1. The average woman absorbs up to 5 pounds of damaging chemicals a year thanks to beauty products
2. Writing out what you’re thankful for decreases levels of stress.
3. Crows have over 200 different warning calls they use to alert one another, including calls to identify cats, hawks and humans.
4. Music not only changes our mood, but it also changes the way we think and our perception of the world.
5. Spending money on others promotes happiness more than spending money on yourself
6. The more mutual friends two people share, the stronger their relationship.
7. Listening to music before, during and after surgery reduces patients’ pain, eases anxiety and lessens the need for painkillers.
8. In the United States, being arrested is nearly twice as deadly for black people as it is for white people
9. Having sex once or twice a week has been proven to boost your immune system to help fight colds and the flu
10. The man who invented the electric chair was also a dentist.
11. Your taste in music can be an indicator of how smart or dumb you are.
12. There’s a fountain in Italy that gives you free wine, 24/7
13. The most common age worldwide is 0 years old, followed by 1, 2, 3, 4, and…26
14. In the event of an eclipse or earthquake, Salat—the Islamic ritualistic prayer the occurs five times a day increases to six prayers a day.
15. Nobody has been able to conclusively prove who the Queen of Sheba really was.
16. Looking at beautiful paintings can ease physical pain.
17. The population of California is higher than the population of Canada.
18. Changing the way you walk can change your mood.
19. The clitoris is the only human organ whose sole function is sexual pleasure.
20. The Earth’s oceans collectively contain about $771 trillion worth of gold.
21. When you can’t remember what happened on a night you got too drunk, it’s not because you forgot — Your brain just never recorded the events as they were happening.
22. Although he can’t swim, the Dalai Lama’s greatest fear is being eaten by a shark.
23. People who drink a lot of coffee and other caffeinated beverages, find it more difficult to identify and describe their own emotions.
24. Growing a beard can have health benefits. Beards can prevent allergies, asthma attacks, rashes and are effective at protecting your skin from the sun.
25. Your right lung is shorter than your left lung to make room for the liver, Your left lung is narrower than the right to make room for your heart.
26. The most popular drug around the world is caffeine.
27. By the age of 12, André the Giant could no longer fit on a school bus.
28. Sunflower Seed Finger is a real ailment caused by baseball players reaching into their pockets to grab seeds, stressing the pinky finger.
29. In six hours, the world’s deserts receive more energy from the Sun than humans consume in one year.
30. In Canada, it’s illegal to PRETEND to practice witchcraft, but it’s totally legal to actually practice witchcraft.
31. There are only five countries in the world that aren’t in debt.
32. Early Christians were considered Atheists by the Roman Empire because they didn’t believe in Polytheism.
33. The brain is more active at night than it is during the day.
34. Drinking black tea can help prevent lung damage caused by smoking.
35. Artists in Ireland are exempt from paying income taxes.
36. Americans spend about $65 billion a year on soda.
37. In Italy, it is illegal to insult a man by saying he has no balls.
38. People buy more when they’re hungry, even when shopping for non-edible goods.
39. The U.S. Army uses 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition a year. Call of Duty players use 1.5 billion rounds every 17 hours.
40. Attempting to convince parents to vaccinate their children actually decreases the number of parents who vaccinate, according to a study.
41. Thinking burns calories. The more challenging the task, the more calories you burn.
42. The White House has an estimated value of $398,705,319.
43. Jennifer Lopez was the first woman to have a number 1 movie and number 1 album in the same week.
44. 5 million Americans play video games for 40 hours a week. The equivalent of a full-time job.
45. The silent treatment is the most common way people deal with conflict in relationships and is also one of the most significant predictors of a relationship breakdown.
46. When our brain sees something that’s too cute (like a puppy or a baby), it can become aggressive.
47. The paper toilet seat covers in public restrooms aren’t there to prevent the spread of disease as they’re pretty ineffective at doing so. They’re there to provide comfort and ‘false’ reassurance to the person using the bathroom.
48. Listening to relaxing music before going to bed can improve the quality of your sleep.
49. One day on Mercury is about 1,407 hours and 30 minutes long
50. We instinctively put more trust in people we find attractive – Even children are more likely to trust someone they find visually appealing
51. Beer lovers are 60% more likely to be OK with having sex on the first date than those who don’t drink beer.
52. Marijuana was initially made illegal in 1937 by a man who testified the drug made white women want to be with black men.
53. In Poland, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and France everyone is automatically an organ donor, until they opt out
54. Regular tea drinkers who add cream and sweeteners consume about 43 more calories per day, on average than those who don’t add anything.
55. France declares itself ‘color blind’ so the law forbids official surveys accounting for racial or ethnic origin.
56. A child growing up in the U.S. is more likely to have a pet than a live at home father.
57. Couples who poke innocent fun at each other tend to have happier and stronger relationships, according to researchers.
58. When kids see their dads do things like cook and clean, they’re less likely to fall into stereotypical gender roles themselves.
59. When Ferdinand Magellan prepared to sail around the world in 1519, he spent more money on sherry than on weapons.
60. Google made an estimated $4,105.45 every second in 2018.
61. On average, a person usually leaves an abusive relationship seven times before they finally leave for good.
62. Someone new becomes a billionaire every two days.
63. Listening to sad music when you’re feeling sad can actually make you happier.
64. Fast walkers tend to live longer than those who walk at an average pace.
65. Jupiter has at least 67 known moons.
66. Having regular orgasms can improve your decision-making skills, creativity, and even make you more social.
67. Ice cream really does significantly reduce emotional pain when consumed.
68. Women with bigger butts give birth to smarter kids, according to a study from the University of Oxford.
69. A man once threw a rat into a pile of burning leaves. Still ablaze, the rat ran out of the pile and into the man’s house, setting it on fire.
70. There is a pill called Father Christmas that makes your farts smell like chocolate.
71. There’s a place called Narnia in Bangladesh.
72. The little boy who voiced Bambi became the youngest-ever drill instructor in the Marines and served three tours in Vietnam.
73. People who often feel dizzy when standing up may be at a higher risk of heart failure.
74. People exercise better self control and make more rational decisions when they need to urinate.
75. Consistently questioning the quantity or quality of affection your partner gives you can be detrimental to a relationship, according to Florida State University researchers.
76. Talking to yourself in the third person can help reduce stress.
77. The most common street name in the US is second street. ‘First street’ is the second-most common.
78. When chili peppers were introduced to Japan in the 16th century, they were not eaten, they were inserted into socks to keep the toes warm.
79. Species with X and Y sex chromosomes generally have more females, but species with Z and W sex chromosomes tend to have more males
80. The power of a magnitude nine earthquake is equal to 4 trillion pounds of TNT exploding.
81. Unlike tennis, the team that serves in volleyball is at a disadvantage because the receiving team gets three hits to control the ball.
82. Left-handed people tend to have better vision underwater than right handed people.
83. Women prefer their smartphones more than their romantic partners, according to British researchers.
84. People who are optimistic, motivated, socially competent, and enjoy learning are the most likely to be happy and thrive in life, according to researchers at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.
85. Women’s farts typically smell worse than men’s due to higher levels of hydrogen sulfide.
86. Simply being told a drink has alcohol in it makes people act more drunk, according to a study.
87. People who are addicted to their smartphones are more likely to struggle at work, in relationships, have shorter attention spans, and are more prone to boredom.
88. Water sounds different when poured depending on its temperature, 96% of people can tell the difference between hot water and cold water just based on its sound.
89. Sleep-deprived drivers are up to 15 times more likely to be involved in a car accident.
90. Agave, the plant used to make tequila, has a nocturnal molecular clock that could potentially be harnessed to make drought-resistant crops.
91. A woman’s breasts shrink when her child stops breastfeeding because certain cells in the breast eat the dead cells left over from lactating.
92. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested 30 times during his 12-year tenure as a Civil Rights Movement leader.
93. Eating apples has been linked to a better sex life for younger women.
94. Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, was really a marine biologist.
95. Semen was once used by British MI6 agents as invisible ink.
96. People will be more willing to say yes to a request if you speak into their right ear.
97. Too much debt can actually shorten your lifespan.
98. Martin Luther King Jr. added the ‘I have a dream’ line DURING his speech, it wasn’t planned.
99. Heartbreak can cause physical pain. Our brains treat the loss of social attachment with an injury because it encourages us to maintain close relationships.
100. Kids trust their pets more than they trust their siblings.andChildren going through a difficult time are more likely to confide in and seek support from their animal companions than brothers and sisters.
101. Japan does not inform death row inmates of their execution date, Instead they tell them about an hour before it happens.
102. Having good sex can give you a greater sense of well being and make you feel as if there is more meaning in life.
103. Men who walk with swagger in their shoulders are perceived to be twice as attractive as those who don’t.
104. GPS (Global Position System) is free for the entire world except for Americans. American taxpayers fund it.
105. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
106. The average person will take about 216,262,500 steps in their lifetime.
107. A person turns 10,000 days old when they have lived 27 years, 4 months, and 15 days.
108. Watching horror movies can help you lose weight. The adrenaline causes your body to burn calories
109. Russia didn’t consider beer an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before then, any drink under 10% volume was considered a soft drink.
110. If you smoke weed, you have something in common with 182,000,000 people around the world, according to the United Nation’s World Drug Report.
111. You would have to consume about 1,500 pounds of marijuana within 15 minutes to die of an overdose.
112. When you kiss someone passionately, not only do you exchange bacteria and mucus, but their DNA can linger in your mouth for more than an hour.
