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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...

Top 13 Interesting and Weird Fun Facts

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0. If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ. 1. If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire. 2. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. 3. What is called a “French kiss” in the English-speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France. 4. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.” 5. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 6. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person. 7. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto. 8. There’s an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another. 9. The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely to fall asleep. 10. You can’t hum while holding your nose closed. 11. Women have twice as many pain receptors on their body than men. But a much higher pain tolerance. 12. On Jupiter and S...

Top 20 Interesting and Weird Fun Facts

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1. You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning 2. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump! 3. Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god. 4. Just like fingerprints, everyone has different tongue prints. 5. ATM’s were originally thought to be failures, because the only users were prostitutes and gamblers who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.92. Just like fingerprints, everyone has different tongue prints. 6. One fourth of the bones in your body are located in your feet 7. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 8. Blue-eyed people tend to have the highest tolerance of alcohol. 9. A traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days, with cars only moving 0.6 miles a day. 10. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.

Top 20 Interesting and Weird Fun Facts

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1. Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour. 2. The number of animals killed for meat every hour in the U.S. is 500,000. 3. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. 4. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples! 5. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food. 6. Coconut water can be used as blood plasma. 7. Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over. 8. In 2006 someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price got up to $3,000 before eBay shut it down. 9. A man from Britain changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce. 10. In Japan, crooked teeth are considered cute and attractive.

Top 20 Interesting and Weird Fun Facts

1. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees. 2. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green 3. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds. 4. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. 5. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it. 6. You cannot snore and dream at the same time. 7. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old! 8. New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year. 9. Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes. 10. 10% of the World’s population is left handed. 11. A broken clock is right two times every day. 12. 95% of people text things they could never say in person. 13. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out. 14. It is physically impossible for ...