350 Interesting WTF Facts - That will Shock you

350 Interesting WTF Facts - That will Shock you

Bullfrogs do not sleep.
A snail breathes through its foot.
Cats have over 100 vocal cords.
Alaska has more caribou than people.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
Dead people can get goosebumps.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
A ten-gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.
The average raindrop falls at 7 mph.
Guy Fawkes is the reason men are called “guys”.
Adult cats only meow at humans, not other cats.
Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
Squids can have eyes the same size as a volleyball.
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
Banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologists’ who help clients who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.
Children grow fastest in the Spring. I guess if you want to be really tall you just follow Spring around the world.
It took Erno Rubik a month to solve his rubik cube after inventing it. Now that’s a puzzling fact.
The stickers on fruit are 100% edible. Although they’re not that tasty.
Baked beans are stewed, not baked. They still have the same effect though.
Pigs can get sunburnt. That’s some sizzling bacon.
One of John Lennon’s teeth sold for over $40,000. Imagine that.
The first recorded soup was back in 6000 B.C. What’s more, it was hippopotamus soup. “Hey waiter, there’s a hippo in my soup.”
Selfies cause more deaths per year than shark attacks, mainly from people falling off heights
The British pound is the world oldest currency at 1,200 years old.
Mattel of Barbie fame is the world’s largest producer of women’s clothes.
Spacesuits take about 5000 hours to make
Diamond planet, there’s a planet made of diamond and graphite called 55 Cancri e
There’s a family photo on the moon, Astronaut Charles Duke left a photo of his wife and two kids there on his Apollo 16 mission.
Customs is still a pain even if you’re an astronaut, you still have to go through customs.
Four out of five kids recognize the McDonalds logo by 3yrs old.
Mulan has killed more people than any other Disney Character.
Queen Elizabeth is a trained mechanic and worked as a mechanic during WW2.
Metallica is the only band to have played on all 7 continents.
Cristiano Ronaldo earns more from Instagram than football.
SpongeBob and Planktons wife Karen are married in real life, or their voice actors are.
Yoda and Miss Piggy are the same voice actor As well as a host of other Muppets Frank Oz also voice Miss Piggy and Yoda, the suggestion he do Yoda was made by Jim Henson
Hillary Clinton wrote to NASA when she was a child and received a reply saying no girls allowed.
The U.S.Air Force lost a nuclear bomb somewhere off the coast of Georgia. It has never been found. Tick, tick, tick.
X-rays cannot pass through Velcro. That must be a sticking point at airports.
Each year, Wikipedia is printed off and placed in a vault in Norway. I knew that!
Where’s Wally books are used in the entry exam for MI6. I spy with my little eye.
The Lego building had to be built three times due to shoddy construction.
Officially, socks don’t count as an item of clothing in strip poker.
The toenail of your little toe is called the spungle. “Ouch, I stubbed my spungle.”
German chocolate cake is named after an American baker named Samuel German.
In World War II, Germany tried to collapse the British economy by dropping millions of counterfeit bills over London.
The youngest Pope in history was Pope Benedict IX who was 11 years old at the time. He is also the only person to have been the Pope more than once.
The tallest man was 8’11.
IKEA is an acronym that stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder’s name, the farm where he grew up, and his hometown.
There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, bartender, and, librarian.
There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
Video games have been found to be more effective at battling depression than therapy.
Some people in Russia think that eating ice cream will keep you warm.
Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.
A study from Harvard University finds that having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking. Both effect levels of a blood-clotting protein.
All new FBI special agents and intelligence analysts are required to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Garlic is known to attract leeches.
Cruise ships have morgues as it’s not unusual for a few deaths per cruise.
Red or pink used to be for boys and blue for girls.
O.M.G was first recorded use was in a letter to Winston Churchill written in 1917.
Green Eggs & Ham started as a bet that Dr Seuss couldn’t write a book with less than 50 words.
The average person spends 6 months of their life waiting for traffic lights to turn green.
1 in 3 USA divorced papers include the word Facebook.
The largest pyramid in the world is in Mexico, it’s the Great Pyramid of Cholula and a decent amount of it is buried under a mountain.
NASCAR drivers lose weight while driving, the high temperature and pressure mean drivers can lose up to 10lbs during races.
