55 Facts About The World That Will Surprise Even The Most Intelligent People

Although we can access any information quite quickly, our lives are still an enigma. There are many facts which are unknown to us.

Below, you can see a list of fifty-five facts which are unexpected or astonishing. Many people are unaware of these facts!

 

• If you want to burn one calorie, you have to mouse click ten million times.
• When the cube ice is made of water which is boiled, they are crystal clear; when water from the tap is used, we get white cubes.
• Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.

• Niels Bohr, who is a Nobel Prize winner, had a never-ending reserve of beer channelled to his home.
• The cotton candy machine was created and designed by a dentist.
• Killer whales are not whales; they are dolphins; starfish are sea urchins, not fish.
• Every single day, space waste comes back to earth.
• 99% of Earth’s gold can be found in its core.
• A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.
• A chocolate bar which is average consists of eight insect pieces.
• Dolphins can call each other by name.

• The yearly price you should pay for electricity used for charging your phone is not more than one dollar.
• The ultraviolet radiation causes fear or nervousness in animals; thus they stay away from the transmission lines.
• The chances of being killed by a coin-operated machine are twice over the chances of being killed by a shark.
• There are 1.6 million times more ants than people in the world.
• Guillotine existed in France until 1977.
• The skin gets heated to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit when it is struck by lightning.

• Honey cannot get spoiled.
• These are the three things which are on the top of the list of most sold items: Rubik’s Cube, iPhone, and Harry Potter books.
• In the U.S., people most often steal candy, in Europe cheese, and meat in Latin America.
• During WWII, in order to expand the chocolate ration, an Italian baker made a mixture of hazelnuts and chocolate. This way, Nutella has been invented.
• Christoph Niemann, an illustrator, working in the New York Times, succeeded in sketching 46 drawings in colour and at the same time, he was running the New York City Marathon.
• When you see a cockroach without a head, you should know that it can go that way several weeks and eventually die of lack of food.
• In 1988, a student was temporarily prevented from going to college because he was dressed in a Pepsi shirt on “Coke in Education Day.”
• Black is the colour of Zebras’ coats.
• Eigengrau is the name of the colour which you see when you open your eyes in a black as pitch room.
• At first, the lighter was discovered and then, ten years later, the match.

• These are the only letters of the Hawaiian alphabet. (A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, and W)
• Proprioception is defined as the “sixth sense”. It means the perception of the position and movement of the body.
• There are fewer grains of sand than stars in the sky.
• Once a month, our outer layer of the skin is freshened.
• People more often died from mosquitos’ bites than from wars.
• The English word ‘set’ has 464 definitions. This makes it a word with the most number of explanations.
• In our cheap life’s duration we walk the distance of five times over the Equator.
• The jaw is the joint in our body which we use most often.
• After losing weight, the fat cells in our body change in size.
• Science knows little about 99% of the microorganisms that live inside us.
• Cutting your finger with a paper is more painful than regular cuts due to the fact that the endings of the nerves are not closed and air irritates them.
• The whips’ tip goes faster than the sound’s speed; this is the reason why it makes an earsplitting sound.
• In order to move his office chair faster, Charles Darwin thought of attaching wheels to it.
• If the diamond is not false, when you breathe on it, it will stay clear.
• ‘Esposas’ is a Spanish word which means ‘handcuffs’ and ‘wives’.
• Because of gravity, theoretically, the maximum tree height is 130 meters.
• The muscle which is the strongest in our body is the tongue.
• In water, the blue whale can hold with its mouth its bodyweight.

• The naked bandicoot rat can live with practically no oxygen and is cancer immune.
• There are seven quintillion joules of potential energy in a person; this is equal to 30 hydrogen bombs.
• In one Gameboy, the technology is better than the computing power which is utilised to get the man on the moon.
• Thirty-five per cent of people does not have wisdom teeth.
• Catmint can be smelled in both tigers and lions.
• Sem German was an American baker after whom the German cake was named.
• Twelve per cent of people have dreams which are not in colour.
• Male crocodilian reptiles dance in order to excite prospective partners.
• At first, Whipple Tickle was expected to be the name of the female G-spot, named after professor Beverly Whipple.
• In the initial version of The Wizard of Oz, a cow Imogene was Dorothy’s companion.

 

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