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10 random fun facts to have on hand at your next dinner party

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  During lock down, we found ourselves engaging in  all  the quizzes. We're talking easy ones, hard ones, family-friendly ones - even dedicated picture rounds and fashion quizzes. But now that restrictions are beginning to ease, we've found ourselves kind of... missing the random knowledge we were gaining from jumping on Zoom with our pals every week. Anyone else? Yes? If you feel the same, maybe you need some random and fun trivia in your lives to fill the quizzing gap. Perfect for pulling out at your next dinner party. 1.Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable.  They're technically considered a single-seeded berry, believe it or not. 2.The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer,  due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space. 3. Trypophobia  is the fear of closely-packed holes.  Or more specifically, "an aversion to the...

Best fun facts on internet

  1. A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring, and found it 16 years later- growing on a carrot in her garden. 2. Cherophobia is the fear of fun. 3. The toothpaste “Colgate” in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself” 4. Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight. 5. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. 6. Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat. 7. Scientists have tracked butterflies that travel over 3,000 miles. 8. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers. 9. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 0. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
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  Ridiculously Weird Facts That Are 100% True A snail can have HOW many teeth?!? Who doesn’t love useless, weird facts?! They come in handy at the dinner table when you’re wanting to impress the grandparents, on that awkward date when you’re scrambling for conversation, but most of all at the pub, when you’re trying to win some extra money for another schnitty! So we’ve scoured the internet to bring you the most bizarre facts that are surprisingly real… Butterflies taste with their hind feet. A group of crows is called murder. Tomato sauce was sold in the 1800’s as medicine. A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won’t. via GIPHY A lion in the wild, usually makes no more than 20 kills a year. India has a Bill Of Rights for cows. Dartboards are made out of horse hairs. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. In France, there’s a place called Y. Almonds are a member of the pea...

Facts about Nepal’s History

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1.  Nepal’s  Kaligandaki River is older than the Himalayas  and is the major ecological dividing line between the western and eastern Himalayas. 2.  In Nepal grow 5,980 flowering plant species including two percent of the world’s orchids (more than 360 species), six percent of the world’s rhododendron species (and it’s Nepal’s national flower), and 250 species endemic to Nepal (and not found growing anywhere else on earth).This is  one of the reasons Nepal is known as the Amazon of Asia. 3.  With almost 870 different species of birds, Nepal has more than the continents of North Africa and Europe combined. They are  home to eight percent of the bird species  of the world. 4.  Nepal is also home to over 650 different species of butterflies as well as the world’s largest moth (the Atlas moth) and some of its largest wild honeybees. 5.  Nepal’s  endangered species  include the beautiful snow leopard, the red panda, and the one ...

Facts about Nepal’s History

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Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.  It has an area of  147,181  square km. Kathmandu  is its capital city. Nepal’s official language is Nepali and its  official currency is Nepalese Rupee (NPR). It has two  bordering countries  that are India and China. Nepal is a country of breathtaking beauty and diversity of cultures like no other place on earth. Truly “the roof of the world”, here are  71 interesting facts about Nepal covering its history, culture, people, economy, the Himalayas, earthquakes, poverty, Kathmandu, flora and fauna and more. 1.  Nepal’s  ancient history  began in the Kathmandu Valley and over the centuries its boundaries grew to include tracts of what today are neighboring countries such as  India  and  China . It prospered as a crossroad resting place for two trade routes. As such,  it became a cultural mixing pot...

Top 30 Fun facts (You wouldn't have heard before)

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1. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart. Image credits:  commons.wikimedia.org 2. When you were born, you were, for a moment, the youngest person on earth. Image credits:  Gonzalo Merat 3. The elements that we are composed of were formed in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are all made of star dust. Image credits:  Michael Shainblum 4. Cows have best friends. Image credits:  mare 5. A prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program. It seems to be a pretty wonderful thing for both the inmates and the cats. Princess Natalie relaxes with Joseph Contreras, one of her caretakers. (Image credits:  catster.com) 6. Blind people smile even though they’ve never seen anyone else smile. Image credits:  Sachiho 7. Turtles can breathe through their butts. Image credits:  TaraDSturm 8. The Beatles used the word “lo...