The Northern Lights have a southern sister, The Aurora Australis which is visible from New Zealand, Antarctica and Tasmania.
Starfish don’t have blood. Instead of blood, they get their nutrients around their body using seawater in their vascular system.
Cats only meow at Kittens and humans and not other adult cats.
The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn
A reindeer lived on board the submarine HMS Trident for 6 weeks, she was a present from the Russians and slept under the captain’s bunk.
Fish yawn, bored of swimming in circles, yawn. Fish yawn, cough and burp. They do it mainly when something it stuck in their gills.
The hummingbird can fly backwards, these tiny birds and the only bird species that can fly backwards.
Otters have a secret pocket under the arm to carry their favorite rock
T-rex lived closer in time to us than Stegosaurus. T-rex lived roughly 65m years ago and Steg 150m years ago
In order to protect themselves from poachers, African Elephants have been evolving without tusks.
In order to keep the Nazis away, a Polish doctor faked a typhus outbreak. This saved over 8,000 people.
The spiked dog collar was invented by the Ancient Greeks to protect their dogs from wolf attacks.
The unique smell of rain actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.
Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with beaver urine.
The oldest unopened bottle of wine was found in a Roman tomb that was over 1,650 years old.
Baked beans aren’t baked but stewed.
Despite its hump, camels have straight spines.
Sunsets on Mars are blue.
Digging a hole to China is actually possible if you start in Argentina.
Mosquitos have 47 teeth.
A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.
The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.
Pigs get sunburnt.
A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.
“Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th-century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway, just like the technology united computers and cell phones.
There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.
Hart Island is the final burial place to over a million of New York City’s unclaimed bodies.
Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans about 10 to 1.
Most toilet paper sold in France is pink.
The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
Children tend to grow faster in the spring.
The television was invented two years after the invention of sliced bread.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
It took of the creator of the Rubik’s Cube one month to solve the cube after he created it.
People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.
Dogs have been banned from Antarctica since April 1994. This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals.
Smelling apples or bananas can help you lose weight.
In 1998, over 50% of Iceland’s population believed in the existence of elves.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.
Beavers were once the size of bears.
A pigeon’s feathers weigh more than their bones.
A crocodile can’t move their tongue.
Honeybees navigate using the sun as their compass.
If you sneeze traveling 60 mph, your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.
Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.
Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.
Boanthropy is the psychological disorder in which patients believe they are a cow.
Camels have three eyelids.
There is a McDonalds in every continent except Antarctica.
Mosquitos are attracted to people who just ate bananas.
In South Korea, there is an emergency number to report suspected spies (it’s 113!).
Japanese square watermelons aren’t edible. They are purely ornamental!
An ant’s sense of smell is stronger than a dog’s.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.
Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump.
Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.
There’s a town called “Big Ugly” in West Virginia.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
In Slovakia, they have Christmas Carp that live in the bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.
There are 119 grooves on a quarter.
The state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates for those with a DUI conviction.
Hawaii is the only state to grow coffee commercially.
The square dance is the official state dance of Washington.
Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanos that were erupting on the moon.
The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.
A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
In Japan, Domino’s started testing pizza delivery via reindeer in 2016.
Helen Keller is related to Robert E. Lee. Her paternal grandfather is second cousins with him.
Starfish don’t have blood. They circulate nutrients by using seawater in their vascular system.
Mob boss, Vincent Gigante, used to wander around New York in his bathrobe to convince the police he was insane and avoid capture.
Bubble wrap was originally invented to be wallpaper. The creators tried to make plastic wallpaper with a paper backing, but it came out with plastic backing
A woman was elected to the House of Representatives four years before women even won the right to vote.
In the Netherlands’ version of Sesame Street, they have a bluebird named Pino instead of Big Bird. Pino was later established as Big Bird’s cousin.
The full Bible has been translated into over 3,000 languages. Among those include fictional languages, like Elvish, Klingon and Na’vi.
Bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s they are cover by at least three binding global agreements and several other ones, AK 47’s are covered by no blinding global agreements.
Fruit stickers are edible, the glue used for them is regulated by the FDA
Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
Banana candy and flavoring is based on a banana that was wiped out in the 1950’s which may explain why it doesn’t taste much like banana.
In the 1900’s Lobster was a cheap meal, mostly eaten by slaves, the homeless and prisoners.