113. Long distance relationships tend to become the most challenging once they hit the fourth month mark, but become easier after eight months.
114. Eminem is afraid of giraffes. He doesn’t like their necks.
115. Facebook sees about 8,000 user deaths a day. Eventually, the number of dead profiles will outnumber the living ones; making it a digital graveyard.
116. The most common sexual fantasy is having sex outside, with 57% of the population claiming they’re into it.
117. Roughly 75% of men in relationships always have an orgasm with their partner, compared to 30% of women.
118. Jackie Chan’s parents tried to sell him to the British doctor who delivered him for $26.
119. The average person pees about 6 cups a day.
120. Beer should be served at 44° F (or 7° C) — any colder and your taste buds won’t get the full effect.
121. The older a father is when he has a child, the uglier the child will be, according to research.
122. 1.6 billion people, a quarter of humanity live without electricity.
123. Only six countries in the world completely guarantee women and men equal legal work rights. Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg, and Sweden.
124. People who work long hours tend to drink more than those who keep lighter hours.
125. Due to the fact that we mimic the expressions of those closest to us, people in relationships literally begin to look like each other as time passes.
126. In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself wherever she wants.
127. Marijuana prevents vomiting, so drinking alcohol while smoking weed has the potential to lead to deadly alcohol poisoning.
128. Mental breaks (such as naps, meditation, and nature walks) increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories, and encourage creativity.
129. About 153,000 people will die on your birthday.
130. Clocks run ‘clockwise’ because, in the Northern Hemisphere, that’s how sundials would cast shadows. Also called sunwise.
131. Mike Tyson first snorted coke when he was 11 years old.
132. Kids usually don’t learn their parents have first names until age 5.
133. The United States’ army is older than than the United States itself.
134. Michael Jordan would practice with strobe lights on so that he wouldn’t be distracted by camera flashes during a real game.
135. Disney is the second-largest purchaser of explosives in the United States. The first is the Department of Defense.
136. In the state of New York, cheating on your spouse is a Class B misdemeanor. And you can go to jail for up to three months.
137. Strippers are sometimes hired to perform at funerals in China.
138. It only took 72 hours for New Zealand to ban assault rifles and high capacity magazines after the Christchurch terrorist attacks.
139. Snoop Dogg once tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein.
140. Abraham Lincoln was 6′ 4 and is the tallest U.S. president in history. He was also a wrestling champion.
141. Viagra can make plants stand up straight for as long as a week beyond their natural life span.
142. The Rock would drink tequila to get his voice ready before singing for the film Moana.
143. The Vatican declared it sinful to wear bikinis in the early 1950s.
144. Women who use cannabis are more likely to have satisfying orgasms, according to researchers.
145. In 1997, Bill Gates invested $150 million in Apple so the company wouldn’t go bankrupt.
146. An estimated 6,316 people die every hour.
147. When Princess Diana took her sons Harry and William to Disney World, she made them stand in line like everyone else.
148. If you own an electric car in Norway, you get free public parking, free ferry and toll road access, and the right to drive in bus lanes.
149. Abraham Lincoln created Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated.
150. Swedish blood donors receive a text message whenever their blood helps save a life.
151. Wealthy Russian citizens will hire fake ambulances for about $200 an hour to cut through traffic. The ambulances come with luxury interiors.
152. Tea and coffee taste weird on planes because the boiling point of water is 18° lower, making the brewing process more difficult.
153. If you’re murdered in the US, there’s a 1 in 3 chance that the police won’t find your killer.
154. In 2013, 19 prisons in the Netherlands closed because the country didn’t have enough criminals to fill them.
155. People who are untrusting, suspicious, and need to feel special are more likely to believe conspiracy theories, according to researchers from Union College.
156. In Japan, girls buy chocolate and other gifts for boys they like on Valentine’s Day. Then a month later on White Day (March 14th), boys will buy gifts for the girls who bought them gifts on Valentine’s Day.
157. A total of nine nuclear submarines have sunk around the world. Most of them are still on the ocean floor with nuclear weapons that are still intact.
158. The Constitution of Alabama says that idiots aren’t allowed to vote.
159. Negative religious beliefs that God is punishing or abandoning you have been linked with higher rates of depression and lower quality of life.
160. By peeing in the shower, you can save about 1,157 gallons of water a year.
161. There are an estimated 200 galaxies in the known universe for every human on Earth.
162. Leonardo DiCaprio’s mom named him ‘Leonardo’ because she was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting when he first kicked.
163. Judge Judy holds the Guinness World Record for longest-running TV judge. After 20 years, she gets 10 million daily viewers and makes $47 million for the 52 days she works every year.
164. It’s possible to generate electricity from human tears.
165. Passing a large stool can stimulate the vagus nerves, creating an orgasm-like experience. This is why taking big poops sometimes feels really good.
166. There’s a giant statue of Jesus in Poland that transmits WiFi to nearby towns and villages.
167. Slot machines make more money in the United States than movies, baseball and theme parks combined.
168. 259 people died between 2011 and 2017 while taking selfies.
169. After spending almost a full year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches.
170. Morgan Freeman wears earrings that are worth enough to pay for a coffin in case he dies in a strange place. This is actually an old sailor’s tradition.
171. The date February 31st is sometimes used on gravestones when the exact date of birth or death is unknown.
172. Vin Diesel named his daughter Pauline, after his late friend Paul Walker.
173. Indonesians are the world’s shortest people.
174. In 2014, Kim Jong-un had one of his own officials executed by a flamethrower. He wanted no trace of him left behind… not even his hair.
175. Pumbaa from The Lion King was the first Disney character to ever fart on screen.
176. The word school comes from the ancient Greek for free time.
177. Sometimes it rains spiders in Brazil. The same also happens in Australia.
178. The modern T-shirt was created in 1904. It was marketed to single men who didn’t know how to sew or replace buttons.
179. If you make more than USD 32,400 a year, you’re in the world’s richest 1%.
180. Wine glasses today are seven times larger than they were in the 1700s.
181. Taiwan is the first country in Asia to legalize same sex marriage.
182. America’s first female mayor, Susanna Salter, was elected in 1887 after a group of men nominated her as a joke intended to embarrass women. She won over 60% of the vote.
183. The Jack Daniels company gives employees a free bottle of Jack on the first payday of each month.
184. Ranch dressing was invented in California.
185. The average Bentley customer owns three cars. The average Bugatti customer owns 84 cars, three jets, and one yacht.
186. Prince, Michael Jackson, and Madonna were all born in the Great Lakes region in 1958. They were all born within two months of each other.
187. Lemon juice can help reduce the itching and swelling caused by insect bites.
188. Cunningham’s Law. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.
189. In the early days of chess, the Queen could only move diagonally, one step at a time. As real-life queens gained power, so did the piece.
190. All the paint needed to coat the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as ten elephants.
191. It’s illegal to masturbate if you’re an inmate in a U.S. prison.
192. It’s possible for humans to get a tapeworm from swallowing just one infected flea.
193. Compersion is the secondhand feeling of happiness you get when you see someone else happy.
194. Johnny Cash was attacked and nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981.
195. Our current world population makes up only 7% of all humans who have ever lived.
196. Your eyebrows and eyelashes renew themselves every six to eight weeks.
197. Left handed people tend to have more emotional and behavioral problems than right handed people.
198. Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid approximately $21,429 for every word he said in Terminator 2.
199. The U.S. Army uses 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition a year; Call of Duty players use 1.5 billion rounds every 17 hours.
200. You almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores of your face right now.
201. Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6 billion for their entire company in 2008, but Yahoo believed that wasn’t enough money. In 2016, Yahoo ended up selling to Verizon for $4.83 billion.
202. Corn Flakes were originally invented to discourage masturbation.
203. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Nearly 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube every day.
204. In theory, if you could sell every organ and chemical in your body, you would make about $45 million.
205. More than 65,000 people in Japan are 100 years of age or older.
206. People are likely to pay more attention to those who have a seemingly negative reputation.
207. Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bicycle.
208. Reincarnation is illegal in China without the government’s permission.
209. SpongeBob SquarePants has failed his boating exam more than 1,258,058 times.
210. Those small warranty void if removed stickers you seen on certain products are illegal in the United States and have been since 1975.
211. Canada consumes the most donuts and has the most donut shops per capita of any country in the world.
212. Couples who cuddle often tend to be happier and have deeper connections than those who don’t.
213. While ovulating, women are more likely to prefer men who are confident, attractive, slightly narcissistic and less-agreeable because they’ll produce the strongest children. Which is why they may prefer assholes.
214. Women in relationships are better at remembering the faces of attractive females because they may be seen as potential threats.
215. In Japan, professional ‘breaker-uppers’ are people who specialize in breaking up relationships, most often between husbands and mistresses.
216. Drinking alcohol improves your ability to speak a foreign language.
217. Mosquitoes are the only creatures responsible for the deaths of more humans than humans themselves.
218. Of the more than 5,000 species of mammals that inhabit the planet, only female humans have permanent breasts.
219. Beats headphones only contain about $17 worth of parts. 1/3rd of their weight comes from simple metal weights.
220. It’s believed that the first ever horror movie was a silent French film from the 1890s called Le Manoir du Diable.
221. Humans spend a third of their entire lives sleeping. A total of about 25 years.
222. It takes more water to make a water bottle than the amount of water it’s able to hold.
223. Dildo is a town in Newfoundland, Canada.
224. Having both red hair and blue eyes is the rarest combination in humans.
225. Samuel L. Jackson has said ‘motherf*cker’ at least 171 times in 27 different movies.
226. The most searched tutorial on YouTube is How to Kiss.
227. Men are more likely to say I love you first than women.
228. Facebook offered graffiti artist, David Choe, $60,000 to paint murals in their offices in 2005. He chose to take his compensation in stock, which was eventually valued at more than $200 million.
229. Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room office costs the average American about $43.
230. Cheese affects the same parts of the brain as hard drugs.
231. At top speed, a Bugatti Veyron will empty its 26-gallon tank in just 12 minutes.
232. People decide if you’re trustworthy, extroverted, likable and successful within the first three seconds of meeting you.
233. In the time it’s taken you to read this sentence, roughly 24 people have been born around the world.
234. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without being on the ballot in ten southern states.
235. If you had your little finger removed, you would lose around 50% of the strength in your hand.
236. On the first night sleeping in an unfamiliar location, one side of your brain remains alert the entire night in order to watch out for potential threats.
237. A man once found a copy of the Declaration of Independence in an old picture frame he bought for $4 at a yard sale. It turned out to be one of the originals drafts from 1776. It later sold for $2.42 million, then sold again for $8.14 million.
238. You weigh less when the moon is directly above you.
239. Only about a few thousand people in North Korea have actual internet access. Merely owning a computer requires permission from the government, and all personal computers are registered with the police like guns.
240. No one knows who named Earth.
241. If you’re having trouble remembering something, close your eyes. Closing your eyes when trying to recall events increases the chances of accuracy, according to researchers at the University of Surrey.
242. In Argentina, being punctual when going to a dinner party is considered greedy, it’s best to be a little late.
243. You have a greater chance of dying on your way to purchase a lotto ticket than actually winning the lottery.
244. Jason Statham almost died while filming The Expendables 3. He was shooting an action scene when the breaks on his truck failed, driving him into the Black Sea. Jason previously competed as an Olympic-quality diver for England so he was able to stop himself from drowning.
245. You’re more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year. An increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, falls and suicides make our birthdays the most dangerous.
246. In 2013, PayPal accidentally credited an American man $92,233,720,368,547,800. The error was rectified before he was able to spend it.
247. It only takes six minutes for alcohol to hit your brain.
248. Only 27% of people look at every poop they take, according to a 2014 study conducted by gastroenterologists.
249. CNN has a video scheduled to be broadcasted when the end of the world is upon us.
250. Sylvester Stallone nearly died filming Rocky IV after asking Dolph Lundgren hit him for real. Lundgren struck him so hard; he bruised Stallone’s heart. He spent a week in the hospital recovering.
251. Wearing a tshirt with the letter T on it makes men up to 12% more attractive to women.
252. Mike Tyson says he smokes $40,000 of weed at his ranch every month.
253. Every year, we pass the future-anniversary of our death day. We just don’t know when it is, yet.
254. If you sleep an average of eight hours a day, you will have spent a total of 33 years sleeping by the time you’re 99 years old.
255. Before the 1850s, there were no left and right shoes; they were identical.
256. Over 25,000 South Koreans have taken part in living funerals, which involves lying in a closed coffin for 10 minutes and thinking about what really matters in life.
257. Sex is viewed as a basic human right in The Netherlands. Disabled citizens can receive government funds to pay for prostitutes up to 12 times a year.
258. The expiration date on bottled water is actually for the bottle. Not the water.
259. Chocolate, sex and laughter are all key to a healthy brain.
260. Human bodies can continue to move for more than a year after death.
261. The screaming at Beatles concerts was so loud; no one could hear them play, not even themselves.
262. If you were to start with one cent and double your money every day; it would take 27 days for you to become a millionaire.
263. If you are truly 1 in a million, then there are roughly 7,530 people just like you.
264. In Spider-Man Reign, Mary Jane dies of cancer brought by exposure to Peter Parker’s radioactive semen.
265. The statue Christ the King in Swiebodzin, Poland is the tallest statue of Jesus anywhere in the world, and has Wi-Fi transmitters installed in its crown.
266. In 2016, 24 billion selfies were uploaded to Google.
267. France banned all children under the age of 15 from using their smartphones in school. The ban also includes smartwatches and tablets.
268. Your pupils can expand by as much as 45% when looking at someone you love.
269. Finland has ten trees for every person in the world.
270. The first text message was sent on December 3rd, 1992, 27 years ago. It said, Merry Christmas.
271. Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding caked contained three and a half gallons of rum.
272. It is illegal to wear camouflage clothing in Saudi Arabia, Jamaica or Barbados.
273. Fake Christmas trees were first created in the 1930s by a company that produced toilet brushes using the same machinery.
274. Mosquitos have favourite flavours of blood – people with Type O blood are twice as attractive to them as people with Type A blood.
275. Human babies are 75 percent water at birth. A banana is 74% water.
276. George Washington refused to run for a third term as President because he felt his death in office would create the idea of a lifetime appointment. His retirement created the two-term limit.
277. The Netherlands has so few prisoners to fill its prisons that it rents spaces out to Belgium and Norway.
278. Every January, divorce filings in the United States surge by as much as 30% due to people looking for a new start.
279. As many as 100 people in Germany die every year while masturbating, according to researchers.
280. You are most likely to abandon your New Year’s resolution on January 19th, according to researchers.
281. The creator of the modern Internet password rules, the inventor of pop-up ads and the inventor of endless scrolling have all publicly apologised for their creations.
282. Before becoming famous, Nicki Minaj had been fired from about 15 jobs for having a bad attitude.
283. Dancing can build your confidence, increase your self-esteem and help you develop better social skills.
284. Tupac never won a grammy, and actually received more awards after his death.
285. Happy Pizza is a pizza sold in Cambodia topped with marijuana.
286. Samsung dominates 15% of South Korea’s entire economy. The company owns hospitals, universities, apartment buildings, and even funeral homes throughout the country.
287. In Beijing, couples cannot obtain a marriage license if they come wearing casual clothing, especially shorts.
288. The world’s longest recorded engagement lasted for 67 years.
289. There are more than 10,000 beaches in Australia. You could visit a different beach everyday for 27 years and still not see them all.
290. American Civil War soldiers had a code of honor that forbade shooting at men while they were pooping.
291. Married women who masturbate regularly report greater marital satisfaction than those who don’t.
292. Finland is the only country in Europe where homelessness is in decline.
293. Pablo Escobar’s hitman, who confessed to killing more than 250 people, served 30 years in prison. He was released in 2014 and became a YouTuber.
294. Shakira was rejected for her school choir in the second grade because her music teacher thought she sounded like a goat.
295. Sarcasm is illegal in North Korea.
296. A study has shown that 1 in 5 men would give up sex for a year to get the perfect beard.
297. Ireland accidentally legalized ecstasy, ketamine, and crystal meth for one day in 2015.
298. It takes longer to say www than it does to say World Wide Web because of all the syllables.
299. In general, the world is less violent than it was 30 years ago.
300. The oldest known British joke dates from the 10th century. Found in a book of Anglo-Saxon poetry, it reads, what hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before? Answer. A key.
301. In 1985, a drug smuggler threw 76 pounds of cocaine from his airplane into Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear, later named Pablo EskoBear, found and ate all of the cocaine. He then died of a massive overdose.
302. The last time all living humans were on Earth together was November 2nd, 2000. The International Space Station has been continuously occupied ever since.
303. In France, you can marry a dead person.
304. Bill Gates once released mosquitos into the audience while talking about malaria during a TED talk saying; there’s no reason only poor people should have to experience this. They made sure none of the mosquitoes had malaria before doing so.
305. There’s a small village in France named Pussy. The people living there are called Pussies.
306. Depicting a male orgasm in a movie requires the film to have a PG-13 rating. Showing a female orgasm warrants an R-rating.
307. Netflix monitors illegal download data to determine which shows are worth buying.
308. Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s. So, American colonists would rent pineapples and carry them around parties to tout their wealth.
309. In Samoa, it’s illegal to forget your wife’s birthday.
310. When asked about his views on homosexuality, Pope Francis replied, Who am I to judge them if they’re seeking the Lord in good faith?
311. If the sun were to explode right now, we wouldn’t know it for another eight minutes and 20 seconds.
312. The Guinness Book of World Records vehemently refuses to validate attempts to break the longest time spent awake record because it can be detrimental to human health.
313. Dwelling on your mistakes and overthinking about your problems increases your risk of having mental health difficulties.
314. Sunshine has a more significant effect on your mental health than temperature and rain.
315. On average, men receive prison sentences that are 63% higher than females who have been convicted of the same crime.
316. A swarm of 20,000 bees once followed a car for two days because their queen was trapped inside.
317. The rules for playing basketball in North Korea are different. Slam dunks are three points, nothing but net shots are four points and teams lose points when they miss free throws.
318. The first official U.S. coin said, Mind your business.
319. Studies show that one of the reasons people don’t believe evidence is because we prejudge everything with our emotions.
320. Case studies have reported that a woman can become allergic to her partner’s sperm if he eats something she’s already allergic to.
321. Only half of your friends would actually consider you their friend, according to a study. People generally have a very poor perception of friendship ties.
