We cannot deny the fact that we are still living in a mystery, even though the technology advancements have enabled us to have the world at our fingertips.
Today, we compiled a list of 55 facts that will surprise even the most intelligent and knowledgeable among us!
- You should click the mouse button 10 million times to burn 1 calorie
- If you make ice cubes with boiled water, they are transparent, and if you use tap water, they are white
- The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
- Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
- The inventor of the cotton candy machine was a dentist.
- Starfish are not fish but sea urchins and killer whales are dolphins, not whales
- Every day, a piece of space junk returns to earth
- 99% of the gold of the Earth is in its core
- A banana is a berry while a strawberry is not
- There are 8 insect pieces in an average chocolate bar
- Dolphins can actually call each other by name
- The yearly cost of electricity to charge your phone is less than $1
- Animals avoid power lines since they are scared of ultraviolet flashes invisible to the human eye
- We are twice as likely to get killed by a vending machine than a shark
- There are 1.6 million ants for every human on Earth
- Until 1977, France was still executing people by guillotine
- Getting struck by lightning heats the skin up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil
- The 3 most sold products in human history are the Rubik’s Cube, iPhone, and Harry Potter books
- The most shoplifted food item in the U.S. is candy, cheese in Europe, and meat in Latin America.
- Nutella was invented during WWII when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate as a way to extend the chocolate ration.
- New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann managed to doodle 46 sketches, in color, while he was running the New York City Marathon.
- A cockroach can live a few weeks without its head, and in the end, die of hunger
- In 1998, a student from Georgia was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt to “Coke in Education Day.”
- Zebras’ coats are just black.
- If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you will see is known as eigengrau.
- The lighter was invented ten years earlier than the match
- The Hawaiian alphabet has twelve letters only, (A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, and W)
- We also have proprioception, besides the other 5 senses, which is the awareness of the position of the body parts
- There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand in the whole world
- We completely replace the outer layer of the skin every month
- More people have been killed by mosquitoes than in all wars in history
- In the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most number of definitions (464)
- In an average lifetime, every person walks the equivalent of 5 times around the Equator
- The most commonly used joint in our body is the jaw
- Fat cells do not disappear after weight loss, they just change in size
- 99% of the microbes that live inside us are unknown to science
- Paper cuts are more painful than regular cuts as the wounds do not bleed, but the nerve endings remain open to the air which irritates them
- Whips make a cracking sound since the tip actually moves faster than the speed of sound, leading to a small sonic boom
- Charles Darwin was the first person to think of attaching wheels to his office chair to move around more quickly
- Breathe on a diamond to tell if it is real, fake ones will fog up while real ones remain clear
- The Spanish word ‘esposas’ has two meanings, ‘handcuffs’ and ‘wives’
- As a result of gravity, the theoretical maximum height of a tree is 130 meters
- The tongue is the strongest muscle in our body, proportional to its size
- The mouth of a blue whale is able to hold its own bodyweight in water
- The naked mole rat can survive with almost no oxygen, and it is immune to cancer
- An average adult contains 7 quintillion joules of potential energy, which is equal to 30 hydrogen bombs
- The technology in one Gameboy surpasses all the computing power used to put man on the moon
- Thirty-five percent of people are born without wisdom teeth.
- Catnip affects lions and tigers as well.
- German chocolate cake isn’t German, but it was named after Sam German, an American baker.
- Twelve percent of sleepers dream in black and white.
- Male caimans dance as a way to impress potential mates.
- The female G-spot was initially supposed to be named the Whipple Tickle, after professor Beverly Whipple.
- In the original stage version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s companion was a cow called Imogene, instead of Toto.