Tea bags were an accident, they were silk bags design to store the tea not to be used as tea bags but the customers didn’t realize this and used them as we do today.
Avocados are berries; they are fruits that stem from one flower.
Pineapples used to be so expensive you could rent them to put on display when having events to impress guests.
Democracy sausages are now traditional in Australia, at voting stations you can also pick up a democracy sausage or hot dog while you vote.
Ranch dressing is dyed to make it look whiter.
Crackers have holes in them so they don’t get ruined when baked.
Most Salmon we eat is farmed and dyed pink, in reality, farmed salmon is a greyish colour.
One in four hazelnuts will end up as Nutella.
Cap’N’Crunch’s name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, so formal!
Mushrooms are more closely related to us than plants.
Apple seeds contain poisons, cyanide to be exact. Don’t worry you’d need a lot of them to kill anyone
You can hear Rhubarb growing, it grows so quickly it’s audible.
Pistachios have strict travel requirements, because they self-heat they can’t travel in large groups as they might self-combust.
One teaspoon of honey takes 12 bee’s a lifetime to make.
Oranges aren’t natural, they are a hybrid of tangerines and pomelos.
Eating ice-cream has been proven to reduce emotional and physical pain.
One mountain dew prototype was so caffeinated you could see caffeine crystals forming, needless to say, It never got to production
Octopuses have beaks, it’s made out of the same stuff our fingernails and hair is made from, Keratin.
Most wasabi you find in supermarkets and restaurants is actually colored horseradish.
Wombats poo comes out in cubes, these loveable animals from Australia poop cubes and not just 1 but on average 100 per day.
Woolly Mammoths were around when the pyramids were built 1000years after the Great Pyramids of Giza were built mammoths were still living on Wrangle Island in the Arctic.
Stubbs the cat was Mayor of Talkeenta Alaska from 1997-2017.
Hippos kill more people than any other African Mammal Often mistaken for peaceful and relaxed creatures Hippos actually kill more people than any other African mammal.
Sloths may be the only animals that don’t far.
Most Panda’s all belong to China, the one’s in zoos are rented from China.
A spider’s brain can extend down into its legs.
When stresses octopi eat their own arms.
Beer was a soft drink up until 2011 when Russia classified it as alcohol.
Giant squids have the largest eyes of any animal on earth, they are 11inches across.
The tongue is the only muscle that’s attached at one end only.
A recent study at Harvard found that being lonely can be as deadly as smoking
Some people can make their eyeballs vibrate, they can move the muscles so it looks a bit like the eyeball is shivering.
Every year around 3,000 people get the bubonic plague. Countries with the highest number of cases include Peru, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Some people don’t experience an “inner monologue” or that little voice in your head.
Women see more colours than men.
The droplet in a single couch contains 200million virus particles.
Ear Pac-man, if you put your finger in your ear and scratch it sounds just like Pac Man.
The most painful place to be stung by a bee is the nostril.
The Super soaker was invented by a former Air Force and NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson.
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive; they have to be stored in lead boxes.
Roy Sullivan holds the record for most lightning strikes, he has been stuck 7 times and survived all of them.
Roald Dahl was an Air Force pilot and spy during WW2.
Elvis was blonde, he dies his hair black and sometimes touched it up with shoe polish.
Max Martin is behind more pop songs than you’d think with other 24 Billboard number 1s since 1998 for artists like Brittney Spears, Katy Perry, pink & Maroon 5.
Jack Daniel of whisky fame died after kicking a safe, he broke his toe which resulted in fatal blood poisoning.
IKEA is an acronym, It stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd the founders name, childhood farm where he grew up and the village near where he lived.
Nurdle, that’s the name given to a blob of toothpaste.
Are you a Spuddler? Spuddle means you aren’t working well because your mind is elsewhere or you haven’t’ woken up yet.
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Lego makes over 318 million tiny tires a year.
Russia is bigger than Pluto.
Mother’s day was banned in North Korea because it was distracting people from their love of the leader King Jong-Un.
Bad moods are contagious, those in bad moods can bring others around them down.
The green code at the start of the Matrix is a recipe for sushi.