322. You can unboil an egg by using urea, the main component of urine.
323. A baby in the womb can deliver a kick with a force of more than 10lbs (4.5kg).
324. Babies often cry on airplanes because their bodies are not as well equipped to deal with the pressure of flying at high altitudes.
325. Newborn infants stare at attractive faces longer than unattractive ones.
326. Out of the 30 fastest 100m sprint times ever, only nine were achieved by an athlete not associated with doping. All nine were run by Usain Bolt.
327. Russian cosmonauts used to be rationed vodka and cognac to drink in space.
328. Cigarette butts are the most littered, environmentally toxic item in the world.
329. When a Google employee dies, their spouse receives half pay from the company for ten years, and their kids get $1,000 per month until they turn 19.
330. Red is the rarest hair color in the world, with only 2% of the human population having it.
331. In Wisconsin, children are legally permitted to consume alcohol at any age, even in public bars, as long as their legal guardian says it’s okay.
332. Gas is naturally odorless. The smell is added so people can tell if there’s a leak.
333. In 1140, a German king sieged the town of Weinsberg and ordered all the women to leave, saying they could take whatever they could carry on their backs. The women left their belongings and carried their husbands on their shoulders, instead. The king kept his word.
334. The average healthy human farts between 14 and 23 times a day.
335. Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine, according to addiction experts.
336. The food in Alcatraz prison was actually so good, the staff and prisoners ate the same meals. The warden believed most of the trouble in prisons were caused by bad food.
337. Tom Cruise split with all three of his wives when they were 33 years old.
338. Men spend an average of 7 hours a year hiding in the bathroom for peace and quiet, according to a study.
339. The highest paid public employee in 39 of the 50 US states is a coach of either college football or basketball.
340. The highest number of birthdays are in August, the lowest number of birthdays are in February, and more serial killers are born in November.
341. The average person will spend 26 years of their life sleeping and another 11 years watching TV.
342. On April Fool’s Day in 2007, Google sent an e-mail to its employees saying a python was loose in their office. They weren’t joking.
343. Earth is the only planet that wasn’t named after a Greek or Roman god.
344. Osama Bin Laden was obsessed with Whitney Houston and wanted to make her one of his wives.
345. 94% of the world’s languages are spoken by 6% of the population.
346. A person turns 10 million minutes old when they have lived 19 years and 4 days.
347. Miami is the only major U.S. city that was founded by a woman.
348. Men were the first to wear high heels. Then women started wearing them to look more masculine.
349. Statistically speaking, women are better drivers than men.
350. Mind-blowing sex can temporarily erase your memory.
351. The Eiffel Tower shrinks by six inches during the winter.
352. Someone’s favorite song is determined because of an association with an emotional event.
353. If Jurassic Park were real, it would cost an estimated $11,907,000,000 a year to maintain.
354. Talking to yourself can be beneficial for your brain as well as your mental health.
355. Thinking about sex can help you hold your pee.
356. Lack of sleep and going to sleep irregularly can lead to early death.
357. Decisions are more logic when thought in another language.
358. If you sleep an average of eight hours a day, by the time you turn 99 you will have spent 33 years of your life sleeping.
359. Some psychologists state that sleeping naked can help boost a person’s confidence.
360. Michael Jackson once called 911 after his car broke down in Beverly Hills. He was told only to use 911 for emergencies and was very surprised when they refused to help him, even after telling them that he was Michael Jackson.
361. If you fly across the Pacific Ocean, you have to pay $26 per 100 nautical miles to the USA, even if you fly from Japan to New Zealand.
362. People with last names closer to the end of the alphabet are more likely to be impulsive spenders.
363. If you are drunk and have the urge to vomit, taking short rapid breaths can help it go away.
364. The average person wastes 21.8 hours a week.
365. Married couples in their 20s have sex an average of 111 times a year, but the frequency of sex drops by 20% per decade they are together.
366. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Satan rules Hell.
367. It requires seven to eight trees to provide enough oxygen for just one person per year.
368. Having a hairy chest has been linked to higher intelligence in men.
369. A 2009 study found that men lie an average of 6 times a day. Twice as often as women.
370. Listening to music can give your immune system a boost and help fight off disease.
371. Post Malone got his stage name from a random rap name generator.
372. Richer women tend to binge drink and have more alcohol-related problems than poorer women, while the opposite is true for men.
373. For nearly 70 years after it was discovered, Uranus was called George.
374. One in ten parents admit to having a favourite child.
375. Nearly 96% of high schools in France have condom vending machines.
376. In America there are more nuns over 90 than under 60.
377. (6 × 9) + (6 + 9) = 69.
378. Blue jeans are illegal in North Korea because they are a symbol of American imperialism.
379. Canada’s official phone number is 1-800-O-CANADA.
380. Until 1974, it was Illegal to appear in public in Chicago if you were ugly.
381. Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza met his wife on his first pizza delivery.
382. The United States contains less than 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 25% of the world’s total prison population.
383. Disney World is the second largest purchaser of explosives in the United States, only the U.S. military comes in ahead of them.
384. Oprah’s real name is Orpah. People mispronounced it regularly, and Oprah stuck.
385. Men who grow beards easily and earlier in life are more likely to go bald.
386. Having a Plan B makes Plan A less likely to succeed.
387. Sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier, and sexier dreams.
388. You can’t join the US Army if you are over 6 foot 8 (2.04m).
389. It’s estimated that more than 50% of the world’s population can speak two languages.
390. Every cigarette you smoke can reduce your expected lifespan by up to 11 minutes.
391. All Australian citizens are entitled to free portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
392. Good liars tend to be better at detecting other people’s lies.
393. Giving up alcohol for just one month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure and reduce your risk of diabetes, according to researchers from University College London.
394. The word slut was originally used to describe a woman who didn’t keep her room clean.
395. Squeezing a man’s testicles too tightly can cause his body to release too much adrenaline and kill him.
396. Jackie Chan started his career by doing porn.
397. Someone new becomes a billionaire every two days.
398. If Bill Gates spent $1 million a day, it would take him about 218 years to go broke.
399. Men have nipples because all humans begin life in the womb as females until the introduction of a Y chromosome.
400. You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.
401. Every 6 seconds, someone in the world dies from a tobacco-related disease.
402. Backpfeifengesicht is a German word for a face that badly needs a punch.
403. 60% of NBA players are broke within five years of retiring from the game.
404. If you want to see how many calories it takes per day for you to exist, take your weight in pounds and multiply it by 11.
405. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.
406. In the Indian village of Kongthong, names aren’t a series of vowels and consonants. Instead, every villager is named with a short melody.
407. Roughly five million cells in your body die every second. About 25 million of your cells died while you were reading this fact.
408. Smoking a cigarette begins to cause genetic damage in minutes, not years.
409. Growing potatoes prevents civil war.
410. 70% of the world’s population don’t use toilet paper.
411. When a pope dies, it’s tradition to strike him on the head three times with a silver hammer to ensure he’s really dead.
412. Living abroad, meditation and drinking vodka can all make you more creative.
413. American school buses are yellow because we see yellow faster than any other color, 1.24 times faster than we see red.
414. People in larger cities walk faster than people in smaller cities.
415. 3.5 billion years ago, a day on earth was only 12 hours long.
416. Psychologically speaking you will always find another problem after resolving another.
417. The more expensive a couple’s wedding is, the more likely they are to get divorced, according to researchers.
418. It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach 1 billion. Then it only took 200 years for it to reach 7 billion.
419. Ozzy Osbourne once joined a Christian protest march against himself. It took place outside one of his concerts.
420. Until 2016, Romanian law dictated that writing a scientific book in prison could reduce your sentence by 30 days.
421. Japan is excellent at reuniting people with their lost property. In 2018, 83% of cellphones reported missing (130,000 phones) were eventually returned to their owners.
422. A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is.
423. Dead people often fart right after dying.
424. The gaming industry has earned more than the movie and music industries combined, every year for the past eight years.
425. When the moon is bright, scorpions glow in the dark.
426. Humans account for 0.01% of all life on the planet but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals and half of all plant life.
427. Although English is listed as an official language in almost a third of the world’s countries, the UK isn’t one of them.
428. A spoonful of ice cream makes your brain feel good the same way as listening to music or winning money does.
429. In 2016, a woman from North Carolina bought a scratch-off lottery ticket to prove to her husband that they were never going to win and that it was just a waste of money. She won $1 million.
430. When Joseph Stalin was dying, his private physician was unavailable because he was already being tortured for suggesting the Soviet leader needed more bed rest.
431. In Denmark it’s illegal to burn every nation’s flag except their own.
432. But the smarter the person and the faster they think, the sloppier their handwriting.
433. Japan is making all of the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics out of discarded smartphones and laptops.
434. New York City’s Washington Square Park was formerly a cemetery. An estimated 20,000+ bodies are buried beneath it.
435. The Adventures of Asterix has been translated into more languages than the Qu’ran.
436. In 2016, a tourist fell into a boiling, acidic pool in Yellowstone National Park and dissolved.
437. In California, there are more required hours of training to become a barber than to become a police officer. 1,500 hours minimum of training to become a barber; 664 hours minimum of training to become a police officer.
438. In 1835, President Andrew Jackson was approached by a man who had a gun and shot at him, but the gun misfired. The man then pulled out a second gun, which also misfired. Furious, the 67-year-old President began beating him with his cane until his aides wrestled the man away.
439. If you’re younger than 45, no one has traveled to the moon in your lifetime.
440. In 1925, only half of all homes in the United States had electric power.
441. The world record for the most non-stop push ups is 10,507, set by a man named Minoru Yoshida in 1980. He’s held the record for 40 years.
