Cool and Weird facts about our everyday
lives that everyone should know. Check out
this collection of 50 Cool and Weird Fun
Facts. Do you have any other fun facts you
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comment section! Start your day learning
something you didn't know yesterday.
1. You breathe on average about 5 million
times a year.
2. Months that begin on a Sunday always have
a Friday the 13th in them.
3. You are born with 300 bones, by the time
you are an adult you will have 206.
4. The average lead pencil will write a line
about 35 miles long or write approximately
50,000 English words.
5. One fourth of the bones in your body are in
your feet.
6. The average person spends 2 weeks of their
lifetime waiting for the light to change from
red to green.
7. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery
than the celery has in it.
8. The present population is expected to rise
to 15 Billion by the year 2080.
9. The largest recorded snowflake was 15
inches wide and 8 inches thick.
10. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the
sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
11. Native Americans used to name their
children after the first thing they saw as
they left their tepees after their children
were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and
Running Water.
12. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their
own version of football, instead of a normal
football they use a human skull.
13. Coca-Cola would be green if the food
colorant wasn't added.
14. During the 17th Century, the Sultan of
Turkey ordered his hole harem of women to
be drowned and replaced with a new one.
15. Coffins used for cremation are usually made
with plastic handles.
16. "Almost" is the longest word in the English
language with all the letters in alphabetical
order.
17. Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete.
18. Cockroaches can live several weeks with
their heads cut off.
19. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes
open. We dare you, give it a try!
20. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a
Gallon.
21. Of all the words in the English language, the
word "SET" has the most definitions.
22. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze
inside a church in Nebraska.
23. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by
public hanging for the murder of a child.
24. Earth is the only planet not named after a
god.
25. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is
over 9,000 years old!
26. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling
over 3,000 miles.
27. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its
own weight in 56 days.
28. If removed from the stress of the modern
world, the average human would sleep
about 10 hours a day.
29. To produce a single pound of honey, a
single bee would have to visit 2 million
flowers.
30. A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately
250,000 insects in an hour.
31. One in Five adults believe that aliens are
hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
32. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were
required by law to be blind.
33. The bloodhound is the only animal whose
evidence is admissible in court.
34. James Fixx, the man who popularized
jogging in America died of a heart attack
while running.
35. The average American spends about a year
and a half of his or her life watching
commercials on television. What are you
doing?! Get out and spend that year and a
half doing something productive!
36. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective)
of birth control that consisted of having a
woman hold her breath, making her squat,
and sneezing.
37. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per
100 grams of apple butter.
38. There are no naturally occurring blue foods,
even blueberries are purple!
39. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present
in all the important meetings of the
University of London.
40. The elephant is the only mammal that can't
jump!
41. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is
different.
42. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
13 seconds.
43. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a
single cow.
44. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every
day.
45. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
46. 11% of the World is left handed.
47. A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of
a second.
48. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the
Wright brothers' first flight.
49. A broken clock is right two times a day.
50. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no
one knows why.

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