There used to be Starbucks inside the Forbidden City in Beijing
The word quarantine comes from a Venetian dialect of Italian “quaranta giorni” meaning “40 days” which was how long ships would have to stay outside Venice before being allowed in.
Almost is the longest English word to have its letters in alphabetical order.
Deadline comes from the civil war, a line was drawn around prisoners and if you stepped over it you were dead.
In Vietnam, war soldiers were often given M&M as placebo pain killers as medics rarely had enough pain killers to go around.
Motel 6 is called that because its rooms used to cost $6.
30 million Chinese people live in caves, including a network of underground tunnels and rooms in Beijing.
Tinfoil hats actually amplify signals, so if you’re a conspiracy theorist trying to stop government messages to your brain maybe take off the hat.
There are more than 7,500 varieties of apples. A different apple a day would keep the doctor away for more than 20 years.
Beer was considered a soft drink in Russia. They sure bred them tough back in the U.S.S.R.
Your eyes stay the same size from the time you are born. But your nose and ears keep growing throughout your life. Cheers big ears.
Iguanas have three eyes. Two for sight and one on the top of their head that detects brightness. Here’s looking at you, and you and you!
The tallest lego tower ever built was almost 35 metres high. Imagine how much it would hurt if you stepped on that.
Hard to believe but fried chicken came from Scotland, dating back to the Middle Ages. Then again, they did invent the fried Mars Bar.
80% of the world's sheep were killed when the Laki volcano in Finland erupted for 8 months. Now that’s baaaad luck.
The Eiffel tower was first pitched to be built in Barcelona, but they thought it was too ugly. Who couldn’t adore such a symbol for lovers?
Hand shakes were introduced in Ancient Greece to ensure the other person wasn’t carrying a hidden weapon. I guess the Covid elbow touch is pretty much the same thing.
Chip bags are filled with nitrogen to keep the chips fresh. And we thought they filled it with air just to make it look like there were more chips.
About 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. That’s something to reflect upon.
85% of people only breathe out of one nostril at a time. That’s a fact not to be sneezed at.
Most mammals, from elephants to humans take about the same amount of time to pee. 21 seconds. I guess we just go with the flow.
Corn Flakes were invented to prevent masturbation. Dr.Kellogg, their inventor, believed foods like meat increased sexual desire and foods like cereals and nuts reduced sexual drive. That’s a new take on breakfast being the most important meal of the day.
An estimated 200 people die on cruise ships every year and each is equipped with their own morgue. That’s one unforgettable getaway.
Most toilet paper sold in France is pink. Still didn’t stop them stockpiling the stuff.
High heels were originally invented for butchers to avoid them stepping in blood.
You have a second “brain” in your gut, that controls the nervous system. That’s why you have gut feelings.
It takes about 4 seconds for silence to become awkward. One one thousand, two one thousand….
The Church of Scientology sponsored a car in the 1988 Indy 500. It crashed on the second lap. They should have got Tom Cruise to drive it.
Sesselpupser is the German word for a couch potato. It means chair farter.
Ford made a biological car in the 1930’s from soybean, wheat, hemp and flax. It weighed 500kg’s less than a steel car but didn’t smell so good when it backfired.
The red eye you get in photos is the flash reflecting the blood in the back of your eyes. And you thought it was because you were evil.
The longest time between twins being born is 87 days. That’s one hell of a labour.
A snake's body is actually a limb. That’s why we like to keep them at arm's length.
A tree falling in the forest really does make a sound. A scientist won the Nobel Prize for proving this. Timber!!
Three people are injured every time an audience gives a standing ovation. They were probably clapped out to start with.
J.R.R. Tolkien refused to have readings of his books. He preferred the words to stay on the page. What a strange hobbit.
The first pair of scissors were left-handed. That’s an interesting snippet.
Aphids are born pregnant. They’re the Russian dolls of the insect world.
Religious websites carry three times more malware threats than porn sites.
Fairy floss was invented by William Morrison, a dentist. That’s looking after business.
The Apollo 11 crew left behind with their families hundreds of autographs which could be sold to support them if their mission failed. There’s a new spin on, “signing off.”
One 18-inch pizza is more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas. I’ll still take the two.
There is a pattern on the inside of your eyelid that is as unique as your fingerprint. Wink, wink.
The first copy of the Oxford English dictionary was missing the word dictionary. Oops.

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