2014 has the record for songs released with the most repetitive lyrics.
Drinking coffee helps reduce long-term memory loss. The darker the roast, the greater the effect.
The 8 of Diamonds has an 8 in the middle of the card. pic.twitter.com/M29ZbORk3I
As of today, “Le Grand K” has been retired. It was a super-accurate 1kg platinum weight used as a reference for the…
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Douglas Rain, the voice of Hal in sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey, never actually saw the film.
The world’s largest firework weighed 464.826 kg (1,024.76 lb) and was equivalent to launching grand piano half a kilometre into the air.
Your DNA only has about 7% influence on how long you will live. The 3 main factors are not being in a war, not smok…
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Super Mario was originally called Jumpman but Nintendo renamed it after the property developer they leased their US…
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The chemical element Oganesson (with symbol Og and atomic number 118) is the only element named after a living pers…
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It costs the US $100 billion per year just to support the use of cash (as opposed to cards or digital transactions). ?
You will tan more if you go out in the sun every other day. Your body produces melanin that darkens your skin but n…
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The error pages on Amazon feature the dogs of their employees. Here’s Bailey, Biscuit and Oliver. pic.twitter.com/e8jmXSMqBs
The cat used for mobile network O2’s ads in the UK was nicknamed Jonesy after the cat in the original Alien movie. pic.twitter.com/4dWcM3rSUA
Letting out all your farts each day makes you up to 50 ounces / 1.5kg lighter.
Your poop contains roughly 20 particles of microplastic per quarter pound.
According to the U.K. public, “good” is 6.92 out of 10. pic.twitter.com/9SGQEVRwsU
For the first time, the most common US bill in circulation is the $100.
Disney owns an island in the Bahamas. Castaway Island is used as a port for Disney’s Cruise Line ships and was formerly known as Gorda Cay.
Steve Wozniak, who invented and made the first Apple computers, give the first one away to a school. Steve jobs mad…
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The parts that make the $1249 iPhone XS Max cost $443.
300 new words have been added to the Scrabble US dictionary, including “twerk”, “emoji”, “OK” and “qapik”.
John Carpenter’s classic horror film “The Thing” contained no female characters. The closest was the female voice o…
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Producing 1kg of beef needs 15,000 litres of water. Producing 1kg or grain needs only 1000 litres.
A pint of scorpion venom would cost you $5,836,043 (£4,502,769).
The first public screening of a motion picture was in 1895. The first porn movie was in 1896, less than a year later.
A fear of marshmallows is called althaiophobia.
According to British Royal etiquette, only married women or those about to be married may wear a tiara.
Duffel bags are named after the Belgian town that supplied the thick cloth used to make them – Duffel, in Flanders.…
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Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) makes more than $4 million an hour.
Drinking pure water will kill you. Water with no impurities is a hypotonic solution which will cause your body’s ce…
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The DS in Nintendo DS stands for Dual Screen.
The UK traditionally has separate hot and cold taps due to an old regulation that prevented potentially contaminate…
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The most Instagramed food in the UK is curry.
Dogs can sniff out identical twins. They can also tell them apart.
At the height of its inflation, it took 2,600,000 bolivares to buy a toilet roll in Venezuela. Based on surface are…
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In the UK (and some US states), road crossings that allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross are known as “toucan” c…
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When #Jägermeister was invented in 1934, founder Curt Mast wanted a stable bottle that wouldn’t break if they hit t…
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Less than 1% of vanilla is real. The rest is artificial but is chemically identical (the compound C8H8O3).
It’s almost impossible to snap a piece of dry spaghetti cleanly into two halves.
Joseph Stalin had webbed feet. He had a condition called syndactyly.
All the termites on earth weigh the same as all the humans.
Today is #WorldElephantDay
The NOT “funfact” is that an elephant is killed every 25 minutes. At this rate, they wil…
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The gravity in a neutron star is so strong, it can bend light so that you see all sides of the star at once.
Muhammad Ali’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is the only one that can’t be stepped on as it is in the wall of the Dolby Theatre.
RT @Funfacts: More people applied to go on UK reality show Love Island than applied to go to Oxford and Cambridge universities combined.
More people applied to go on UK reality show Love Island than applied to go to Oxford and Cambridge universities combined.
Only 10% of dogs scratch the ground after they pee.
Dwayne Johnson has had the same stunt double, Tanoai Reed, for 16 years. He is also his cousin.
