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...
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1. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
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.
11. A BBC News program broadcast in 1957 ended claiming that spaghetti grew on trees on a farm in Switzerland. Many viewers believed the report and called the BBC asking how to grow their own trees. Their response: “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
25. A study measuring the effects of music found that cows produce more milk when listening to soothing music. They produce the most when listening to R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts.”
26. There is a program that makes prison inmates responsible for training and raising seeing-eye dogs. Many reported that they felt like they were making amends for their past actions by working with the puppies.
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 ...
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...
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...
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