40 Fascinating Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

40 Fascinating Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

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  1. In space, astronauts can’t cry properly because their tears can’t flow down their faces.
  2. Humans are the only animals that blush.
  3. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and the UK, and it lasted just 38 minutes.
  4. The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
  5. The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long.
  6. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
  7. The world’s largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
  8. A snail can sleep for three years.
  9. The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion different scents.
  10. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
  11. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  12. The world’s largest ever hailstone weighed over 1 kilogram.
  13. The human brain can hold about 2.5 petabytes of information.
  14. A blue whale’s heart is so large that a human could swim through its arteries.
  15. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
  16. A group of pugs is called a grumble.
  17. The tallest man ever recorded was 8 feet 11 inches tall.
  18. The first oranges weren’t actually orange.
  19. A kangaroo can jump up to three times its own height.
  20. The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
  21. The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.
  22. A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle.
  23. The world’s largest rubber duck weighs over 1,000 pounds.
  24. Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck bones.
  25. The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan. It is 10 meters underwater.
  26. A group of wombats is called a wisdom.
  27. A giraffe’s tongue can be up to 45 cm long.
  28. The world’s largest snow maze is in Warren, Vermont, and covers over 2 acres.
  29. The shortest war in American history was between the US and the UK, and it lasted just 40 minutes.
  30. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
  31. A group of cats is called a clowder.
  32. There is a town in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over every winter.
  33. The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive was a woman named Annie Edson Taylor.
  34. A group of rhinoceroses is called a crash.
  35. The human heart can create enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet away.
  36. The world’s largest swimming pool is in Algarrobo, Chile, and covers over 20 acres.
  37. A group of otters is called a romp.
  38. The first recorded use of the word “computer” was in 1613 to describe a person who performs calculations.
  39. A group of ferrets is called a business.
  40. The world’s largest pancake was over 49 feet in diameter and weighed over 6,000 pounds.