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Your heart beats 100,000 times a day.
A fun fact for when you feel dead inside: your body is working hard to keep you from being dead on the outside.
J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
One of the fun facts for whenever you feel excluded: All 26 letters of the alphabet can be found in the periodic table except for the letter J. Out of the 118 elements, not once is J used.
Coincidentally, tea itself was an accidental discovery.
The story of tea begins in China. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung, a renowned herbalist, decided to try the infusion that his servant had accidentally created.
A man once won a horse race after he died.
This one will have you saying, “What the fact?!” but this dark fun fact is definitely takes “winning spirit” to another level. Frank Hayes was a jockey who suffered a fatal heart attack mid-race. However, his horse still led and finished the race in first place. As such, Hayes was the first and only jockey to win a race posthumously in 1923.
At birth, baby pandas are smaller than mice.
Giant pandas may grow to over 6 feet, but one of the interesting fun facts about them is their tiny size upon birth. A newborn panda cub weighs 3-5 ounces and is the measly size of a butter stick. That’s almost 1/900th the size of its mother!
Jack Daniel was believed to die from kicking a safe.
Another morbidly funny fact: Jack Daniel was said to die from kicking a vault. According to the tale, he broke his toe after kicking the safe in anger due to not remembering the combination. It was then that he contracted sepsis. However, this admittedly ridiculous story has since been refuted by some experts.
A coffee taster has his tongue insured for £10 million.
Gennaro Pelliccia of Costa Coffee got his tongue insured for £10 million in 2009.
Herring fish communicate by farting.
When herring fish release gas, the bubbles it produces make a high-frequency sound that only herring can hear. The fish use this noise to arrange themselves into “protective shoals” during the night to keep them safe from predators.
A kimono literally translates to “thing to wear.”
Japanese people are known for their punctuality and precise way of life, but it seems they also have a distinct discipline of words. One of the interesting fun facts about Japan is that the word “kimono” literally translates to a “thing to wear.” Ki means “wear,” while mono means “thing”.
Scientists grew a human tooth from scratch using pee.
In 2013, the first artificially reproduced human tooth was created in China. The scientists were able to create the tooth using stem cells extracted from human urine.
Tic Tacs got their name from the sound they make.
Ever shook a Tic Tac container out of boredom? You’d be surprised to know that the name Tic Tac comes from the tic-ing and tac-ing sound the candies make when tossed around in their container.
You could go to jail for collecting eagle feathers in the U.S.
Only official members of federally accepted Native American tribes can keep or collect eagle feathers. If a regular citizen had one, it would be illegal.
78% of NFL players undergo financial crisis by 2 years of retirement.
Upon retiring for 2 years, a majority of former NFL players undergo bankruptcy or financial crisis. The main culprits? Unemployment and divorce.
Moon Trees are a thing.
No, it’s not another edgy underground indie band, but one of the endless fun facts about plants: Moon trees were sprouted from tree seeds that were flown to the moon, then planted in the Earth. 500 seeds were taken from 5 different seed types to orbit around the moon. They were later planted around the U.S. and a few other countries.
A filmmaker once created a 10-hour “film” of paint drying.
One of the pettiest yet wittiest fun facts: To protest high tariffs, filmmaker Charlie Lyne submitted a 10-hour “movie” of drying white paint to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The board had to watch Paint Drying in its entirety – all 10 hours and 7 minutes of it.
During the first 5 months of Pokémon Go, gaming-related accidents increased by 26.5%.
People may joke about Pokemon Go bringing world peace, but the game was actually doing quite the opposite. Upon the first few months of its release, Pokemon Go-related casualties included 2 deaths and $25.5 million in property damages.
If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
Rabbit meat is extremely lean. Using it as a sole food source will leave you with too much protein and no fat, which is toxic for the body.
Hundreds of rare animals and plants thrive in the North Korea-South Korea border.
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is 155 miles of untouched land that separates North and South Korea. In these heavily fortified fences, several endangered animal and plant species thrive. Ecologists identified around 2,900 plant species, 70 mammal species, and 320 bird species in this narrow buffer zone.
The tongue is the only muscle in the body attached from one end.
All other muscles are fully attached to bones and skin.
In a conversation, each speaker’s “turn” is 2 seconds, with intervals between turns only 200 milliseconds.
According to experts, this model is nearly universal in terms of conversations.
Sleep literally cleanses your brain.
When we sleep, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away the day’s worth of harmful, excess proteins and toxins. Think about that on your next Netflix binge.
Sudan has the most pyramids out of any country.
One of the mind-boggling fun facts: The plentiest pyramids in the world is not in Egypt! Instead, the record belongs to Sudan with 255 pyramids – which is twice the amount of the pyramids in Egypt.
The Lego Group is the most powerful brand in the world.
One of the most shocking fun facts: There are more Lego minifigures than all the people on Earth. Says a lot about your childhood toy.
Mr. and Mrs. came from the words master and mistress.
Mind? Blown. The first use of the abbreviated Mr. and Mrs. were traced to a letter written in the 1600s by an unknown R. P. addressed to William ffarington Esqu.
The only difference between kosher salt and table salt is the grain size.
Both come from underground salt deposits – the only difference is that Kosher salt grains are smaller.
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Humans specifically have eyes that face forward for the purpose of seeing in 3D.
On the other hand, vegetarian dinosaurs such as the Triceratops had eyes facing both sides so they could look out for predators.
The founder of Pringles, Fredric Baur, requested to be buried in a Pringles can.
Another morbid fun fact is that his children honored his dying wish when Baur died in the ‘80s.
The sound of a Star Wars lightsaber is the combined sound of a film projector and noise from an old TV.
Sound designer Ben Burtt created the iconic whooshing sound of lightsabers almost accidentally. The sound made when lightsabers make impact resulted from TV feedback on a shieldless microphone – which Burtt discovered on accident while looking for something to add to the projector hum.
Humans can’t taste food without saliva.
Another fun fact about the body: You wouldn’t taste your food without spit. Your saliva dissolves food, which allows the receptors in your taste buds to detect food molecules.