50 Crazy Facts You Had No Idea Existed

The truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction! For instance, did you realise that microorganisms make up 1 to 1.5 kilograms of your body mass? We’ve compiled a list of 50 mind-blowing facts that we presume you didn’t know existed. Some of these facts may even make you squirm in your chair or leave you looking at things with a new perspective. Keep reading, and your viewpoint on the world might shift a little.

1. A single sneeze can reach speeds of up to 100 mph, releasing 100,000 germs into the environment.

2. You are born with only 470 milliliters of blood, but by adulthood, you have 3.8 to 4.8 Litres.

3. The average person has enough fat in their body to manufacture seven soap bars.

4. Similar to bats and whales, Humans are capable of echolocation. Yes, you read that right.

5. Blocking your nose makes it almost impossible to hum. Go ahead and give it a shot!

6. Every human being has a built-in dive response. Your heart drops the beat rate and your blood vessels shrink to preserve oxygen when your head is submerged in water and even someone holds their breath.

7. Newborn babies cannot drown, their windpipes seal the moment they’re submerged into water. Probably, this reflex is added to avoid them from drowning in blood in the womb. However, at six months,this impulse vanishes (Please don’t try this, we NEVER recommend you to test this odd fact).

8. The acid in your stomach is powerful enough to disintegrate metal.

9. The NBA logo features a silhouette of Hall of Fame Los Angeles Laker Jerry West.

10. The only sport that has been organized on the moon is golf. Alan Shepard used a homemade 6-iron to whack two golf balls on the surface of the moon in 1971.

11. Horse racing gave us the phrase “winning something hands down.” When a jockey is well ahead, he can relax the reins and can keep his hands down.

12. Wild dolphins address each other by their given names.

13. At 230 decibels (dB), sperm whales are the loudest animals on the planet. (In comparison, an aeroplane takes off at 150 dB.)

14. In the Arctic, polar bears have been breeding with grizzlies, resulting in the “pizzly,” a new mammal!

15. Sea otters hold hands when sleeping to keep them from flying apart.

16. The heart of a blue whale weighs over a tonne and beats every ten seconds.

17. A dog’s ability to smell is so strong that it can identify a spoon of sugar in a million litres of water, which is equivalent to two Olympic-size swimming pools.

18. That apple you bought at the supermarket could be more than a year old.

19. Often these wasabi paste at sushi restaurants is actually horseradish, not wasabi.

20. The term “OK” is most likely a typo of the phrase “all correct.”

21. Warm water freezes quicker than cold water under certain circumstances.

22. Lobsters were once so inexpensive that they were commonly used to feed inmates.

23. Because tomatoes are native to tropical America, tomato sauce did not exist in Italy till the sixteenth century.

24. In the past, dentures were frequently constructed from real human or animal teeth.

25. To whiten their teeth, the ancient Romans utilised urine.

26. The majority of orange juice sold in stores is chemically flavoured.

27. Cochineal “beetles,” which are actually cactus-parasitic scale insects, are a key source of red food colouring.

28. The Food and Drug Administrations around the world maintains a handbook that lists the allowable quantities of “insect bits” and other uncomfy contaminants in various foods for consumers.

29. The “bloody mary” cocktail is thought to be titled after Queen Mary of England, who led hundreds of people to be burned.

30. To treat disease, affluent Europeans ate medicines including human remains in the 16th and 17th centuries.

31. The Pacific Ocean is greater than all of the Earth’s continents put together.

32. The pressure in the lowest region of the ocean is over 8 tonnes per square inch, which is similar to being stacked under 50 jumbo jets.

33. Pez candy was created to aid in the cessation of cigarette smoking; the original Pez spinners were shaped like cigarette lighters.

34. Newborns do not have what we call “kneecaps.” By the age of four, cartilaginous tissues in the knees of babies turn into bone.

35. The most commonly stolen food on the planet is cheese.

36. Is your zipper YKK? Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha is a Japanese multinational company. In english, the name roughly translates to Yoshida Company Limited. This firm is thought to produce half of the world’s zippers.

37. Until 2011, beer was categorized as soda or a soft drink in Russia.

38. The heart of a hummingbird can pulse up to 1,250 times per minute (in one species, at least).

39. Your mobile phone is dirtier than the toilet seat.

40. Chewing gum is not digestible.

41. The hiccupping attack that lasted the longest was 68 years.

42. Octopuses are thought to be the smartest invertebrates, and they’ve even been spotted utilising tools.

43. More people have reached the moon than been at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest zone of the sea.

44. Tsunamis can travel at rates exceeding 500 mph!

45. When Twister was first released in the 1960s, it was regarded as a risqué game.

46. The sheer volume of shrimp consumed by flamingos causes them to turn pink.

47. The world’s largest waterfall can’t be visited since it’s deep below in the waters between Iceland and Greenland. The Denmark Strait cataract has a flow 2,000 times greater than Niagara Falls.

48. A full lemon has more sugar than one strawberry, which may come as a surprise. However, this is due in part to the size difference: a glass of strawberry chunks contains more sugar than a glass of sliced lemons.

49. Moon dust is actually the deadliest thing on the lunar surface, it’s so sharp that it cuts through the rugged astronaut boots. A mere touch with human skin could cause bleeding.

50. Elephants talk through their feet. They communicate through the vibrations in the ground.

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