50 Random Mind-Blowing Fun Facts

Here are your ran­dom fun facts…

West­ern Aus­tralia is twice the size of Alaska.  (Be sure to watch what fits into Rus­sia!)

There are more stars than there are grains of sand on Earth.

Almost all heavy ele­ments (every­thing but Hydro­gen, Helium, and a bit of Lithium) comes from stars that have gone super­nova. You are made of stars.

The solar sys­tem is in orbit around the cen­ter of the Milky Way.  We’re mov­ing at about 483,000 miles an hour.

There are more mol­e­cules in a cup of water than there are cups of water in the ocean.

There are almost more atoms in a grain of sand, than there are grains of sand on Earth.

The word “bed” looks like a bed. Also… shark

The mir­ror image of ’3.14′ looks like the word ‘PIE‘.

Pepsi Cola was orig­i­nally known as “Brad’s Drink”

Cal­lipy­gous is a word ded­i­cated to describ­ing a per­fectly shaped beau­ti­ful butt.

The word “trivia” comes from the latin tri-vium, mean­ing the inter­sec­tion of three roads. In the Mid­dle Ages, local towns would post their news on bill­boards nearby that were at the inter­sec­tion of three or more roads, so as to max­i­mize the num­ber of trav­el­ers who would see it. Ran­dom, obscure facts that were picked up while trav­el­ing then became known as “trivia.”

Buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo” is a gram­mat­i­cally valid sentence.

So is.. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a bet­ter effect on the teacher.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old Eng­lish law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with any­thing wider than your thumb.

Pol­ish is the only word in the Eng­lish lan­guage that changes mean­ing and pro­nun­ci­a­tion with capitalization.

The sen­tence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every let­ter in the alphabet.

• A group of goril­las is called a shrewdness.
• A group of flamin­gos is called a stand.
• A group of giraffes is called a tower.
• A group of uni­corns is called a blessing.
• A group of crows is called a murder.
• A group of larks is called an exaltation.
• A group of ravens is called an unkindness.
• A group of fer­rets is called a business.

The name of Lake Char­gog­g­a­gog­gman­chaug­g­a­gog­gchaubuna­gunga­maugg is Algo­nquin for “I fish on my side, you fish on your side, and nobody fishes in the middle.”

A com­puter used to be a per­son.

Inflam­ma­ble = flammable.

Non-dairy creamer is extremely flam­ma­ble.

The guy that voices Sponge­Bob SquarePants is the nar­ra­tor in Power-puff Girls.

The sound you hear before water starts to boil is actu­ally the first water vapor bub­bles form­ing at the bot­tom and implod­ing as they reach colder water just above.  The sound you hear is the shock wave that is cre­ated from the cav­i­ta­tion that occurs.

A sun­set is usu­ally more bril­liant than a sun­rise because of the dust and par­ti­cles that are kicked up by the sun heat­ing the ground cre­at­ing ther­mals.  The dust then refracts the light and cre­ates col­ors in the sky.

Worker ants take 250 naps a day that last a lit­tle over a minute long on aver­age and total to around 4 and a half hours of sleep.  This allows 80% of the work­force to be active at any one time.  Queen ants on the other hand, take 90 naps a day which aver­age about 6 min­utes each, get­ting about 9 hours of sleep a day.  Sci­en­tists think this may be why worker ants live only for months while the queens live for years.

Ants don’t have enough mass to die on impact, no mat­ter the height.

Cats are made entirely out of cat-food and water.

There’s only 69 years between the Bat­tle of the Lit­tle Big Horn and the drop­ping of the first atomic bomb.

Per­sonal odor is either entirely unique to you, or shared with an iden­ti­cal twin.

“Dis­cov­ered by the Ger­mans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in Ger­man means a whale’s vagina.”

Heli­copters do not take off or land by chang­ing the speed of the rotor blades. The rotor blades are mov­ing at the exact same speed at all times even when the heli­copter is hov­er­ing, accel­er­at­ing, slow­ing down or on the ground. It’s just the angle of the blades being changed.

Look­ing up to the left can help you access you mem­ory, to try to find that lost trivia.
If you ask some­one a ques­tion, and they look up to their left they are access­ing mem­ory, and are prob­a­bly telling the truth, if they look up to their right they are being cre­ative and poten­tially lying.

The Sony VAIO logo rep­re­sents the tran­si­tion from ana­log to digital.

Hugo Boss designed and man­u­fac­tured the uni­forms for the Nazi’s.

New York is area code 212 and LA is 213 and Chicago 312 because the largest cities got the quick­est num­bers to dial on a rotary phone.

Goats have hor­i­zon­tal slit-shaped pupils which increases their periph­eral depth per­cep­tion which is very impor­tant when climb­ing cliffs.

The length of your fore­arm from elbow to wrist is the same length of your foot from heel to toe.  Try it if you don’t believe me.

With arms spread straight out, the dis­tance from mid­dle fin­ger tip to mid­dle fin­ger tip is equal to your height.

Ulysses S. Grant (our 18^th pres­i­dent) got a speed­ing ticket rid­ing a horse 20mph in Wash­ing­ton D.C.

George Wash­ing­ton (Mr. First Pres­i­dent) almost joined the British Navy, but his mother con­vinced him otherwise.

The king of hearts is the only king with­out a mus­tache and is also typ­i­cally shown with a sword behind his head, mak­ing him appear to be stab­bing himself.

Speak­ing of mus­taches, some Indian police are paid an extra 66 cents a month (30 rupees) for hav­ing a mustache.

.999… is exactly equal to 1.

With just 57 peo­ple in a room, the chance that there are two peo­ple who share a birth­day is at least 99%!  With 23 peo­ple in the room, there is a 50% chance.

On a chess­board, a knight can visit each square exactly once.

When you dream, every­thing you see in that dream, you’ve seen before in real life.

Every time you shuf­fle a deck of cards, it’s extremely likely that your spe­cific arrange­ment of cards has never existed and will never exist again.  The chance that you’ve recre­ated a shuf­fled deck from any point in human his­tory is sim­i­lar to win­ning the lot­tery 100 times over.

Or to say it another way: You can re-arrange a deck of cards into more com­bi­na­tions than there have been nanosec­onds since the birth of the universe.

Aladdin is Chinese.