100+ Random Facts About the World You Won't Hear at School

gigantic hailstorms and me trains creatures extracting water from star and Wolverine frogs burn our planet has so many mysterious secrets they can't all be counted but let's raise the veil at least a little bit shall we there's a gene called sonic hedgehog that affects your development there were also genes called Pokemon and velcro but they were later renamed wild animals especially monkeys keep the distance from each other to avoid contracting diseases when one or a group of them are sick Statue of Liberty has a Morton's toe her second toe is longer than the big toe only 10% of people have this condition and in ancient Greece it was considered a beauty standard there's a subspecies of honey bees in South Africa that can give birth to new workers without any help from male bees ice glaciers are naturally form museums of human history by studying the layers of ice we can tell exactly how societies of the past lived in any given era there's a tiny thermometer inside every cell of a living being it detects if it's too warm for comfort and changes how the cell works to show they're hungry captive otters sometimes lie on their back and flip stones up catching them when they fall tiger sharks can travel thousands of miles crossing entire oceans but no one still knows why they do that geckos have thousands of extremely tiny hairs on each of their toes those allow them to climb and hold on to any surface koalas drink by licking water off tree trunks they're hanging on to your brain uses different hemispheres to store different memories things you hear or read are stored in the left hemisphere and pictures or events you've seen in the right one tree frogs confuse predators by croaking in almost perfect synchrony with each other their enemies only hear one frog as a result while there could be many more seagulls prefer food that was held by humans over food they have not seen touch by people the Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on earth yet microorganisms there can literally extract water from stone to survive hidden beneath the ice and frozen earth and Antarctica and Siberia there are giant viruses they are ten times larger than those we know and can survive for tens of thousands of years where may rises cold air falls this is true for any place except tropics they're called but moist air rises instead keeping the climate stable heavy rains may cause of all can occur options water finds its way underneath the fiery mountains and increases the pressure making lava burst out 66 million years ago I wasn't around then a strange beaver like creature lived alongside dinosaurs on Madagascar scientists have no idea which family it belonged a leaf beetle has been found that can relieve allergy in millions of people it feeds on a powerful allergen and scientists believe it could save us all a lot of trouble salmon traveling thousands of miles every year might be using tiny particles of magnetite in their bodies to navigate by magnetic fields forest fires might seem dangerous but in small measures they're in fact good for the environment for example they help wild honeybees to adapt to harsh conditions in 2018 a hailstorm pelted a town in Tina with chunks of ice the size of volleyballs ow there's a real-life Jurassic Park in Morocco the chemcam beds are an extremely rich source of dinosaur fossils with dozens of species uncovered in the last few decades in 1876 Kentucky experienced a rain of meat flakes and chunks of the raw stuff fell in a shower and continued for a few minutes whew that's just wrong a bolt of lightning can reach temperatures 5 times higher than the surface of the Sun a hairy frog species in camera can break bones in its own limbs to produce sharp claws right through the skin a real-life Wolverine frog bubblegum is usually pink because the first commercial gum made in 1928 was like that pink simply was the only color of the food dye available at the factory the first chewing gum ever though probably appeared about 10,000 years back people chewed birch bark tar back then before 1904 Times Square had been called Longacre square when the New York Times moved its headquarters there the place was renamed you can't name a folder con on any version of Windows cats and dogs have three eyelids and so do many other animals such as camels or elephants frogs can freeze and thaw without any harm to their well-being bananas have a curved shape because they turn towards the Sun when you eat spicy food you feel not the taste of it but a sort of pain dogs can tell the time of day by smell and they do it pretty precisely llamas and donkeys are excellent guard animals for livestock especially sheep in some areas of China police have guard geese instead of dogs the Hippocratic oath followed by medical experts worldwide was last revised in 1964 by luis lasagne since then many refer to it as the oath of lasagne water boils on top of Mount Everest at 160 degrees Fahrenheit because of a much lower atmospheric pressure if you would shuffle a deck of cards to get every possible combination you'd spend billions upon billions upon billions of years just to get a third of the way there sounds like a huge waste of time a single gram of DNA can store about 700 terabytes of information the world's largest desert is not Sahara but Antarctica and it still has one functional ATM hmm not sure the connection but NASA has had a professional sniffer on their staff for over 40 years now his job is to test the smell of anything before the object goes into space the Eiffel Tower has been officially married since 2007 the landmark spouse is Erika Eiffel and if she was somehow not a very nice person she'd be known as the awful Eiffel it takes almost 2,000 gallons of water to raise just a pound of almonds the largest human baby ever born weighed over 15 pounds of all people that ever lived on the planet roughly 7% are alive right now the rest not so much a hybrid of grizzly and polar bear is called a growler bear or