Amazing Facts Every Teen Should Know

The average person spends about 6 months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The world’s oldest roller coaster is located in Pennsylvania and has been operating since 1902.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

Before erasers were invented, people used bread crumbs to erase pencil marks.

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes and was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.

The average teenager sends about 3,000 text messages per month.

Penguins have a gland above their eyes that converts seawater into freshwater, allowing them to survive without drinking for months.

The smell of cut grass is actually the scent that plants release as a distress signal.

The first computer mouse was made of wood.

Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.

The world’s largest snowflake was recorded in Montana in 1887, measuring 15 inches in diameter.

The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.

The average person will spend 6 months of their life waiting for a red traffic light to turn green.

Cats have five toes on their front paws, but only four on their back paws.

The first oranges weren’t orange; they were actually green.

Amazing Facts Every Teen Should Know part 2

Chocolate was once used as currency by the Aztecs.

The average person speaks at least 7,000 words per day.

The highest ever recorded wave height was over 100 feet tall.

The world’s largest rubber duck measures over 54 feet tall.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Laughter can burn calories. Laughing for 10 to 15 minutes a day can burn up to 40 calories.

Trees can communicate with each other through an underground network of fungi.

The world’s largest bubble gum bubble was over 23 inches in diameter.

A sneeze can travel up to 100 miles per hour.

The Eiffel Tower grows taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.

The shortest war in history was only 38 to 45 minutes long.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.

The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.

The world’s largest snow maze measures over 30,000 square feet.

The first video game was developed in 1958 and could only be played on an oscilloscope screen.

The average American teenager spends about 9 hours a day on screens.

Koalas sleep for an average of 20 hours a day.

The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long.

The average person takes about 23,000 breaths per day.

The world’s largest gummy bear weighs over 5 pounds.

The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters and takes over three hours to pronounce.

Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae.

The inventor of the Frisbee, Walter Morrison, was cremated and turned into a Frisbee after he passed away.

The average teenager will spend over 7 years of their life listening to music.

The world’s largest game of Simon Says involved 4,431 participants.

The average person spends about 1.5 years of their life in the bathroom.

The world’s largest bicycle parade involved over 70,000 participants.

The human brain can process information as fast as a high-speed computer.