Random trivia is truly the spice of life, and luckily, the Internet is chock full of it. Still, sometimes it’s hard to know whether what you’re reading is fact or fiction.
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Before you embarrass yourself at a party by claiming that hamsters love to take showers together, please take a moment to consider this list, a compilation of totally true facts with verified sources – #21 is a very important piece of information to know.
#1. Michelangelo hated painting – in fact, he wrote a despairing poem about painting the Sistine Chapel.
#2. The largest snail in the world is about 91 centimeters in length.
#3. The Beatles’ first band name was The Quarrymen. They also briefly changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs
#4. Flowers grow faster if they are exposed to music.
#5. Elephants carry their pregnancies for about two years
#6. The Statue Of Liberty was originally intended to go to Egypt
#7. Rats actually laugh when tickled.
#8. Scientists have found that swearing – or exclamatory statements in general – can actually relieve pain.
#9. The heart of a blue whale weighs about as much as a car.
#10. If you put Saturn in (an insanely large) bathtub, it would float
#11. When Apollo 11 landed, it had only 20 seconds of remaining fuel.
#12. Before the invention of the eraser, pieces of bread were used to remove pencil marks
#13. A group of ferrets is called a “business.”
#14. The first “smiley” emoticon ever written was in 1982.
#15. Baby bunnies are called kittens.
#16. The animatronic shark used in Jaws is was affectionately called Bruce.
#17. Dairy cows produce more milk when they are listening to music.
#18. The human eye is able to detect over10,000,000 different colors.
#19. Cows often form close friendships with one another.
#20. American currency once included a 5-cent bill.
#21. “Scraunched” is the longest one syllable word in the English language.
#22. Otters sleep holding hands so they don’t drift away from one another.
#23. Astronauts can’t cry in space.
#24. McDonalds fries are fried in oil that contains beef.
#25. The oldest bookshop in the world is located in Portugal.
#26. Astronauts get pretty severe motion sickness.
#27. A Boeing 747 airliner can hold 57,285 gallons of fuel.
#28. A sneeze travels out your mouth and nose at 100 MPH.
#29. The state of Florida is bigger than the entire country of England
#30. Dogs can hear a large range of sounds that the human ear cannot detect.
#31. The elephant is one of the few mammals that can’t jump.
#32. A classic violin contains about 70 different pieces of wood.
#33. A jellyfish is about 95% water.
#34. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for commutes that are less than 50 minutes.
#35. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused some of the areas of the Mississippi River to flow backwards
comment below which one you found more bizarre.