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

-
Image
  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...
Post a Comment

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 pigs to look up into the sky.
15. Blueberries will not ripen until they are picked.
16. About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
17. Ketchup was used as a medicine back in the 1930’s.
18. Honey never spoils.
19. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
20. Avocados are poisonous to birds.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Facts about Nepal’s History

-
Image
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 ...
Read more

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

-
Image
  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...
Read more
-
Image
  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...
Read more