a piddly bear a hybrid of a domestic cow and American bison is called a Beefalo parrots help each other without any selfish reasons even when the one they help is not their friend or relative one of the closest relatives of hyenas is a meerkat Australia has a fence that's almost as long as the Amazon River that protects farm lands from dingoes or wild dogs there's enough gold in the Earth's core to cover the whole planet in a foot thick layer the smallest dinosaur in history was the size of a bee hummingbird in Scotland there are more than 400 ways to say snow get a lot of snow do you now while most of the world lives in 2020 Ethiopia is still in 2013 because their calendar is different Greenland sharks become adults and start looking for mates only when they're 150 years old their average lifespan is about 400 years so they're very choosy folding a simple sheet of paper 103 times will get you outside the boundaries of the observable universe Oxford University was established in 1096 which makes it over 200 years older than the Aztec civilization all that homecoming is a trip the first book printed in Oxford had a mistake on the very first page it was the date of its printing spandex a fiber used for making sports clothing got its name as an anagram of the word expands and it does scientists sped up evolution for baby snails when the critters were exposed to platinum they developed without shells basketball was invented in 1891 but up until 1894 it was played with a soccer ball by 2050 there will be no ice in the Arctic Ocean in summer there are about three trillion trees on our planet that's almost 30 times more than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy ring-tailed lemurs have patches on their wrists giving off a pleasant scent to attract mates around 34 million years ago ancient primates crossed the Atlantic from Africa to South America and nobody knows how while Aurora's are usually green and blue Japan witnessed a red one about 1,400 years ago in February of this year the tallest waterfall in Ecuador San Rafael suddenly stopped flowing a huge sinkhole appeared just before the fall and diverted the stream the South Pole was a lush tropical rainforest about 90 million years ago number one isn't exactly one it's zero-point infinite nights there's a state at which water can be both boiling and freezing I'm guessing Alaska oops sorry not that kind of state IKEA isn't a word but an acronym it stands for the name of its founder Ingvar Kamprad the farm he grew up at and his hometown soap operas got their name from the first advertiser sponsoring dramas on radio and TV they were mainly cleaning and detergent products manufacturers scientists believe there can be up to 30 million species of insects on earth but only a little over 900,000 have been identified yet during the 20th century so much ice has melted off Greenland that our planets axis shifted narwhals dubbed unicorns of the sea don't actually have horns those long spiral shaped things are overgrown teeth horses can have dashing mustaches to match their manes and they look fabulous the tallest cactus in the world is in Mexico and it's 63 feet tall that's like four giraffes stacked on top of each other at any given moment there are two points on earth exactly opposite to each other but having exactly the same temperature and atmospheric pressure since birds have evolved from dinosaurs and had a crocodilian ancestor they just might have been classified as reptiles the fastest racing pigeon in the world going by the name of Armando is also the most expensive bird ever it was sold at an auction for 1.4 million dollars Formula One racing cars are constructed in such a way that at a certain speed they could be driving on a ceiling the colors of the Olympic rings are no chance thing at least one of the colors appears in flags of every country in the world both Charlie Chaplin and Dolly Parton participated in their own look-alike contests and lost dramatically the production of the 1997 movie Titanic cost more than the construction of the actual ship the letter Z was removed from the Latin alphabet in 300 BCE and returned two centuries later Zeta Yusei if you have an itch in your right arm look in the mirror and scratch the same point on your left arm the itch will probably go away your tongue and lips get irritated when you eat a lot of pineapple because of bromelain an enzyme that destroys proteins pineapples basically eat you while you're eating them one horse can produce up to almost 15 horsepower at its peak performance an average human can produce up to 5 horsepower sounds to me like the unit of measurement is a little off don't you think sunflower translated to Turkish is called moon flower statistically only one in 76 billion people can have IQ of 200 it means no one living today should have this level of intelligence the average cumulus cloud or the big fluffy type weighs around 1 million pounds and still it floats the tiniest thing ever photograph was the shadow of an atom by 2100 scientists predict that the sea level will rise by 4 feet rats can smell if their pack members are hungry and share their food with them the ancestor of all modern animals including ourselves lived in Australia for about a half a billion years ago and looked much like an earthworm some butterflies wings are 100 times blacker than charcoal but this effect is just an optical illusion created thanks to the wing structure in Central Asia ethnic singers can produce two distinctive sounds simultaneously with their throat so try singing two different notes at the same time that's it domestic cats influence wildlife in their vicinity much more than other wild animals especially predators there's an ant species that has been evolving in both directions forwards and then backwards in just 12 days of eating sugar our brain structure changes and we have a hard time doing without sweet stuff afterwards hey chew on that one for a while 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Published: Wed Jul 08 2020