442. Friendships forged from 16 years to 28 years old are more likely to be long lasting.
443. In 1986, The Legend of Zelda became the first console game that allowed you to save your progress.
444. Worldwide, there are 107 boy babies born for every 100 girl babies.
445. Fist bumps transfer about one-tenth of the bacteria that handshakes do.
446. It’s estimated that four people a year die while putting on pants
447. Socks absorb almost a half liter of sweat a day.
448. Elections are held in North Korea every 4 to 5 years. Kim Jong-un is the only person on the ballot.
449. Queen Elizabeth has met 12 different U.S. presidents during her reign. More than a quarter of all presidents since the inception of the United States.
450. A 1982 World Cup match between West Germany and Austria was so bad that television commentators urged viewers to change the channel, and a Spanish newspaper wrote up the match under their Crimes section.
451. Oral sex may help prevent miscarriages. The more familiar a woman is with her partner’s semen, the more likely her uterus is to accept it.
452. The more pictures you take during an event or moment, the less you remember it.
453. The Guinness World Record for longest kiss is 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 second.
454. Hugging yourself can boost oxytocin levels and reduce stress. It can even increase your pain tolerance.
455. Netflix is responsible for 15% of the entire world’s internet traffic.
456. Police in Vienna recently fined a man €500 for intentionally farting at them.
457. Serial killer Charles Manson was going to get married in 2015 but called it off when he learned his 27 year-old fiancé was hoping to gain possession of his corpse so she could put it on display.
458. Until the 18th century, men who wore high heels were considered masculine and sexy.
459. Arnold Schwarzenegger has punched more animals on film than any other actor, including two dogs, two camels and a reindeer. We assume no animals were actually harmed.
460. Regular sex can have significant health benefits. It promotes the body’s production of germ-fighting antibodies, strengthens the pelvic floor, burns calories, stabilizes the menstrual cycle, and can provide natural pain relief.
461. Finland is the heavy metal capital of the world. On average, the country has one heavy metal band for every 2,000 people.
462. Tom and Jerry animated shorts have won seven Oscars.
463. Today’s children take about 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their parents did at the same age.
464. After his wife was denied water by the upper caste, Indian laborer Bapuro Tajne managed to dig her a well in less than 40 days and found a water source capable of sustaining his entire village.
465. The smell of donuts can increase blood flow to the genitals and stimulate an erect penis.
466. In Iran, citizens can be sentenced to death if they convert away from Islam.
467. Closing your bedroom door before going to sleep at night can increase your chances of surviving a house fire.
468. The average inmate at Alcatraz read 75-100 books a year.
469. Slow eaters are 42% less likely to be overweight than fast eaters.
470. Gossiping does good things for your self-esteem but only if you say nice things about the person you’re gossiping about.
471. Humans are the only species on the planet that flirt.
472. It snows metal on Venus.
473. Carrots were originally purple. The orange carrots we’re familiar with today began as a hybrid designed to taste sweeter.
474. Sleep deprivation kills your sex drive.
475. Fanta was invented in wartime Germany and due to extreme sugar rationing, it was often used to flavour soups and stews.
476. If Barbie were a real human, she wouldn’t have enough fat on her body to menstruate.
477. Canada is the most educated country in the world. More than half of its residents have college degrees.
478. Official relations between France and North Korea do not exist. France is the only member of the European Union not to recognize the country.
479. The fat and sugars in junk food literally excite your brain, causing it to want more junk food.
480. There are more statues of lions throughout the world than there are real lions in the wild.
481. Having bubbles in your bath will keep your bath water warm longer.
482. An orgasm can burn 100 calories.
483. In 1999, a 15-year-old hacked NASA and caused a 21-day shutdown. He also hacked the Pentagon.
484. Research has found that doggy style is the best sex position for someone with lower back pain.
485. In 2012, a 21-year-old man got a tattoo on his penis. He’s been living with a permanent semi erection ever since.
486. Jay-Z, DMX, Biggie Smalls, and Busta Rhymes all went to the same junior high school at the same time.
487. One language dies every 14 days, according to National Geographic
488. The fastest speed of ejaculation ever recorded was 42.7 miles per hour(68.72 km/h).
489. Einstein’s brain went missing after his death and wasn’t found for 23 years.
490. The PlayStation factory in Kisarazu, Japan, has the ability to put together a new console every 30 seconds.
491. Russia ran out of vodka the day WWII ended.
492. A blond is a fair-haired male. A blonde is a fair-haired female.
493. The names of 16th century lipsticks included ape’s laugh, smoked ox, chimney-sweep and dying monkey.
494. Donald Trump once kicked One Direction out of his hotel, after they refused to meet one of his daughters.
495. Michael Jackson holds the Guinness World Record for highest-earning deceased artist. He’s topped Forbes list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities every year since 2013.
496. An intranasal tooth is a tooth that grows inside of your nose.
497. In many Japanese schools, details about World War II are left out of the history curriculum.
498. Latin has around 800 swear words. In contrast, English only has about twenty.
499. The first all-electronic television was invented by Philo Farnsworth. He came up with the idea at the age of 14.
500. The average person walks past 11 murderers in their life.
501. George Foreman has 12 children in total – all of his five sons are also called George and one of his daughters is called Georgetta.
502. Studies have found no evidence that using marijuana lowers your IQ.
503. Over the last 200 years, the use of toilets and improved sanitation have added twenty years to the human lifespan.
504. Every two minutes, we take more photos than all of humanity did in the 19th century.
505. The word ‘husband’ likely came from the Old Norse word husbondi, which literally meant house-dweller.
506. The United States has never delayed a presidential election. An election even took place in 1864, during the Civil War.
507. Since the country’s inception in 1947, no Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a full term.
508. To grow potatoes, you have to plant actual potatoes, not seeds.
509. Making a list of what you’re thankful for can actually decrease stress levels.
510. There is no international definition on how high a hill has to be before it can be called a mountain.
511. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even openly sexual.
512. If we can notice when we get angry and why, then we can learn what to do to improve our lives. Anger can motivate self-change.
513. Canada is the second-largest country in the world by land area. The first is Russia.
514. German chocolate cake is not from Germany. It was named after Samuel German, an American baker.
515. Scientists believe Jupiter’s giant Red Spot makes so much noise that it heats up the rest of the planet.
516. Pentheraphobia is the fear of your mother-in-law.
517. Pizza boxes typically can’t be recycled because the grease from the pizza contaminates the cardboard.
518. In 2011, a middle-aged man carried out a real-life attack against a teenage boy who kept killing him in Call of Duty.
519. Hundreds of people live in tunnels underneath Las Vegas.
520. Students in China can face up to seven years in prison for cheating on college entrance exams.
521. In 2019, PornHub visitors collectively watched 5.8 billion hours of porn. roughly 662,100 years worth of content.
522. Inserting a swear-word in the middle of another word, such as abso-fucking-lutely is called an Expletive Infixation.
523. Only 15% of men have a penis longer than 7 inches when erect. Only 3% are over 8 inches.
524. The human brain is almost 60% fat.
525. Scientists discovered traces of cannabis on the pipes found in William Shakespeare’s garden.
526. Monks in the Khun Han district of Thailand were frustrated with littering in their district, so they built a temple entirely made from discarded beer bottles.
527. In Bangladesh, rivers are legally people.
528. Coca-Cola sold 25 bottles in its first year. The company currently sells 1.8 billion bottles a day. On average, more than 10,000 Coca-Cola soft drinks are consumed worldwide every second
529. The solar system is surrounded by a 50,000 °C wall of fire.
530. If you’ve ever finished a great book and found yourself struggling to reconnect with the real-world, you may have had what’s called a book hangover. They can last for up to two weeks.
531. The construction of the Great Wall of China took over 2 thousands years.
532. French was the official language of England for over 300 years.
533. In Japan, the odds of being killed by a gun is about the same as an American’s likelihood of being killed by lightning.
534. Norway has the largest wealth fund in the world, valued at $1 trillion. They spend no more than 3% of its value of each year, to conserve for future generations.
535. Butcher knives used in airport restaurant kitchens must be tethered and regularly inventoried to make sure no one has taken one onto a plane.
536. Modern hard drives are so sensitive that even shouting at them can lower their performance, and blasting a trumpet at one could cause it to fail completely.
537. Albert Einstein was one of the 5,000 people who signed a petition to reverse Germany’s ban on homosexuality.
538. Girl was originally a generic term for any small child, regardless of gender.
539. Collectively, more than 5 billion cars have been destroyed by Call of Duty players.
540. There’s no scientific evidence confirming that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
541. There are earthquakes on the moon. They’re called moonquakes.
542. Rabies has been known to cause men to ejaculate up to 30 times a day uncontrollably.
543. Hitler reportedly had such bad breath that people would involuntarily take a couple of steps back when he opened his mouth.
544. All presidents and First Ladies have Secret Service protection for life. As do all children of any former president until they are 16-years-old.
545. Coca-Cola used to contain so much caffeine, a 1916 Supreme Court ruling made them cut the amount in their soft-drinks by half.
546. If you take a picture of your food in Germany, the chef legally owns the rights to the photo as it’s considered their artwork.
547. More planes were destroyed in World War II than there are planes on Earth today.
548. With more than 3 billion searches per month, YouTube is the second most popular search engine globally, right behind Google. YouTube sees more searches than Bing, Yahoo, AOL, and Ask combined.
