100 Weirdly Cool Random Facts about The World.

Here is a list of 100 random, weirdly cool Facts about the World.

1. The Eiffel Tower can grow more than 6 inches taller during summer due to metal expansion.

2. Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.

3. Antarctica is the driest, windiest, and coldest continent on Earth.

4. Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old pots of it that are still edible.

5. The Great Wall of China is not one continuous wall—it’s a series of sections built over centuries.

6. A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.”

7. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

8. Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas.

9. Russia spans 11 time zones.

10. Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

11. Wombat poop is cube-shaped to prevent it from rolling away.

12. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

13. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted 38 minutes.

14. Some turtles can breathe through their butts.

15. A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

16. The Amazon Rainforest produces 20% of the world's oxygen.

17. The first computer programmer was a woman: Ada Lovelace.

18. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins—up to 40 minutes.

19. There's a species of jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) that is biologically immortal.

20. The world's oldest known pants are over 3,000 years old and found in a Chinese tomb.

21. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion different scents.

22. In 1977, a radio signal from space—dubbed the “Wow! Signal”—lasted 72 seconds and remains unexplained.

23. There’s an island in Japan (Ōkunoshima) known as “Rabbit Island” due to its huge rabbit population.

24. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

25. A day on Venus is longer than its year.

26. Koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans’ that they can taint crime scenes.

27. The Sahara Desert was once a lush, green land with lakes and wildlife.

28. The first oranges weren’t orange—they were green.

29. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was −144°F (−98°C) in Antarctica.

30. The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.

31. Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.

32. The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.

33. The “M’s” in M&M’s stand for Mars and Murrie—the candy’s inventors.

34. Greenland is mostly ice, and Iceland is mostly green.

35. The moon has moonquakes.

36. Humans glow in the dark—we emit bioluminescence, but it's 1,000 times too faint to see.

37. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

38. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.

39. You’re taller in the morning than at night due to spinal decompression.

40. Sharks existed before trees.

41. The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.

42. The longest traffic jam in history lasted over 60 miles and 12 days in China.

43. Apples float because 25% of their volume is air.

44. The Earth’s inner core is hotter than the surface of the sun.

45. Spaghetto is the singular form of spaghetti.

46. Tomatoes were once thought to be poisonous in Europe.

47. You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from more than 2 miles away.

48. A single strand of spaghetti is called a “spaghetto.”

49. The oldest known living organism is a bristlecone pine tree, over 4,800 years old.

50. Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.

51. Sea otters hold hands while they sleep to avoid drifting apart.

52. The first ever VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano.

53. There's a species of fungus that turns ants into zombies before killing them.

54. The “Mojave phone booth” was a real, working payphone in the middle of the desert.

55. The shortest complete sentence in English is “Go.”

56. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

57. The longest place name in the world is 85 letters long: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (New Zealand).

58. Pineapples take about two years to grow.

59. A narwhal’s tusk is actually a tooth.

60. There’s enough DNA in the human body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back—17 times.

61. Pigeons can do math at a level comparable to monkeys.

62. Some metals explode when they touch water—like sodium.

63. 80% of the ocean remains unexplored.

64. Chewing gum while cutting onions can help reduce tears.

65. Snakes can sense earthquakes from 75 miles away.

66. One teaspoon of honey is the lifetime work of 12 bees.

67. The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in If I Ran the Zoo (1950).

68. The sun makes up 99.86% of the mass of the solar system.

69. No two zebras have the same stripe pattern.

70. The average cloud weighs over a million pounds.

71. In 2006, Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet.

72. Butterflies taste with their feet.

73. Elephants can’t jump.

74. A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.

75. The smell of rain is called “petrichor.”

76. Some frogs can survive being frozen solid.

77. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour (not recommended!).

78. A jiffy is a real unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

79. The human brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.

80. The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.”

81. Pigs are unable to see the sky.

82. Peanuts aren’t nuts—they’re legumes.

83. Some cats are allergic to humans.

84. The “French” in French fries actually refers to the style of cut, not the country.

85. The majority of your brain is fat—about 60%.

86. The moon is slowly drifting away from Earth at 1.5 inches per year.

87. In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig. They need a companion.

88. You can’t hum while holding your nose (try it!).

89. Starfish don’t have brains.

90. The world’s smallest reptile was discovered in 2021: Brookesia nana, the size of a sunflower seed.

91. The word “set” has the highest number of different meanings in the English language.

92. Earthquakes can turn water into gold via pressure and chemical reaction.

93. There's a town in Norway where the sun doesn't rise for two months a year.

94. Newborns don’t shed tears until they’re at least one month old.

95. You are 13.8% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day.

96. The Eiffel Tower was originally meant for Barcelona.

97. A cloud can travel over 100 miles before it rains.

98. There’s an island in the Bahamas with swimming pigs.

99. There’s a lake in Tanzania that turns animals into stone (due to high alkalinity and sodium carbonate).

100. If the Earth were the size of a billiard ball, it would be smoother.

Hope you learned something new today!

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