Cool Facts – Unbelievable and Fascinating Information
Did you know that the average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green?
The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
The shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes. It occurred between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.
The odds of being struck by lightning are higher than winning the lottery.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not.
If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the moon.
The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which measures only about 1.3 inches long.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
The average person blinks about 15-20 times per minute.
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The shortest commercial flight in the world is just 90 seconds long, flying between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland.
The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer, dating back over 4,000 years.
The world’s smelliest fruit is the durian, which is banned in many public places in Southeast Asia.
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Octopuses have three hearts.
Cool Facts – Unbelievable and Fascinating Information part 2
The first-ever computer game was created in 1961 and was a version of tic-tac-toe.
The colors of the six continents on a map are not universally agreed upon.
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The world’s largest snowflake was 15 inches in diameter.
There is a glacier called Blood Falls in Antarctica that appears to bleed red liquid.
The world’s smallest country, Vatican City, has a population of fewer than 1,000 people.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.
The official animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
Cows have best friends and can become stressed when separated from them.
The world record for the longest distance swam underwater in one breath is over 700 feet.
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
The world’s largest underwater cave is located in Mexico.
Some birds can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Alaska is the westernmost and easternmost state in the United States.
The fingerprints of koalas are so similar to humans’ that they have been mistaken at crime scenes.
A hummingbird’s wings can beat up to 80 times per second.
The world’s fastest ant can cover a distance of over one meter per second.
Bees can recognize human faces.
The world’s oldest known living tree is over 5,000 years old and located in California.
The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
The world’s tallest living dog is a Great Dane named Zeus, measuring over 44 inches tall.
The first-ever commercial computer mouse was made of wood.
Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
The world’s largest flower, the Rafflesia arnoldii, can grow up to three feet in diameter.
The shortest complete sentence in the English language is I am.
The average person spends about six months of their life waiting for others.