549. When humans lose weight, about 80% of the fat is converted into carbon dioxide and exhaled through the lungs.
550. If you shot a gun in space, the bullet would travel forever because space is expanding faster than a bullet flies.
551. Adults think about sex 8 times a day on average, according to a study.
552. Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller who makes about $50,000 a year.
553. Brazil has the world’s largest population of Roman Catholics.
554. Sending an all female crew to Mars would be significantly cheaper than sending men because they weigh less.
555. If it were a country, California would be the fifth-richest in the world, and the 37th-most populated as of 2020.
556. Fresh bread can be up to 1.9% alcohol.
557. There are thunderstorms on Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. Those storms can be larger than Earth.
558. Music can have the ability to repair brain damage.
559. Mankind has left 96 bags of feces, urine, and vomit on the Moon.
560. Some animals (such as chickens) have the ability to recognize sexually attractive humans.
561. The Lord of the Rings holds the record for the greatest number of false feet used in a single movie: 60,000.
562. American football, baseball, basketball, and hockey were all invented by Canadians.
563. Eating instant noodles 2 to 3 times a week can increase a person’s risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
564. In Brazil, there’s a place called Snake Island where people are forbidden to travel. It’s the home of the golden lancehead pit viper, one of the planet’s deadliest snakes. The island holds about one deadly snake per square meter of land.
565. Japanese company Piala Inc. awards their non smoking employees six extra vacation days a year to compensate for the smoke breaks taken by the company’s smoking employees.
566. Eating spicy food makes you more likely to have an argument afterwards.
567. You are likelier to die on your birthday than any other day of the year.
568. Beer cans in Japan have braille on them so blind people won’t confuse alcoholic drinks with soft drinks.
569. Professional fart-smellers in China are trained to detect odours that could indicate health problems.
570. You can run for president in the US while in prison.
571. Bananas have more trade regulations imposed upon them than AK-47s
572. The quickest possible checkmate in chess is known as Fool’s Mate.
573. Cannabis lube exists and it can make your vagina high.
574. The citizens of North Korea are told the Kim Jong family doesn’t urinate or defecate.
575. In the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, no two female characters ever speak to each other.
576. The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime.
577. In 1785, Benjamin Franklin was the richest person in the United States.
578. The longest prison sentence ever handed down was given to a Thai woman who defrauded over 16,000 people in a pyramid scheme. She was given 141,078 years, but released after 8.
579. The president of the United States can order a nuclear strike on any country, whenever he feels like it.
580. If you were to count every cell in your body, one at a time, it would take you more than 1 million years to count all of them.
581. Every strand of human hair in a person’s head contains 14 different elements, including traces of gold.
582. Hearing is the fastest human sense. A person can recognize a sound in as little as 0.05 seconds.
583. The human brain named itself.
584. There are 1,260 promises given in the Bible.
585. The 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 was so powerful, it shifted the earth’s mass and shortened our days by 1.8 microseconds.
586. Switzerland has enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate 114% of its population.
587. The United States Air Force is the largest airforce in the world. The U.S. Navy is the second-largest air force in the world.
588. There are enough diamonds in the world to give every human on the planet a cupful.
589. The most push-ups performed in one day by a single person was 46,001.
590. No US President has openly declared themselves an atheist.
591. It takes 50 glasses of water to grow enough oranges to make one glass of orange juice.
592. In Finland, they have National Sleepy Head Day, where the last person in a family to wake up is thrown into a lake or the sea by the rest of the family.
593. The aeroplane used to transport the world’s most valuable race horses is known as Air Horse One.
594. In Serbia and Montenegro, you are eligible to vote two years early (at the age of 16) if you are employed.
595. If you want to buy a car in Japan, you must first prove that you have someplace to park it.
596. In English, to be blue is to be sad, while in German, to be blue is to be drunk and in Russian, to be light blue is to be homosexual.
597. At a cost of over $150 billion, the International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built.
598. The first football match ever shown on television was Arsenal versus Arsenal Reserves.
599. To help prostitutes get more business during the 16th century, officials in Venice designated a bridge where they could stand and show their breasts. The bridge still stands to this day and is called Ponte delle Tette or the bridge of tits.
600. When Apple tried to sue Samsung for patent breaches, Samsung defended themselves by saying Apple actually copied from Sony.
601. You are less likely to die during an economic depression. This is largely due to cleaner air, less traffic, and less money spent on items like cigarettes and alcohol.
602. Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes can induce an altered state of consciousness and cause you to hallucinate.
603. There’s a set of traffic lights in Dresden, Germany that has remained red since its installation 30 years ago.
604. Milk doesn’t actually help build strong bones. If you’re a woman, it may actually weaken them.
605. Men whose age ends in 9 are the most prone to cheat.
606. If you are under the age of 38, statistics show that the funniest joke you will ever hear in your life is a joke you haven’t heard yet.
607. In 1947, English footballers salaries were capped at a maximum of £12 a week (£10 in the summer).
608. Babies develop a sense of right and wrong between 5 and 8 months of age.
609. Agalmatophilia is the sexual attraction to mannequins and statues.
610. Forty percent of all the victims of the Atlantic slave trade ended up in Brazil, where slavery was still legal until 1888.
611. Switzerland has rigged tunnels and bridges on its borders with explosives so that in the event of an invasion they can shut themselves off from the world.
612. On average, one human consumes the energy equivalent of a 100 watt light bulb every day.
613. An estimated 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk at any given moment.
614. We are born with just two innate fear, the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds.
615. The world’s largest chocolate fountain, in a chocolate museum in Switzerland, is about 9 metres tall and contains over 1,500 litres of liquid chocolate.
616. Norway, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, has a pension fund worth more than $1 trillion for its 5 million citizens. This works out to about $200,000 for each person.
617. Some Canadian police departments give out positive tickets to thank people for doing something good.
618. You burn more energy sitting in a 15 minute meeting than Usain Bolt did running the 100m.
619. A butt is a unit of liquid equivalent to the volume of two hogs’ heads. A buttload of wine is around 490 litres.
620. Women didn’t wear pants on the United States Senate floor until 1993.
621. The pH balance of a healthy vagina is around 4, which is the same pH as wine, tomatoes and beer.
622. An estimated one in every seven Google searches has never been searched for before.
623. Rain contains vitamin B12.
624. The word his appears in the Bible 8,472 times. The word hers features three times.
625. The world’s oldest unopened bottle of wine, known as Romerwein, is at least 1,650 years old.
626. The average person lies 1-2 times a day.
627. If someone has a gun pointed at you, experts say to stay calm while establishing eye contact. Looking right into their eyes can make them uncomfortable and even feel bad for what they’re doing.
628. English is the universal language of the skies. Pilots must learn and use English, regardless of their country of origin.
629. All the gold in the Bank of England was moved to Canada during the war and the vault was used as a canteen.
630. Intelligent people swear more.
631. Approximately 830 million trees in the tropics are hit by lightning every year, of which about 200 million die as a result.
632. The most searched for word on Bing is Google.
633. 93% of people to ever exist on Earth are dead. Roughly 50% of them died from malaria.
634. It takes your brain somewhere between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide whether or not you like someone.
635. Only 49% of people in the world did anything interesting yesterday.
636. On average, your friends are richer, more popular, and happier than you are.
637. Someone who is ambidextrous can use both hands equally well. Someone who is ambisinister is equally clumsy with both hands.
638. When it rains, people write more negative posts on Facebook, and each post adversely affects about 1 or 2 other people. Researchers discovered the negative posts spread like a virus, eventually impacting people’s moods in cities without rainfall.
639. Women’s farts generally smell worse than men’s due to higher levels of hydrogen sulfide.
640. Your estimation of your own drunkenness depends on how drunk your companions are.
641. Smarter people tend to be better off with fewer friends, according to research.
642. In 2013, a cat named Masha found an abandoned baby in a box in the snow. She climbed in to keep the baby warm, while meowing to get the attention of people passing by, saving the baby’s life.
643. Forgetting is important for a healthy brain. Letting go of memories supports a sound state of mind, superior recall, and sharper intellect.
644. The 2015 and 2018 French-language Scrabble World Champion was a New Zealander who didn’t speak French.
645. A diet consisting of only potatoes and butter can provide you with all the nutrients you need to stay alive.
646. Your hair will turn gray faster if you smoke.
647. Oral sex can effectively lower blood pressure.
648. Your hearing becomes less sharp after eating too much.
649. Students who study music also tend to be better at math.
650. Vultures urinate on their legs and feet to help cool off and to kill bacteria they’ve picked up from walking through carcasses.
651. The first chocolate bar was made in 1847. Before that, chocolate was only a drink.
652. Men who eat nuts produce better quality sperm.
653. A car going five miles per hour slower than surrounding traffic has a greater chance of causing an accident than one going five miles per hour faster.
654. If you had earned $180,000 every day from the day Christ was born until right now, you still wouldn’t be as rich as Jeff Bezos.
655. Loud sounds can hijack our attention and interfere with the brain’s visual processing, which is why you might turn the music down in a car when looking for an address or parking spot.
656. Staying awake for 18 hours has the same effect on your brain as drinking 2-3 beers.
657. Not masturbating for one week leads to a 45% increase in testosterone for men.
658. Noisy humans keep birds awake at night.
659. Foetuses are more responsive to music played through their mother’s vagina than through her stomach.
660. British spies used semen as invisible ink during WWI, a method invented by Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming.
