Engaging Facts to Spark Conversations

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The Eiffel Tower actually grows taller in the summer due to the heat expanding the metal.

Hippos have pink milk.

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 was between Britain and Zanzibar and lasted only 38 minutes.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

The average person will spend 6 months of their lifetime waiting for red traffic lights to turn green.

The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer and dates back to 1800 BC.

There is a city in Norway called Hell.

The Great Wall of China is more than 13,000 miles long and is visible from space.

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

The human brain is more active during sleep than when watching television.

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

The Titanic was the first ship to have a swimming pool and a gym on board.

The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile – some areas have never received a drop of rain.

The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never existed before in the history of the universe.

Engaging Facts to Spark Conversations part 2

The shortest war in history, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted only 38 minutes.

The longest wedding veil ever recorded was longer than 63 football fields.

The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, weighing only 2 grams.

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

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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

The shortest sentence in the English language is I am.

Wombat feces are cube-shaped.

There is a town in Norway called Hell.

A strawberry is not actually a berry, but a banana is.

The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red traffic lights to turn green.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

Cows have best friends and get stressed when they are separated.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile, where some areas have never received a drop of rain.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The world’s oldest known recipe is a beer recipe from ancient Mesopotamia.

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

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Antarctica is the only continent without bees.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The average person blinks 15-20 times per minute.

German chocolate cake is actually named after an American baker named Samuel German.

The number of bacteria on your cell phone is greater than the number of bacteria on a toilet seat.

A group of pugs is called a grumble.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Octopuses have three hearts.