth decay.
- The first president of Zimbabwe was president Banana.
- A pineapple is neither an apple nor a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.
- Shrimp can only swim backwards.
- Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.
- Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.
- Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
- Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
- A female dolphin will assist in the birth of another’s baby dolphin.
- If you Google ‘Zerg Rush’ Google will eat up the search results.
- The smell of freshly cut grass is actually the scent that plants release when in distress.
- A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
- A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head.
- Your skin is the largest organ making up the human body.
- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
- The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific
- Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal
- Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
FACTS. "100 Interesting Facts You Should Know." Facts Daily. N.p., 21 July 2015. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.
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