661. Bill Gates has more dollars than you have seconds left in your life.
662. Ejaculating more than 12 times a month decreases a man’s chances of developing prostate cancer.
663. At weddings, the bride normally stands to the left of the groom so that his sword hand is free to defend against other suitors.
664. There are more viruses on Earth than stars in the universe. However, most are incapable of infecting humans.
665. Temperature can affect your appetite, and you’re likely to eat more when it’s cold.
666. People who feel it’s important to look attractive are also more likely to fear rejection.
667. There’s a town called Why in Arizona and one called Whynot in North Carolina.
668. A Durex Global survey found that people worldwide were having sex for the first time at an average age of 17.3.
669. Couples whose parents disapprove of their relationship may experience an increase in love and commitment – This is known as the Romeo and Juliet Effect.
670. Americans produce 32 billion gallons of sewage every day.
671. People are better liars when they need to urinate, a study found.
672. Wedding cakes weren’t always eaten. Originally, they were thrown at the bride to symbolize fertility.
673. 3% of children are products of cheating.
674. It takes the average person seven minutes to fall asleep.
675. The longest anyone is recorded to have stayed awake is 264 hours (11 days). Guinness no longer accepts attempts to beat this record due to the health risks.
676. The Guinness World Records stopped recording heaviest pets to discourage deliberate overfeeding.
677. There are more than 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest which are used as landmarks by fellow climbers.
678. It takes the average American 18.5 years to pay off their student loans, from age 26 to 45.
679. Humans are the only mammals that willingly delay sleep.
680. Banks employ therapists known as wealth psychologists who help super-rich clients mentally cope with their immense wealth.
681. Audi had to use louder and more durable horns in their cars for the Indian market, as the German horns were simply not up to the task.
682. Most women are unable to climax through vaginal intercourse, instead needing clitoral stimulation.
683. In 1672, an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their prime minister.
684. The most expensive school in the world is Institut Le Rosey, located in Switzerland. Tuition is nearly $117k a year.
685. An estimated 2,450 Americans die from heart attacks caused by sex every year.
686. Your chances of becoming an American billionaire are similar to your chances of getting struck by lightning.
687. Australians have the highest rate of gambling in the world.
688. By the age of 75, the average person will have spent 25 years sleeping.
689. If the entire world’s population stood shoulder to shoulder, we would only fill an area the size of Los Angeles.
690. The act of vomiting spreads about 13,000 aerosolized virus particles whereas it takes as few as 20 particles to make a person sick.
691. People with positive attitudes tend to have more friends, be more successful, be less anxious, and even live longer.
692. The smallest division of time ever observed is a zeptosecond. A trillionth of a billionth of a second.
693. The atmosphere of Venus is so hot it would cook a pizza in seven seconds.
694. There is a 1 in 1250 chance that a plane you’re traveling in will get hit by lightning.
695. The United Arab Emirates has the biggest gender imbalance in the world, with 274 men for every 100 women.
696. When dating was invented in the 1910s, American women could be arrested for going on a date, police often mistook dating for prostitution.
697. In Norway, Texas is slang for crazy.
698. In July 1940, the BBC rejected Hitler’s peace offer two days before the British government gave a formal response.
699. People have been making bread for at least 14000 years, that’s about 4000 years longer than they’ve been farming.
700. There are bacteria in your eyes that are actually pooping and mating.
701. Marijuana users are less sensitive to social exclusion than non smoking individuals.
702. If you were to count continuously, one number per second (without eating and sleeping), it would take you 31 years, 251 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, and 55 seconds to count to one billion.
703. The founder of FedEx, Fred Smith once saved the company by taking $5,000 to Las Vegas and turning it into $32,000 by playing Black Jack.
704. Cops often touch the tail lights of cars they pull over so that, if anything happens to the officer during the traffic stop, their fingerprints are on the vehicle.
705. All astronauts must learn how to speak Russian, and all cosmonauts must learn how to speak English.
706. Walking through a doorway can cause memory lapses, which is why we walk into another room, only to forget why we did.
707. During the Civil War, prostitutes were referred to as horizontal refreshments.
708. An estimated 31 million Americans skip breakfast every day.
709. More U.S. presidents have happened to die on a July 4th than on any other day of the year.
710. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Mitt Romney all get free McDonald’s for life.
711. One of the FBI’s most wanted cybercriminals of the 2010s used his cat’s name as his password.
712. Athletes with bigger bottoms are better sprinters.
713. The world’s longest recorded fart lasted for 2 minutes and 42 seconds.
714. While receiving a single tattoo temporarily weakens your immune system, receiving several over time could strengthen it.
715. Running regularly can help you become better at sex.
716. If placed one next to the other, every planet in our solar system would be able to fit in the distance between Earth and the moon.
717. 12/12/12 was the last repetitive date you saw in your lifetime. The next will be Jan. 1, 3001 (assuming the world doesn’t end before then).
718. Women’s feet grow by about half a size when they’re pregnant, once the feet grow, they never shrink back.
719. Many men who climb Mt. Everest get boners in the process due to the change in altitude and blood flow.
720. Apple has enough money to buy every major sports team in the world.
721. Mars is entirely populated by robots. as far as we know.
722. The average American will eat around 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
723. Professional drummers’ brains are structurally different to non-drummers brains.
724. Out of the nearly 200 countries in the world, only 22 of them have never experienced a British invasion
725. You are more likely to die from an asteroid impact than from a shark attack.
726. The record for longest time without sleep was set in 1963 when 17 year-old Randy Gardner stayed awake on purpose for 11 straight days.
727. In 2009, a set of identical twins was arrested for a €5 million jewelry heist in Germany. DNA evidence proved that at least one of them was at the crime scene. But since it was impossible to prove which individual was guilty, both were acquitted.
728. The human nose can recognise over 1,000,000,000,000 different smells.
729. In the 19th century, sausages were marketed as bags of mystery.
730. Second hand incense smoke can be as dangerous, or worse, as cigarette smoke.
731. People who desperately need to pee tell more convincing lies.
732. Defecation can stimulate the vagus nerve and produce a pleasurable sensation that is called poo-phoria.
733. A study suggests that, women who masturbate regularly are less likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases and type-2 diabetes.
734. Despite having a 95% Muslim population, Christmas is an extremely popular holiday in the west African nation of Senegal, which has a tradition of Muslims and Christians adopting each other’s holidays.
735. It’s possible for a woman to menstruate through their bellybutton (umbilical endometriosis).
736. India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
737. OpenAI’s ChatGPT costs $100,000 to run per day.
738. On the day of South Korea’s university entrance exams, the entire country goes quiet. Shops close, construction stops, and planes are grounded so that students can focus on their exams. Students that are late can even get a police escort to make sure they make it in time.
739. The small village of Villar de Corneja, Spain celebrates the New Year at noon instead of midnight, as many of the residents are elderly and want to go to bed early. The tradition began in 2004.
740. Regular farting can be a sign of good intestinal health.
741. Women in 18th century England who remarried but didn’t want to carry their debts over to the new marriage had to get married in the nude.
742. In China, an elderly couple refused to move after claiming the compensation offered by the government to move out was not enough. In response, the government built the road around them instead.
743. Pope Francis criminalized child molestation in Vatican City for the first time in 2013.
744. Until the 1990s, Britain’s nuclear weapons were secured with bike locks.
745. By the end of her life, Queen Victoria’s bust measured seven inches more than her height.
746. Wealthy Egyptians in Ancient Egypt slept with neck supports instead of pillows to preserve their hairstyles and keep them looking fresh.
747. In 1996, a store manager in California robbed the store, reported the robbery, and then gave a detailed description of the suspect to the sketch artist. When the police pointed out to him that the suspect looked exactly like him, the man confessed.
748. Avtar Singh Mauni, is the proud owner of the world’s longest and heaviest turban. Weighing in at 100 pounds (45.359 kg) and with a length 645meters, it takes Avtar 6 hours to put it on.
749. Prisoners in California can reduce their sentences by opting to fight forest fires.
750. The world record for longest handshake is 43 hours and 35 minutes.
751. A 2014 study found that men were only able to listen to their partners for about six minutes before tuning them out.
752. The largest difference between the time zones of two countries is 26 hours.
753. An estimated 14 billion pounds of garbage is dumped into the ocean every year.
754. The city of Regina, Canada was forced to apologise after adopting the slogan show us your Regina.
755. It can take up to 20 minutes for your brain to realize that your stomach is full.
756. Gonorrhoea bacteria are the strongest organisms on Earth. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
757. There is a statue of a large poo in Chicago that acts as a monument to pet dogs, as well as a reminder for owners to pick up after them. It’s engraved with the title Shit Fountain.
758. King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang dynasty, built a wine lake in China and made naked men and women chase each other round in it.
759. Jagdish Raj, holder of the Guinness world record for most typecast actor, played a policeman in 144 movies.
760. Human pollution has caused the average length of Polar bear penises to shrink.
761. The most destructive single air attack in human history was the napalm bombing of Tokyo by the US on the night of 10 March 1945 that killed around 100,000 civilians in about 3 hours.
762. In 2013, a Milan court sentenced a homeless man to house arrest. Each night police went round to his bit of pavement to make sure he was in his sleeping bag.
763. In 2017, six Chinese officials were punished for falling asleep in a meeting about how to motivate lazy bureaucrats.