Since Amazon developed Alexa, the number of babies in the US that have been named Alexa has fallen by a 3rd.
The French spend the most time each day eating and drinking (2hr 15m). The rest of the top 10 (in order) are…
2) It…
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In the first Disney/Marvel Iron Man film, the ringtone on Tony Stark’s friend Col James “Rhodey” Rhodes’ phone is t…
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Students that have been exposed to the brain parasite (toxoplasma gondii) spread by cats are 1.7 times more likely…
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Ciabatta was invented in 1982.
Ciabatta was invented in 1982.
The average westerner uses around 100 toilet rolls each year.
The most number of aircraft recorded flying in any 24 hour period is 202,157.
44% of all Bitcoin transactions are associated with illegal activity.
The Apple App Store is 10 years old today.
An upside down rainbow is called a circumzenithal arc.
Joey Chestnut has just beaten his own hotdog eating record. He ate 74 hotdogs and buns in 10 minutes.
Row 13 does not exist on Air France, Iberia, Ryanair, AirTran, Continental Airlines and Lufthansa.
Today is International Plastic Bag Free Day.
Quriyat in Oman just experienced the highest “low” temperature ever recorded. Night time temperatures only fell to…
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It’s National Cream Tea Day today!
creamteasociety.co.uk/national-cream…
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United Airlines UA500 between Indianapolis and San Francisco is named in honour of the Indy 500.
The regular American Airlines flight AA1776 from Philadelphia to Orlando is named after the year the US Declaratio…
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Catch-22 was originally going to be called Catch 18. It was changed because the popular book Mila 18 was published…
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55 years ago today, Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova became the world’s first woman in space. She remains the…
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The average time for a baby to be born is 4am. The majority arrive between 1am and 7am.
To calculate a man’s potential (natural) bicep size, measure around the wrist in inches and add 10.
Planarian flatworms can regrow an entire body from a single remaining cell.
When astronauts placed temperature sensors on moon, their footprints exposed darker soil. This itself actually caus…
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People whose neighbours win the lottery are more likely to end up bankrupt.
Bodybuilders using gyms in Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Norway can be randomly tested for steroids. If they test po…
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To visit the International Space Station, it’s mandatory to speak both English and Russian, even if these aren’t your native languages.
The most popular baby names in the US for 2017 are as follows…
Top 5 girls names:
1. Emma
2. Olivia
3. Ava
4. Soph…
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It’s Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you!
Tiger Woods has had 19 hole-in-ones. He had his first when he was 8.
Uranus is surrounded by fart gas. More scientifically, the atmosphere on Uranus is dominated by hydrogen sulfide -…
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The worlds largest wind turbine takes just one spin to power the average home for a day.
The first real web browser, Mosaic is 25 years old today. The project later became Netscape and then more recently, Firefox.
King Mswati III of Swaziland currently has 15 wives. His predecessor had 125.
The Volvo XC90 is the UK’s safest car. It has sold over 50,000 vehicles since being introduced in 2002, yet not a s…
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Around 800 million viruses per square meter fall from the sky each day.
Today is Friday 13th. If you fear it, you have paraskavedekatriaphobia.
It’s illegal to use, posess or supply silly string in Mobile, Alabama.
Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam movie Full Metal Jacket was actually filmed in England. He imported 100,000 plastic tropi…
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A UK study found 13% of the public had traces of cocaine on their fingers and 1% had traces of heroin – even though…
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Backwards running (aka retro running) is popular in Japan. It burns several times more calories than normal, forwards running.
Each year Nutella uses a quarter of the world’s entire hazelnut supply.
☘️ The world’s first recorded St Patrick’s Day Parade was actually in Boston on 18th March, 1737. The next was in N…
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Today is International Pi day. 3rd month … 14th day… you get the idea. ? 3.14159265359
Harvard’s AI chemical molecule exploration robot found that margaritas taste better with 10% vinegar.
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41% of people talk to their cars.
41% of people talk to their cars.
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? Supplementing beauty products
? Vegetarian meat
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In the 1960’s, the Flintstones advertised Winston cigarettes. They also advertised beer for Busch.…
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In 2016 the Barbados postal service released a special set of stamps featuring 27 of the 114 residents over the age…
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Simply having a mobile phone within view reduces a person’s ability to focus and perform tasks.
In the film Interstellar, director Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn as he didn’t want to use CGI.
A kiwi bird lays an egg that is 20% of the mother’s body weight. If it was a human, the baby would weigh 14kg / 31l…
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