Fun Trivia Facts

Did you know that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus?

In 1998, the world’s largest snowflake was measured and found to be 15 inches wide.

Beavers are so good at swimming that they can hold their breath for up to 15 minutes underwater.

The world’s oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.

Honey never spoils, and archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are still perfectly edible.

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

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

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Blue whales are so large that a human could swim through their arteries.

The world’s oldest known customer complaint was written on a clay tablet in ancient Babylon around 1750 BC.

Octopuses have three hearts.

The Great Wall of China is so long that it would take a person over 18 months to walk its entire length.

The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.

The speed of light is about 299,792,458 meters per second.

The average person spends six months of their lifetime waiting for red traffic lights to turn green.

The dot on the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans, which is seven.

Astronauts cannot burp in space because there is no gravity to separate the gas from the liquid in their stomach.

Fun Trivia Facts part 2

The board game Monopoly was originally invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W.

The world’s smallest park is Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon. It’s only 452 square inches.

The average person spends two weeks of their lifetime waiting for traffic lights to turn red.

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

The sound of thunder is caused by the rapid expansion and contraction of air surrounding a lightning bolt.

The average person consumes about 35 tons of food in their lifetime.

There is a museum in Iceland dedicated solely to penises.

The oldest known recipe in the world is for beer and dates back to around 1800 BC in ancient Mesopotamia.

The average person blinks about 15,000 times a day.

The average person takes over 20,000 breaths a day.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

The world’s oldest known living tree is the bristlecone pine, which is over 5,000 years old.

Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump.

The Eiffel Tower can grow up to six inches in summer due to the expansion of its iron in the heat.

The average person will eat approximately 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.

The average person laughs about 300 to 500 times a day.

Pigs cannot look up into the sky.

The world’s largest rubber duck weighs over 11 tons.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

The color of a flamingo’s feathers comes from the food it eats.

The average person dreams for about six years of their lifetime.

The chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as high as being bitten by a shark.

The shortest war in history was between Sultan Abdul Hamid of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy in 1890, lasting only three minutes.

The world’s oldest known recipe for toothpaste dates back to ancient Egypt around 4th century AD.

The average person will swallow about 60 bugs in their sleep over their lifetime.