764. A statue of Hercules in Arcachon, France, has had its penis stolen so often it’s been given a detachable one for special occasions.
765. Drug possession and trafficking are punished in Singapore with the death penalty.
766. The Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras was arrested, exiled, and almost put to death for saying that the sun and moon were objects, and not gods.
767. In 2011, a Georgian woman, digging for copper to sell as scrap, sliced through a cable and cut off the whole of Armenia from the internet.
768. No more than two flies are allowed by law in any public toilet in Beijing, China. In 2012 Authorities in the Chinese capital set new standards for public toilets, including a stipulation that they should contain no more than two flies.
769. In 1996, a man in Devon, England, spent a year hooting at owls and recording their responses unaware that is was actually one of his neighbours pretending to be an owl and hooting back.
770. In 2019, 25 year old Kenyan engineer Roy Allela found the ultimate solution to bridging the communication barrier between deaf and hearing people with his invention of Smart Gloves. The gloves auto-translate sign language into speech.
771. In Uganda, the government has passed a bill making identifying as LGBT a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment.
772. In ancient Athens, if a jury found you guilty of sleeping with another man’s wife, the man whose wife you slept with had the right to sodomise you with a radish or fish and then have your pubic hair depilated by hot ash.
773. Tarrare was an 18th century French showman who could eat enough food to feed 15 people and swallow cats whole but his stomach was never satisfied. He was an insatiable glutton who ate everything from human flesh to live eels
774. Early Arabic texts refer to cannabis as the bush of understanding and the shrub of emotion. Thirteenth century Sufi Muslims used it as part of their religious practices.
775. People who bite their nails tend to have a stronger immune system.
776. There is enough carbon in your body to make 9,000 pencils. Almost 18 percent of the mass of the human body is made up of carbon and the mass of that is about 16kg. So it can make about 9000 pencils.
777. Until the early 20th century, left handedness in a wife was grounds for divorce in Japan.
778. A woman in the Philippines spent four years praying to a green Buddha figure she purchased from a store, until one day a friend pointed out the Buddha figure she’d been praying to was actually Shrek.
779. The Romans sometimes used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste.
780. The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
781. Sharing an article makes you think you know more, even if you didn’t actually read the article.
782. The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a moustache. He originally had one, but it was lost in the reproduction of the original design. A similar mistake caused his axe to become a sword.
783. Handschuhschneeballwerfer is German slang for coward. It means someone who wears gloves to throw snowballs.
784. In 1998, Marvel offered the movie rights to nearly all of its characters to Sony for just $25 million. Sony declined and only purchased the rights to Spiderman for $10 million Sony believed he was the only character audiences would care about.
785. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
786. Watering plants with club soda makes them grow faster and get a nicer shade of green.
787. Cryptocurrency worth $534 million was stolen in Japan in 2018, making it the biggest theft in the history of the world.
788. Eating a bag of crisps (potato chips) a day for a year is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil.
789. The Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, California(USA) is the number 1 suicide site in the world.
790. In Greek mythology, it was believed that redheads turn into vampires when they die.
791. Obese people see objects as 10 percent further away than those of average weight.
792. Misspell is one of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language.
793. Emails in the Vatican are called inscriptio cursus electronici.
794. Smoking makes breasts sag faster than normal by breaking down a protein in the skin called elastin, which gives the skin its elastic appearance and supports the breast.
795. 100 million people attend India’s Kumbh Mela Festival, the world’s biggest gathering of humans.
796. Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That’s why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
797. Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly.
798. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead a teacher, 16 pupils, and injured 15 others before killing himself. The British were so upset that gun laws were changed making gun ownership extremely difficult. 27 years on, there hasn’t been a school shooting since in the UK.
799. Maggots are used in hospitals to clean infected tissue because they only will not eat healthy tissue.
800. Most people require 7-9 hours of sleep a night to function at full capacity However, 3% of the population known as the sleepless elite, early birds and night owls that can function on less than 5 hours of sleep, without the assistance of coffee or daytime naps.
801. According to Guinness World Book Of Records, Anthony Victor from India has the longest ear hair ever. It measured 18.1 centimetres (7.12 inches) at its longest point. The record was set in 2007 and remains to this day.
802. In 2013, Mouawad and Victoria’s Secret unveiled the Royal Fantasy Bra which consisted of Diamonds, Rubies, Yellow and Blue Sapphires of a total of 1540 carats and worth $10 million. It was worn by model Candace Swanpoel.
803. Alexander the Great once held a drinking contest among his soldiers By the time it was over, 35 of the 41 contestants died of alcohol poisoning.
804. A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his or her body. A newborn baby weighing between 5 and 8 lbs. (2.3 to 3.6 kg) has only about 1 cup (0.2 liters) of blood in their body.
805. Drinking alcohol improves your ability to speak a foreign language.
806. Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual clues from another’s eyes. And dogs only do it with humans.
807. In 1770 Denmark became the first country in the world to declare total freedom of the press, and it was almost immediately used to ridicule the man responsible.
808. If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
809. The record for the longest personal name belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff Sr., which is a shortened version of his 26 given names and 666-letter surname.
810. Chocolate has an anti bacterial effect on the mouth and protects against tooth decay.
811. 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average sized star.
812. The human heart will beat 2.5 billion times during an average lifetime.
813. Loud sounds can interfere with visual processing, which is why you might have to turn the music down while looking for an address or parallel parking.
814. Common fireworks release lead, copper, and other toxic metals into the air.
815. Guilt, shame, embarrassment, and pride are all self-conscious emotions.
816. Rain has never been recorded in parts of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.
817. If you preheat your oven and it smells like urine, you most likely have mice. The presence of mice may give off an ammonia-like smell, which is a very strong urine smell.
818. In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was the only (mostly) non-violent split of an ex-Eastern Bloc nation. So peaceful it was called the Velvet Divorce.
819. Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world: 99.8%. Following the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s government launched the Cuban Literacy Campaign with the aim of abolishing illiteracy and making school accessible to everyone, especially people from marginalised backgrounds.
820. The highest scoring NBA player of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, only made one three pointer his entire NBA career.
821. At her request, the start of Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral was delayed by 15 minutes She wanted to be late for her own funeral.
822. It is illegal to dry your clothes on a clothesline in many parts of the United States.
823. Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy. Even though most Chinese people don’t eat cats or dogs, as many as four million cats a year are estimated to be killed for the meat trade.
824. The longest pregnancy in humans on record is 375 days (12.5 months).
825. Insurance companies buy insurance for themselves called reinsurance, which covers them for when they have to payout on an insurance policy they have issued.
826. Over the past 200 years, toilets have added 20 years to the human lifespan.
827. The Bible is widely considered to be the best-selling book of all time, with estimated total sales of over 5 billion copies.
828. It’s illegal for foreigners to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India. Exporting Indian rupees is strictly prohibited for non Indian residents. Residents of India can travel abroad with up to Rs. 25,000.
829. Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km). Over an average lifespan, it creates enough energy to drive a truck to the moon and back.
830. A 20 month old baby became the youngest professional soccer player ever, after being signed up by a Belgian club. Back in 2013, Belgian club FC Racing Boxberg signed 20 month old Bryce Brites to a contract and made him the youngest professional footballer ever.
831. Uranus was originally called George’s Star (Georgium Sidus).
832. The Heil Hitler salute is legal in Switzerland as long as it’s an expression of personal opinion, not for propaganda purposes.
833. A full day on the moon, from one sunrise to the next, lasts about 29.5 Earth days on average.
834. The highest race horse speed ever recorded was 43.97 mph (70.76 km/h). The race speed was recorded over two furlongs (402 meters) on 14th May 2008 by a horse called called Winning Brew.
835. Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
836. Chinese people were banned from immigrating to the United States from 1882 until 1943. From 1943 to 1952 only 105 Chinese people could enter per year.
837. Their is a new sport in Romania & Russia in which female fitness enthusiasts take turns slapping each other’s butts. This booty smacking match is officially titled the Russian Female Slap Contest or Romania version RFX During the booty slapping competition, the women aim to knock their opponents off balance.
838. Each strand(single) of hair can contain traces of 14 elements, including gold.
839. Serial killers behave like bees. They commit crimes close to home, but far enough that neighbors don’t get suspicious.
840. A 60-year old truck driver sued the Tokyo hospital where he was born after discovering that he was accidentally switched with another newborn in 1953. He ended up with a poor single mother while the other baby grew up to own a real estate company under his rich biological parents. The hospital,was ordered by court to pay ¥38m (£227,000) for damages.
841. Facebook has more users than the population of the U.S., China, and Brazil combined.
842. During your lifetime, you will spend around thirty eight days brushing your teeth.
843. China has the most donkeys in the world, about 11 million.
844. At least seven taxi drivers in northeast Japan have reported picking up the ghost of a person who died in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
845. Both yellow and purple sweet potato have good cancer prevention properties.
846. Often taking late night supper can increase the chance of stomach cancer.
847. Eating pope’s nose (chicken backside) can cause stomach cancer.
848. Don’t take tea during menstruation period.
849. Don’t eat tomato with empty stomach.
850. Don’t drink more than 2 cups of coffee a day, may cause insomnia and gastric.
851. Six types of food that makes you happy. banana, grapefruit, whole meal bread, spinach, pumpkin, peach.
852. Sleeping less than 8 hrs a day may deteriorate our brain function. Taking Afternoon naps may keep our youthful look.
853. Cooked tomato has better healing properties than the raw tomato.