Useless facts – Fun and Pointless Information to Amaze Your Friends

Did you know that the average person spends six months of their life waiting for red traffic lights to turn green?

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

A cat’s urine glows under a black light.

The world’s largest snowflake was recorded in Montana in 1887 and measured 15 inches in diameter.

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 average person accidentally eats around eight spiders in their sleep over a lifetime.

The plastic tips on shoelaces are called aglets.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

The scientific term for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

Astronauts cannot burp in space due to zero gravity.

Koalas have fingerprints that are almost indistinguishable from humans.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

The sound a deer makes is not a roar but a vocalization known as a bellow.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows because it was fashionable for women in Renaissance-era Italy to shave them off.

The average person spends six months of their lifetime searching for misplaced items.

The first recorded recipe for chocolate chip cookies was published in 1938 by Ruth Graves Wakefield.

The world’s oldest known living organism is a 5,500-year-old bristlecone pine tree in California.

Useless facts – Fun and Pointless Information to Amaze Your Friends part 2

The current record for the longest fingernails belongs to Lee Redmond, whose nails grew to a combined length of over 28 feet.

The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at crime scenes.

The smell of rain is called petrichor.

Slugs have four noses.

The Great Wall of China can be seen from space, contrary to popular belief.

It takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, according to a study conducted by engineering students at Purdue University.

The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the earth in their lifetime.

The world’s oldest known message in a bottle was found in 2018, 132 years after it was thrown into the sea.

Chili peppers were actually used as currency in ancient times.

A giraffe’s tongue is typically around 18 inches long and black in color.

Blue whales eat half a million calories in a single mouthful.

The first known photograph of a human was taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

The original name for Google was Backrub.

The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

In Japan, it is considered rude to blow your nose in public.

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head before ultimately dying of thirst.

The average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

Wombat feces are cube-shaped.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the Egyptians in 2000 BC.

The human body has over 600 muscles.

The world’s largest rubber band ball weighs over 9,000 pounds.

Cows have best friends and become stressed when separated from them.

The world’s largest collection of rubber ducks numbers over 9,000.

In 2006, a man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.

Octopuses have three hearts.