Interesting facts?!
Question: Anybody got some random interesting facts?
Answers: Anybody got some random interesting facts?
The largest animal ever lived is the blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car and it's tongue is as long as an elephant and weight as much as a small one. Its mouth is large enough to hold up to 90 tonnes of food and water but despite that, it cannot swallow an object wider than a beach ball due to the dimension of its throat.
Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.
Burma are the only country where the cars are right hand-driven and driven on the right side of the road. As a former British colony, now named Myanmar drove on the left until 1970, when the military regime of Ne Win decreed that traffic would drive on the right. In spite of the change, most passenger cars mainly from Japan are right hand driven.
The oldest breed of domesticated dog is the Saluki, member of the sighthound family. They are found in the Egyptian tombs of 2100 B.C.
The first vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria around 215 BC. When the coin was dropped into a slot, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever. The lever opened up a valve which dispense a fix amount of holy water. The pan continued to tilt with the weight of the coin until it fell off, at which point a counter-weight would snap the lever back up and turn off the valve.
An Octopus has 3 hearts. It’s got two smaller hearts to force blood through the two gills and then a main heart called the systemic heart to force the blood everywhere else.
FALSE rumors claimed that the number 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Not true, in fact in 1896, Henry John Heinz noticed an advertisement for '21 styles of shoes.' He decided to add the numbers '5' and '7' since the number held a special significance for him and his wife, he adopted the slogan '57 Varieties'.
Contrary to what schools have taught for years, Thomas Edison neither invented the light bulb nor held the first patent to the modern design of the light bulb. Joseph Swan from England, invented and obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year earlier, in 1878.
A young coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. It was done during World War II when blood supplies were low. Coconut water is identical to human blood plasma which makes it the universal donor. By drinking coconuts we give ourselves an instant blood transfusion.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice. In the book The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, Steven Watts says Disney was afraid of mice but found them “sympathetic.”
Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
Babies have 300 bones, but adults only have 206 bones due to some bones fused together during their growth.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Coca-cola used to contain cocaine because in it's early years, it's a tonic drink and not a soft drink.
Canned food was patented and introduced in 1810 by a British merchand Peter Durand. However, can opener was invented only 48 years later. Before that, canned food includes instruction "Cut round the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer."
Tea was accidentally invented in 2737 BC when Chinese Emperor Shen Nung spotted some tea leaves blew into a pot of boiling water and produced a pleasing aroma.
In 1314, the mayor of London banned football (soccer) and the law remained for centuries, but failed to slow the popularity of the game and now it became the most attended or watched sport in the world.
elephants are the only animals that cant jump
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Our eyeballs are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
Never stop growing.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
a liger is actually fourteen times bigger than a tiger or lion.
princess diana was a shemale............lol
Errrrr
nothing Rhymes with orange or purple
a whale has an 8 foot knob
dolphins are the only other animal that has sex for pleasure, pigs cant look up to the sky, its impossible to lick your elbow
P's and Q's originated when beer was sold in pints and quarts..thus "mind your p's and q's...
You can't lick your own elbow.
Also more than half of the people who are told this fact will immediately try to disprove it.
moths do not have stomachs
antarctica has a area code
all babies are colorblind when they are born
a species of earthworms in australia can grow up to 10 ft long
enjoy!
There are more chickens than people in the world
from the day you are born your ears and your nose never stop growing and your eyes remain the same size they were when you were born.
hamsters cant eat chocolate
one testicle is bigger than the other
Cows can't go down stairs. Makes a real good prank at high schools (walk a cow to the top floor of your school and leave them there and wait for someone to figure out how to get it back down)
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u cant lick your elbow
-Birds have a magnet in their brains (or heads) that helps them go south in the winter *not exactly sure*
-In the heart there are some cells like the ones in your brain that give instructions to the body *heard it on the news,am 65% sure*
I have a bad memory so I don't remember much X3 (this could be an interesting random fact LoLz XD)
Hope you find something interesting
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u cant lick your elbow(tryin it??)
some flu that came after WW 1 killed more people than the actual war...
Dogs dont swet.
Slugs have 4 noses.
A bee has 5 eyes.
Camels have 3 eyelids.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
Elephants only sleep 4 hours a day.
Fish cough.
A snail breaths through its foot.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
A person will die quicker from lack of sleep than lack of food
Elephants have 4 knees
if you keep goldfish in the dark they turn silver
slugs are snails which have been mugged by other snails - I told my 5yr old son this and he believed me!